Moving platforms and triggers – Creating a dynamic interactable environment

Adding moving platforms to our game’s level adds to the visual interest and provides additional challenges for the player. Unity again provides tooling that makes creating moving platforms a simple and straightforward task right in the scene View and without needing to write any code.

We previously used Sprite Shape to make a closed platform, but Sprite Shape also allows the creation of open shapes, and that will be perfect here for making a small platform that we can move.

Moving a Sprite Shape platform with Splines

Introduced for the Unity 2022 tech stream, we have a new 2D package called Splines. We’ll be using Splines to create the paths our platforms will move along – this is where the Spline component is used. And the Sprite Animate component is used for moving a platform along the spline path and doing so without using any code. Nice!

Splines

Smooth shapes can...