Accelerometer Quick Question(Moving Up and Down?)

Questions & Answers
1

So lately I’ve been messing around with the Accelerometer code in the tutorials for Unity, and I was wondering how can I get my game object to move up and down on the Y axis instead of the X? You see I use this little piece of code so far:

void Update() {
		transform.Translate(Input.acceleration.x, 0, -Input.acceleration.z);
	}
}

So this moves my game object right and left when I tilt the device right or left. Which is amazing but I’m trying to move it up or down when I tilt up or down. Changing the first Input.acceleration from x to y only changes the controls, but doesn’t change the movement of the game object. I know this is a very basic question, so scold me if you must. Also don’t worry I’ve checked other answers and they seem to use a different method than the one in the tutorial(the one I’m using), so it makes it harder to understand fully without copying someone else’s code.

2

The Translate function takes three parameters which are:

transform.Translate(x, y, z);

Well actually it has a couple other optional parameters (see docs)
So if you want to move the object along its y axis (up and down) you will probably want something along the lines of:

transform.Translate(0, Input.acceleration.y, -Input.acceleration.z);

The first parameter is 0 because you don’t want the object to move along its x axis.
The second value (objects y) is being modified by the y acceleration value.
Here’s a link to the documentation: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Translate.html

Hope that helped :slight_smile: