FPS Character Controller in Godot - Make an FPS in Godot Part 1 

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Godot doesnt have many videos on youtube, so I really like that he started to upload videos

7:25 THANK YOU! Making the text bigger is so simple that makes following along so much easier and yet it's something so many people overlook

Thank you for taking the time at the end of the video to go through almost line by line and recap what the code does and how it affects the project, a lot more presenters could benefit from this, it's very helpful to a novice of programming. Great tutorial, easily one of the best I've seen on RU-vid, especially for Godot.

This is the first Godot video which I actually understand - I didn't need to replay anything to understand what was going on, not to mention the fact that you started on a blank project instead of using a premade one. Thanks a lot!

I've always thought 3D was a little beyond me a tthe minute but I dare say Tom, you are convincing me otherwise! Great tutorial thanks so much!

This is fantastic man! Keep up the great work on these videos. =)

Thanks for the video, got it all down. My only mistake was typing action_just_pressed instead of action_pressed. All in all I really like the pace. You do not go so fast that I have to rewind constantly like other youtuber's tutorials.

Thank you, this was very well explained. I was going through FPS character control in Godot documentation, but was not clear on many things. The way you added functionality step by step, explaining at every point what additional lines of code were doing, made it so much easier for me to understand.

Why did everything he explained made sense to me first time. Usually, tutorial videos like this does not make sense to me and I have to re watch to understand. I respect your short on point explanations. No stretching out here.

This tutorial uses the most suitable standard API than I saw in other tutorials, which use a lot of non-standard unnecessary mathematical operations (I would say hacks, for example lerp function on both axis for smooth moving and so on), thanks! P.S. You can use clamp() function to set min and max viewing angle.

and wat is wrong with youtube ur channel is so underrated

I took one cs class in college and I was able to follow your tutorial! I appreciate you talking through your logic so I can more or less understand how the code works.

I was looking for a quick way to understand how the godot engine works by looking at someone code something simple and wow i just loved it! Thanks explaining everything so clearly and easy to understand. Keep it up!

Thanks for this tutorial. Currently my favorite Godot tutorial I've found so far.

this has been the best tutorial ive come across so far. straight to the point, easy to follow and well explained. thank you

One thing you didn't address here (I don't know yet if you addressed it later), is that *velocity.y* is being reset every frame when you interpolated the vector, and so gravity isn't being accumulated and the player falls like it's on an elevator. I played around with two solutions: *1-* Store *velocity.y* in a throwaway variable right before interpolating the velocity, and then set *velocity.y* to it and apply gravity as normal. Basically this: *var y_speed = velocity.y* *velocity = velocity.linear_interpolate(direction * speed, acceleration * delta)* *velocity.y = y_speed* *velocity.y -= gravity* *2-* Interpolate only the *x* and *z* components of *velocity* with the *lerp()* function. Like this: *velocity.x = lerp(velocity.x, direction.x*speed, acceleration * delta)* *velocity.z = lerp(velocity.z, direction.z*speed, acceleration * delta)* *velocity.y -= gravity*

Thank you! This is easily the most concise, simple, well-coded and easy to follow video of this type I've found on RU-vid. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Absolutely brilliant Tom! It's one of the best and easiest tutorials I've seen! Thanks a lot, mate.

If you're having issues spawning the bullet: make sure the Player, Sprite, CollisionShape2D all have their centers aligned aligned! Player's elements can be at the bottom of the screen like in the video, but the Bullet should have everything aligned in the center (0,0)! I had to adjust the position offset a little bit, so my vector ended with position.y - 30 instead of 20, to avoid the Player getting nudged off screen with each bullet spawn. hope this helps someone. also, you can use print(......) to get an idea of what a line of script is doing, it will print it into the console. neat way to learn and find out what you're doing wrong

the only game dev tutorial channel whos code actually works for me, thank you!!!

this is the best godot tutorial i have seen.

thank you so much for this tutorial. I was having a really hard time figuring out godot and this helped a ton. super simple instruction, straight to the point and very easy to understand

Great video, love the pace and no nonsense to the point.

just started coding with godot and much thanks for this tutorial :) helping me understand it alot better, will continue and let u know how i get on hehe

Thank you soo much bro . I just started learning godot. This really helped me. Keep uploading. You re awesomme !!!!!💥💥💥

I think the better way to clamp the x rotation of the camera is by using the clamp function: var cam_x_rot = 0 func _input(event): if (event is InputEventMouseMotion): head.rotate_y(deg2rad(-event.relative.x * mouse_sens)) cam_x_rot += event.relative.y * mouse_sens cam_x_rot = clamp(cam_x_rot, -90, 90) camera.set_rotation_degrees(Vector3(-cam_x_rot, 0, 0))

Great tutorial! Thanks so much, I've subscribed and am going to be taking a look through the rest of your channel.

