can somebody explain this in more detail

I'm trying to make a spaceship with different thrusters all over it which push it in different directions.

Right now I'm using 1 rigidbody and 1 mesh..to make a ship that behaves in different ways using if statements and addrelativeforce and addrelativetorque.

Can I/should I make different parts of the ship their own rigidbodies and parent them all together somehow? Or make 1 complex script for the 1 rigidbody that imitates what the ship would do if the thrusters fired?

also, can somebody further explain what rigidbody.inertiaTensor does?

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-inertiaTensor.html

 

No, you should have one rigidbody for the object. You can have multiple children with their own scripts, but they should all affect the parent rigidbody (SendMessageUpwards being one possibility).

--Eric

 

You mean something like this?

http://www.otakunozoku.com/ZombieZeppelinDefense/WebPlayer.html