Mouseclick to launch ball seems finicky

[Jesse_Sloan]

originally, I had the mouseclick in the Update() method as shown in the course. But I did some reading and got the thought that the FixedUpdate() would be better since this is updated at the same rate as the physics engine.

I did that in my effort to try to solve my ball velocity changing problem. See this post:

[HELP] Ball Velocity changes after impact

I have set up the ball launch exactly as described in the course (well almost…used FixedUpdate() instead of Update() because I thought that having the ball velocity updated in the same way as the physics engine updates would help…I read somewhere that that the physics engine updates in fixedUpdate()). See the script below. The problem I’m seeing is that occasionally, the ball will hit the edge of the paddle when it is near the wall (so the ball is between the paddle and the wall) and the veloc…