Top-down: Diagonal Axis looks faster than it should

Unity Engine
1

I have this top-down 2D game & a very simple movement script:

 private void Update()
{
Vector2 targetVelocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
playerRigidBody.velocity = targetVelocity * playerSpeed;
}

(playerSpeed is default 4f, playerRigidBody declared in void Awake())

It works perfectly fine, however, when I am moving diagonal, the character looks faster. As the playerSpeed is 4, I am guessing that, when he is moving diagonals, the playerSpeed is 8 because of x & y combined, both with a value of 4.

So, I decreased the speed to 2 when moving diagonals with another simple script that I can post in a comment if necessary.

But the player looks SO slow now.

How do most games get around this? Should I try the value of 3?

I am sure I could find a number that makes the movement “look right,” but I don’t want to throw around numbers without any guidance, as I want the movement to be consistent.

Thanks.

2

Normalize the vector by adding .normalized on the end.

Vector2 targetVelocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;
3

Jesus Newell, that worked, I didn’t know there was a property for that, thanks a lot!