How to make door open and close both ways?

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I have a basic door that opens and closes but I want it to open away from the player depending on what side of the door the player is on. Like in Half Life 2.

I figure I need to get the player transform.forward and give that info to the door script but I'm not sure the best way to do that.

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Answer by Jordash · Dec 01, 2018 at 12:37 AM

Passing the player's world position into the door's InverseTransformPoint will give you the position of the player in the door's local space. From there you can check the x or z axis of that vector is negative to determine which side of the door the player is on. Whether you'll check z or x depends how you've set up the door.

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Crazyspawn · Dec 02, 2018 at 04:41 AM 0

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Using the InverseTransformPoint worked. Had to change my targetRotation and closedRotation from vector3 to Quaternion while keeping my openRotation to vector3. After that I had to use "Quaternion opRotation = Quaternion.Euler(openRotation);" and make my targetRotation to opRotation and use "Quaternion.Euler(-opRotation.eulerAngles);" for the opposite rotation.

There's probably a neater way to do this but I got it to work. Thanks for the help.

How to make door open and close both ways?

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