Phizix Makes my Player Bounce instead Walk

[dragonguy]

Phizix - Chipmunk Engine Extension Object Makes my Player (this is an active, I have it set to square) Bounce instead Walk, how do I fix this?

Iv'e kept on modifying the movement and it keeps going from no movement except when in air to bouncing around like a ball to one bounce then stick to ground.

[Looki]

You need to give us more information... example files or something. Do you use elasticity?

[dragonguy]

Whats Elasticity? I left it at 0 coz I don't know what it is.

[Looki]

The higher it is, the bouncier your objects are.

If an object with el. 0 collides with a wall with el. 1, it doesn't have any effect - I think the objects' elasticies are multiplied on collision. (0 * 1 = 0)
Just try something like 0.5 for all objects and see.

[dragonguy]

Found Solution!

All I had to do was change it from Square to Circle and no more hopping along like a bunny now it just slides across like a tank.

[Surmulot]

It is difficult to make an object walk with phyzics. You should try the platform example given with the phyzics object. You have to create 2 shapes for your walking object. Imagine that one shape is like wheels... Really, you should try the example.

[DanielRehn]

another solution is to use 2 shapes and set the surface velocity of the bottom one... Works like a conveyor belt...

[Werbad]

That's what I did in the Platform Movement Demo. The top shape also has 0 friction to prevent the player from sticking to walls.

[Olivier]

The Platform Movement example coming with the extension is quite interesting. Does someone know if it's possible to simulate the player swimming into/under water?

I'm also trying to simulate buyoant (?) bodies like apples droping into water and then floating at the surface. I didn't succeed for the moment.