Make object continue to move up as long as button is pressed

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1

Hi,

Sorry for the noob questions but I have a bird in a third person view. And when I press and hold W I want the bird to fly up continuously until I release W at which point the bird should glide down (bird has gravity).

I am having a bit of a hard time making the bird go up continuously. Everything else works fine.

I have tried using transform.Translate, rigidbody.AddForce, and CharacterController but my solutions are not working as I want them to.

With how it is right now, when I press and hold W the bird moves up but stops going up after a certain point and begins to fall down even if I am still holding the W key. And when it is falling, if I press W it does not go up again, it will fall to the ground, and only when it is on the ground I can make it go up again. Which seems quite strange to me…

Anyone have any suggesions?

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
        {
            anim.SetBool("isFlying", true);

            transform.Translate(Vector3.up * Time.deltaTime, Space.World);
        }

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
        {
            anim.SetBool("isFlying", true);

            transform.Translate(new Vector3(0, speed * Time.deltaTime, 0));
        }

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
        {
            anim.SetBool("isFlying", true);

            rigidBody.AddForce(new Vector3(0f, flyUpForce, 0));
        }
2

try Debug.Log…is your code actually executing?

3

My guess is code somewhere else in your project is resulting in the odd behaviour. The fact you said it stops at a certain point makes me believe some code, somewhere else is doing that.

4

Are all these if statements in the Update function? if so that’s the problem.