(Solved) I can't get Body:setAngularVelocity() working
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2021 9:45 pm
Hi, I'm quite new to Love2d and am making a little prototype / game for a game jam for fun and glory.
The code in question: https://github.com/JimOfLeisure/bumpy-r ... nd.lua#L17
I have physics circle falling onto a physics rectangle called ground. I can setAngle(n) in the load() function successfully, but for grins I tried setAngularVelocity(n) , but it's not doing anything. I've tried setting it in load() , draw(), and update() , and I can use print statements to show myself that the code is actually running, but so far the "ground" doesn't rotate.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I'm unable to figure it out so far. Can someone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!
Editing to add: My expected behavior would be that the rectangle representing the ground would continually rotate around its center once I set the angular velocity to a nonzero number. setAngle(n) does what I expect in rotating the rectangle to that angle in radians, so I figured setAngularVelocity would create motion.
Edit: I figured it out! When creating the body with love.physics:newBody I needed to provide a type that can move, in this case "kinematic". It was the newBody call I messed up, not setAngularVelocity.
The code in question: https://github.com/JimOfLeisure/bumpy-r ... nd.lua#L17
I have physics circle falling onto a physics rectangle called ground. I can setAngle(n) in the load() function successfully, but for grins I tried setAngularVelocity(n) , but it's not doing anything. I've tried setting it in load() , draw(), and update() , and I can use print statements to show myself that the code is actually running, but so far the "ground" doesn't rotate.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I'm unable to figure it out so far. Can someone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks!
Editing to add: My expected behavior would be that the rectangle representing the ground would continually rotate around its center once I set the angular velocity to a nonzero number. setAngle(n) does what I expect in rotating the rectangle to that angle in radians, so I figured setAngularVelocity would create motion.
Edit: I figured it out! When creating the body with love.physics:newBody I needed to provide a type that can move, in this case "kinematic". It was the newBody call I messed up, not setAngularVelocity.