About 'Move Player Horizontally'!

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#1

In this video (objectives)…

  1. Create Player class.
  2. Import CrossPlatformInput.
  3. Move the player's RigidBody horizontally.

After watching (learning outcomes)…

Move the player horizontally using CrossPlatformInput.

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#2

Why are we using CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis exactly? Can’t you just use Input.GetAxis for the same effect, while not having to import a bunch of assets? I must be missing something here.

#3

Yep, you can use other ways. The reason we use the CrossPlatformInputManager is so that we can build the foundations for a game that could be on any platform (ie. mobile, something with a controller, etc). The CrossPlatformInputManager creates a layer between what the player inputs, and what the game does, so that we dont have to write unique code for every type of input device.

Hope this helps.

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#4

Hello,

are we going to put Rigidbody(Physics) into FixedUpdate later?

Thanks.

#5

Yes, that has been the plan. I was waiting until we hit issues with our game so that we could see some cause and effect, but with our current implementation we haven’t hit any issues.

I certainly have this topic on my radar, thanks for the reminder.

#6

Cool, thanks for the input.
And that’s certainly a good way to learn.

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#7

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was a relatively easy way (or perhaps this was covered somewhere else in the course, I’ve skipped around a bit) to add buttons for the player’s movement and jumping instead of key presses? The script in the course for player movement is written for key presses. Is it possible to add a MobileUI Canvas with buttons that links to the keys in the Cross Platform Input Manager (i.e., OnButtonDown = right arrow key press)?

#8

Hello, I am having a problem with visual studio in regards to this “move player horizontal” lecture. I have noticed this problem before, but was ignoring it until now.
When you type out a variable type such as ‘int num = 1;’ ‘int’ is in blue lettering signifying that visual studios accepts that as a variable type.
However, with this lecture, typing out Rigidbody2D remains in black lettering–it does not give me a visual studio error–but when I go back to Unity, I get this error message:
Assets/Player.cs(9,5): error CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘Rigidbody2D’ could not be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?
I have basic knowledge with java and c# appears to work similarly, is that error telling me that Rigidbody2D does not exist as a variable type? Do i need to import something?

Unity 2018.1.6f1 Personal
Visual Studio 2017

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-Michael

#9

I solved my problem…RigidBody2D vs Rigidbody2D. Capitalized ‘b’ in body. The text remains black, but the error is gone. Hopefully it will work now.

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#11

Well, I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle on this one. When I click on ‘Assets>Import Packages’ I don’t have the option for Cross Platform Input Manager, in fact I don’t have any options other than Custom Package. It was definitely there when I was doing the Argon Assault project, but now it is not. I must have turned something off somewhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks

#12

Open TileVania project, go to asset store, download standard asstets, import it (select only cross platform input elements).

That should work

#13

I think that it will be usefull to sa word or two in this section about [Range()] and [Tooltip()] modificatros.
I write them almost all the time when exposing some variables in editor. It helps futer level desaginers what is what and how to use it :slight_smile:

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#14

Hi.

What is the name of the standard asset I have to download To be able to import this?

#15

The standard assets are called… Drum roll… "Standard Assets" :slight_smile:

Just check that they are the ones created by Unity Technologies.

#16

Thanks Drum roll … " I am Dumb"

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#17

hehehe, not at all, the term “standard assets” gets bounded around a lot and if its not capitalised in text then it doesn’t look so obvious that it’s name. I was just playing :slight_smile:

Here’s a link to them;

Note, you may find it easier to download and import them using the Asset Store window within Unity.

Hope this helps :slight_smile:

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#18

All Set and ready to go ! Thanks Rob

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#19

Fantastic, and no problem, happy to help :slight_smile:

#20

When Continuing the lecture in player.cs

using UnityStandardAssets.CrossPlatformInput; Doesnt get recognized

And in the unity console I got a warning :

PlayerSettings Validation: Requested build target group (17) doesn’t exist; #define symbols for scripting won’t be added.
UnityEditor.PlayerSettings:SetScriptingDefineSymbolsForGroup(BuildTargetGroup, String)

and

Assets/Standard Assets/Editor/CrossPlatformInput/CrossPlatformInputInitialize.cs(36,34): warning CS0618: UnityEditor.BuildTarget.Tizen' is obsolete:Tizen has been removed in 2017.3’

Might this be Outdated? Or Am i Doing it wrong?

#21

There are two sets of Standard Assets on the Asset Store, one is for version 4.6 of Unity I believe, which did you download?

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