Axis prioritisation

Questions & Answers
1

Hey I have a small issue with my movement. I am working on a tilebased game similar to Bomberman so I created a tilebased movement. However my Problem is that if the character keeps the button pressed to move left / right and additionally presses the up/ down key the character will not move upwards instead he keeps on moving left/right.

At the same time when moveing up or downwards and simultaniously pressing left or right he moves to the left / right.

I guess the reason is in the if Statement since Input.x has a higher priority the System will always use this. How can I give the last Input always the highest prio ?

      //Check if player is moving
        if (isMoving)
        {
            Vector2 targetPosition = CurrentPosition + moveDirection;
            t += Time.deltaTime * (moveSpeed / gridSize);
            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(gameManager.GetPosition(CurrentPosition, 1), gameManager.GetPosition(targetPosition, 1), t);
            if (t >= 1)
            {
                isMoving = false;
                t = 0;
                CurrentPosition = targetPosition;
            }
            else
            {
                return;
            }
        }

        moveDirection = Vector2.zero;
        Vector2 input = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
        if (input.sqrMagnitude < 0.01f)
        {
            return;
        }
        
        if (input.x > 0)
        {
            moveDirection = Vector2.right;
           
        }
        else if (input.x < 0)
        {
            moveDirection = -Vector2.right;
          
        }
        else if (input.y > 0)
        {
            moveDirection = Vector2.up;
           
        }
        else if (input.y < 0)
        {
            moveDirection = -Vector2.up;
           
        }

        Vector2 targetPositionPrediction = CurrentPosition + moveDirection;

        if (!gameManager.IsTileAccessible(targetPositionPrediction))
            return;

        isMoving = true;



    }
2

I think you have to avoid the use of ‘else if’ statment between input.x and input.y because this overrides all the movement from the y-axis…

So, edit this and tell us:

if (input.x > 0)
{
    moveDirection = Vector2.right;
}
else if (input.x < 0)
{
    moveDirection = -Vector2.right;  
}

//You have to leave this separately...      
if (input.y > 0)
{
    moveDirection = Vector2.up; 
}
else if (input.y < 0)
{
    moveDirection = -Vector2.up;  
}

Bye! ^^