Unity 2D Platformer for Complete Beginners - #2 ANIMATION

In this video we're gonna focus on how to animate a 2D player in Unity. We're upgrade our graphics, create animations and make them work from our code.
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0:00 Intro
0:35 Upgrading Graphics
1:50 Editing our Player
2:55 Flipping Player Left-Right
5:05 Basics of Animation
6:18 Idle Animation
8:15 Run Animation
14:46 Jumping Animation
21:00 Final Result
21:05 Outro

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Hey everyone, thanks for watching. This is my longest video with lots and lots of explanations, I'd like to know if this is what you want to see or you'd like me to do things quicker and explain less. Complete Code: pastebin.com/zLUWBa01

[@petertohme8325]

Keep it like this

[@red2go56]

its a nice video but the code dont work in my game I have the error CS1002

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

@@red2go56 you see me playing in the video, right? Check the code again and if you still don't find it give me more details on the error.

[@red2go56]

@@PandemoniumGameDev ok

[@red2go56]

@@PandemoniumGameDev using UnityEngine; public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] private float speed; [SerializeField] private float jumphight; private Rigidbody2D body; private Animator anim; private bool grounded; private void Awake() { //Grab references for Rigidbody and animator from object body = GetComponent(); anim = GetComponent(); } private void Update () { float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); body.velocity = new Vector2(horizontalInput * speed, body.velocity.y); //Flip player when moving left-right if(horizontalInput> 0.01f) transform.localScale = new Vector3(5, 5, 1); else if(horizontalInput< -0.01f) transform.localScale = new Vector3(-5, 5, 1); if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && grounded) Jump(); //Set animator parameters anim.SetBool("grounded", grounded) } private void Jump() { body.velocity = new Vector2(body.velocity.x, jumphight); anim.SetTrigger("jump"); grounded = false; } private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision) { if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Ground") grounded = true; } } this is my code

[@TheCrabActivist4525]

My dude, don't ever apologize for explaining things, all it does is help us, keep up the great work!

[@deaduser1532]

Yes it's the only way for us to learn!

[@dodgerivadeneyra6997]

It helps so much knowing what get component does and stuff, thank you so much pls keep up the explanation it helps a lot

[@joshmoore3785]

true

[@Pavme]

ikr! I hate it when I am just copying things I dont understand. Its like copying a chinese sentence when you understand nothing about it. anyone can copy even if they dont understand

[@TheCrabActivist4525]

@@Pavme Exactly

[@BlazeLibra]

Why is this 10x more informative than the actual lecture videos I get in my game design bachelors

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

No idea, but I'm very glad to hear it😆

[@twiston1337]

@@PandemoniumGameDev bro still reads comments over a year after the video is uploaded, legend!

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

@@twiston1337 Doing my best😁

[@DenyBoyLV]

Out of all tutorials about anything i have watched on youtube i must say that you are excellent. I just cant believe how on point you are. Perfect!

[@tucnacek8694]

This is seriously the best tutorial series on unity that I have ever watched.

[@braylongouge9103]

You are amazing! I've always wanted to go into video game development, and other tutorials of unity acted like I already knew how it worked. Your flawless way of explaining things to people who have no idea how anything like unity works is keeping me motivated to learn more and go farther!

[@mrglass9656]

Yes I agree

[@subharanjanghoshal5597]

OMG! This is the most ideal Unity 2D Platformer Tutorial for beginners. I'm saying this after trying a dozen of other tutorials. Keep the lessons coming please ❤

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thank you, this is really appreciated!

[@Krancis133]

This is amazing. Thanks for explaining the Unity actions for C#, helps a lot in understanding what must be done to get the code right.

[@ozanyasindogan]

first Unity tutorial I watched so far till 4am and which makes me understand everything, well done and thank you!

[@theaidanmann]

Finally! A tutorial series I can understand. You’ve helped me to actually understand what the code I’m writing actually does instead of just basically copying and pasting it

[@mthaler108]

ahh thank you so much for your tutorials! dont worry about explaining too much it is very helpful! I already know how to write in c# but this is the first time i'm making a game (and using unity for that matter) so finding a video that explains everything step by step is perfect!

[@A1Qicks]

Man, your tutorials are my favourite. Really speed launched me into making things. I took a detour into other tutorials to learn other stuff but keep coming back here for the basics.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot, love to hear that! Good luck on your game dev journey!

