Today I worked on a space reentry style simulation and spent most of my time getting the gravity and camera systems feeling right.
I set up the test object so it’s always pulled toward the planet and rotates to face it as it moves, which makes its motion feel more like it’s actually orbiting and falling through space instead of just drifting around. That part was pretty important because it sets the foundation for everything else.
A big chunk of time went into the camera. I tried a bunch of different follow styles because at first it kept jittering, flipping, or ending up in weird positions where I couldn’t even see the planet properly. I went from a basic follow camera, to trying rotation copying, to LookAt setups, and eventually simplified it down to a system where the camera stays in a fixed position relative to the object and just rotates with it in a stable way.
After a lot of trial and error (and a few broken camera moments), I ended up with a setup where the object behaves correctly under gravity and the camera stays locked in a consistent orbit view so the planet is always visible and the motion is readable. however i still have issues with the camera and the tetobject that ill b using for ll the objects thrown into the atmosphere so ill probbably fix that tomorrow