Move object realtive to the objects rotation

[Captain Cody]

How would I move an object in front of its self relative to its rotation?

Converting an in game object into working ship With WASD controls. But the issue I have is actually getting the ship to move in front of itsself relative to its rotation, any way of doing this?

[DakiLLa]

I'd use OOP for that as it has some neat stuff:

local myObject = Object.create( ... ) 
local myOtherObject = Object.create( ... ) 
  
local otherObjectOffset = Vector3( 0, 3, 0 )  -- moving 'myOtherObject' on 3 units ahead of 'myObject' over Y axis 
local otherObjectPosition = myObject.matrix:transformPosition( otherObjectOffset ) 
  
myOtherObject:setPosition( otherObjectPosition ) 

Don't forget to enable OOP in meta.xml.

[Dealman]

Worth noting you can achieve the same result without using OOP by using this function;

function getPositionFromElementOffset(element,offX,offY,offZ) 
    local m = getElementMatrix ( element )  -- Get the matrix 
    local x = offX * m[1][1] + offY * m[2][1] + offZ * m[3][1] + m[4][1]  -- Apply transform 
    local y = offX * m[1][2] + offY * m[2][2] + offZ * m[3][2] + m[4][2] 
    local z = offX * m[1][3] + offY * m[2][3] + offZ * m[3][3] + m[4][3] 
    return x, y, z                               -- Return the transformed point 
end 
  
-- Get the position of a point 3 units to the right of the element: 
x,y,z = getPositionFromElementOffset(element,3,0,0) 
  

More information can be found looking at getElementMatrix.