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AmanoSkullGZ
AmanoSkullGZ

Reputation: 141

Can't make non-smooth movement script in Unity

Since yesterday I started working on a 2D game, and I found a problem when I was making the character movement. I wanted to make the character move left, right, up and down and since I was having a hardtime using the new Unity's Input System, I used the old Input.GetAxis(). My character was moving but I didn't like the smooth movement, I wanted the player to always move at the same speed and to stop in the moment that I released the movement keys. But know I can only make him move a bit everytime I press the keys.

Here's the code:

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class AlternativeController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    bool canMove = true;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
        if (canMove)
        {
            Move();
        }
    }

    void Move()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown("right"))
        {
            transform.Translate(speed, 0, 0);
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("left"))
        {
            transform.Translate(-speed, 0, 0);
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("up"))
        {
            transform.Translate(0, speed, 0);
        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown("down"))
        {
            transform.Translate(0, -speed, 0);
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 647

Answers (1)

Jay
Jay

Reputation: 2946

You can use:

Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

This will use the more portable GetAxis of the old input system, without the smoothing of GetAxis().

Alternatively, as said in the comments, you can replace Input.GetKeyDown() with Input.GetKey() to check if a key is being held.

Upvotes: 2

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