Lerping my thrust timer.

Unity Engine
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Hi I am having a bit of a problem with my character controller design.

My controllers are supposed to replicate this movement in this video at about 8:00

The hopes is to use a capacitor based thrusting movement for dog fighting/combat maneuvering and a third control (F “Normal Thrust”) as traditional thrust for transport between battle zones.

So the thrust timer (capLimit) is supposed to slow the vehicle (sphere for now) down in a realistic manner.

I had an example script that used lerping and the movement was right on the money, however it was in C# (I’m new and sticking to JS until I can get a hold on things) and the timer was constantly going. I want the timer only to go when thrusting.

Can someone help me with this thing. here is my incomplete code at the bottom. I think the lerp will go in the Accelerate, but I could definitely be wrong.

Help on this would be nice as I have yet to wrap my brain around Matf.Lerp.
The code is in the next post.

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@script RequireComponent(CharacterController)

var speed : float = 0.0;
var accelerate : float = 1.0;
var thrustRate : float = 1.0;
var sensitivity : float = 0.01;
var canThrust : boolean = true;
var isThrusting : boolean = false;
var capLimit : float =1.0;
var speedLerp = speed;

private var fighter : CharacterController;
private var moveDirection : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;

function Start()
{
	fighter = GetComponent(CharacterController);
}

function Update()
{
	var mainThrust = Input.GetAxis("Normal Thrust");
	
	Status();
	
	if (isThrusting)
	{
		Accelerate();
	}
	else if (mainThrust > sensitivity)
	{
		MainThrust();
	}
	else
	{
		speed = 0;
	}
	
	moveDirection = Vector3(Input.GetAxis("X Axis"),Input.GetAxis("Y Axis"),Input.GetAxis("Z Axis") || Input.GetAxis("Normal Thrust"));
	moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
	fighter.Move(moveDirection * (Time.deltaTime *speed));
}

function Accelerate()
{
}


function Status()
{
	var mainThrust = Input.GetAxis("Normal Thrust");
	
	if (moveDirection != Vector3.zero  mainThrust < sensitivity)
	{
		isThrusting = true;
	}
	else
	{
		isThrusting = false;
	}
	
	if (capLimit <= 0.0)
	{
		canThrust = false;
	}
	else if (capLimit > 0.0)
	{
		canThrust = true;
	}
	
}

function MainThrust()
{
	speed = accelerate;
}
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LOL never mind I accidentally figured out how it works.