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So I’m working on a state machine with a BUNCH of states and I’m trying to determine when the player enters the falling state. I see a bunch of examples that follow something like this:
yVel = rigidbody.velocity.y; //y velocity of rigidbody

if (yVel < 0)    //if it's negative, that means it's falling down so set to true
      isFalling = true;

That would likely work just fine IF i wasn’t using a custom gravity script. The script applies a gravitational force to the rigidbody in the direction of gravity.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody))]
public class GravityBody : MonoBehaviour
{
    //override the monobehavior's rigidbody getter
    private new Rigidbody rigidbody;

    [SerializeField]
    private float m_Acceleration;
    [SerializeField]
    private Vector3 m_GravityDirection = new Vector3(0,1,0);

    public bool useGravity = true;
    public bool useFixedUpdate = true; //basically allows us to apply gravity in this script (true) or apply it in a class that uses it
    public float jumpForce = 10;

    /// <summary>The acceleration rate of gravity.</summary>
    public float Acceleration
    {
        get
        {
            return m_Acceleration;
        }
        set
        {
            m_Acceleration = Mathf.Min(value, 0);
        }
    }

    /// <summary>The direction of gravity.</summary>
    public Vector3 GravityDirection
    {
        get
        {
            return m_GravityDirection;
        }
        set
        {
            m_GravityDirection = value.normalized;
        }
    }

    ///<summary>Force applied to body</summary>
    public Vector3 Gravity
    {
        get
        {
            return -Acceleration * GravityDirection.normalized * rigidbody.mass;
        }
    }

    public RigidbodyConstraints Constraints
    {
        get
        {
            return rigidbody != null ? rigidbody.constraints : RigidbodyConstraints.None;
        }
        set
        {
            rigidbody.constraints = value;
        }

    }

    private void Start()
    {
        rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rigidbody.useGravity = false;
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (useFixedUpdate)
            ApplyGravity();

        //For testing purposes only
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
            rigidbody.AddForce(GravityDirection * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

    }

    public void InitGravityBody(Rigidbody rb)
    {
        rigidbody = rb;
        useFixedUpdate = false;
    }

    public void ApplyGravity()
    {
        if (useGravity)
        {
            rigidbody.AddForce(Gravity);
        }
    }


    //Editor
    private void OnValidate()
    {
        m_Acceleration = Mathf.Max(m_Acceleration, 0f);
        m_GravityDirection = m_GravityDirection.normalized;
    }

}

This means that won’t work in this regards. How do I check if my player is falling in this regards? Is there a cheat I can do to do what I described earlier?

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So I figured it out with some help from the Infallible Code Discord (thanks apieceoffruit!)
He told be about Vector3.dots and this is what we came up with

public bool CheckFalling(bool grounded = false)
    {
        var gravDir = useGravity ? GravityDirection : Vector3.zero;
        FallingVelocity = Vector3.Dot(rigidbody.velocity, gravDir);

        if (Mathf.Approximately(FallingVelocity, 0))
            FallingVelocity = 0f;

        if ( FallingVelocity < 0 && grounded == false)
        {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

So if the character is falling, the dot’s value return negative and if the character is ascending it returns positive, all relative to the gravity’s direction and velocity of the rigidbody