Simple angles question - How to get the position to the right of an object relative to their current direction?

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I'm working on a top-down 2D game, so my characters are moved on the X and Y axes, and rotated on the Z axis. If my character is rotated to a certain direction on Z, what is the formula to get the position to that character's right? Really, all I'm looking to get is a single point that is 3 units to the right of the direction that my character is facing, i.e. would be adjacent to his right ear.

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Answer by Olgo · Apr 15, 2015 at 07:34 PM

I've done something like this on one of my projects. I ended up using an empty gameobject that was a child of my player. I could move the empty gameobject relative to my player's position and then query its position in world space as well.

 emptyGameObject.transform.localPosition;  //local space
 emptyGameObject.transform.position;  //world space

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Doghelmer · Apr 16, 2015 at 01:01 AM 0

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Yeah, I was thinking of doing something like this. Was curious if there was a good solution that didn't require extra Gameobjects, but it's no big deal-- when it works, it works!

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