Hi,
I am working on a simple hockey game and I have come to the stage where I need to handle collisions between the puck and the ice, boards, posts etc. What I need help with is how do I determine the velocity after a collision? The velocity is a vector and I have a method for reflecting it which means the puck will bounce. However right now when a puck is shot high in the air and eventually drops down onto the ice again it will bounce and reach approximately the same height on each bounce (if I ignore air resistance). As anyone who watches hockey knows the puck hardly bounces at all (for simplicity I will assume the puck always lands flat) when it hits the ice. How do I calculate this loss of velocity? Do I need to calculate energy loss or something? Any help would be appreciated, not sure what to google for. If I need to provide more information let me know.
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#2dabo
Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:08 PM
Hi,
I am working on a simple hockey game and I have come to the stage where I need to handle collisions between the puck and the ice, boards, posts etc. What I need help with is how do I determine the velocity after a collision? The velocity is a vector and I have a method for reflecting it which means the puck will bounce. However right now when a puck is shot high in the air and eventually drops down onto the ice again it will bounce and reach approximately the same height on each bounce (if I ignore air resistance). As anyone who watches hockey knows the puck hardly bounces at all (for simplicity I will assume the puck always lands flat) when it hits the ice. How do I calculate this loss of velocity? Do I need to calculate engery loss or something? Any help would be appreciated, not sure what to google for. If I need to provide more information let me know.
I am working on a simple hockey game and I have come to the stage where I need to handle collisions between the puck and the ice, boards, posts etc. What I need help with is how do I determine the velocity after a collision? The velocity is a vector and I have a method for reflecting it which means the puck will bounce. However right now when a puck is shot high in the air and eventually drops down onto the ice again it will bounce and reach approximately the same height on each bounce (if I ignore air resistance). As anyone who watches hockey knows the puck hardly bounces at all (for simplicity I will assume the puck always lands flat) when it hits the ice. How do I calculate this loss of velocity? Do I need to calculate engery loss or something? Any help would be appreciated, not sure what to google for. If I need to provide more information let me know.
#1dabo
Posted 22 April 2012 - 01:03 PM
Hi,
I am working on a simple hockey game and I have come to the stage where I need to handle collisions between the puck and the ice, boards, posts etc. What I need help with is how do I determine the velocity after a collision? The velocity is a vector and I have a method for reflecting it which means the puck will bounce. However right now when a puck is shot high in the air and eventually drops down onto the ice again it will bounce and reach approximately the same height on each bounce (if I ignore air resistance); similarily if a puck is shot straight into the boards it bounces back pretty much to the same position the shot was taken from. As anyone who watches hockey knows the puck hardly bounces at all (for simplicity I will assume the puck always lands flat) when it hits the ice and a deflection off of the boards should hardly make the puck come all the way back to its starting position. How do I calculate this loss of velocity? Do I need to calculate engery loss or something? Any help would be appreciated, not sure what to google for. If I need to provide more information let me know.
I am working on a simple hockey game and I have come to the stage where I need to handle collisions between the puck and the ice, boards, posts etc. What I need help with is how do I determine the velocity after a collision? The velocity is a vector and I have a method for reflecting it which means the puck will bounce. However right now when a puck is shot high in the air and eventually drops down onto the ice again it will bounce and reach approximately the same height on each bounce (if I ignore air resistance); similarily if a puck is shot straight into the boards it bounces back pretty much to the same position the shot was taken from. As anyone who watches hockey knows the puck hardly bounces at all (for simplicity I will assume the puck always lands flat) when it hits the ice and a deflection off of the boards should hardly make the puck come all the way back to its starting position. How do I calculate this loss of velocity? Do I need to calculate engery loss or something? Any help would be appreciated, not sure what to google for. If I need to provide more information let me know.