Turret rotating on a z axis

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1

Hello all.
I’m trying to make a game. And i wan’t to know how can i make a turret rotate to the nearest enemy but on the z axis. I have made the same code like the tutorial on Brackeys about “Tower Defence (“Turrets”)”:

How to make a Tower Defense Game (E04 TURRETS) - Unity Tutorial - YouTube.

But at his code it say’s : Vector3 rotation = lookRotation.eulerAngles;
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, rotation.y, 0f);

So i replaced the “y” with a “z” like so : transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, rotation.z, 0); but it doesn’t work. I’ve tried switching them but it doesn’t work.

Please help me.

Thank’s.

2

I may know why it might not work.

but there is my script for my character’s arm to rotate on the Z axis, you’ll have to do some fanegling, to get it to work.

code:

     function LateUpdate ()// this is unchanged from my script.
        {
        rotationZ += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivityZ;
        rotationZ = Mathf.Clamp (rotationZ, minimumZ, maximumZ);
        transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0, transform.localEulerAngles.y,rotationZ);
        }

judging by mine, while looking at yours, my script doesn’t use Quaternions, but this script has a clamp so it won’t do 360, but, removing the (Clamp) middle line of code, with the 2 lines left, will probably be what you’re looking for.

take what you need from this, and see what happens, and switch what you need to switch to make it work.

give it a shot.

hope that helped.

3

It works great. Thank you so much ownerfate.