First Person Character Controller with Unity + Playmaker

In this video, you will learn how to make a player gameObject move around with WASD and arrow keys, set up the first-person camera, and set up the player speed variable.

Sample package requirements:
Playmaker 1.9.1 or newer and Unity 2018.4 or newer + built-in render pipeline.

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Setting up the scene
01:16 - Setting up player movement with keys
02:45 - Customize the keys for movement (input manager)
03:40 - Setting up the first-person camera
06:45 - Hiding and locking the cursor/mouse
07:07 - Player speed variable

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[phantasmrain]

At 0:45 they change the scale to 2, claiming that it makes the size 6 ft. Don't do this for 2 reasons: Firstly the 1 scale capsule is already 6ft, so they''ve turned that object into something which is 12ft tall. Second is that when you get to video 4 of this tutorial (Grab and throw objects with Playmaker), if you grab an object then it will start stretching horribly due to the 2 scale of player. So keep player scale at 1.

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[striverfor]

Notes for myself

Setting up the scene
0:29 Create a Plane. 3D Object > Capsule (for the player). Change its scale (Unity’s default measure unit is metres). Add FSM to player, name it PlayerMovement. Add Controller Simple Move action. Can add a CharacterController Component yourself or click to add it. Change Character Controller Radius - 0.8.
2:07 Controller Simple Move needs input to Move Vector. Add Get Axis Vector action. Store Vector in New Variable, name it playerMoveVector3. Controller Simple Move - Move Vector > playerMoveVector3. Press Play, now capsule moves with WASD keys.
2:45 Edit > Project Settings - look at Horizontal and Vertical and you can change their controls if you want.

Setting up the first-person camera
3:38 Right click Player object > Camera. Move camera to where you want it in the Capsule.
4:15 Add FSM to capsule. (In Inspector) Add Component > PlayMakerFSM, name it ‘PlayerLook’. > Edit. Add mouse Look action, Specify Game Object as PlayerCamera. Axes > Mouse Y. Press Play, you can move and look up and down.
5:13 Add Mouse Look action, keep Use Owner, Axes > Mouse X. Press Play, can move and look everywhere, but it doesn’t walk where you look. PlayerMovement FSM > Edit. In Get Axis Vector action, drag Player object to it, makes moving forward always relative to moving forward for the capsule, same thing for other directions. Blue Z arrow points to what Unity considers forward. Now it steers where you look.

Hiding and locking the cursor/mouse
6:45 Player Look (FSM) > Edit, add Set Mouse Cursor action, check Hide Cursor and Lock Cursor so you don’t click outside of the screen.

Player speed variable
7:04 In PlayerMovement (FSM) > Edit, in Controller Simple Move, can change Speed, but better to make Speed > New Variable, name it. In Variables tab, select that variable and set its value (speed) what you want, so if you’ll want things in the game to change how fast the player moves, you can reference this variable.

7:56 Wrap up. We learned to create player movement with Controller Simple Move and Character Controller component, how to look and steer with two Mouse Look actions.

[danielnorton]

@5:20 changing mouse look to "use owner" moves the object it's attached to. "Specifying game object" moves an object parented to the object it's attached to.

[ragnar]

all explained very well, one thing though, when you say to insert the gameobject player in the "relative to" ... I had to insert the camera of the player to make it move in the direction of the view otherwise it didn't work ... I don't know why

[roxannafabiolastefaniuc]

Thank you for making this video and help us to learn how to make it :D I had a problem with the asset first person, if you press escape and dont click back. it freezes the camera movement. so i have to fix and make a first person in the game. lucky there is a video about this.

[aresbs]

player is sliding when I use w-a-s-d input why? ( Horizontal transform )

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[moonquest]

My FSM doesn't seem to have the Get Axis Vector action, has it been removed?

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