Quote: "Anyhow, I've tried moving the X, I've tried them all. I cannot achieve the top-down view with any of the character entities I have loaded in. They seem to either go, left-right, forward-backward, rotate and the Z-Axs rotates the object around it's center point that is it."
You can see how I achieved a top down view in picture below. If this still doesn't work, it could be from the way your objects were exported from your modeling program. If this is the case, email me one of the models you're attempting to use(assuming you have the rights to redistribute it) and I can take a closer look at it.
Sean