This is an incredible tutorial. I am just getting into Godot and this is one of the best tutorials I have seen yet. Way too many people assume previous programming knowledge, you explain it very well. I have a game idea that I want to see through as a hobby project. Will certainly be catching up on the rest of your videos.

Great series overall but i have a suggestion on how to handle limiting the player to rotate far beyond 90 degrees, this is what you can do instead of having a global variable: # Rotate the whole player instead of just the head. self.rotate_y(deg2rad(-event.relative.x * mouse_sensitivity)); camera.rotate_x(deg2rad(-event.relative.y * mouse_sensitivity)); # We can make use of the rotation_degrees property and the method clamp var cam_rotation = camera.rotation_degrees; cam_rotation.x = clamp(cam_rotation.x, -90, 90); camera.rotation_degrees = cam_rotation;

Very Helpful Tutorial......Thanks for making the FPS series

I wrote my script to be exactly like yours, but for some reason when I start the game my player always falls through the ground into the void. Can you explain this, please? Edit 1: It turned out my player fell through because I couldn't make the collision shape work without a static body attached to the ground. Thank you for this wonderful tutorial!

My man this is an incredible tutorial. I was actually able to create what you did and everything! 10/10 Can't wait to check out your other tutorials

THIS VIDEO MADE ME SUBSCRIBE THANKS SO MUCH, and also this is Larry 🐺 he will protect you

Can not say less than "excellent tutorial". You may want to add as a side note that not normalizing the direction vector would result in the famous strafe running bug/feature which was present in the game "Doom" from 1993.

i am so happy most of the Godot projects I do they fail but this worked congrats :)

They should add this basic controller, physics as predefined...like in UE4...you can do all of this in only few clicks and even with much more tunning (acceleration, gravity, air control, movement mode: walking, crouching, flying, swimming etc) and with one click you can replicate all of this for multiplayer

Amazing!, by far the best Godot FPS tutorial on RU-vid. Thank you so much! Keep up the great work.

Awesome Tom really liked this series of tutorials!

Why use if statement for vertical camera rotation and not just clamp value like this: camera_x_rotation = clamp(camera_x_rotation + x_delta, -90, 90) ???

Thank you very much for uploading this videos. this inspired and helped me to learning Godot

this is really good! you ecplained what the code really does and that makes it easy for beginners! you also did an overview of the code at the end which further explains the code

You need more subs. Your great

This was an excellently presented example Tom, however I have one gripe. I added a crosshair to the UI control node, dead center of the screen, and found that small movements with my mouse were not registering as I expected them too. After hunting down a couple of other FPS tuts on Godot, I saw a key difference between those examples and yours - the camera movement occurs in the `_physics_process` listener rather than the `_input` listener. When I moved the camera movement into the physics process and accounted for the time-delta to make the movement FPS independent, I had to raise the mouse_sensitivity to 10, but after that, it worked precisely as I expected it to.

half code extends KinematicBody export var speed = 10 export var acceleration = 5 export var gravity = 0.98 export var jump_power = 30 export var mouse_sensitivity = 0.3 onready var head = $Head onready var camera = $Head/Camera var velocity = Vector3() func _input(event): if event is InputEventMouseButton Motion : head.rotate_y(deg2rad(event.relative.x * 0.3 )) func _physics_process(delta): var head_basis = head.get_global_transform().basis var direction = Vector3() if Input.is_action_pressed("move_forward"): direction -= head_basis.z elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_backward"): direction += head_basis.z if Input.is_action_pressed("move_left"): direction -= head_basis.x elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_right"): direction += head_basis.x direction = direction.normalized() velocity = velocity.linear_interpolate(direction * speed, acceleration * delta ) velocity = move_and_slide(velocity)

Great followable tutorial. I feel like I can now win game of the year

Getting the basis from the _camera_ instead of the _head_ seems to do half the job of turning your controller into a fly camera, which can be quite useful for debugging (and cheating).

27:50 F5 and F8 start and stop debugging respectively. So if you don't want to bind a key to unlock the cursor, you can just hit F8 to close the window.

Thank you, fantastic explained, everything traceable, thumbs up

Tom what should i do? When i type this script camera.rotate_x(deg2rad(-event.relative.y * mouse_sensitivity)) when i launch the game i does not work plsss help me!!!😫😫😫😫😫

Hey Tom, you should really do an update on this series since a lot of the code doesn't work as well as it used to.

Hello everyone. I was having an issue where my player was falling through the floor. Im not sure if this is due to an update or something. My kinematic body would not detect the collision with the floor, because godot didnt like having a collision shape attached to spaitial or mesh instance. I added a static body inbetween the spaitial and the mesh instance and that fixed the issue

5:03 It’s not for anybody else it’s a reminder of where I last was

If you treat the ingame units as meters, and size the character and all your game objects accordingly, the variables like speed and acceleration will be in m/s and m/s^2 Currently I have the first person collider at 1.80m tall and 0.50m wide (radius 0.25) and the camera height at 1.65m, which would be eye height. Rotating the camera up and down goes around a RotationHelper (your Head) node, like in the official tutorial, which I have placed 0.15m lower than the camera, at 1.50 m. I think this makes the up and down movement more realistic looking, as you would pivot your head at your neck, not your eyeballs.

