Jerky button detection [solved]

Unity Engine
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While working on a simple third person camera and a character that can be moved around using direction keys, I encountered a strange issue:

When I press the left / right buttons, the character turns smoothly on the spot -ok.

When I press the forward button, the character moves forward -ok.

When I press both together, however (pressing forward for a couple of seconds, then the turn button to turn around while still walking), the turn key sometimes works, sometimes it doesn’t, resulting in a jerky character rotation.

I think the issue may be located in the character move script:

CharacterMove.js

#pragma strict

private var walkSpeed:float 	  = 1.0;
private var gravity:float   	  = 1.0;
private var moveDirection:Vector3 = Vector3.zero;
private var CharController:CharacterController;

// -------------------------------------------------------------
// START
// -------------------------------------------------------------
function Start()
	{
	CharController     = GetComponent(CharacterController);
	animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
	}


// -------------------------------------------------------------
// UPDATE
// -------------------------------------------------------------
function Update()
	{
	var axisH:float = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
	var axisV:float = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
	
	// CAPSULE IS GROUNDED?
	if (CharController.isGrounded == true)
		{
		// MOVE FORWARD (RUN / WALK)?
		if (axisV > .1)
			{
			if (Input.GetButton("Run"))
				{
				animation["Walk"].speed = 1;
				animation.CrossFade("Run");
				walkSpeed = 6.0;
				}
			else
				{
				animation["Walk"].speed = 1;
				animation.CrossFade("Walk");
				walkSpeed = 2.0;
				}
			}
		// MOVE BACKWARD?
		else if (axisV < -.1)
			{
			animation["Walk"].speed = -1;
			animation.CrossFade("Walk");
			walkSpeed = 1;
			}
		// TURN?
		else if (axisH)
			{
			if (!axisV) animation.CrossFade("Walk");
			}
		// NOTHING PRESSED?
		else
			{
			animation.CrossFade("Idle");
			}
			
		// SET ROTATION AND MOVEMENT 
		transform.eulerAngles.y += axisH * 10.0; // TURN CHARACTER
		moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,axisV); // MOVE CHARACTER
		moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
		}

	// IN THE AIR -APPLY GRAVITY
	else
		{
		moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
		}
		
	// ACTUALLY MOVE CHARACTER
	CharController.Move(moveDirection * (walkSpeed * Time.deltaTime));
	}
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SOLVED

I found that gravity was set too low, so the character was not grounded properly while moving over uneven terrain, so the script automatically deactivated the turn keys :wink: