Question Need help with basic flight controlls

Hi, I am making a 2,5D simple flying game for a school project. However I am having problems getting the airplane to spine 180 d after the player presses "Space".

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using System.Threading;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.     private float speed = 10.0f;
9.     public float rotationSpeed;
10.     public float verticalInput;
11.     // Start is called before the first frame update
12.     void Start()
13.     {
14.        
15.     }
16.  
17.     // Update is called once per frame
18.     void LateUpdate()
19.     {
20.         // Players vertical input
21.         verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
22.  
23.         // constant moving speed for the plane
24.         transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime *speed);
25.  
26.         // move the plane up/down
27.         transform.Rotate(Vector3.right * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime * verticalInput);
28.        
29.         //Spin the plane
30.         if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space))
31.         {
32.             Vector3 spin = new Vector3(0,0,180);
33.             transform.Rotate(spin);
34.             //transform.Rotate(0, 0, -180 * Time.deltaTime);
35.         }
36.     }
37. }

Vector3 spin = new Vector3(0,0,180);
transform.Rotate(spin);
makes the plane spin 180 but there is this wierd flickering in the plane model, and even sometimes stops the airplane in the air.

tried also transform.Rotate(0, 0, -180 * Time.deltaTime); but this makes the plane rotate slowly and causes problems when it is a 2,5D game and the player starts flying in the wrong directions.

Thanks in advance.

 

Line 32 rotates the plane a full 180 degrees every frame that you hold the button down.

Do you mean you want Space to execute a loop?

If so then there's a bunch of things to change:

- read Input.GetKeyDown(), NOT the one you're using now

- make sure you read it in Update()!!! That's the only place it is valid.

- if Space is pressed, set a float

loopDegreesRemaining

variable to 360, indicating that's how much rolling you must do.

- Every frame (LateUpdate() is fine), if that loop variable is greater than zero:
---> calculate how much to rotate this frame (use Time.deltaTime)
---> subtract that from the

loopDegreesRemaining

---> if it was more, clamp it to what was remaining
---> rotate the plane by that amount
---> during this time, you must inhibit the vertical input (eg, don't run that code) to let the loop finish.

 

Thank you, I´ll have go during the weekend and try it out.