How to move along the z axis from Top-Down Perspective?

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Hey guys, I’ve decided to make my 2D game play along the x and z axis, so i can make use of things like the navmesh. But i dont know how to make my character move forward and backward. The movement script looked like this when i used the default 2D view.

    void Update ()
    {
        transform.position += new Vector3(Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis ("Vertical"), 0.0f) * Time.deltaTime * speed;
    }
}

But this obviously doesn’t work because my character tries to move up in the air now from the new angle. Can someone help me change this?

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Well, your vector says new Vector3(x,y,z) , so Horizontal goes to x, and vertical to y. z stays at zero. So you should assign your horizontal or vertical thing to the z axis instead of y.

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I wanted to mate, but the unity input manager doesn’t seem to have the option. It has x and y, and then 3 to 20th joystick axis (and I don’t even really know what those mean).

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The controller input for the joystick is horizontal x and vertical y. You need to assign the axis within your code, not search for a z axis in the joysticks, as this would be a fancy controller :wink:

You have got your right left joystick assigned to x and top down joystick assigned to y.

        transform.position += new Vector3(Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis ("Vertical"), 0.0f) * Time.deltaTime * speed;

but you need to assign your up and down joystick to z, so:

        transform.position += new Vector3(Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal"), 0.0f, Input.GetAxis ("Vertical")) * Time.deltaTime * speed;

As I do not know your specific environment, this is just a suggestion, hope it helps you.

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Dude! I can’t believe I didn’t realize this. Thank you so much. It was ages ago that I wrote that down as I followed a tutorial and I completely forget those values are for each individual axis. Z was set to 0.0f (facepalm).

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And a Tip Jaxobz use Character Controller instead :wink:

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