Trying to fix the scale of a game object in Unity 2D-CodePudding

I have a script that faces my player (cube) to its moving direction. It also has a grappling gun, but when he turns to its moving direction, gun turns too and it can't use grappling gun when i try to grapple and object staying on the opposite site of my player.

This is how i turn my player:

private void Flip()
    {
        if (isFacingRight && HorizontalInput() < 0f || !isFacingRight && HorizontalInput() > 0f)
        {
            Vector3 localScale = transform.localScale;
            isFacingRight = !isFacingRight;
            localScale.x *= -1f;
            transform.localScale = localScale;
        }
    }

If I can fix the localScale of my gun, so that it won't multiplied with -1 when i multiply the whole body.

Any idea? Thanks a lot.

CodePudding user response：

As I understand the question: you want to flip the player but not flip the gun (which is a child of the player).

One way of doing this is to organize the Player object like this:
-Player (prefeb, invisible)
--PlayerGraphicChild (Cube, flip this one only)
--PlayerGunChild (don't flip this one).

Another way is to add a new prefeb called Gun, and set the position of that object to one of the children of Player. Organize the hierarchy like this:
-Player (flip this one)
--PlayerGunDolly (flips with parent)
and create a new prefeb:
-Gun (has a component that sets the transform.position to transform of PlayerGunDolly. Does not flip.)

CodePudding user response：

If I understand correctly you are changing your localscale in order to flip your sprite left and right?

If that's the case there is a much better and faster way to flip your sprites without messing with the scale of your object.

On your SpriteRenderer component there is an option Flip which is used to flip your sprite on the 2 Axis (x,y). Use the X-axis in order to flip your sprite left and right.

Sprite Renderer component example

Simply create a reference of your SpriteRenderer component in your Script and then use the flip attribute, and you are good to go.