How To Disable Diagonal Movement, or How To Normalise Diagonal Movement?

[rocketeatsburger]

Hey forum!

I’m a beginner with UE5, like TOTAL beginner, only know what a few of the nodes actually do and am otherwise relying on tutorials for programming! This is bad, I know, I’m working on it, back to the topic!

I’m making a 2D topdown game, and I’m having this issue where diagonal movement is faster than up/down/left/right? I either want to disable diagonal movement, or normalise my diagonal movement (would prefer to normalise diagonal movement, but I’m open to other solutions.)

Provided screenshots of what I’m working with, let me know if there’s anything else you need!

Reminder that I have no clue what half these nodes do, and I’m mainly a visual learner. As much as text replies are appreciated, screenshots showing what my event graph should look like are much better for me as a beginner! (Even better if you can explain what everything does!)

[SupportiveEntity]

Hey there @rocketeatsburger! Here’s a thread that has tons of possible solutions, though the post I’m linking actually just normalizes the vector, there are some other creative ways to go about it, I’d recommend keeping it simple:

Character Moves Faster Diagonally... How to fix please?

this is the solution my friend, grab the movement axis, make em a vector and normalize that vector, that way both axis are comunicating to each other and making the resultant vector lenght of 1, from there, grab the axis and use that as the scale, here is my code, have in mind that i have a division to dampen a little bit the force, but u should be able to remove that and still be ok [solution]