Hi,
this is my script for the player movement.
I want to make the player object (2D Sprite) rotate in the movement direction, but can’t really find good tutorials referring to my script that uses movement by Mouse Button. Does anyone know what i could do in this situation?
Cheers
I typed in “unity rotate sprite mouse” in Google and came up with lots of examples so I’m wondering what you consider “good” TBH.
This is one of the basic examples that comes up:
I’m kind of a rookie and want to make the player sprite idle until it rotates while moving to the target location of my mouse click. Those tutorials sadly dont show how to do that
You’ll never find a tutorial for something specific you want if you consider a tutorial as a free code grab. If you need multiple things to happen then you use tutorials to learn those separate things. So the above tutorial shows you how to rotate based upon the mouse. Any other logic and when to apply that is something else to learn etc.
You never mentioned the above logic in your original post.
EXACTLY this… and it is entirely on you @DerDude123 to bring the learning to the tutorial, not the other way around. Don’t assume because it is a 3-minute tutorial that you will understand all of it in 3 minutes. It might take 3 minutes… or 3 seconds… or 3 weeks … or 3 years… that is all in how you apply yourself to it.
Here’s how to apply yourself:
Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:
How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:
Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That’s how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.
Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don’t make any mistakes.
BE PERFECT IN EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE!!
If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.
Step 2. Go back and work through every part of the tutorial again, and this time explain it to your doggie. See how I am doing that in my avatar picture? If you have no dog, explain it to your house plant. If you are unable to explain any part of it, STOP. DO NOT PROCEED. Now go learn how that part works. Read the documentation on the functions involved. Go back to the tutorial and try to figure out WHY they did that. This is the part that takes a LOT of time when you are new. It might take days or weeks to work through a single 5-minute tutorial. Stick with it. You will learn.
Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.
Of course, all this presupposes no errors in the tutorial. For certain tutorial makers (like Unity, Brackeys, Imphenzia, Sebastian Lague) this is usually the case. For some other less-well-known content creators, this is less true. Read the comments on the video: did anyone have issues like you did? If there’s an error, you will NEVER be the first guy to find it.
Beyond that, Step 3, 4, 5 and 6 become easy because you already understand!
Finally, when you have errors…
Remember: NOBODY here memorizes error codes. That’s not a thing. The error code is absolutely the least useful part of the error. It serves no purpose at all. Forget the error code. Put it out of your mind.
The complete error message contains everything you need to know to fix the error yourself.
The important parts of the error message are:
Always start with the FIRST error in the console window, as sometimes that error causes or compounds some or all of the subsequent errors. Often the error will be immediately prior to the indicated line, so make sure to check there as well.
All of that information is in the actual error message and you must pay attention to it. Learn how to identify it instantly so you don’t have to stop your progress and fiddle around with the forum.
