Player moving at different speeds depending on axis

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Ok so I have implemented A* pathfinding on a isometric Y as Z tilemap. I use the algorithm to make a Stack which is my path, then I peek the first item an move towards it. Once there or basically there (I am using a distance check to see when I am very close (0.005f) to my destination) then I set my position as the target position, pop the stack and loop. I loop until the stack(path) is empty. This all works as expected but while moving my player the travel speed between tiles is either normal (what I expect) along the x axis, or almost instantaneous when traveling along the y axis. Just to be extra clear when I say X axis, it is the GRIDS x axis. As this is an isometric y as z map the x axis is diagonal (upper left to lower right) and the y axis is the opposite (lower left to upper right). I am using this code to do the move…

public void Move()
    {
        if (path.Count > 0)
        {
            Vector3Int target = path.Peek();

            if (Vector3.Distance(tilemap.WorldToCell(transform.position), target) >= 0.005f)
            {
                transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, tilemap.CellToWorld(target), 1f * Time.deltaTime);
            }
            else
            {
                transform.position = tilemap.CellToWorld(target);
                Debug.Log(path.Count);
                Debug.Log(path.Peek());
                path.Pop();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("Path Empty");
        }
    }

All the debugging spits out the expected data such as path count, target location, transform location, etc… and I check this every tile moved and it always correct in pointing at the next tile. But for some reason unknown to me, the player moves properly along the x axis (slides slowly from tile to tile) then along y axis almost teleports super fast from tile to tile. If anyone has run into this before or has any ideas I would love to hear from you. Cheers

2

Well I figured it out…kinda. If I use world coordinates right from the start instead of converting from tilemap coordinates to world coordinates, it seems to work just fine. Same movement speed in all directions. I still have no idea why it was doing different movement speeds on the x and y axis with grid coordinates but whatever…its working. Here’s what I changed.

if (path.Count > 0)
        {
            Node n = path.Peek();
            Vector3 target = n.worldPosition;

            if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target) >= 0.005f)
            {
                transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, 2f * Time.deltaTime);
            }
            else
            {
                transform.position = target;
                path.Pop();
            }
       }

If anyone actually figures out why it was being funky with grid coordinates I would love to hear why just out of curiosity.