Smooth billboard rotation and srite jitter?
Hey! Recently I've been trying to work on a Doom/Wolf 3D graphically inspired game. I am not working on the billboard sprites and I just cant seem to get it to work right. I mean, I have it technically working perfectly, with the sprite always facing the camera on the Y axis, but the problem is with how it looks. As it rotates it is very jittery. I tried target frame rate, setting it to 60 fps, which seem to fizx the problem of what I think are called 'artifacts' or 'ghosting', but now it just looks like the sprite is rotating at about 20 fps.
Also, I think it is worth mentioning in my unity, flat objects in general such as sprites or planes look jittery if you walk around them, even if they are not billboards, so it seems to be a problem with how unity is loading the sprite itself. Any help would be appreciated, its just this is really making me stressed as I fear there is no fix to this. Thanks
Answer by oisindoherty62 · Jul 19, 2019 at 01:33 PM
Nevermind, I found out the issue, and ill state it here so anyone in the future can come by. Basically, what was cause the stuttering was the unity fps controller itself. It turns out the issue was that it is flawed, due to half of it being in fixed update, and half in Update. I fixed it by merging the two together into one fixed update, and now everything runs smooth as butter with no real noticable stutter. Here is the modified script below if anyone wants it that I modified myself. Just copy and paste this over the stand Fps Controller script in Unity Standard Assets folder and your good to go!
using System;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityStandardAssets.CrossPlatformInput;
using UnityStandardAssets.Utility;
using Random = UnityEngine.Random;
namespace UnityStandardAssets.Characters.FirstPerson
{
[RequireComponent(typeof (CharacterController))]
[RequireComponent(typeof (AudioSource))]
public class FirstPersonController : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private bool m_IsWalking;
[SerializeField] private float m_WalkSpeed;
[SerializeField] private float m_RunSpeed;
[SerializeField] [Range(0f, 1f)] private float m_RunstepLenghten;
[SerializeField] private float m_JumpSpeed;
[SerializeField] private float m_StickToGroundForce;
[SerializeField] private float m_GravityMultiplier;
[SerializeField] private MouseLook m_MouseLook;
[SerializeField] private bool m_UseFovKick;
[SerializeField] private FOVKick m_FovKick = new FOVKick();
[SerializeField] private bool m_UseHeadBob;
[SerializeField] private CurveControlledBob m_HeadBob = new CurveControlledBob();
[SerializeField] private LerpControlledBob m_JumpBob = new LerpControlledBob();
[SerializeField] private float m_StepInterval;
[SerializeField] private AudioClip[] m_FootstepSounds; // an array of footstep sounds that will be randomly selected from.
[SerializeField] private AudioClip m_JumpSound; // the sound played when character leaves the ground.
[SerializeField] private AudioClip m_LandSound; // the sound played when character touches back on ground.
private Camera m_Camera;
private bool m_Jump;
private float m_YRotation;
private Vector2 m_Input;
private Vector3 m_MoveDir = Vector3.zero;
private CharacterController m_CharacterController;
private CollisionFlags m_CollisionFlags;
private bool m_PreviouslyGrounded;
private Vector3 m_OriginalCameraPosition;
private float m_StepCycle;
private float m_NextStep;
private bool m_Jumping;
private AudioSource m_AudioSource;
// Use this for initialization
private void Start()
{
m_CharacterController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
m_Camera = Camera.main;
m_OriginalCameraPosition = m_Camera.transform.localPosition;
m_FovKick.Setup(m_Camera);
m_HeadBob.Setup(m_Camera, m_StepInterval);
m_StepCycle = 0f;
m_NextStep = m_StepCycle/2f;
m_Jumping = false;
m_AudioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
m_MouseLook.Init(transform , m_Camera.transform);
}
// Update is called once per frame
private void FixedUpdate()
{
RotateView();
// the jump state needs to read here to make sure it is not missed
if (!m_Jump)
{
m_Jump = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetButtonDown("Jump");
}
if (!m_PreviouslyGrounded && m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
{
StartCoroutine(m_JumpBob.DoBobCycle());
PlayLandingSound();
m_MoveDir.y = 0f;
m_Jumping = false;
}
if (!m_CharacterController.isGrounded && !m_Jumping && m_PreviouslyGrounded)
{
m_MoveDir.y = 0f;
