Move a 3d plane up and down

Unity Engine
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I would like to make a plane (not an airplane) the plane you would use for your floor move up and down with the arrow keys along the X and Z axis. I’m new at c# and would like to find out what things I would need to incorporate into the script I figure some type of Vector3 and something to do with rotation and something to give it a maximum height angle and minimum depth angle but I’m not sure what type of scripts to look for in order to do that. I also tried making the plane a rigidbody. But it didn’t like that either.

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Such a script is not complex:

using UnityEngine;

public class Mover : MonoBehaviour {
    public Vector3 velocity = Vector3.up;
   
    void Update() {
        if (Input.KeyDown(KeyCode.Up)) transform.position += velocity * Time.deltaTime;
       
        if (Input.KeyDown(KeyCode.Down)) transform.position -= velocity * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

…but of course if you don’t know C# syntax, or the Unity API, then yes, this would be hard to write. I recommend going through the tutorials in the Learn section, and pay special attention to the ones that show scripting. If you’re new to C#, also spend the time to go through everything at http://learncs.org too. Then you’ll have a foundation to start making things like this yourself.

Also, if any of the above code doesn’t make sense to you, just ask! We’re happy to help.

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Thanks Joe I’ve done the roll a ball and the first shooter tutorial and I can understand the code. I just don’t yet understand what code to do for what things to do.

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I am also new to Unity scripting.
Try Tanks! tutorial, it gave me a good understanding of different challenges with scripts.

You can also using some visual editing asset extension to ease that.
I have found this asset (Game Rules) which has remade this Tanks tutorial without opening a single time Mono. It is quite awesome.

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Actually this script that I found is the script that I wanted.
public Vector3 velocity = Vector3.up;
public float smooth = 2.0F;
public float tiltAngle = 3.0F;
void Update()
{
float tiltAroundZ = Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”) * tiltAngle;
float tiltAroundX = Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”) * tiltAngle;
Quaternion target = Quaternion.Euler(tiltAroundX, 0, tiltAroundZ);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, target, Time.deltaTime);