Rotate floor plane in-game via C# script

Question

Hi,

I have a floor plane which is initialised before the game starts.

I have a script which later generates a vector. I want this vector to be the new normal for my floor plane.

I want to be able to rotate the floor plane such that it's normal is this above vector, (i.e. the plane becomes perpendicular to this vector).

I have looked into rotations and quaternions but it all seems very mathematically complicated.

The floor's initial rotation is (0, 0, 0) in the transform. Is there a simple way to simply change it's angle in the 3D space? Thanks.

Answer 1

Answer by joelv · Mar 31, 2015 at 11:38 AM

You should be able to call this like:

 transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, myNewNormal) * transform.rotation;

Which generates a quaternion that rotates your previous up vector to your new up vector (normal) and then applies that to the current rotation.

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fat-chunk · Mar 31, 2015 at 01:31 PM 0

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This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!