Question How to add recoil to 2d shot

I'm making a 2d top-down shooter game, and I want to make it so that after the player fires a shot, it has a recoil effect that makes the player glide back slightly using an RB2D.AddForce. the problem is that I tried that, but the way I tried to implement it made it a sudden jump backwards. Any ideas on how to do this?

 

Probably easiest to use an animation so you can make it look like any curve you like.

Alternately if you do it in code, use AnimationCurve objects to drive the rotation and offset.

Beyond why it makes a sudden jump backwards, sounds like a bug.

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an animation won't work because I don't want the player to return to its original position.
Here's my current code if you want to take a look at it:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class Pistol : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     Rigidbody2D playerRb;
8.  
9.     GameObject player;
10.     [SerializeField] GameObject bulletPrefab;
11.  
12.     // Start is called before the first frame update
13.     void Start()
14.     {
15.         playerRb = GetComponentInParent<Rigidbody2D>();
16.         player = GameObject.Find("Player");
17.     }
18.  
19.     // Update is called once per frame
20.     void Update()
21.     {
22.         if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
23.         {
24.             Shoot();
25.         }
26.     }
27.  
28.     void Shoot()
29.     {
30.         Instantiate(bulletPrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
31.         playerRb.AddForce(transform.up * -2500f);
32.     }
33. }

 

This forum isn't so much about us complete strangers gazing at your code in total isolation and suggesting where it might have gone wrong. Code is only a fraction of the problem; the rest could be scene setup. We don't have that. You have that.

This is likely the cause of your sudden jerk. As I originally suggested, drive the player back over the course of several frames, perhaps using an AnimationCurve object to specify the drive-back magnitude.

Alternately, since there really isn't anything recoil-y above except that AddForce command, maybe you should work through two or three different recoil tutorials just to see how they do it.