Using one animation in different orientations

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Hello, I am making a game where the player runs and when he swipes the screen or hits left/right arrow on a keyboard, the player turns.

I could use transform.Rotate(0,90,0) but I want to make it kinda smooth, so I want to use an animation.

The problem is, that if I create an animation with two keyframes: transform.rotation.y = 0 and transform.rotation.y = 90, this happens:

Player turns right for the first time, the animation plays and now the y rotation is equal to 90.

Player turns right once more, but the animation doesn’t play from 90 to 180, but from 0 to 90 again.

How do I fix this?

I am not an English speaker, so please correct this question if necessary.
Thank you, imilanspinka

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Either make an animation for each possible rotation if you want to stay with doing turning by animation.

What I recommend tho is to not have an animation handle the turning. Instead write some code that rotates the player accordingly and you can rotate in a smooth way.

transform.rotation.eulerAngles = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.rotation.eulerAngles, targetRotation,
		                             ref SomeVector, timeTurnShouldTake);

targetRotation in this case would be something like (0,transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y+90,0).

Something like that would work and have smooth rotation change when done in update.

For further information on SmoothDamp look at the Docs