Movement continues after respawn

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Hi,
I’ve currently got an issue where, after respawn, the momentum my character had as he died (falling off an edge) is maintained.

I thought maybe I could disable and then enable rigidbody, but that breaks the game as I have a script reliant on it. Is there a work around?

A similar thing happens when touching a joystick as the scene spawns (could I kill two birds with one stone and make a movement ‘null’ kinda thing?)

Currently using javascript

Thanks for being amazing

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You can temporarily set the rigidbody as kinematic. This will nullify any remaining forces applied to your object.

rigidbody.isKinematic = true;
yield; // wait one frame
rigidbody.isKinematic = false;

Or you can reset the velocity:

rigidbody.velocity = Vector3.zero;
rigidbody.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero;

Or you can set an artificially big drag:

rigidbody.drag = 100;

There are different alternatives…