Makes a CircleCollider2D slide smoothly along the inner edge of a rounded EdgeCollider2D

CornerCheat.cs

using UnityEngine;

public class CornerCheat : MonoBehaviour {

    public CircleCollider2D circle;
    public Rigidbody2D      body;
    EdgeCollider2D          edge;

    [Range(0, .2f)] public float distanceThreshold = .03f;
    [Range(0, 1)]   public float dotThreshold      = .96f;
    [Range(0, 1)]   public float lookahead         = 1;
    [Range(0, 1)]   public float velocityTweak     = .5f;

    int mask;

    void Start() {
        mask = LayerMask.GetMask("Wall");
    }

    void FixedUpdate() {
        // find any nearby EdgeCollider2D
        if (edge == null) edge = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(body.position, circle.radius + distanceThreshold, mask) as EdgeCollider2D;
        if (edge == null) return;

        // use the current velocity to look ahead where this object will be next frame
        var center = body.position + body.velocity * (Time.fixedDeltaTime * lookahead);
        
        // find the nearest point on the edge collider, unity provides a edge.ClosestPoint() but it was giving inaccurate answers
        var nearest = FindClosest(center); 
        
        // work out the distance from the outer radius of the ball to the edge, if it's too far away we bail
        var distance = Mathf.Abs(Vector2.Distance(nearest, center) - circle.radius);
        if (distance > distanceThreshold) {
            edge = null;
            return;
        }
        
        // figure out the normal
        var normal = (center - nearest).normalized;
        
        // now, we work out if we're at either of the ends
        // given the way i'm calculating the normal, this breaks once we're "past" the ends
        var distanceToFirst = Vector2.Distance(edge.points[0], nearest);
        var distanceToLast  = Vector2.Distance(edge.points[edge.pointCount - 1], nearest);
        var isFirst         = distanceToFirst < .01f;
        var isLast          = distanceToLast < .01f;
        
        // if we're on the first or last points, round the normal so it's either fully on X or y
        if (isFirst || isLast) normal = SnapNormal(normal);
        
        // get the tangent by rotating the normal 90 degrees
        var tangent = R90(normal);

        // calculate the dot product to figure how perpendicular we are to the tangent
        var dot = Vector2.Dot(tangent, body.velocity.normalized);
        
        // if the dot is below some threshold, we're probably just bouncing off the wall not sliding, so we bail
        if (Mathf.Abs(dot) < dotThreshold) return;
        
        // if the dot is negative, we're sliding the "other" way, so we need to flip the tangent
        if (dot < 0) tangent *= -1;
        
        // store the speed we're moving at
        var speed = body.velocity.magnitude;
        
        // then lerp between the current velocity and the corrected velocity scaled by the speed
        body.velocity = Vector2.Lerp(body.velocity, tangent * speed, velocityTweak);
    }

    Vector2 FindClosest(Vector2 center) {
        var closest     = Vector2.zero;
        var minDistance = float.MaxValue;
        foreach (var point in edge.points) {
            var d = Vector2.Distance(point, center);
            if (d > minDistance) continue;
            closest     = point;
            minDistance = d;
        }
        
        return closest;
    }

    // rotates a vector 90 degrees
    static Vector2 R90(Vector2 v) {
        var tmp = v.y;
        v.y = -v.x;
        v.x = tmp;
        return v;
    }
    
    static Vector2 SnapNormal(Vector2 raw) {
        return Mathf.Abs(raw.x) > Mathf.Abs(raw.y) ?
            new Vector2(Mathf.Sign(raw.x), 0) : 
            new Vector2(0, Mathf.Sign(raw.y));
    }
}