The best way to rotate object in first person

Unity Engine
1

I need the player in my game to be able to rotate a grabbed object in every axis easily. Now I’m using arrow keys to rotate it in one axis, but I want to change to a mouse based solution. What would be the best way to do it?

2

Ctrl+Mouse Scroll = rotate on X
Shift+Scroll = rotate on Y
Alt+Scroll = rotate on Z

3

There’s also the option of holding left click on the mouse & then rotating the object based on the direction the mouse is moved while the button is held down.

4

I would like to do that but it wouldn’t work with all axis.

Thanks. I might use that.

5

You’re welcome :slight_smile:

6

Apparenlty scrolling returns always zero when pressing shift. Weird. You should try it.

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift)){
Debug.Log(Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel"));
}
7

In my game it doesn’t (ctrl and shift are used here to modulate zooming speed of camera, though I probably get rid of that when I have satisfying default speed). But I have shift/ctrl set up as buttons in Unity’s InputManager instead of accessing keycodes directly, so maybe it’s that.

8

It seems to be a mac feature. Shift is supposed to change direction to vertical. Does anyone know how to disable vertical scrolling with shift for unity application or do I need to ask mac users to go to system preferences?

9

@darkhog I made the thing and I like it.