TOP DOWN MOVEMENT 2D IN UNITY 🎮 | How to Make Top Down Movement in Unity | Learn Unity For Free

Hi everyone! 🙂 Today I will show how to make top down movement in Unity, or how to make top down movement in Unity for beginners. We will also learn how to animate movement through a script, instead of using the Animator, which is much easier.

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00:00:00 - What I have so far
00:02:25 - Player movement (PlayerController)
00:10:44 - Player animations (using code)

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[funkix]

Hi ! This is a great vid thanks !

No offense, but your code looks very complicated and can be refactored a lot using Vector2().normalized method.

Void FixedUpdated() {
rb.velocity = new Vector2(inputHorizontal, inputVertical).normalized * walkSpeed ;
}
With this, no need to set up a speed limiter since is Always returns a vector with magnitude of 1. Meaning Diagonal movement get 1 * walkspeed.
Plus, no need to check IF key is pressed since Input.GetAxisRaw will be 0 to 1 so if no key is pressed nothing in happening anyway right?

Good day to you good sir :)

[jehriko]

I just want to say I've been struggling with this for a while and this video has helped me immensely, thanks for making it!

[twist]

Thanks so much for this! I've been agonizing over using the animator visual representation with transitions and all that jazz and my head's been spinning over a bug I couldn't figure out. I reworked in code and the whole thing feels way simpler now. Thank you! :D

[HullaBiloo]

Hi I was just wondering if there was any way to change it so instead of reverting the player back to the front idle animation you could make it so that the idle animation changes depending on the last input made by the player? Like an Idle_Left animation playing after moving left instead of the player going back to the default and looking down afterwards. Great tutorial by the way!

[phxnix]

I really like the way you explain what each line is actually doing. Makes things make a lot more sense. Have you done anything with the new unity input methods? Feel like they streamline the movement process a lot in some other tutorials I found. Just think you do a much better job of explaining what is actually happening and what various codes do.

[Hamlet]

This is so recent. You are the new generation brackeys my guy. love this!

[sreenjoymodak]

hey! I love your tutorials they are the best tutorials one could ask for! I've already completed the HTML/CSS and the javascript courses. Keep it up!

[stealthyshiroean]

Huh, that is different. I originally was going to skip over this video because I already had a working top-down movement controller for my player. However, I wanted to see how you did it and thought it would be good for the learning process. Didn't expect a state machine! I think a lot of tutorials do talk about using the animator and creating blend trees then manipulating those through the code which is pretty much what I did.

Also, you did bring up a very important point that I forgot about. My character moves too quickly when walking diagonally lol. I'll need to fix that. Thanks for the great tutorial and the different approach!

[xavierromeo]

Hi !
Thank you really much, you helped me a lot.
I reworked your code a little bit to use different idle animations depending on the last direction.
I have a direction integer to store the last direction
And I use switches and cases instead of a bunch of if-statements.

[JustinDunn_IT]

Bro, you are completely underrated. The laymen explanations as you go through for why you do something 100% is how I learn. Sure, maybe code can be refactored like @Don't Blink said, buuut for someone like me (with slight coding history) just trying to get off the ground (and understands the first way you do something is not always the optimal) its a godsend for them.

So thanks.

[serviceallies]

For any fellow nerds who like to make sure the math is precise: to make sure the diagonal movement speed perfectly matches the regular speed, the correct equation is diagonal movement speed times 0.707106. So even .7 is pretty darn close

[LittrellRacing]

Could you show me how, with this code, I could use the flipped variation of the WalkRight animation as a WalkLeft? My tileset only has right animations for walking and attacking, and death. or would it be easier to just add left animations to my tileset?

[erentst]

thanks for the tutorial!! have a great day sir

[wstkevin]

At 21:04 you mean diagonally again right? 😅

[UnstableStrafe]

For fixing the diagonal movements, I'm curious why you used a float instead of normalising the vector?

[Leggl]

What software are you using when you write your code? It just opens notepad for me.

[atharvalangote]

What if we want to keep the character looking in the direction after we stop pressing arrow keys?

[rodrigochan]

muchas gracias master sigue asi muy buenos tus tutos saludos desde mexico

[PinoyGamer]

The Animator tree was supper hard this was easy to follow

[charlieelane]

How would I set up collisions from here so that my player stops walking through trees. I've got it set up on my tile map and have the box collider 2D on my player but no idea how to code it