@hijinxbassist Cool I'll check this out, thanks for all the help so far!

Update: okay everything is almost sort of working...haha

I have changed my script to resemble yours more, but im doing things probably wrong, because I dont rely on timescale to control my pause, and rather just the rigidbody.sleep() and wakeup() stuff, being that all the moving stuff is rigidbodies...

and what happens now, which is darn near what im going for...is all the rigidbodies DO stop moving, and then, when "resuming" the game, the rigidbodies actually ALL take a single direction of motion (velocity), they dont get their 'unique' motion back...

here let me update the first post with whats happening...

@MDReptile Oh wow, i didnt think of that but it makes complete sense. You need to get their movement direction as well... Lemme think about it for a few, hopefully i can think of a reasonable solution.

@MDReptile Ok, i think this may be what you need. Instead of getting the velocity of the rigidbody, you can get the Angular velocity of the RB. You can literally just change rigidbody.velocity to rigidbody.angularVelocity

@hijinxbassist

I thought that maybe because EVERY update im re-assigning the arrays it could be a problem...like this:

asteroids = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Asteroid");

savedAsteroidVelocity = new Vector3[asteroids.Length];

More info:

tried changing the velocity to angularvelocity, and noticed they were all moving one direction....left...as in Vector3.left haha, I forgot to change that out when debugging, anyway when I set to to velocity, and tried just velocity, I put debug code to show what the saved bit was, always 0,0,0 with angularvelocity, tried velocity again...that way shows the saved velocity just after setting it, (with 5 asteroids on screen) all showing unique...apparently correct values...I will keep testing

using this "load" code...this is all putting out 0,0,0 as the "savedAsteroidVelocity[i]"...hmm...here is the code:

    // if game not paused anymore load velocity's
    if(!GameLogicScript.GamePaused)
    {
       // dont worry about player if were not out of wave 0
       if(GameLogicScript.wave > 0)
       {
         if(player != null)
         {
          if(!loaded)
          {
              player.rigidbody.WakeUp();
              player.rigidbody.velocity = savedPlayerVelocity;
              //player.transform.position = savedPlayerPos; nvm this...
              saved = false;
              loaded = true;
          }
         }

         if(!asteroidLoaded)
         {
          for(int i = 0; i < asteroids.Length; i++)
          {
              asteroidLoaded = true;
              asteroids[i].rigidbody.WakeUp();
              asteroids[i].rigidbody.velocity = savedAsteroidVelocity[i];
              Debug.Log("lv: " + savedAsteroidVelocity[i]);
              // savedAsteroidPosition[i] = asteroid.rigidbody.position;
              asteroidSaved = false;
          }
         }
       }
       //WrappingEnabled = true; ignore this
    }
}

}

Crazy question... does the logic on "i" mean, it starts with savedAsteroidVelocity[0] or [1]? wouldnt that be a problem if it did?

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Awwww I figured it out...worked flawlessly...I was doing the part where it finds asteroids, and then the next line, was indeed resetting the whole deal every frame, even like a frame or two after saving... casuing it to stay zero for velocity...

this part:

asteroids = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Asteroid"); savedAsteroidVelocity = new Vector3[asteroids.Length];

had to use a bool like, foundStuff to make sure it only looked once...once per pause anyway :) works like a charm! ill mark your answer as correct, with some adjustments on my own logic anyway

Thanks a ton, you were extremely helpful!

excellent, glad we got it resolved. Glad to be of help, im sure our paths will cross again one way or another. For now, Cheers : )