How to keep velocity constant when object travels at peak speed

Question

I'm working on a project in Unity 2D for learning purposes. It's a game of Ping Pong. I have its material so it travels faster every time it bounces. The only problem with its material is that its speed gets out of hand and glitches out. I want to find out a way to stop it.

For example, I would like to know how to keep the ball at a constant speed when it hits peak speed, example, 15f. It is a Rigidbody2d collider ball.

Answer 1

As suggested in this post, you could control the velocity of the your rigidbody using the Vector2.ClampMagnitude method while tracking it in your OnFixedUpdate(). I'm providing the code in the post I'm citing for your convenience. I edited the code I provided from the cited post to match the recent changes in the API:

float maxVelocity = 10;
 void FixedUpdate()
 {
 rigidbody2D.velocity = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rigidbody2D.velocity, 
  maxVelocity);
 }