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How to control a third person characters facing direction
Here's the link to the game I'm working on.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/54318296/deez_world/WebPlayer/WebPlayer.html
Use arrow keys to move the player, space to jump, and a key to punch. I'm having trouble coding the character to face the direction he is moving in.
This is the code used.
private var controller : CharacterController;
function Start ()
{
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController);
animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
animation["jump"].layer = 10;
animation["jump"].wrapMode = WrapMode.ClampForever;
animation["fall"].layer = 10;
animation["fall"].wrapMode = WrapMode.ClampForever;
animation["land"].layer = 10;
animation["land"].wrapMode = WrapMode.Once;
animation.Stop();
animation.Play("idle");
}
function Update ()
{
var MovementY = controller.velocity.y;
var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
if ((MovementY > 0.1) && !(controller.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.Below))
{
animation.CrossFade("jump");
}
else if ((MovementY < -5) && !(controller.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.Below))
{
animation.CrossFade("fall");
}
if ( ((animation.IsPlaying("jump")) || (animation.IsPlaying("fall"))) && (controller.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.Below))
animation.CrossFade("land");
else
animation.CrossFade("idle");
if (Input.GetKey("down"))
animation.Play("backrun");
if (Input.GetKey("up"))
animation.Play("run");
if (Input.GetKey("a"))
animation.CrossFade ("punch");
}
I having trouble making my player rotate properly and making the character stay facing towards direction of the last key pressed.
Any suggestions?
Answer by robertbu · Mar 25, 2013 at 03:19 AM
My experience with character controllers and animations is very limited, but conceptually this the code might solve your problem. Place it in Update().
var lookPos = controller.velocity;
lookPos.y = transform.position.y;
if (lookPos.sqrMagnitude > 0.0) {
lookPos += transform.position;
transform.LookAt(lookPos);
}
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