Can a rigidbody keep velocity after being moved by script?

Unity Engine
1

I’ve got a rigidbody I’m moving with a script. If the script is deactivated I want the rigid body to then keep moving but as a rigid body, slowing down due to dampening, colliding with other rigid bodies and changing direction and all that. Any ideas?

2

AddForce in FixedUpdate perhaps?

3

Landern got my first thought.

My second was to set the velocity directly. This is generally discouraged, but in your case, it might actually work well.

4

in short:

if(rb.velocity < desiredVelocity) rb.AddForce(acceleration*direction);

5

what about constant force

6

It should, but only if you were originally moving the rigidbody using forces.

if you were using a translate, it wont have any existing forces moving it.