Moving from forces to surfacemotion and wobbely slopes

hey,



I have 2 questions 1 is not really related to physics but is related to to my other1.



Ill explain what i am trying to do first.

i want the player character in thirdpersonview to always walk "forward" in the camera direction by pressing W

S is backwards offcourse and A and D will make him strafe left and right. this is all done in respect to the camera direction. To make the character not look very weird by moving in 1 direction while walking in the other i also point him in the camera direction via lookAt().



I was moving my character with forces but he had problems walking on anything but flat terrain so i was gonna try to see if surfacemotion would be a better way to move him.



in my first setup the character was walking forward in whatever direction i had the camera pointing by adding forces in the camera direction

tempVec = cam.getDirection().normalize();
      tempVec.y = 0f;

((DynamicPhysicsNode) target).addForce(tempVec.mult(time * force));


I set the Y to 0 because otherwise he would be trying to walk down/up a bit because of the camera angle
(This is also causing my second problem i think).

However by changing the addforce to surfacemotion the direction is completely wrong

((DynamicPhysicsNode) target).getMaterial().setSurfaceMotion(
               tempVec.mult(time * force));



How do i fix my directions ?

on to the second problem .. slopes.
Whenever he comes on a steep slope he wobbles down instead of slides i suspect this has to do something with the fact that i make him lookAt the camera direction with the y=0. if i dont set y to 0 he keeps falling over because the camera is above and behind the player looking a bit down on him.

target.getLocalRotation().lookAt(tempVec.negate(), Vector3f.UNIT_Y);

this is still the same tempVec as above.

So how can i get rid of the wobbeling ? simply changing the material to slide more wont work because then it just looks like he is walking on ice or something

I could live with a wobbly guy on slopes but i really do need correct directions for him.

Any help is appreciated


Hellmaster