Object only rotates in local space

Questions & Answers
1

I am trying to get an object to rotate on the Y axis in world space. The issue seems to be that the object rotates fine (maybe on its local axis), but the global rotation is unchanged. Can someone point out where I am going wrong here?

function Update () {

        if (inputLeft) {

	          transform.Rotate(Vector3.up, -rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
	
	    }

}

The code above gives me this :

28418-rotationproblem.png

2

You may confused.

For a car you would want a local rotation, this way it stays forward facing.

Either that, or the script is perhaps on a child object of the car when it should be on the top-most object?

It’s hard to tell really, but I would say experiment with using localRotation, or just omitting that Space.World.

3

There are only two possible reasons why your gizmos keep the world space direction:

  • Because like alucardj said you have set the gizmos to global instead of local. However that won’t influence transform.forward
  • This script is attached to a child object (which is rotating) but you have selected the parent object which of course isn’t rotated.

Make sure your controlling scripts (rotation / movement) are attached to the top most object and not to some child object.