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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Player Input and Cameras Move the Player with Animation

Posted by Steve Burgos
Steve Burgos
2,759 Points

Code Wont Work

ArgumentException: Input Axis Horizantal is not setup. To change the input settings use: Edit -> Project Settings -> Input PlayerMovement.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/PlayerMovement.cs:18)

This is the error I recieve

Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points
Gavin Ralston
Gavin Ralston
28,770 Points

Try if you can to produce the entire stack trace when you're asking for help with errors.

In this case, I'd suggest you look at line 18 and post it here. Or better yet just post the entire Update() method to see if anything strange is going on.

Or really, just the whole PlayerMovement class file :)

2 Answers

Nicholas Wood
Nicholas Wood
268 Points
Nicholas Wood
Nicholas Wood
268 Points

I believe you've spelled 'Horizontal' incorrectly on line 18.

Arman Arutyunov
Arman Arutyunov
21,900 Points
Arman Arutyunov
Arman Arutyunov
21,900 Points

I have the exact same error but I'm pretty sure I haven't misspelled anything

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour {

    private Animator playerAnimator;
    private float moveHorizontal;
    private float moveVertical;
    private Vector3 movement;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {
        playerAnimator = GetComponent<Animator> ();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {
        moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Horizontal");
        moveVertical = Input.GetAxisRaw ("Vertical");

        movement = new Vector3 (moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);
    }

    void FixedUpdate () {
        if (movement != Vector3.zero) {
            playerAnimator.SetFloat ("Speed", 3f);
        } else {
            playerAnimator.SetFloat ("Speed", 0f);
        }
    }
}