Making characters move with wasd relative to world and not to camera

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#1

So normally player character moves relative to the orientation and position of the camera. However for my orthogonal game I want to make it easy for the players to move diagonally across the screen with only one key press. How would I do this?

#2

Use a custom movement script like the one @ThanksRoBama made here.

Specifically instead of making the movement directions in world space of the camera. Swap it the axis you want to set it to.

--change the camera CFrame to the CFrame with the axis you want like CFrame.new
local function getWalkDirectionWorldSpace()
	local walkDir = camera.CFrame:VectorToWorldSpace( getWalkDirectionCameraSpace() )
	walkDir *= Vector3.new(1, 0, 1) --Set Y axis to 0

	if walkDir.Magnitude > 0 then --(0, 0, 0).Unit = NaN, do not want
		walkDir = walkDir.Unit --Normalize, because we (probably) changed an Axis so it's no longer a unit vector
	end

	return walkDir
end
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