How to create a lives and respawn system — In this article we will be creating a lives system, respawn system and death system. Pseudocode if the player hits the death zone trigger then decrease lives then update the UI lives display then respawn at respawn point if lives is zero or less then reload the current scene Death Zone Create a…

How to move Player along with the Moving Platform — In this article we will make our player move along with the moving platform instead of slide off. Pseudocode / logic To do make our player move along with the platform we will make the player a child object of the moving platform while it’s on it. To check if the player is…

How to create a moving platform in Unity — In this article we will create a moving platform for our platformer game. As always there are various way to do the same thing in programming this is just one of the many. We will be using Vector3.MoveTowards. Vector3.MoveTowards Suggest a change Thank you for helping us improve the quality of Unity Documentation. Although we cannot accept all…docs.unity3d.com

In this short article we show you how we make our camera follow our player for our platformer game. Drag the Main Camera in the Hierarchy on our Player and make it a child object.

How to create a Collectable System in Unity — In this article we will make the placeholder collectables actually collectable. Setup Steps We created 3 scripts. For the player, for the collectables and a UI Manager.

Physics Based Character Controller part 4 — In this article we will add the ability to double jump on our character controller. Double Jump Script A new variable to keep track if we already double jumped or not. private bool _doubleJumped; When we are on the ground we reset the check if we already double jumped or not. When we…

Physics Based Character Controller part 3 — In this article we will focus on making our player able to jump. If we just apply the jumpheight to velocity height it the jump won’t work as expected. To make this work we need a cached velocity for Y. Other wise it will be reset to zero every frame…

Physics Based Character Controller part 2 — In this article we will add gravity to our player controller. When player is NOT touching the ground we apply gravity. This is a float number we set at the top of our script. We can simply subtract gravity from the y value of our velocity. void Update() {…

Physics Based Character Controller part 1 — In this article we will create a Character Controller from scratch without using a rigidbody. Normally the rigidbody component will handle the physics part, but we choose to write our own code to make our player move how we want. In the Editor Add CharacterController component to Player