Third Person Character Controller in Godot 3.2 

Everything works properly except When I press a key Move forward or move backward It only moves a hair.. And it stops moving.. Requiring me to press the key multiple times to get movement is there a line I'm missing.. Or is that normal for the basic third person

If I lift the player in the editor and then run the game, it crashes. If I don't lift it and I run it, I can't move. Furthermore, it says that this node $CameraPivot/CameraBoom/Camera don't exists. I followed the tutorial and copied the github code. What's happening???

@@doppler110 check the naming of your nodes in the scene hierarchy and ensure they are named correctly as per that node path

@@CodeWithTom can you give me the link of discord community ?

Interesting, thanks Enes!

also onready will need be @onready and you will define your onready variables like an enum

Thanks Frag, glad you enjoyed the video 😁

Thanks Matt. And thank you for the much better solution to the gravity issue!

Matt this is making me jump while I'm jumping 😂

@@cholasimmons you need to keep the is_on_floor check around the jump code

Thank you so much for the amazing feedback Yuler. I'm really glad you've found the tutorials so useful and it's great to hear that you were able to take them and expand them to fit your needs! Good luck in your game development journey and I hope I can help you with more content as your progress. 👍

Ja

I think it's probably my british and uncultured accent, hahaha

You're welcome Pascal

You're very welcome Stevie. What kind of puzzle game would you like to see?

@@CodeWithTom something along the lines of either a protal-esuq type if possible.

Hi Voylin's life, I have an improved version of 3rd Person control here that fixes this problem: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YNmSwR8aSzU.html . Just copy/paste code from description into your script editor. This is due to the momentum from the drop being calculated onto the "slide" of the slope.

for some reason i cant move forward?

you have written this in back and left right back: if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_down"): direction += transform.basis.z (I am using ui_down as input) left: if Input.is_action_pressed("ui_left"): direction -= transform.basis.x hope this helps

Thanks, but I think I have that part down right. Sometimes with these tutorials I have to look at my code for days until I find what is wrong. If you want I can post my code down here. The only difference is that I added a key to regain mouse control.

extends KinematicBody #ADD INDENTS export var speed : float = 20 export var acceleration : float = 15 export var air_acceleration : float = 5 export var gravity : float = 0.98 export var max_terminal_velocity : float = 54 export var jump_power : float = 20 export(float, 0.1, 1) var mouse_sensitivity : float = 0.3 export(float, -90, 0) var min_pitch : float = -90 export(float, 0, 90) var max_pitch : float = 90 var velocity : Vector3 var y_velocity : float onready var camera_pivot = $CameraPivot onready var camera = $CameraPivot/CameraBoom/Camera func _ready(): Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED) func _process(delta): if Input.is_action_just_pressed("ui_cancel"): Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE) if Input.is_action_just_pressed("enter"): Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED) func _input(event): if event is InputEventMouseMotion: rotation_degrees.y -= event.relative.x * mouse_sensitivity camera_pivot.rotation_degrees.x -= event.relative.y * mouse_sensitivity camera_pivot.rotation_degrees.x = clamp(camera_pivot.rotation_degrees.x, min_pitch, max_pitch) func _physics_process(delta): handle_movement(delta) func handle_movement(delta): var direction = Vector3() if Input.is_action_pressed("move_forward"): direction -= transform.basis.z if Input.is_action_just_pressed("move_backward"): direction += transform.basis.z if Input.is_action_pressed("move_left"): direction -= transform.basis.x if Input.is_action_just_pressed("move_right"): direction += transform.basis.x direction = direction.normalized() var accel = acceleration if is_on_floor() else air_acceleration velocity = velocity.linear_interpolate(direction * speed, accel * delta) if is_on_floor(): y_velocity = -0.01 else: y_velocity = clamp(y_velocity - gravity, -max_terminal_velocity, max_terminal_velocity) if Input.is_action_just_pressed("jump") and is_on_floor(): y_velocity = jump_power velocity.y = y_velocity velocity = move_and_slide(velocity, Vector3.UP)

Hi Vinny, thanks for the feedback! Yeah I'm currently working on a third person game so I'll be bringing a lot of my learnings from it into future video tutorials.

Awesome @@CodeWithTom looking forward for those! :)

Swap the Camea node out for a ClippedCamera, problem solved :)

They have one , different guy ill send you the link

I figured it out. Instead of just pressed it was pressed that i needed

Hi, when the player is on the floor we apply a small amount of downward force to keep the player locked to the floor and ensure that the KinematicBody is_on_floor method reports correctly. As I mention in the video, there may be better ways to do this but I found this method to work best. 😁

@@CodeWithTom Oh indeed, guess I've misunderstood something. However keep up the great work!

You're welcome 😊

me too, ive already spent hours trina solve and got nothing..........

@@Jose.Eduardo.C Update: gave up on 3d for a very long time. I still don't feel capable of it

@@ceasnov I gave up awhile ago so hard I gave up on making games, now I'm trying once again. But I actually found my bug, I was trying to get the camera pivot node from higher up in the scene tree, apparently Godot doesn't like that very much (my script was in the camera itself, because I felt like making other stuff with the camera separate from the Player node), when I transferred the code to the Player node, it worked! (In a messed up way, but at least now I have different bugs to fix)

Thank you! Good question, that's been asked a couple times before. I definitely plan to do it at some point, it's on a long list of topics I'd like to get covered :)

@@CodeWithTom Alright, looking forward to it!

nvm, turns out it was a spacing error in the code, so it was on my part

It seems to be some kind of touch-pad protection thingy. Works perfectly when tested with an actual mouse.

Go to the Input Map tab and add (move_forward, move_backward, move_left and move_right, map them to W, A S and D or whatever you like.

The onready keyword defers initialization until the _ready function has been called. It's essentially the same as initializing a variable inside _ready.

Hi Mauricio, yes it's called a Ternary Operator. 😁 book.pythontips.com/en/latest/ternary_operators.html

@@CodeWithTom Thank you! This will be handy for me

Thanks, I'll definitely be following up soon

Absolutely. I'm about to implement animation trees into my side-project which is also a third person game. So those tutorials will be coming soon.

13:19 look at the last line. it is very long, so zoom out a bit and correct it. it expects at least three arguments seperated by a comma.

@@Raphipod I had copied your code exactly. It must have been a glitch though. Restarting the editor fixed it.

Hi Lautaro MMB, This is because the vector movement goes down in a stair-step motion with slopes. It gets off the floor and pushed back down to the floor. I have a video that fixes this problem, along with a couple others: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YNmSwR8aSzU.html . Just copy/paste code from description into your script editor.

Hi there. The get_node function expects a path to a Node. So copy and pasting may not work if the node is at a different relative path.

Code with Tom thank you! Also great video, I’m planning on using it!

Hi James, you could indeed roll your own spring arm solution using a raycast node and then lerp the desired position to get a smoother transition. You would experience issues with the camera going "through" geometry as it smooths into position though.

@@CodeWithTomUse ClippedCamera instead of Camera. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bch-OagnX1E.html