Outstanding tutorial! Liked and subscribed.

This is soooo great!

this was so easy to follow, thank you so much!

Well done Tom! Very clear and to the point. Quick question: Why did you put the movement on the Head node instead of the Player node? Wouldn't that just move the head without the body? regardless, thanks so much for this video and the other FPS tutorials you've made.

Hey Tom, amazing tutorial so far, but i cant seem to run the project. I get an error every time saying Failed to build project solution

tried to replicate this using visual script and worked :)

+1 sub

thanks for this amazing tutorial! Done!

Absolutely fantastic video. Great explanations. Thank you!

I really appreciate your help!

I liked this video just because of 7:19

Hey Tom, my movement doesn't working, i checked all text, 1v1 to yours, but doesn't move.

That was great man, thanks a lot bro

The man says the name correct - you have earned your like from me - keep it up 💪🏻

you can also use the $Head object's rotation_degrees.x instead of rotate_x() which forces you to mess with deg2rad(), instead of just using degrees directly. not sure if this is a 3.2.3 specific feature though...

Help I can’t move in any direction other than left

Thanks a lot, I enjoy your tutorials

I keep getting a error get_node: (Node not found:"head" relative to "/root/World/Player").)

very well presented and explained, looking forward to more.

Invalid get index 'relative' (in base: 'InputEventKey'). Can someone help me? when I start the game from the menu it works normally, but the console detects this bug, and when I have run by F5, it just closes by itself after I press any movement key

Hey, I am using 3.2.1, and there are different trimesh collision options, I was wondering what the difference between them was. Godot explains briefly, but I am not too sure about what they mean by "slowest" or "accurate" There's trimesh static body, trimesh collision sibling, and multiple convex collision siblings.

It's working. Now make a video of how to make one on the cell phone. Android.

I got a problem with the code it had to do with line 16: var direction = Vector3() Does anybody know how to fix it? It says it's an indentation problem, but whoever I tab it again or untab it adds that problem to the next line.

Your awesome man keep up the good work 👍

My file corrupted right before I finished my game :( I'm back here and I'm saving 6:44 for when I'm done with my homework

I’m having a problem, my character is only going right, only the D key works

movement doesn't work for me does anyone have a solution?

Best tutorial IN DA WORLD now i can impress my brother that uses unity and godot and he makes computers and fixes them! lol so thanks!

okay i cant move forward. so i can use S A D but nor W

i make 3d fps game for mobile, but i will try to play in mobile , i will touch(swipe) mouse motion only, it will work properly, and i will touch (move) joystick only, then joystick work properly, but i will use both of them, first i will touch mouse motion and after touch joystick, both of them work properly but first i will touch joystick and after touch mouse motion , joystick will work but mouse motion not work, 😢😢how to solve please help

That was great, Watched this pt1 yesterday to get a feel for it, and just gone over it again following along in godot, nice clean code, allowed me to add a double jump, and disable to controls in the game with the mouse capture parts, something that I dont understand, is on the Clamping of the head angle, why not user the clamp function in the engine?

Very nice and informative tutorial! Thank you!

This is great! Thank you.

I have a problem. I fall through the floor when I have gravity on so I think it’s something to do with how the player collides with the collision shape

Where can I download this wallpaper?

something weid happend and every time i press forward i go down and i keep falling through the floor

Man your coding is clean.

I have a old graphic and it won't let me do anything :c

Thank you very much for posting! Subscribed.

odd i cant move right and my forward is slow one press to move but this tutorial help

I loved the tutorial but I'm using the Godot 3.2.2 and I'm not sure what happend but it told me that an error occurd and my elif statement for the forward and backard if statement was misplaced here are my code lines for reference. if Input.is_action_pressed("move_forward"): direction -= head_basis.z elif Input.is_action_pressed("move_backward"): direction += head_basis.z

Why not use the clamp function to restrict up down camera rotation

Why did you use Camera node for Y mouse movement and Head node for X mouse movement? Shouldn't they use same node?

Why do you rotate the head when panning the camera left and right but only the camera when panning up and down? The camera is a child of the head so it should always rotate along with it right?

Thank you very much! Very helpful videos!

hi Tom. just to let you know, the CollisionShape you set up around 5:50 doesn't really work. the moment you turn on gravity you fall trough your ground. You fixed it yourself here, as you show us also another way to set it up (with a static body). Because you stick to that for the remainder of the course you don't notice, but if you stick with a CollisionShape on a MeshInstance as shown around 5:50 your project goes wrong the moment you turn on gravity.