Enabling and disabling air control

Air control is a fictitious force used by a number of games that allows a player to control their trajectory while falling or jumping in the air. Instead of just falling or jumping and hoping for the best, this allows the player to change course as necessary and trades realism for playability. We can find this type of control in first-person shooters, platformers, and adventure games. In this recipe we will learn how to enable or disable air control for a player, as well as limit its effect while in use.

How to do it...

We are about to modify a PlayerData Datablock instance to enable complete air control as follows:

1. Open your player's Datablock in a text editor, such as Torsion. The Torque 3D templates have the DefaultPlayerData Datablock instance in art/datablocks/player.cs.

2. Find the section of the Datablock instance that contains the airControl property and make the following change:

      jumpForce = "747";
      jumpEnergyDrain = 0;
      minJumpEnergy = 0;
      jumpDelay...