Mapping camera heading to arrow keys

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Hello all,

I am a visual designer and I am trying to find my way into a bit of the unity engine. I am trying to put the things that I create in cinema 4D into a virtual environment and walk though it. But the camera script that is standard in Unity (the First Person Controller) is unsuitable for casual walk throughs. I searched the web for smooth camera in Unity and found an entry at this link to newarteest.com/unity And what I found there was exactky what I would expect of a camera to act like (turning with the arrow keys and only looking with click-and-drag movement.

How could I achieve this? I looked in the input manager but could find no reference to heading and pitch axes there...

ALBERT KIEFER visual designer http://www.kiefer.nl

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i think my question and yours are related http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/21159/am-i-missing-the-in-game-key-settings-preference-strafe-vs-turn

if i get a response i will post to your "Q"

3

skip it!

I found out unity3d installs the p@ce "bot" and then hides that it did it, , no notification, no opt out , just the same old same old

now i have to do a cleanup to get it out of the driver stack this reeeealy makes me mad ,,

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In the Input Manager you can define an input axis (call it "Turn" or "Horizontal") and map the A and D keys to the axis' negative and positive triggers. When A is down the axis will be -1, when D is down the axis will be 1, otherwise it will be 0. You can use those values to rotate your player object in an Update function.

Put this in a script attached to the game object that holds your Character Controller component:

var turnSpeed : float = 2.0;

function Update() {
transform.Rotate(Vector3(0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") * Time.deltaTime * turnSpeed, 0));
}