Eve online movement

Hey guys. So I had a topic on this but it was going all over the place so I wanted to re organize what I'm asking for in a new topic. So basically In EVE, the double click to move in space is done by getting a direction vector from where you click on the screen. You aren't actually moving to a point, just in a direction. How exactly can I get this to work.

So far I have a basic setup. A plane, and a cube. I have a Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint in debug mode to show the mouse coordinates, and it shows them. Now getting the movement in that direction is my problem. I don't even know how to start the code. All I want it to do is, left click anywhere in the game up, down,left, right, diagonal, wherever and it moves in the direction till you switch directions or a create a button that will stop the ship.

Thanks in advanced!

 

with this one, you will need to use your camera. When you are looking from the top, double clicking should make the ship move "down". So you will need to always know your camera.transform.up.

Then, you will need to know where the click is, relative to the ship. You can do this without a plane, just get the 2d point of the click, and the ships 2d point. if you are looking at it with the camera up = world up, left side of ship, clicking under it will make it go down. You will know this because the 2d point of click is -y (origin - click).

Well, there is probably an easier way to do it.. but here is a start for ya

 

Ok so what am I doing wrong? I'm getting an unknown identifier.

Code (csharp):

1. #pragma strict
2. function Start () {
3. }
4. function Update () {
5. var mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
6. mousePos.z = 10; // select distance = 10 units from the camera
7. Debug.Log(camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos));
8. var direction = (mouseRayPoint - transform.position).normalized;
9. transform.position += direction * Time.deltaTime;
10.  }
11.  

 

Ok I got it! Now I just need the block to rotate into that directon. I guess a better term. Click in a direction, rotates to that direction than moves.