Physics based projectiles?

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Is there a way to make a projectile object react to physics? I am trying to create throwing knives that will have a low trajectory and then will cause the object to bounce off the floor. I added the bounce option to the projectile but it doesn’t rotate correctly.

I suppose I could just spawn a physics object and immediately add torque and impulse to it. My only concern is getting this movement to replicate properly. What would be the best way to accomplish this?

2

You can absolutely have physics enabled and a projectile component. Make sure your knife has a capsule collision or any collision object, and you should have bounces.

This solution shows how to orient the projectile in the direction of travel

3

Thank you! My only question would be what do I assign the pitch variable to? Would I have to set up a tick event to feed the object’s rotation into the variable?

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Yes you could have a float variable for the pitch.