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Question by calyston000 · Nov 24, 2011 at 09:34 PM · physicsrigidbodytransform

Throwing a ball around

Hi all, Here's my problem :

I'm using the FPS Character controller and i've attached an empty object called BallHolder (héhéhé i know!) and the ball is the children of it. When I click the mouse the ball object is released and should be throw.

Here's my code :

 var ballModel:Transform;
 var parentModel:Transform;
 var ballInPlay:boolean = false;
 var ballPower:float = 2000.0;
 
 function Update () 
 {
     controlBall();
 }
 
 function controlBall():void
 {
     if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
     {
         if(!ballInPlay)
         {
             ballModel.rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
             ballModel.rigidbody.AddForce(parentModel.Vector3.foward * ballPower);
             parentModel.DetachChildren();
         }
         
     }
 }


My main problem is with the AddForce sentence. If I just put a Vector3 in there it's works but since the player is rotating around, the ball goes only in the direction specified by the Vector3. But if I add the foward Vector3 I got this message from Unity :

MissingMethodException: Method not found: 'UnityEngine.Transform.Vector3'. NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Boo.Lang.Runtime.RuntimeServices.GetDispatcher (System.Object target, System.String cacheKeyName, System.Type[] cacheKeyTypes,)

I don't understand! Everything is nice in the editor, the transform are nicely put there.

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Answer by masterdam17 · Nov 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM

Hey , first off im no professional ... but try this u just misspelled foward ... its forward . Still if that doesnt work try (parentModel.transform.forward * ballPower) and also you need to first detacch children and then apply force... cos if not the force will apply to the child and wont work, first dechild then apply force :) hope it works

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Answer by calyston000 · Nov 27, 2011 at 03:16 AM

Well first that's rigth freaking misspelled!!!! Urgh! But also I didn't unparent the model!

Well Thanks Masterdam! :)

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