Rotate TE without rotating item on board (like Kiva)

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Craig DIckson asked Mar 25, '21 Craig DIckson commented Mar 25, '21

Rotate TE without rotating item on board (like Kiva)

I am modeling a Kiva-like system, using task executers in an A* grid, and no diagonal travel. From an analysis perspective it works fine, but from an animation standpoint it's wrong because the cart being carried should not rotate when the TE does. Is there a setting for that? If not how would you approach this?

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FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 task executer a star kiva

Answer 1 · 2021-03-25T19:13:18Z

Phil BoBo answered Mar 25, '21 Craig DIckson commented Mar 25, '21

In the On Pre Draw trigger of your task executer, you could just set the z rotation of the item to the negative of the task executer's z rotation:

Object item = current.first;
if (item) {
    item.rotation.z = -current.rotation.z;
}

unrotate_item.fsm

unrotate-item.gif (236.1 KiB)

unrotate-item.fsm (26.9 KiB)

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Craig DIckson commented · Mar 25, 2021 at 07:17 PM

Thanks, that looks like it should work. I was hoping it would be that easy!

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