Moving a rigged cube with physics

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1

Hello!

I’m trying to learn how to control a rigged cube.
It was created in Blender, then I inserted joints in all of its vertices and then interconnected them:

The question is — how do I work with such a character?
The obvious solution is to take all of its joints and work with their rigidbodies:

if (Input.GetButton ("Fire1"))
		{
			{
				GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(transform.forward * 10);
			}

In this case the cube is moving, but rather awkwardly, it starts to spin: Wasteland anxiously teases - Coub - The Biggest Video Meme Platform

I can do it differently.
Just work with the Player object which contains all the joints, and relate to it as a non-physics object:

if (Input.GetAxisRaw ("Horizontal") <= 0) 
		

    {
    			transform.Translate (-Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * 3);
    		}

And it works perfectly: Hitman brightly sparkles - Coub - The Biggest Video Meme Platform, that’s what I need. But as I understand that’s the wrong approach, I need to work with the rigidbodies.

So the question is: what’s the correct way to work with such cube.
It should run, jump and stick to walls.
Thanks.

2

First approach is the better one. If you need full control, work with its velocity in FixedUpdate(). The spin is probably coming from friction. Add a PhysicsMaterial to the cubes collider(s) and set all its settings to minimum and 0s.