Keeper jump moment

Scripting
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Hi guys,

I am making a small penalty game and I am stuck at the point where I need to make the keeper jump. As far as I got right now, I’d need to measure the trajectory and the speed of the ball, and based on that add a certain force at position to the keeper to make him “jump” towards the ball. the problem is, I have no clue how to predict the trajectory of a soccer ball and thus have no clue when to actually make the character jump. When it would jump, I would also need to know how much force it needs applied to jump to aprox. the right position.

Can anyone help me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Hi,

I’ve been looking in to a similar issue and found some good reading at UnityAnswers (I did a Google search for “Unity answers trajectory” and found some good reading). I also recall seeing a script on the wiki which can draw a line based on a simple trajectory calculation (ignoring drag, etc). Check out the physics section.