How to "simulate" a balloon movements in the air.

scrapee_net

Hello. I'm creating a balloons game for Kids, but I cant figure out how to make the balloons behave similar to a real balloon, that is something like, bounce in the air.

I created an image to better explain this:


I imagine that it would need sin and cos to do such thing.

Any ideal or sample for this?

thanks in advance.

scrapee_net

anyone

skotleach

Thinking on the fly here but...

Create a scene with gravity, then intermiteenly accelerate at a direction of random(80,100)

My thought is that the balloon accelerates up then stops accelerating, then starts again, which might make it look like it's bobbing upward. The random direction changes will cause it to move upward but occasionally shift left or right. I suspect it will take some finessing, but it may work.

BlazingApplications

Make two self attributes (both real)
1) Start X
2) Start time

Add this to your balloons:

Change:
self.Start time = self.Time

Change:
self.Start X = self.Position.X

Constrain:
sin(( self.Time - self.Start Time )*30)*20+ self.Start x

30 refers to how fast it goes left and right
20 refers to how far left and right the balloon goes.

Video:




Have fun!!!
-BA

scrapee_net

Thanks @BlazingApplications. Thats looks to be exactly what I needed. Didnt try yet, but it should work.