[RELEASED] Third Person Shooter Bundle

Hello guys,

I am pleased to announce a brand new package, for everyone who wants to create a third-person shooter:
the Third Person Shooter Bundle.



Get it now on the Unity Asset Store: Third Person Shooter Bundle

This bundle contains the existing Cover + Shooting System, a professional cover shooter controller for your third-person game, and also features the brand new Enemy AI package, a full AI system for shooter enemy NPCs, with a plug-and-play, expandable FSM model. The bundle also comes with an exclusive scene, containing some extra shooter game specific features.

For information upon the shooter controller features, please refer to the standalone package official topic:
Cover + Shooting System - Third Person Shooter - Official topic

For more info on the Enemy AI enemy NPCs package, please refer to the standalone package official topic:
Enemy AI - Official topic

Anyone will be able to upgrade from both standalone packages to the Third Person Shooter Bundle, and grant a discount on the second package full price.

Tutorial: How to setup the third-person controller
Tutorial: How to setup the enemy NPCs
Tutorial: Mastering Enemy AI: Building Custom FSMs for NPCs

For any support issues, to ensure the faster response, please use the official support channel:

Support for the Third Person Shooter Bundle package

This is the official forum for suggestions, comments, etc. Please fell free to provide any feedback.

Thanks!

UPDATE:

We've just released a new video tutorial on creating custom Finite State Machines (FSMs) for hostage NPCs using our Enemy AI module of the Third Person Shooter Bundle. If you're interested in enhancing your game's AI, this video might be helpful.

What You'll Learn:

• Building a custom FSM for a hostage NPC
• Creating states and transitions
• Implementing actions to enhance your game's AI
• Practical examples and demonstrations

Watch the Video:

New Tutorial Video: Mastering Enemy AI: Building Custom FSMs for NPCs

Feel free to watch and share your thoughts or questions in the comments.

Happy learning!

 

Need melee

 

And grenades. Haha but i like the pack though. I like how simplified it is, easy to modify. Makes the package more versatile than most packs out there.

 

Thanks for the feedback. The player controller was designed in a way that the modularity makes it easy to expand. The melee module is on the roadmap to be constructed, also.

 

The Enemy AI package, included in the Third Person Shooter Bundle, figures a FSM (finite state machine) AI model for the enemy NPCs (non player characters).
The main decisions are based on tridimensional senses, like the view sense, the hear and focus, etc. They are basically defined by a radius and, if applicable, an angle (ex.: field of view angle for the view sense):



The following animations highlight some of the main states in the FSM. The patrol state is a clear alert level state, where the NPC guards a route or a fixed position:



The search state is a warning alert state, where the NPC navigate to a suspicious position to investigate it:

 

The take cover state is an engage state, in which the NPC seeks for a cover spot to protect itself from direct fire:



There is a chance (customizable) for the NPC to avdance to a cover there is near the player, defining a more agressive approach:



Finally, another enemy behavior that is important to highlight refers to the focus movements. This kind of behavior is triggered when the enemy is in close combat situation, making the NPC to focus on the target while moving, avoiding turning his back to the player:

 

Thats cool, im probably gonna pick up the ai. If its built with the quality of the shooter i dont doubt it will be great.

One thing i found is I dismantled most of the interactive weapon script, placed most of the functionallity on the player for it, and the player does a spherecast, gathers all the weapons and items, by tag, and distance, then the pickuo hud goes to the nearest. I found that with adding items such as ammo boxes. (And ammo types) having each weapon with thier own interactive sphere, i was picking up everything i was near. Which in my case, wasnt optimal

 

The Enemy AI is already included in the Third Person Shooter Bundle. If you have acquired the Cover + Shooting System, you can now upgrade to the bundle, acquiring the AI pack at a discounted price, which is less than it's standalone value.

About the script for picking weapons and items, it was created that way by design, to make the player acquire all items close to him, without the need of multiple pick actions.

 

beautiful, the pick up items, makes total sense, I had to change it for project requirements, and im not a coder, and it was still pretty easy for me to do because you laid out the scripts so well. very easy to work with

 

one thing I did notice though, if you create more than 1 type of weapon, such as 2 types of pistols, and happen to stand next to them and pick them up. they conflict with each other in the scripts

 

What do you mean by conflict? If they are the same type, but different models, only one of them will be picked. If they are same type and model, they are both picked and becomes one in your inventory.

edit.: In fact, the ammo is filled when picking the same model, but the HUD is not refreshed. If you fire a single shot you can see the ammo update. I'll fix that, thanks.

