Trying to find a collision defelction angle

Windows
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I’ve been looking for a deflection/reflection equation without success. I completely understand the vector mirror approach, but I’m working in a rotating world where no collision is going happen on an axis. Just to make things a little more complicated, the collision is against a circle.

So, the circle is the solid with infinite mass, and being fired towards it are pixels. (For the sake of argument)

So at the point of collision I make a note of the vector for the projectile V1, and calculate a new vector from the collision point to the centre of the circle V2. Now if I work out the angle of V2, +90 or -90 degrees I have a plane to bounce off, but now I’m working in vectors and angles and I’m getting confused trying to work out if I need to be working in quadrants, or rotating everything, or should I just be rotating vectors.

Is there an easy equation?

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So it’s not an “easy equation” but Xamarin’s game Fruity Falls supports circle vs. rotated polygon collision. Source is fully available here:

https://developer.xamarin.com/samples/mobile/FruityFalls/

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Thanks vchelaru, do you happen to know which module the calculation is in?

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He’s an author of this game, so he should know :slightly_smiling:
The reflection functions are here https://github.com/xamarin/mobile-samples/blob/master/FruityFalls/FruityFalls/FruityFalls.Common/Geometry/CollisionResponse.cs