Tilt gameboard

[system]

I need some ‘controls’ help for a game that has the arrow keys title a 5x5 board. The pivot point needs to be the dead center of the board and every arrow should move a side (IE: press RIGHT, and the right edge of the board moves down). I mainly need help with the pivot action as I have done some movement with the arrow keys before, but this will be different and I need to be able to make it multi-touch (IE: pressing RIGHT & UP will tilt the board towards the right and top edge (from your perspective)).

[Kleptomaniac]

Hey there,

Just use Input.GetAxis (Horizontal and Vertical). GetAxis returns float values in the range of -1 to 1, so we can use that horizontal and vertical rotation variables to tilt the game board.

Try something like this:

var minRotation : float; //Needs to be within a range of 0 and 85
var maxRotation : float; //Needs to be within a range of 0 and -85

    function Update () {
    
           var horRot : float = (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")) * Time.deltaTime * -20;
           var vertRot : float = (Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) * Time.deltaTime * 20;
    
           var totalHorRot : float;
           var totalVertRot : float;
    
           if (transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot < 180) {
             totalHorRot = transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot;
           } else {
             totalHorRot = transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot - 360;
           }
    
           if (transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot < 180) {
             totalVertRot = transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot;
           } else {
             totalVertRot = transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot - 360;
           }
    
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Mathf.Clamp(totalHorRot, minRotation, maxRotation), 0, Mathf.Clamp(totalVertRot, minRotation, maxRotation));
        }

Attach this script to your game board and you’re good to go.

Hope that helps! Klep

EDIT

Here is the C# version without resetting to 0. I’ll update the Javascript version as well:

public float minRotation; //Needs to be within a range of 0 and 85
public float maxRotation; //Needs to be within a range of 0 and -85

    void Update () {
    
            float horRot = (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")) * Time.deltaTime * -20;
            float vertRot = (Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) * Time.deltaTime * 20;
    
           float totalHorRot;
           float totalVertRot;
    
           if (transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot < 180) {
             totalHorRot = transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot;
           } else {
             totalHorRot = transform.eulerAngles.x + horRot - 360;
           }
    
           if (transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot < 180) {
             totalVertRot = transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot;
           } else {
             totalVertRot = transform.eulerAngles.z + vertRot - 360;
           }
    
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Mathf.Clamp(totalHorRot, minRotation, maxRotation), 0, Mathf.Clamp(totalVertRot, minRotation, maxRotation));
        }