The control bone has a child bone, SW, which has a shrinkwrap constraint targeting our mesh object.

The control bone is parented to the root bone. Obviously, you want it disabled in renders, and perhaps shuffled off to some collection full of control doodads that you don't want to always have to look at. This angle-limiting mesh is parented (bone relative) to the root bone. The angle limits are actually defined by a mesh- here, a slightly edited UV sphere. We start with a 'root' bone (which, for an eye, would be your head bone). Or, you could do a single-bone IK, locked in Z and limited only in X, leaving the Y free.īut for you, especially since you're interested in non-circular shapes, I'd do it with a shrinkwrap constraint setup: There are other techniques for what you want here- for example, if you damped track a marker with a floor + limit distance (inside) constraint, you can constrain the rotation to a particular circle. (Think about how 180, 0, 0 is the same orientation as 0, 180, 180 and it becomes more clear that there is more than one way to reach any particular orientation, so Blender just picks one, which isn't necessarily the one you want.) All other vehicles and aircraft with the current normal driver's seat will remain unaffected and use the normal controls.A limit rotation constraint is never going to be very good for this, because 1) there isn't really any such thing as 3D rotation in 2 simultaneous axes and 2) the nature of Eulers and aliasing means that even if you're careful about your angles, the angles you input are not necessarily going to be the angles that get limited. None whatsoever, this control scheme is opt-in only for vehicles using the 'Pilot seat'. Have complete control of the Aircraft while being free for the mouse to move the camera at the same time.Ĭons. The pilot seat then uses this control scheme while the player sits in it, the player presses 'E' to hop in the seat like normal, and then presses 'R' to hop out the seat, since 'E' is used for rudder while the user is in the pilot seat. Make a new seat called the 'Pilot seat'.How it can be done.As i suggested using 'E' for the plane rudder, we can just change a few things. And you can still have ALT mode which would then disable the WASD flying controls so you can use the WASD for complex moving parts and whatever. This would allow the plane/helicopter to be completely controlled with your left hand, leaving your right hand free for the mouse to move the camera at the same time.Īlso at the same time, you can still use the Page up/down, I, X, numpad 1-8 for the landing gear, missiles etc. It would be cool to have Aircraft controls similar to Kerbal space program in my opinion.

Brick rigs angle controls