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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Player Input and Cameras Rotate the Player Towards the Target

josh devlin
josh devlin
651 Points
Posted by josh devlin
josh devlin
651 Points

Code rotation is fine, Just cant seem to move

using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour { private Animator playerAnimator; private float moveHorizontal; private float moveVertical; private Vector3 movement; private float turningSpeed = 20f; private Rigidbody playerRigidbody;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
    //gather the components from the player game objects
    playerAnimator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    playerRigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
    //keyboard input
    moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Horizontal");
    moveVertical = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Vertical");

    movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
}
void FixedUpdate (){
    //if the players movment vector does not equal zero
    if (movement != Vector3.zero){

        // creates a target rotation based on the movement vector
        Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movement, Vector3.up);

        // . create another rotation that moves from the current rotation to the target rotation
        Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Lerp (playerRigidbody.rotation, targetRotation, turningSpeed + Time.deltaTime);

        // change the players rotation to the new incremental rotation
        playerRigidbody.MoveRotation(newRotation);

        // then play the jump animation
        playerAnimator.SetFloat("Speed", 3f);
    }
    else{
        //dont play the animation
        playerAnimator.SetFloat("Speed", 0f);

    }
    }

}