Anyway to make an object constantly float in front of the player?

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1

As the title says, I’m trying to get a cube to float in front of the player (cube is a placeholder until i can get the scripts working properly)

However, what keeps happening is that the cube flys into the character and then circles around the central point of the player - is there a way to get it to go within a certain radius of the player and then just float around in front of them?

Heres what I’m using at the moment:

var target : Transform; 
var moveSpeed = 20; 
var rotationSpeed = 5; 
var myTransform : Transform;

function Awake() { myTransform = transform; }
function Start() {
target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player").transform; 
}

function Update () {

 myTransform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(myTransform.rotation,
 Quaternion.LookRotation(target.position - myTransform.position), rotationSpeed*Time.deltaTime); 
 myTransform.position += myTransform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

Any advice would be greatly appreciated as my programming skills aren’t exactly top notch!

thanks in advance, Cobaas

2

Instead of setting the player as the target you could child an empty GameObject to it, move it where you want the cube to float and use that as a target.