Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Objective Complete - Mini Debriefing
In this secion, we have created a custom character control script to create the character
movement by using the
Move()
funcion in
CharacterController
class. This funcion
needs only the direcion and it returns the collision lags, which are very convenient to use.
We also apply the
Gravity
and
Jump
butons to make our character fall down when there is
no collider.
Classified Intel
In the irst chapter, we created a 2D plaform game which used a plane object to show a
sprite animaion. We also atached
Rigidbody
to the character to be able to use a gravity
and access to the
Rigidbody
class to get a nice Physics movement.
However, in this chapter we didn't use
Rigidbody
, but we used
CharacterController
to control our character. We can add
Rigidbody
to our character if we want to create a
ragdoll
object, but we aren't doing it in this chapter. We will take care of the
ragdoll
object in
Chapter 7
,
Creaing a Destrucible and Interacive Virtual World
.
The
CharacterController
script has a lot of advantages. In this case, we will talk about
the
Move()
funcion. This funcion takes one parameter,
Vector3
, which will be the moion
of our movement per frame. So, we basically need to get the direcion from the input,
muliply the speed and
Time.deltaTime
, and pass it to this funcion.
The
Move()
funcion also returns the
CollisionFlags
, which we can check for each part
of our character collide to another object. This is very useful when we want to check if the
top of the character hit the ceiling, or the side of our character hit the wall, and so on. We
can read more details of the
Move()
funcion and
CollisionFlags
from the following link:
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/
CharacterController.Move.html
.
http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/
CollisionFlags.html
.
Creating CrossFade animation
In this secion, we will apply and create the animaion clip to our character and make it
suitable for each acion such as idle, walk, run, jump, and fall animaion.
