BallSocketConstraint freezing the custom character when it tries to move

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Hi! Im struggling to make a rolling ball custom character. I got the rig working, now its only the rolling of the ball left.

I want the ball to rotate in the direction it is moving WITHOUT using autorotate. I have partly achieved this with a BallSocketConstraint without any limits. But if the ball completely stops moving it cant start rolling again… Unless i jump.

I have tried acheiving the same effect using a Motor6D but struggeled alot with that, so I decided to test some sort of constraint and the BallSocketConstraint gave the best result.

If you have encountered similar problems tell me! Have I done something wrong? Help is appreciated.
Also, if I can get better results using some other constraint/tool tell me:)

Custom character:
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Also this is my first dev forum post so please have mercy on me:)

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This could be because of the friction of the ground holding the ball back, have you tried setting the ball to massless?

You could also try making the character float slightly so they arent touching the ground and should be able to move freely

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When I tried setting the ball to massless it just fell through the ground. No I didnt turn of canCollide. But the wierd thing is that when the ball spawned in it was stuck in place. but then I jumped, half a second passed and then the ball went through the ground.

I also tried making the ball float but it didnt work. If the ball doesnt touch the ground it doesnt roll it just floats. And the same thing happend here. When I set the hipHeight of the humanoid to a really big number. First when I spawned I was stuck in place on the ground. Then when I jumped I flew in to the air ant floated.-.

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Is the ball a solid sphere or is it a hollow sphere? If it’s hollow and very thin then it may have issues with falling through the Parts/Terrain it sits on.
What are you using to move the ball? Is the player spawned inside the ball? When attaching anything to a player it generally works better if the Parts of the item are Massless to keep the ‘weight’ of those Parts from interfering with the players movement physics.

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I believie it is hollow. I used a normal part and then just changed a property, cant remeber what the name was, to sphere instead of square. I made a custom character so the player character doesnt spawn at all.
It looks like this.
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And i dont think the problem is that the ball is colliding with the ground I think it has to do something with the constraint…

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If the Part is a Ball instead of a Block then it isn’t hollow.
If the Ball has a mass and it’s attached to the Humanoid with the Ball & Socket it’s going to cause movement issues.
Again, what are you using to move the Humanoid and Ball?

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I guess I’m using the default method, I made a custom character by just making a humanoid root part. So I guess the way I move is by applying force to the humanoid root part, and the ball is attached to the humanoid with a ballsocketconstraint