Direction of movement issue

Hello I've been following a tutorial on Udemy to create a lego character that moves across the scene and jumps, etc.

Anyways, I've imported the character and obviously I did the blend file associated with the wrong axis or something because the character is backwards. Nevertheless, I went through the tutorial and everything seemed okay until I tested the movement and it seems to move sideways rather than forwards. How can I fix this?

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4. using UnityEngine;
5. using UnityEngine.UI;
6.  
7. public class Player : MonoBehaviour
8. {
9.     private CharacterController controller;
10.     private Animator anim;
11.     private Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
12.  
13.     public float gravity = 20.0f;
14.     public float jumpForce = 10.0f;
15.     public float speed = 50.0f;
16.     public float turnSpeed = 50f;
17.  
18.     public GameObject runFaceVar;
19.     public GameObject jumpFaceVar;
20.     public GameObject idleFaceVar;
21.  
22.     // Start is called before the first frame update
23.     void Start()
24.     {
25.         controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
26.         anim = gameObject.GetComponentInChildren<Animator>();
27.  
28.         runFaceVar = GameObject.Find("/Lego_DrWho_IdleAnimation_noscrewdriver/Armature/Root/Spine 1/Spine 2/Neck/Head/Geo_Face.Run");
29.         jumpFaceVar = GameObject.Find("/Lego_DrWho_IdleAnimation_noscrewdriver/Armature/Root/Spine 1/Spine 2/Neck/Head/Geo_Face.Jump");
30.         idleFaceVar = GameObject.Find("/Lego_DrWho_IdleAnimation_noscrewdriver/Armature/Root/Spine 1/Spine 2/Neck/Head/Geo_Face.Idle");
31.  
32.     }
33.  
34.     // Update is called once per frame
35.     void Update()
36.     {
37.       if (controller.isGrounded && Input.GetKey("up"))
38.         {
39.             anim.SetInteger("AnimPar", 1);
40.             moveDirection = transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * speed;
41.             float turn = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
42.             //we want to turn around the y axis so we'll do that below
43.             transform.Rotate(0, turn * turnSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0);
44.  
45.             runFaceVar.SetActive(true);
46.             idleFaceVar.SetActive(false);
47.             jumpFaceVar.SetActive(false);
48.  
49.         }  
50.         else if (controller.isGrounded)
51.         {
52.             anim.SetInteger("AnimPar", 0);
53.             moveDirection = transform.forward * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * 0;
54.             float turn = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
55.             //we want to turn around the y axis so we'll do that below
56.             transform.Rotate(0, turn * turnSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0);
57.  
58.             runFaceVar.SetActive(false);
59.             idleFaceVar.SetActive(true);
60.             jumpFaceVar.SetActive(false);
61.         }
62.  
63.       if (Input.GetButton("Jump") && controller.isGrounded)
64.         {
65.             anim.SetInteger("AnimPar", 2);
66.             moveDirection.y = jumpForce;
67.  
68.             runFaceVar.SetActive(false);
69.             idleFaceVar.SetActive(false);
70.             jumpFaceVar.SetActive(true);
71.         }
72.  
73.         controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
74.         moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
75.  
76.     }
77. }
78.  

 

try changing tranform.forward to transform.right, or simply rotate the root bone 90 degree.