Ultimate 2D Character Controller

TLD Ultimate 2D Character Controller gives you a production-ready, fully procedural 2D character controller built entirely on a capsule shape. No sprites, no animator, no art required, every animation is written in code.

Open Window > TLD > Setup Wizard, pick your ground layer, click Create Character, and hit Play. Done.

MOVEMENT & PHYSICS

• Smooth acceleration and deceleration with separate ground and air values
• Variable jump height with fall multiplier and low-jump multiplier for tight, responsive arcs
• Multi-jump support (1 to 5 jumps, fully configurable)
• Coyote time, grace window after walking off a ledge
• Jump buffering, queue a jump slightly before landing
• Full slope detection and slope-normal movement
• Configurable gravity scale, max fall speed, and ground snapping

WALL MECHANICS

• Wall slide, slow fall while pressed against a wall
• Wall grab with optional stamina system (hold to cling indefinitely or drain over time)
• Wall jump with configurable force, lock-out timer, and directional control (Basic or Advanced mode)

DASH

• Directional dash (follows input direction) or Lateral dash (always horizontal)
• Configurable speed, duration, and cooldown
• Air dash with limited-use count per jump
• Optional gravity disable during dash
• Invincibility flag for use with your own health system

CROUCH & SLIDE

• Crouch shrinks the capsule collider from the top, feet stay planted on the ground
• Head clearance check prevents standing up inside geometry
• Slide with minimum speed requirement, duration, and separate cooldown
• Crouch speed multiplier

LEDGE MECHANICS

• Automatic ledge detection using raycasts, no trigger volumes needed
• Ledge grab, character catches the corner of a platform while falling
• Ledge climb, smooth two-phase animation climbs up and over the ledge
• Ledge jump, kick off the ledge into a full jump
• Drop from ledge by holding Crouch

PROCEDURAL ANIMATIONS

All animations are code-driven squish and stretch on the Visual child transform. No Animator or sprites required.

• Land squish, impacts compress the capsule, scaled to landing velocity
• Jump stretch, capsule elongates on takeoff
• Run lean, gentle rotation tilt during movement
• Crouch squish, visually compresses to match the collider shrink
• Slide squish, wide, flat shape during slides
• Wall-slide squeeze, narrow stretch while pressing against walls
• Dash warp, horizontal stretch during dash
• Air stretch and fall squash

All squish uses a bottom-anchored pivot so the feet never leave the ground visually. All values are fully tunable in the Inspector.

The capsule visual displays state-based color feedback (idle, run, airborne, crouch, dash, wall-slide, ledge grab) so you can prototype and test without any art at all.

EASY SETUP

• One-click Setup Wizard at Window > TLD > Setup Wizard creates a complete character with camera
• Custom sectioned Inspector with live runtime debug readout
• Works with Legacy Input or Unity's New Input System out of the box
• Swap in your own input by calling controller.SetInput() from any script

INTEGRATION & EXTENSIBILITY

• State Machine Bridge exposes a clean CharacterState enum and drives any Animator
• 8 UnityEvents: onJump, onLand, onDash, onWallJump, onLedgeGrab, onLedgeClimb, onCrouchChange, onGroundedChange
• Public API: Teleport, AddImpulse, ForceJump, StopMovement, GetStateSnapshot
• Screen shake API on the Camera Follow component
• Fully compatible with PlatformEffector2D one-way platforms
• Works with moving platforms via Rigidbody2D
• No third-party dependencies