THIRD PERSON MOVEMENT in Unity 

Bless your soul Brackeys! I miss you evey day

I can already see my brand new unfinished project Edit: I did not expect a 1000+ likes. Wow!

I was able to watch this video 14 times while waiting for Unity to load...

To lock the cursor, use the line 'Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;' in the start function.

As always, so much quality in the videos! Never gets boring to learn from the Brackeys team!

If anyone is too lazy to write the code themselves, or just don't know how to do it; Here is my script which includes gravity, jumping, and everything shown in this video. You can also tweak it however fits your game :D (Press read more) using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Collections.Specialized; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Threading; using UnityEngine; public class ThirdPersonMovement : MonoBehaviour { public CharacterController controller; public Transform cam; public float speed = 6; public float gravity = -9.81f; public float jumpHeight = 3; Vector3 velocity; bool isGrounded; public Transform groundCheck; public float groundDistance = 0.4f; public LayerMask groundMask; float turnSmoothVelocity; public float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f; // Update is called once per frame void Update() { //jump isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask); if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0) { velocity.y = -2f; } if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded) { velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2 * gravity); } //gravity velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime; controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime); //walk float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized; if(direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) { float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y; float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime); transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f); Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward; controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime); } } }

Book Mark 2:06 Start (The course sounds great!) 4:38 Free Look Camera 17:37 Camera clip

I'm extremely appreciative of the fact that he made the code with the intention of being open for customization instead of being specific and restrictive. Literally a perfect video for a basic third person controller.

I want to say thank you for making these videos! This quarantine made me realize I want to make my own game and your tutorials are my savior. If I end up really making it, I would tag you as my mentor!

This was amazing tutorial, I really didnt wanted to use some 3rd person templates, as you never learn what exactly you have to do to achieve it, this was really helpful!

Me: making a race car game Brackeys: *we can think of the character controller as the motor that drives the player* Me: perfect.

tip: if u dont want ur camera to move up and down(y-axis) go to y axis in cinemachine and set the speed to 0 :). hope it helps!

This is fantastic! I don't think anyone has videos quite like yours. I love how you perfectly balance getting to the point and explaining what's going on. Please keep making videos like this!!!

This came out at the perfect time. Had the idea for a third person shooter about three weeks ago, struggled to find code that I could easily add functionality on top of, and then I found this video. I've been coming back to it ever since then! Thank you!

If any of you are using the High Definition template made by unity, and when testing game you may come along a message in the games window, try adding in the HD aditional camera data component.

I have spent a long time searching the internet for a way to smooth player rotation the way you do here! Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!

Please note, changing the camera near clip plane can really create a lot of Z fighting in the distance, or if you go to very extreme numbers, even in the middle distance. The reason is how floating points and the Z-buffer works, the Z-buffer stores the pixel depth as a number between 0 and 1, with a bias towards the numbers near the camera (it's non-linear, so 0.1 is not 10% through the distance between near and far clip, but much closer to the camera). And then ofc, the floating point can only store a certain amount of precision, you don't have infinite memory to write down all the decimal points after all. Practically this means that most of the Z-buffer is reserved for close to the camera, and by making the near value very small you basically make it so the difference between 100f and 101f is 0f, meaning objects far enough away will start occupying the same distance as far as the Z-buffer is considered. In general you want your near clip plane to be the highest you can tolerate in the game, and if you reduce it with an order of magnitude you *should* reduce the far clip with the same magnitude. So from 0.3 - 1000 to 0.03 - 100. Though I noticed now that Unity actually prevents you from going under 0.01 as near clip plane to avoid people setting it to 1e-10 and having everything just go wrong. Though you can set the far distance higher to see the effect partially, the near clip plane is more sensitive though due to the non-linear math being used.

I'd already made something like this, but seeing it in such a nice package shows how much I have yet to learn. Thanks a lot for such an amazing video, so straightforward and clear

I can't say how thankful i am for this video. It really helped me a LOT. Thank you very much!!!

Where would i be without this channel...It's too useful for things i forget all the time

I don’t understand some parts of the code yet, but I am making progress over time and I can notice it. I’ve been practicing Unity for quite a time now and found out lots of essential stuff thanks to your tutorials. Keep up the great work.

My brain started hurting when he started saying things like Euler and Quaternion...

So far these videos are giving me knowledge of how to build a base reference for a game that I know is going to take a while for me to make even with the help of my team currently still trying to put together 😂

Me : Works for hours writing camera collision code. Cinemachine: Does it in two clicks. Me: 0_0

I don't even use unity but these videos are so entertaining, keep up the good work!

