Pawn's Current Movement Direction (Inertia)

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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How may I reference the inertia of a pawn?

Object: The blueprint has a mesh at the root and uses Add Impulse to apply physics force and move the pawn around a space environment.

Example: The spaceship is moving in some direction, and turns in place, but still moving that direction (until another impulse force is applied).

Question : How do I access the direction and velocity it is still moving in?

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You can get the velocity of any actor by calling the Get Velocity node. To get the movement direction, just normalize the velocity.

3

Oh geez, of course. derp.

Thank you! I was able to calculate the point ahead of the ship’s drifting direction correctly now:

Vector3 PointInFront = current_position + (normalize(velocity) * distance_ahead);