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Rigidbody

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Inherits from: Component

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Description

Control of an object's position through physics simulation.

Adding a Rigidbody component to an object will put its motion under the control of Unity's physics engine. Even without adding any code, a Rigidbody object will be pulled downward by gravity and will react to collisions with incoming objects if the right Collider component is also present.

The Rigidbody also has a scripting API that lets you apply forces to the object and control it in a physically realistic way. For example, a car's behaviour can be specified in terms of the forces applied by the wheels. Given this information, the physics engine can handle most other aspects of the car's motion, so it will accelerate realistically and respond correctly to collisions.

In a script, the FixedUpdate function is recommended as the place to apply forces and change Rigidbody settings (as opposed to Update, which is used for most other frame update tasks). The reason for this is that physics updates are carried out in measured time steps that don't coincide with the frame update. FixedUpdate is called immediately before each physics update and so any changes made there will be processed directly.

A common problem when starting out with Rigidbodies is that the game physics appears to run in "slow motion". This is actually due to the scale used for your models. The default gravity settings assume that one world unit corresponds to one metre of distance. With non-physical games, it doesn't make much difference if your models are all 100 units long but when using physics, they will be treated as very large objects. If a large scale is used for objects that are supposed to be small, they will appear to fall very slowly - the physics engine thinks they are very large objects falling over very large distances. With this in mind, be sure to keep your objects more or less at their scale in real life (so a car should be about 4 units = 4 metres, for example).

Variables

angularDragThe angular drag of the object.
angularVelocityThe angular velocity vector of the rigidbody.
centerOfMassThe center of mass relative to the transform's origin.
collisionDetectionModeThe Rigidbody's collision detection mode.
constraintsControls which degrees of freedom are allowed for the simulation of this Rigidbody.
detectCollisionsShould collision detection be enabled? (By default always enabled).
dragThe drag of the object.
freezeRotationControls whether physics will change the rotation of the object.
inertiaTensorThe diagonal inertia tensor of mass relative to the center of mass.
inertiaTensorRotationThe rotation of the inertia tensor.
interpolationInterpolation allows you to smooth out the effect of running physics at a fixed frame rate.
isKinematicControls whether physics affects the rigidbody.
massThe mass of the rigidbody.
maxAngularVelocityThe maximimum angular velocity of the rigidbody. (Default 7) range { 0, infinity }.
maxDepenetrationVelocityMaximum velocity of a rigidbody when moving out of penetrating state.
positionThe position of the rigidbody.
rotationThe rotation of the rigdibody.
sleepThresholdThe mass-normalized energy threshold, below which objects start going to sleep.
solverIterationsThe solverIterations determines how accurately Rigidbody joints and collision contacts are resolved. Overrides Physics.defaultSolverIterations. Must be positive.
solverVelocityIterationsThe solverVelocityIterations affects how how accurately Rigidbody joints and collision contacts are resolved. Overrides Physics.defaultSolverVelocityIterations. Must be positive.
useConeFrictionForce cone friction to be used for this rigidbody.
useGravityControls whether gravity affects this rigidbody.
velocityThe velocity vector of the rigidbody.
worldCenterOfMassThe center of mass of the rigidbody in world space (Read Only).

Public Functions

AddExplosionForceApplies a force to a rigidbody that simulates explosion effects.
AddForceAdds a force to the Rigidbody.
AddForceAtPositionApplies force at position. As a result this will apply a torque and force on the object.
AddRelativeForceAdds a force to the rigidbody relative to its coordinate system.
AddRelativeTorqueAdds a torque to the rigidbody relative to its coordinate system.
AddTorqueAdds a torque to the rigidbody.
ClosestPointOnBoundsThe closest point to the bounding box of the attached colliders.
GetPointVelocityThe velocity of the rigidbody at the point worldPoint in global space.
GetRelativePointVelocityThe velocity relative to the rigidbody at the point relativePoint.
IsSleepingIs the rigidbody sleeping?
MovePositionMoves the rigidbody to position.
MoveRotationRotates the rigidbody to rotation.
ResetCenterOfMassReset the center of mass of the rigidbody.
ResetInertiaTensorReset the inertia tensor value and rotation.
SetDensitySets the mass based on the attached colliders assuming a constant density.
SleepForces a rigidbody to sleep at least one frame.
SweepTestTests if a rigidbody would collide with anything, if it was moved through the scene.
SweepTestAllLike Rigidbody.SweepTest, but returns all hits.
WakeUpForces a rigidbody to wake up.

Messages

OnCollisionEnterOnCollisionEnter is called when this collider/rigidbody has begun touching another rigidbody/collider.
OnCollisionExitOnCollisionEnter is called when this collider/rigidbody has stopped touching another rigidbody/collider.
OnCollisionStayOnCollisionStay is called once per frame for every collider/rigidbody that is touching rigidbody/collider.

Inherited members

Variables

gameObjectThe game object this component is attached to. A component is always attached to a game object.
tagThe tag of this game object.
transformThe Transform attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
hideFlagsShould the object be hidden, saved with the scene or modifiable by the user?
nameThe name of the object.

Public Functions

BroadcastMessageCalls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object or any of its children.
CompareTagIs this game object tagged with tag ?
GetComponentReturns the component of Type type if the game object has one attached, null if it doesn't.
GetComponentInChildrenReturns the component of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children using depth first search.
GetComponentInParentReturns the component of Type type in the GameObject or any of its parents.
GetComponentsReturns all components of Type type in the GameObject.
GetComponentsInChildrenReturns all components of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children.
GetComponentsInParentReturns all components of Type type in the GameObject or any of its parents.
SendMessageCalls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object.
SendMessageUpwardsCalls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object and on every ancestor of the behaviour.
GetInstanceIDReturns the instance id of the object.
ToStringReturns the name of the game object.

Static Functions

DestroyRemoves a gameobject, component or asset.
DestroyImmediateDestroys the object obj immediately.
DontDestroyOnLoadMakes the object target not be destroyed automatically when loading a new scene.
FindObjectOfTypeReturns the first active loaded object of Type type.
FindObjectsOfTypeReturns a list of all active loaded objects of Type type.
InstantiateReturns a copy of the object original.

Operators

boolDoes the object exist?
operator !=Compares if two objects refer to a different object.
operator ==Compares two object references to see if they refer to the same object.