How would I get the bottom of my player to face the direction I point

Hello forum,

I am trying to write a script where it will rotate the player so that its bottom will be pointing in a direction that I set without rotating it on its local Y axis.

I still haven't fully grasped on how quaternions work, but from what I understand it's a directional axis that goes through the object's origin and rotates it along that axis by a set amount. I figured it would use a cross product of my players "down" and my direction to get the axis that I want to rotate around but after that everything I try just ends up glitching out

I tried to use Quaternion.AngleAxis by giving it the cross product and the Vector3.Angle of both directions and that didn't work


If anyone has a good place to understand Quaternions could you also link it in the comments
as well

 

You can use Quaternion.LookRotation to construct a rotation that faces a direction. You can also construct a rotation from euler angles with Quaternion.

Best of all you can multiply them together:

rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(dir) * Quaternion.Euler(offset);

So you don't have to be that good at Quaternions to use them effectively.