Setting the FPSPLAYER's velocity

[Einlander]

I'm trying to recreate portals Areial Faith Plate. The faith plate has a constant velocity even with gravity in effect. In Leadwerks on the character controller there is allways drag unless you counteract it. So here is my question, How would I go about creating a launcher that would throw the player in a set arc at a constant velocity?

[gamecreator]

Have you tried SetVelocity

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/entity/entitysetvelocity-r822

It might not work since the character controller is kind of a custom thing

 

After that I'd try PhysicsSetPosition or just SetPosition and do it manually

[Einlander]

You can't set a character controls velocity though.

[Joshua]

There are two ways I would approach a solution.

 

1. If you really want an Arc effect, you would want to use something like AddForce. You could calculate your normal vector, indicating the direction you want your player to go, multiply it by your desired force, to launch your player in the direction of your calculated normal. I had a test-case of this when I was first messing around with bullets.

 

2. If effecting your character controller through the use of physics methods do not work, you can always accomplish this manually, in the same way that you move your character controller. You could calculate your normal vector, like above, only this time, you would apply your desired force over time using some basic trig algorithms to calculate your arc movement. Your player could still move normally however, the arc movement would be added to your character controller movement every frame, until your desired duration of affect is over.