examples/physics/knockback/example.md

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tags: physics title: Knockback brief: This example shows how to create a knockback effect when hit. author: Defold Foundation scripts: enemy.script

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This example shows how to create a knockback effect when hit. The setup consists of three game objects; one for the player, one for the enemy and one for the bullet that is spawned using a factory (see example on how to spawn bullets).

player : The red ship at the bottom. Contains:

• A Sprite component with the spaceship image.
• A Factory component to spawn bullet game objects
• A script to handle spawning of bullets.

bullet : The bullet fired by the player. Contains:

• A Sprite component with a bullet image.
• A Collision object component. Type is set to KINEMATIC. It has a sphere Shape matching image.

enemy : The black ship at the top. Contains:

• A Sprite component with the spaceship image.
• A Collision object component. Type is set to KINEMATIC. It has a sphere Shape matching image.
• A script to handle collisions with bullets.