[RELEASED] TPSA - Third Person Shooter System (template)

Thanks Stiffx! No need to apologize about the Zombie. It is after all... a zombie.

 

Hi there guys,

Following the last tutorial here goes the second part of the basic setup. Now let's setup a weapon from scratch.

 

anyone tried this with UMA? i plan to buy this and use it with UMA.

 

Hi there @daeuk I dont know UMA very well, but as long as it uses a 3d model with humanoid skeleton and is capable of running mecanim everything should work just fine.

 

I have a question about the Asset :
Can the character cover on non plane surfaces ? like a wall with multiple columns on it , os it is not something plane : how will slide the character ?
Can the character cover behind any objects in front of him ? Cars, bike, trunk, train, wall debris ?
Or can we specify objects that should be used as cover instead ?

When we cover the camera is placed on the right looking at the character, can that be changed ?
I would need the camera to behave like others TPS : when you cover the camera looks forward in front of the cover to what is going on.

 

Will you add shooting enemies? That would be fecking awesome

 

Hi there @zenGarden and @Devision4 , thank you for passing by.

As long as there's no objects by players side it should work, I mean, if there's two columns one at left and one at right the player can't move because of the collider.

Yes indeed. Different from the Jump and StepOver events the cover just performs a small check with raycast. There's no limitation to cover as long as the raycast says it's fine to cover.

This would be a nice thing to do, but for now the cover runs wild and free

This is a very nice idea I might add it in the future, hadn't thought about it so far. Thanks

 

This would be good for people to have a complete ready to go TPS system with basic ennemy AI.

How does it works ? you press a button to cover in front of some obstacle or it is auto ?
Do you press the same button to quit the cover or does it quit automatically when you are no more covered when you move ?

 

You need to press a button to cover, here is how it works:
Press X in front of a object then cover starts.
Press C to enter/exit crouch in cover.
Press DOWN to exit, but if you reach cover left/right limit you can press UP to exit walking forward.

 

New update,
Now you can rotate the camera around the player and as soon as you start moving the character will rotate towards the camera direction. I hope you guys like it

 

Great update Staffix

 

Thank you @AgathaCrup

 

Another update.

Now you can push objects

The gizmo shows where each hand should be positioned when push starts.

 

Nice! Is this all going to be in the final Unity 4 release?

 

The push object yes, the rest no, because I'm starting to take advantage of the unity pro (now free in personal) features.
There's a section in checkPush method exclusive to unity 4

 

I'm sorry I forgot that the new camera will also be present in unity 4.

 

I should just suck it up and upgrade. But since I have 4 pro and don't have 5 pro it still feels like a downgrade even though it's not really.

 

I understand, it's really frustrating, but the things we can do with unity 5 now is almost limitless. I really like that. But I suggest you at least use the unity 5 editor in a separated folder so you can download the new updates and maybe reproduce the code at version 4. Anyways please don't go away haha stay around and if you can upgrade to unity 5

 

Yeah, I'll upgrade to five and start fresh with the next update you release since I am not allowed to upgrade any current projects from Pro to Free.

 

OK guys the update is ready. For unity 4 this is the last update, for unity 5 there's still new updates to come.
The Code Only option is disabled because it's obsolete right now.

www.stiffix.info

Cheers

 

@Skarabx about the zombie I'm still working on it, the problem seems to be the distance calculation to attack. Anyways I did not upload the fix cause I'm making it better, so wait for me...

Thanks

 

Hi, I just purchased your asset finally Iam missing the inventory and some other features. Are they not yet updated on the asset store?

 

Thank you for your purchase @Devision4 the inventory and other updates you can download from here www.stiffix.info I'm maintaining a server for you guys to download updates faster cause unity takes like forever to upgrade the pack.

Cheers and welcome on board, have fun

 

awesome thanks

 

Great asset. One feature I might wish Some visual notification system when a item is in pickup range. Like a glow around the object and a text display what item it is, before I pick it up. otherwise awesome stuff. Oh and zoom out of camera would be nice .D

 

Consider it done!

Hmm let me think about it, because I think it might break my camera pivot.

 

maybe 2 cameras, one like now and one more in distance and switchable via keyboard key?

 

Ok guys, the next updates for TPSA will be Swim and climb ladders, but I also what to know what do you guys think about additions. Please answer the thread poll if you can.

Thank you all

 

How do I make the push object actually move? All that seems to happen is he stands there shoving against it and it doesn't move. I had better luck moving it by just walking into it on a side with no push components.

p.s. Updated to five and really like the way he looks around when you move the camera. Still can't get my own "aim" animations to work properly - still can't make him bend, even following the instructions you gave me and I am totally baffled by it. I guess that's okay; I can use the grenade toss as a spell cast. Has a nicer visual anyway with the trajectory line.

