Rotate 2D on Z (Yes, I've tried the solutions already offered)

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve searched and searched and searched and I can’t seem to find any solution that works(Atan2, Quaternions, translate). And I’m becoming frustrated as this is a very simple concept yet Unity seems to not be able to comprehend.

I need a 2D sprite(Top Down, so u see player head, shoulders, and feet when they move) to look at the mouse… on the Z axis. I got it working perfectly fine on the normal 2D layout. But Unity is giving me hell trying to flip 90 degrees on the X(so player moves in X/Z not X/Y)

Any help?.. please…

All this is because Unity also doesn’t allow you to have vertical terrains. I’m using a 3d terrain as a 2d Map because I can paint textures on it instead of going with a blocky tilemap.

2

Try the following script:

using UnityEngine;

public class LookAtMouseXZ : MonoBehaviour {

    public Camera camera;
    private Plane plane = new Plane(Vector3.up, Vector3.zero);
    private Quaternion rotationOffset = Quaternion.Euler( 90, -90, -90 );

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start ()
    {
        if ( camera == null )
            camera = Camera.main;
    }
    
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update ()
    {
        Ray ray = camera.ScreenPointToRay( Input.mousePosition );
        float distance;
        if( plane.Raycast( ray, out distance ) )
        {
            Vector3 target = ray.GetPoint( distance );
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation( target - transform.position, Vector3.up ) * rotationOffset;
        }
    }
}