Need character controller to make sharp 90 degree turns and not slide when turning

[setPixel]

Hello,

I’m using the first person controller for my characters movement. On a left arrow keypress, I’d like the character to instantly rotate 90 degrees and keep moving forward. Currently, when I hit the arrow key, the character makes the sharp 90 degree turn, but the forward momentum the character previously had takes a second to wear off so the character ends up sliding in the direction he was previously moving a short bit.

The closest example I can think of to visually explain what I’m trying to do is how the character turns sharp in Temple Run. How my game is currently working, if I had the character on a ledge make a sharp left turn, he’d likely keep the original momentum and slide off the edge right after he turns.

Since my character is running on the x/z axis, I’m wondering if there would just be some way to maybe swap the directional velocity/momentum? The speed the character had on the x axis would instantly be switched to the z when it turns and the other would be set to zero. I’m obviously open to any solution that accomplishes what I’m looking for.

I dug into the CharacterMotor class in the first person controller, but have yet to find what part I can tweak to accomplish this.

I’d greatly appreciate any help.

Thank you.

[gige]

I’m having a similar trouble, except I’m not using a First Person view. if you keep the left key pressed does he rotate indefinitely or does it clamp ?
How do you have your friction settings ? if you lower it to 0 he will quit sliding.

[Seth-Bergman]

you mean like this?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11203897/ToasterSandwich.html

here’s the script:

#pragma strict

var direction : Vector3;
var controller : CharacterController;
var speed = 5;

function Start () {
direction = transform.forward;
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController);
}

function Update () {

controller.Move(direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);

    if(Input.GetKeyDown("left")){
    transform.Rotate(0,90,0);
    direction = transform.forward;
    }
    if(Input.GetKeyDown("right")){
    transform.Rotate(0,-90,0);
    direction = transform.forward;
    }

}