Transform shaking

[anon_50139414]

I have an object with a raycast coming from the front. The object will go forward and when the raycast hits a wall. It will active the turn function to avoid colliding with the wall. Once the raycast is no longer hitting the wall, the object will move forward.

But when the raycast hit a wall. The object jitters back and forth while rotating. What is happening?

var runSpeed: float;
var myCheck : boolean = true;

private var moveDirection = Vector3.zero;

var controller :CharacterController;

function Awake()
{
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController);
}

function Update () {

var directionA = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(1,0,0));
var directionB = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(0,0,-1));
var directionC = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(0,0,1));
var hit : RaycastHit;

if(myCheck){
turnProc();
}else{
goForwardProc();
}

if((Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -directionC, hit, 10)) (hit.collider.tag == “Wall”)){
myCheck = true;
}else {
myCheck = false;
}
}

function turnProc()
{
transform.Rotate(0,1, 0);
moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,40);
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= runSpeed;
controller.SimpleMove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}

function goForwardProc()
{
moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,-40);
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= runSpeed;
controller.SimpleMove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}

[KHopcraft]

Could it be something to do with this? LINKS!

[anon_50139414]

No I doubt this has anything to do with scale. I think it has to do with checking and activation a function frame at a time… or is it second at a time? I don’t know… This problem doesn’t happen with this code…

var runSpeed: float;
var myCheck : boolean = true;

private var moveDirection = Vector3.zero;

var controller :CharacterController;

function Awake()
{
controller = GetComponent(CharacterController);
}

function Update () {

var directionA = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(1,0,0));
var directionB = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(0,0,-1));
var directionC = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3(0,0,1));
var hit : RaycastHit;

if(myCheck){
turnProc();
}else{
goForwardProc();
}

if((Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -directionB, hit, 1)) (hit.collider.tag == “Wall”)){
myCheck = false;
}else if((Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -directionC, hit, 1)) (hit.collider.tag == “Wall”)){
myCheck = true;
}
}

function turnProc()
{
transform.Rotate(0,1, 0);
moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,40);
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= runSpeed;
controller.SimpleMove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}

function goForwardProc()
{
moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,-40);
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= runSpeed;
controller.SimpleMove(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}

[anon_50139414]

Here is the project file. It has cubes bouncing around.

412040–14277–$SpaceShooterD3.7z (112 KB)

[anon_50139414]

My bad yall. Obviously this should be behaving badly… I keep overlooking the obvious. I’m going to have to remove that negative value and see how it goes when I get back. ugh!

moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,40);
moveDirection = Vector3(0,0,-40);