Is it possible to increase “time” for rigidbody game objects. If I have a setup of rigidbody game object falling onto some terrain at the start of a game. Is it possible to essentially “fast forward” to the end result , or increase the time playback of the rigidbody? Without affecting its rigidbody parameters, such as velocity, mass, drag etc?
My goal is to drop rigidbody balls onto a terrain and have them settle at wherever physics took em. So the player can interact with them immediately instead of waiting for the balls to fall into place/ or i myself manually placing the balls.
There is no way to “predict” where PhysX will come out.
To look at it another way: you can’t let PhysX run “in the background” (instantly) and get the “result”
So - that is the answer, the answer is unfortunately No.
If you are just doing drops (straight down!) simply do a ray cast to find out where it would hit the surface. If you are not yet familiar with raycasts, close this question and ask a new separate one, or search for a million answers on here - or read the doco!
If you need to find the solution of a parabola (like, the item is “thrown” - you’ll have to do the math calculation.
Note tha you can set Time.timeScale … but it’s more for “slow motion effects” and similar. There are many, many problems associated with using Time.timeScale and it’s not really what you want. If you have a new specific Q about Time.timeScale, close out this question and again, ask a new one.