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Simple-character-controller


A simple Unity character controller

What it is


The simplest way to describe this is a rework of the character controller that is available in the Unity Starter / Standard packages.

Trailer

Preview Trailer

Preview Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF-5xu5xEpM

Demo


There is a demo (windows exe) available, if you'd like to check it out:

https://github.com/PixelWizards/simple-character-controller/releases/download/Release%2F1.0/Simple-Character-Controller-Demo-Release-1.0.zip

Features


Multiple movement modes:

Free Roam

Camera relative movement, Character rotates to face the direction that they are moving

Targeted / Over the Shoulder

A standard over the shoulder third person shooter type movement system. Character faces in the direction the camera is aiming, character has 8 directional movement animation (strafe / etc) for proper directional movement.

As well as

  • Jump
  • Fall
  • Walk / Run
  • pre configured Cinemachine third person camera complete with camera offset, collision etc.

Getting started


Open Scenes/Prototype.unity

Code is in /Scripts

Project was built with setup with URP, Unity 2022.3.24f1, but has no dependency on URP, will work with any render pipeline.

User Manual


https://megacrush.gitbook.io/megacrush-unity-assets/v/simple-character-controller/

Roadmap


We have a public roadmap over on Codecks:

https://open.codecks.io/simple-character-controller

Get in touch!


If you have any feature requests / bug reports, or want to chat about the character controller (or any game dev topics) please feel free to join our discord!

https://discord.gg/qKVPm4XWZ9

Asset Licenses


Character by Quaternius


Ultimate Modular Females by @Quaternius

https://www.patreon.com/quaternius

Character License: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Environment / Animations are from Unity:

The animations are from the Unity Standard-Assets-Characters repo:

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Standard-Assets-Characters

The environment and additional animations are from the Unity Starter Assets - Third Person

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starter-assets-thirdperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pa-196526

License: Unity Companion License:

https://unity.com/legal/licenses/unity-companion-license

Animation License: Unity Companion License: https://unity.com/legal/licenses/unity-companion-license