Normalized Diagonal Movement with Accel/Decel

Questions & Answers
1

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make my movement not have the age old problem of double speed when going diagonal. The various answers out there don’t seem to help me solve the way I’m doing movement. Any help on where to normalize or whatnot would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

                float accelRate_x;
				float accelRate_y;

				accelRate_x = (Mathf.Abs(targetSpeed_x) > 0.01f) ? runAccelAmount : runDeccelAmount;
				accelRate_y = (Mathf.Abs(targetSpeed_y) > 0.01f) ? runAccelAmount : runDeccelAmount;
				
				float speedDif_x = targetSpeed_x - rigid_body.velocity.x;
				float speedDif_y = targetSpeed_y - rigid_body.velocity.y;

				float movement_x = speedDif_x * accelRate_x;
				float movement_y = speedDif_y * accelRate_y;

				Vector2 final_movement = new Vector2(movement_x, movement_y);

				rigid_body.AddForce(final_movement, ForceMode2D.Force);
2

You should have one speed value, a float, which is how fast you want to go, then after you have the direction set in a vector, you normalize that vector, meaning it has a length of 1 but still points in the same direction, then you multiply the normalized vector by speed.

3

You should have one speed value, a float, which is how fast you want to go, then after you have the direction set in a vector, you normalize that vector, meaning it has a length of 1 but still points in the same direction, then you multiply the normalized vector by speed.