2D Player Movement In Unity 

This tutorial was very helpful by showing the whole process of making the script that made the character move, Thank you!

as a complete beginner. I did not understand this video very well but after a few weeks of messing around in unity and i can finally understand what is in this video

Fun Fact, if u look at some of the areas on the script window you will notice that the language is in german

Thanks for the awesome 2D movement in Unity tutorial! Super helpful! 👍

God tier tutorial, finally something that is short and works great instead of an 18 min video that bugs out!

This is probably the best programming tutorial I've ever seen. Extremely easy and to the point. And for someone who's done this multiple times in the past, but simply don't want to type it all out again, linking the source code makes everything so much easier.

This is an amazing tutorial! Thank you so much, I really loved this!

If your character is moving left and right but doesn't jump after finishing tutorial you might have missed the point where he moves Ground Check object early in the video closer to players feet and ground. 🎉

bippity boopity your code is now my property

This is incredible, I coded for a while but couldn't get past the basics will watch more

very simple yet satisfying and fun movement, straight to the point video, simply one of best on youtbe

Very nice video, easy to follow! I just feel like you go over some stuff without explanation, which can make it difficult to understand why we do what we do, like Collision Detection, Sleeping mode and interpolate. I have no idea what it means, but I just do as you say and it works :) Great video overall tho! Big props!

that ground checking system is simplistic brilliance, I was stuck for hours trying to think of that and in this moment i am hoping that you're a wizard and it's not just some super simplistic thing everyone has been doing for ages except me

Man thx, did know / thought you cloud just change the velocity in script. Makes everything soooo much easyer and I dont have to fiddle around with AddForce etc. Thank you again man.

Simple, quick & elegant. Nice!

Hey! Just wondering, if we want to animate, what boolean or Float should i use for the transition?

Thank you, this was my first time using C# and this really helped me!

Thank you! I spent over 10 hours trying to do this and you showed me how to in 5 minutes, it's perfect! Just had to be a little careful as you didn't say out loud everything you were saying, but it's otherwise an amazing video, and still up to date! Thanks again!

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm a beginner and this helps alot!

If anyone's wondering why they can't jump, the "jump" key is set to space by default. To change it to something else, here's the code. if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow) && IsGrounded()) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpingPower); } if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.UpArrow) && rb.velocity.y > 0f) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, rb.velocity.y * 0.5f); }

Amazing, I was able to figure it out from the video with only like 2 errors that were extremely easy to solve. Superb video! Now I just gotta figure out how to make magic fist attacks with effects, determine a combo system, and design and figure out how to link side profiles to the player sprite with walking animations.

Very nice and simple.

I have watched tons of tutorials, best one yet

Thank you bendux. The video helped me so much.

Yo, great work here 👏. Don't ever stop and you will be the new brackeys

You explained this well. also it works. thanks!

underrated channel, hopefully unity notices you someday

Love it, I personally like adding a Lerp function for some smoother acceleration and floatier physics, but that’s just my prefrance

Thanks for the great video. I wanted to ask about one thing I'm quite confused about. It seems that you didn't program any horizontal movement keys that need to be pressed down to move, yet you still are able to move. The only key you referenced in the script was jump. How is that possible?

Thanks for this awesome smooth moving video, but can you do 2d enemy ui or shooting?

You literally saved me by making this video, earned a sub

Always good videos! 1k subs let's go!

Here is the script for those who need it using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour { private float horizontal; private float speed = 0f; private float jumpingPower = 16f; private bool isFacingRight = true; [SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rb; [SerializeField] private Transform groundCheck; [SerializeField] private LayerMask groundLayer; // Start is called before the first frame update void Start() { } // Update is called once per frame void Update() { horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && IsGrounded()) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpingPower); } if (Input.GetButtonUp("Jump") && rb.velocity.y > 0f) { rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, rb.velocity.y * 0.5f); } Flip(); } private void FixedUpdate() { rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb.velocity.y); } private bool IsGrounded() { return Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheck.position, 0.2f, groundLayer); } private void Flip() { if ((isFacingRight && horizontal < 0f) || (!isFacingRight && horizontal > 0f)) { isFacingRight = !isFacingRight; Vector3 localScale = transform.localScale; localScale.x *= -1f; transform.localScale = localScale; } } }

For everyone that struggles with the player falling through the ground, Make sure that your ground is not imported from a file but made in the 'Hierarchy'. (if its not imported its grey in the hierarchy otherwise its blue) Good luck!

I like people that actually put code in the despcription :)

Thank you for this video. It helped me a lot!!!

I have a problem with the movement, I added the no friction material to two objects, but after they collide, they start getting stuck on the floor, even after moving and jumping The floor uses tilemap colliders, if that helps Edit: probably solved, I used a composite collider too

hey, great video, everything is working fine but im jumping WAY too high, how can i decrease the jump power?

bro is definitely not a beginner, Very helpful video and thank you

Great as always!

