Discussion: What do you preffer for Gravity? Scene.gravity? create the "gravity" in the actor?

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• SlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870

  December 2012

  I always use the accelerate behavior for gravity. That way, you can set different amounts in each actor if you need to, and none in the ones that don't. I like that better than having 1 constant gravity affecting everything that is in the scene.
  
  Take for example if you have a balloon actor, and you want it to slowly rise in the air. If you had scene gravity, you would also have to have some sort of move behavior in the balloon that counteracts the gravity, so you basically have 2 physics behaviors fighting it out with the processor constantly, and that can make jittery movement, and is counter productive as fas as scripting is concerned. It would just be easier to have 1 accelerate/move behavior that slowly makes the balloon rise.
• jamie_c ImagineLabs.rocks Member, PRO Posts: 5,772

  December 2012

  I prefer using the accelerate behavior in the actors because that gives me more control.
  
• gamesfua Member Posts: 723

  December 2012

  I'm not adding anything new to what has been said above. Take it from me, i've learned the hard way. You simply have more control over doing acceleration down (270) than the gravity check box. The gravity button can be useful sometimes i'm sure- but thus far, i havent found it yet. Not anymore at least. Hopefully someone will add a reason why its beneficial. I'm always wanting to hear new perspectives.
• DuendeArkano Member Posts: 52

  December 2012

  Thanks a lot guys, i was checking some gs salad examples from different people and i've observed that no one uses the scene.gravity and i see its a common practice :P jijjiji so i'll start to change gravity in my games for acceleration attributes, anyway if someone has something positive to say about scene.gravity its very welcome to say it, as anatomyofdreams says, its always welcome to hear new prespectives
  
  
  Thanks again guys
• tenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934

  December 2012

  accelerate down for gravity. I normally reference the value to a game attribute though so I can quickly adjust all the actors in the game if needed.