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How to make my character look in the direction of the camera in Unity 3d?

My character has a chinemachine camera attached to it and it is moving perfectly fine. But when I move my mouse to change the camera direction it is not looking in that direction. And I can't figure out how to make it look in that direction.
I have a reference to the original camera at the top of the script by the name cam.
The script has different functions for movement, rotation, animation, etc.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
//so that unity recognises the callbacks ctx passed to the movementinput
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
public class AnimationAndMovController : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform cam;
public float speed;
//here we are creadting three vars for the animation
//vector2 currentMovementInput stores the input axis of the player
//vector3 store the current position of the player
PlayerInput playerInput;
CharacterController characterController;
Animator animator;
Vector2 currentMovementInput;
Vector3 currentMovement;
Vector3 currentRunMovement;
Vector3 moveDir;
bool isMovementPressed;
bool isRunPressed;
float rotationFactor = 15.0f;
// float turnSmoothtime = 0.1f;
// float turnSmoothVelocity ;
float runMultiplier = 4.0f;
int walkHash ;
int runHash ;
//runs before start function
void Awake(){
playerInput = new PlayerInput();
characterController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
// walkHash = Animator.StringToHash("Walking");
// runHash = Animator.StringToHash("run");
//now instead of writing the logic three times we pass the callback ctx to the movementInput() function
playerInput.CharacterControls.Move.started += movementInput;
playerInput.CharacterControls.Move.canceled += movementInput;
playerInput.CharacterControls.Move.performed += movementInput;
playerInput.CharacterControls.Run.started += handleRun;
playerInput.CharacterControls.Run.canceled += handleRun;
}
void handleRun(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx){
isRunPressed = ctx.ReadValueAsButton();
}
//we are going to handle rotations with quaternions
void handleRotation(){
Vector3 positionToLookAt;
positionToLookAt.x = currentMovement.x;
positionToLookAt.y = 0.0f ;
positionToLookAt.z = currentMovement.z;
Vector3 direction = new Vector3(positionToLookAt.x, 0.0f, positionToLookAt.z).normalized;
Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;
//we take the current rotation and the target rotation and slerp them *FYI : Im still not sure how slerp works
if(isMovementPressed){
Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(positionToLookAt);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(currentRotation, targetRotation, rotationFactor * Time.deltaTime);
}
}
//we are passing the callback ctx to this function so that we dont have to call the function everytime we start, cancel or perform the movement
void movementInput(InputAction.CallbackContext ctx){
//we are setting the movement input to the axis of the player
currentMovementInput = ctx.ReadValue<Vector2>();
currentMovement.x = currentMovementInput.x;
//we are setting the z axis to the y axis of the player because we move y axis on keyboard or joystick but in game we move in z axis
currentMovement.z = currentMovementInput.y;
//now we are setting the run movement to the current movement
currentRunMovement.x = currentMovementInput.x * runMultiplier;
currentRunMovement.z = currentMovementInput.y * runMultiplier;
isMovementPressed = currentMovementInput.x != 0 || currentMovementInput.y != 0;
}
void handleAnimation(){
bool walk = animator.GetBool("walking");
bool run = animator.GetBool("run");
if(isMovementPressed && !walk){
animator.SetBool("walking", true);
}
else if(!isMovementPressed && walk){
animator.SetBool("walking", false);
}
if((isMovementPressed && isRunPressed) && !run){
animator.SetBool("run", true);
}
else if((!isMovementPressed || !isRunPressed)&& run){
animator.SetBool("run", false);
}
}
void handleGravity(){
//we are setting the gravity to -9.8f because we are moving in y axis
if(characterController.isGrounded){
float groundGravity = -0.05f;
currentMovement.y = groundGravity;
currentRunMovement.y = groundGravity;
}
else{
float gravity = -9.8f;
currentMovement.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
currentRunMovement.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;
}
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
handleAnimation();
handleRotation();
handleGravity();
if(isRunPressed){
characterController.Move(currentRunMovement * Time.deltaTime);
}
else{
characterController.Move(currentMovement * Time.deltaTime);
}
}
//we are checking if the player script gets enabled or disabled and accordingly we are enabling or disabling the player input
void OnEnable(){
playerInput.CharacterControls.Enable();
}
void OnDisable(){
playerInput.CharacterControls.Disable();
}
}

That quite a lot of code to dive into.
I'd try:
Quaternion cameraRot = Camera.Main.transform.rotation;
transform.rotation = cameraRot;
Or if you have a target Quaternion.LookRotation:
Vector3 relativePos = target.position - transform.position;
// the second argument, upwards, defaults to Vector3.up
Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(relativePos, Vector3.up);
transform.rotation = rotation;
Hope that helps

Use Transform.LookAt, which points a Game Object's rotation towards a target's position.
In your case, this would be
transform.LookAt(cam);

here is the code that I use..
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class MoveCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
public float sensitivity = 1000f;
public float xRotation = 0f;
public Transform playerBody;
public Quaternion localRotate;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
float MX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X")*sensitivity*Time.deltaTime;
float MY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y")*sensitivity*Time.deltaTime;
xRotation -= MY;
xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation,-90f,90f);
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation,0f,0f);
localRotate = transform.localRotation;
playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * MX);
}
}
the player body you see is the player object to you character...
note that the camera is use is not In. cinema chine and is inside of the player...

