How to rotate snake at an exact 90 degrees

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I am making a snake game. I want to rotate my snake exact 90 degrees in the direction specified by swiping on the screen.(It’s an android game). In this I gained a bit success, can someone provide me with the mathematical formula to rotate snake by determining it’s current head direction. As it rotates at 90 degrees correctly but not always in the direction specified by swipe

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You cannot use transform.Rotate because that will always rotate relative to whichever direction is currently facing. What you want to use instead is Transform.eulerAngles which will explicitly set a rotation despite whatever the current rotation is:

transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, yAngleRotation, 0f);

Each swipe direction would have a different yAngleRotation value (I’m not sure exactly which as it depends on what axis and direction your game is on / displayed at). These values would probably each be 0f, 90f, 180f, 270f.

One key thing to note is to make sure you don’t just set one axis rotation by itself or you will get bad results… as in don’t do this:

// this is very very bad, don't do this!!!
transform.eulerAngles.y = yAngleRotation;