Problems with turning when flying spaceship.

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Hello,
I am making a flying game where you are flying a spaceship around obstacles, but I have a problem.
I want to make the ship fly up, but the spaceship will just turn 360’, it won’t stop turning.
How do I stop it from turning for ever, and only fly vertically?

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(This picture shows my spacecraft upside down due to the infinite turning)

Any help on this issue would be most appreciated. :slight_smile:

Thanks, :slight_smile:
Jordan.

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It sound like your not using true, pulse mode,

However it would be easier to take a look at a .blend, (I am off to bed)

But hopefully true pulse was your issue.

Ps rotatational dampining is good.

Do you know python at all yet?

Take a look at the text editor and then open game logic simple,

If own.locallinearVelocity.y>0:
      own.localLinearVelocity.y=own.localLinearVelocity.y+abs(own.localLinearVelocity.x*.3)
    own.localLinearVelocity.x*=.6

This is for carving

This assumes you using y+ as forward axis.

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I think you just want a rotation cap so he can’t point more than vertical?

You’ll need some python for that, and there’s some nasty vector stuff that’ll have to go into that too. Perhaps a simpler way it to use an animation with a controlling property, and then cap the property

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Why would a spaceship not be able to fly a loop?

Nevertheless you can cap up/down turning dependent of the current up/down orientation.

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Thanks for the replies. :slight_smile:
I have to admit I am very inexperienced with the game engine.
@BluePrintRandom
For some reason when I input the code:


and try to run the script, I receive the invalid syntax error message. I am pretty sure I am doing something wrong, but I have no idea what it might be.

I decided to try using an Orientation constraint, but I got some results that I am not very happy with.

Here is a link to the Blend file if that will help. >HERE<

I am very sorry for my ignorance.

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check this out

Attachments

ShipPhysics.blend (431 KB)