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[sparkierjonesz]

actually 2 axis movement isn't that hard

you can use a custom camera move it to the spot of the object you want to rotate
place a dummy or whatever you want as target
then just use the angles of the camera to rotate your object

i actually made this a long time ago for a heat seeking missile but back then u used an extra operand to make it face in the right direction causing it to glitch for certain quadrants

this however can probably all be solved if you use a custom pivot that is altered to make it face the right direction

a problem remains is that the camera needs to be active and that it would change cameras when it is within the range

[Blastergamer]

Nah, forget about the very, very, very complicated coding. I just used a custom camera with 0.10m range and match up it's rotation and it worked fine thanks to lukkey19!
That took me only:
A interval trigger,
Object position Event,
Vector object info data source,
Get vector,
Two Input Operators and
a custom camera.
So, I used 6 things for two axis rotation!

I just wanted to move forward with my skill game and didn't want to wait longer to solve it.

But still thank for your suggestions.


edit: Wow, Sparkierjonesz posted before me and I didn't see.

[nannerdw]

actually 2 axis movement isn't that hard

you can use a custom camera move it to the spot of the object you want to rotate
place a dummy or whatever you want as target
then just use the angles of the camera to rotate your object

i actually made this a long time ago for a heat seeking missile but back then u used an extra operand to make it face in the right direction causing it to glitch for certain quadrants

this however can probably all be solved if you use a custom pivot that is altered to make it face the right direction

a problem remains is that the camera needs to be active and that it would change cameras when it is within the range

Excellent
You should make a tutorial for it, and I'll link to it from my math-heavy version.

[Blastergamer]

I made a tutorial for the camera rotation tracking, but i need to check with the OPE and camera before it's really finished.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1...9zsJtUypw/edit

[sparkierjonesz]

I made a tutorial for the camera rotation tracking, but i need to check with the OPE and camera before it's really finished.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1...9zsJtUypw/edit

instead of operands i would just use a glue joint and rotate it so it gets align with the cam
this way it 'should' also work if you want to move the rotating object

all whats needed extra is just an ope to move the camera to the objects position

[rlmergeuser]

Nice, I've already used nannerdw's version for my skill game but this looks good.

[Blastergamer]

I made a tutorial for the camera rotation tracking, but i need to check with the OPE and camera before it's really finished.
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1...9zsJtUypw/edit

instead of operands i would just use a glue joint and rotate it so it gets align with the cam
this way it 'should' also work if you want to move the rotating object

all whats needed extra is just an ope to move the camera to the objects position

Yeah, ok, you can do this but I want to use the operator way.

But yes, OPE the camera to the object! Thanks spark!

[dasraizer]

just added Multiple Driving Line Crash Cameras

[Blastergamer]

I have corrected it: Rotate object to always face an Object with custom camera

[dasraizer]

I have corrected it: Rotate object to always face an Object with custom camera

this is a good method, however adding an offset to the rotation that are used as global rotating in the OPE is a bad idea, this is because the pitch value will play havoc with the yaw/bank if it goes outside its scope 90-270 degrees, when the pitch transitions these values it flips the yaw/pitch 180 degrees. the only way to get around this as was suggested is to use a glue pivot object rotated so the tracking object matches the camera.