Third person cover controller

In fact the AI must not crouch , if you scale a cover the AI will crouch.
Standing cover, i mean the AI don't make any special cover move , it just runs behind a cover in standing position and ready to move anywhere. It's faster without needing to crouch that slows down AI.

 

we removed a tall cover from a top down. I think it was working in one of the versions because we messed with github.
the reason we removed because it a disadvantage to fight enemies in tall cover.

 

Anyone can make a level as he wish, some low covers in some areas, while tall covers in other areas.
Tall covers can be big trees , buildings or anyhting else.
If you can add a tall cover and AI able to use it, this would be great.

 

Unable to build for mobile because of AISight class UnityEditor namespace issue. If I put the script in Editor folder then AI is not working as expected.
Any solution?

 

Hi guys,
I have a problem with shooting behind the covers.
When I try to shoot over the cover everytihn works fine but when my character try to shoot while he is under cover the bullets have a 90° angle and the head and the arms don't move. (See the attached video)
How can I fix this?

 

remove using UnityEditor; from AISight class
and
on drawFOV() change it to
private void drawFOV()
{
var direction = _actor == null ? transform.forward : _actor.HeadDirection;
var head = _actor == null ? (transform.position + Vector3.up * 2) : _actor.StandingTopPosition;
direction = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-FieldOfView * 0.5f, Vector3.up) * direction;
// Handles.color = new Color(0.5f, 0.3f, 0.3f, 0.1f);
// Handles.DrawSolidArc(head, Vector3.up, direction, FieldOfView, Distance);
// Handles.color = new Color(1, 0.3f, 0.3f, 0.75f);
// Handles.DrawWireArc(head, Vector3.up, direction, FieldOfView, Distance);
// Handles.DrawLine(head, head + direction * Distance);
// Handles.DrawLine(head, head + Quaternion.AngleAxis(FieldOfView, Vector3.up) * direction * Distance);
}

 

possible causes :
you have a player or Ai under the character .
the Aiming system will auto aim at any object with the charactermotor script
... i can't think of anything else
my guess is character prefab game object is active with ai inside

 

My character prefab has the same components of "good guy" and there is nothing else on it.
What you do mean with "you have a player or Ai under the character"?
I have attached an image showing the inspector of my character.
https://ibb.co/itWXZG --> image link

 

under that gameobject see if the cop , chief are active ?

 

Nope

 

https://ibb.co/hzhEEG --> image link
the cop, cop chief and soldier are disabled and they remain disabled when the cilivian call the enemies

 

i'm not sure
could you check the charactermotor IK , maybe the script missed a bone
and the gun script too ,
the only time this happed to me when i left an unused AI under the map

 

Instead of creating a character from scratch, I tried to replace the "A good guy" asset this time, so I replaced the model, the bones in the IK and the weapons and now it's works. In the end I don't know what's happened with my previous character. Thank you for the assistance

 

hello
no news for AI forget player and Custom animation tool from 1.41 ????
release date ?? thanks

 

There is an error occurring "SendMessage OnSeenByFriend has no receiver!" when you make any patroller side to 1(same side as the player) and place that patroller with the player.
Any solution?

 

any news on the new update ?

 

@IndieGeek @Rahd

But this way you are actually disabling part of the functionality (I guess displaying field of view for enemies in the Editor, I have only just started tinkering with the asset). When you want to exclude only part of a script from running outside of editor you can enclose it in compiler flags.

Code (CSharp):

1. // Runtime code here
2. #if UNITY_EDITOR
3. // Editor specific code here
4. #endif
5. // Runtime code here

So my code now looks like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. #if UNITY_EDITOR
2. using UnityEditor;
3. #endif

Code (CSharp):

1.         private void drawFOV()
2.         {
3.             var direction = _actor == null ? transform.forward : _actor.HeadDirection;
4.             var head = _actor == null ? (transform.position + Vector3.up * 2) : _actor.StandingTopPosition;
5.             direction = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-FieldOfView * 0.5f, Vector3.up) * direction;
6.             #if UNITY_EDITOR
7.             Handles.color = new Color(0.5f, 0.3f, 0.3f, 0.1f);
8.             Handles.DrawSolidArc(head, Vector3.up, direction, FieldOfView, Distance);
9.             Handles.color = new Color(1, 0.3f, 0.3f, 0.75f);
10.             Handles.DrawWireArc(head, Vector3.up, direction, FieldOfView, Distance);
11.             Handles.DrawLine(head, head + direction * Distance);
12.             Handles.DrawLine(head, head + Quaternion.AngleAxis(FieldOfView, Vector3.up) * direction * Distance);
13.             #endif
14.         }

 

He must be working on other plugins or projects.