[@meatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeatme]

Mannn thank you for explaining everything so thoroughly! It helps a ton!! Helps me understand how everything works a lot easier

[@celmnc]

Bro, your such a good teacher of this stuff! I've spent hours watching other people's tutorials and have got lost every time... I came across you, and I've actually retaining what you show us.... Thank you so much this is so amazing

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

I'm very glad I could help, good luck on your game dev journey!

[@freddyhouston9181]

This series is excellent, everything you might need for creating a game. and everything is applicable if you want to add your own characters and animations. 10/10 perfect tutorial.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot and glad to hear you're enjoying it!

[@CharlesA.]

bro this is legit better than some courses on Udemy. you're a great teacher, you actually take time to explain instead of rushing things and that makes a big difference. 5 stars.

[@delcien9697]

Absolutely brilliant videos, my little old brain loves ur bite size videos and im not confused after watching them.. u explain this stuff so well.. subscribed! :)

[@tyrussell3516]

this is so cool to see working thanks so much and have a great day!

[@bomj-valera]

If you are using VS Code or potentially other IDEs and your C# files do not have the Intellisense (autocomplete) working try the following: First of all close your IDE, then 1) Go into _Unity > Edit > Preferences > External Tools >_ and select your IDE in the _External Script Editor_ 2) Go into _Unity > Assets > Open C# Project_ If the 2 above didn't help try this: 3) Install the specified *.NET Framework* (check the Omnisharp *OUTPUT* for any Errors with a specific version mentioned next to it, *for me it was 4.7.1*) Let people know if this comment helps by liking it.

[@thejourneyofwhat]

thank you, i didnt really know how to search for this bc i didnt know what it was called. this worked straight away :)

[@KnightPapa]

I was looking for this as well, thank you!

[@insertusernamehere8125]

This series is actually making me feel like I'm learning stuff.

[@robbylemmens9734]

This is by far the best tutorial to be found here on KZbin, kudo's sir!

[@juniorcollado4904]

I love this series and it really helps me out! Although, it would be cool if we got a video on how to make our own characters as well

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

I'm bad at art :D there are tons of pixel art channels on KZbin, try to follow their process then create the same animations that we use here and it's gonna work perfectly.

[@wiguofficial]

So helpful, I never knew where to start and this gave me somewhere to start, keep up the amazing work.

[@ameerluqman3595]

Bro, i am so thankful that i found your video. It took me about an hour to solve the "grounded" issues cause I name my bool with a uppercase "G" instead of lowercase "g" and it won't stop the jumping animation but I figured it out. Thanks for the tutorial. You're legend my guy!

[@rararrar98553047658]

I was legitimately just having this issue, thank you so much for commenting! You've saved me a headache.

[@XAyaDubX]

Amazing tutorials. Thank you for these. Very underrated.

[@tyrussell3516]

YESSS i’ve been waiting all week for this i’ll definitely work on this later tonight thank you so much!! keep up the good work

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a bunch :D enjoy watching and good luck!

[@tyrussell3516]

@@PandemoniumGameDev 👍🏼

[@ThatMellon]

I'm liking this video series so far. I think the way you've structured this tutorial is great! Personally I'm not so interested in animations at the moment, I think they serve their place in the video tutorial though (I'll be doing back through this tutorials to add in animation at a later state); because of the chapters you've put in the videos I could easily find the part where you talk about the "grounded" collision for the jumping code (which is where the juicy stuff lies for me!). I'm a beginner to using Unity and C# but I've dabbled in very similar tutorials for GameMakerStudio2 and GML. The logic has a similar flow (with a few extra steps in units UI and vectors) but I'm understanding it well enough to see how they work and why. Thanks again!!

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot! Make sure to implement the rest of the code though, we did fix the jumping in this video as well and other stuff not related to animation.

[@r3dh00d6]

Man, I just started trying to understand unity and making games and ur long explainations are really helpful. I didn t watch any of ur new vids, but I sure hope you still take time to explain all the small steps, because for begginers it is the only thing that makes things clearer. Your tutorials are amazing and I thank you very much for uploading them :)

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Heartwarming comment, thanks! Glad I could help you 🙌

[@thedelidumrul5599]

Thanks for the video bro. I began to make my own game before one month ago. I was having issue with jump animation, but with your video I found where I need to fix 👍 after 3 years it helped me :)

[@michrain5872]

Yay! I feel like I just leveled up (to lvl2 lol) Also, I wanted to have a jump speed independent from the walk speed and I got around it just by paying attention and applying what's discussed here! Off to the next step :3

[@mrglass9656]

I think that you add that by changing the speed variable in terms of hight

[@mrglass9656]

But it also changes the speed as well

[@Jono1982]

In Animation tab you can click the three vertical dots and enable Samples then change the 60 to 12 and it'll space the frames out accordingly. Also it has to be lowercase names for Parameters in the Animator. Great tutorial though I am learning a lot. :D

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Glad you're learning and enjoying it, love to hear that. - Changing the samples from 60 to 12 will make the animation 5 time slower. You can space the frames yourself manually. - The parameters for the animator can be both in lower case and uppercase, the point is that they should be matching both in the animator and in the code, otherwise they won't work.

