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I'm doing a game where ball collides, but I don't want them to collide as if they where solid pool balls, I want them to absorb some of the collision force (as if the balls somehow intersected) and then bounce back.

I'm not interested in simulating the ball deformation, just the kinetics

Think about 2 baloons that collide, in the exact moment they touch each other they don't bounce, they continue colliding into each other a little bit (deforming themselves) and then start going back

How would you approach this?

hi,
i think it's like the pool ball physic stuff, but with damping values. when pool balls collide their movement directions are reflected (more or less, normal calculation and so on) in one frame / update. if you use a damping mechanism, the collision response should be much more soften.

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Think you could use the restitution to configure this.

Kev

AFAIK damping is the "air friction" and restitution is how much energy is transferred to the other body

I solved it by creating a BouncingJoint, it's the exact opposite of a ConstrainingJoint. When the 2 bodies are close enough, a SpringJoint is created between them and the start pushing each other apart... I'm tweaking it right now but it does the trick

kev if you want I can send you the code