Projectile Prediction in Unity

Objective: Creating Project Prediction in Unity

Step 1: Project Setup

First, we create a new project and define the launcher and spawn point.

Step 2: The Formula: P(t)=P0​+V0​t+1/2​at²

There are many ways to perform projectile prediction, this guide is using the above formula.

Definitions:

P(t) = position at time
P0​ = initial position
V0 = initial velocity (a vector)
a = acceleration (typically gravity g=9.81f
t = time

Step 3: Putting it together

We need to first define the inputs and in order to visualize the projectile prediction, we need to first define a collection of points:

With the amount of points to display clearly defined in the _pointCount variable, we can now loop through each point and calculate the predicted position.

Result: