Moving player in direciton camera is facing

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Hello, i am making i space game like "Freelancer" or equivalent and i am working on the movement. My plan is that when the left and right arrow keys / A & D are pressed the character will spin on the horizontal axis, which it does, but when i move the mouse down so its facing the floor and then press the up / w i just goes like i am looking forward, i am wanting to go up if i am looking up but down if i am looking down. i have set the first person control camera script and took off the others so i just have camera movement and i have disabled gravity. i have this code;

 var speed : float = 3.0;
 var rotateSpeed : float = 3.0;
 
 function Update () 
 { 
     var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
     
     // Rotate around y - axis
     transform.Rotate(Vector3.right, Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal") * rotateSpeed, 0); 
     
     // Move forward / backward
     var forward = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward); 
     var curSpeed : float = speed * Input.GetKeyDown ("Vertical");
     controller.Move(forward * curSpeed);
 }
 @script RequireComponent(CharacterController)

sorry if my question is confusing but basically which ever direction the camera is facing i want when i press movement key it go in that direction.

thanks in advance

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Answer by nasapc123 · Sep 30, 2011 at 02:55 PM

you will want to get the camera transform.forward and use that to base the characters movement on. make a variable that stores the camera object:

var cameraObject : GameObject;

change this:

controller.Move(forward * curSpeed); to:

controller.Move(cameraObject.transform.forward * curSpeed);

and assign the camera you want to use to the variable in the inspector :) hope this helps you :)

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slayer29179 · Sep 30, 2011 at 04:15 PM 0

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thank you!

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