When you'll make a video about how do object follow the player (like Mario, luigi and paper mario in Mario and luigi paper jam), i'll be very happy. Great video, i resolved all my problem with 2d player movement

Your tutorials are the best i gona make a game with those

Thank you so much, this tutorial was very helpful!

thank you so much, sir bendux! it help quite significantly

Very nice tutorial, one thing that I noticed, or if I may have missed, however, is that when I go to jump, the player doesn't have a limit to how many times they can jump in the air. Is there something that I would need to type in to fix that? I noticed that wasn't established in the video, but if anyone has an idea of how to put that in it would mean a lot. I'm a beginner at coding myself, so I'm not too big on this kind of stuff.

i can't jump

Nicely Explained. Thank you so much!

Very well explained, thanks a lot!!

The old input system is not worth using anymore.

Literaly the most difficult to understand tutorial

thanks a lot bro i went to many videos just for this even brackys tutorial didnt work and i tried this love you bro

can we just appreciate that he is still responding to comments! you're awesome!

I struggled with the built-in input manager. No matter what I did it seemed to apply some form of deceleration/acceleration when I moved the player. So instead, I did something similar to you in this video and that fixed it. Nice and snappy movement, just as you'd expect in a 2D game.

Best unity tutorial i havrme ever seen 10/10

Hey! Quick question, how exactly would i make the run/walk a method if possible? Just so that I have a place to add in my audio, dust particles, etc. Cuz I'm new to this whole thing haha

this help out a ton thanks man

This helped heaps thank you so much

Отлично. Я делал подобный урок от другого автора. Персонаж дёргался. А тут всё движется плавно и код выполнен здорово компактно. Настройки физического тела показал как настроить . Спасибо за урок

Your tutorial is great ♥

Unity is so cool and nice video man :]

Thanks !! I love your video.

Thanks so much. Had a lot of trouble with this issue. Sub'd

this'll come in handy

Really helpful tutorial thanks :)

that is helping me a lot man tnx

thx this was really useful and it works for me

Danke, hat problemlos geklappt!

Beautiful. Kinda funny I thought the jump didn't work cause i was pressing w or the up button, but then i realized it was space

Am a noob in c sharp and it worked intantly Thanks man !

THANK YOU! I was strugling with my code for couple hours :D

Very Good tutorial ❤

Nice job bro 😀❤️

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Best youtube channel in town

Thanks bro helps alot

Nice tutorial, the SpriteRenderer Component can also be used, just get the flipX (bool) attribute, instead of using localScale -1.

helped a lot! 👌

Hey! I am wondering how can I stop the player from moving when he hits the edge of the screen? If I just add an if to check the transform.position.x is lower or higher than the value of the edge of the screen, the player just keeps on going without me touching any buttons. Any opinions?

Which button input is used to jump? I know this is a dumb question but I followed the code exactly and tried all buttons on my keyboard but not triggered any sort of jumping action.

thank you so much man also my code was giving me a million errors so i just downloaded code and now it works perfectly 😎

Understandable and easy.

Hey! i got a problem, its saying this in the console: Assets\PlayerMovement.cs(13,30): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'RigidBody2D' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

thanku! its a good movement script

Really helpful!

Thanks for teaching us in dark mode

Thanks man! i had some struggle with the code but after i "Rebuild" it, it worked really nice for me! thanks for you video

@bendux THIS IS THE BEST TUTORIAL EVER!!! I CAN MOVE AND JUMP btw you just earned a sub

Very nice tutorial

With this configuration, do you know how I can affect the velocity in another way because it is defined at each frame? I can't affect the velocity in any other script at all

I understand that if the movement button is pressed down continuously there will be no errors, but doesn't this code have a possibility to miss input when we just pressed for a small time? Because, there is nothing to prevent "horizontal" variable to be updated multiple times between two consecutive "FixedUpdates".

Thank you very much!

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is it possible to assign the properties of the "jump" button to a ui button? I want this code to work with my mobile game

After 3 hours of attempting to figure out why I wasn't able to jump, I found that you need to assign your keys to the "Jump" input in input settings. While horizontal is pre-set, jump is left blank and this left me absolutely baffled until I figured it out.

THANK YOU SO MUCH !

Hi, would't this solution allow jumping mid-air after falling from a platform?

Thank you so much! :DDDD

Thanks. Realy helped

Btw if u are having problems with the rub, ground check and ground layer not appearing then just copy and paste the source code in the description because I had followed all the steps and it wasn’t working but when I copied it the errors got fixed

What buttons do you move left and right on? I can jump but idk how to love left and right