Create a Third-Person Player Character Controller

Create a Third-Person Player Character Controller, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.5, with 46 lectures, based on 377 reviews, and has 3140 subscribers.

You will learn about How to rig and animate a 3D character from a pre-existing library of high quality, motion captured animations. How to create a state machine of character animations that are controlled via user input. How to implement the Unity Input System. How to use Cinemachine to create a character following camera. How to program from scratch a third-person player character controller for a game environment. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner game developers who dont necessarily have the skills to create their own character but are interested in alternative ways to use pre-existing models in their games. or 3D Modellers who want to learn how to animate their characters in Unity. or Anyone with Unity experience who wants to learn more about what is possible with the built in humanoid animation system. It is particularly useful for Beginner game developers who dont necessarily have the skills to create their own character but are interested in alternative ways to use pre-existing models in their games. or 3D Modellers who want to learn how to animate their characters in Unity. or Anyone with Unity experience who wants to learn more about what is possible with the built in humanoid animation system.

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Summary

Title: Create a Third-Person Player Character Controller

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.5

Number of Lectures: 46

Number of Published Lectures: 45

Number of Curriculum Items: 46

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 45

Original Price: $44.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to rig and animate a 3D character from a pre-existing library of high quality, motion captured animations.

How to create a state machine of character animations that are controlled via user input.

How to implement the Unity Input System.

How to use Cinemachine to create a character following camera.

How to program from scratch a third-person player character controller for a game environment.

Who Should Attend

Beginner game developers who dont necessarily have the skills to create their own character but are interested in alternative ways to use pre-existing models in their games.

3D Modellers who want to learn how to animate their characters in Unity.

Anyone with Unity experience who wants to learn more about what is possible with the built in humanoid animation system.

Target Audiences

Beginner game developers who dont necessarily have the skills to create their own character but are interested in alternative ways to use pre-existing models in their games.

3D Modellers who want to learn how to animate their characters in Unity.

Anyone with Unity experience who wants to learn more about what is possible with the built in humanoid animation system.

Any self-respecting game developer knows that getting their third-person player character right is one of the fundamental keys to a great gaming experience. Not only this but the controller, once developed, can be transferred from one game to another, making the code reusable and scalable. In this course, you will learn how to put together your own third-person character from scratch using freely available 3D models and animations, which you will learn how to control with C# in Unity.  The idea behind this course is to take students through a series of workshops with the necessary tools to help them make a character, animate a character and program a character without the need of being able to model or animate and gain an understanding of the third-person character controller pipeline.

This course uses Unity 2020.1 or 2020.2, Input System 1.0, and Cinemachine 2.6.3

Learn how to program and work with:

3D Characters and Rigs

Humanoid Avatars

The Mecanim System

Avatar Masks

Animation Blend Trees

Unity’s new Input System Package

Unity’s Cinemachine Package for ‘Character Following’ Cameras

Adobe’s Mixamo Service for Rigging and Animating 3D Characters

Third-Person Character Controllers

Mixing Root Motion with Physics Controls

What people are saying about Penny’s courses:

Dr. Penny is a wonderful person and a true expert. All of her courses I’ve taken have been top notch and in my opinion there is no better teacher out there.

Allow me to say how hugely important this is for a person who is interested in certain types of game design. Creating games where you can create AI behaviors that support emergent situations.

I honestly love Holistic’s teaching approach and I’ve never learned so much within a few hours about coding effectively with such detailed explanations!

This course focuses on the building of typical third-person character functionality including jumping, falling, weapon handling, shooting, and taking damage. By the end of this course, you will have a great third-person character controller that you can use in your own games or adapt for customized situations.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Contacting H3D

Lecture 3: FAQs

Lecture 4: Getting a Mixamo Account

Lecture 5: Join the Holistic3D Socials

Chapter 2: Getting a Character and Animations with Mixamo

Lecture 1: Working with Characters in Mixamo

Lecture 2: Selecting and Downloading Mixamo Animations

Lecture 3: Character Movement Animations

Lecture 4: Getting User Input for Character Movement

Lecture 5: Accelerating from Walking to Running

Lecture 6: Fixing other Humanoid Animation Mishaps

Lecture 7: Moving Backwards

Lecture 8: Substituting Backward Animations

Lecture 9: Turning

Chapter 3: Following the Character with Cinemachine

Lecture 1: Creating a Camera to Follow the Player

Lecture 2: Advanced Cinemachine Virtual Camera Settings

Chapter 4: Airborne

Lecture 1: Preparing the Character for Jumping

Lecture 2: Working with a Jump Animation

Lecture 3: Cutting up Animations Part 1

Lecture 4: Cutting up Animations Part 2

Lecture 5: Landing Part 1

Lecture 6: Landing Part 2

Lecture 7: Running and Jumping

Lecture 8: Jumping with Gusto

Lecture 9: Rolling on Land

Chapter 5: Weapon Handling

Lecture 1: Adding a Weapon

Lecture 2: Constructing the Shooting Animation

Lecture 3: Attaching and Detaching the Weapon

Lecture 4: Animation Layers and Avatar Masks

Lecture 5: Controlling the Weapon Pickup with Input

Lecture 6: Influencing Animations with Mouse Movements

Lecture 7: Clamping Rotations

Lecture 8: Adding a Laser Sight

Lecture 9: Adding Crosshairs Part 1

Lecture 10: Adding Crosshairs Part 2

Chapter 6: Doing Damage

Lecture 1: Environment Preparation

Lecture 2: On the Topic of NavMeshes

Lecture 3: Letting the Drones Out

Lecture 4: Blowing Up Drones

Lecture 5: Dying with Grace

Chapter 7: Extra Fixes

Lecture 1: Constantly Falling on Edge

Lecture 2: Jumping Forward

Lecture 3: Controlling Animation Masks with Code

Chapter 8: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Some Final Words from Penny

Lecture 2: Where to now?

Instructors

Penny de Byl
International Award Winning Professor & Best Selling Author

Penny Holistic3D
Academic, Author & Game Development Enthusiast

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2 stars: 7 votes

3 stars: 16 votes

4 stars: 96 votes

5 stars: 255 votes

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