Improving aircraft movement system

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#1

Hello, I’m currently working on an Air Traffic Control Simulator game at the moment. I have the fundamentals of the game complete (aircraft landing/taking off, etc). But, I’ve came upon an issue. At the moment, I use TweenService to move the aircraft. I make a path out of smaller parts and then tween the aircraft to the parts to simulate movement.

Example of the path:

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With this current method I use, I would have to create individual paths for every type of aircraft I intend to implement into the game. In the future, I would also like players to be able to move the aircraft anywhere on the airport (with this current method I would have to make paths to everywhere and then loop to tween them).

It’s just really inefficient but I have no other ideas on how to move the aircraft. If anyone has any suggestions or a better method that doesn’t take me having to make paths for every aircraft to go everywhere on the airport, I would appreciate it a bunch!

#2

It sounds like you should be using PathfindingService.

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#3

I’ve used PathfindingService for some NPCs awhile back, what would you say is the best way to implement Pathfinding in my case?

#4

I’m not sure, I’ve never used it like this. Of course, you’d have to make a taking off animation and landing, but you could probably change AgentRadius to a high value, steer and change throttle with dot products, and raycast downwards to move up and down.

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#5

I see, I don’t know how to use Raycasts, animations, or dot products but I’ll research these topics, I appreciate the ideas.