Turning player to face joystick direction and keep moving that way

Unity Engine
1

Hi all,

I have a slightly different problem with the joystick and movement than the similar topic I found. Namely. If I use my old script (without turning to face the joystick) my player moves perfectly through my scene (its a top-down game) but when I add the turning code my player turns perfectly but he moves all over the place and doesn’t follow the direction he looks at.

here is the code

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovementHandler : MonoBehaviour
{

    private float speed;
    private Rigidbody2D controller;
    public JoyStick moveJoyStick;

    public PlayerMovementHandler()
    {
        speed = 3f;
    }

    // Use this for initialization
    private void Start()
    {
        controller = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 dir = Vector3.zero;
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(dir.x, 0, dir.y);
        dir.x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        dir.y = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        if(moveJoyStick.InputDirection != Vector3.zero)
        {
            dir = moveJoyStick.InputDirection;
        }

        transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime);

            //the turn part of my code
        float heading = Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, heading - 90);

    }
}
2

Fixed it, I changed this:

transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime);

to this:

transform.Translate(dir * speed * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
3

I am trying a project exactly like this, and the code is not working. Is there something that is different for Macs?

4

in the last line, I changed from heading -90 TO heading + 90, and it worked like magic!