how to influence car jump ?

Unity Engine
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Hi,

i’m working on a game where the player could control an all-terrain vehicle in an open space (a desert for example).
Actually i try to fix the vehicule behaviour. It’s a kind of buggy and i use wheel colliders.

My main problem is when my car jumps (due to the bumps) : the jump is to long. After some research i realise that it’s quite normal in terms of Physics (looking rally car jumping,ect …) but i would like to minimise the jump.

The only idea that i have now is to reduce the max speed of the car but driving at 50km/h in a desert it’s not really funny xD
An other idea could be to not use the Physics and build my own “car controller” from scratch, but this afraid me a bit ^^

Do you have some ideas ?

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Increase the gravity when the car is in the air?

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or maybe add a rigidbody to it and give it a high mass?

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Well i tried to change the gravity when jumping … the result is what i’m looking for :slight_smile: But i don’t like to switch the gravity of all the scene just during the jumps of my car xD I expect to have weird behaviour with others objects affected by gravity ^^

So the idea is to probably disable the gravity on my car and apply it manually

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you could just test the ground collision and then apply an additional downforce on the center of mass of the car.

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Yes, it’s also a good idea (and finally it’s the same thing that apply a specific gravity on the car … all is about apply more or less forces :slight_smile: )

Now i try to find a way to prevent my car to overturn during a jump xD (freeze rotation works but the “effect” is not smoothly :slight_smile: )

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You can stop or limit the rotation of a rigidbody object using a configurable joint. You just need to set the Angular X/Y/Z properties to Locked or Limited either from a script or the inspector as appropriate.

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I missed your reply, i was working on something else (the network part of my game :slight_smile: ) but it’s exactly what i want ! Thank you :slight_smile: