WTF...

Don't use CharacterController.cs or any built-in Unity class as your filename!

 

You're not accessing the engine's CharacterController class, you're accessing CharacterController.cs. You've created a conflict, so you can't actually use Unity's character controller.

Also:

1. Use the code tags and tell us the error, don't use a screenshot
2. General Discussion is not a support forum

 

The weird thing is, sometime's it works and sometimes it doesn't. So how do you "access" as you say, the CharacterController class?

 

This example is directly from the docs so. Still shrugging my head at this...

 

Murgilod, the correct answer was to say that you used "CharacterController.cs" as your filename which conflicted with the Unity class. Please be more specific in the future.

 

Don't tell me how to do my job, nerd.

 

Just did. /shrug But you did get me to thinking that the filename itself was the issue. So partial? kudos to you. Fellow nerd.

 

https://forum.unity.com/forums/scripting.12/

 

Yeah yeah yeah move on...nothing to see here...

 

I've gotten into the habit of putting all of my own code into a namespace on any serious project. Otherwise I'm almost guaranteed to collide with something eventually. You can even modify your script template to include on by default.

 

She gave the correct answer. You created a class named "CharacterController", you then created a reference to that class within the class itself, and then you tried to access it thinking you were accessing a class belonging to the engine.

There are at least two ways to solve this. First, specify the namespace that contains the class you meant.

Code (csharp):

1. UnityEngine.CharacterController characterController;

Second, choose a different name for your class.

Code (csharp):

1. public class MyCharacterController : MonoBehaviour {
2.     // STUFF
3. }

 

You learn namespaces. CharacterController is likely within UnityEngine namespace.