How to make an object spin

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I’m trying to make my object spin and I’m to stupid to find out what the code is to do it, and I’m not doing it with input, I just want it to spin on its own forever, example: Karlson

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Hi! @Nicholas_Taylor1 do you want to press a key to make it spin?

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no, i just want it to spin on its own

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image no, i just want it to spin on its own.

Well in that case paste this into your function code

this.entity.rotateLocal(0,1,0)

You can increase the value to make it faster or decrease to make it slower if you want

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won’t it only make it spin on the Y axis though?

or will changing the 0’s spin it along those axis’ too?

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image won’t it only make it spin on the Y axis though?

Yes you can put the zero on the X or Z axis as well?

Does the code work for you?

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let me see

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image

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let me see you script paste it into a text

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its literally just a standard script(if you had just created a new one) with that code in it

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Hold on a second

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var Spin = pc.createScript('spin');

// initialize code called once per entity
Spin.prototype.initialize = function() {
    
};

// update code called every frame
Spin.prototype.update = function(dt) {
    
};

this.entity.rotateLocal(0,1,0);
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// initialize code called once per entity
Spin.prototype.initialize = function() {
    
};

// update code called every frame
Spin.prototype.update = function(dt) {
       this.entity.rotateLocal(0,1,0);  
};
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alrighht i’ll try that

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Does it work?

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yes

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Good job! glad to see you as a new developer on PlayCanvas. If you need help feel free to contact the forums or me directly.

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ok, thank you for your help

Cheers
----Nicholas

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oh, one more thing

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if i did want it to be rotated on input(not like forever, but rotated a little bit and then stopped, then rotated back to the original rotation on key release), would it be

if (app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_E)) {
         this.entity.rotateLocal(0,1,0);
        
    }
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