Problem with 2d Character movement.

Questions & Answers
1

The game I am working on features a top-down angle for movement. Anyway, I can’t seem to get the speed of movement to change at all - I’ve tried setting my speed value to 1, 5, 2000, none of which have had an impact on how fast the character moves. I wonder, what am I doing wrong?

As you can see in the code, the movement speed of the character is supposed to change based off of the tile under their feet, but as I can’t even get movement speed to change I’m not sure if this part of the code is working or not.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class CharacterMovementController : MonoBehaviour 
{
	public float speed = 5f; //determines the maximum movement speed of the character.

	void Update()
	{
		Movement ();
	}

	void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
	{
		if (collision.gameObject.name == "Water1")
						speed = 2f;
	}

	void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
	{
		if (collision.gameObject.name == "Water1")
						speed = 5f;
	}

	void Movement()
	{
		if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.A)) 
			transform.Translate (Vector3.left * speed * Time.deltaTime);
		if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.W)) 
			transform.Translate (Vector3.forward * speed * Time.deltaTime);
		if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.D))
			transform.Translate (Vector3.right * speed * Time.deltaTime);
		if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.S)) 
			transform.Translate (Vector3.back * speed * Time.deltaTime);
	}
}
2

I do my left and right movement like this. I think doing it similar would help you.

public string axisName = "Horizontal";
void Update(){
Move (Input.GetAxisRaw (axisName));
}

    //Left and right movement
    	public void Move(float horizontal_input){
    
    		transform.position += transform.right*horizontal_input*speed*Time.deltaTime;
    
    
    	}