[@nanorbogin896]

thanks for mentioning the lowercase names, I couldn't figure out why my transition wasn't working but it was because I had capitalized the run parameter but not in the transition.

[@arjunkhanna7383]

Thank you so much for the explanations of the code! I found them to be extremely helpful!

[@shadestacky]

so underrated man, keep up the great work!

[@LagoonLofi]

If anyone is having an issue where their jump isnt working, or stuck in jump animation, my error was OnCollisionEnter2D the On was lowercase (on) instead of On. It doesnt give any error or anything it just does nothing when space is pressed. I had auto complete on too. hope this helps :)

[@user-zi3kr4do9q]

the same trouble, when i pick play hero is standing in jump position(he doesnt run). Cant to resolve this problem

[@mildbeandip]

I doubt anyone will see this. But I was having an issue with the jump animation repeating even though I had turned off the loop animation ability. I had to click on the transition arrow and check off the transition to self option and that stopped the Jump state from repeating. I am using Unity 2021.3.11f1. Anyway have a nice day everyone and good luck on your game dev and coding journey, may it be a good one.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Someone will see it for sure :D That's a great tip actually I think I forgot to do that too, so thanks a lot!

[@meowzzz10]

ello, I doubt you will see this but I am having the same problem as you, the jump animation keeps on repeating when I test play it, I am new to unity so i do not really understand what you are saying, I am using version 2020.3.48.f1 nevermind, I fixed it by switching true/false on the transition arrows from any state > jump and jump > idle, but now I have another problem, I cannot jump

[@gargisharmaa]

@@meowzzz10 My character is also not able to jump, did you fix the issue? If yes how?

[@meowzzz10]

@@gargisharmaa I watched the video again and I forgot to add a tag on my ground object 19:20. Just make a tag called ground and add it on your ground object or what object you want your character to be able to jump on, Thats how I fixed it because I was not paying attention at the end. Hope this helped.

[@fatallegend1]

I was having this exact same issue and your comment helped me fix it! Thank you so much!

[@EagleNestGames]

Thank you so much for a clear, informative and practical explanation.😊

[@harryfriend4362]

thank you iv blasted through the videos and now Im lost without it haha. make it really easy to follow and understand

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Hey thanks a ton! Working on episode 4 right now.

[@TheVersionController]

I REALLY like when you take the time to explain in detail what the code is doing. I am taking my time with this to understand every step. I like that it's not just "do this then that" instruction. You are telling us 'why' and that is valuable.

[@markrigz]

I want to second this. The more you explain, the better!

[@harley_randelo]

I'm so glad I found your channel! that was more informative and educating than a brackeys video or a 6 hour college lecture. thanks so much for posting. you are the best unity creator on this platform!

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Huge thanks for this! Hope you like the rest of the series as well, good luck!

[@user-jn9tt3ry6k]

even two years later, still my favorite explanation

[@zachmin9296]

My character is constantly stuck in the jumping animation no matter if he is runnin or idle he stays jumping , does any1 know where I went wrong?

[@aadityagupta2687]

Hi, just amazing work. Currently, I am having a problem that the "grounded" variable is not taking true value even after collision. I believe the collision function is not working. Please give me some suggestions to overcome this issue. Thnx

[@kubkosamv5323]

Hello, do you set the Ground object tag to "Ground" ? To do this simply click on the ground object and on the "inspector" panel on the right, set tag below the Name "Ground", hope it will work, mate. ;)

[@6ileys]

@@kubkosamv5323 Having the same problem, I set the tag already but the collision isnt detecting.

[@kubkosamv5323]

@@6ileys Send me your player controller script, please.

[@6ileys]

@@kubkosamv5323 I ended up getting to work, Ian’s a sprays in front of ground in the tag lol

[@kubkosamv5323]

@@6ileys ooh, i didnt even think about that. keep it going. :)

[@mnye232]

thank you Pandemonium this is so helpful i love this 👍

[@zenco7936]

This has been incredibly helpful, thank you.

