Assigning speed to a cylinder - scripting problem

Scripting
1

I am trying to get a coindshaped cylinder rigidbody to move across a plane. I have attached the following script to the object i want to move.

function start ()
{
	
	rigidbody.velocity.z = 1000;
}

Im hoping its something as simple as this. Im not enough of a coder to know exactly where to go from here.

Any help is much appreciated.

This is my first post - i hope this is the appropriate section.

2

Shameless bump :smile:

Also - is my question unclear in any way? - too simple or stupid to be answered?

3

rigidbody.velocity values must be expressed with world space referential.

you want your object to always go towards z. you will need to use the function TransformDirection.

you give it a local vector, it return a world vector.

So…the real code should be :

function Start ()
{
   rigidbody.velocity = transform.TransformDirection (0, 0, 1000);
}