Sphere can jump, but doesn't stop.

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I have a sphere (that I’m using like the character) it moves around with this code:

public float speed;

	void FixedUpdate ()
	{
		float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
		float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

		Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);

		rigidbody.AddForce(movement * speed * Time.deltaTime);
	}

and that work perfectly. But I wanted to be able to jump. I tried out a couple of jumping scripts I found online, but had the same problem with both: Once I pressed the spacebar my sphere would jump and not stop. It just kept jumping up and down. I think this is because it didn’t know when it had landed, maybe?

Could someone give me some C# code to add to my script that will make it jump once?

Thanks!

2

in thispost you can find out if the player is grounded (touching the ground) or not. Only allow the player to jump if touching the ground is true.

The charactercontroller has a build in function for this, which is why it’s so commonly used. A rigidbody is mostly used for interaction objects, but it is possible :slight_smile: