Drag an object in x direction using C#

Unity Engine
1

Hey, so I’m still pretty new to this whole thing, and I’m not that great at translating things sometimes. I see a few people who have posted solutions for this, but I seem to be missing something. All the solutions I’ve found are in JS, and I’m using C#, so I’m wondering if someone could help me figure it out.

All I want to do is click on an object and move it in the x direction, based on the mouse. I can get it to move, but barely.

Here’s the code I have so far. What do I need to add to get it to actually move along with the mouse? Please try to explain it. I don’t want someone to just give me an answer, but I want to learn how it works.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class bottomPaddle : MonoBehaviour {

    public float posX;
    public float posY;
    public float posZ;
    public Vector3 mousePos;


	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

        //if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        //{
        //    transform.position = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
        //}
        posX = transform.position.x;
        posY = transform.position.y;
        posZ = transform.position.z;
	}

    void OnMouseDrag()
    {
        mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToViewportPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        transform.position = new Vector3(mousePos.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
    }
}
2

Nevermind. Got it. All I had to do was change the onMouseDrag to the below code.

void OnMouseDrag()
    {
        Vector3 point = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        point.z = gameObject.transform.position.z;
        point.y = gameObject.transform.position.y;
        gameObject.transform.position = point;
    }