 

yeah , if you want to see the sight in runtime use sight script ,
by the way i did that it #if UNITY_EDITOR but as soon as i build for android it will throw the error anyways for some reason not sure why

 

Hmmm, I didn't try to make an android build with this, only desctop

 

Hi,

in the topdown view, camera is always oriented from south to north where the UP control is heading north and for sure move the player forward. When you're heading south you press the DOWN control to move forward.

But I'm trying to implement a camera button ( a bit like Xenowerk) where when you press it, camera will turn around so the player is always looking forward UP. Switching the cam is not my issue, but I can't have the controls to follow. UP is always pointing North.

I'm sure it's not a big change, after all the 3rd person view is doing something like that but I can't just pinpoint where in the code.

Thanks for your help
Chris

 

yeah it's tricky , and changing the camera script will make the controls upside down ...

 

After making tests, I think the speed parameter in CharacterMotor script is useless (at least for player character). The case is I need to increase the movement speed but when setting higher than 1 the animation looks ridiculous. It is like in the old comic movies when they filmed in fast motion.
In my opinion it is necessary to separate movement speed from animation speed.

 

just head to https://www.mixamo.com and select the right animation and set animator the rule to play that when the speed value is right

 

Thanks, but could you explain it more detailed, please?

 

I think what @Rahd is referring to is the Overdrive setting in Mixamo. Moving it to the left will slowdown the animation.

 

using the animator on the player you add new motion with a rule of pos y = 2 , 3 4 ...
and if the speed is at that value the assigned animation will play
you can tweek the animation and speed in more than one way
1 you just change the walkspeed value on the script
2 you change the animation speed in the animator

3 you change the whole animation with mixamo.com animations as christian explaind
in the video i explained how you add a new rule so you can have multiple animations for different speeds , i find this to work best , as the walk or run animation will look normal not just a fast motion

 

hello
it will be nice to have news ..... 1.41 ...
thanks

 

The 1 and 2 solutions are useless because the movement speed is fixed with animation speed and vice versa.

 

yeah i did point this out to the dev , the animations need to be separate of the walking .. and it should be a transforme transition.. to lower the lag , but he fixed the lag issue and the jerky motion ... so i'm not complaining.
other things you can do is to lock the xz on animations (check bake)
and add a Transform.Translate script that will move the player overtime according to the walk speed

or

- you can try Accessing Transform in the Animation ,more infos on that :https://forum.unity.com/threads/accessing-transform-in-an-animation.431125/
and change the according to the walk speed in the late update.
but again ,i did find adding custom animations for each speed value is the best will do a detailed video in that if you think it will help you more ,
good luck

 

Thank you very much. The developer told me he maybe will add a force multiplier to help with this issue...

 

When you transition from left to right or forward or back there is a jerky delay in the animation that keeps this from being a really high quality asset. Running and gunning is really difficult. Does anyone know how to make that transition between quick left and right / forward and backward less jerky and more fluid / snappy?

 

just keep the main animations you need ,
you need to set your goals and select the animator and enter the unwanted animation or the one causing the problem and delete it , i did that for run left and run right to make the player slowdown when making turns,
or edit the transition delay here (select the line , then uncheck fixed duration , then make it the way you want) :

 

1) Is anyone else having issues getting ahold of the developer and 2) is anyone else having issues with the plugin crashing Unity a lot? I've tried using this on two separate computers and 1 in 10 plays it crashes Unity. I've used Unity since version 2 and I have never had this issue.

 

Hi guys just noticed that this topic no longer sends me notifications about new posts. Will answer your questions now.

