Orient Constraint Tag

This tag is an expression tag. It modifies the tags owners rotation values in such a manner that the tags owners coordinate system has the same rotation as the targets coordinate system in global space.

You can use this tag for example to animate a hole fleet of ships pointing all in the same direction.

Properties

  • Constrain: Chose which rotation coordinates the tag is allowed to modify.
  • Offset: Set a rotation offset of the targets rotation.
  • Weight: Mix the current rotation with the targets rotation. In animations a mix value smaller than 1 causes a delay of the rotation.
  • Target: The target object according to which the tag owner is oriented.
  • Maintain: If this property is checked on the original rotation of the tags owner will be maintained and the rotation of the target object will be relative to this rotation. Therefore the offset property of this tag will be adjusted automatically when you drag & drop the target object on the target property field. So if you want to maintain the rotation first check on the maintain property and then assign the target object.