Restricting Player Movement to go towards a selected target.

Unity Engine
1

Hello Everyone,

How would you go about restricting the player character to only move forward towards a selected target when Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”) and not over time as it would be with an Enemy?

I see many tutorials on path finding but not on character controlled objects like in the case I want to do.

Thank you in advance and sorry for the newbie question.

2

How do you want to restrict player movement? Like literally, if they’re trying to move away from it, just don’t move?

If so, you can do something like:

 if (Vector3.Angle( (enemy.position - player.position), desiredMovementVector) <= 90f) {
//move
}
else {
//don't move
}
3

Hi StarManta,

Basically if you are going forward you’re going towards a target instead of free X,Z.

4

Like Zelda’s Z-targeting?

5

Like Tales of games, where you select a target enemy and run towards it.

6

I got it working, may be not the best way but here is what I did:

if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0.1)
        {
            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, target.transform.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        else
        {

        }
7

Use Vector3.MoveTowards rather than Lerp.