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how do i Rotate and move 3rd person character at Unity

I want to rotate my player for where my mouse is pointing and move the player with "WASD" keys.
I'm actually succesfully rotating my player and moving it, but it doesn't move right depending where my mouse is pointing.. the player just move everytime to the same position.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
public int playerSpeed = 5;
public float sensitivity = 5.0f;
public bool blockMouse = true;
private float mouseX;
void Start(){
BlockMouse();
}
void Update() {
Move();
Rotate();
}
void Move()
{
Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
transform.position += movement * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift)) {
playerSpeed=10;
} else if(Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.LeftShift)) {
playerSpeed=5;
}
}
void Rotate() {
mouseX += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivity;
transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, mouseX, 0);
}
void BlockMouse() {
if (!blockMouse) {
return;
}
Cursor.visible = false;
Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
}
}
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Assuming the rotation is working as you said
transform.position += movement * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
by doing this you change the objects world space absolute position, not taking any rotation into account.
Now there are probably a lot of ways how do rather do this
You could simply take the rotation into account
transform.position += transform.rotation * movement * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
This simply stays in world space but rotates your world space vector accordingly
You could rather use Translate
transform.Translate(movement * playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
which basically does the same, takes orientation into account but is not affected by scaling

Delay before jump

I'm learning Unity, and I'm doing a character move, but the animation of the jump has a delay for the character to literally jump, a 0.30s until it picks up, how do I add this delay in the code?
Like, I thought of doing somehow that when you hit "Space" release the animation, count 0.20s and make the jump. it's viable? How can I do this?
In short, the character jumps before the animation.
Animation Video:
https://imgur.com/a/LgzkSKi
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
public float moveSpeed;
public float jumpForce;
public CharacterController controller;
private Vector3 moveDirection;
public float gravityScale;
public Animator animator;
void Start() {
controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
}
void Update() {
float yStore = moveDirection.y;
moveDirection = (transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) + (transform.right * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"));
moveDirection = moveDirection.normalized * moveSpeed;
moveDirection.y = yStore;
jump();
controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
animator.SetFloat("Speed", (Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis("Vertical"))));
}
void jump() {
if (controller.isGrounded) {
moveDirection.y = 0f;
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")) {
moveDirection.y = jumpForce;
Debug.Log("jump");
}
}
moveDirection.y = moveDirection.y + (Physics.gravity.y * gravityScale * Time.deltaTime);
animator.SetBool("isGrounded", controller.isGrounded);
}
}

In your jump() function don't apply the jump force. Instead, set the next time the character is supposed to jump.
float nextJumpTime;
bool todoJump;
void jump() {
if (!todoJump && Input.GetButtonDown("Jump")) {
// Remember we have to jump and when
nextJumpTime = Time.time + 0.2f;
todoJump = true;
}
// Execute the jump
if (todoJump && Time.time >= nextJumpTime) {
todoJump = false;
moveDirection.y = jumpForce;
}
}
Either that or read on coroutines. Start a coroutine on input, yield return new WaitForSecond(0.2f); in the coroutine and then execute the jump.

To what One Man Mokey Squad suggest I think you should also consider to get a new jump animation or trim the current animation.
I think it's not a great idea to create a custom code for that broken jump animation because you will not be able to reuse your script.

