How to Climb Ladders (First Person, Third Person, Unity Tutorial)

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💬 Let's learn how to build an essential feature in so many games, learn How to Climb a Ladder
I'm going to cover two methods, one just approaching and press forward to climb up, just like in Half-Life
And another where you approach the Ladder and press a button to grab onto it, very much like in Elden Ring or Dark Souls.
Doing this is pretty simple, just requires some Physics query and also some trickery so you don't fall off the Ladder.

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[MrMikeCool]

Good tutorial as always! However, I think you skipped over the more difficult problem with ladders - climbing down them from the top. It isnt a problem for short ladders where you can just jump of the ledge but for the taller ladders (like your ladder on the building) it is important.
It is difficult to implement as you are approaching the ladder from the wrong side and cant rely on a simple state change to "onLadder", you need to orientate the player first before they can move up and down. I usually do this by lerping the players position and rotation to a known good position when the player approaches the ladder from above. This does take control away from them for a few seconds though.

[Robertganca]

Great tutorial! Ladders always seamed daunting to program. Now when I eventually want ladders in a game I make, I know a great tutorial to watch.

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Since you're starting from Unity's official starting assets this is really useful to me personally. I'd love a video where you just go over how you'd adapt the starter assets to your code style or for certain features, for example, if you don't like how the Cinemachine Input Provider works and want to lock the camera's x movement.

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Your videos are always awesome! Short, sweet, to the point, but still very informative. I have just moved from 2D to 3D programming, and I'm sure this will come in very handy very soon 😁

[CertraX]

oh man, i tried like three times to make a ladder system in a 2.5D game, all of them were buggy af, this comes handy, thanks cm

[BNTO]

Raycasts really is so useful :D using them a lot on my current side project at Uni for my game. Combining it with Navmeshes and such. I have a lot to learn but it's lots of fun and this tutorial was really useful for ideas :)

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as someone going into the house painting profession, I am very grateful for your tutorial. Ladders always seemed so daunting but now I know how to handle them. Thank you so much. love from south Sudan.

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Another useful Tutorial.
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I didn't know how to climb ladders until now.
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[TheZeiZei]

Hi! This works great, exept it only works well when the ladder is facing the right direction, if the ladder is rotated for example 180degrees it doesn't work anymore.. I guess it has something to do with the targetDirection, that I should use the ladders axises when moving up or down. I'll try to figure this out but if you have some ideas i would be greatly appreciated. btw i'm using unitys standard fps asset just like you in this video. Some things in it are named a bit different now compared to year ago, maybe the code is a bit different?

[bnieves]

Just curious, why do we check for the vector being in the up direction instead of forward if the ladder is in front of us?

[leowu]

Thanks for giving such a good tutorial! From my understanding, this will work great for climbing a ladder from floor. But I am just curious about, do the logic works for climbing down the ladder from roof (top) as well for this tutorial's script?

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That's really impressive, I mean the way you solve issues and creating the mechanics. I know the experience has it's role, but there must be tips to learn solving the issues and how to make the mechanics that you want. so how can I learn these skills?

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[jacobester]

Thank you, great video. Is raycasting for a ladder every frame cheaper/more performent than a box collider trigger on the character that only collides with ladders?