This helped me a lot, i was struggling with movement and camera composition. But with your help, i manage to do the style i was looking for.... Thanks

For anyone looking for the Cinemachine dropdown menu, it is now accessed by right-clicking in the Hierarchy tab. If you do this and Cinemachine is not present down the bottom, try right-clicking inside your Project tab and clicking Reimport All.

wow! I AM SEARCHING FOR THIS FROM A LONG TIME AND EVERYONE HAVE HIS WAY AND THE MOST OF THIS WAY DOES NOT WORK BUT YOU DIT IT THANK YOU VERY MUCH

I've been banging my head looking for a good tutorial on this!!! Just in time, Tysm :D

Too sad you stopped making videos here, I still watch your stuff on a regular basis. Thanks for creating!

This was a great video! Very clear, concise and to the point! Thank you!

Just when I needed this, thanks Brackeys!!!

He always looks like he's about to start laughing

This tutorial was so good that I could feel the third person movement coming inside me whenever i played my game

I’m glad to see people replying to people who need help, it shows how great a community Brackeys built sad to see him go

You're really bringing me through my studies right now.... thank you so much!

Finally! I've been waiting for this.

This tutorial is the best i've seen for the movement. Congratulations man !! thx you so much

! I was trying to make a third person camera system for my game but it wasn't really working. Despite the differences in setup, this worked for me without having to change much. Thanks for making this tutorial so flexible/customisable

I had been trying so hard to get my player movement to work right with my camera movement the past few days and couldn't figure out this last missing part, and then find this video and noticed how easy it is if only I had brushed up on my math some more. Also, cinemachine... I forgot it existed... **buries head in hands**

Perfect this is exactly what I'm working on!

So powerful yet so simple! Many thanks!

Fyi in Unity 2019.4 "All Packages" has been Renamed to "Unity Registry"

I am following for about 5 months and I am making huge progress with your tutorials. You are cool guys. If it is possible could you make a tutorial more about third-person control and more about importing 3D fbx models to unity

That was exactly what i need right now, i love this channel so much

You saved my life, my final project and my times....Thanks you very much

i love how this dude isnt even making content anymore and his stuff is still the first thing to show up when i search literally anything unity related

I've noticed that whenever you make a controller that uses a cylinder or capsule as the base, you make the scale 1.8 on the y axis (being 1.8 metres is the average height for a person) but the base height of cylinders and capsules is unity is 2 metres high on the y axis so by making is a scale of 1.8 you're essentially making a person that's 3.6 metres tall.

Aah, the infamous cilinder-cube man, ready to boldly go where none have gone before!

Thanks!!!This video has what I was looking for!!

I was fighting with camera and player movement for a few weeks... After 20 minutes of this video this is better than everything that I got....

Great video ! Just one thing, if you normalized your direction vector it'll be useless to check if its length is greater than 0.1 (if you do this to simulate a stick deadzone).

I'm woking on a third person game with Legos, and this saved me from quitting, I'm serious, I was gonna stop making the game! TYSM, Brackeys! 😊

This worked for me, and the results are stunning. Thanks.

Thanks for your help today, your video is the best way to game development in unity

For camera-relative inputs I always use this line in my playerController: " movInput = (Cam.transform.forward * Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")) + (Cam.transform.right * Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal")); " Which is just one line of code and therefore superior ;p Apart from that, this cinemachine setup is waaaay superior than anything I ever made by myself, so I shal copy this for future projects, haha

I now know that I know nothing.

I was so excited with what i had learned so far, i only wanted to know how to rotate a character's direction. after watching this i feel so overwhelmed. :( that's awesome btw

Thx ALOT brackeys I really appreciate the lessons u gave us

Haha love the intro! Thanks a lot for the tutorial! :D

It would be nice if this has a next part with animated character like running jumping and etc

You are the only one youtuber who kept the contents simple and useful

Amazing man amazing no one provide free knowledge like this its ridiculous.... I checked out 20 channels on you tube but no one is like you💥

I swear, this guy is a psychic.

Sees this video after 1 month of working on third person movement Me: internal screeching

awesome video thanks really helped me undrstand it and ive used this for my school project

amazing tutorial, i found what i need to learn. you won a subscriber, good video bro

Jason is top class, have been following him for a long time, well worth a sub!

Ok i'm whatching these video rn and I wanted to tell you : "WoW" I'm in high school but I've seen that the real programming is soooo different, I admit that I'm having a lot of difficulties and the temptation of giving it away and just copy the code is really big but actually I'm here to learn not to copy so thank you for your explainations, I really appreciate how you make it look so simple, it is very motivational, God bless you!

so useful and clear. i loved

How you provide the information is so interesting and easy to understand man, you got one subscribe !

