How to apply local gravity to characters?

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#1

I’ve been trying to make gravity like CocoaWarrior’s Solar Conquest II but I don’t know how to make the gravity work for characters. I want to add enemy npcs so locally setting the gravity for a player isn’t an option plus I don’t want players network ownership affecting things it shouldn’t. Currently I’m applying a vector force downward from the character’s UpperTorso but it is wonky and jumping is weird. If you want me to give code for understanding I will, but I don’t think it will be of much help to the problem. So, how do I apply “gravity” to characters?

#2

I’m not sure exactly what you’re looking for? You can adjust the global gravity rate in Workspace.Gravity and you can change the CustomPhysicalProperties in the arms/torso etc. to adjust each character’s individual weight.

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#3

My bad, I’m trying to make flat planets and make them have individual gravity so one planet would be 50 gravity and another would be 150 gravity.

#4

Oh, got it. You could make a server script that

  • Checks the distance of each player to the nearest planet
  • If the player is within a certain distance of this planet, give the player the required gravity by changing their characer’s weight.
  • Otherwise, make the character weightless to give the feeling of zero-gravity

I’m not sure if this is the most efficient solution but it would definitely work.

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#5

How would I change the characters weight?

#6

Change the CustomPhysicalProperties in the arms, torso, etc. This allows you to change the density, friction, and elasticity of each limb.

For example:

-- This will make each limb light and bouncy
local DENSITY = 0.3
local FRICTION = 0.1
local ELASTICITY = 1
local FRICTION_WEIGHT = 1
local ELASTICITY_WEIGHT = 1

local newProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(DENSITY, FRICTION, ELASTICITY, FRICTION_WEIGHT, ELASTICITY_WEIGHT)

-- add all of the character limbs to the array below.
for _, limb in pairs({character.Head, character.UpperTorso, character.LowerTorso}) do
    limb.CustomPhysicalProperties = newProperties
end

You can read more about CustomPhysicalProperties here

#7

The property you’re really looking for is the Density which makes the part heavier or lighter.

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