Question by ownedbycow_unity · Sep 20, 2021 at 10:26 PM · rotation unity 2d character movement

Cannot get my character to rotate on Z axis. --Top Down Character View

I was following a tutorial to try to make my movement and rotation code a bit easier to read and not redundant. I got to this part of the coding and realized that it would not work as I needed it to. In this script it has the character moving on the X and Z axis while rotating on the Y. I want to have my character move on the X and Y axis while rotation is on Z. I have two scripts that I have attached. There is a comment separating the two.

I've tried converting lines into Vector3 from quaternion, but that just causes the rotation to not work at all. If I switch up the Y and Z on the one line below, it causes rotation to happen on both X and Y and its completely broken.

 public class playerMoveAttack : MonoBehaviour
 {
     private InputHandler playerInput;
 
     [SerializeField] private float moveSpeed;
     [SerializeField] private float rotateSpeed;
 
     private void Awake()
     {
         playerInput = GetComponent<InputHandler>();
     }
 
     void Update()
     {
         //Rotation works right this way but I need movement on X and Y. This rotates correctly on Y
         var targetVector = new Vector3(playerInput.InputVector.x, 0, playerInput.InputVector.y);
 
         //Movement is now on X and Y with this line but rotations do not work at all now.
        // var targetVector = new Vector3(playerInput.InputVector.x, playerInput.InputVector.y, 0);
 
         //move in dir of aim
         var movementVector  = MoveTowardTarget(targetVector);
         //rotate to dir of aim
         RotateTowardMovementVector(movementVector);
     }
 
     private void RotateTowardMovementVector(Vector3 movementVector)
     {
         if (movementVector.magnitude == 0) {return; }
         var rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementVector);
         transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, rotation, rotateSpeed);
     }
 
     private Vector3 MoveTowardTarget(Vector3 targetVector)
     {
         var speed = moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
         transform.Translate(targetVector * speed);
         return targetVector;
     }
 }


 //Script 2 starts here
 
 public class InputHandler : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public Vector2 InputVector { get; private set; }

     void Update()
     {
         var h = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
         var v = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
         InputVector = new Vector2(h, v);
     }
 }

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