Me coming into life always wanting to code games. Me hearing Quaternion.Euler and looking back at my code and getting a migraine

Finally ❤❤ Pls pls also make a video on humanoid movements...i am tired of using ethan🌚🌚

Wish you still posted. this helped SO MUCH!

Thank you so much for this. I learned a lot following along. Way more than what was taught by my lazy professor in university. 😂

How would this work if you want gravity? [edit]x2 Below is my code, the main difference is that I am using a rigid body and gravity. Also to note that his rotation is always 'smoothing' so it never comes to rest, which is why I just use the just the target angle. translation = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); straffe = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); vSpeed -= gravity * Time.deltaTime; movement = new Vector3(straffe, 0f, translation).normalized; if (controller.isGrounded) { // Jumping, if we are on the ground, v goes back to 0. vSpeed = 0; if (Input.GetKeyDown("space")){ vSpeed = JumpForce; } } // movement rotation float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(movement.x, movement.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y; transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f); // if vertical/horizontal are active isMove is True (1) else False (0) isMove = (( translation != 0 || straffe != 0) ? 1 : 0); // Direction for us to move given that motion is present (isMove) Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * (Vector3.forward * isMove); // Gravity acting on us. moveDir.y = vSpeed; // Movement controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * Speed * Time.deltaTime);

In the last part instead of creating movDir, use transform.forward. transform.forward points in the current forward direction of the Player Object. controller.Move(transform.forward * speed*Time.deltaTime);

This was such a great tutorial!!!

Thanks for the tutorial!

OMGGG YESSS. I NEEDED THISSSSSSS. I usually prefer doing everything myself. So cinemechine is something I dnt really like. Luckily I know how to make my own 3rd person camera and collision. Then apply the movement script to it. Thanks so much brackeys ur the best!

Awesome video! Would've been even better with the new input system, since v1 is officially out it might be worth checking out.

Amazing tutorial really easy to understand love this and you❤❤❤

Soooo hopeful. Thank you very much!!!

If anyone's having snappy movement when going from a direction to the opposite one just uncheck "snap" in project settings-axis

yes yes it worked! now im feeling a surge of dopamine, thats sure to stop after some time, thanks!

Thanks For Brackeys!

Trying to create a 3D beat em up and this really helped crystallize the concepts. Mine doesn't work as well as yours lol but damn this really did help

Here is the code with a jumping function & gravity using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using UnityEngine; public class ThirdPersonMovement : MonoBehaviour { public CharacterController controller; public Transform cam; public float speed = 6f; public float gravity = -9.81f; public float jumpHeight = 3f; public Transform groundCheck; public float groundDistance = 0.4f; public LayerMask groundMask; Vector3 velocity; bool isGrounded; public float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f; float turnSmoothVelocity; private void Start() { } // Update is called once per frame void Update() { isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask); if(isGrounded && velocity.y < 0) { velocity.y = -2f; } float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized; velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime; controller.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime); if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded) { velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f * gravity); } if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) { float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y; float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime); transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f); Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward; controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime); } } }

Hey Brackeys, if you have not already, do you think you could make a video covering voxel animation? I know there are already tutorials out on this subject, but I'm sure your explanation would be the most straightforward and beneficial. If you see this, thanks!

It's what i need!Thank you!

I'm in love with this intro

It's like Brackey's knew that I wanted to make a third-person perspective game

HOLY SHITE MAN! I was looking for this from past 2 weeks ILY(no homo)!

awesome video !! thank you so much! 😀

thank you sir and your team. your works are the best

This is the entire code. I´m using the 2019.3.0f5 version of unity. This code have UnityEngine.Vector3 cuz that solved me a problem. (this script is without the jumping part) using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Numerics; using UnityEngine; public class ThirdPersonMovementScript : MonoBehaviour { public CharacterController controller; public Transform cam; public float speed = 6f; public float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f; float turnSmoothVelocity; // Update is called once per frame void Update() { float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"); UnityEngine.Vector3 direction = new UnityEngine.Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized; if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) { float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y; float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime); transform.rotation = UnityEngine.Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f); UnityEngine.Vector3 moveDir = UnityEngine.Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * UnityEngine.Vector3.forward; controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime); } } }

*For those of you having issues with the player hovering over the ground when you move:* in the character controller make the skin width smaller (0.0001 worked for me) the player will still be above 0 but its very unnoticeable (like 0.005) and shouldnt effect gameplay

This is the best intro ever!

Once again amazing tutorial!

His voice is so soothing I’m watching this while coding something else lol