Turning player to face joystick direction and keep moving that way

Hi all,

I have a slightly different problem with the joystick and movement than the similar topic I found. Namely. If I use my old script (without turning to face the joystick) my player moves perfectly through my scene (its a top-down game) but when I add the turning code my player turns perfectly but he moves all over the place and doesn't follow the direction he looks at.

here is the code

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. public class PlayerMovementHandler : MonoBehaviour
4. {
5.  
6.     private float speed;
7.     private Rigidbody2D controller;
8.     public JoyStick moveJoyStick;
9.  
10.     public PlayerMovementHandler()
11.     {
12.         speed = 3f;
13.     }
14.  
15.     // Use this for initialization
16.     private void Start()
17.     {
18.         controller = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
19.     }
20.  
21.     // Update is called once per frame
22.     void Update()
23.     {
24.         Vector3 dir = Vector3.zero;
25.         Vector3 movement = new Vector3(dir.x, 0, dir.y);
26.         dir.x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
27.         dir.y = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
28.  
29.         if(moveJoyStick.InputDirection != Vector3.zero)
30.         {
31.             dir = moveJoyStick.InputDirection;
32.         }
33.  
34.         transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime);
35.  
36.             //the turn part of my code
37.         float heading = Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
38.         transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, heading - 90);
39.  
40.     }
41. }
42.  

 

Fixed it, I changed this:

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime);

to this:

Code (CSharp):

1. transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);

 

I am trying a project exactly like this, and the code is not working. Is there something that is different for Macs?

 

in the last line, I changed from heading -90 TO heading + 90, and it worked like magic!