 

oh maybe its something i changed then, but i found if they are the same model, it picks 1, but then the logic for switching weapons or shooting for it got screwed up. but it totally could be something i changed

 

In any case the player picks both. If they are different, the first one is dropped and the second one goes to the inventory. If they ate equal, both are picked, occuping one slot only in the inventory, and the ammunition is filled.

 

hello just buy the bundle
test scenes and look very good asset
but i need to use the ai only with my project who as already a third person asset
but when i import the bundle in my project i have console error
can you help me please :

 

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

The location of the HealthManager script on the bundle is different from the standalone version of the Enemy AI package. Since we cannot put duplicated scripts, with the same namespace, in a Unity project, the script is originally located under the Cover + Shooting package folder.

With the bundle, you must import that extra file, when using only the Enemy AI. Here is the location:



Please re-import the package, deselect all assets, and check only this file.

 

hi thanks very much
can you help me for the last error ?
only appear when i imort the ai


ssets\Dias Games\Shooter\Scripts\InventoryData.cs(14,29): error CS0066: 'InventoryData.OnInventoryUpdate': event must be of a delegate type

Found the error , conflict whit the two assets (shooter system and enemyAI)
in action.cs of enemyAI
remplace
public abstract class Action : ScriptableObject
by
public abstract class ActionAI : ScriptableObject
after
remplace in all script the Action by ActionAI
now no more errors.
nice will test now

 

hi
looking tuto Getting started with your Shooter Game - Enemy NPCs
all seems to works too 20:33
but at this my character enemy aim my player and return to idle and aim my player and return in idle ...in loop
don't understand why ...
any idea ??
thanks

 

As you noticed, the package you are trying to integrate with the Enemy AI also has a class named Action.

I'll try to isolate the specific classes under the Enemy AI namespace to avoid that error. Thanks for reporting it.

 

A fix to that issue has already been submitted. Could you contact me trough the support e-mail, so I can provide you an additional support on this matter? Thanks.

 

Hi,

Few pre-sale questions :

1) Can we make AI act in a manner where they are patrolling (relaxed state) and if they see another dead AI, they become focused (aim state) and search for the player (random search)?

2) Does this package have both AI waypoint system (We can build our own waypoints for patrolling) and state system (like behaviour designer)? Any screenshots for both - waypoints and state system?

3) Does AI animation include death from angle of bullet hit - like sideways, front, back etc.?

4) Can we change images of guns, text style of ammo, placement etc.?

Also what is your support email? Couldn't find it anywhere.

Regards,

 

Adding in directional hitting/deaths isnt hard to code in if its not there. Or use ragdoll. Any images from any packs ive seen is customizable, its just a image.

 

Hello, thanks for your interest.

1) Can we make AI act in a manner where they are patrolling (relaxed state) and if they see another dead AI, they become focused (aim state) and search for the player (random search)?

You can easilly extend the FSM and create a Decision for that, transitioning to the search state in case it is true.


2) Does this package have both AI waypoint system (We can build our own waypoints for patrolling) and state system (like behaviour designer)? Any screenshots for both - waypoints and state system?

The waypoints are a list, customizable for each enemy via inspector. If by state system you mean a finite-state machine, so yes,the base of this AI is a FSM model, and it is easy to extend with more states/actions, and decisions/transitions. A next video tutorial will show how to extend it. Also, you will find a full diagram of the current FSM on the README file of the package.

3) Does AI animation include death from angle of bullet hit - like sideways, front, back etc.?

Not by animation, but a when a enemy dies, force is applied to the ragdoll, from the direction of the hit.

4) Can we change images of guns, text style of ammo, placement etc.?

Yes you can, all of that is fully customizable. The ones provided (textures, models, font, particle effects, materials etc.) was made for the example scenes and the tutorial.

Hope it helps.

 

Hi, it is already there.

Even when the enemy dies, and the body is on the ground, you can see that force applied to the dead body. Take a look at the demo and check it for yourself.

 

A day 1 patch is already online. It fixes (for the Enemy AI pack) some minor bugs regarding the enemy aim calibration, and also isolates scripts with common classes names under the Enemy AI namespace, to avoid conflicts.

For those who already acquired, please update your packages.

 

Beauty, i had that issue, but havent had time to address it yet

 

The only issue with ragdoll, is the physic engine cost cpu to run, so ragdoll is nice, and for many ppl is a common way to do deaths, but performance wise, isnt the best solution, i have the AI but havent played with it too much yet, i forget, are the limbs kninematic and swap to gravity on death? Or just use gravity entire time?

