AddForce only of velocity is below certain point.

Unity Engine
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Hi All,

I have a small spaceship that you can steer around. If you press a direction, I use AddForce to give the ship momentum.
The problem is, that it keeps adding force if you keep the button pressed, resulting in a very fast flying ship.

Is there a good way to limit the force added after a certain time? I have tried to limit it by only adding force if the ship is under a certain rigidbody.velocity thresshold, but that does not work very wel.

2

Couldn’t you just clamp the rigidbody’s velocity yourself to the maximum allowable in Fixed Update?

3

Not sure what you mean. Can you give me an example?

4

I’m guessing he means something like:

rigidbody.velocity = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(rigidbody.velocity, myMaxVelocity);

On a side note, what ForceMode are you using to power your rigidbody? They all do very different things.

Erik

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Oh wow, I didn’t even know about ForceModes. That is exactly what I need for my projectiles. I was just using AddRelativeForce.

Thanks!