koobas.hobune.stream
Horizontal Drag, no Vertical Drag
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to have different values for the drag of a rigid body, I'm currently moving a character using
rigidbody.SetVelocity
Using high drag my character doesn't slide around but this means if my character jumps it doesn't fall at free fall speed which I would like.
Doesn't anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks
The best solution is to backoff the drag setting and instead keep your objects from moving around by assigning the right physic materials to the colliders.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/class-PhysicMaterial.html
You might get what you want just by upping the setting for gravity to compensate for the friction. Go to Edit > Project Settings > Physics and set the 'Y' value for gravity to a larger negative number.
Alternately you could play with doing your own drag. Here is a simple version. Set the drag in the Rigidbody back to '0' and then place the following two lines in FixedUpdate():
rigidbody.velocity.x *= 0.985;
rigidbody.velocity.z *= 0.985;
If you are writing in C#, you will need to use a temporary variable for this calculation and then assign the result back.
I'm not sure I fully understand what's going on here with setting the rigidbody velocity to *= 0.985
Could you possibly explain this a little bit?
The line of code expanded out is:
rigidbody.velocity.x = rigidbody.velocity.x * 0.985;
The '0.985' is just a guess at an appropriate drag setting. You will have to play with this number. The idea is that at each frame, the velocity will decay. So if the x component of the velocity is 2.0, it then would decay to 1.97 and then the following frame it would decay to 1.94 and so on.
Thanks I understand it now, works just like any deceleration, dunno why I couldn't see that before (facepalmed)
I appreciate your help, although eventually I just set x and z velocity to 0 when my analogue sticks magnitude was below a certain threshold XD
I'm not sure if I should mark your comment as answered because I didn't manage to get it to work :| regardless I'll thumb you up for your time :)
Thanks again!
