Character System

Thanks a lot Robin. I didn't see the one on line 562, that did the trick!
I have another question for later about implementing jumping while climbing, but I think it'll be clearer if I just show it in a video. I'll post it here when it's done.
Thanks again.

 

@Parnell and Harmesh81 - No problem, you're welcome ;-)

 

I have replaced your character and several animatios by my own.

I am now trying to add the locomotion system to your template.

It works roughly but I get strange results. In particular, the walking and jogging animations are played too fast. It would be supposed to work though because I managed to setup correctly the locomotion system in another project with the very same character and the very same animations.

The main difference between your template and this other project is that you are using a rigidbody with capsule collider instead of a Character Controller. I suspect that this is the reason why this doesn't work.

Is the use of a rigidbody mandatory in your template? for what functionalities? Or can I replace it with a Character Controller?

 

Sounds good!
The Locomotion System by Rune also supports rigidbody based motors which are much more handy imo.
Of course you can use a Character Controller to move the avatar, but you will have to fit the movement functionality to it.

 

@Deckard, I helped solve a similar issue on UA regarding the physics setup for the locomotion system, you can find this here. You may find the discussion useful for your specific case.

@Robin, also if Unity 4 does not provide an improved alternative to the locomotion system, I would also be interested in information about how to make the latter and this system work together. I am interested only in the rigid body setup up though

 

@Hamesh, I guess that shouldn't be to hard to do, basically you have to turn the locomotion system off when jumping, climbing, swimming etc.
Ideally it should only be used in idle state to place the feet correct on uneven surface, imo. But that is up to you ;-)

 

I did some more research on this and it may be the case that Mecanim is going to make the Loco System obsolete, no one is 100% sure yet though. So we'll see.

 

I will offer this Character System for Legacy and Mecanim ;-)
This step will make it retarget-able in seconds even if a avatar has a different bone structure.

 

I'm wondering how adaptable this system is to a 2.5D game environment??

Have you got anything in place to be able to turn this into a left/right sidescroller type controller with everything else as normal?

 

Hello,

I if buy this i use maya to model characters and sometimes rig them? How could you model a character in maya and then rig this set up to the character?

thanks

 

@Schmoey - You would need a camera script, which handles the 2.5d perspective, disable the rotation input from the player. And you could constrain a rigidbody axis for simulating the 2 dimensional movement. It is not set up for this by default but very flexible and modular as you will see ;-)

@Gamenoodle - Hi, you can rig your character to the provided skeleton or retarget the animations to your rigged character also possible in Maya due IKinema or HIK retargeting.
The package includes 123 animations in FBX format and a source Blender file with even about 150 animations.

You're welcome

 

Very nice work

And VERY reasonable for all that is included. Could spend this much on animations alone and not get the even hald the amount that are included in this.(just can not believe the few complaints saying it is too much )

The camera system just makes me drool lol.
Seriously thinking about getting this.

 

Could you possibly share this link with the rest of us?

Haven't purchased this yet but am curious and would like to research all that is needed for my project idea before hand.
Thank you for any information provided

 

Hi Nubz,

Thanks a lot! Much appreciated!
Yes, sure thing, but it's only some retargeting video material i found on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R0S_ymHQbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VhbSrau-0c
And a great rigging tutorial :
http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/introduction-to-rigging/
Hope this helps,
Cheers

 

Everything helps when you have to work alone on a project haha
Thank you

 

Hi everyone,

I'm working on expanding the Character System's double tap code to include triple trap functionality (eg. WSA, WSD, ASW etc etc). I have triple tapping working for single keys (WWW, AAA, SSS, DDD) but am having trouble making it work for multiple keys as suggested above. If anyone would like to help me out please have a look at the:

Unity Answers Question

Would really appreciate some advice, I'm sure it is something simple. Once this gets solved I'll be more than happy to post up the finished code snippet as I have done before.

Thanks a lot.

 

@Nubz - No problem ;-)
@Hamesh81 - Do you mean something like this ?

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. // Attach this to a game object in your scene, press Play and hit the A,B and C keys on your keyboard.
4. public class TestClass : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     public string lastKey;
7.  
8.     void Update ()
9.     {
10.         TripleKeyCombo("a","b","c");
11.     }
12.    
13.     void TripleKeyCombo (string first, string second, string third)
14.     {
15.         if (Input.GetKeyDown(first))
16.         {
17.             if (lastKey != first  lastKey != second)
18.             {
19.                 lastKey = first;
20.                 Debug.Log("Correct! Two more...");
21.             }
22.             else
23.             {
24.                 Debug.Log("Wrong key! Try again...");
25.                 lastKey = "";
26.             }
27.         }
28.         else if (Input.GetKeyDown(second))
29.         {
30.             if (lastKey == first)
31.             {
32.                 Debug.Log("Correct! One more...");
33.                 lastKey = second;
34.             }
35.             else
36.             {
37.                 Debug.Log("Wrong key! Try again...");
38.                 lastKey = "";
39.             }
40.         }
41.         else if (Input.GetKeyDown(third))
42.         {
43.             if (lastKey == second)
44.             {
45.                 Debug.Log("Triple-Combo !!!");
46.                 lastKey = third;
47.             }
48.             else
49.             {
50.                 Debug.Log("Wrong key! Try again...");
51.                 lastKey = "";
52.             }
53.         }
54.     }
55. }
56.  

 

Thanks a lot Robin. I noticed you answered my question on UA as well, appreciate all your effort! Which script would you suggest, the one above or the one on UA?

 

@Hamesh81 - The example let you register 3 keys pressed in a chain but without a time limitation and is re-usable. The one on UA let you use a boolean and a key as parameter(re-usable, time based double tap). I thought that might be useful in any case.
You're welcome!

 

I figured it out in the end
I posted the details as an answer on UA. Basically I had to setup 2 strings to track the inputs being made. Thanks for you help Robin, you're a champ!!

 

No problem, i'm glad you got it working ;-)

 

can you make a version of your character system for mobile devices ?

 

Hi,
I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work on mobile.
You would have to replace the mouse keyboard input with touch input.
If you have any problems running it, just let me know ;-)

 

Could you provide some LOD versions?

 

Hi,
you mean of the character? Yes, it is planned to come in 3 LOD stages for the next release.

 

Hi Robin, I have just bought this asset. I love it! But now, I would like to use this system on my different characters with all the animations the same. What is the simplest way to do this?

 

Hi allentin,
Thanks a lot, always nice to hear! You can rigg your character mesh to the skeleton for instance in, blender, max etc. or retarget the animation if you use maya or motion builder.

 

I just brought it, where is there a button to enable the character to turn in any direction? There appears to be a glitch, the character keeps dive rolling for no reason.

 

Hi a_haouchar,
Sounds weird! Can you go a bit more in details please? By default turning the character is done via player input, mouse axis x.

 

Using Unity 4f3 Beta, Windows 8 Pro x64 bit

I'm at work at the moment so I'll try changing to keyboard input.

Edit: I changed from "Mouse" to "Keyboard or Mouse" and now Orbit camera doesn't move in X axis as well as the player doesn't change direction.

 

When new version will be available? That lod versions are important

 

@a_haouchar - The character rotation is driven due a simple Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"). If you can't rotate the Camera with this script (also uses Mouse Axis X) Then there might be something wrong with your setup. Can you dropbox me the project link via pm?

@sleglik - Hard to predict since it is not the only feature which needs to be done for future versions.
Which 3d App are you using ? You can decimate the model by your self in minutes, if you need it really bad and right now.
Btw. The ninja is about 5-6k tris.

 

Estimated release date for Mecanim version?

 

Really hard to predict. But i can tell you that it will be awesome, when it's done

 

Using the existing animations, is it not possible yet to convert to Mecanim? It seems that all the animations, when set up for Mecanim, their average velocity = 0, thus the character won't move using a basic animation controller. Or am I not on the right track at all?

 

Not true, at the moment the animation velocity is calculated due root motion of the animation. But you can also drive your character controller or rigid body controller like in the legacy system and use in place motions. There is a checkbox for that... Pretty handy ;-)

 

Where is this checkbox? Would you have a very simple basic example available?

 

Is this going to drive the price through the roof though? LOL
You deserve to get paid for your work don't take this the wrong way I am just curious what it will look like since I plan on waiting for something that works in Unity4 with Mecanim

 

@voncarp - In the Animator component -> ApplyRoot Motion -> Handled by Script;
I'm working on it and will show it when its ready for the public eye ;-)

@Nubz - No worries, it is a bargain for what you will get ;-)

 

one of my most fav on the asset store but think about adding a cover system 2 it

 

Hey 0lachlan0,

Thanks for your kind words! Many work hours went into this project ;-)
And yeah that would be pretty cool, maybe in a future version.

Cheers

 

The Demo Link in Asset Store seems broken.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/39674817/CharSys_v3/CharSys_v3.htmll

 

Thanks for pointing it out, i will link a new demo with the next release,
please use the demo link from my signature in the meantime.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/39674817/CharSys_v3.1/CharSys_v3.html

 

I just purchased the CharacterSystem. I think changing weapon during Combat State make more sense.

 

Do you know when will be new version prepared? I am not sure if I should wait for that LOD versions. I am not good with blender so I cannot reduce it myself

 

Does this character System V3 work with moving platforms? I would get it if it functions in that capacity as well...

 

Hi robins, your system is definitely awesome!!!
Since unity4 has finally released, I can not wait to using unity4 and your system
Is it easy to retarget your hundreds animations into other character by Unity4 Mecanim?
Can we do it by ourself? I remember you said you will integrate character system into unity4 mecanim in an early post in this thread.

 

@yuewahchan - Welcome onBoard, i hope you enjoy ;-)

@sleglik - I'm working really hard on the next release, it's not ready yet.

@knowledgehammer - It is not implemented out of the box, but you could sync the velocity of platform and character to get a good result i guess, haven't tested it tough ;-)

@well young - Hi, Thanks a lot! ;-)
I'm currently working on a U4 version which can be retargeted inside Unity.
The current version is also very efficient and usable in U4. Its just a bit work to set it up on a custom character. The easiest way would be to skin your character mesh to the ninja skeleton. That way you just need to replace the characters and can use the provided animations without any problems.
You can also retarget the animations to your character if you want.
Here are some tutorial videos for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VhbSrau-0c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Uu6ijBsN8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hV8BqsCEA
Hope this helps.
Cheers

 

Ok dudes, please help me out with a tutorial or something i have a game and already put unisky and some other plugins im trying to put this character system as well but from 2 days it all goes to hell non-stop. Please help!! ;s btw. the tutorial in youtube really isnt clear enough i need step by step...

 

You have your own scene and trying to use the ninja character? Trying to use your own character? What are you trying to do?