I’m using nphysics in a 3D platformer where the player is a rigid body. I need to be able to detect if the player can jump. The player basically moves in the x,y plan and can translate on z axis for jumps but it doesn’t rotate around x/y axis.
The “ground” is currently an horizontal plan with some other rigib bodies lying on it. What would be the right way to check if the player in not in the middle of a jump, i.e its bottom is currently in contact with some other rigid body from the world ?
For information, I ended up using a very fast, but dirty hack : observe the player vertical speed over 2 game ticks.
If the speed goes from negative to positive, it means the player just bounced on the ground. There are probably lots of corner cases where this doesn’t work so I’m still interested in a more physical way.
The way I’ve solved this is by adding a sensor to the player that has the same shape but is translated down ever so slightly. I check to see if the sensor is currently in proximity to any other colliders (excluding the player’s collider of course) & if so, then there is something below the player to jump off of.