How to remove the Impulse from a unit

[TheFatController]

It seems UnitPreDamaged still applies the full impulse to a unit even if you return 0.

I need a hack to make the 0 damage units take no impulse at all but haven't found a solution yet, turning MoveCtrl on and off 5 frames later doesn't work and neither does SetUnitVelocity or applying negative values from GetUnitVelocity to AddUnitImpulse...

Can anyone advise please on the best way to remove a unit's impulse considering the above?

[Forboding Angel]

you mean weapon impulse?

impulseBoost = 0,
impulseFactor = 0,

works fine for me.

[Evil4Zerggin]

I believe he means via Lua, for example when adding special weapon behaviors using a gadget. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, there is no way in Lua to read the value of unit->residualImpulse, so it appears you are stuck short of performing ridiculous calculations (e.g. simulating weapon impulse in Lua instead of using the engine).

BTW guess how impulse to ground units is removed:

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void CUnit::SlowUpdate()
{
[...]
  residualImpulse *= 0.6f;

[imbaczek]

movectrl?

[TheFatController]

It seems to retain its impulse somehow, in this case the unit is a commander and sometimes MoveCtrl even if you move it onto the ground it'll then perform a wierd slow motion flip on the spot then explode from falling damage.

Other idea from sleeping on it - silently destroy and swap the unit for an untainted one

[KDR_11k]

Give it a HUEG mass?