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BlackHole Bowls
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BlackHole Bowls - Development and Process - Part 2


Game Mechanics - Bowling ball hook

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This was trial by error at it’s best. This problem kept me up at night and step by step I coded until the solution was had. As seen above the player can rotate the ball on the Y axis between a clamped amount of -45 to 45 degrees.

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This influences the amount of hook on the ball as it travels down the lane. The magic is all thanks to a editor extension called PathMagic no punt intended.

The code below shows how the 4 waypoints in lanePath are moved in proportion to the amount of ballSpin.y

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Maybe not the most elegant looking code at this stage but I am planning on further refinements.

[(more to come)]

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