Making my player move

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My character now has a controller on him but how do i make him move every example i have used makes him move backwards such as this one:/ ThirdPersonWalker.js

// this script adds two things to the default FPS walker
// - It adds movement forward by holding down both mouse keys
// - and it adds auto animation changing between idle, walk and run
// After adding this script to your controller, drag the character model to Target

var speed = 6.0; // standard running speed
var walkSpeed = .8; // walk speed adjust both for your charcter so feet don’t slide on ground
var jumpSpeed = 8.0;
var gravity = 20.0;
var Character : Transform;

private var moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
private var grounded : boolean = false;
// a flag to determine idle vs walking/running (so animations do not get started over and over)
private var walking : boolean = false;
// a flag to init idle animation at beginning
private var startup : boolean = true;
// a flag to determine walking vs running
private var running : boolean = true;

function FixedUpdate() {
if (grounded) {
// We are grounded, so recalculate movedirection directly from axes
moveDirection = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”), 0, Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”));

// if both mouse buttons are down, move forward
if (Input.GetMouseButton(0) && Input.GetMouseButton(1))
{
moveDirection.z = 1;
}

moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
if(running == true){
moveDirection *= speed;
} else {
moveDirection *= walkSpeed;
}

if (Input.GetButton (“Jump”)) {
moveDirection.y = jumpSpeed;
}

// auto toggle between idle and walking animations - based on run / walk switch
if(Character){
// toggle between walk and run with R
if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R)){
if(running == true) {
running = false;
if(walking == true) Character.animation.CrossFade(“walk”);
} else {
running = true;
if(walking == true) Character.animation.CrossFade(“run”);
}
}
if(startup == true){
startup = false;
Character.animation.Play(“idle”);
}
if((moveDirection == Vector3.zero)&&(walking == true)){
walking = false;
Character.animation.CrossFade(“idle”);
} else {
if((moveDirection != Vector3.zero)&&(walking == false)){
walking = true;
if(running == true){
Character.animation.CrossFade(“run”);
} else {
Character.animation.CrossFade(“walk”);
}
}
}
}
}
// Apply gravity
moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;

// Move the controller
var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
var flags = controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
grounded = (flags & CollisionFlags.CollidedBelow) != 0;
}

@script RequireComponent(CharacterController)

would it work if i rotated the controller?, and how do i rotate my controller?

2

There are two answers.

First, is to rotate the actual mesh character 180 degrees, and then rotate the controller back 180 degrees.

The second would be to edit the script so that moveDirection.z = -1. I wouldn’t recommend this one, though, as Unity generally assumes that Vector3(0, 0, 1) is forward, so it may mess up other things.

It depends somewhat on how the character is set up, though.