The rocket rotates on the wrong axis when colliding with the sphere

[Daz]

Even though the rocket rotation is constrained from rotating on the x and y axis, when it collides with the sphere sometimes it rotates on what I believe is the y axis. Is this what is happening and is there a way to prevent it. You can see it happen near the end of the video.

[Nina]

Hi Daz,

Welcome to our community!

I don’t know in which lecture you are but do you have this piece of code in your Rocket class?

    void ApplyRotation(float rotationThisFrame)
    {
        rb.freezeRotation = true;  // freezing rotation so we can manually rotate
        transform.Rotate(Vector3.forward * rotationThisFrame * Time.deltaTime);
        rb.freezeRotation = false;  // unfreezing rotation so the physics system can take over
    }

If so, test this:

    void ApplyRotation(float rotationThisFrame)
    {
        rb.angularVelocity = Vector3.zero; // set the angular velocity to (0f, 0f, 0f)
        transform.Rotate(Vector3.forward * rotationThisFrame * Time.deltaTime);
    }

Did this fix it?

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