Object rotation with out hit.normals (the correct way question)

I have a method that do a raycast to a wall, and return the out hit.normal. Then, apply to object so it can rotate in the right position.

The problem I was facing before this workaround is that to get my rotation right, I needed to manually rotate the object 90 degrees on the x axis. To prevent this, I come with this manual change on the out hit.normal.

I think is badly implemented, but works. After the raycast, took out the out hit to Vector3 myhit

Code (CSharp):

1.             normal = myhit.normal;
2.  
3.             //flipping the normals
4.  
5.             float x = normal.x;
6.             float y = normal.y;
7.             float z = normal.z;
8.            
9.             normal.x = x;
10.             normal.y = -z; //needed to flip
11.             normal.z = y;  //needed to change
12.  

Object code for rotate

Code (CSharp):

1. public GameObject tempghost;
2. tempghost.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(normal);

Its working, but I feel like its wrong, and its possible to generate errors in the future....

 

LookRtoation has another overload where you can supply 2 directions, (forward and up) instead of only 1 (which is treated as forward only).
Sounds like you want the hit normal to be the up direction, so you need to use the overload

 

Thank you. Got it working with:

Code (CSharp):

1.         tempghost.transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, normal);