 

Culd you make short video so we talking about same thing

 

We have some lag issues with 2017.3 waiting for unity to release a stable version. You can send me invoice and I will share code with u

 

The MobileController has a hidden property called "Forward" that holds the up direction. The MobileCamera sets it every frame to be the same as it's offset from the visual target. If you are not using MobileCamera then you'll have to set the Forward value manually.

 

There are two functions inside the FighterBrain, OnSeeActor and OnUnseeActor that record visibility events. If the actor is a friend they assume it's another AI and send the OnSeenByFriend and similar messages to it.
You can try adding a SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver to the calls that trigger the error. Otherwise, as as another temporary fix, try adding a disabled FighterBrain component to the player.
Finally, we have fixed this issue in the upcoming update so such measures won't be necessary.

 

Here is the issue. When you press A and then D to move left and then right, the motion is jerky and not fluid. The same goes for when you move forward and backward using W and S. I think this might be due to the binary nature of the keyboard input not giving a clean transition from one side to the other. This effectively makes combat really clunky and terrible as it's hard to do what people commonly do in fire-fights and that is to strafe. When it has slow, hard transitions like this, it makes game play feel just bad and unrefined. On top of that, when you do move left and right for some reason you also move backward even if you aren't pressing the S key. I think that this might be a combination of root movement.

 

Ok we will fix that once you press a and d without any delay so it will not go to idle state but transition to movement.

 

Is there a quick update I can make on my end while I wait?

 

@EduardasFunka

I'm sorry to continuously post about this, but I believe I have found a bug that crashes Unity every time. It appears to be an infinite loop that occurs in AISearch - LIne 285 - while (cover.LeftAdjacent != null && !_usedCovers.Contains(cover.LeftAdjacent))

It happens anytime I am near a cover and the AI is about to shoot at me or is shooting at me.

I have been ripping my hair out trying to find out why this is happening.

This is just one instance of the crash that I have experienced, I'm not sure if I am able to find other instances.

Can you please advise on how to fix this?

 

It looks like the bug is caused by a circular group of covers. If you are interested in the code, it basically takes a random cover, assumes it's a chain, finds the left-most cover in that chain and then checks every cover in that chain by going right.

The bug is caused because presumably your level contains a chain that loops around. This was an oversight on our part and will be fixed in an upcoming update.

To fix it right now, you can change the code around that line to:

var starting = item.Cover;

while (cover.LeftAdjacent != null && !_usedCovers.Contains(cover.LeftAdjacent))
{
if (cover.LeftAdjacent == starting)
break;
cover = cover.LeftAdjacent;
}


It basically remembers the starting cover, and stops the search for the left-most cover when it finds that starting cover again.

Hope that helps.

 

I get an error that says the name "starting" does not exist in the current context.

Also, I am trying to figure out how to get a Pause to work without setting timescale to 0. I plan to add a boolean to the update functions for the character and AI. I see an AIController but it doesn't look like it's being used on any of your AI. Is there a simpler way to pause everything that I am missing?

 

hello
any news for 1.41?
thanks

 

Bump

 

Have you copied the code correctly? The "starting" variable is there at the top of it.

To make sure it's the same. The code at the line 280 is

if (_usedCovers.Contains(item.Cover))
continue;

After it we have

var cover = Item.Cover;

right after it there is a while loop.

We want to replace that loop with that code. The new code should have a

var starting = item.Cover;

at the beginning, to remember the starting cover.

The final code starting with the line 280 should look like this:

if (_usedCovers.Contains(item.Cover))
continue;

var cover = item.Cover;
var starting = item.Cover;

while (cover.LeftAdjacent != null && !_usedCovers.Contains(cover.LeftAdjacent))
{
if (cover.LeftAdjacent == starting)
break;
cover = cover.LeftAdjacent;
}

var index = -1;


Hope that helps.

As for the AIController. The version you have contains two AI systems, a legacy one and a new one. AIController is from the legacy system which is removed from an upcoming update.
To pause everything without using TimeScale you can use booleans, just as you plan to. However, keep in mind that the AI is split into many functional components, some of which have their own Update methods. I'd recommend simply getting all components inheriting from AIBase from a gameobject and disabling them during the pause. This will make sure you haven't missed any.
We'll consider adding better support for pauses in the future, so such measures are less needed.

 

if you want 1.41 send me invoice number.

 

does it include melee ?