I’ve been scratching my head for quite some time on how to approach this and I’m hoping someone can point me into a direction I can really dig into.
Essentially I have a default third person game with the default follow camera and I would like to create a system where an enumeration can be set based on the character input direction. There are five points of direction to be enumerated: forward (character moving away from camera), backwards (character moving towards camera), left (strafe), right (strafe), and none (for no movement input). Z axis is zeroed and not factored in. The reason I want this relevant to the camera is because if the character rotates and runs towards the camera I still want this to “register” and be set as backwards. The trick is only one direction point must be set at a time as I’m planning to fire events based on the set enumeration direction (switch on enumeration). For example if using WASD keys for movement input then if W is pressed first I would want the enumeration set to forward and remain set even if multiple keys are then being pressed. Once W is released then the enumerated direction can be reset by the current direction or default back to the none if there is no movement input. Perhaps an array is best where I set direction based on index 0 and it’s first-in and first-out? I’m running into a wall trying to do this with input axis events as I’m trying to avoid using input action keys as I would like this functionality to work on a gamepad as well (perhaps set direction based on four ranges within 360 degrees). Please let me know any suggestions or what I should look into to build this.
