I am working on making an iOS game where a player can flick their finger to throw an object. After the object is thrown, I want to animate the trajectory of that object like in the linked image below. I also want to allow the player to rotate around the thrown object image in 3D. (think of someone throwing a baseball or a golfer hitting a ball and seeing the arc the ball makes in 3D)
My question is what would be the best way of accomplishing this?
I have looked into opengl-es 2.0, core animation, 3rd part frameworks like Cocos3D, etc. But I am not sure how low level I need to go to accomplish this.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
You can't use core animation. Core animation is 2.5D, not 3D. It allows you to animate flat image tiles in 3-D space. You'll need to use OpenGL or maybe SpriteKit or one of the other game APIs like Unity.
Regardless of which framework, you'll need to understand 3-D transformation matrices and display frustums.
Stack overflow is not a good site for "which framework is the best" type questions, so I'm not going to trying to answer that part of the question
