What is the best way to simulate a satellite's orbit?

Development Programming & Scripting
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What is the best way to simulate a satellite orbiting a planet? Using animation or is there a better way to go it through scripting. Thank you.

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Hi ,

I would use a timeline using interps to pull the satelitte in a circle around the object’s pivot. The timeline will control how quickly this occurs.

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Thank you!! Ill give it a shot!!

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There is a RotatingMovementComponent that you could use. It supports a pivot translation that allows you to offset the point of rotation (which would be the planet). Attach your offset object to the planet. Then you could use another rotating component to rotate the mesh of the satellite itself to simulate its own spinning around its own axis.

Alternatively you could do it through blueprints by composing the rotations and pivots yourself.