How do I keep my character facing the direction of travel after movement stops?

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1

I’ve successfully managed to make the character move and face the direction of movement, but the moment the character stops moving, they rotate back to facing one direction of the z axis. I’ve looked around, but can’t see where I’m going wrong! Here’s my script

public class Movement : MonoBehaviour {

public float speed;
public float rotationspeed;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {

    
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {

    float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    Vector3 movementDirection = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput);
    movementDirection.Normalize();

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

    if (movementDirection != Vector3.zero);
    {
        Quaternion toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementDirection, Vector3.up);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toRotation, rotationspeed + Time.deltaTime);

    }

}

}

2

moving the actual rotation outside the if statement might fix that as long as the torotation variable is persistent.

    Quaternion toRotation;
    void Start () {
            toRotation = new Quaternion(1, 0, 0, 0);
    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {
            float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
            float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
            Vector3 movementDirection = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput);
            movementDirection.Normalize();
            transform.Translate(movementDirection*speed*Time.deltaTime,Space.World);
    
            if (movementDirection != Vector3.zero);
            {
                    toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementDirection, Vector3.up);
            }
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toRotation, rotationspeed + Time.deltaTime);
    }