Can I make a character controller rotate with the player?

The reason I am using a character controller is because the physics system I made was very glitchy (you could go through corners of walls and couldn't walk up slopes). The game is a 2D scroller. Changing the direction of gravity is a big part of the game, but the character controller doesn't rotate with the character when gravity is changed. How can I do this?

Is there any way I could not use the character controller? Rigidbodies probably wouldn't work because I do not want the character to rotate on it's own.

edit: I can already change the character controller y, but I need to change it's x and z rotation.

 

You can't rotate it. While I was making a platformer I also had to rewrite few times changing from character controller (which has limited features) and rigid body (which is glitchy). This is what I wrote at the end:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class RigidbodyController : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     const float g = 40f;
7.  
8.     public float speed = 6f;
9.  
10.     const float jumpHeight = 2f;
11.     static float jumpVelocilty = Mathf.Sqrt(2f*g*jumpHeight);
12.  
13.     bool is_grounded;
14.  
15.     [System.NonSerialized]
16.     public Vector3 lastGroundPos;
17.  
18.     const float airAcceleration = 10f;
19.     bool groundFrame;
20.  
21.     new Rigidbody rigidbody;
22.     new Transform transform;
23.  
24.  
25.     // IF OBJECT IS TOUCHING THE GROUND
26.     public bool isGrounded{
27.         get{
28.             return is_grounded;  
29.         }
30.     }
31.  
32.     // VELOCITY OF OBJECT
33.     public Vector3 velocity{
34.         get{
35.             return rigidbody.velocity;
36.         }
37.     }
38.  
39.     // LOOK AT POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE X
40.     public void LookAt(float x){
41.         if(x>0f){
42.             transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.forward, Vector3.right);
43.         }else if(x<0f){
44.             transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.forward, Vector3.left);
45.         }
46.     }
47.  
48.     // WHERE IS OBJECT LOOKING
49.     public float orientation{
50.         get{
51.             return Mathf.Sign(transform.forward.x);
52.         }
53.         set{
54.             LookAt(value);
55.         }
56.     }
57.  
58.     float targetXVel;
59.  
60.     // OBJECT WILL TRY TO MOVE WITH CONSTANT speed
61.     public void SetSpeed(float speed){
62.         targetXVel = speed;
63.     }
64.  
65.  
66.  
67.     bool canJump;
68.     public bool Jump(){
69.         bool jumped = canJump;
70.         if(canJump){
71.             Vector3 velocity = rigidbody.velocity;
72.             velocity.y = jumpVelocilty;
73.             rigidbody.velocity = velocity;  
74.             is_grounded = false;
75.             groundFrame = false;
76.             canJump = false;
77.         }
78.         return jumped;
79.     }
80.  
81.  
82.     public void FixedUpdate(){
83.  
84.         is_grounded = groundFrame;
85.         groundFrame = false;
86.         if(!is_grounded && transform.parent != null){
87.             transform.parent = null;
88.         }
89.  
90.         float xChange;
91.         xChange  =  targetXVel*speed - rigidbody.velocity.x ;
92.  
93.         LookAt(targetXVel);
94.  
95.         // If we are in the air acceleration is applied insted of instant change in velocity
96.         if(!isGrounded){
97.             xChange *= airAcceleration*Time.deltaTime;
98.         }
99.  
100.         Vector3 velocityChange = new Vector3 ( xChange , 0f , 0f ) ;
101.         Vector3 vel = rigidbody.velocity + velocityChange;
102.  
103.         vel.z = isGrounded ? -5f * transform.position.z : 0f;
104.  
105.         rigidbody.velocity = vel;
106.  
107.         Vector3 myGravity = new Vector3( 0f , -g , 0f );
108.         rigidbody.AddForce(myGravity, ForceMode.Acceleration);
109.  
110.      
111.     }
112.  
113.     public void SetLastGround(){
114.         lastGroundPos = transform.position;
115.     }
116.  
117.  
118.     void OnCollisionStay(Collision collision){
119.  
120.         if(collision.contacts.Length == 0) return;
121.  
122.  
123.  
124.         Side side = MyMath.GetSide(collision.contacts[0].normal);
125.         if(side == Side.Up && rigidbody.velocity.y <= .8f){
126.             SetLastGround();
127.             Transform otherTransform = collision.collider.transform;
128.             if(collision.gameObject.tag == Tag.Moving){
129.                 transform.parent = otherTransform;
130.             }else if(otherTransform.parent != null && otherTransform.parent.tag == Tag.Moving){
131.                 transform.parent = otherTransform.parent;
132.             }
133.          
134.             groundFrame = true;
135.             is_grounded = true;
136.             canJump = true;
137.         }
138.     }
139.  
140.     void Awake(){
141.         rigidbody = base.rigidbody;
142.         transform = base.transform;
143.     }
144.  
145.     public void Start(){
146.         SetLastGround();
147.         is_grounded = false;
148.         groundFrame = false;
149.         canJump = false;
150.         targetXVel = 0f;
151.         transform.parent = null;
152.     }
153.  
154.  
155. }
156.  

Maybe you can modify it for your project. Click try link in my signature to see how it works.

 

Thank you! I am trying to implement something like this now. Nice game

 

Thanks. If you don't have moving platforms you can delete all code that is used to set parent of transform.