Question by girlinorbit · May 14, 2019 at 05:13 PM · c#rotation 3d moving character movement

How to change the forward direction of a player and make turning smoother

I'm fairly new to Unity and C#, but I am willing to learn. I would appreciate any help!

I have a player with a camera which follows it, and can be controlled by the arrow keys. When the player changes directions, I would like for the new direction the player is facing to be "forward", so the forward arrow key makes the player move in the direction it is facing. How could I go about that?

I would also like to make the turning of the character more smooth so that it's not so disorienting. How could I do that also? I'm using Unity version 2019.1.1f1.

Here's my code: using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine;

 public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public float turnSpeed = 1f;
 
     Animator m_Animator;
     Rigidbody m_Rigidbody;
     Vector3 m_Movement;
     Quaternion m_Rotation = Quaternion.identity;
 
     void Start()
     {
         m_Animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
         m_Rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
     }
 
     void FixedUpdate()
     {
         float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
         float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
 
         m_Movement.Set(horizontal, 0f, vertical);
         m_Movement.Normalize();
 
         bool hasHorizontalInput = !Mathf.Approximately(horizontal, 0f);
         bool hasVerticalInput = !Mathf.Approximately(vertical, 0f);
         bool isWalking = hasHorizontalInput || hasVerticalInput;
         m_Animator.SetBool("IsWalking", isWalking);
 
         Vector3 desiredForward = Vector3.RotateTowards(transform.forward, m_Movement, turnSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0f);
         m_Rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(desiredForward);
     }
 
     void OnAnimatorMove()
     {
         m_Rigidbody.MovePosition(m_Rigidbody.position + m_Movement * m_Animator.deltaPosition.magnitude);
         m_Rigidbody.MoveRotation(m_Rotation);
     }
 }

Thanks in advance!

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