Player gravity turns off while i move in Unity

I am quite new to unity and I have two scripts, one for gravity and one for player movement as the names suggest. The reason I am using a gravity script is that the third person movement doesn't support using a rigidbody with position and rotation enabled, so I have frozen the position and the rotation inside the rigidbody (which turns off gravity in the rigidbody). I made the Gravity script myself but I followed a tutorial on the player movement script because I have no idea how to make third person movement so I don't really know what is going on in the movement script.
Movement script:
public class ThirdPersonMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public CharacterController controller;
public Transform cam;
public float speed = 6f;
public float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f;
float turnSmoothVelocity;
void Update()
{
float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
UnityEngine.Vector3 direction = new UnityEngine.Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized;
if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
{
float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y;
float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
transform.rotation = UnityEngine.Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);
UnityEngine.Vector3 moveDir = UnityEngine.Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * UnityEngine.Vector3.forward;
controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}
}
}
Gravity script:
public class gravityScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public float GravitySpeed = -0.03f;
public bool GravityCheck = false;
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
{
if (col.gameObject.name == "Terrain0_0")
{
GravityCheck = true;
}
}
void OnCollisionExit(Collision col)
{
GravityCheck = false;
}
void Update()
{
if (GravityCheck == false)
{
transform.Translate(0, GravitySpeed, 0);
}
}
}
Thank you in advance :)

I don't know what happened but when I opened it today (the day after posting) it was working fine. It was likely just a bug that got fixed after a restart.

With what I should replace dirX for my bullets to shoot right and left

I am doing a 2d game and I want to know how I can make the bullets to shoot right and left . At this moment the bullets go just to the left , even if my player moves right. How I can make them shoot both sides or shoot just when they find an object tagged " enemy "
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityStandardAssets.CrossPlatformInput;
public class Character : MonoBehaviour
{
Rigidbody2D rb;
float dirX;
[SerializeField]
float moveSpeed = 5f, jumpForce = 400f, bulletSpeed = 500f;
Vector3 localScale;
public Transform barrel;
public Rigidbody2D bullet;
// Use this for initialization
void Start()
{
localScale = transform.localScale;
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
dirX = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal");
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
Jump();
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
Fire();
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
rb.velocity = new Vector2(dirX * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
}
void Jump()
{
if (rb.velocity.y == 0)
rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce);
}
void Fire()
{
var firedBullet = Instantiate(bullet, barrel.position, barrel.rotation);
firedBullet.AddForce(barrel.up * bulletSpeed);
}
}

You're already accounting for the direction of the barrel. You just need to change the direction of the barrel when you move.
One way to do that is to just set that directly:
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
dirX = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal");
if (dirX !=0)
{
barrel.up = Vector3.right * Mathf.Sign(dirX);
}
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
Jump();
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
Fire();
}
If the barrel is a child of the player object, then changing the character's rotation so that the barrel's direction points in the correct direction will also work. There's not enough information in the question to know for sure but maybe using Quaternion.LookRotation to set the character's rotation like so would work:
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
dirX = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal");
if (dirX !=0)
{
Vector3 newPlayerForward = Vector3.forward * Mathf.Sign(dirX);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(newPlayerForward, Vector3.up);
}
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
Jump();
if (CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
Fire();
}

How can I repeat this boost (push)?

I dont understand how I can make this shotgun jumps in my version of Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUkdz8jYt3w
How does this work?
Im using "First Person Controller" that looks like capsule
There are images: https://imgur.com/a/uvfAePX
This is for old version of Unity 4.5.5. I've tried RigidBody, but nothing happened. I've tried Transform, but again, no result.
First Person Controller:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class run : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 6.0F;
public float jumpSpeed = 8.0F;
public float gravity = 20.0F;
private Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
public Transform character;
public int CharacterForce = 5000;
public int time = 1;
void Update()
{
CharacterController controller =
GetComponent<CharacterController>();
if (controller.isGrounded)
{
moveDirection = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis ("Vertical"));
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= speed;
if (Input.GetButton("Jump"))
moveDirection.y = jumpSpeed;
}
moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
controller.Move (moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
Transform BulletInstance = (Transform)Instantiate(character, GameObject.Find("CameraRSP").transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
BulletInstance.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(transform.forward * CharacterForce);
}
}
}
"Grenade" code:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class grenade : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform GrenadeF;
public int force = 500;
public float radius;
void Start()
{
Collider[] col = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, radius);
foreach (Collider c in col)
{
c.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddExplosionForce(force, transform.position, radius);
}
}
private void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
{
Gizmos.color = Color.blue;
Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, radius);
}
}
When I used Transform I expected that this would work in ANY direction, but it worked in only one.
When I used RigidBody I expected that this would WORK, but my capsule didnt even moved.

