How to move gameobject with touch on Android [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to make a game where you control a character via touch on Android devices.

The player will have two degrees of movement.

When you touch the touch screen and move your finger, the game object should move to your finger's location and follow your finger as you move it.

Here is an example of what I'm trying to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoqRC8QptzM#t=01m01s (@ 1:02).

I already know I need to use Input.touches.

I've tried using Transform.translate and Vector3.Lerp, neither gave me the results I wanted.

Here is some of the code I've tried using:

#pragma strict

var speed : float = 1;

function Start () {

}

function Update () {
    if (Input.touchCount > 0 && 
        Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Moved) {


        // Get movement of the finger since last frame
        var touchDeltaPosition:Vector2 = Input.GetTouch(0).deltaPosition;

        var touchPosition:Vector3;

        touchPosition.Set(touchDeltaPosition.x, 
                           transform.position.y, 
                           touchDeltaPosition.y);


        // Move object across XY plane
        transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position,
                                                touchPosition, 
                                                Time.deltaTime*speed);
    }

}

Answer 1

I think you need to translate screen to world space.

Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint

Answer 2

I imagine you're working with an ortographic camera. With them, the position of the elements work with the X and Y elements defining the position on screen and the Z element defining its depth.

Check this link on how to use DeltaPosition: Input.GetTouch

Answer 3

The script does the same using Vector3.Lerp and at a constant speed regardless of the distance between the two points..

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class TapToMove : MonoBehaviour {
//flag to check if the user has tapped / clicked. 
//Set to true on click. Reset to false on reaching destination
private bool flag = false;
//destination point
private Vector3 endPoint;
//alter this to change the speed of the movement of player / gameobject
public float duration = 50.0f;
//vertical position of the gameobject
private float yAxis;

void Start(){
    //save the y axis value of gameobject
    yAxis = gameObject.transform.position.y;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {

    //check if the screen is touched / clicked   
    if((Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Began) || (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)))
    {
        //declare a variable of RaycastHit struct
        RaycastHit hit;
        //Create a Ray on the tapped / clicked position
        Ray ray;
        //for unity editor
        #if UNITY_EDITOR
        ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
        //for touch device
        #elif (UNITY_ANDROID || UNITY_IPHONE || UNITY_WP8)
        ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.GetTouch(0).position);
        #endif

        //Check if the ray hits any collider
        if(Physics.Raycast(ray,out hit))
        {
            //set a flag to indicate to move the gameobject
            flag = true;
            //save the click / tap position
            endPoint = hit.point;
            //as we do not want to change the y axis value based on touch position, reset it to original y axis value
            endPoint.y = yAxis;
            Debug.Log(endPoint);
        }

    }
    //check if the flag for movement is true and the current gameobject position is not same as the clicked / tapped position
    if(flag && !Mathf.Approximately(gameObject.transform.position.magnitude, endPoint.magnitude)){ //&& !(V3Equal(transform.position, endPoint))){
        //move the gameobject to the desired position
        gameObject.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(gameObject.transform.position, endPoint, 1/(duration*(Vector3.Distance(gameObject.transform.position, endPoint))));
    }
    //set the movement indicator flag to false if the endPoint and current gameobject position are equal
    else if(flag && Mathf.Approximately(gameObject.transform.position.magnitude, endPoint.magnitude)) {
        flag = false;
        Debug.Log("I am here");
    }

    }
    }

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Answer 4

You can try the following script

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SelectObject : MonoBehaviour {

    // Use this for initialization
    GameObject hitObj;
    RaycastHit hit;
    private float speed = 1;

    void Start () {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update () {
        foreach (Touch touch in Input.touches) {
            switch (touch.phase) {
                case TouchPhase.Began:
                    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (touch.position);
                    if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, 10)) {
                            hitObj = hit.collider.gameObject;
                    }
                    break;
            case TouchPhase.Moved:

                // If the finger is on the screen, move the object smoothly to the touch position          
                float step = speed * Time.deltaTime; // calculate distance to move
                if(hitObj != null)
                    hitObj.transform.position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3 (touch.position.x, touch.position.y, hitObj.transform.position.z));
                break;
            }
        }
    }
}