# Bouncing at an angle
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747 "2003-07-16T04:26:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dAEL](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dAEL)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 4:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747/1 "2003-07-16T04:26:35Z")
Ive been messing around with gravity and ive gotten the ball to fall and bounce off these blocks that i made. The blows are angled however, how do i get it to bounce in the direction of teh angled blocks?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747/2 "2003-07-16T04:45:51Z")
Scale the MC down or up depending on where it is going.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747/3 "2003-07-16T04:49:47Z")
scale the mc down :q:
bouncing off angles is much harder than bouncing an object off a wall… it’s kind of hard for me to explain all the trig involved in it… i’ll if there are any tutorials on that 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bouncing-at-an-angle/25747/4 "2003-07-16T06:30:09Z")
actually there are no specific angles when dealing with gravity, the natural motion of a ball moving in 2D with gravity falls in a parabola. The solution is to add another variable, let’s say horizontal\_speed, the speed of this is always fixed and no need to accelerate it. I hope i answered your question