Make 3rd person character face camera

[archieandrews]

Hi

I would like to be able to hit a key or whatever trigger and when this happens make the 3rd person character turn towards and face the camera.

I guess this is a 2 part process:

1. Turn character towards cam

2. Move head to look at cam

The most important option is 1 - Turn Character facing the cam as I have a script that motions the head look already

TY

[Legion]

Not tested, but what if you make a gameobject children of the camera and use the vHeadTrack and activate or deactivate it when you want to look / not look at it?

[archieandrews]

Nah, headtrack just moves the head. I already have a head control that looks at a crosshair type control which is moved by joystick.

I'm not developing a typical game/shooter its more for creating animation video clips for a special project.

Therefore I want to simply hit a key and he turns to face the cam. (basically rotate with a animation) then goes back to controller state.

I know I can do this via script manually turning the character using raycast or such to find direction of camera .. But just wondered if Invector had anything that did such a function off the shelf to save me from coding one.

[archieandrews]

Managed to turn him with code below, but needs animation adding.

var lookPos = Camera.main.transform.position - TheMouse.transform.position;
lookPos.y = 0;
var rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(lookPos);
TheMouse.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(TheMouse.transform.rotation, rotation, Time.deltaTime *10f);

[Legion]

Something like in The Evil Within that makes a 180 ° turn towards the camera and then it is positioned again behind the player? Perhaps the best thing would be to do a new action, like "roll".

[archieandrews]

Cheers, I've sorted the turn code, so yeah I'll look at Generic Action component for the anim.