Very Strange Movement..

Ok, so I wanted to do a third person camera so I went over to 3dbuzz to play with their demo videos and basically make one line for line from their video.

I got it all working. camera works pretty good but my problem is..
The basic movement of the character controller is not working..
I must admit.. the basics here are so simple so I am not even sure why its not working..

So, I go about using their simple code..

Code (CSharp):

1.         var deadZone = 0.1f;
2.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector = Vector3.zero;
3.  
4.         float ForwardOrBackword = Input.GetAxis ("Vertical");
5.         float RightOrLeft = Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal");
6.  
7.         //if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > deadZone || Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < -deadZone)
8.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector += new Vector3(0f,0f,ForwardOrBackword);
9.  
10.         //if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > deadZone || Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < -deadZone)
11.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector += new Vector3(RightOrLeft,0f,0f);
12.  
13.         if (MoveVector.x != 0 || MoveVector.z != 0)
14.         {
15.             transform.rotation =
16.                 Quaternion.Euler(
17.                     transform.eulerAngles.x,
18.                     Camera.main.transform.eulerAngles.y,
19.                     transform.eulerAngles.z);
20.  
21.         }
22.  
23.         //Transform MoveVecctor to WorldSpace
24.         MoveVector = transform.TransformDirection(MoveVector);
25.  
26.         //Normalize MoveVector if Magnitude > 1
27.         if (MoveVector.magnitude > 1)
28.             MoveVector = Vector3.Normalize(MoveVector);
29.  
30.         //Multiple MoveVector by MoveSpeed
31.         MoveVector *= MoveSpeed;
32.  
33.         //Convert Units/Frame to Units/Spec
34.         //Multiply MoveVector by Delta Time..
35.         MoveVector *= Time.deltaTime;
36.  
37.         //Move Character in WorldSpace.
38.         TP_Controller.CharacterController.Move(MoveVector);
39.  
40.  

I went ahead and slimmed it down some..
But does anyone see any major issues with the script that stick out that I may be missing ?

 

Hi shawndg

It's a bit hard to tell, since your code looks a bit like a mixture between TP_Controller and TP_Motor. I also can't tell the context of the snippet. E.g. if the snippet is placed within Update() in TP_Controller. However, here are some thoughts, based on my own implementation (I did the same as you and went through the 3dbuzz tutorial (-: ):

In my implementation the part TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector += new Vector3(0f,0f,ForwardOrBackword); is in TP_Controller and within Update(). But I don't work with variables (like "ForwardOrBackword") but rather with Input.GetAxis("Vertical")

I have no such thing as in lines 13 - 21, so I can't give you any recommendation on that (-;

Lines 23-38 look (quite) the same as in my code in TP_Motor. Only difference is that I have applied gravity and vertical velocity. But that won't make any difference to your problem.

Therefore, I'd guess that the issue is somewhere in lines 4 - 11. However, depending in which context (Update() etc.) you are using them.

Hope it helps (-:

 

Ok, I went back to what I think is the original code based off the tutorial and problem is still occurring.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class TP_Controller : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public static CharacterController CharacterController;
7.     public static TP_Controller Instance;
8.  
9.     void Awake()
10.     {
11.         CharacterController = GetComponent("CharacterController") as CharacterController;
12.         Instance = this;
13.         TP_Camera.UseExistingOrCreateNewMainCamera();
14.     }
15.  
16.     void Update()
17.     {
18.         //if (Camera.main == null)
19.                         //return;
20.  
21.         GetLocomotionInput();
22.  
23.         TP_Motor.Instance.UpdateMotor ();
24.  
25.     }
26.  
27.     void GetLocomotionInput()
28.     {
29.         var deadZone = 0.1f;
30.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector = Vector3.zero;
31.  
32.         if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > deadZone || Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < -deadZone)
33.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector += new Vector3(0f,0f,Input.GetAxis ("Vertical"));
34.  
35.         if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") > deadZone || Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < -deadZone)
36.         TP_Motor.Instance.MoveVector += new Vector3(Input.GetAxis ("Horizontal"),0f,0f);
37.  
38.     }
39. }

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class TP_Motor : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public static TP_Motor Instance;
7.     public float MoveSpeed = 10f;
8.     public Vector3 MoveVector { get; set; }
9.  
10.  
11.     void Awake ()
12.     {
13.         Instance = this;
14.  
15.     }
16.  
17.     public void UpdateMotor ()
18.     {
19.         SnapAlignCharacterWithCamera();
20.         ProcessMotion ();
21.     }
22.  
23.     void ProcessMotion()
24.     {
25.         //Transform MoveVecctor to WorldSpace
26.         MoveVector = transform.TransformDirection(MoveVector);
27.  
28.         //Normalize MoveVector if Magnitude > 1
29.         if (MoveVector.magnitude > 1)
30.             MoveVector = Vector3.Normalize(MoveVector);
31.  
32.         //Multiple MoveVector by MoveSpeed
33.         MoveVector *= MoveSpeed;
34.  
35.         //Convert Units/Frame to Units/Spec
36.         //Multiply MoveVector by Delta Time..
37.         MoveVector *= Time.deltaTime;
38.  
39.         //Move Character in WorldSpace.
40.         TP_Controller.CharacterController.Move(MoveVector);
41.     }
42.  
43.     void SnapAlignCharacterWithCamera()
44.     {
45.         if (MoveVector.x != 0 || MoveVector.z != 0)
46.         {
47.             transform.rotation =
48.                 Quaternion.Euler(
49.                     transform.eulerAngles.x,
50.                     Camera.main.transform.eulerAngles.y,
51.                     transform.eulerAngles.z);
52.  
53.         }
54.  
55.     }
56.  
57.  
58. }
59.  

Camera is pretty decent though, but movement is just all over the place..
And the logic makes perfect sense so I am wondering if maybe its my character or input settings..

 

Still having problems here, I rewrote most of this and the problem is the same..
I cant click w or up to move forward... I got all other directions working properly.. very confused now..

 

I got it all working...

The problem was my player object, I had a child on it that had a collider on it and it was colliding with my parent object whenever I tried to move forward...

OMG that was a pain to figure it out..
Posting this so if anyone else runs into this odd issue,..

 

Glad you could resolve it. Thanks for sharing (-: