Cannon fire (Phaser 3)

This is the problem of choosing a launch velocity to hit a target on a parabolic trajectory. I couldn’t figure out the math for a general solution but I made two simplified cases:

(1) Cannon and target on a horizontal line, launch speed is fixed, solve for launch angle

(2) Launch horizontal speed is fixed, solve for vertical speed

This is a little unrealistic but for small vertical distances it looks fine.

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