Player Rotation Towards Mouse Not Working Properly?

Hello everyone,

I was following an awesome Youtube tutorial and everything was working fine until literally the last step (go figure). The point of the tutorial is simple; get the player object to face the mouse's position. I looked at my code and it's exactly the same as the instructor's, however, my character object seems to move when I start the game, but doesn't move at all afterwards (it stays stuck wherever it looks in the first place). I would really appreciate any help pointing out stupid errors in my code:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class Player : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     //variables
4.     public float movementspeed;
5.     public GameObject camera;
6.  
7.     //methods
8.     void Update()
9.     {
10.         Plane playerplane = new Plane(Vector3.up, transform.position);
11.         Ray ray = UnityEngine.Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
12.         float hitDist = 0.0f;
13.  
14.         if (playerplane.Raycast(ray, out hitDist))
15.         {
16.             Vector3 targetPoint = ray.GetPoint(hitDist);
17.             Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetPoint = transform.position);
18.             targetRotation.x = 0;
19.             targetRotation.z = 0;
20.             transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, 7f * Time.deltaTime);
21.         }
22.     }
23.  
24. }

Thanks again!!!

 

Are you sure this looks exactly as in the tutorial? Because targetRotation is a quaternion. Values of a quaternion have nothing to do with rotations on the 3 axis as you'd expect. So setting x and z of that quaternion value is most certainly not doing what you want.