Enhancing Your Unity Game: Custom Character Controller Development

In the world of game development, creating a custom character controller can significantly enhance the gameplay experience. Welcome to Part 17 of our series on building a custom character controller in Unity. Today, we will focus on refining our walking controller to enable seamless interaction with objects and attacks within the game environment.

Identifying the Challenge

Currently, our controller allows us to either interact with objects or initiate attacks, but not both simultaneously during gameplay. This limitation stems from the dependence on the physics layers assigned to our hitboxes—player interact and player attack. To address this issue effectively, we aim to implement a more dynamic approach by handling the actions through code rather than manual adjustments.

Implementing Code Solutions

Defining Action Types: Introducing an enum, specifically player action type, to track whether the character is in an interacting state or an attacking state.
Updating Hitbox Settings: Within the player hitbox script, a new variable, track action type, is created to monitor the current action status (interacting or attacking). This variable will help determine the appropriate physics layer setting for the hitbox.
Setting Physics Layer Dynamically: When activating the hitbox, we now ensure that the correct physics layer (player interact or player attack) is assigned based on the action type selected by the player. This adjustment streamlines the process of detecting interactions and attacks.
Handling Object Collisions: With the updated hitbox settings, collision events are now routed effectively. Depending on the action type (interact or attack), the controller triggers the corresponding action, enabling seamless interaction with interactive and attackable game elements.
Refining Input Handling: In the walking controller script, modifications are made to include the action type parameter in the delegate hitbox event handler. By passing the appropriate action type information (interact or attack) based on player inputs, the controller communicates the desired action effectively to the hitbox.

Testing and Application

Upon implementing these code enhancements and refining the input configurations, players can now seamlessly switch between interacting with objects and initiating attacks within the game environment. This improved functionality opens the door to exciting possibilities, such as operating vehicles or acquiring items for flight capabilities in future segments of our series.

By optimizing our walking controller, we have laid a solid foundation for upcoming developments, including vehicle controls and flight mechanics exploration. Stay tuned as we delve deeper into expanding the gameplay mechanics of our custom character controller in Unity.

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