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EARLY ACCESS ✨ How to Program in Unity: Third Person Movement Explained [Built In Character Controller #7] (Patreon)

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2022-10-07 00:30:00

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Hi everyone!

I'm excited to share this new tutorial with all of you early and provide access to the project source files! This is a brand new entry into the built-in character controller series, but it was also structured to be self-contained. If you haven't had a chance to watch the other entries yet, it is no big deal.

Today is all about third person movement! We will ditch the fixed camera angles that we've been using for a third person camera, and then break down the code that will get our character moving in the right direction!

Click here to download the source files: ThirdPersonMovement

I'm so happy to finally share this one with you because it's taken both the Camera-Relative Movement explanation and the Free Look Camera break down to get to this point. Now that these three videos are complete, we will go back to voting on the next tutorial to cover on the channel.

Thank you all for the continued support. I hope this new video helps you all out on your game dev journeys!

Cheers! 🍻
-Nicky

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How to Program in Unity: Third Person Movement Explained (Patreon Early Access)

Learn how to set up a third person camera and program your character to move in the right direction! This tutorial is a thorough break down of using Unity's Free Look Camera and a bit of code so that our character movement is relative to the camera. By the end of the video we'll have a working third person character! ACCESS PROJECT FILES & SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: 💛 https://www.patreon.com/iHeartGameDev iHeartGameDev Merch: 💛 https://www.iheartgamedev.com Links from Video? Interested in learning more about the Vector math? https://youtu.be/7kGCrq1cJew ✅ Interested in learning more about Cinemachine? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyUzJb_FNeTkzlDLlbD5L0oX1ajWu8Pz ✅ ✦ Like the vid? Please consider Subscribing! https://bit.ly/2YdIb6j SOCIAL: ✦ Discord https://discord.gg/2AxUvsa ✦ Twitter https://twitter.com/NickyBoccuzzi Jammo is from Mix and Jam: 🤖 Download Jammo for YOUR game: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/jammo-character-mix-and-jam-158456 ⭐ And Check Out MixAndJam! https://youtube.com/MixAndJam ►TIMESTAMPS: Introduction - 0:00 Getting Started with Cinemachine - 0:30 Third Person Cam Initial Set Up - 1:40 Let's get Progamming: 2:56 How the example character currently moves: 3:39 Basic example movement: 3:59 Current problem and solution visual: 4:10 Programming ConvertToCameraSpace solution: 4:31 How to Rotate a Vector: 5:35 Programming ConvertToCameraSpace solution part II: 6:07 Fixing missing Y Movement: 6:46 Fixing character rotation: 7:22 All the important changes for a better feeling camera: 8:28 FOV: 8:40 Rig settings: 9:00 Moving focus point: 9:28 Slowing down sensitivity: 10:07 End result: 10:30 Coming soon: 10:45