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Sorry if someone has already answered this. I've looked and haven't found anything like whats happening to me.

I have a point in space (Vector3) that I want the object to smoothly turn to but I cant seem to make the code work:

function RotateTowardsPosition (targetPos, rotSpd )
{
    // Convert the vector2 to a vector3
    var target = (Vector3(targetPos[0], 0, targetPos[1]));
    // get the current position
    var currentPos = transform.position;
    var relativePos = target - currentPos ;
    var rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(relativePos);
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rotation, Time.time * rotSpd);

}

When I run this I get an error stating the the "Object reference not set to an instance of and object" and is states the var target line as where the error starts. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

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Try this:

var targetPosition : GameObject;

function Update () {

            // Smoothly rotates towards target 
            var targetPoint = targetPosition.transform.position;
            var targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetPoint - transform.position, Vector3.up);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * 2.0);    
    }

Hope that helps.

answered Mar 26 '10 at 12:28 AM

Tuti
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Sorry about that... I figured it out. It was that variable that I was using. I didn't have it outside the Update function so it kept getting overwritten as a null which was causing the error. Thank you for the help, your script works perfectly.

Mar 26 '10 at 04:45 AM collypoo

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Answer 2

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omg thank you very much, the smoothness of turning was perfect!

answered Apr 14 '10 at 01:53 PM

Daneel
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Yeah no problem. Just check the FPS tutorial. There are a bunch of nice stuff there: http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/fpstutorial Cheers

Apr 16 '10 at 08:39 PM Tuti

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