My character just falls down (face plants)/flips over, how do I make it so it doesn't?

I am really new to making video games, I have never attempted to create a video game or coding. I am making a video game for a school project as I really wanted to do a video game as it seemed like a fun project to do.

I am getting really frustrated as my character falls on the ground on his stomach/back. I don't know how to fix it. If there is anyone who can help me out, that would be awesome, thank you.

 

Hi and welcome @DeVoEditor,

Give us some details. Maybe a screenshot? Please define what "my character" exactly is? Is it an object you have assigned a CharacterController to, or is it some object with RigidBody to which you try to apply force to move it?
Take a screenshot of your Inspector area of your object. Otherwise we might be just guessing.

But I'll make one guess, if your "character" is a GameObject using physics, with a RigidBody and a Collider, you could use Constraints in RigidBody. Lock X and Z, and then your character rotate around those axes, meaning it can only rotate around vertical Y-axis.

It might be worth watching/reading a few tutorials on the topic of basic character movement in Unity. There's tons of those out there.

 

Locking the Z in constraints did it. OMG I love you. You just saved my life, I was getting so frustrated haha. I am sorry for not having that much detail on the problem but it did fix it, thank you so so much.