Question: how to simulate thrust vectoring for a spaceship.

[adihodos]

Hi, so I have this spaceship with 4 engines each having 4 nozzles, In total 16 nozzles that can produce thrust (see the link for pictures https://imgur.com/a/ThWIIbi ). My question is how can I simulate it with this physics library. What I'd like to do for example is to spin the ship around the Y-axis (yaw basically) by applying thrust to the front nozzle of the upper left engine and to the back nozzle of the lower right engine).

[DanielChappuis]

Hello.

Once you a have created a RigidBody for your spaceship, you should be able to apply forces and torques onto it.
Take a look at all the methods available on the RigidBody class here in the documentation.

For instance, you can apply a local force at the center of mass location with:

rp3d::Vector3 force(4, 0, 0);
spaceShipBody->applyLocalForceAtCenterOfMass(force);

There are other methods to apply a force/torque at different location of your body.

Note: Can I please ask you to post your questions in the Discussions section instead of creating a new issue?

[adihodos]

Thank you for the answer, I will move to the Discussions section.