The first thing that occurs to me to wonder about is that your air friction seems to be greater than your grass friction - surely this relationship should be the other way around?

It's perhaps worth noting, by the way, that unlike the forces that allow your character to walk, your jump force has gravity to overcome, so I would expect it, in this case, to at least be greater than 100 (or less than -100, it seems).

As to the actual equations, I'm not sure that your position equation is entirely valid, when the velocity equation is taken into account.

For zero acceleration, it's fine. However, when the acceleration is non-zero, it expands to

pos = pos + vel_old*dt + acc*dt*dt

However, I believe that the correct form of the equation is

pos = pos + vel_old*dt + 0.5*acc*dt*dt

That said, I'm not sure that it is likely to make much difference for a game - I think that I do something similar in my own code.

Quote:yeah, i realize that my slowing of forces isn't effected by time right now, but i'm not really sure how to..besides just doing force = (force * friction) * dt but then won't i be required to add even more force to keep the player moving, since it will now be dropping even faster?

I keep a read out of my FPS on screen and it stays fairly steady. i know not having my friction be effected by a delta time isn't good...but i don't think that's the entire problem. of course i could be wrong...i'll play around with that.

This will give a accumulated force of force0 * pow(friction * dt, N/dt) where N is the number of seconds which still isn't what you want, you need to do, force = force * pow(friction, dt) which will yield a total force of force0 * pow(pow(friction, dt), N/dt) = force0 * pow(friction, N) which is independent of the time step and so probably what you want.

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The first thing that occurs to me to wonder about is that your air friction seems to be greater than your grass friction - surely this relationship should be the other way around?

like i said..friction is a bad word to describe this...basicallyt his just slows down the force so it won't stay constant. the reason FRICTION_AIR has a higher value than FRICTION_GRASS is because the close you get to 1 the less you're actually retarding the force. (i.e. if i had a force of 500. 500 * 0.6 = 300 but 500 * 0.998 = 499)

Aah, fair enough - that makes sense, then. ^_^

While I do agree with those who have mentioned your not including time in your calculation of friction, it doesn't seem to be likely to be the full problem here - if anything, from what you've said, I would think that for a given time period the resistance would be lower, and thus a jump should call for less force.

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As to the actual equations, I'm not sure that your position equation is entirely valid, when the velocity equation is taken into account.

i thought that the equations for going from accel->vel-> speed were all the same vel += accel * dt
pos += vel * dt
...am i wrong? :/

That seems to be what my physics book indicates, I'm afraid. ^^;

Copied from that book:
v = v0 + a*t
x = x0 + v0*t + 0.5*a*t*t
v*v = v0*v0 + 2*a*(x - x0)
x - x0 = ( (v0 + v) / 2 )*t

These all, I believe, assume constant acceleration - which is probably an acceptable approximation, I think.

Note that if you choose to assume that there is no acceleration when the position is changed (i.e. that all forces act instantaneously), then x = x0 + v0*t - although in this case the velocity in question should, if I'm not much mistaken, be the velocity as measured after the instantaneous force (or forces) have taken effect.

(variables with an appended '0' indicate initial values - so "v = v0 + a*t" should be equivalent to "v += a*t")

As to your main problem...

Hmm... Let me see... If the velocity is high, a higher additional force is imparted, and if the "dragCoefficient" is high, a higher additional force is imparted.

This seems strange to me - you're actually adding force to an object, rather than retarding its motion. It also means that objects are retarded less the faster they go, which I think is the inverse of what should be happening.

Drag should surely be a force operating against the direction of motion - although it should, indeed, be proportional to the velocity.

I may, however, be missing something - I'll confess to being pretty tired. ^^;

It seems to me that there are three notable differences between motion in a jump and motion along the ground:
1) Jumping motion should (or at least could) have a higher initial velocity, I would imagine - at the least if it were combined with horizontal movement.
2) Jumping motion proceeds through air, which has a higher "dragCoefficient".
3) Jumping motion is subject to the additional force of gravity.

The additional force of gravity is set to 100, according to your first post - perhaps that's too high? Have you tried 10 instead? (Simple, I realise, but it's worth asking, just in case. ^^; )

That said, the higher initial velocity and higher "dragCoefficient" should counter that, to at least some degree... :/

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This will give a accumulated force of force0 * pow(friction * dt, N/dt) where N is the number of seconds which still isn't what you want, you need to do, force = force * pow(friction, dt) which will yield a total force of force0 * pow(pow(friction, dt), N/dt) = force0 * pow(friction, N) which is independent of the time step and so probably what you want.

but if i use force = force * pow(friction, dt) wouldn't that always set my force to 0 if i said i wanted 0 friction? should it be friction^dt or dt^friction?

If you wanted no 'friction' then according to what you wrote previously you would set friction = 1 not 0, having friction = 0 roughly corresponds to infinite 'friction'.