Mouse controlled sprite movement

Unity Engine
1

This week I am working a breakout type game and things are progressing nicely, however I have run into an issue with moving the paddle with the mouse on the y axis, while keeping the value of y and z the same. Currently I am attempting to do it like this

Vector3 newLocation = new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
transform.position = newLocation;

I have also tried to translate the position, but in both cases the mouse shoots off into the middle of nowhere. I would also like the mouse point to center, and disappear, but that is not as important. Any suggestions?

2

Did you mean moving on the x axis? Here is one of my testing script in C#. This script moves on the x-axis.

void Update () 
  {
    transform.position = new Vector3((Input.mousePosition.x / 20), 0, 0);

    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
      
      Instantiate(this.bullet, transform.position + new Vector3(0, 3, 0), Quaternion.identity);
      
    }
  }

I base all my game objects in the first quadrant with the original (0,0,0). I suggest that you test your new location by setting some axises with a zero. For example,

Vector3 newLocation = new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x, 0, 0);

and also make sure that you set your main camera to look at this position (paddle).