Rotating Cylinder (Physics)

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello there,

I’ve been playing around with the Blueprint Visual Scripting for quite awhile now, but could not find the solution to my problem.

To explain the thing I want to achieve (Using Physics), here is a list;

  1. The Object (In this case, a Cylinder), has a maximum speed of 3 Degrees per second.
  2. When key Q is pressed, the Cylinder starts to accelerate slowly (Increase speed), up to a maximum of 3 Dergees per second.
  3. When key A is pressed, the Cylinder starts to decrease in speed, back to 0 Degrees per second.

Due to the physics being involved into this game, I try to get this done by using Force and such.

I hope someone is willing to help me with this (Atleast sounds like) easy thing.

Kind regards!

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Video Example of the Platform (Cylinder) I want to achieve. (This is done in Unity3D, so fairly different)

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I don’t think you need to use physics for the rotating base. You can just update the rotation each tick, something like this:

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Thanks James, that did work!

To make the cars move freely, I need to attach them to the crosses, but from what I red elsewhere, this is not supported as of yet? (Couldn’t get it to work myself so far, as soon as I enable Physics, it detach)

Regards

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You will need to use a ‘constraint component’ to create a joint between the animated base and the physics cars.