Best way of moving player

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Hi. I'm making some sort of Minecraft clone (i know... i know...) and I have question about player movement. Every method I used has the same problem. If i fall down and stick into wall my player is glitching or even stopping.

What is the best way to control the player and avoid these problems? I could disable moving if player is not touching ground but I want some control in air and it is important because if i jump i want to move in air to the next block.

Answer 1

Answer by whereswaldo · Jan 28, 2017 at 05:42 PM

I'd recommend using unity's First Person Character Controller (which can be found in the 'characters' folder when you go to the import assets tab in the editor) with a sphere collider around the camera. It's simple but should fix all the issues you're having.

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Well, there is really no best way to control a character on screen. It all depends on what kind of game you're making.

Since you're making a Minecraft clone, I don't think realism or physics-based movement matters that much, so I'd recommend a simple First Person Character Controller.

Attach a character controller to your player, and then create a c# script called FPSController.

Just paste my code into it and the rest is pretty straightforward.

 using UnityEngine;

 public class FPSController : MonoBehaviour {
 
     public CharacterController characterController;
 
     [Header("Camera")]
     public Camera cam;
     public float XSensitivity, YSensitivity;
     public bool invertPitch, clamp;
     public int minY, maxY;
 
     [Header("Movement")]
     public bool grounded, jumping;
     public float forwardSpeed, horizontalSpeed, jumpPower, gravity;
     
     [HideInInspector] public float jumpSpeed, verticalRotation;
 
     void Update() {
         float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
 
         if (!invertPitch)
             mouseY = -mouseY;
         verticalRotation += mouseY * YSensitivity;
         if (clamp)
             verticalRotation = Mathf.Clamp(verticalRotation, minY, maxY);
 
         transform.Rotate(0, mouseX * XSensitivity, 0);
         cam.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(verticalRotation, 0, 0);
 
         if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
             Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
 
         float horizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), forward = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
 
         grounded = characterController.isGrounded;
 
         if (grounded) {
             jumping = false;
             jumpSpeed = 0;
         }
         else
             jumpSpeed -= (gravity * 25) * Time.deltaTime;
 
         if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Jump") != 0 && !jumping) {
             jumping = true;
             jumpSpeed = jumpPower;
         }
 
         Vector3 motion = new Vector3(horizontal * horizontalSpeed, jumpSpeed, forward * forwardSpeed);
         characterController.Move((transform.rotation * motion) * Time.deltaTime);
     }
 }

Let me know how this works for you, and if you have any problems!

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