Checkout the optional upwardsModifier parameter of
AddExplosionForce(float explosionForce, Vector3 explosionPosition, float explosionRadius, float upwardsModifier = 0.0f, ForceMode mode = ForceMode.Force));
(The API for Unity 4 is no longer available but I guess it should have been the same there)
Adjustment to the apparent position of the explosion to make it seem to lift objects.
and
Using this parameter, you can make the explosion appear to throw objects up into the air, which can give a more dramatic effect rather than a simple outward force. Force can be applied only to an active rigidbody.
By default it is 0 so if you don't pass it there won't be any upwards force.
As you can see in the example from the API
Vector3 explosionPos = transform.position;
Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapSphere(explosionPos, radius);
foreach (Collider hit in colliders)
{
Rigidbody rb = hit.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
// |
// v
if (rb) rb.AddExplosionForce(power, explosionPos, radius, 3.0f);
}
they passed e.g. 3.0f as upwardsModifier. This makes the explosion
appear to be centred 3.0 units below its actual position for purposes of calculating the force direction (ie, the centre and the radius of effect are not modified).
Note: Typed on smartphone so no warrenty but I hope the idea gets clear

Camera always behind player in Unity3d

I'm struggling with this for quit some time now. I have GameObject, being a sphere, which is my player on a 3d Terrain. I have a Camera which is always on a fixed distance from the player, follows it where it goes with below script:
public GameObject player;
private Vector3 offset;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;
}
void LateUpdate () {
transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
}
So far so good. However what I actually want is that the camera rotates with the player, so it always looks into the direction where the sphere is moving, but always stays behind the player at the same fixed distance, so that the player is always visible in the camera view.
There are a lot of scripts available, but the problem with the onces I've seen so far is that the camera indeed rotate with the player, but because the player actually is a rolling sphere the camera view is rolling and turning as well.
The best script I found so far is below, but this one has the same problem as the other onces, the camera rolls with the player.
public Transform target;
public float distance = 3.0f;
public float height = 3.0f;
public float damping = 5.0f;
public bool smoothRotation = true;
public bool followBehind = true;
public float rotationDamping = 10.0f;
void Update () {
Vector3 wantedPosition;
if(followBehind)
wantedPosition = target.TransformPoint(0, height, -distance);
else
wantedPosition = target.TransformPoint(0, height, distance);
transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (transform.position, wantedPosition, Time.deltaTime * damping);
if (smoothRotation) {
Quaternion wantedRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(target.position - transform.position, target.up);
//Quaternion ownRotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards;
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp (transform.rotation, wantedRotation, Time.deltaTime * rotationDamping);
}
else transform.LookAt (target, target.up);
}
Can anyone help me with this please?

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject player;
public float cameraDistance = 10.0f;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
}
void LateUpdate ()
{
transform.position = player.transform.position - player.transform.forward * cameraDistance;
transform.LookAt (player.transform.position);
transform.position = new Vector3 (transform.position.x, transform.position.y + 5, transform.position.z);
}
}

My solution (based on #brennon-provencher answer) with smoothness and auto offset:
public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject target;
public float speed = 5;
Vector3 offset;
void Start()
{
offset = target.transform.position - transform.position;
}
void LateUpdate()
{
// Look
var newRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(target.transform.position - transform.position);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, newRotation, speed * Time.deltaTime);
// Move
Vector3 newPosition = target.transform.position - target.transform.forward * offset.z - target.transform.up * offset.y;
transform.position = Vector3.Slerp(transform.position, newPosition, Time.deltaTime * speed);
}
}

You need to move your camera position based on sphere movement direction -
public GameObject player;
private Vector3 offset;
float distance;
Vector3 playerPrevPos, playerMoveDir;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;
distance = offset.magnitude;
playerPrevPos = player.transform.position;
}
void LateUpdate () {
playerMoveDir = player.transform.position - playerPrevPos;
playerMoveDir.normalize();
transform.position = player.transform.position - playerMoveDir * distance;
transform.LookAt(player.transform.position);
playerPrevPos = player.transform.position;
}
Edit 2: To fix flickering camera, try this -
void LateUpdate () {
playerMoveDir = player.transform.position - playerPrevPos;
if (playerMoveDir != Vector3.zero)
{
playerMoveDir.normalize();
transform.position = player.transform.position - playerMoveDir * distance;
transform.position.y += 5f; // required height
transform.LookAt(player.transform.position);
playerPrevPos = player.transform.position;
}
}