How do I keep my character facing the direction of travel after movement stops?

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I've successfully managed to make the character move and face the direction of movement, but the moment the character stops moving, they rotate back to facing one direction of the z axis. I've looked around, but can't see where I'm going wrong! Here's my script

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour {

 public float speed;
 public float rotationspeed;

 // Use this for initialization
 void Start () {

     
 }
 
 // Update is called once per frame
 void Update () {

     float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
     float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

     Vector3 movementDirection = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput);
     movementDirection.Normalize();

     transform.Translate(movementDirection*speed*Time.deltaTime,Space.World);

     if (movementDirection != Vector3.zero);
     {
         Quaternion toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementDirection, Vector3.up);

         transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toRotation, rotationspeed + Time.deltaTime);

     }

 }

}

Answer 1

Answer by keroltarr · Mar 04 at 05:01 PM

moving the actual rotation outside the if statement might fix that as long as the torotation variable is persistent.

     Quaternion toRotation;
     void Start () {
             toRotation = new Quaternion(1, 0, 0, 0);
     }
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update () {
             float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
             float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
             Vector3 movementDirection = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput);
             movementDirection.Normalize();
             transform.Translate(movementDirection*speed*Time.deltaTime,Space.World);
     
             if (movementDirection != Vector3.zero);
             {
                     toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementDirection, Vector3.up);
             }
             transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toRotation, rotationspeed + Time.deltaTime);
     }

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RyeCatcher · Mar 05 at 03:57 PM 0

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I tried the changes, but the same thing happens. I was wondering if the camera script I'm using was interfering, but even without it the character keeps resetting.

How do I keep my character facing the direction of travel after movement stops?

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