Ball Dropping, once hit make it go diagonal

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1

How would I go about achieviing a ball hitting a paddle and once it hits the paddle it goes in a diagonal way?

I have it up to hitting the paddle and boucing, but how do i go about making it go in a specific direction?

i'm in 2d land.

2

There certainly are many solutions. This is how I would do it.

  1. Add a collider to the ball
  2. Add a trigger to the paddle
  3. Add the script ballcontrol to the ball
  4. Add the script paddlecontrol to the paddle

ballcontrol:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class ballcontrol : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Vector3 direction;
        void Update ()
        {
            transform.Translate(direction*Time.deltaTime);
        }
        public void SetDirection(Vector3 newdirection)
        {
            direction=newdirection;
        }

    }

paddlecontrol

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class paddlecontrol : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Update()
    {
        //move the paddle
    }
    void OnTriggerenter(Collider other)
    {
        GameObject something=other.gameObject;
        if(something.CompareTag("ball"))
        {
            Vector3 newdirection=Vector3.up;
            /*calculate the balls new direction. For example like
             * newdirection=new Vector3(0,10,transform.position.z-something.transform.position.z);
             */
            something.SendMessage("SetDirection",newdirection);
        }
    }
}