Constant speed in the X axis of a body

[Z_ReC]

Hello everyone!

Please help request!
As the title says, i need a object having a constant speed in the X axis!

I leave an attachment example.
Constant speed cube would have to be 480, but no.

I hope you help me!

[Doctory]

in love.physics, bodies have velocity which is decreased when they hit another body, this is why the velocity isnt constant

[ivan]

Yep, Doctory is right.
You can overwrite the linear velocity manually each step, but then the collisions would look weird.

[Beelz]

Not getting into collisions... This will move you along at a constant rate:

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love.update(dt)
   object.x = object.x + distancePerSecond * dt
   object.y = 500
end

[Z_ReC]

Not getting into collisions... This will move you along at a constant rate:

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love.update(dt)
   object.x = object.x + distancePerSecond * dt
   object.y = 500
end

try your code, this is the result.



it can be improved? Thanks!

[ivan]

If you don't want your body to respond to collisions but move at a constant rate you can make it a "kinematic" body and set its velocity.
Kinematic bodies push other objects but do not respond to collisions themselves.

it can be improved? Thanks!

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love.update(dt)
   local lvx, lvy = object:getLinearVelocity()
   object:setLinearVelocity(10, lvy)
end

[Z_ReC]

If you don't want your body to respond to collisions but move at a constant rate you can make it a "kinematic" body and set its velocity.
Kinematic bodies push other objects but do not respond to collisions themselves.

it can be improved? Thanks!

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love.update(dt)
   local lvx, lvy = object:getLinearVelocity()
   object:setLinearVelocity(10, lvy)
end

Thanks, but I want to respect collisions!

With "kinematic" this happens:



In the left top corner see that the speed is constant!
but does not respect the collision!

I need collision respect, at the same time, keep constant speed.

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This respects the collision, but no speed!


also thanks.

[Doctory]

switch from the love.physics, it is impossible to get a constant velocity in love.physics without screwing something up

[s-ol]

switch from the love.physics, it is impossible to get a constant velocity in love.physics without screwing something up

Not really, he just needs to do a few things every frame:

• get current velocity vector (:getLinearVelocity())
• normalize and scale it by the target velocity

Now you can either just set it directly (setLinearVelocity()), which might look weird, or instead apply a force:

• subtract the actual velocity from the target velocity vector
• apply a force proportional to that difference

[ivan]

This respects the collision, but no speed!

1.you set the linear velocity
2.you update the simulation
3.the linear velocity changes due to collisions with the floor

So you're going in the update 'step' with the desired velocity
and collisions happen which slow down the body.
There is no simple way to work around this
if you want to have 'realistic'-looking collisions.