Why will my player not move and how do I make it follow the mouse?

Hello, I am new to the community here. I have been recently been working on a game where I have a sphere that is the player. I made it so that you could view the player from perfect top down. Unfortunately, when I did this the player stopped moving with WASD keys. I noticed that as soon as I change the Vector3 to not point the CFrame all the way down the character moves again but in a diagonal and inverted way.

Here's my code:

print("Intalized Camera Script")

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local OFFSET = Vector3.new(0, 400, 0)
local FOV = 30

local player = Players.LocalPlayer
local camera = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera

camera.FieldOfView = FOV

local function onRenderStep()
	local character = player.Character
	if character then
		local humanoidRootPart = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		if humanoidRootPart then
			local playerPos = humanoidRootPart.Position
			local cameraPos = playerPos + OFFSET
			camera.CoordinateFrame = CFrame.new(cameraPos, playerPos)
		end
	end
end

RunService:BindToRenderStep("Camera", Enum.RenderPriority.Camera.Value, onRenderStep)

I followed the Roblox Wiki tutorial and modified it to fit my needs. I have been searching for hours for answers. Maybe I am blind and can't read or I am finding nothing.

Basically I need help composing a script that will allow my player to move by following the direction the mouse is pointing on the screen. I am trying to keep my view to be perfectly looking straight down.

Please note that I am new to Lua completely and am not looking to be spoon fed the script. But please be as detailed as possible so I can learn :D.

Thanks!

This script will just automatically move the character towards the mouse, if that’s what you are looking for.

local mouse = game.Players.LocalPlayer:GetMouse()
mouse.Move:Connect(function()
	game.Players.LocalPlayer.Character.Humanoid:MoveTo(mouse.Hit.p)
end)