Clamp Problems

Unity Engine
1

Hey guys. So I’m making a simple game where objects will be falling from the sky, and you are a “bucket” trying to catch them. You can only move horizontally, and you cannot go out of bounds (Camera)

I’ve tried looking for something that I can understand but I just keep finding long complex ways of doing it that don’t even use clamp.

I’ve thought about just using 2 colliders on both sides of the bucket, and having a collider on the outside of the map (Left and right) but I just want to do this with pure code and not cheat with box colliders.

What’s the simplest way of saying “You can only move horizontally within x amount units”?

This is all I have so far…

New to coding and unity so a description would be much appreciated. Thanks!

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerMov : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float Speed = 50.0f;
    public float MinClamp = 5.0f;
    public float MaxClamp = 5.0f;



    void Start ()
    {

    }
   

    void Update ()
    {

        if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.LeftArrow))
        {
            transform.position -= transform.right * Speed * Time.deltaTime;
        }

        else if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.RightArrow))
        {
            transform.position += transform.right * Speed * Time.deltaTime;
        }

   
    }
}
2 
void Update()
{
    // <Your input code>

    transform.position = new Vector3(
        Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.x, minClamp, maxClamp),
        transform.position.y,
        transform.position.z
    );
}

Move, then clamp.

3

This just teleports the player to the right corner of the screen for whatever reason

4

In your code above, you have minClamp and maxClamp set to the same value. Make sure you set them correctly in the inspector.