Smooth movement using Rigidbody2d

[Ellior]

Hi everyone!
Trying to make my objects in 2d game move smoothly, but they are moving jerky. Using unity answers i’ve made:

1. Edit ->project settings → Time: fixed timestep and maximum allowed timesetp is 0.0166666

2. Used only atlases, so the number of draw calls in scene is now about 5-6.

3. Fps in scene is now about 1200-1500.

4. Tried to use transform.position,transform.translate,rigidbody2d.addforce,rigidbody2d.velocity,etc. The same result.

5. Tried to use Update,FixedUpdate,LateUpdate,Coroutines.

6. Vsync is turned off.
   But still one time per second there’is a small “freeze” in a screen. The same problem on Android device. Here’s a simple script:

   public float shark_speed = 1;
   
   public float left_turn_range = -5;
   public float right_turn_range = 5;
   float leftBorder, rightBorder, coord;
   int flag = 1;
   

   public GameObject shark,left_border_obj,right_border_obj;
   int i = 1;
   private Vector3 cameracoords_right_corner, camera_coords_left_corner,vector_direction,pos;
   public Rigidbody2D rigbody;

   // Use this for initialization
   void Start()
   {
   
       rightBorder = right_border_obj.transform.position.x;
       camera_coords_left_corner = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0, 1, 0));
       leftBorder = left_border_obj.transform.position.x;
       rigbody.velocity = new Vector2(shark_speed,0);
   
   
       pos = new Vector3(rightBorder, this.transform.position.y, 0);
   
   }
   
   
   // Update is called once per frame
   void FixedUpdate()
   {
    
       rigbody.velocity = new Vector2(rigbody.velocity.x, 0);
     
   }
   

   void Update()
   {
   coord = transform.position.x;

       if (transform.position.x >= rightBorder)
       {
          
           rigbody.velocity = new Vector2(-rigbody.velocity.x, 0);
           transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0);
     if (transform.rotation.y > 180)
               transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
       }
       if (transform.position.x <= leftBorder)
       {
           flag = 1;
   
   
           transform.Rotate(0, -180, 0);
   
           rigbody.velocity = new Vector2(-rigbody.velocity.x, 0);
     
   
       }
   }
   

What am i doing wrong? Thx for any tips.

[EvilSam]

i suspect one of two reasons for this:

First, the easy way, open profiler window and see if there is a hiccup like these:

if so, then you can see what is causing this hiccup by clicking on these peaks, and continue from there.

Second, the most likely, there are a few things to correct in the code posted above:

1. when dealing with physics always use FixedUpdate, I don’t consider it a good practice to split that code into Update and FixedUpdate
2. Why do you assign rigbody.velocity to itself in FixedUpdate? is it to reset y component? if so i think you just need to add a constraint to the rigid body instead.
3. the checks in Update will be executed many times in between fixed updates when the frame rate is higher than fixed frame rate, so when you exceed the right border, you negate the velocity vector, and then before physics update is executed, update will be executed again, negating the velocity vector again, restoring it to it’s original value, and this sort of behavior makes it possible for your object to stick just outside the right edge for undefined time. to solve that try checking the sign of rigbody.velocity.x before negating.

so instead of

if (transform.position.x >= rightBorder)

try

if (transform.position.x >= rightBorder && rigbody.velocity.x > 0)

[jmonasterio]

Maybe see this:

Unity - Scripting API: Rigidbody2D.interpolation

[Uberlion]

well… You and i clearly have different ideas of simple movement scripts, take an example:

public float speed = 1234;

void FixedUpdate()
{
float input = Input.GetAxis(“Verticl”);

Getcomponent().AddForce(gameObject.transform.up * speed * input);
}

^ as far as i know, it moves up and down relevant to the character. So wherever the front of the character is facing it goes forward. I think… might want to have a look at the script first.

Try messing with that and adding in a turning script, it worked fine for me. i added some Linear Drag myself though, prevents sliding.

Unless you’re looking for something entirely different. In which case ignore me. I’m pretty nooby anyway.

EDIT: Almost forgot, it’s the sides that are making your script go screwy. Can’t be bothered to learn why.