 

You dont happen to have any idea when melee would be a possibility eh? And or shotguns

 

Since the ragdoll is needed to detect which member was shot, the entire ragdoll members are set to kinematic while the enemy is alive, easing the physics processing. Only when the enemy dies the health script enables them, so the gravity can make its job.

 

A shotgun is more closer on plans than a complete melee system. But a simple close combat hit feature, like some shooters have, can be included too. The next add-on to be added is probably about explosives, grenades etc.

 

Hi,

any idea when the throwing action will be implemented? Also please make sure that instead of grenades stones can be thrown to distract enemies.

Regards,

 

Thanks for the suggestion. This can be achieved by using the AlertManagement, passing the position where the stone has gone.

As said before, the next add-on to be added is probably about explosives, grenades etc.

 

need help i followed the tutorial how to pick up gun and take cover.. but it's not working its's not picking up nor taking cover it just runs around and jump

 

Hello, are there any messages displayed on the console?

 

no messages
it just walk pass the gun

 

it displays the UI on the screen PICKUP

 

You might have missed something on the tutorial. I’ve sent you a private message to help you with that.

 

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
CoverBehaviour.Update () (at Assets/TPS Bundle/Cover+Shoot/Scripts/PlayerScripts/CoverBehaviour.cs:89)

 

please take a look at your private messages.

 

i sent you a video of the game play

 

it didn't work i even tried redoing it with the model pistol from the TPS bundle and the cube example from the tutorial

 

I have answered your e-mail.

 

What about performance, on mobile exactly? Is it optimized, do you use pooling, etc?

And about the Unity version, does it support Unity 2018?

 

The scenes run normally on mid-end or better spec mobile devices (tested with 3-4 years devices).

There is no pooling. The root enemy objects stays in the scene as dead bodies, although not needed assets are removed from it when they die.

For the Third person Shooter Bundle package, it supports Unity versions 2019.2.21 or higher (this info is always present in the package page).

 

The pooling of things that are instantiated and destroyed, for example, bullets, effects, etc.

Why are you limited to Unity 2019? Many developers still use Unity 2018, even Unity 2017.

 

The instant bullet effects like smoke, sparks, shot tracer, are particles that auto-destroy after they end. The exception is bullet holes, for the player controller, that has a pooling technique to re-use the oldest ones on new shot places.

The package was initially created using 2019, which was the latest version by the time. But I am considering porting the asset to the latest LTS version indeed, thanks for the suggestion.

 

Hi,

Got your asset pack two weeks back. Nice job on this. Tried the main demo scene and everything works properly. I do have few questions though :

1) How do I change the camera angle with which the player is viewed? Like I want the camera to follow the player but view him from z offset of -8 to -10 and y offset of 4-5 which it does but it still looks straight. I want the camera to rotate little bit so that it looks at the player and not in his direction. Hope you get it.

2) Can I change bullet trails or add them? I didn't see the option anywhere. I want some yellow flashy trails for bullets.

Regards,

 

Hello,
Thank you for your acquisition and for the feedback.

1) I didn't get well what do you intent... Assuming you are talking about the third person shooter scene, you can modify the camera position and focus under the Third Person Orbit Cam script, attached to the camera.

To modify the pivot point it focus on, you must change the Pivot Offset parameter. The pivot is calculated starting from the player position (0,0,0).

To modify the camera orbit position, which is given by the offset related to the pivot point, you must modify the Cam Offset parameter.

The Aim Behaviour action of the player also has particular values for these 2 parameters, which is activated when you aim with the player.

2) The bullet trail is a particle prefab.

For the player, it is the tracer particle, inside the ShotEffects prefab:

Assets/TPS Bundle/Cover+Shoot/Prefabs/ShotEffects.prefab

For the enemies, it is here:

Assets/TPS Bundle/EnemyAI/Prefabs/tracer.prefab

It runs over the positive Z axis.

If you believe the current tracer an smoke trail effect for the shot particle is not visible enough, you can modify it, for example, by adding more smoke particles to the trail, or even replace it by new particle, like a laser shot, or anything else you want.

 

Hi,

regarding the first question, check the attached image.

When I change pivot offset and cam offset I get 1 and 2 as result. The camera still looks in same direction.

I want number 3 where the camera tilts from a distance and focuses on the player, hence the need to change the angle or something similar.

How to achieve this result? Like what if I want the camera to see the player from vertically top as in top down shooter?

Regards,

 

also another question : How do I start a game with the player already holding a weapon. Like begin with him holding a rifle.

Regards,

 

The Bundle scene camera script is a third person camera that orbits the player, it is a different design from what you are looking for.

Why not use the the camera script from the TopDown scene instead? What you are looking to is different from it? I didn't get it well..