Make the player slow down smoothly upon stopping

[shopkinspizzas (Jim)]

Right now, when you let go of a movement key your character will stop instantly. I’m trying to fix that by making it “glide” smoothly to add a bit of realism. How could I do this? I looked at similar posts but I couldn’t code something myself, it seems too complicated.

[dthecoolest]

How would i implement inertia

So for normal humanoids you can lerp the movement direction to have that increase velocity over time effect: Or you can do numerical integration to mimic acceleration physics velocity = velocity + acceleration * dt.

[shopkinspizzas (Jim)]

Thank you so much! I thought I wasn’t gonna be able to do it!