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How to determine if my plane is facing downards (unityscript)
Hi, I have a plane build, and I want it to accelerate when it faces downwards through unityscript. Using local rotation isnt reliable, since it changes all the time. Is there a way of using global rotation to determine if it is facing downwards?
Global rotation is returned by transform.rotation.
You can check if it's faceing downwards by checking transform.forward.y. It should be: 0 - when plane is leveled and -1 when facing downwards.
Thanks for the quick answer! will it return -1 only if the plane faces EXACTLY downwards or if it starts facing downwards? I want my plane to gain velocity depending on how much it faces downwards
if (transform.forward.y < 0) factor = $$anonymous$$athf.Abs(transform.forward.y);
Yes, factor will be propotional to how much it is facing downwards
Try this:
if(Vector3.Dot(transform.up, Vector3.up) < 0)
{
//Facing downwards
}
This is correct if we're talking about Unity Plane primitive. It is not correct if we're talking about general (air)plane model which is oriented in Z direction.
Yeah comedy answer that I had it checking the Z and then I flipped it when I looked at the title of the questions :)
