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Looks amazing. All you need now is to adjust rotation with the model moving in the direction of the next point.

Keep it up!

If you have this for a C++ library/class I'm sure some of us are willing to pay

On 6/4/2017 at 5:22 PM, martyj said:

All you need now is to adjust rotation with the model moving in the direction of the next point.
 

Thank Marty,

There are 3 types of rotation that I want to support. Last time I really struggled with the third rotation type.

• Point to point rotation: the easiest to achieve since it is a lerp between the start rotation and end rotation. However, this will not suffice when any any of the tangets lie beyond the local z axis of the control points. For really basic curves or straigth lines they will do the trick. This is demonstrated in my first approach (completely rewritten now).
• Vertical align: this is the one you are describing. This one is luckily also relatively easy to achieve: simply point at a position one step further on the curve. I can even use the lookat function for that if I want to make it really easy. Camera paths, trains, boats will use this type.
• Banked rotation: This one I find a lot trickier. Image a figher jet that is capable of banking on its local z axis during tighther corners or even doing helix loops. Then the 2 rotation types above will no longer suffice. I am currently working on getting those rotations to work properly.