Player movement speed

Cocos Creator
#1

I’m trying to make the player move, I’m using applyLocalImpulse, but the player starts moving very fast as he walks, how can I limit the speed?

#2

applyImpulse make rigidbody have a speed instantly. So why not use setLinearVelocity to set is speed directly, It’s easier and more controllable.

#3

This may work, but then the player will not walk in the direction of the camera

#4

Why? If you set right speed, then player will walk in right direction.

#5

This is not entirely true, the player now instead moves sideways and on one axis

#6

OK. Anyway, you can directly modify linearvelocity after use applyImpulse to limit the speed of player, for example

    private speed = v3();
    private maxSpeed: number = 10;
    protected fixSpeed(): void {
        this.rigidbody.getLinearVelocity(this.speed);
        if(this.speed.length() > this.maxSpeed){
            console.log("fix speed");
            let rate = this.maxSpeed / this.speed.length();
            this.rigidbody.setLinearVelocity(this.speed.multiplyScalar(rate));
        }
    }