Gun Flipping Issue

[gentle roost]

the video i provided is what happens if i multiply the transformation.z with 100 in the transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 0, transform.rotation.z); part of the if else statement

if i do not multiple it, then it is also static (seems asif it can only face right or left without any rotation, however a closer look, and you can see that is very slightly rotating, it just cannot be easily observed)

[strange quail]

Wait. Why did just flipping the sprite not work again?

[copper estuary]

the rotation likely has to be adusted as well, something like
flippedRotationEuler = 360f - originalRotationEuler;

possibly related
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and if you read through this, seems like a similar/same problem
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[gentle roost]

because the children objects wouldn't flip

[strange quail]

Oh true.

Can’t you do scale.y = -1?

[gentle roost]

let me try

[gentle roost]

okay i've tried everything regarding this

it did not work

i think Quaternion.Euler is the better option

but as long as a way works, I'd use it

[gentle roost]

okay, im not sure im putting it in the correct way, but doing this fixes the rotation or the values going below 1

float flippedEulerZ = 360f - rotZ;

        if(Mathf.Abs(rotZ) >= FlipThreshold){
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 180, flippedEulerZ);
        }
        else{
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 0, flippedEulerZ);
        }

this is what im doing rn

[copper estuary]

this works for you? if this works it's probably fine

but i thought that looking at your video above, since the gun rotates into the opposite direction when flipped, this part at least will be important
float flippedEulerZ = 360f - rotZ;

[gentle roost]

it is

its the only thing

that has somewhat bought the rotation to near fixing

the left flipping is still not fixed though

its just not as glitchy as the video, im trying to fix the flipping rn

[copper estuary]

do you have an updated video?

right now if you scale flip but also rotate around y 180 degree, not sure how that behaves, usually I only see it being flipped without the y rotation

in 2d, generally every euler angle for sprites aside for z is aways 0

from the games I've seen

I guess a 180 degree y rotation is a different way to"flip" a sprite

[gentle roost]

actually, i'll give you the updated video, and a video with no other variables such as flippedEulerZ or multiplying the rotation with 100 to get out of 0.01 values

maybe that might help

[gentle roost]

the code for this case is

if(Mathf.Abs(rotZ) >= FlipThreshold){
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 180, transform.rotation.z);
        }
        else{
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, 0, transform.rotation.z);
        }

the very first video i gave

was just multiplying the transform.rotation.z with 100

inside the if else

[copper estuary]

I don't really get this video,
like multiplying with 100 should give a super sensitive rotation
in the video the gun barely moves
and if that's the goal, I'd just flip it or do the 180 y rotation like you have

otherwise i get the angle from the forward direction and adjust it if you really want a smaller rotation

Vector2 gunToMouse = mouseWorldSpacePos - gun.transform.position;
Vector2 lookDir = isGunFacingRight ? Vector2.right : Vector2.left;
float angleFromLookDir = Vector2.SignedAngle(gunToMouse, lookDir);

and then you can adjust the angle (multiply it) and try to convert it back,
which might mean flipping, or adding 90 degree (depending on what the neutral z rotation of your gun is, like if the neutral rotation (z = 0) of the unfipped gun is already to the right then this shouldnt be necessary

[gentle roost]

check the inspector in the video, the issue is when i include the if else statement, the transform.rotation.z goes below 1

to values like 0.089

and etc

its fine when there is no if else that has, and a value like 0.089 is 89

[gentle roost]

and i am not trying to make it super sensitive or smaller rotation

its just that it isn't normally rotating

and when it is, its too much

i will try out the other stuff you said though

[copper estuary]

ah, you're using quaternion values instead of eulerAngle values for Quaternion.Euler input

[copper estuary]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-rotation.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-eulerAngles.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.Euler.html

[gentle roost]

im not sure myself, but i do think i do what you said, heres what i do incase im wrong

Vector3 difference = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition) - transform.position;
float rotZ = Mathf.Atan2(difference.y, difference.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, rotZ + offset);   

[copper estuary]

that looks better
seeing what your default rotation is (meaning gun looks to the right), it might be worth to do something like this
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and you could try to use angleFromLookDir for the z eulerAngle
transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, 0f, angleFromLookDir );

btw, this is the same as transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler
in functionality, it's just that you can directly assign the eulerAngles too if you want