How to move my object while the GUI button is being pressed?

Unity Engine
1

Hi! I’m a beginner and I’m making my first game for android. I’ve my character and I’m using 3 buttons to move left, right and jump. I want to hold the button to move but onPointerDown() which I put on the buttons not working as I expected. Here is some code :

moving Left: which I’m triggering with onPointerDown() event on my button

 public  void movL()
    {
        ismov = true;
        if (ismov)
        {
            rb.velocity = Vector2.left * 2f;
        }
        else
        {
            rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
        }
    }

stop moving, which I’m calling at onPointerup()

public void stopmov()
    {
        ismov = false;
    }

What I’m doing wrong?
Or Is there any other method to move while the button is being pressed like any other android game?

2

You shouldn’t have ismov being set within. That’ll cause the if statement to be true every time. Scope of Variables in C# - GeeksforGeeks

3

The problem is my character can walk normally with simple one click, but that’s not what I want. Like the keyboard I want him to walk as long as the key is being pressed. How to do that ??

4

Without looking at your code, all I can do is speculate. I’d do something like:

//Left pointer 
void moveLeft()
    {
           rb.velocity = Vector2.left;
    }

Then have moveLeft() called on button’s OnPointerDown event.

5

That’s what I did. he even moved but not continuously as I expected… That’s the thing