Need help with a slight tweak in the player movement of my 2d game

Unity Engine
1

I’ve recently started getting into game development with Unity 5 and C#. I’ve been looking into different things in an attempt to get something made. Right now I’m working on an over head game and currently my character moves up, down, left, right. I decided that I would like him to rotate to the left and right instead of simply moving side to side and then move forward in the direction he is facing.

This is my code for character movement right now:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Player_Movement : MonoBehaviour {

Rigidbody2D rbody;
Animator anim;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {

rbody = GetComponent ();
anim = GetComponent ();
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {

Vector2 movement_vector = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw(“Horizontal”), Input.GetAxisRaw(“Vertical”));

if (movement_vector != Vector2.zero) {
anim.SetBool(“IsWalking”, true);
anim.SetFloat(“Input_X”, movement_vector.x);
anim.SetFloat(“Input_Y”, movement_vector.y);
} else {
anim.SetBool(“IsWalking”, false);
}

rbody.MovePosition (rbody.position + movement_vector * Time.deltaTime);
}
}

I’ve looked into how to do what I would like but have run into confusion. So could someone please help me and explain how to do it.

2

If your character sprite already has an appearance that he is looking right then you would have to rotate it 180 degrees on y-axis when you determine its moving left, then rotate back for right.

If your character has a straight from the back view then you can use GetComponent() to switch out the sprite with one facing the correct direction.