LookAt only on Z-axis

Yea yea, this has been probably the most spammed topic ever, BUT, I have good reason to make another one, I actually went for like 4/5 links on Unity and they didn't provide solution.

My game is very basic, there's zombie model over there, there's player controller first-person, so I added script to zombie, which was

Code (CSharp):

1. public Transform Target;
2. transform.LookAt(Target);

It's no doubt it's correctly placed, it works. But when I add ridigbody and freeze it on certain direction, it doesn't work. There was moderator saying, that if you put LookAt in code, the "restriction" in rigidbody has nothing to say, but I don't know how else may I make model look at player.

 

Code (csharp):

1. Vector3 position = Target.position;
2. position.z = transform.position.z;
3. transform.LookAt (position);

 

You just copied this script and changed names. It was from thread that was about fishing rods. This script doesn't work, if it did, I wouldn't be posting this topic.

 

Look Here

 

I didn't copy that script (nor know what fishing rod thread you're referencing), there just isn't much you can change with such a simple script. Have you described your problem correctly? The code posted (and that you've seen before) will rotate the GameObject to face another by rotating only on the (world) z-axis.

I'll take a guess and say you actually want to rotate around the y-axis, which would make the zombie turn left/right towards the player. If so, replace the .z with .y

 

@Nubz Instead I get array of blue/purple links.
@DanielQuick Oh, well, I'm an idiot. Sorry for inconvenience.

 

Yea, well, it works nicely, but Rotation in Transform stays the same, nice that model is looking at me, but I want him actually to turn to me, not just look.

 

In that case you'll want to do something similar to this:

Code (csharp):

1. public Transform Target;
2. public float speed;
3.  
4. void Update () {
5.     Vector3 targetPosition = Target.position;
6.     targetPosition.y = transform.position.y;
7.     Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation (targetPosition-transform.position);
8.     transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards (transform.rotation, targetRotation, speed*Time.deltaTime);
9. }

(Not tested)

 

Is there something you don't know about Unity3D and C#, yet?

 

That's actually maths, not specific to C# or Unity

 

And it's not hard at all