Trying to understand CharacterController.Move

I'm using the CharacterController.Move function but i want to tweak a few things that i suspect it is doing. Unfortunately, i can't find the source code for it anywhere.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

Does anyone know what exactly is this method doing? Is it Applying an impulse to the Rigidbody? Or is it applying a normal force?

 

Bump!

 

There is no Rigidbody involved with CharacterController, it is an alternative to a RigidBody.

Furthermore, it's actually a wrapper around the built in 'kinematic character controller' from PhysX (the physics engine used in unity):
http://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/co.../physx/guide/Manual/CharacterControllers.html

This links goes over the general concept of how the character controller functions in the physics engine.

There's NO forces. It just calculates if you can move the distance passed in to Move, and moves it. If there are things blocking, it will move around it in various simple ways... such as stepping and the sort.

If you want to actually push things and have physics, you have to handle the OnControllerColliderHit event and push things yourself:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.OnControllerColliderHit.html