does Responsiveness in align orientation mean how many degrees it can turn per second
if not how would i calculate how many degrees it can turn
It is how fast it will reach the specified orientation.
Good question,
TL;DR it’s just the Kp term in PID responsiveness. The speed varies quite widely depending on the target orientation. However interestingly enough the time taken to reach the goal is similar.
I asked chatgpt to create a test to measure the X axis responsiveness and Y axis is the time taken to reach a goal.
local part = script.Parent -- The part you're testing
local alignOrientation = part:FindFirstChildOfClass("AlignOrientation")
local targetAttachment = alignOrientation.Attachment1
-- Goal orientation (example: rotate 90 degrees on Y axis)
local goalOrientation = CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(90), 0)
-- Tolerance for "close enough" angle in degrees
local ANGLE_TOLERANCE = 2
-- How long to wait between tests
local WAIT_BETWEEN_TESTS = 2
-- Responsiveness values to test
local responsivenessValues = {1, 5, 10, 20, 40, 80,150,200}
-- Helper to get angle difference in degrees between two orientations
local function getAngleDifference(cf1, cf2)
local dot = cf1.LookVector:Dot(cf2.LookVector)
dot = math.clamp(dot, -1, 1)
return math.deg(math.acos(dot))
end
for _, responsiveness in ipairs(responsivenessValues) do
-- Reset part orientation
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(part.Position) -- Reset orientation to identity
wait(0.1)
alignOrientation.Responsiveness = responsiveness
-- Set new goal orientation (relative to attachment)
targetAttachment.WorldCFrame = part.CFrame * goalOrientation
local startTime = tick()
-- Wait until orientation is close enough to target
repeat
task.wait()
until getAngleDifference(part.CFrame, targetAttachment.WorldCFrame) < ANGLE_TOLERANCE
local timeTaken = tick() - startTime
print(string.format(" Responsiveness: %d | Time to reach goal: %.3f sec", responsiveness, timeTaken))
wait(WAIT_BETWEEN_TESTS)
end
Data obtained, noticed the data looked like exponential decay so I plotted it.
The x point at 1 probably does not matter since responsiveness is capped 5-200.
The orange points is when the target is changed to 180 degrees which is much faster in terms of angular velocity but still takes a similar amount of time.
Done with default align orientation settings max torque 10000 and max angular velocity infinite.
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