Answer by OneMadSquid

Excellent advice with the debug code. I am still a newb and I often forget how useful debug.log and such can be. Also, I found this: http://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/8566 Thinking I might be able to reverse engineer the controller script from this? As for the code above not applying a force to the rigid body, I thought that applying force was the only way to move one. I came to understand that transform does not work with a physics based game object. The code above implies that force has been applied by referencing velocity, yes? You can't have velocity without applying an external force. Am I way off?