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!

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

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

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); } } }

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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!!!

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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 😂

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 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.

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**

Just when I needed this, thanks Brackeys!!!

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

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 even use unity but these videos are so entertaining, keep up the good work!

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 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!!!!

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

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

He always looks like he's about to start laughing

! 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

So powerful yet so simple! Many thanks!

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.

Perfect this is exactly what I'm working on!

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

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

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

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!

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

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

Finally! I've been waiting for this.

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....

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

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

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

Thx ALOT brackeys I really appreciate the lessons u gave us

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

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

I found there was a slight delay when releasing the directions and the player stopping, you can reduce the delay by increasing the gravity setting for Horizontal and Vertical in the Axes preferences in project settings.

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

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

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

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

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 now know that I know nothing.

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

Thanks for the tutorial!

Wish you still posted. this helped SO MUCH!

I swear, this guy is a psychic.

How do you convert those values into a rigid body? working with character controller is almost useless, you can't interact with most of things. I tried a couple of ways but it seems like RigidBody doesn't like that Vector3 moveDir for some reason

3인칭으로 프로그램을 만들게 될 것 인가 아니면 1인칭으로 프로그램을 만들게 될 것 인가는 큰 고민 중 하나였습니다. 이런식으로 각각의 장단점에 대해서 자세히 설명해주시고 특징들을 잘 짚어내어 주셔서 선택을 하는데에 큰 도움이 되었습니다.

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💥

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!

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

This was such a great tutorial!!!

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

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

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❤❤❤

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

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);

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! 😊

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

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

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!

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);

so useful and clear. i loved

Soooo hopeful. Thank you very much!!!

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); } } }

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

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

how come my character won't move? can someone help?

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

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

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

nice video it helped me understand code more

when i move the view in scene view its sensitivity goes to a very high number, and the camera moves very fast

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

Thanks For Brackeys!

Once again amazing tutorial!

Does someone know how I can change Ethan's script from standard assets to move where the camera is pointing?

I'm quite new to this, a lot of tutorials recommend to have the actual movement in FixedUpdate. Is there a specific reason Brackeys does it differently? I get that Time.deltaTime works around the fps resctrictions, but to my understanding it would still be best practice to have it in FixedUpdate. What am I missing?

awesome video !! thank you so much! 😀

hello Brackeys i really want to thank you I cannot believe that your explanation and method worked for me. I cannot believe it. Thank you. I love you I feel very happy and grateful to you for saving me

Hi! Your video was very useful for me as a beginner in Unity. But i was trying to combine jump and physics part from your video with 1 person movement with this tutorial and i get something strange thing. I can jump but cant go toward the camera. I hope you will do another video where will be combined physics, jump and smooth rotation and, ofc movement .