 

That's really strange because it's the same logic as moving by walking except that the rotation is locked to the object and the IK is taking care of the hands. Other than that is just a rigidbody pushing another rigidbody. Ahhhhhhh how much mass your character rigidbody has? Change it to 3 or more, you need weight to push a heavier object.

haha that's nice, but give it a couple of days and you'll find a way to do that (always happen to me)

 

Got it! Thanks! Had to put the mass of my character WAY up and the mass of the object way down. But it still pushes much better when I just walk into the object. Perhaps I'll edit the script to disable the rigid body unless the character is pushing.

 

That's a nice approach

 

And it works nicely. I just turn the kinematics on and off depending on push state.

I'm noticing that since my character is a little less than half the size of yours, I need to edit little things like the distance to a corner when in cover otherwise he stops way short of the corner and looks through it instead of around the corner. Are there many places that have hard coded numbers that depend on the size of the character?

 

When I created the code for cover, I was not thinking of size, but I was thinking of distance from the objects. Anyways I believe the only place size matters is for jump over and step over (but you know it uses character scale to calculate the jump height, no need to hard code that part).

 

I still need to edit the wall jump height otherwise my character ends up floating or just plain can't get up. I basically half all your settings as needed and that seems top fix all the little problems.

What is cover position Y used for? I haven't yet looked so perhaps you can save me time and let me know if I need to change that as well. Trial and error isn't always the best way to go with things like that as it may look like its working but eventually something horrible goes wrong and you've no idea what.

 

Can you be more specific? witch line of TPSA_PlayerController?

 

Around 923 in LimitCoverMovement().

 

ok, this is the origin from my Ray to start Raycast against the cover object. It will start from a certain position to another position to see if there's still a object in front left/right of the player, basically is to check if you are in the end of the cover object. Anyways answering your question this is the Vector3 origin position from my Ray to check object in front (or at players back).

 

It's more or less like this:

 

prone animations would be great... shooting from prone, etc
stealth kills would be great as well

 

Thanks! It sounds like I need to adjust that float as well.

 

Is there a way to have the ai character get knocked back when shot, even slightly?

Can it be done by having the bullet manipulate the position of the enemy?

A patrol path and a shooting enemy would be fantastic additions along with the climb and swim.

really appreciate the constant upgrades, you're a legend!

 

Yes indeed. At the method ReceiveDamage(TPSA_Damage dmg);

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Vector3 dir = -dmg.ray.direction;
3.  AIRigidBody.AddForce(AIRigidBody.velocity * Time.deltaTime - dir * dmg.Power, ForceMode.Impulse);
4.  

I did not test the above code, my only concern is that the navmesh is taking care of the rigidbody so it might not let you move with this code, it might require a workaround.

You are very kind i can't even thank you enough.

 

I'd like to have a shotgun (spread shot). Is that something I'd need to code myself or is there some way to do it as it is? Is that what "bullets per shot" is for in the weapon configuration?

 

No need to code, just change the Bullets per shot. It will hopefully loop through all the bullets and use the accuracy to calculate each bullet rotation and position.

 

Thank you sir! No worries at all!

 

Found another issue related to the size of my character: when he slides, the camera drops beneath the floor. I fixed it by changing the PCamera lookat y pos from 2.5 to 1.25 around line 1212 and 1225 in the playercontroller. Perhaps the next release you can add some public variables to let us adjust these settings without going into the code? So far, I've needed to edit the code for the wall jump height (needed double what you have to get up the wall!), the distance to the corner when in cover, and the slide camera adjustments.

Thanks!

 

Sure

 

Hey Staffix, I cant believe how rapid and regular you're updating this asset, the changes this week alone are fantastic. I saw you say earlier in the thread that you were inviting input, well here goes, the most obvious would be that you have a shooter NPC I noticed that your asset was number five in the best sellers list on the asset store (congrats) If that didn't get your asset to number 1 in a week I'd buy it again as a bet

I'd like to be able to

1 drop items that could be used as mines etc etc for my game
2 laser guided missile, using some sort of hand held tool you can call a massive airstrike and take out a whole block.
3 and how bout a drone that allows you to scout ahead from cover...maybe even highlighting enemy positions.

Now this would be a real stretch and probably more a bolt on than an update (and I got my credit card ready either way) but how cool would it be to be able to have 3 team members that you could control...placing them in strategic positions, say 2 snipers and a heavy weapons character creating cool strategic game play.

Any way, just about to re launch my website in html5 and waiting for a few updates to work on unity5 before re-building my first game level so fingers crossed you keep shocking us all with the turn around of ideas and updates, I'll defo be buying any thing else you make.
Bless

 

Why are all of your links AOL webmail links?