Arrow Physics

Hi, what would be a good way to make an arrow with physics behavior so that it is spawned, moves with character while pressing a button but when releasing button apply a force to it, ie.: Shoots it. Is there a way to turn on physics only when i want ? The way i made it sometimes it shoots correctly sometimes it just falls down. Any ideas ?

Why using physics?

Well it's not absolutely necessary but the reason is more realism on motion. I can always rethink gameplay to do without physics anyway. In fact i just had and idea that eliminates the "need" for physics. But it would be good to know anyway

physics is overrated

arrow.capx

Nice example ! I'll use some of it's code thanks :) There's one problem with bullet though. If you mark it to bounce on collision it keeps bouncing infinitelly. I don't know if something that i did affected it but it's worth checking.

Duh, of course it'll bounce infinitelly. I'll cut the momentum on half each time it collides and see how it goes

Yeah that's a problem. I have two options: Make the arrow always stuck on contact, never bouncing. Or come up with a way to make it bounce and settle on ground correctly when it's speed is low enough.

Stopping it when speed < X definitely makes sense.

Yeah bullet is a bit unstoppable :) But now that enabled/disabled was added it can be worked around more easily <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" />