Instantly terminate a player's momentum

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#1

So basically, I’ve set the walkspeed of my game to 2000, but I’ve found that now it takes the player a few seconds to come to a complete stop after releasing their w key. I want the player to come to an instant stop, so I tried setting their HumanoidRootPart’s AssemblyLinearVelocity to 0 every time they stopped trying to move, but it didn’t work. What should I do instead?

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		
		local Humanoid = plr.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		
		Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
			
			if Humanoid.MoveDirection == Vector3.new(0, 0, 0) then
				print("Set the velocity to 0")
				plr.Character.PrimaryPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity = Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)
			end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)
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#2

Anchor the players HumanoidRootPart then Unanchor it. This should cancle it out.

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#3

Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work.

#4

What do you mean? Can you show me the updated code?

#5 
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		
		local Humanoid = plr.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		
		Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
			
			if Humanoid.MoveDirection == Vector3.new(0, 0, 0) then
				print("Set the velocity to 0")
				plr.Character.PrimaryPart.Anchored = true
				wait(0.1)
				plr.Character.PrimaryPart.Anchored = false
			end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)

Yeah, here.

#6

What happens when this occurs? Does it print that set volocity to 0?

#7

Yeah, it does. Also, since I put that wait(0.1) in there, you can actually see your character stop for a tiny bit.

#8

Does the just move at the same speed after?

#9

Yeah, pretty much. I don’t think anchoring parts gets rid of the velocity unfortunately.

#10

Try setting the humanoid’s walk speed to 0.

#11

then back to normal walk speed

#12

You need to wait until physics have finished simulating for that frame (with heartbeat) and then set the velocity to 0

game:GetService'RunService'.Heartbeat:Wait()
plr.Character.PrimaryPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity = Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)
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#13

Don’t really think that’s doing anything

#14

I’m kind of new to scripting, what does this line do?

game:GetService'RunService'.Heartbeat:Wait()
#15

It wait until after the game has finished calculating physics for that frame

Here is a good explanation:

#16

Thanks for sending me that post. I’ve integrated your suggestion into my script, but it still doesn’t seem to be working properly. Did I put it in correctly?

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	
	plr.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
		
		local Humanoid = plr.Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
		
		Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal("MoveDirection"):Connect(function()
			
			if Humanoid.MoveDirection == Vector3.new(0, 0, 0) then
				print("Setting velocity to 0")
				game:GetService"RunService".Heartbeat:Wait()
				Humanoid.Parent.PrimaryPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity = Vector3.new()
			end
			
		end)
		
	end)
	
end)
#17

On the line after the wait for heartbeat, it says

Vector3.new()

Try

Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)
#18

Seems to work fine for me.

Is your script a server script or a localscript?

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#19

Server script under ServerScriptService

#20

On the line after the wait for heartbeat, it says

Vector3.new()

Try

Vector3.new(0, 0, 0)

Try this. If this doesn’t work I have one more idea.