Horizontal Drag, no Vertical Drag

Questions & Answers
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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

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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.