moving objects with transform position

Questions & Answers
1

I have this strange problem. direction is a Vector 2 and i’m trying to move objects by transform.position so here’s the code

gameObject.transform.position = new Vector2(direction.x * Time.deltaTime * Speed, direction.y * Time.deltaTime * Speed);

but they move really fast and i dont know the reason. Speed is a float variable which equals to 4f but even if i change it to something like 0.00000000000000000000004f nothing changes. I dont understand the reason of this

2

It seems that you need to do a → pos +=

  1. Make sure your direction is normalized e.g. direction = direction.normalized
  2. speed of 4 means 4 meters a second in the given example which is quite fast
  3. Make sure your direction is actually not == Vector3.zero
  4. Make sure you call this in “void Update()” if you’re calling it from void FixedUpdate() you need to use Time.fixedDeltaTime
3

Be careful: when setting directly the position, the physic engine could miss collisions.
I suggest using Rigidbody.Translate (or at least Transform.Translate, to keep clean things).

4

I used casting

gameObject.transform.position +=(Vector3)new Vector2(direction.x, direction.y ) * -Speed;

to solve the problem

Although it’s a 2D project, gameObject.transform.position was Vector3. I dont know why