character rotation?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
1

How can i get a character to rotate, without the motion actuator. I mean it’s good, but i need something else. I am rotating a characters back so that he will turn. But in game engine I can’t press left arrow to turn some frames to the left then rotate some or all frames right smoothly with the right arrow.

2

Try animations.

3

Are you sure? I mean I thought it was a game logic problem.

4

You can use python script to read the input


# Gather the objects we need.
cont = bge.logic.getCurrentController()  # Get our logic controller.
obj = cont.owner                               # Get our physics object.
keyboard = bge.logic.keyboard            # Get the keyboard.
scene = bge.logic.getCurrentScene()     # Get the current scene.

rotSpeed = 0.1 # Rate (speed) of rotation.

if bge.logic.KX_INPUT_ACTIVE == keyboard.events[bge.events.LEFTARROWKEY]:
    #rotate left
    obj.applyRotation((0, 0, rotSpeed), True)
if bge.logic.KX_INPUT_ACTIVE == keyboard.events[bge.events.RIGHTARROWKEY]:
    #rotate right
    obj.applyRotation((0, 0, -rotSpeed), True)

Then noodle an always sensor to the pyton controller. I’m not sure if that’s what you are looking to do or not.

5

rather than that, Dear sir, Would you teach me a Python script that allows the mouse to control the rotations of a single armature (it’s only object in game per say)

6 

import bge

# Gather the objects we need.
cont = bge.logic.getCurrentController()     # Get our logic controller.
obj = cont.owner                            # Get our physics object.
keyboard = bge.logic.keyboard               # Get the keyboard.
mouse = bge.logic.mouse                     # Get the keyboard.
scene = bge.logic.getCurrentScene()         # Get the current scene.

rotScaler = 1       # Rate (speed) of rotation.
minMouse = 1        # Minimum mouse movement allowed before sensed.

# Get the current mouse position.
currentPos = mouse.position

if not "lastPos" in obj:
    obj["lastPos"] = currentPos

# Determine the movement of the mouse, adjust for the scaler.
deltax = (currentPos[0] - obj["lastPos"][0]) * rotScaler
deltay = (currentPos[1] - obj["lastPos"][1]) * rotScaler

# if (abs(deltax) >= minMouse):
obj.applyRotation((0, 0, deltax), True)
# if (abs(deltay) >= minMouse):
obj.applyRotation((0, deltay, 0), True)

# Update mouse position.
obj["lastPos"] = currentPos
7

wow, thanks. Although i tried the it similar to that but on location, can you teach me that as well?