}
m_PreviouslyGrounded = m_CharacterController.isGrounded;
{
float speed;
GetInput(out speed);
// always move along the camera forward as it is the direction that it being aimed at
Vector3 desiredMove = transform.forward * m_Input.y + transform.right * m_Input.x;
// get a normal for the surface that is being touched to move along it
RaycastHit hitInfo;
Physics.SphereCast(transform.position, m_CharacterController.radius, Vector3.down, out hitInfo,
m_CharacterController.height / 2f, Physics.AllLayers, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);
desiredMove = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(desiredMove, hitInfo.normal).normalized;
m_MoveDir.x = desiredMove.x * speed;
m_MoveDir.z = desiredMove.z * speed;
if (m_CharacterController.isGrounded) {
m_MoveDir.y = -m_StickToGroundForce;
if (m_Jump) {
m_MoveDir.y = m_JumpSpeed;
PlayJumpSound();
m_Jump = false;
m_Jumping = true;
}
}
else {
m_MoveDir += Physics.gravity * m_GravityMultiplier * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
}
m_CollisionFlags = m_CharacterController.Move(m_MoveDir * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
ProgressStepCycle(speed);
UpdateCameraPosition(speed);
m_MouseLook.UpdateCursorLock();
}
}
private void PlayLandingSound()
{
m_AudioSource.clip = m_LandSound;
m_AudioSource.Play();
m_NextStep = m_StepCycle + .5f;
}
private void PlayJumpSound()
{
m_AudioSource.clip = m_JumpSound;
m_AudioSource.Play();
}
private void ProgressStepCycle(float speed)
{
if (m_CharacterController.velocity.sqrMagnitude > 0 && (m_Input.x != 0 || m_Input.y != 0))
{
m_StepCycle += (m_CharacterController.velocity.magnitude + (speed*(m_IsWalking ? 1f : m_RunstepLenghten)))*
Time.fixedDeltaTime;
}
if (!(m_StepCycle > m_NextStep))
{
return;
}
m_NextStep = m_StepCycle + m_StepInterval;
PlayFootStepAudio();
}
private void PlayFootStepAudio()
{
if (!m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
{
return;
}
// pick & play a random footstep sound from the array,
// excluding sound at index 0
int n = Random.Range(1, m_FootstepSounds.Length);
m_AudioSource.clip = m_FootstepSounds[n];
m_AudioSource.PlayOneShot(m_AudioSource.clip);
// move picked sound to index 0 so it's not picked next time
m_FootstepSounds[n] = m_FootstepSounds[0];
m_FootstepSounds[0] = m_AudioSource.clip;
}
private void UpdateCameraPosition(float speed)
{
Vector3 newCameraPosition;
if (!m_UseHeadBob)
{
return;
}
if (m_CharacterController.velocity.magnitude > 0 && m_CharacterController.isGrounded)
{
m_Camera.transform.localPosition =
m_HeadBob.DoHeadBob(m_CharacterController.velocity.magnitude +
(speed*(m_IsWalking ? 1f : m_RunstepLenghten)));
newCameraPosition = m_Camera.transform.localPosition;
newCameraPosition.y = m_Camera.transform.localPosition.y - m_JumpBob.Offset();
}
else
{
newCameraPosition = m_Camera.transform.localPosition;
newCameraPosition.y = m_OriginalCameraPosition.y - m_JumpBob.Offset();
}
m_Camera.transform.localPosition = newCameraPosition;
}
private void GetInput(out float speed)
{
// Read input
float horizontal = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float vertical = CrossPlatformInputManager.GetAxis("Vertical");
bool waswalking = m_IsWalking;
#if !MOBILE_INPUT
// On standalone builds, walk/run speed is modified by a key press.
// keep track of whether or not the character is walking or running
m_IsWalking = !Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift);
#endif
// set the desired speed to be walking or running
speed = m_IsWalking ? m_WalkSpeed : m_RunSpeed;
m_Input = new Vector2(horizontal, vertical);
// normalize input if it exceeds 1 in combined length:
if (m_Input.sqrMagnitude > 1)
{
m_Input.Normalize();
}
// handle speed change to give an fov kick
// only if the player is going to a run, is running and the fovkick is to be used
if (m_IsWalking != waswalking && m_UseFovKick && m_CharacterController.velocity.sqrMagnitude > 0)
{
StopAllCoroutines();
StartCoroutine(!m_IsWalking ? m_FovKick.FOVKickUp() : m_FovKick.FOVKickDown());
}
}
private void RotateView()
{
m_MouseLook.LookRotation (transform, m_Camera.transform);
}
private void OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit hit)
{
Rigidbody body = hit.collider.attachedRigidbody;
//dont move the rigidbody if the character is on top of it
if (m_CollisionFlags == CollisionFlags.Below)
{
return;
}
if (body == null || body.isKinematic)
{
return;
}
body.AddForceAtPosition(m_CharacterController.velocity*0.1f, hit.point, ForceMode.Impulse);
}
}
}