Rotating towards direction without look_at

[Astra]

Godot Version : 4.4

Hello again!

I’m attempting to create a 3D gravity game, but, I’m running into an issue trying to get things to face towards the gravity’s direction. I might wrong, but, look_at(...) doesn’t seem to be usable in this scenario as there isn’t an permanent up direction and was wondering how to get around that if possible. But, if look_at(...) is usable here, I’ll still use it.

gravity_direct =- (global_position - priority_GV.planet_center)

I’m trying to turn gravity_direct into an rotation, also, sorry I’m still quite new to this :')

[Brawlawnzo]

Hello again indeed

You can try providing basis.y as an up direction for the look_at(...) function. Basis is a property of 3d nodes that holds orientation and scale information, and y component of it is the current up-vector of the node.

[that_duck]

You can always set the rotation property.

[Astra]

extends Node3D

@export var GravActorParent : RigidBody3D

func _process(delta: float) -> void:
	look_at(GravActorParent.gravity_direct, GravActorParent.basis.y, true)

I definitely did not get this fully correct as you saw in the video, but, it does the basis of what I was looking for

Thank you again for the help! : )

[Brawlawnzo]

I think you have the same issue as before: someone’s grabbing the wrong property or position, but it’s obviously hard to tell from where I’m standing.