[@gameprogramming6550]

To keep values same for my new custom character to 0.5 I did this: if (horizontalinput > 0.01f) { transform.localScale = new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f); } else if (horizontalinput < -0.01f) { transform.localScale =new Vector3(-0.5f,0.5f,0.5f); }

[@eemelivastamaki8005]

I did have a problem with my character being too big and that works, so thx.

[@deaduser1532]

I did if (horizontalInput > 0.01f) transform.localScale = new Vector3(2, 2, 1); else if (horizontalInput < -0.01f) transform.localScale = new Vector3(-2, 2, 1); if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space)) body.velocity = new Vector2(body.velocity.x, speed);

[@ghhn4505]

Thanks man, huge help. I couldn't get the scale values to work for mine until I found this.

[@drunkengaming4782]

Mines a bit more complicated, it's 0.1532664 (I need this size, can't change it lol) but -0.1532664 doesn't work :P

[@Dave-pd8rv]

it doesn't work for me :(

[@EnemyOTS]

Sir you are a god. the Only tutorial that got the jumping and animation right without headache! so simple thank you so much!

[@sb7675]

I love so simple explanation . Very fast and easy to learn your code. Thanks.

[@swedcast107]

Mate, i love you! I just implemented a working jumping mechanic in 15 minutes. I have tried for 3 days with other tutorials :D

[@brendancusack391]

Loved the first video. Thank yoU!

[@memosickduck9230]

I never wrote any notes gamedev tuts except this one. Thank you so much

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks for taking the time to do it!

[@liamm5391]

This is extremly helpful, thank you :))

[@ripdoxyyy]

youre seriously amazing cant thank you enough for your knowledge

[@revialle5434]

I've only made a Tic Tac Toe game in C before. But, this is my first ever proper Indie game with custom made sprites and animations and I have to say, thank you so much! All of it works real butter smooth.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Pleasure hearing this, hope you get to make a lot of cool games in the future!

[@revialle5434]

@@PandemoniumGameDev Yes sir, will do!

[@Labyrnthdom]

So far so good, just got done with lesson 1.

[@alduin8877]

I was chilling in on the moon waiting for you to get done with the sprite

[@antoniokventin5341]

Hello, Pandemonium! Very big THX! Thats a best TUTORIAL for animation, which i try!

[@zacktzeng8569]

Thanks so much for producing this awesome tutorial!! One quick question: why did you add the jump trigger at the end?

[@mauriciocol5075]

Most perfect tutorial about 2d games ever!

[@danhtk]

Thankyou very much for your great tutorial. it's really helpful, easy to follow

[@teamofwinter8128]

I really really wish that was the way i started this whole unity tutorial instead of looking up youtube how to do a certain feature and then the feature i learn bugs out another feature then i look up how to fix it and OH man its such a headache but this is the right way to learn atleast in the beigining plus you explained everything very well and you didnt leave a thing unexplained and i appreciated it from the start to finish even though i knew alot of the stuff you already explained

[@user-bx6th4bs8x]

ur the best! thanks to you i can finally create my own game thank you so much!!

[@topcat5233]

lol mine was drunk on the first playtest, fell over immediately with a sharp turn, 10 out of 10. thanks so much for these tuts, very helpfull!

[@shu_402]

Very clear and nice explanation thanksss alot!

[@Tbag09]

Thank you bro you made it so clear and easy

[@hakoroni9735]

Thanks for breaking my game, Pandemonium! I really appreciate it!

[@ECAKJ]

first time ever in unity and it worked perfectly for me. i think you broke your own game

[@florianzavelcuta8243]

thanks for the videos, it really helps me

[@ItsRave_n]

This titorial is amazing! thanks!

[@mortenchristiansen389]

Great work, i love it, and lerning a lot, thanks :)

[@user-gm4iu4gw4p]

5 stars dude great tutorial!

[@kunodev]

First time ever i want to continue a full serie on how to make a game keep up the good work 😁😁😁

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

That's a good sign 😁 Good luck!

[@Potato_Pizzer]

Great video, all the other people just tell you to download a game, this actually helps you make it by yourself!

[@lopikss]

Great tutorial i love this serie so useful

[@akaithecreator7448]

Thank you so much. These videos are so helpful.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Glad to hear they're still helpful even after 3 years!

[@abdullahsaid4765]

I love your way of teaching plz keep going the other videos are too fast for to me understand it I'm totally a beginner thx for making a path for me so clearly and easily.☺

[@cheesecake906]

Thanks soo much i learnt tons of things❤❤

[@randorandy5901]

thankyou soo much this helped me greatly.....You are AWESOME!

