Well Hello there!
I am developing a game (like most people here) and I have a class named Mob.
This Mob is supposed to act like an enemy/monster. It has the function walk(Dir dir) where dir stands for direction (Dir is a sub-enum). The mob has a RigidBodyControl called physical. I want to apply a force or linear velocity to the physical, but I don’t know what the units of measurements are.
I know the units are relative, but can someone atleast explain to me in what way the vector given for applyCentralForce(Vector3f) is relative to the movement of the object.
I wanted to solve this myself, but RigidBody is full of compiled code.
I would like a formula or something relevant about this topic to help me with this.
~MisterCavespider
If your mob is tall 1m in real life and 10 units in your game, 1 unit of movement means 0.10 meters.
Keep in mind that the default gravity in bullet is 9.81 so 1m=1unit, if you want to use a different scale you need to change the gravity accordingly.
Shorter answer: Use 1m = 1 unit and you will be fine.
Sorry if I didn’t explain it well enough.
That is only distance.
I want to know the unit for force for the following reason:
The game mechanics I want include formulas for accelerations, to carefully control scripting (in cutscenes and things like that). For this, I need to calculate the needed force to get the wanted velocity and distance travelled.
My question is mainly: Does jME3 use (Kilo)Newton? If not, what is the formula it does use?
~MisterCavespider
Yes, 1unit = 1newton if you use 1unit=1m scale and 1 unit = 1kg.