Need help making my ball curve system

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#1

Hello, I’m making a blade ball remake and have been stuck on the curving system. Specifically applying the curve to the ball. I already have the camera’s direction just I don’t know how to apply it correctly. I have a LinearVelocity with MaxForce set to inf and that works fine but once I start adding curves to the linearvelocity like how blade ball does it starts to get more complicated and just very buggy.

I’ve tried using a VectorForce but found that the LinearVelocity overides the VectorForce, I’ve tried using ball:ApplyImpulse() same issue.

Heres a snipet of my code that contains the velocity calculations, etc :

local targetPos = targetCharacter.HumanoidRootPart.Position
local direction = (targetPos - ball.Position).Unit
local adjustedY = math.max(direction.Y, (minY - ball.Position.Y) / (targetPos - ball.Position).Magnitude)
local clampedDirection = Vector3.new(direction.X, adjustedY, direction.Z).Unit
FollowVelocity.VectorVelocity = clampedDirection * currentSpeed

if (ball.Position - targetPos).Magnitude <= workspace:GetAttribute("PARRY_RANGE") and targetCharacter:GetAttribute("Parrying") == true then
	targetCharacter:SetAttribute("Parrying", false)
	BlockingSystem:FireClient(targetPlayer, "Blocked")
	local nextTarget = getClosestTarget(targetCharacter)
	if nextTarget then
		ball:SetAttribute("Target", nextTarget.Name)
	else
		pickRandomTarget(ball)
	end
	local lookValue = targetCharacter:FindFirstChild("Look")
	if lookValue and lookValue:IsA("CFrameValue") then
		local lookDirection = lookValue.Value.LookVector.Unit
		
	end
end
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#2

Honestly, i thought blade ball’s curves were done with a Bezier Curve. Did you try looking into that? I believe Bezier Curves use lerp to move the ball as well.

Edit: It looks like there is a module out there so you don’t have to deal with all the mathematics, here is a link to the Github and Dev Forum.

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#3

Appreciate it, I will look into that. Thank you!

#4

You’re welcome if you ever need more help you can ask or look at the examples provided in the Github as well. Good Luck!

#5

What I have come across is, the system just seems to easy for it to be all of these calculations. There has to be another way

#6

There really aren’t that many calculations, if you want it to look nice using curves like this then it’s pretty necessary.