2D Top-Down Movement

[floral scarab]

movement.x is like velocity.x right?

If the movement isn’t super small, I think it’s safe to use > .5

[mild quail]

i think when the player is moving full speed they are at 1

you can see in this video!

the second and third values on the bottom left are horizontal and vertical

[floral scarab]

Do you have a >= 0 somewhere?

Also I think it’s float precision again

if movement > 0.01 might be too small

[mild quail]

Okay so maybe I'll try my old solution but with 0.5

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

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float movementSpeed;
    public Rigidbody2D rigidBody;
    private Vector2 moveDirection;
    public float speedModifier;
    public Animator animator;
    public int directionFacing; // 0-7 (N, NE, E...)
    public float dirToSet = 1;
    public float lastX = 1;
    public float lastY = 1;


    void Update()
    {
        ProcessInputs();

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"),Input.GetAxis("Vertical"),0.0f);

        animator.SetFloat("Horizontal",movement.x);
        animator.SetFloat("Vertical",movement.y);
        animator.SetFloat("Magnitude",movement.magnitude);

        animator.SetBool("IsIdle",rigidBody.velocity.x == 0 && rigidBody.velocity.y==0);

        // dirToSet = Direction(movement.x,movement.y) == 0 ? dirToSet : Direction(movement.x,movement.y);

        // animator.SetFloat("Direction",dirToSetA/8);
        
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Move();
    }

    void ProcessInputs()
    {
        float moveX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float moveY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        moveDirection = new Vector2(moveX, moveY).normalized;
    }

    void Move() 
    {
        float trueSpeed = (float)(movementSpeed * (Input.GetKey("left shift") ? 1.5 : 1));
        animator.speed = (float)(Input.GetKey("left shift") ? 1.5 : 1);
        rigidBody.velocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * trueSpeed, moveDirection.y * trueSpeed);
    }

    // public float Direction(float x, float y) 
    // {
    //     return ((((Bmult(x>0,y==0))* 1) + (Bmult(x>0,y>0))* 2) + ((Bmult(x==0,y>0))* 3) + ((Bmult(x<0,y>0))* 4) +((Bmult(x<0,y==0))* 5) + ((Bmult(x<0,y<0))* 6) + ((Bmult(x==0,y<0))* 7) +((Bmult(x>0,y<0))* 8));
    // }
    // 
    // public int Bmult(bool x, bool y)
    // {
    //     return (x ? 1 : 0)*(y ? 1 : 0);
    // }
}

this is my current code for the player movement plus what it sends to the animator

I will add those limits and let you know how that goes

lastX = (float)(movement.x < 0.5 && movement.x > -0.5 ? 0.5*Math.Sign(movement.x) : movement.x);
lastY = (float)(movement.y < 0.5 && movement.y > -0.5 ? 0.5*Math.Sign(movement.y) : movement.y);

animator.SetFloat("Horizontal",lastX);
animator.SetFloat("Vertical",lastY);

so this makes the minimum of each 0.5/-0.5

or it should.. :/

somehow, I have no idea how, it sets it to zero still

[floral scarab]

I think you should just change the if statement to > .5 and < .5 and leave it at that

Unless the player can do a .4 movement it’ll detect movement and shouldn’t think it has to face either right or left on idle

Don’t try making the minimum value .5, but try making the detection a minimum of .5 if that makes sense

[mild quail]

so like this?

if(movement.x < -0.5 || movement.x > 0.5) {
  animator.SetFloat("Horizontal",movement.x);
}

[floral scarab]

Yep

[floral scarab]

Also how are you deciding which side to face based on the float?

[mild quail]

caused some new jank but it seems to store the direction a litttttlee bit better

[floral scarab]

How does the animator know whether to face right or left?

[floral scarab]

Ahh ok

[floral scarab]

Seems like now it can’t tell the cardinal directions but seems to work although it defaults to up on idle

[mild quail]

side note do you like my sign interaction animation lol

i wonder if it would help for me to move the positions of where the animations start closer to the middle? i doubt it though

[floral scarab]

You could try

[floral scarab]

I think it’s a bit to zigzaggy when it turns but yeah I like it for the most part

[mild quail]

i think so too, the black pixels on the corners are a lil jank

yeah moving them didn't seem to work :/

it's not working because when the vertical is locked to 0.5 minimum, it can't be 0, so there will always be some vertical movement, so he moves at a diagonal

if i were to make it so it could be zero it would basically put me back to square one

[floral scarab]

Aww rip

Hmm what if you revert vertical back to what you had earlier but keep horizontal to fix the right facing problem

Actually idk