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Jumping problem to do with /= magnitude changing the vector3 direction
So I made my own character controller using a rigid body and it works pretty much perfectly. One of the main reasons I made it was so the player could change their speed while in mid air as being air born is a common thing in my game. When the player jumps, they gain all the velocity from their own WASD movement and then that is added up with their current WASD movement / 2. Problem is that when I do Vector3 /= Vector3.magnitude to make sure jumping isn't used to move faster, the direction the player is moving seems to be pulled slightly to the Z or -Z axis and it gets really annoying. This doesn't happen when they move directly in the X or Z axis as that uses Mathf.Min instead of /= Vector3.magnitude. That leads me to believe that it is /= Vector3.magnitude causing the issue but after hours and hours of trying, I am still unable to fix it and am unsure of why the issue is happening in the first place. The code looks fine.
Here's the commented jumping function of my script:
IEnumerator Jump (){
EnteredFreeFall = false;
//If they stay in mid air too long, this becomes try and they begin to lose the velocity gained from when the
//first jumped (Pretty much drag)
LeftGround = false;
//Used to make sure the script wont cancel the second it starts because the player is on the ground
WasSprinting = IsSprinting;
//Used to continue stop jumping being used to get free sprinting
StoredMovement = MoveDirection;
//The WASD direction is stored in MoveDirection
//Sets the max speed the player can reach.
if (IsSprinting)
{
StoredMovement *= SprintSpeed*SpeedModifier;
Cap.z = Mathf.Max (Mathf.Abs(StoredMovement.z), SprintSpeed);
Cap.x = Mathf.Max (Mathf.Abs(StoredMovement.x), MovementSpeed);
}
else
{
StoredMovement *= MovementSpeed*SpeedModifier;
Cap.z = Mathf.Max (Mathf.Abs(StoredMovement.z), MovementSpeed);
Cap.x = Mathf.Max (Mathf.Abs(StoredMovement.x), MovementSpeed);
}
//for loop using yield
for(float A = 100.0f; A >= 0; A--)
{
//ChangeStoredMovement lets me edit StoredMovement while keeping a copy of it pretty much
ChangeStoredMovement = StoredMovement;
//Stop the jump function if the player lands, but only if they left the ground first.
if (!Grounded)
{
LeftGround = true;
}
if (Grounded && LeftGround)
{
IsJumping = false;
break;
}
//Drain energy if the player got velocity from sprinting and let go of the sprint button
if (WasSprinting && !IsSprinting)
{
if (EnteredFreeFall)
{
Energy -= ((SprintCost+EnergyRecharge)*A/100);
}
else
{
Energy -= (SprintCost+EnergyRecharge);
}
}
//Apply drag if the player has been in the air too long
if (EnteredFreeFall)
{
ChangeStoredMovement.x *= A/100;
ChangeStoredMovement.z *= A/100;
}
//Gets the current WASD movement with half your base speed and adds it to the velocity you got when you first jumped
FloatDirection = MoveDirection;
FloatDirection *= MovementSpeed*SpeedModifier*0.5f;
FloatDirection += ChangeStoredMovement;
//Caps the velocity to make sure the playe can't go faster in air than they could on the ground.
//This cap is used for if they are moving directly in the X or Z axis.
if (FloatDirection.z >= 0)
{
FloatDirection.z = Mathf.Min (FloatDirection.z, Cap.z);
}
else
{
FloatDirection.z = Mathf.Max (FloatDirection.z, -Cap.z);
}
if (FloatDirection.x >= 0)
{
FloatDirection.x = Mathf.Min (FloatDirection.x, Cap.x);
}
else
{
FloatDirection.x = Mathf.Max (FloatDirection.x, -Cap.x);
}
//Same as above but this is for if they are moving say Vector3 (7,0,7) rather than (1,0,0)
if (FloatDirection.magnitude > Mathf.Max (Cap.z, Cap.x))
{
FloatDirection /= FloatDirection.magnitude;
if (Mathf.Abs(FloatDirection.z) >= Mathf.Abs(FloatDirection.x))
{
FloatDirection.z *= Cap.z;
FloatDirection.x *= Cap.z;
}
else
{
FloatDirection.z *= Cap.x;
FloatDirection.x *= Cap.x;
}
}
//Cancel the jump if you jump directly into a wall
if (Physics.Raycast (VarTransform.position, FloatDirection/FloatDirection.magnitude/2, 0.4f, SlopeLayerMask)||
Physics.Raycast (VarTransform.position, Vector3.up, 1.35f, SlopeLayerMask))
{
IsJumping = false;
break;
}
//Add the upward force from the jump
if (!EnteredFreeFall)
{
FloatDirection.y = JumpHeight*(A/100.0f);
}
//Apply the force and wait for the next fixed update (so the for loop doesn't happen instantly;
rigidbody.AddForce(FloatDirection, ForceMode.Impulse);
yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();
if (A == 0)
{
//Cancel the jump once you have been in mid air for 4 seconds (200 fixed updates)
if (EnteredFreeFall)
{
IsJumping = false;
break;
}
//After 2 seconds (100 fixed updates), EnteredFreeFall is set true witch slows eases out of the jump
//function via drag
else
{
A = 100.0f;
EnteredFreeFall = true;
}
}
}
}
Anyone know what the problem is, or how to work around it?
Answer by robertbu · Oct 11, 2013 at 03:30 PM
I suspect your issues come from how you are calculating the scaling of independent axes. A couple of suggestions. Take a look at Vector3.ClampMagnitude(). If you want to limit the speed (no matter what direction the object is heading) you can do:
floatDirection = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(floatDirection, maxSpeed);
I see nothing wrong with your '/=' other than it probably would blow up if it ever gets Vector3.zero. But Unity provides you two more traditional ways to make this calculation Vector3.normalized and Vector3.Normalize().
So if you wanted to limit your velocity using normalized:
if (floatDirection.magnitude > maxSpeed) {
floatDirection = floatDirection.normalized * maxSpeed;
}
It works! Awesome. Those two things will make a lot of other things easier too, thanks!
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