Enemy follow script problem

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1

Hey guys, this might be a really simple question but I just can’t seem to figure it out, I have a follow script attached to my “Enemies” and it works, they rotate towards the player and follow him till they are a certain distance away.

However, the enemies seem to move along the y axis to match the players height (resulting in the enemies partialy going throught the terrain) so I changed it to follow the main cam which is a first person cam attached to the player (now the enemies are floating above ground to match the cams height) so my question is how do I stop the gameobjects from moving along the y axis? No rigidbodies are attached to enemies just a trigger and a collider. Here’s my script; p.s have tried with rigidbodies and constrants, gravity, etc.

public Transform player;
	public float moveSpeed = 5f;
	public float minDist = 2f;


	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	
		player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("MainCamera").transform;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
	
		transform.LookAt (player);
		if (Vector3.Distance (transform.position, player.position) >= minDist) {
		
			transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
		}

	}
}
2

//if enemy must go in y axis
if (Vector3.Distance (transform.position, player.position) >= minDist) {

         transform.position += transform.up* moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
     }

also check enemy rotation to see what axis is he r…
if blue line (Z) is looking at Top so your script is ok

3

The simplest and straightforward solution that comes to mind is to just use the x and z components, like this:

// at beginning of class:
private Vector3 displacement;

// Update or whatever you use:
displacement = transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime; 
transform.position += new Vector3(displacement.x, 0, displacement.z) ;

or be done with it by using:

transform.position += Vector3.Scale(transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime, new Vector3(1, 0, 1)) ;