How to direct a part in the direction of its speed

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#1

I am making a rocket that flies along a ballistic trajectory, which is calculated due to physics. The problem is that my rocket is always turned up when flying and does not look in the direction of movement. I tried to use alignorientation, but I didn’t find how to bind alignorientation to the speed of the part. Ideas?

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#2

Can you show your code?

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#3

can you tell me how to lay out the code so that it is in a convenient format? I’m just recently on the forum

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#4

You can make the AlignOrientation align the rocket to CFrame.lookAt(Vector3.zero, Rocket.AssemblyLinearVelocity). Alternatively just set the CFrame incase you don’t want to use physics to rotate it.

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#5

my rocket just gone when i run the script xD

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#6

There is a little icon that displays </>
Click that icon and paste your code inside the tildas.

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#7

If you want to rotate it using CFrame instead of AlignOrientation, you need to take it’s position into account as well. Try running it like this, if that is the case: CFrame.lookAt(Rocket.Position, Rocket.Position + Rocket.AssemblyLinearVelocity)

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#8

I already fixed it by use this code:

while true do
    task.wait()
    rocket.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(rocket.Position, rocket.AssemblyLinearVelocity * 100)
end

So there’s only one thing I don’t know. Why is it that if I don’t multiply the rocket.AssemblyLinearVelocity by some number, then my rocket spins and if I divide the rocket.AssemblyLinearVelocity by 5, for example, then it will spin even more

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#9 
local pos = rocket.Position
game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:Connect(function()
    rocket.CFrame = CFrame.new(pos, rocket.Position)
    pos = rocket.Position
end)
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#10

Who knows how this works, XD ?

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