helicopter physics

[splundge]

is there a good tutorial somewhere (for the most recent version of unity) that demonstrates or explains how to simulate a helicopter floating in the air? (and tilting left/right to strafe)

note:

• it should hover at a constant height while the player is using it (the player cannot change the height)
• when damaged it should fall out of the sky under regular physics forces

[arkano22]

@splundge

is there a good tutorial somewhere (for the most recent version of unity) that demonstrates or explains how to simulate a helicopter floating in the air? (and tilting left/right to strafe)

note:

• it should hover at a constant height while the player is using it (the player cannot change the height)
• when damaged it should fall out of the sky under regular physics forces

There’s dozens of ways of doing this, involving different degrees of physics simulation.

This is a simple one, that you can tweak to limit the height to a constant value:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNDI7g6jA4

[Gabo_campitelli]

Well looks like you don’t need to simulate a helicopter. You can set the rigidbody to kinematic and move it like anything else. then when dead disable iskinematic.