Rotating BodyGyro on one axis only

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#1

I’m currently making a Nascar racing game and have been working on a car controller for a while now. I’ve only tested on flat ground, and now that I’m testing banking (Slightly elevated + angled ground) the car does fall flush against the bank.

Heres what i mean:
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As you can see, the car’s tail end is floating instead of following. I think this is because of the BodyGyro updating to keep the orientation still.

What I need help with:
I need to figure out how to rotate BodyGyro on one axis (Y-axis) that is relative to the object’s space only.

What I’ve tried
I’ve tried using CFrame.FromOrientation instead, as well as BodyAngularVelocity (That fixes the problem, but creates a bunch of others too). I was going to try to use CFrame:ToObjectSpace() But I couldn’t figure out how to implement it into my code.

Here’s my code, in case it helps:

if seat.Steer > 0 then
		angle.CFrame = angle.CFrame * CFrame.Angles(0,math.rad(turnSpeed),0)
	elseif seat.Steer < 0 then
		angle.CFrame = angle.CFrame * CFrame.fromOrientation(0,math.rad(turnSpeed),0)
	elseif seat.Steer == 0 then
		angle.CFrame = angle.CFrame * CFrame.fromOrientation(0,0,0)
	end

(There’s more to the code, but I figured this is probably good enough for reference??)

#2

Woops! Ignore the “FromOrientation” lines, those are supposed to be Angles, they’re from my testing phase lol

#3

This is actually very simple.
Set the axes that you don’t use in BodyGyro.MaxTorque to 0

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#4

Oh wow, that hadn’t even crossed my mind! In an older project of mine i had to set all axis of BodyGyro to the same or it would go all wonky. Thanks!