My car is going too fast

Novice164 · August 23, 2022, 4:37pm

I wrote everything the same, but my car flies off the screen and goes very fast. Can anyone help me see what I did wrong?
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Driver : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] float steerSpeed = 1f;
[SerializeField] float moveSpeed = 0.01f;
void Start()
{

}

void Update()
{
    float steerAmount = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    transform.Rotate(0, 0, steerAmount);
    transform.Translate(0,moveSpeed,0);
}
}

Nina · August 23, 2022, 5:16pm

Hi Novice164,

Welcome back to our community!

If you have a fast computer, it might be that the car is super fast because the Update method gets executed each frame. Each frame, your code moves the car by 0.01f World Units (WU). If you have a framerate of, for example, 200, your car would move 0.01 x 200 WU per second.

In the next video (“Using Time.deltaTime()”), we make the code framerate-independent. Please keep watching.