How to get the movement direction relative to a character

Questions & Answers
1

How do I get the movement direction of a player of a character?

Like forward, backward, left-right etc., how do I achieve this?

I can calculate movement direction relative to the world space but not relative to the character.

For example, if the character heads north, the the movement direction would be 0 degrees, if he goes south, 180 degrees etc.

But if the player was heading north with his face facing east, then the relative movement direction would be 315 degrees etc.

2

the local direction is

transform.forward
-transform.forward

transform.right
-transform.right

transform.up
-transform.up

those are vectors which give a direction which is 1 unit away from the objective relative to itself (so its 0,0,0)

its what your looking for

so if you’d like to move forward

character.charactercontroller.move(character.transform.forward * speed)

backward is

character.charactercontroller.move(-character.transform.forward * speed)

note the -sign

the - inverses it so -forward is backward, - right is left etc.