BodyPosition is going in a weird direction that was not intended

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Hi, so I’ve made this simple warp system similar to that of the Galaxy game on roblox. However, there’s a problem in which the ship would go in some weird other direction, rather than the “front” of the ship.

Here’s what I mean

Here’s my code related to it:

local pos = ship.PrimaryPart.CFrame.LookVector * distance

local warpBody = Instance.new("BodyPosition")
warpBody.Parent = ship.PrimaryPart
warpBody.P = 1250
warpBody.D = 300
warpBody.MaxForce = Vector3.new(1,1,1) * math.huge

wait(0.1)
warpBody.Position = ship.PrimaryPart.CFrame.LookVector * distance

I simply do not know why this happens, it’s so confusing…

What have you tried?

  • I’ve set the “front” of the ship to the actual front of the ship
  • Visualizing it with a brick. Displayed it in the same opposite direction.
2

It may be that you have the max force set to Vector3.new(1,1,1) when you want it to go foward correct?

3

I set it to Vector3.new(1,1,1) x math.huge, so it’d be the equivalent of Vector3.new(math.huge, math.huge, math.huge)

4

yes but you want it to just move foward?

5

Yes, relative to the ship’s front direction

6

x/z would be foward movement depending on the direction of which they are facing.

7

This is the problem. You’d want to apply this to the existing position by for example changing the operator to +=. The lookvector is a unitvector describing a direction and not a position, and distance is a scalar.