How do I scale a rigidbody with code?

[Leonidas]

Hi @jus.co_ding_me_23,

You can’t really scale a rigidbody since as soon as it’s created and added in the physics simulation the shape can’t change.

What you can do is update your collision component to get a new shape and then re-add the body in the sim.

Check this thread, it contains an example on how to change the height of the player controller (a rigidbody) to enable/disable crouching:

First Person Movement Crouching

Hello all I’m new to playcanvas and programming i started with the first person movement script to create a fps game but could not figure out how to implement crouching. I did some research in unity and the forum and found out that reducing the collider to half its original value should work but when I implement this myself everything seems to be really slow. The player moves really slowly in general and when you crouch it crouches really slowly and hardly moves, and the crouch bugs through the…