3D Game - How Do I Get the Slope Angle Under My Player?

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Hi, I was wondering how to get the angle of the ground under my character. I already have a ground checker and I am able to move and jump.

I would like this information in order to calculate what the speed my skateboarding character should be while on a skateboard and also on a slope (the game has a bool set for “skating” when on a skateboard). So if you have comments on how to increase speed over time while rolling downhill, that be great also, but figuring out the angle is good enough for now.

I am still at a beginner level of coding, so please explain any technical term

Thanks!

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You can Physics.Raycast (or even Collider.Raycast if you prefer) down from your player to see if it hits the ground.

If it does you can optionally get a RaycastHit object instance back, and that contains a .point where it hit as well as a .normal telling you which way the ground was tilting at the point of impact. From this you can use trig functions (probably Mathf.Atan()) to determine angle of ground.