Getting Characters Moving using Lua (3 parts)

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I tried copying your lua script for player movement and everything works except the rotation...can you help me find what I did wrong? Here's my script:

local controller = {

Properties = {

mouseX = "",

mouseY = "",

camSpeed = 0.0,

playerSpeed = 0.0,

playerCam = {default = EntityId()},

},

}

function controller:OnActivate()

--LOCAL VARIABLES--

local rotX = self.Properties.mouseX;

local rotY = self.Properties.mouseY;

--PLAYER ROTATION--

self.MouseXId = InputEventNotificationId(rotX);

self.MInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.MouseXId);

self.MouseYId = InputEventNotificationId(rotY);

self.YInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.MouseYId);

--PLAYER MOVEMENT--

self.ForwardId = InputEventNotificationId("Forward");

self.FwdInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.ForwardId);

self.BackwardId = InputEventNotificationId("Backward");

self.BwdInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.BackwardId);

self.LeftId = InputEventNotificationId("Left");

self.LfInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.LeftId);

self.RightId = InputEventNotificationId("Right");

self.RtInputBus = InputEventNotificationBus.Connect(self, self.RightId);

end

function controller:OnHeld(InputValue)

--LOCAL VARIABLES--

local CSpeed = self.Properties.camSpeed;

local pSpeed = self.Properties.playerSpeed;

local PlayerTM = TransformBus.Event.GetWorldTM(self.entityId);

local fwdVector = PlayerTM:GetColumn(1);

local rtVector = PlayerTM:GetColumn(0);

--PLAYER ROTATION--

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.MouseXId) then

TransformBus.Event.RotateByZ(self.entityId, -InputValue * CSpeed);

end

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.MouseYId) then

TransformBus.Event.RotateByX(self.Properties.playerCam, -InputValue * CSpeed);

end

--PLAYER MOVEMENT--

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.ForwardId) then

TransformBus.Event.MoveEntity(self.entityId, fwdVector * InputValue * pSpeed);

end

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.BackwardId) then

TransformBus.Event.MoveEntity(self.entityId, -fwdVector * InputValue * pSpeed);

end

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.LeftId) then

TransformBus.Event.MoveEntity(self.entityId, -rtVector * InputValue * pSpeed);

end

if(InputEventNotificationBus.GetCurrentBusId() == self.RightId) then

TransformBus.Event.MoveEntity(self.entityId, rtVector * InputValue * pSpeed);

end

end

function controller:OnDeactivate()

self.MInputBus:Disconnect();

self.YInputBus:Disconnect();

self.FwdInputBus:Disconnect();

self.BwdInputBus:Disconnect();

self.LfInputBus:Disconnect();

self.RtInputBus:Disconnect();

end

return controller

I have a camera child entity located behind the player and I've set the speed of the camera to .01 and the player speed to .1. I assigned the variables mouseX and mouseY to MouseX and MouseY respectively. I dragged and dropped the camera to use into the camera variable spot. Just can't seem to figure out what the problem is. :/ Thank you for all of your tutorials btw they are very helpful! :D

self.MouseXId = InputEventNotificationId(rotX)
self.MouseYId = InputEventNotificationId(rotY);

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as a beginner, what helped me the most(except code samples) is the console debugging tool. Just add Debug.Log("anything here"); to a line and check the editor console window(shift+6 by default) to see if it runs(while game testing). You can even see variables by running Debug.Log("things" ..tostring(var)); instead. Hope u find good use of it

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