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Question by Arkonali · Jun 11, 2020 at 09:43 PM · movementgameobjectscripting beginner

Have a GameObject to move only horizontally and not vertically

Hi, so i'm doing a Sokoban like game, with boxes being pushed and all, and i want one kind of boxes to be pushable only horizontally, not vertically, my boxes are not using boxcollider2D, i'm moving them by using this code on their script :

  public class OrangeBox : MonoBehaviour
  {
      public bool Move(Vector2 direction)
      {
          if (OrangeBoxBlocked(transform.position, direction))
          {
              return false;
          }
          else
          {
                  transform.Translate(direction);
                  return true;
           }
      }
  
      bool OrangeBoxBlocked(Vector3 position, Vector2 direction)
      {
          Vector2 newPos = new Vector2(position.x, position.y) + direction;
          GameObject[] walls = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Wall");
          foreach (var wall in walls)
          {
              if (wall.transform.position.x == newPos.x && wall.transform.position.y == newPos.y)
              {
                  return true;
              }
          }
          GameObject[] blueboxes = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("BlueBox");
          foreach (var box in blueboxes)
          {
              if (box.transform.position.x == newPos.x && box.transform.position.y == newPos.y)
              {
                  return true;
              }
          }
          return false;
      }
  }

With my player having this script :

  public class Player : MonoBehaviour
  {
      public bool Move(Vector2 direction)
      {
          if (Mathf.Abs(direction.x) < 0.5)
          {
              direction.x = 0;
          }
          else
          {
              direction.y = 0;
          }
  
          direction.Normalize();
          if (Blocked(transform.position, direction))
          {
              return false;
          }
          else
          {
              transform.Translate(direction);
              return true;
          }
  
      }
  

I'm new to programming so please explain as much as you can on how to do it, and if you need more information feel free to ask. Thanks in advance ! :)

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