Strafe left and right help

Hi there,

Im using the playermove script from the Complete physics platformer kit off the asset store. I am making some modifications to this to allow for more functionality. I want to add strafing left and right which I thought would be easy but I've hit a bit of a wall.

How do you go about implementing strafing as the player could be rotated any number of ways in the y axis so you cant just do transform.moveto

The main use for this strafing would be in my players ledge grab state. Where the player is holding onto a ledge and traverses along it. So I guess the player would need to know what angle the edge is at in the y axis so that it can move along it when left or right buttons are pressed.

Any ideas, tips and or hints?

Cheers

 

Is this what you need?

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-right.html
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-left.html

 

My rigidbody is set to kinematic during ledge grab. So I dont think this will work.

What I have tried is:

Code (CSharp):

1. float h = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Horizontal");
2.                 Vector3 hSpeed = new Vector3(h*traverseSpeed, 0, 0);
3.                 rigidbody.MovePosition(rigidbody.position + hSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

But the character doesnt move at all :S

 

Did you ever find a solution for this, I'm stuck on a similar issue. My rigidbody is kinematic as of now while climbing ledges, (as that's the best way I can find to have it stay on the ledge, if someone has a better way please I'm all ears ).

Initially I thought I could use moveposition, or setting the velocity, but moveposition seems to throw at an incredible force no matter what I set the variables to, while setting the velocity doesn't move it at all (which I'm told it should even if it's kinmatic).