2D Player Movement In Unity (2024)

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

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

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. 🎉

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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);
}

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!

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.

bippity boopity your code is now my property

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

Simple, quick & elegant. Nice!

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

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.

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

I have watched tons of tutorials, best one yet

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

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

underrated channel, hopefully unity notices you someday

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

Very nice and simple.

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

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

Thank you bendux. The video helped me so much.

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

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?

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

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

You explained this well. also it works. thanks!

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 :)

Nicely Explained. Thank you so much!

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.

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;
}
}
}

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.

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

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

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

Very well explained, thanks a lot!!

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

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

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

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

this help out a ton thanks man

i can't jump

The old input system is not worth using anymore.

Great as always!

Thank you so much, this tutorial was very helpful!

Literaly the most difficult to understand tutorial

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

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

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

Best unity tutorial i havrme ever seen 10/10

This helped heaps thank you so much

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

Thanks !! I love your video.

Your tutorial is great ♥

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.

that is helping me a lot man tnx

Danke, hat problemlos geklappt!

thank you so much ,without you i would still be stuck in how to move it .
you've got a sub

Unity is so cool and nice video man :]

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

thx this was really useful and it works for me

Really helpful tutorial thanks :)

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

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

Thanks bro helps alot

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

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

Its better to use a trigger colider instead of an empty object to check for grounded so you can change the width

Very Good tutorial
❤

Thank you very much!

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

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

this'll come in handy

Nice job bro 😀❤️

Best youtube channel in town

thanku! its a good movement script

Hippity Hoppity Your Code Is Now My Property - "Apleker"

I love love love your video it helped me allot, but I have one question how do you change spacebar to up arrow for jump?

THANK YOU SO MUCH !

Thank you so much! :DDDD

Very nice tutorial

Thanks. Realy helped

Understandable and easy.

Thanks for teaching us in dark mode

This helped me alot and I even somehow got my player to infinite jump like flappy bird. Definitally a win

I really appreciate to you that created this video cause it's helpful for beginners like me

Love this Tutorial! but is there a way to change the keys that control movement? I want to change the space button to the W key to jump.

thanks for the tutorial

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

thank you alot you helped me

if you get ur player to an edge of a platform it won't be able to jump bc the ground check under the player is in the middle and doesn't cover the entire size

this was good thanks

Thx bro you areamazing thx you very much!