# Controls help please!
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/controls-help-please/26723
**Category:** Questions & Answers
**Created:** [August 12, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/controls-help-please/26723 "2011-08-12T19:37:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@system](https://discussions.unity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/controls-help-please/26723/1 "2011-08-12T19:37:48Z")
In unity, I made a project and I added in a sphere. My input settings are set to the defaults (up and down keys and w and s keys for forward and backward, left and right keys and a and d keys for left and right) and I added in a sphere to the game. I played the game and I tried all 8 keys but my sphere wouldn’t drop to the plane or move forward, backward, left, or right. I have a sphere collider on it and a character controller but it still wouldn’t work.
Can somebody please tell me what I’m doing wrong?
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### Author:  [@aldonaletto](https://discussions.unity.com/u/aldonaletto)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/controls-help-please/26723/2 "2011-08-12T20:01:24Z")
You need to write a script to do the job, and drag this script to the sphere. A good example is given in [1](http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html) - it includes gravity and jump (spacebar). The example script is:
```
var speed : float = 6.0;
var jumpSpeed : float = 8.0;
var gravity : float = 20.0;
private var moveDirection : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;
function Update() {
var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
if (controller.isGrounded) {
// We are grounded, so recalculate
// move direction directly from axes
moveDirection = Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0,
Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
moveDirection *= speed;
if (Input.GetButton ("Jump")) {
moveDirection.y = jumpSpeed;
}
}
// Apply gravity
moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
// Move the controller
controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
}
```