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Question by Chocolade · Sep 24, 2017 at 10:10 AM · c#scripting problemscript.

Why the spaceship is moving forward and not up ?

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class Landing : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public float speed = 3.0f;
     public Vector3 direction = Vector3.up;
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start ()
     {
 
     }
     
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update ()
     {
         transform.Translate(direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);
     }
 }
 

Vector3.up is (0, 1, 0) and 1 is the y so it should move up slowly but instead it's moving forward. What am i missing here ?

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if you click on the object with move tool those the green arrow pointing in the direction you want to move the object?

avatar image Chocolade Positive7 · Sep 24, 2017 at 10:26 AM 0
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I did a test. The z axis is changing up/down not the y (0,0,1)

avatar image navot Chocolade · Sep 24, 2017 at 11:53 AM 0
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Transform.translate by default works in the local coordinate system. You can change this by adding the Space.World parameter, and it should work fine.

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Seems like this is a camera problem. It's likely that in your camera view "up" is actually Z (or perhaps X) coordinate. You could just try to change the direction to Vector3.forward and see if that solves it.

avatar image Chocolade Twistorian · Sep 24, 2017 at 10:38 AM 0
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I did something else now. If i'm using Lerp then up will move the spaceship up.

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class Landing : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public Vector3 startPos;
     public Vector3 endPos;
     public float distance = 30f;
     public float lerpTime = 5;
     public float currentLerpTime = 0;
 
     // Use this for initialization
     void Start ()
     {
         startPos = transform.position;
         endPos = transform.position + Vector3.up * distance;
     }
 
     // Update is called once per frame
     void Update()
     {
         currentLerpTime += Time.deltaTime;
 
         if (currentLerpTime >= lerpTime)
             currentLerpTime = lerpTime;
 
         float Perc = currentLerpTime / lerpTime;
         transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPos, endPos, Perc);
     }
 }
 

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Answer by tormentoarmagedoom · Sep 24, 2017 at 01:42 PM

Hello @Chocolade !

Is the spaceship a children of another object?

Is the object Rotated?

Is the script in the "oldest" gameobject (children-parent)?

Give more info.

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