Physics, wood in water

Is it possible to simulate a physical behavior with wood in the water?

The player does not float in the water

Do you want the wood to flow freely? Or just kind of bounce up and down in the water at a fixed location? Do you want the player to be able to lift him/herself onto the wood?

When wood overlaps water, apply upward force on wood. This force should be enough to offset gravity.

You can use overlap at offset if you want the wood not to bob completely out of the water.

Taximan

this is a sample I worked on a few months ago - it uses physics that ROJOhound came up with.

https://www.rieperts.com/games/forum/waterfloat2.capx

Why not just make the wood an animated sprite that's bouncing/floating the way you want on a separate layer, with no collisions enabled?

Like, I know it's way dumb-ed down from the physics aspect but it seems like it would be pretty easy to have the animated wood sprites bobbing in the "water" and just have the water doing its parallax scrolling (or however you have it set). And if you wanted you could randomize the instances of the animated wood sprite.

Of course, I'm much better at the art side of things than the game development side, so creating the sprite itself is a whole lot easier for me.

Lately I am very busy with work, but I am using the ROJOhound project, I hope to hear from you.