Hi, I made a post yesterday about this, but it was excessively long and over-complicated and incoherent, so I’m going to give it another shot. Sorry for the double-post.
Problem: I’m trying to make it so a Path3D is always tilted the amount that the player tilts it. For instance, if the tilt value for every point is 0.0, it should always face straight up (and I can tell which way it faces/tilts based on a child CSGPolygon). However, it seems to automatically tilt sometimes depending on the positions of the points even if the tilt value for those same points is 0.0. How do I stop this from happening, or counteract it?
[Example image 1] This example displays how every point on the black track has a tilt value of 0.0, so it should be facing straight up to the red points all the way through this curve:
[Example image 2] But, as you can see here, it is very heavily tilted inwards at the top of the curve even though I’ve confirmed that every point has a tilt value of 0.0 (this is the problem):
It’s very hard to tell from your description and images, what axis is where etc, but I think your understanding of what “tilt” is might not be right. Tilt is the roll around the forward direction of the path. So if your path is straight, and you have a plane flying down that path, “tilt” makes the plane “roll” or “bank”.
if your path curves upward, like climbing a hill, the plane will pitch up, and this has nothing to do with “tilt” or “roll”, it is just following the path.
You can probably achieve what you want by messing with the pathfollow3d’s rotation_mode property.
Sorry for the late response, and thanks for the reply.
I think I understand what you mean, but I don’t think it’s right. I would expect the path to tilt upwards and downwards in the forward direction based on the position of the next point, but I would not expect it to tilt to the side (clockwise/counterclockwise) in either direction if the tilt value is 0 regardless of the positions of the points in the path.
The image above is the best example the I can think of for the issue. The path is taking a U turn and moves upwards while doing so. So the path should be tilting up and down towards the next points–and it does so–but it also tilts inwards counterclockwise which is not intended.
Also, thanks for the suggestion of using rotation_mode, but I’ve already tried all of the settings for that before and none of them resulted in the desired effect. I’m still trying to find a solution.
I guess I missed that, because that it exactly what I’m looking for for the train’s rotation. Thanks!
The only problem is that I also need to fix the issue for the track mesh, which is a CSGPolygon node attached directly to the Path3D, and it does not seem to have the same Rotation Mode options…