[@mynameisjuana]

this helped me a lot!! tysm

[@krithikghosh]

You are the best teacher ❤I love your teaching skills and style😊 please don't apologise for explaining 🙏 it helps us a lot. You are the best and help me understand the programs and don't say me to just memorize it. This makes your videos stand out from the rest. Please remain like this. You are way underrated compares to your skill level. Don't lose hope because I know that one day you will surely reach a million subscribers ❤🙂🥰🤓👍

[@phoneix24886]

You deserve a lot more subsribers!

[@LA-dm6kj]

Love it, thank you.

[@ThatoneOkayGamerKid]

Yes! this helps me a lot

[@qusky512]

I had problems with the jump animations, so in line 37 I changed x to y and now it works :D

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Glad it works but I'm not sure why :D it's not supposed to. What was the problem you were facing?

[@carpenstefan8764]

Me too bro. Kudos to you and big kudos to Pandemonium. The game is awesome!

[@donovanbauman8821]

@@PandemoniumGameDev I'm having jumping problems too. The run and idle animations run and play fine, but the jump function does not work.

[@markwashington5128]

Wish we could like these videos a million times.

[@eduardsdavis903]

Thanks, 1-I previously could not understand why nothing was working for me, it turned out to be pulled off the components! 2-I didn't understand how to move the animator tab to where you got it, I kept it opening in a new window, but now i know!

[@SarahPlaysVideoGames]

I think it's incredible that not only did you make a tutorial that explains everything and is easy to understand even with minimal prior programming knowledge, but you're still responding to people in the comments about it! I do have one question myself: I plan to have both walking and running in my game. Right now, run is set to Z (although I'm probably going to change that later down the line.) If I wanted a different animation to play while running, how would I adjust the argument to check for if the run key is being held down, so I have the run animation for running and the walk animation for walking?

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot for the praise! I think in this case you can try something like this: //Set animator parameters if (horizontalInput == 0) { anim.SetBool("run", false); anim.SetBool("walk", false); } else { if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Z)) anim.SetBool("run", true); else anim.SetBool("walk", true); } Obviously this needs to replace the current line 31 that manages the animator run bool. You will also need to create a new bool parameter called walk in the animator and a new walk animation that triggers when walk is true.

[@irrationallymadphysicist6945]

Thanks for the easy-going tutorial! I'm using Unity 5 and at first the jump animation wasn't working correctly (it kept restarting over and over) , the problem went away when I replaced the jump condition with the trigger as in the video instructions. Just in case someone went through the same problem and is now confused.

[@lumea_phy8166]

thanks alot your tutorials are amazing :)

[@BonkerzGamer119]

for anyone struggling just double check the ground Ground and Grounded are the same, it starts to blur when your typing along and can break things. once i fixed that all worked perfectly fine.

[@U4IA1183]

so far I watched unity's course, watched toooo many tutorials on youtube and wasted time , went to reddit and even Stack Overflow TRUST me you are the only one who can EXPLAIN CODE for us to UNDERSTAND.

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot! Love to hear that it's clear enough to understand, that was my goal. Hopefully the entire series is like that.

[@gozen727]

keep up the work you really good at teaching

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot!

[@PikaaGD]

You are a savior for beginners ✌

[@todrick3340]

Thanks for going over everything and explaining everything I have been looking for a KZbinr like you.

[@-mammy]

This video series is excellent. You say -oh it is 20 min ı'll finish it in like 30 min but it is soo intense on knowledge you finish it after 1 hour :D

[@alexeymozgoball3803]

The best tutorial!

[@dimassurya3100]

this is perfect

[@_2morrow548]

Thx, this is very helpful

[@Rollbaa]

Amazing course continue. Got 1 question, whats the purpose of adding and setting the Jump trigger at the end? I know you removed the transition timing to 0 for the animation to quickly take effect when you land, but what about the trigger? I was able to have it smooth animation by just setting the transition period to 0. Whats the difference between trigger and bool?

[@twedle4456]

these tutorials are so good

[@gamespoint1701]

I absolutely love the explanations, by far the most descriptive tutorials for beginners. It would be awesome if you could make a series like this for making a racing game.. ♡

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

A lot of people are requesting this so yes, I'll do it for sure in the future.

[@gamespoint1701]

@@PandemoniumGameDev thank you and I love the memes you add in between the vids 😂

[@LauxKanal]

love you, and love you acctually explain smth

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Thanks a lot!