Airplane scene

In this section, you’ll create the airplane that the player will control. It will fly forward while the player can move it up, down, left, and right.

Start your new plane scene with a CharacterBody3D node named Plane and save it.

You can find the 3D model for the airplane in the assets folder, named cartoon_plane.glb. The name indicates the model is stored as a binary .gltf file (exported from Blender). Godot imports .gltf files as scenes containing meshes, animations, materials, and other objects that may have been exported in the file. Click the Instance a Child Scene button and choose the plane model. You’ll see it appears as Node3D, but it’s facing the wrong direction. Select it and set the Rotation/Y function to 180 in the Inspector feature, so that it points along the z axis, which is Godot’s “forward” direction. Note that typing the value directly is easier than trying to rotate the node exactly using the mouse.

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