Need help on topdown 2d movement Idle

Hello all, new poster/Unity user here.

I've been interested in making a 2d top-down rpg like game for a while now and decided to try with Unity. To learn how to make the 8 directional movement I decided to watch a several years old video tutorial on how to animate directional movement and the idle animation that plays when the movement stops.

I've been using this video:

Or "Topdown 2D RPG In Unity - 04 Idle & Face Correct Direction" by Hundred Fires Games on Youtube.

(The other three videos before this in the series just cover the setup, movement, and animation, which I don't think I need help with).

Everything went well so far, the 8 directional movement animation is fine, until I got to the idle animation. it ends up automatically using the face down idle animation (facing towards the camera) no matter which direction once the movement ended. I want the player object to face whatever direction that the movement ended in.

Here is my code.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4.  
5. public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.  
8.     private Rigidbody2D myRB;
9.     private Animator myAnim;
10.  
11.     [SerializeField]
12.     private float speed;
13.  
14.  
15.     // Start is called before the first frame update
16.     void Start()
17.     {
18.         myRB = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
19.         myAnim = GetComponent<Animator>();
20.  
21.  
22.  
23.  
24.  
25.     }
26.  
27.     // Update is called once per frame
28.     void Update()
29.     {
30.         myRB.velocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")) * speed;
31.  
32.         myAnim.SetFloat("Movex", myRB.velocity.x);
33.         myAnim.SetFloat("Movey", myRB.velocity.y);
34.  
35.         if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == 1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") == -1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") == 1 || Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical") == -1) ;
36.         {
37.             myAnim.SetFloat("LastMovex", Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"));
38.             myAnim.SetFloat("LastMovey", Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
39.         }
40.  
41.     }
42. }
43.  

I would add images, but I can't seem to upload from imgur.


I basically used the exact same script, animation, sprites, and directions as the video. Is there some little thing I'm missing? Is the problem a difference between versions?

Thanks.

edit: I am using Unity 2021.3.10f1

 

I'm so annoyed now that I figured it out. The problem was the damn semicolon on the end of line 35. Strange though, when I tried to run my program without it before, my player object kept on flashing between animations like crazy. Now I can move on, thank god.

 

Hi ThirdFallenKing, I made a video with a better way to control player movement and animations using enums, this is clean, easy to understand, and works beautifully: