How do you specify separate horizontal and vertical movement speeds?

So I'm looking at the project example for the "Isometric 2D Environments with Tilemap" blog and when I tested the example character, it didn't move along the isometric axis correctly. This can be fixed by simply specifying a faster horizontal movement speed while keeping the vertical at default. Thing is, I don't know anything about creating new code or adding new lines of code to existing scripts. The best I can do is edit existing lines of code at the moment, it's a slow learning process for me.

The character uses two scripts, IsometricPlayerMovementController.cs and IsometricCharacterRenderer.cs.

I tried looking up tutorials and threads about this, but I haven't found a single thing. If anyone can help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

IsometricPlayerMovementController.cs:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class IsometricPlayerMovementController : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.  
8.     public float movementSpeed = 1f;
9.     IsometricCharacterRenderer isoRenderer;
10.  
11.     Rigidbody2D rbody;
12.  
13.     private void Awake()
14.     {
15.         rbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
16.         isoRenderer = GetComponentInChildren<IsometricCharacterRenderer>();
17.     }
18.  
19.  
20.     // Update is called once per frame
21.     void FixedUpdate()
22.     {
23.         Vector2 currentPos = rbody.position;
24.         float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
25.         float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
26.         Vector2 inputVector = new Vector2(horizontalInput, verticalInput);
27.         inputVector = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(inputVector, 1);
28.         Vector2 movement = inputVector * movementSpeed;
29.         Vector2 newPos = currentPos + movement * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
30.         isoRenderer.SetDirection(movement);
31.         rbody.MovePosition(newPos);
32.     }
33. }
34.  

 

multiply on each axis separately.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. public class IsometricPlayerMovementController : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public float movementSpeed = 1f;
7.     IsometricCharacterRenderer isoRenderer;
8.     Rigidbody2D rbody;
9.     private void Awake()
10.     {
11.         rbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
12.         isoRenderer = GetComponentInChildren<IsometricCharacterRenderer>();
13.     }
14.     // Update is called once per frame
15.     void FixedUpdate()
16.     {
17.         //Vector2 currentPos = rbody.position;
18.         Vector2 inputVector = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
19.         inputVector = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(inputVector, 1);
20.        // Vector2 movement = inputVector * movementSpeed;
21.         inputVector.x *= horizontalMovementSpeed ;
22.         inputVector.y *= vecticalMovementSpeed ;
23.         //Vector2 newPos = rbody.position + inputVector * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
24.         isoRenderer.SetDirection(inputVector); // .normalized maybe?
25.         rbody.MovePosition(rbody.position + inputVector * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
26.     }
27. }

Something like this should do it, no need for all that extra variables, it's wasted GC time.
also, i found that using transform.position instead of the rigidbody.position is a lot cheaper in terms of overhead and returns the same values. (tested on 5.6, may have changed by now)