Character rotation without affecting control orientation

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So my game has the player character walking around along the x and z axis with a static camera. There is no jumping involved.

What I have so far (Unity Script) which moves the character in the direction the controls are pushed, and it works just fine.

function Update () 
{
//movement

var contr : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
moveDirection = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= moveSp;
contr.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);

What I don’t have working is if I push a control, I want the character to face that direction as well as move that way. I have tried a lot of things, and they all end up rotating the character instead of walking in that direction. And then of course if I push up the character walks in that direction instead of going up. I have a feeling that transform.Rotate isn’t the direction I should be taking.

I plan on adding some sort of rotation smoothing as well, however pointing me in the right direction would be a big help. Please forgive me for being a newb, I haven’t done any programming since I was a kid with a c64.

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Try flipping the sign of transform.localScale. E.g. something like:

absoluteValue = Mathf.Abs(transform.localScale.x);
sign = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
if (sign == 1 || sign == -1)
   transform.localScale.x = absoluteValue * sign;