Area Gravity override

[naghi32]

Hello.

I am working on a game like everyone else, and at multiple points in time I have to use custom gravity.

While it works from code, I see some issues when lots of rigidbodies have a script with the only purpose of changing the way gravity works.

More precisely, what am I talking about.

Gravity in areas now works in 2 distinct ways:

• The first is the gravity being applied in one direction like so: vector3(0,1,0) , which is the default gravity as well.
• The second way is the gravity being applied in all 3 directions, like a sphere, which is also called the point gravity, which is applied on all 3 axis, towards a single point.

My suggestion would be for the gravity when it is point, to have selectable individual axis, using a normalized vector3 for defining the axis of the gravity being applied.

This would also allow changing of it using a simple normalized direction_to vector, for when the area3d containing the gravity also changes, since as you know, the gravity vector does not rotate with the area.

In my game, I needed multiple times to use gravity in a cylindrical shape, so only on 2 axis, that being the x and z axis.

Note that changing the direction of the area gravity the way it is currently implemented does not work, as that is simply a compound vector of the gravity that does not take into account the player's position, in the way that point gravity does.

This would allow for setting something like gravity_axis:Vector3(1,0,1).normalized() to have the 2 axis being affected by that % amount

[AThousandShips]

Related:

• Add custom gravity calculation in Area3D/Area2D #5714

[naghi32]

Oh, I was not able to find it when searched for it.
Thank you,

Closing this proposal asap.