Billiards Physics - Box 2D Issue

[DyadGames]

Above is a video helping explain my problem. For whatever reason, the ball collides and stays put immediately at a certain range of speed. I want a realistic soft bounce off the object, which if I do just a little more speed I get. I've tried playing with the friction, the physics steps and iterations but no dice. Anyone know whats going on? I feel like it's falling asleep on me at those low speeds..

Cheers!

 

[Matt Hawkins]

Changing the pixels to meters ratio in the physics tab of your room properties window might help. Increasing the restitution of your balls might also help.
Hope that helps.

 

[TheWaffle]

Either the friction is too high or your minimum speed is too high. When I did my game I had to manually code these two effects to get them to work as desired.
By minimum speed too high, I mean that if your balls are moving below a certain speed, you set the speed to 0 to help ensure the program does not "hang" when a ball
is in motion, but not really moving. This can happen if your movement is based on pixels per update ignoring any fractions ( 0.01 ). Friction can affect this value if you
use an integer value for position data.

 

[DyadGames]

I actually tried both of these and no dice

Thanks for the tries though.