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• ChrisIceBox

  March 30

  Welcome to the community, @ioannis.

  Love the idea! Very unique style and looks a lot of fun.

  Setting the Turn speed to 0 is the intended way to prevent AC from turning the character. Are you having further issues with this set?

  If so, it is possible to enforce the character's rotation by setting it in LateUpdate in a custom script. I can help with that if it's needed.

  Your Settings Manager show that yours is a 3D game. As your characters can only move sideways across the stage, you can likely do away with a NavMesh, and just uncheck Pathfind? in any Character: Move to point Actions. To block the Player's ability to move off-screen, place down Colliders either side of the stage.
• ioannis

  March 30 edited March 30

  Hmm setting or unsetting Pathfind? in Character: Move to point actions doesn't change anything really. I did have Retro-style movement enabled but it seems the Player won't move at all now- like they are stuck

  I did set a default NavMesh and created a mesh at the bottom of the character- as well as set Pathfinding method to Mesh Collider.

  

  So... I just did a test with an NPC cube
  Set it up so it moves the same way. Tested Character: Move to Point , and it seems like it turns first then goes to the point. If I put Turn speed 0, it just gets stuck like my character. Not entirely sure on how to proceed though
• ChrisIceBox

  March 31

  Ultimately, if your configuring the game as being 3D, then characters will attempt to turn towards their movement direction.

  If that's the main issue here, then what you can do is move the visual aspects of the character (Animator, Skinned Mesh Renderer etc) to a child object, and then have a script counter-rotate this child. Essentially, let the base object turn, and have the child turn the other way so that it always faces the correct way.

  It's a simple script. Try this. Create a new C# file named ForceFaceDirection, copy/paste in the code below, and then attach the new Force Face Direction component to the child object created as above:

  using UnityEngine;
  
  public class ForceFaceDirection : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      public Vector3 direction = new Vector3 (0f, 0f, -1f);
  
      void LateUpdate ()
      {
          transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation (direction, Vector3.up);
      }
  
  }
  
• ioannis

  March 31

  Thank you for taking the time explaining. I appreciate it.
  I understand the logic behind this and I will have to test thoroughly a little later today but just giving this a quick test-drive, it might actually be harder than it looks to make it work.

  This is my character:

  

  The MainController is the RigidBody that drives the rest of the body of the character through Hinges. It's all driven by physics so I'm afraid just changing the transform rotation might cause issues and I'm also not entirely certain where the script should be placed in this arrangement. I quickly tried to set the script to the Body parent (it's an empty parent) but had very weird results.

  If you have any additional input consider what I'm sharing now, let me know, but I'll still come back later today with my experimentation on this!

  Thanks again.
• ioannis

  March 31

  Yup using the script on the Body... leads to various issues.
• ChrisIceBox

  April 1

  Don't attach the script to any existing objects. Instead, create a new Empty that's an immediate child of Karagiozis, and attach it to that. Make sure that it's local position is 0,0,0.

  Then, make MainController and Body both children of this new Empty. Does that resolve it?
• ioannis

  April 1

  Thank you Chris! It seems to have worked! I still had to figure out some freeze position on some RigidBodies I missed but it works!

  Thanks again.