The New Way for Making a Character Move - New Input System Player Movement - Unity Tutorial

Getting a character to move in your Unity game engine takes some understandment. In this tutorial you will learn how the New Input System works and how you use it to move a 2D character. By combining a Sprite Renderer and a Rigidbody2D we will make moving as simple as possible. This tutorial is focused to be beginner-friendly and explains all the steps that happen.

Building op on this we will animate the character and add colliders in the upcoming episode.

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Timestamps:
00:00​ - Intro
00:35 - Setup the Project
01:19​ - Download the Character
01:43 - Configure the Character Sprite
03:13 - The Player Game Object
03:​53 - Installing the New Input System
04:35 - Define the Controls
06:38 - Updating the Player Components
07:38 - The PlayerMovement Script
11:27 - Moving the Rigidbody (V1)
14:11 - Adding a Speed Variable
16:00 - Changing the Velocity (V2)
17:54 - Using AddForce (V3)
19:05 - Thank you for watching :)

[patrickmbarker]

Your soothing voice makes these tutorials even better. Thanks for your help.

[bkplantnurse]

This is a very clear, concise, and well-organized tutorial. Nice work!

[lucaHardmeier]

I have seen five or six tutorials and this is the only one that follows the Input System docs. Thank you

[thenewaeon]

Just getting started learning game development with Unity. After several hours of trying to get my character moving properly, this video did the trick. Thanks for the great content!

[stenbane]

This is the single tutorial that worked for me and i try to do a characther controller for about 3 months. Everiything works very cool thanks for ur tutorials

[saulolima]

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[BitStudios]

Great tutorial. Everything was well-explained and clear to understand. Thank you for sharing :)

[abelanand]

I literally watched and read a bunch of videos and articles about this and I didn't understand or learn anything until now. Big Cheers to you!

[nutella]

for enyone wondering if it works to this day. it does 100%. this is verry clean!

[maiksrba]

Thank you for the clear tutorial. It's so much fun to try it out with my two children.

[Chaoslava]

Absolutely brilliant, will be trying this today as it looks a much better way to move my character compared to other tutorials I've done.

[scronk]

Thanks for this, I appreciate you showing the three physics movement examples

[mikicerise]

You are MVP Velvary. Thanks for your videos! :D You've got a new subscriber.

[puntalic]

Good clean explaination. I like how you explain 3 way. That was devs can give there game it's own feel...

[teoreat]

Отличное видео, прекрасно всё объяснено и показано :) Жаль, что автор не балует нас новым материалом. В любом случае большое спасибо и успехов :)

[ShayansJourney]

This was incredibly helpful, thank you :)

[carlosrd]

Amazing video. Thank you so much !! This helped me so much

[ventus_dev]

Your tutorial has helped me a lot. You made it very easy to understand. Thank you.

[marcoscastrovasquez]

Nice video, you helped me a lot thank you very much :D

[neilfosteronly]

How does the InputValue value know what is the correct Vector 2 to get? moveDirection = value.Get<Vector2>(); Is it because there is only one Vector2 in the Input Actions?