Making an object bounce off a wall the same way light bounces off of a mirror.

Hello,

I have a cylindrical object with a capsule collider with all rotations fixed and y position fixed. I want to make it so that when this object hits a wall, it bounces off at a same degree as a light bouncing off of a mirror. Just like this:

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which is how Vector3.Reflect works. Unfortunately, I have learned that using the built-in physics engine, this result is not easy to achieve. Is there a known method of tweaking the parameters of physics setting to achieve this?

Thanks!

Just so its self contained, here is the forum answer from GargarethSunman:

If you want perfect bounces, you’ll need to:

  1. set drag and angular drag to 0 on the projectile’s rigidbody,
  2. create a physic material with all friction settings set to 0, bounciness set to 1, friction combine set to minimum, and bounce combine set to maximum, and
  3. put that physic material on the projectile.

I was still running into problems with this in 2D, where an object would collide with a wall and then kind of slide along it instead of bouncing off again.

I had to go into Edit → Project Settings → Physics2D and lower the Velocity Threshold, as any collision lower than that velocity is considered inelastic. Bumped it down a bit and suddenly everything worked like a charm.

I got an answer from unity forum.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/21138-Projectile-Bounce-Problem

i found the solution in this video: How To Make 2D/3D Wall Bounce/Jump With Vector Reflect In Unity - YouTube