What is slowing down RigidBody?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By elmo

I have create a very simple scene with just a RigidBody in it.
My whole code is below:

extends RigidBody

func _ready():
	self.apply_central_impulse(Vector3(1, 0, 0))
	self.gravity_scale = 0
	self.linear_damp = 0
	self.friction = 0
	
func _integrate_forces(state):
	print("v", self.linear_velocity)

The only thing that happens is a single force impulse at the beginning.

What I expected to happen then was that (in absence of gravity, dampening, and friction) it will maintain constant speed (as no other forces act on it).

However what I am observing is linear_velocity continuously becoming smaller.
I.e. output is:

--- Debugging process started ---
Godot Engine v3.4.4.stable.official.419e713a2 - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL ES Batching: ON
 
v(1, 0, 0)
v(0.998333, 0, 0)
v(0.996669, 0, 0)
v(0.995008, 0, 0)
v(0.99335, 0, 0)
v(0.991694, 0, 0)
v(0.990042, 0, 0)
v(0.988392, 0, 0)
v(0.986744, 0, 0)
v(0.9851, 0, 0)

What is causing my RigidBody to slow down?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: joeyq

This one puzzled me, and it’s probably a bug.
A poor solution where this code only works is if in the Project Settings you set Default Linear Damp from 0.1 to 0.0 (“Project” > “Project Settings” > “General” > “Physics” > “3d” > “Default Linear Damp”).
The disadvantage is that you have to set all other rigid bodies who do need dampening manually.