power meter with built in physics

gooner

for example, golf games usually have a swing or power meter where you can attempt to set the power of your swing ...

• would a power meter like this work well with the built in physics settings?
• if so, what attributes would I want to adjust and apply the power of the swing to? (I've unsuccessfully been trying with bounciness)

thanks!

tatiang

Depending on the shape of the meter, you can usually just constrain the width of a rectangle to the duration of the click-and-hold or something like that. I've made a golf power meter so if you need more help, provide a few more details (e.g. a sketch or example of the type of meter you want).

gooner

thanks for the response ... in your golf meter how did you translate say a 50% meter swing into the actual power of the shot. Was there a certain physics attribute that you modified so that a weaker swing was portrayed accurately? Thanks!

tatiang

It's been a while since I made that game but I believe it was just done with Rotate for the club and Collide for the ball. The Rotate behavior speed was determined by the power meter value.

gooner

thanks for the help, i will try that! (adjusting rotate speed)

tatiang

Yep, I checked and it was using Rotate.