Continuously Rotating Script?

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Hi, I just needed the code to make a GameObject continuously rotate around on it's y axis throughout the whole game (preferably every 5-6 seconds is will reach 360 Degrees and start again if you know what I mean). Thanks, Dean.

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Answer by Bunny83 · Jun 07, 2012 at 11:51 AM

That's really easy:

 var rotationsPerMinute : float = 10.0;
 function Update()
 {
     transform.Rotate(0,6.0*rotationsPerMinute*Time.deltaTime,0);
 }

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idiot333 · Feb 20, 2015 at 07:20 PM 0

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what if we do not want to put it in the update function? I mean, i just wanna call the function once and it should continuously rotate it.

Ravenholmn idiot333 · Jun 28 at 01:15 PM 0

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@idiot333 if you dont want to use a rigibody you can use a self looping coroutine instead.

     float rotationsPerMinute = 10.0;
 
     Start()
     {
         OpenCoroutine();
     }
 
     private void StartRotationCoroutine()
     {
         if (canRotate)
         {
             StartCoroutine(InstantiateParentCoroutine(spawnDuration));
         }
     }
 
     private IEnumerator InstantiateParentCoroutine(float delayTime)
     {
         transformToRotate.Rotate(0, 6.0 * rotationsPerMinute * Time.deltaTime, 0);
         yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
         StartRotationCoroutine();
     }
 
 
 //you can add these to have the ability to stop and reenable this infinite loop
     public void OpenCoroutine()
     {
         canRotate = true;
         StartRotationCoroutine();
     }
 
     public void CloseCoroutine()
     {
         canSpawn = false;
     }

HappyLDE · Feb 20, 2015 at 07:54 PM 1

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@idiot333 you can then in the Start() function set the torque to a rigidbody without it having angular drag: rigidbody2D.AddTorque(20);

Answer 2

Answer by dean_0707 · Jun 07, 2012 at 04:35 PM

Yes, This was exactly what I was looking for, I'm a beginner with Unity so it all seems pretty hard, thanks!

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