Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Using all three dees

Now that we know how to track the mouse left and right with the paddle, it's not a huge leap of logic to make our paddle track the y position of the mouse, and translate it into z coordinates. Remember that we're working with two different planes here:

• The flat, two-dimensional plane of the computer screen
  • Horizontal X-axis
  • Vertical Y-axis
  • Origin point (0, 0) at the bottom-left of the screen
• The deep, three-dimensional intersecting planes of our game world
  • Horizontal X-axis
  • Vertical Y-axis
  • Deep Z-axis
  • Origin point (0, 0, 0) in the middle of the world where the three planes meet
  

We're going to track the y movement of the mouse, and map ...