Why does my character only dash forward and not in the moving direction?

Questions & Answers
1

Its probably a simple fix but i cant see it, can someone help me by just fixing the dash, when running/walking and pressing the dash button, player only dashes forward disregarding the facing or move direction? Thank you good people!

private void Dash()
{
    currentDashTime = 0.0f;
    if(currentDashTime < maxDashTime)
    {
        moveDirection = transform.forward * dashForce;
        currentDashTime += dashStoppingSpeed;
    }
    else
    {
        moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
    }
    controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime*dashForce);
}
2

Yeah, transform.forward will give you the forward direction of whatever scene object contains that script. If you’re doing something like keeping a single parent object with movement / game scripts and then a child object with all of its scene representation, then you’ll need to specify that you want to use that object’s direction.

What I think you want is:

private void Dash()
{
    currentDashTime = 0.0f;
    if(currentDashTime < maxDashTime)
    { 
        // You don't necessarily want "transform.forward", but the "controller.transform.forward",
        // since this is the object actually moving.
        //
        // Also, you were multiplying by "dashForce" here and in the controller.Move line,
        // which is probably an accident.  With a variable name like "moveDirection", 
        // it's more readable / intuitive that this just be a unit vector providing orientation
        //
        moveDirection = controller.transform.forward;
        currentDashTime += dashStoppingSpeed;
    }
    else
    {
        moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
    }
    controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime*dashForce);
}