How Do I Make A Ball Be Animated At A Specifc Part Depending On A Contact Point With A Wall

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What I mean by the title is that I’m creating a Pong clone and I want the ball to not spin(which I know how to do), but I want to ball to play a little bouncing animation whenever it hits the wall and at the specific contact point at which it hits the wall. I’ve searched this up but I haven’t found any answer.

Another option for me would be to add a “Bounce Animation” game object that moves to where the contact point was and then play an animation there, but I don’t know how to do that either.

Does anyone have any ideas, or should I just leave it without an animation?

For clarification, I’m trying to make it, so I can use only one animation for this. I’ve created the animation as a normal ball recoiling against something.

Also, I don’t knwo if it’s possible, but I have a “logo” on the ball sprite that I have, and I’d rather keep it in the same position, even after it bounces.

Thank You.

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Hurry to any one of the ten billion Youtube tutorials for that. If those won’t help, nothing in this little text box will either.

Generally a ball contacts a wall for one frame only. If you feel fancy, replace that one frame with a squished frame aligned to the wall.

To do that, pay attention to the normal property you get back from the ContactPoint2D received in the collision callback. NOTE: if any of that sounds mysterious, again, hurry to Youtube tutorials because nobody is going to retype all the details here in this little box.

I like this guy’s step-at-a-time approach:

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