Lock player movement only to x when moving on x, and lock movement only to y when moving on y

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1

Hi,

I’m trying to make an iOS 3D game. I’ve just got into programming so I’m still not familiar with, well, alot.

I want my player to move only on x axis (up or down) when I swipe my finger across it, and only on y (up or down) when I swipe across y.

So far I’ve managed to lock movement to x only (least I think so as it works in test mode), but when I try to write the code for y axis movement, visual studio gives an error for …GetAxis(0, (“Vertical”)));
CS1503 Argument 1: cannot convert from ‘int’ to 'char’8.

Can anyone help please?

Also, player needs to move forward automatically, hence, transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.World); . - this part works fine.

Thank you for your time in advance.

    void Start ()
	{

		mybody = this.GetComponent < Rigidbody> ();
	
	}


    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.World);



        if (CnInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0)
        {
            moveDirection = new Vector2(CnInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0);
            moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(-moveDirection);
            moveDirection = -moveDirection * speed * moveForce * Time.deltaTime;
            mybody.AddForce(moveForce * -moveDirection);
        }


        else if (CnInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal") > 0)
        {
            moveDirection = new Vector2(CnInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0);
            moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(-moveDirection);
            moveDirection = -moveDirection * speed * moveForce * Time.deltaTime;
            mybody.AddForce(moveForce * -moveDirection);
        }

        else if (CnInputManager.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0)
        {
            moveDirection = new Vector2(CnInputManager.GetAxis(0, ("Vertical")));
            moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
            moveDirection = moveDirection * speed * moveForce * Time.deltaTime;
            mybody.AddForce(moveForce * moveDirection);
        }

        else if (CnInputManager.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0)
        {
            moveDirection = new Vector2(CnInputManager.GetAxis(0, ("Vertical")));
            moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(-moveDirection);
            moveDirection = -moveDirection * speed * moveForce * Time.deltaTime;
            mybody.AddForce(moveForce * -moveDirection);



        }


    }
}
2

There’s a small syntactic mistake in moveDirection assignment in Vertical case, should be:

moveDirection = new Vector2(0, CnInputManager.GetAxis("Vertical"));
3

@dkjunior

  1. i changed < after your original answer.
  2. already tryed that way, it moves on x and y at the same time and i need movement locked only to axis being swiped.