Make player movement not relative to units current orientation

Scripting
1

Hey guys,
I’m currently working on 3D top down shooter.
I want to controll my player movement with a xbox controller the same way as in games like “Gauntlet” or “Hellerdivers”. The aiming (turning arround) with the right stick works. The problem is that I dont’ want the movement to depend on the direction the character is facing.

When I move the controller to the left the player should move to the left (no matter its orientation).
This is my code:

 void FixedUpdate()
    {
        // Amount to Move
        float MoveVertical = Input.GetAxis("VerticalPlayer" + player.playerId) * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        float MoveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("HorizontalPlayer" + player.playerId) * movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

        float MoveRotateHorizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("RotateHorizontal" + player.playerId);//  * rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        float MoveRotateVertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("RotateVertical" + player.playerId);

        if (MoveRotateHorizontal != 0 || MoveRotateVertical != 0)
        {
            float angle = Mathf.Atan2(MoveRotateHorizontal, MoveRotateVertical) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, angle + aimAngleOffset, 0);
        }

        // Move the player
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(MoveHorizontal, 0, MoveVertical);

      
        transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * MoveVertical);
    }
2

the term you need to look up is “unity camera relative movement”, it keeps coming up and there are loads of resources to look at to resolve this out there.

3

thanks for your reply. I got this working :slight_smile: Do you have another keyword to make the movement so the player turns with an animation instead of just instantly looking that way?

4

well, there is literally “root motion animations” (probably not what you want give you’re already controlling movement with code), or looking up lerp/slerp and/or coroutines