Question How to get the force from a ball hitting a wall?

I need to get the „force“ from a ball that hits a wall when bouncing around in a room (to control the intensity of a hit sound in Wwise via RTPC). Because it’s for a simulation in VR it has to be pretty accurate.

At the moment im using velocity.magnitude from the Rigidbody of the ball.

This is accurate as long as the ball hits the wall in a 90° angle. When the ball hits in a much smaller angle (say only streaking the wall) but with high speed, velocity.magnitude is to big compared to the actual impact of the ball.

Any idea how to solve this?

 

You can look at the Collision object to see details about the collision. See here.

 

Specifically Collision.impulse I believe.

 

A big thank you to both of you for the ultra fast reply! collision.impulse.magnitude is exactly what I was looking for!