Move object along the camera view over surface?

Unity Engine
1

Good day community!

I would like to know how to make the player face the direction the camera is pointing at, but only considering it’s Y Axis, using an orbiting camera that rotates arround the player while he walk a surface, this is what I got so far:

Quaternion q = Quaternion.LookRotation(Camera.main.transform.forward, Camera.main.transform.up);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, q, Time.deltaTime * speed);
//transform.Translate(transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * (speed / 3f), Space.Self);

The problem with this code is that the object faces orientation where ever the camera points, and that is not correct, it should only rotate along it’s Y local axis. But I need some help by making it work, any help is highly apreciated.

2

Well, I think if you look at the example in scripting it’s:

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
   public Transform target;
   void Update() {
       Vector3 relativePos = target.position - transform.position;
       Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(relativePos);
       transform.rotation = rotation;
   }
}

So, instead of using camera position, you use a point that has the cameras x, and z, but the player’s y.

3

The problem with this willmake the player “lay” over the surface instead of “stading”,because it takes “forward” as the first param.

4

I doubt they would have given that for an example if it did that.

It might be, I haven’t tried it, but I kind of doubt it. If you notice it takes one parameter, so it’s probably overloaded.

There is also a Lookat function which takes a vector 3, probably easier: