Rotating Sphere Environment

Unity Engine
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Hello everyone.

I hope that I am posting under the correct section of the forum for the issue I am having.

Here is what I want to achieve and what my approach is:
The easiest way to picture what I am trying to do is that a hamster is in a ball. The hamster can move in all directions, but he is always in place. The ball will only rotate, but the ball will stay in position.

I have a player with a character controller attached. I have a spherical environment that the character is in which I want to rotate the environment instead of the player. Here is the hierarchy for my setup.

MasterNULL
Spherical Environment
Player

I have two Joystick set up the same as the Penelope Tutorial. Left Joystick (Fwd,Back, Left, Right) and the Right Joystick(rotation of the characters Y and to look up and down).

Within the code, I have the Left Joystick control the rotation of the MasterNull. So if I press Fwd on the Left Joystick, it rotates the MasterNULL in the Z. My issue is that If I rotate the character around to 180 and I go past a certain point, the controls go in reverse and/or I would not be able to move past a certain point, the Z becomes the X so when I continue to press forward, the world spins sideways.

Is my approach to rotating the environment incorrect?

2

its difficult to say what you are doing wrong without looking at code, but my first guess would be there’s an error in rotation code where you take into account the direction of your character

3

You are absolutely correct. Thank you very much.