SkinWidth Parameter of a character controller inaccessible

Hello

I am trying to build a charachter on the fly and add some component.
And I have a problem when adding a charachter controller. I can add it modify all parameters execpt the "skinWidth" parameters which is accessible through the interface of the component in unity editor. In the documenttion this parameters is not mentoined too...
So it is posible to change this parameters througt scripting or not ? Its look strange that we can't !

Thank you

Jérome

 

Any information why this parameter is not available in script ?

 

*mistery*

 

There needs to be a "complaints" forum or something. I also have a real need to adjust the skinWidth of a previously created CharacterController. It's obviously trivial to implement this as I can edit the value in the inspector while the game is running without problems. Information (variables) wants to be free (public).

 

Any news on this?

If the inspector can view and modify the skin width at run-time, then there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do that too. I'm trying to cheat my way through this problem by using C# reflection, and while I did manage to find some hidden goodies the skinWidth property still eludes me.

Code (csharp):

1. Type t = typeof(CharacterController);
2. System.Reflection.MemberInfo[] fields = t.GetMembers();
3. foreach (System.Reflection.MemberInfo field in fields)
4.     Debug.Log(field.Name + " (" + field.MemberType + ")");

Code (csharp):

1. SimpleMove (Method)
2. Move (Method)
3. get_isGrounded (Method)
4. get_velocity (Method)
5. get_collisionFlags (Method)
6. get_radius (Method)
7. set_radius (Method)
8. get_height (Method)
9. set_height (Method)
10. get_center (Method)
11. set_center (Method)
12. get_slopeLimit (Method)
13. set_slopeLimit (Method)
14. get_stepOffset (Method)
15. set_stepOffset (Method)
16. get_detectCollisions (Method)
17. set_detectCollisions (Method)
18. get_attachedRigidbody (Method)
19. get_isTrigger (Method)
20. set_isTrigger (Method)
21. get_material (Method)
22. set_material (Method)
23. ClosestPointOnBounds (Method)
24. get_sharedMaterial (Method)
25. set_sharedMaterial (Method)
26. get_bounds (Method)
27. Raycast (Method)
28. get_transform (Method)
29. get_rigidbody (Method)
30. get_camera (Method)
31. get_light (Method)
32. get_animation (Method)
33. get_constantForce (Method)
34. get_renderer (Method)
35. get_audio (Method)
36. get_guiText (Method)
37. get_networkView (Method)
38. get_guiElement (Method)
39. get_guiTexture (Method)
40. get_collider (Method)
41. get_hingeJoint (Method)
42. get_particleEmitter (Method)
43. get_gameObject (Method)
44. GetComponent (Method)
45. GetComponent (Method)
46. GetComponent (Method)
47. GetComponentInChildren (Method)
48. GetComponentInChildren (Method)
49. GetComponentsInChildren (Method)
50. GetComponentsInChildren (Method)
51. GetComponentsInChildren (Method)
52. GetComponentsInChildren (Method)
53. GetComponents (Method)
54. GetComponents (Method)
55. get_active (Method)
56. set_active (Method)
57. get_tag (Method)
58. set_tag (Method)
59. CompareTag (Method)
60. SendMessageUpwards (Method)
61. SendMessageUpwards (Method)
62. SendMessageUpwards (Method)
63. SendMessageUpwards (Method)
64. SendMessage (Method)
65. SendMessage (Method)
66. SendMessage (Method)
67. SendMessage (Method)
68. BroadcastMessage (Method)
69. BroadcastMessage (Method)
70. BroadcastMessage (Method)
71. BroadcastMessage (Method)
72. Equals (Method)
73. GetHashCode (Method)
74. GetInstanceID (Method)
75. get_name (Method)
76. set_name (Method)
77. get_hideFlags (Method)
78. set_hideFlags (Method)
79. ToString (Method)
80. GetType (Method)
81. .ctor (Constructor)
82. isGrounded (Property)
83. velocity (Property)
84. collisionFlags (Property)
85. radius (Property)
86. height (Property)
87. center (Property)
88. slopeLimit (Property)
89. stepOffset (Property)
90. detectCollisions (Property)
91. attachedRigidbody (Property)
92. isTrigger (Property)
93. material (Property)
94. sharedMaterial (Property)
95. bounds (Property)
96. transform (Property)
97. rigidbody (Property)
98. camera (Property)
99. light (Property)
100. animation (Property)
101. constantForce (Property)
102. renderer (Property)
103. audio (Property)
104. guiText (Property)
105. networkView (Property)
106. guiElement (Property)
107. guiTexture (Property)
108. collider (Property)
109. hingeJoint (Property)
110. particleEmitter (Property)
111. gameObject (Property)
112. active (Property)
113. tag (Property)
114. name (Property)
115. hideFlags (Property)
116.  

 

Bump. Why do there always have to be limitations like that? Please get this property exposed, dear unity team.

 

...It's been a while, actually, but since the problem still exists I've opened an issue in the feedback forum:

http://feedback.unity3d.com/forums/15792-unity/suggestions/2284343-charactercontroller-skinwidth

I can't imagine that this would be difficult or time-consuming to fix... so let's vote to draw the devs' attention to it.

 

Anyone found how to access this from script yet? If not, I'm going to make a ticket at feedback.unity3d.com tomorrow.

 

Unity5 and the problem persists

 

Come on Unity devs... this takes a minute to fix...

 

I, too, am trying to see if I can access the skin width programatically.

Using .NET Reflector I can see that the inspector code references the serialized properties:


So we can infer that CharacterController has a private field called "m_SkinWidth". However, at runtime I'm only finding the following fields (private or otherwise):



This is really hurting my head. How do these members suddenly disappear at runtime?

 

also looking for now

 

Any progress on this?

 

It should be awailable in 5.2

 

Glad to hear. Now, can you please also expose params on other scripts, like the FPS controller and MouseLook, where they are set to Private? Can't override them nicely.