ObjectiveChipmunk Gravity (cocos2d 2.0)

[bkervaski]

If I set my gravity to center shouldn't all my objects fall towards center (albeit slowly since it's not a strong value)?

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space.gravity = cpv(window.width/2, window.height/2);

Just trying to wrap my head around gravity, I know it needs a larger number to pull, but when I set to center my objects still fall to the upper right corner of my point system, now I'm confused.

Thanks for any help

[slembcke]

That is the direction of gravity, not the "position" of gravity.

(0, -1) means gravity pulls downwards. (0, -1000) means gravity pulls downwards 1000x as strong. (1, 1) means gravity would pull to the upper right, etc.

If you want to implement planetary gravity, you'll need to create your own velocity integration function. I have a C example of that in the vanilla Chipmunk distribution: https://github.com/slembcke/Chipmunk-Ph ... o/Planet.c. Objective-Chipmunk doesn't fully wrap integration functions, but I have an example of a (position) integration function from Objective-Chipmunk here: https://gist.github.com/3033927.

[bkervaski]

Ahh! Got it, perfect. Thanks