Third person character rotation to opposite direction

Unity Engine
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In the third person platformer tutorial I noticed that if you walk in one direction and then change to the opposite direction the character will immediately switch. It won’t rotate to the new direction first, so I changed the code in the ThirdPersonController.js file:

	// Grounded controls
	if (grounded)
	{
		// Lock camera for short period when transitioning moving  standing still
		lockCameraTimer += Time.deltaTime;
		if (isMoving != wasMoving)
			lockCameraTimer = 0.0;

		// We store speed and direction seperately,
		// so that when the character stands still we still have a valid forward direction
		// moveDirection is always normalized, and we only update it if there is user input.
		if (targetDirection != Vector3.zero)
		{
			// If we are really slow, just snap to the target direction
			/*
			if (moveSpeed < walkSpeed * 0.9  grounded)
			{
				moveDirection = targetDirection.normalized;
			}
			*/
			// Otherwise smoothly turn towards it
			//else
			
			//{			moveDirection = Vector3.RotateTowards(moveDirection, targetDirection, rotateSpeed * Mathf.Deg2Rad * Time.deltaTime, 1000);
				
				moveDirection = moveDirection.normalized;
			//}
		}

Basically, I enforced the execution of this code bit:

	moveDirection = Vector3.RotateTowards(moveDirection, targetDirection, rotateSpeed * Mathf.Deg2Rad * Time.deltaTime, 1000);
				
				moveDirection = moveDirection.normalized;

So now it works fine, the problem is that when the character rotates to the opposite direction it does so over a circle with a wide radius. So basically if you are standing in front of a drop and you press the opposite direction you will definately fall as the character tries to rotate first.

Any idea how I can fix this?[/code]

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I am suspecting it has to do with Mathf.Deg2Rad but I don’t know for sure.