Make a variable that tracks the direction and strength in that direction

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Godot.stable.4.4

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Hello! I have recently started using an AnimationTree for a racing game I’ve been making recently, in this game I have a 3D model with steering animations. Its a BlendSpace1D that has a value from -1 to 1, and in my kart script assign the steer value based on my karts turn velocity.

var TurnVelocity : float = 0.0

var SteeringPath = "parameters/Idle+Steering/Steering+Idle/blend_position"

func process(delta):
		TurnVelocity = lerpf(TurnVelocity,Input.get_axis("Left","Right"),5*delta)

		var AnimTree : AnimationTree = %AnimTree
		AnimTree.set(SteeringPath,TurnVelocity)

And this works wonderfully! However I also have an AI kart with basically the same stats, however I cant seem to find a way to get a turn direction for the AI

func process(delta):
			var Direction = (global_position*Vector3(1,0,1)).direction_to(Offset.global_position*Vector3(1,0,1))
			var NewKartRotation = atan2(Direction.x,Direction.z) + deg_to_rad(180)
		
			KartMeshRoot.global_rotation.y = lerp_angle(KartMeshRoot.global_rotation.y,NewKartRotation,5*delta)

Is there a way to get the direction the AI player is turning and also get the turn strength as a float?

Any help is appreciated!

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In the second code block you have a lerp_angle() between your current facing and target facing, right? The angular distance between those two is presumably what you want to use to scale your steering anim.