sfml gravity clipping shapes through floor

Question

I tried to make a cube that moves side to side and bounces off the floor. It bounced a couple times and then fell through the floor. I tried making the floor higher. I tried adding extra vertical velocity. I have tried everything i can think of. I would like to get the cube to not fall through the floor. how do I do that?

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp> <iostream>

int main(){
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(1000, 700), "project");
    window.setFramerateLimit(60);

    sf::RectangleShape rect;

    int w = 100;
    int h = 100;
    rect.setSize(sf::Vector2f(w, h));

    sf::Vector2f rectangle_position(500 - (w/2), 300 - (h/2));
    rect.setPosition(rectangle_position);

    float x_velocity = 3;
    float y_velocity = 3;

   while (window.isOpen()) {

           sf::Event event;
           while (window.pollEvent(event)) {


               if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed) window.close();

               if (sf::Keyboard::isKeyPressed(sf::Keyboard::Escape)) window.close();
           }

           if (rectangle_position.x > 1000 - w) {
               x_velocity = x_velocity * -1;
           }

           if (rectangle_position.x < 1 ) {
               x_velocity = x_velocity * -1;
           }

           if (rectangle_position.y > 700 - h) {
               y_velocity = y_velocity * -1;
           }

           if (rectangle_position.y < 50) {
               y_velocity = y_velocity * -1;
           }

               y_velocity = y_velocity + 3;

           rectangle_position.x = rectangle_position.x + x_velocity;
           rectangle_position.y = rectangle_position.y + y_velocity;
           rect.setPosition(rectangle_position);

           window.clear();
           window.draw(rect);

           window.display();
    }

}

Answer 1

In your implementation, once the bottom of the rectangle goes below the ground, you just reverse the velocity but never update the position of the rectangle. This causes the rectangle to sink below the ground.

You should make sure that the bottom of the rectangle never goes below the ground. This can be done by adding the following condition:

if (rectangle_position.y > 700 - h) {
    // make sure that rectangle never goes below the ground
    rectangle_position.y -= 3;
    y_velocity = y_velocity * -1;
}

And the result is:

Hope it helps.