Resolved Codemonkey Course: transform.forward strange movement?

Hello Guys,

currently I am learning unity with the course from codemonkey

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Everything works fine until I get to the part of movement, exactly the rotation by the transform.forward method. If I remove the forward method everything works fine (without the rotation of the character).

If I add transform.forward = moveDir; the character makes some strange movement when I press the movement keys.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. private void Update()
3. {
4.      Vector2 inputVector = new Vector2 (0, 0);
5.      if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W)) {
6.           inputVector.y = +1:
7.      }
8.      if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.s)) {
9.           inputVector.y = -1:
10.      }
11.      if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A)) {
12.           inputVector.x = -1;
13.      }
14.      if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D)) {
15.           inputVector.x = +1:
16.      }
17.      inputVector = inputVector.normalized;
18.      Vector3 moveDir = new Vector3(inputVector.x, 0f, inputVector.v):
19.  
20.      transform.position += moveDir * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime:
21.      transform.forward = moveDir:
22.      Debug.Log(Time.deltaTime);
23. }
24.  
25.  

Has anybody an idea how to solve the problem? I got an info message from unity that I passed an empty Vector to the forward method.

 

they have slightly different code for that transform.forward? (at least at 1:22.22)

 

Yes I know but it should work without the Slerp Method. As you can see in 1:20:37

 

It looks like you've mistakenly placed colons ( : ) at the end of most of your lines instead of semicolons ( ; ).

 

Thanks for your answer, I got a reply for codemonkey directly as a comment for this video. The problem was that the visual position offset from the character was not 0,0,0.
After I fixed that, everything works fine.

So problem solved.

 

I want to add to the above code that you have something like const values in Unity. You don't have to type +1 and -1, you can just use Vector3.left, right, forward, back or Vector2.left, right, up, down. Even more, you have some functions like Translate.

Code (CSharp):

1. // Move the object forward along its z axis 1 unit/second.
2. transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime);

More movement examples?

Code (CSharp):

1. // Move the object forward and backward along its z axis 1 unit/second. The player presses W it goes forward, the player presses S it goes back.
2. transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * Time.deltaTime);

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

 

Thank you for the examples . The code above is only copied from the course video, it's not my code and later in the course there will be code refactoring.

I'm a professional programmer, so coding is not the problem, more the creative part