Character Controller follow mouse

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I searched for a while and found nothing that worked. I am trying to get my character controller to follow the mouse when the right mouse button is clicked. I got it working using trasnsform.position and Vector3.lerp, but am having some issue converting it to the character controller. I have tried a number of things, but none seem to work.

 Vector3 targetPoint = ray.GetPoint(hitdist);
 if(Input.GetMouseButton(1)){
                 //transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (transform.position, targetPoint, Time.deltaTime * 5);
                 CharacterController controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
                 //moveDirection = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
                 moveDirection = new Vector3(targetPoint.x,0,0);
                 moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
                 //Multiply it by speed.
                     moveDirection *= speed;
                 //Applying gravity to the controller
                     moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
                 //Making the character move
                 controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
             }

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

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Answer by JeffRBake · Jun 18, 2013 at 11:54 PM

Never mind, solved my own question. I simple need to use

 moveDirection = new Vector3(0,0,SomeSpeed);

where SomeSpeed is a float. Thanks for the help though!

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Answer 2

This is a variation of the mouse orbit that I use in my game, just have another script that enables this one when you release the right mousekey

 public GameObject target;
     private Quaternion myRotation;
     public float distance;
     public float xSpeed;
     public float ySpeed;
     public int yMinLimit;
     public int yMaxLimit;
     private float x;
     private float y;
     private Vector3 angles;
     
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start () {
 
             distance = 10.0f;
             
             xSpeed = 250.0f;
             ySpeed = 120.0f;
             
             yMinLimit = -20;
             yMaxLimit = 80;
             
             x = 0.0f;
             y = 0.0f;
             angles = transform.eulerAngles;
             x = angles.y;
             y = angles.x;
                 
     
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
         
             xSpeed = 12.5f;
             ySpeed = 6.0f;
         
             if (target) 
             {
                 x += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * xSpeed * 0.02f;
                 y -= Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * ySpeed * 0.02f;
                 y = ClampAngle(y, yMinLimit, yMaxLimit);
                 myRotation = Quaternion.Euler(y, x, 0);                
                 transform.rotation = myRotation;
             }
                 
 }
     float ClampAngle (float angle, float min, float max) 
     {
         if (angle < -360)
         {
             angle += 360;
         }
         if (angle > 360)
         {
             angle -= 360;
         }
         
         return Mathf.Clamp (angle, min, max);
     }

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