Automatic Movement

Unity Engine
1

Hello,

I am making my very first game in Unity 2d. At the moment my game consists of 2 walls a floor, a ceiling, and a square which represents the character. After watching some tutorials I have created a C# character controller script which at the moment let’s my player jump. Now that I can make the square jump, my next goal is to make the character move without having to press any buttons or making it think a button is being pressed.

Question:

How do I make my square move to the right automatically without any input from the user?

Current Code:

usingUnityEngine;
usingSystem.Collections;

publicclassSquareControllerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
boolgrounded = false;
publicTransformgroundCheck;
floatgroundRadius = 0.2f;
publicLayerMaskwhatIsGround;
publicfloatjumpForce = 700f;

voidStart ()
{

}

voidFixedUpdate()
{
grounded = Physics2D.OverlapCircle (groundCheck.position, groundRadius, whatIsGround);

}

voidUpdate()
{
if (grounded && Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.Space))
{
rigidbody2D.AddForce(newVector2(0,jumpForce));
}
}
}

2

Rigidbody2d.velocity = new vector2(speed * time.deltaTime, 0)

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@SubZeroGaming_1
Thanks for the reply. I ended up coding it in this way before I saw your reply. I’ll give your suggestion a try as well.
rigidbody2D.velocity = newVector2(2, 0);

4

without the deltatime your movement is directly tied to the frame rate, faster device => faster in game movement.

using a variable rather than a set value (2 in this case) gives you a bit more freedom to tweak and change, and have the speed alterable via other scripts.

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