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The value G is called the constant of universal gravitation. For mathematical reasons having to do with absorbing constants into other constants I hope you'll take my word for this one , we can just assume that G has a value of 1.
The value distance is the distance between the centers of the two objects. You are most likely never going to need to apply this realistic treatment of gravity in your games.
However, if you would like to see a working example of this in Flash, then take a look at a Flash 5 experiment of mine in realGravity.
There is ActionScript in realGravity. As I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, there are times when a simplified formula will do for our gaming purposes as well as the complicated, "real" physics I paid a lot of money to learn about in graduate school. We have come to one of those times now. If you've been worrying about having to work through the gravity equations, you'll be happy to hear that there is an easy way to add a gravity effect to your games: Simply come up with a value for gravity let's say 2 and then add that value to your y velocity in every frame.
To see an example of this, open bounce. In this file, I've affected a ball's velocity using faked gravity. I've also added a simple collision-detection trick so that the ball doesn't fall through the floor we'll talk more about that in Chapters 5 and 6, "Collision Detection" and "Collision Reactions".
Here is the ActionScript:. As you can see in line 5, gravity is used to change the ball's velocity in the same way that acceleration was used to do this. In lines 7 through 10 we check to see if the ball is below which is the height of the floor on the stage in this movie. If so, then it is off the screen, and we set its position back to and reverse the y velocity, ymov.
The final result is a ball that bounces in place.
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