Unity Tip: Easy 2D Drag with Touch

This is a quick and incredibly simple way to touch and drag gameobjects in 2D unity space.

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The Script!

For Copying

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class TouchDrag : MonoBehaviour {

// Update is called once per frame
public float speed = 0.1F;
      void Update() {
            if (Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Moved) {
                 Vector2 touchDeltaPosition = Input.GetTouch(0).deltaPosition;
                 transform.Translate(touchDeltaPosition.x * speed, touchDeltaPosition.y * speed, 0);
            }
      }
}

     

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"Why Post this Tiny Script?"


Simple. A lot of people have asked. Not me personally, but while researching in the forums I found tons of questions about how to drag with touch. Every game has special requirements of its code, but I found a lot of the answers that, while functional, were really complicated. Many didn't have answers at all. Thus, when I discovered that I had a totally simple and functional drag script: Sharing! :D

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"How Should I Use It For My Game?"

• Experiment
• I suggest testing out the speed variable, I haven't yet
• Bumpers
• These will keep your object from flying off the screen at flicking-speeds
• 2D colliders on object and bumper-object
• I suggest a 2D Rigidbody set to "is kinematic" on the bumper
• It's Your Game
• Do what you want. If it's really cool, blog about it!

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"Where did you find it?"

In the documentation. That's right. It's right there. It's the first example under Input.GetTouch. The only problem? It's not labeled at all! I didn't actually even know I had a great touch-drag script until I realized I WAS touch-dragging an old gameobject that still had this TEST script thrown on as a beginner's try at touch!

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Serendipity for All! :)

My happy accident is now everybody's happy accident! Let us rejoice and move things around with our fingers!

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