Controllers

Controllers are used to align or move GameObjects to Curvy Splines and Curvy Generator data like extrusion volumes or paths.

• Spline Controller: Use the Spline Controller to align or move GameObjects to Curvy Splines.
• Path Controller: This controller works with Curvy Generator Paths
• Volume Controller: This controller works with Curvy Generator Volumes

Here are the main parameters of the controllers:

Determines when the controller is updated: Update, LateUpdate or FixedUpdate

The source object the controller will follow

Spline Controller only.

Whether to use cached values when appropriate. Cached values are less precise but faster to use.

Whether the position is a world unit (absolute) distance or relative distance. Relative positions are values from 0 to 1. For splines, relative position is the TF while for paths and volumes it is the ratio of the total length.

The position, using the above mode

​Volume Controller only.

This section defines the lateral position:

Defines the range within the cross section the controller uses. The base point (the point '0' refers to) can be altered by using Shift.

Defines the position within the defined Cross Range

Defines what to do when trying to move over the defined range

Determines whether the speed uses absolute or relative distances. See Position Mode for more details about absolute and relative distances

The speed of the movement

The direction of the movement

Determines what to do when the source's end is reached:

• Clamp - controller will stop
• Loop - controller will start over at the opposite side
• PingPong - controller switches direction

When enabled, the controller will start playing when entering the Play Mode.

Spline Controller only.

This allows you to specify how a Spline Controller should move when reaching a Connection. You can set one of the following behaviors:

• Use Current Spline: the controller will continue moving on the current spline as if there were no connections.
• Use Follow Up Spline: the controller will continue moving on the spline containing the Follow Up if there is any, otherwise will continue moving on the current spline.
• Use Random Spline: the controller continue moving on one of the connected splines, chosen randomly.
• Use Follow Up otherwise Random: the controller will continue moving on the spline containing the Follow Up if there is any, otherwise will continue moving on one of the connected splines, chosen randomly.
• Use Custom behavior: define your own connected splines selecting logic. You can do that by setting an instance of a class inheriting from ConnectedControlPointsSelector.

When enabled, this allows the controller to change its movement direction. If moving on a Follow Up, it will use the Follow Up heading. If moving on a random connection, it will change direction to backward if it is a spline's end, or forward if it is a spline's start.

Whether splines that diverge from the current spline with more than a specific angle should be excluded from the randomly selected splines

Whether the current spline should be excluded from the randomly selected splines

The controller defines the object's rotation by aligning a Source vector (from the controller's source) with a Target vector (from the controller's GameObject)

Determines the source position:

• None - The rotation is maintained.
• Tangent - the tangent (direction) is used
• Orientation - orientation (Up-Vector) is used

Determines the rotation axis to align the above value to

Available only if Source is different than None.

If enabled, the orientation ignore the movement direction. If not, when the controller is moving backward, the orientation flips direction.

Adds a smooth damping to the Tangent/Direction vector with the specified duration

Adds a smooth damping to the Up/Orientation vector with the specified duration

Available only if Source is different than None.

Applies an offset (lateral movement) on the GameObject's position, based on the Up/Orientation vector of the source.

The Angle (-180 to 180) starting from the Up vector, defining the direction to offset with

The distance to offset with

If enabled, the controller speed will be modified to take into consideration the longer or shorter distance to travel due to the offset

You can react to certain events by adding a handler to the following UnityEvents:

Available for all controllers

Called when the controller is initialized. You usually don't need to wait for the controller to initialize before setting its properties.

Available for SplineController and UITextSplineController only

Called when moving over a Control Point

Available for SplineController and UITextSplineController only

Called when the end (or start) of the source spline is reached

Available for SplineController and UITextSplineController only

Called when switching between splines.

Lets you start and stop a preview of the movement in Edit Mode