How do I make the player move using their rigid body instead of transform.transalate

Code (CSharp):

1. private void Move()
2.     {
3.         var deltaX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * Time.deltaTime * moveSpeed;
4.         var newXPos = transform.position.x + deltaX;
5.         if (hasDied == false)
6.         {
7.             transform.position = new Vector2(newXPos, transform.position.y);
8.         }
9.         if (IsGrounded() && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) || IsGrounded2() && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isTouchingPlayer)
10.         {
11.             playerRigid.velocity = Vector2.up * jump;
12.             forCam.AS.PlayOneShot(jumpClip);
13.             isTouchingPlayer = false;
14.         }
15.  
16.  
17.     }

 

For Rigidbody movement either :

1. let the physics engine move it with forces

or

2. do it yourself (like you do above), but you do not set the position; instead you call

.MovePosition()

on the Rigidbody instance.

Both cases give the physics engine a chance to process all collisions and interactions.

 

Code (CSharp):

1.  private void Move()
2.     {
3.         movement = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
4.         if (IsGrounded() && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) || IsGrounded2() && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isTouchingPlayer)
5.         {
6.             playerRigid.velocity = Vector2.up * jump;
7.             forCam.AS.PlayOneShot(jumpClip);
8.             isTouchingPlayer = false;
9.         }
10.  
11.  
12.     }
13.     private void FixedUpdate()
14.     {
15.         moveCharacter(movement);
16.     }
17.     void moveCharacter(Vector2 direc)
18.     {
19.         playerRigid.MovePosition((Vector2)transform.position + (direc * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime));
20.     }
21.    

Why doesn't my player move left or right?

 

Excellent question!

May I suggest breaking up lines 3 and 4 and assigning everything to temporary variables, printing each one with Debug.Log() in order to give you a chance to find out?

You might want to also check that the Rigidbody is not flagged as constrained in some axis (look in the editor inspector).