Character rotation problem!

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Hi! I'm new to scripting and working hard to learn Javacript. I'm writing a movement script for a 2D-sidescroller. I made this with scripts from tutorials and what I've found in forums. Movement works exactly how i want it to, but i cant get the controller to rotate along its y-axis when turning to walk the other way (You will find my attempt at the end of the script).

I would really appreciate it if you could help me out here!:D

Sigurd

Movement.js

var gravity = 20.0;

private var moveDirection = Vector3.zero; private var grounded = false;

class ControllerMovement {

var speed = 6.0; var jumpSpeed = 8.0; var rotationSmoothing = 10.0;

@System.NonSerialized var direction = Vector3.zero;

// Are we jumping? (Initiated with jump button and not grounded yet) @System.NonSerialized var jumping = false;

 // This keeps track of our current velocity while we're not grounded? @System.NonSerialized var inAirVelocity = Vector3.zero;

var movement : ControllerMovement;

private var controller : CharacterController;

function FixedUpdate () {

transform.position.z = 0;

function Update() { if (!grounded) { moveDirection.x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")  movement.speed; 
} // If grounded, zero out y component and allow jumping else { moveDirection = Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")  movement.speed, 0.0, 0.0);

 if (Input.GetButton ("Vertical")) { moveDirection.y = movement.jumpSpeed; } } moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);

// Apply gravity moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;

// Move the controller grounded = (GetComponent(CharacterController).Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime) & CollisionFlags.CollidedBelow) != 0;

// Set rotation to the move direction 
if (movement.direction.sqrMagnitude > 0.01) transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp (transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation (movement.direction), Time.deltaTime * movement.rotationSmoothing);

// We are in jump mode but just became grounded if (controller.isGrounded) { movement.inAirVelocity = Vector3.zero; if (movement.jumping) { movement.jumping = false; SendMessage ("DidLand", SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);

     var jumpMoveDirection = movement.direction * movement.speed + movement.inAirVelocity;
     if (jumpMoveDirection.sqrMagnitude &gt; 0.01)
         movement.direction = jumpMoveDirection.normalized;
 }

@script RequireComponent(CharacterController)

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Answer by Sigurd M · May 30, 2010 at 05:28 AM

Figured it out myself:D

Take the PlatformerController.js from the 2D Sidescroller-tutorial
Add: private var grounded = false;
Right under "// Grounded controls", replace; "if (controller.isGrounded)" with "if (!grounded)".

Play with the settings to get the desired movement. This gives sort of ( not exactly the same because of the extra hight-jump) movement as in the script above, but with rotation.

Sigurd

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