Raycasting Unity/ gravity Error

I'm using the Charactercontroller component for the movement of my character.
The thing I'm trying to achieve is for the character to go when I'm clicking with the mouse. For that, I'm rotating where I click and then going forward to the point where the ray collider with my terrain.
The character does move and goes to the point I want.
The problem is when walking into a ramp, for example, the character keeps walking in the air and does not go down (gravity problem as far as I can understand although when I test putting the character in the air when the editor it does go down) it stops above when it supposed to go and starts spinning really fast.
Here's my movement script
private float gravity = 1f;
Animator anim;
CharacterController charController;
private float mvtSpeed = 3f;
private float distanceToPoint;
Vector3 playerMvt;
bool canMove = false;
CollisionFlags collisionFlags;
Ray ray;
RaycastHit hit;
Vector3 PlayerTarget;
float height;
private void Awake()
{
anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
charController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
}
void MoveThePlayer()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
{
ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit)) {
if (hit.collider is TerrainCollider)
{
if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, hit.point) >= 0.5f)
{
canMove = true;
anim.SetFloat("Walk", 1.0f);
PlayerTarget = hit.point;
}
}//terrain collider
}//raycast
}//mouse Down
if (canMove)
{
Vector3 targetTemp = new Vector3(PlayerTarget.x, transform.position.y, PlayerTarget.z);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(targetTemp - transform.position), 15.0f * Time.deltaTime);
playerMvt = transform.forward * mvtSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, PlayerTarget) <= 0.1f)
{
anim.SetFloat("Walk", 0f);
playerMvt.Set(0f, 0f, 0f);
}
}//canMove
}
private void Update()
{
MoveThePlayer();
charController.Move(playerMvt);
if (!charController.isGrounded)
{
playerMvt.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
}
}

A few things.
canMove is never reset to false, it should probably reset in here
if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, PlayerTarget) <= 0.1f)
{
anim.SetFloat("Walk", 0f);
playerMvt.Set(0f, 0f, 0f);
}
This code has no impact where its located right now:
if (!charController.isGrounded)
{
playerMvt.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
}
You apply gravity to playerMvt.y after you have already moved the player, and the next frame you will re-assign playerMvt here:
playerMvt = transform.forward * mvtSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
So change it up to this
private void Update()
{
MoveThePlayer();
if (!charController.isGrounded)
{
playerMvt.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
}
charController.Move(playerMvt);
}

Drag GameObject With Mouse

I am having some issues with creating a script that once the player clicks upon a gameObject that gameObject will follow the mouse. The object will be dropped once the mouse is clicked again.
Here is the script:
public float distance = 10;
public void OnMouseDrag()
{
Vector3 mousePosition = new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y, distance);
Vector3 objPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePosition);
transform.position = objPosition;
}
This works fine, but the issue is if the player (the main cam) has any sort of movement script upon it such as this Character controller script on it or its parent, then the gameObject that is picked up will move around as if it is trying to get away from the mouse.
public float speed = 6.0f;
public float jumpSpeed = 8.0f;
public float gravity = 20.0f;
private Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
void Update()
{
CharacterController controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
{
speed = 15.0f;
}else
{
speed = 6.0f;
}
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);
float rotateRight = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X");
transform.Rotate(0, rotateRight, 0);
}
If the above script is disabled, then the GameObject does not freak out and it works fine.
I know that the input being made in the character controller is effecting the top script in some way, the mouse moving so the gameObject transforms in that direction while trying to keep to a certain point on the mouse.
But how to I make so it won't effect it.

I bet the mouse dragging is happening before your movement.
Try putting your dragging logic in LateUpdate() so it can accommidate for the new position

Unity Rotate ball left or right insted of roll

I'm trying to learn Unity3D and I'm using this tutorial to get started.
In my PlayerController below the "ball" rolls in the direction of the arrow key pressing. But my question is: When I press left or right arrow I don't want it to move in the direction but to turn in the direction.
So the ball moves forward/backward on arrow key up/down and rotate left/right on arrow key left/right.
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {
public float speed;
private Rigidbody rb;
void Start()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody> ();
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
Vector3 movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
rb.AddForce (movement * speed);
}
}
I've searched on google but haven't been able to find a solution.
UPDATE
Here is my camera controller.
public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject player;
private Vector3 offset;
// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void LateUpdate () {
transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
}
}

float delta = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
Vector3 axis = Vector3.forward;
rb.AddTorque (axis * speed * delta);
or
transform.Rotate (axis * speed * delta);

Instead of:
rb.AddForce (movement * speed);
you can use:
rb.AddTorque (movement * speed);
This will add angular force to the ball.