Force of hit on actor

jon2s

I've been trying to figure this out for awhile and just can't figure it out. What I am trying to do is determine how hard an actor was hit. For example in a cannon game if the cannon ball hits an actor and is flying through the air and a good rate it should destroy the actor. If it is just barely rolling it shouldn't. If the cannon ball hits a block that just barely hits an actor it shouldn't destroy the actor but if the block is falling at a good rate, it should. My problem is I just can't figure out what the force of an actor A hitting actor B to determine if actor B should be destroyed or have hit points dropped down.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks,

Jon

firemaplegames

You can keep track of the linear velocity of an Actor, which is what you'll want in your case.

essentially:

When Actor overlaps or collides
When self.linear.velocity.Y > whatever
.....do something

jon2s

Thanks, I will give this a shot.