How to set angular velocity in box2D

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  December 2012 Accepted Answer

  @Tom2012 actually you'll need to apply impulse, cause setting linear velocity would be a continious process.
  
  About angle, well it's the both vector's x and y that provides an angle.
  Here is the blog post on slingshot, which will be pretty the same when launching a canon ball:
  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros--Box2d-Slingshot

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• Tom2012 Guru

  December 2012 edited December 2012

  @ar2rsawseen
  
  Thanks for that - I've solved the problem after looking at your tutorial again. Thank you!
  

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• plamen Member

  December 2012

  linear velocity is great for missiles and linear impulse is for turrets. When you apply linearVelocity your physical body starts to accelerate from zero to a speed defined by the damping. When you apply impulse your body will have the desired speed instantly in the beginning of the movement and will start decelerating at same moment too.

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