Movement with the cursor?

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Hey. I want to make a game like this. How can I get the ships movement to work(where the ship rotates to look at the mouse cursor)? I have tried several things (using a look at function, trying to use the mouse look script to work on objects, etc.) but nothing is working correctly Thanks

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Pretty smooth game. I'm not certain, but if I had to guess I'd say making use of ScreenToWorldPoint for the 'target' the ship points to, along with creating a Spring Joint to connect to the ship. This would also need a custom script to maintain proper rotation.

Alternatively you could use the Screen to world point and have the ship object LookAt the target and constantly Lerp to the world position X / Y.

He mentions the use of iTween, which is a free utility for Unity you may want to look into, because it might have the answer (I'm not familiar with its workings myself).