This code is meant to turn the player character in the direction of movement but it doesn't work

[vital wasp]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovementPC : MonoBehaviour
{

    public float speed;


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float z = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(x, 0, z);
        movement.Normalize();

        transform.Translate(movement * speed * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);

        

        if(movement != Vector3.zero){
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(movement.normalized); 
        }

    }
}

It's always offset by 90 degrees to the left when I use it on my cube.

[vital wasp]

😭

[noble blaze]

If you don't mind the look of hard setting the rotation, the player's facing normal (usually transform.forward) can just be set to the movement direction.
also, you're normalizing twice, why?

[vital wasp]

Oh I added the second one when I was trying to fix the issue

[vital wasp]

As in transform.forward = movement ?

It had the same issue

[noble blaze]

depends, what perspective is this game?

[vital wasp]

It's top down

[noble blaze]

2d?

[vital wasp]

So camera is up top and cube faces the direction it's moving

3D

[noble blaze]

or iso?

alright

[vital wasp]

Wait I'll grab a recording

Hold on

I added the long stick to the side so I can see the forward direction

[noble blaze]

You're cubes forward normal might be trasform.right, not .forward

[vital wasp]

Oh good idea

I'll try

All the rotations are 0

[noble blaze]

What do you mean by that?

[vital wasp]

As in, these are his default values

[vital wasp]

I am gonna try left because that added 90 degrees to the offset

Or nope

There's no left

Waaaaaaaaaaaait

Is it possible that the stick is on his side and not his forward?

Omg

Hang on

[noble blaze]

It's possible, but shouldn't the forward be the direction it moves?

Now that I look at it, it doesn't seem to be, you should probably rotate it 90 degrees

[vital wasp]

I moved the stick to a different face by default

And now it's fine

I dont even know lmao

[noble blaze]

Alright, good 👍

[vital wasp]

Sorry for spending your time on that

lol