Try using the a and d keys to move the ball left and right. Maybe that should’ve been more clear in instructions. Otherwise the hinge/joint function looks really useful and I’d like to try that out in the future and maybe I can return to make the rotating paddles more predictable.
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I did try, but the movement was super slow and not enough to reverse the direction at the last part of the video. After reading your screenshot Saturday posts I gathered that it was intentional - am I wrong? It was interesting enough for me to keep trying, but I definitely did eventually get tired and give up ;)
I definitely wanted the movement to be slow, but not as slow as shown in the video. In my version the player can move the ball with a lot more speed and would be able to stop relatively quickly with the momentum in the video. I realized looking through the code I was controlling a few scripts including player movement in the Update function which may make the speed differ depending on framerate, even if it is just adding one force. I think handling this in FixedUpdate might fix that if I understand correctly? Looking back on some of the other games I played, speed differing from when the developers played it on their system to when I tried it on my own seemed like it was probably a lot different. It makes me realize how important it is to understand how a Unity project runs behind the scenes, and that maybe I should do some more digging/research there. Pretty awesome I could get that feedback and realize what was happening to fix it for future projects, so thank you! And I'm definitely gonna play around with the hinges!