arcade collision without body.velocity

[ageibert]

i hope i didn't overlook a forum thread but:

is it possible to move a sprite/entity only by its x and y value, not using body.velocity, and still getting arcade collision to work?

 

best regards

[ageibert]

my problem is that moving the player by velocity results in a feeling of sliding on ice (in my top down game). i want it more like normal walking, but still preserve the collision detection.

[lewster32]

You can mitigate the 'sliding' by either zeroing the velocity when the player isn't holding a direction, or setting the body.drag.x and .y values to something very high. Otherwise collisions will not be properly calculated, as velocity is used within the collision calculation. You can try setting body.moves = false and then move the character manually and hope the separation routine doesn't go too crazy - it's definitely worth trying in your particular scenario.

[ageibert]

i've chosen the body.drag solution and tweaked it with setting the speed (velocity increment) accordingly.

additionally i set the maximumVelocity, so that the player doesn't accelerate too much.

 

now my player still slides a bit, but that's ok for me.

 

Thank you for that!