# Wheels move sidewards (x-axis) instead of moving forward

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/wheels-move-sidewards-x-axis-instead-of-moving-forward/316716>\
**Category:** Community & Industry Discussion\
**Tags:** wheels, moving, direction, wrong, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [April 28, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/wheels-move-sidewards-x-axis-instead-of-moving-forward/316716 "2015-04-28T13:54:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sjors\_Jessen\_2](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Sjors\_Jessen\_2](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Sjors_Jessen_2)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/wheels-move-sidewards-x-axis-instead-of-moving-forward/316716/1 "2015-04-28T13:54:56Z")

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Hi Guys,

Currently I am developing a Wheelchair Simulator in Unreal Engine.  
I’ve developed the wheelchair in Maya and gave it some joints as can be seen it this tutorial: [Vehicle Modeling/Rigging Tutorial in Maya for Unreal Engine 4 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yrHqMBynlw)

Even though I’ve done this a couple of times before, my wheelchair just doesn’t seem to work properly. Instead of moving forward (when using W), it’s moving sideways (on the X-axis). I’ve made an animation blueprint, and it seems that the wheels are using Pitch instead of Roll. I am not sure, but this might be due to the fact that UE4 imported the model (from Maya) wrong, and its sideways moving is in fact ‘forward moving’. However, I am not sure, because steering the wheels works just fine.

My problem can be seen here: [Wheelchair sideways movement (X-axis) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMb6n3YaDKQ&feature=youtu.be)

Any help would be lovely!

Kind regards.

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**Author:** ![Sjors\_Jessen\_2](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Sjors\_Jessen\_2](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Sjors_Jessen_2)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/wheels-move-sidewards-x-axis-instead-of-moving-forward/316716/2 "2015-04-29T11:26:51Z")

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I’ve already solved the problem.

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**Author:** ![Pablo25N](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@Pablo25N](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Pablo25N)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/wheels-move-sidewards-x-axis-instead-of-moving-forward/316716/3 "2016-12-24T19:18:09Z")

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How did you solve it??