Resolved Leaning/peeking left and right snaps my camera to the Z axis.

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to both Unity and scripting and ran into a small issue. I'm working on a first person character controller and everything is working fine, but whenever I lean left or right my player snaps to facing the Z axis and then performs the lean. I'm trying to get my player to lean left and right without the camera snapping like that.

The code below is attached to my main camera which is a child of the player.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class Leaning : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     void Update()
8.     {
9.  
10.         if(Input.GetKey("e") || Input.GetKey("q"))
11.         {
12.             Lean();
13.         }
14.      
15.     }
16.  
17.     void Lean()
18.     {
19.         if(Input.GetKey("q") == true)
20.         {
21.             transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,0,30);      
22.         }
23.         if(Input.GetKey("e") == true)
24.         {
25.             transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,0,-30);
26.         }
27.     }
28. }

I'm also having the same issue with this blink/teleport script. It works but I only blink on the Z axis going one direction. This is attached to the Player which is the parent of the camera.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class Blink : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public float distance = 5.0f;
8.     public CharacterController controller;
9.  
10.     void Start()
11.     {
12.         controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
13.     }
14.  
15.     void Update()
16.     {
17.         if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift))
18.         {
19.             BlinkForward();
20.         }
21.     }
22.  
23.     public void BlinkForward()
24.     {
25.         RaycastHit hit;
26.         Vector3 destination = transform.position + transform.forward * distance;
27.  
28.         //INTERSECTING AN OBJECT
29.         if(Physics.Linecast (transform.position, destination, out hit))
30.         {
31.             controller.Move(destination * distance * Time.deltaTime);
32.  
33.             destination = transform.position + transform.forward * (hit.distance - 1f);
34.         }
35.  
36.         //NO OBSTACLES FOUND
37.         if(Physics.Raycast(destination, -Vector3.up, out hit))
38.         {
39.             controller.Move(destination * distance * Time.deltaTime);
40.  
41.             destination = hit.point;
42.             destination.y = 0.5f;
43.             transform.position = destination;
44.         }
45.  
46.  
47.     }
48. }

I can also post my main movement script if needed.

Thanks!

 

Generally you want to insert an extra transform in your hierarchy where you pivot for the lean/peek.

With that extra "peek" transform, you would set its

.localRotation

, NOT its

.rotation

In your case you are driving the root

transform.rotation

to (0,0,30), which is why you are snapping to north.

As for the second part, it's unclear what might be wrong except that the transform this script is on might not be pointed the way you expect it. Use lots of Debug.Log() and find out!

 

The .localRotation worked, thank you! I'm gonna continue working on the second part. I noticed now I can teleport in the direction I'm walking, but if I'm standing still I default to teleporting along the Z axis. Maybe it's the same issue for that script too.

One last thing, when my camera leans/peeks it snaps to the 30 and -30 instantly. Do you know what would need to be changed to make it a gradual movement? I'm assuming I'd need to add a float for lean/peek speed then insert some sort of math that multiplies my speed by the direction I'm rotating.

 

This approach is what I use for fading, but it could easily be adapted to be

currentLean

and

desiredLean

, the idea remains the same: only set

desiredLean

, then cause

currentLean

to always move towards it.

The post:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how...color-with-duration-time.969864/#post-6311295

 

sorry, but

i dont understand to do, so can you help me