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zrnorth4 years ago

Hey thanks, I agree the movement is really tricky for me to get right. I used rigidbody2d and set velocity based on RawInput, but this felt really slippery in testing and the player kept flying off the small platforms. I added friction to the player to try to improve this but this leads to all the problems you described like killing momentum after a jump because the hard impact adds a ton of friction force.

How would you recommend implementing the movement? I am not sure what sort of scalars I should change. How do you deal with the "slipperiness" of just getting RawInput?

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WallJumpGames4 years ago

Have you tried watching any brackeys or blackthornprod tutorials on the subject, because they are the unity masters. Although I would recommend them first, here is what I used when making Rb2d physics (I had some issues of the player rotating when they hit an edge, which is the only reason I wouldn’t recommend this, but maybe you can solve this).

I first used Input.GetAxis to find out which key the player was pressing, and then multiplied this by a variable called PlayerSpeed, and I would set the result to be a variable called Movement. This then went into a Vector2, as well as Y, calculated by Rigidbody2d.GetVelocity. This then was used to set player velocity. I did this in Bolt, so you might have to modify some things for code, or change the physics a bit, but this led to quite snappy movement. I hope this helps, at least as a base

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