Collision on a Ball

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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I have a moving ball that collides well. However, when it collides with another ball, it ramps up the ball and goes really high into the air.
I know that’s typical ball physics, but not what I want to happen.

I’d like if the balls colliding like boxes. It would hit another and the users ball would NOT fly into the air, but just recoil a little bit.

I’ve tried adding a static box collider to the ball to assume collision, but as it is static, it won’t attach to the ball. If it’s movable then it’s like moving a box, which doesn’t work.

Any ideas? I can’t attach a socket to the ball, that I am aware of, either.

Thanks!

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Nobody has any ideas? I feel like this should be somewhat easy for someone experienced in Unreal…

thanks.

3

Set the collision boxes collision preset to only other “ball collision boxes” and have it maintain its rotation even when the ball is rolling along.

4

Do you use physics to simulate movement of the ball? If yes then check masses and physics material, restitution is responsible for “bounciness” of the physics objects.

5

How would I go about setting it to maintain it’s rotation against the ball it’s attached to without making it static? and I am assuming I can create a custom collision channel that all the ball boxes reside in? Thanks

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After more work on this, I am still suck. I was able to get a collider on my ball that didn’t move, BUT it would have erratic movement behavior, I think because it collided with the camera/spring arm.
Isn’t there a good way to have a static object move with a dynamic one but not rotate?

Thanks

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I gave my balls more mass and increased the gravity and it seemed to stop happening without affecting my other systems.

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Thank you. I was able to modify the gravity (greatly) and some of the mass and restitution properties to achieve something that I like.

I think there should be a way to do this with a static object attached that didn’t rotate with my ball. Oh well.