I’m currently using body movers but it has a slight issue I can’t figure out.
Lets say I have a boat and 2 parts on the stern and bow welded to the main body of the ship how could I make it so if i change the body position of of the body mover on the stern it would only move the stern up.
I’ve tried with constraints but that doesn’t work.
How are you changing the BodyPosition? By a script, or just in Studio?
And why are you doing this, to move the boat like it’s tilting forward and backward?
Are you using Terrain water or Part water?
I’m using a script and yes I am moving a boat with terrain water. I have all the wave math figured out i just got to get this one thing to work.
What are you using as a BodyMover?
BodyForce works by trying to move the Part it’s in straight up, no matter which way the Part faces.
BodyThrust moves the Part in the direction of the Force you apply, relative to the Part, so if the Part’s Y axis is facing sideways and you put a Y Force in it it will try to push it sideways.
BodyPosition will move the vertical Position of that Part to that Position (if the forces are strong enough) as well as everything attached to the Part.
These have been superseded by VectorForce, which can be changed in it’s Properties.
If you have a strong BodyGyro in the boat it may not tilt if the forces are too much.
Are you floating the boat with BodyMovers, or just by the Density of the Parts?
I float the boats in my Boat Obby!!! Now with new boats! - Roblox with the Density of the Parts and just use 2 props at the back (or 2 paddlewheels on each side) for steering purposes. If you put a really dense part below the waterline and make the Density of the other Parts around .1 then the boat should float upright and right itself if you get it tilted too much.
I just used a body thrust after looking through the body mover documentation thanks to @Limited_Unique
Which got what I’m looking for thanks for responding though
And I was using a dense part 30 ch*aracters
Here’s a video of it working in case anyone is wondering
It looks decent, but the movement seems like the ship is rolling over the top of a hill whenever it pitches up and down.
You mentioned earlier that you use one part on the bow and the other on the stern. What if you decrease the forces, or only apply the force on one of the Parts?
I changed it to use Body Thrust which only applys on that part not the entire body itself.
Edit: For that test i actually had 3 which probably exadurated the effect.