This player movement controller script can be applied to your player object to gain movement control in a 2D platform world.
It has a variable jump dependent on how long you hold down your mapped jump button, and handles throws an onLand() event when hitting the ground.
Allows for a gamepad to be connected and swapped over to gamepad controls, and back to keyboard controls when disconnected.
- 2D Platformer Controller
- Using Unity's new input system to button map jump and horizontal movement.
- Well rounded feel good jump
- Gamepad/Keyboard Hot-swappable input
- Throws
onLand()event - Ability to chose what ground is
- Variable jump time, run speed and jump force
- Contains movement smoothing
This character controller script can be applied to your player object to control movement.
To use this movement controller, you must use Unity's new Input System, which you can follow these instructions to install.
You then must create a Gameplay node, with mappings for Jump and Horizontal.
The Jump mapping should handle keyboard and gamepad input, whereas the Horizontal input just needs to handle gamepad input. They are called in this controller by using _controls.Gameplay.Jump and _controls.Gameplay.Horizontal.
You will need to create a RigidBody2D component on the same object.
Additionally, you will need to select which masks are consider "ground" by selecting them on the ground serialized variable on the script component in Unity. Additionally, you will need to create an empty object on your player object called Soundcheck at the "feet" of your player object. This will need to be passed into the script component under the serialized field groundCheck in Unity.
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