Good thing stairs don’t exist in my game, everyone uses ramps 😂

Less attempts at humor and more practical solutions, please. You were listing all the problems with going down stairs, and you haved them all at 6:40 literally with "when we do it properly" and then continuing the video, not showing at all how it's done. The idea behind tutorials is that people who've watched one have a solution to their problem, not more problems. This video presents cool theories, but for anyone looking for an ACTUAL explained solution it's a waste of time

Why no code examples?

I haven't seen this yet. Nor am I a game developer. But would think after playing Everquest 1, and seeing the camera ju-u-u--u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ump on the stairs, I would use some sort of invisible plane/ramp to make sure that doesn't do that when you walk on the stairs.... or some kind of inverse kinematics and some kind of script to "average" the camera position when on stairs or something. idk. Lemme just watch this.

0:14 that 4K tho

Player physics and movement do not have to be tied to animation. So really for performance you should just use a ramp. The camera is jittery with your method too. Either way it is mainly a problem for realistic games which is why you see advanced ik in games like gta whereas games like pokemon don't even consider it.

A lot of work for just using a ramp collision mesh for the stairs and adding in character IK for the feet. EDIT: Also too, the best stairs don't jerk the camera with every step. With you're implementation you'll need to lerp the player camera too with every step.

Great video. Thanks for the insight, it's hard to find video on yt explaining in details the calculations for Foot IK and hip placement. I have a question calculating the release position and the grounded position doesn't this defeat the purpose of having an animation? cause it seems if one is calculating them manually they don't need animations then

Thank you!

Do the limbs connect to the 3d model surface or a collider?

No, what the actual problem is, you should have either a ramp that you can walk on, with the collision that's virtually hidden behind the steps, or have a "second layer" of steps mirrored as the collision, moved halfway to the middle of the step. With having worldmodels and/or viewmodels sort of "snap" to the "physical" step as you walk up as normal. And maybe have the sort of "step up" movement per step, or double step as you sprint up as opposed to walking, if you want it intricate.

I know this video is like a year old at this point, but how come we don’t treat stairs like how we treat ladders..? I just feel like that solves the issue perfectly considering the fact that ladders are more often than not given their own respective animation and set to some sort of automatic trigger. It would theoretically solve the issue that the act of walking up and down stairs causes, wouldn’t you agree?

What if hosts from a private network use the same port number?

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Nick, i need to get in a call with you sometime really need your help. Would you be down to call in discord any time you are free?

Us Minecrafters (With no rounded hitboxes to be seen) snap to small enough elevation increases. However, jumping while going up... speed happens. I'm not really sure if snapping down exists in Minecraft but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Minecraft also has minor camera elevation smoothness.

OMG, can you talk any faster? Why are you in such a hurry? 👎

Thanks...what I don't understand is why Microsoft didn't have their newer versions of their OS to automatically truncate filenames using some designated standard convention or better yet, have the default character limit *to* 32,767? It's 2024, I shouldn't be struggling stuff and be paranoid b/c I'm handicapped by that 255 character limit and now have to choose from "skip" or "cancel" in my attempt to backup a several GB folder of stuff...*sighs*

"With my character controller in Pacific.." 😆

tdd is great for huge collaborative projects where you cannot afford to have a tester test every single commit, for smaller projects the results are diminishing or it can even hamper development

hello! will you ever make an update on the mole movement or some kind of a tutorial? im developing a game named shadow dimmer and that's just the movement my team and I think would level up our gameplay, thanks!

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

Unreal engine has a AAA quality character controller component, UE also has public source code, why dont check out how unreal devs had solve this problem?

This is actually masterfully done and executed. Well appreciated!

Insightful video but I have a weird personal disagreement. I can understand in abstract why these automation steps are useful, but I guess I don't have any use for them in my game? at 11:56 you outline things that are helpful to automate but I don't do those things and probably never will. In fairness the title is "MY Essential First Step" and I'm glad you shared it. It's just that nothing I work on seems even remotely near the level of complexity described in this video.

excellent explanation

You should look into why every game seems like it has super low gravity. Except maybe rdr2 i guess

where can i play the game ?

Great video! I would love to set up some nice github actions one day. Especially to enforce code standards and linting, and run some tests.

Idk, I'm pretty wary of automation as it has burned me many times before. In my experience it can be a VERY, VERY valuable tool (and automation is really friggin cool); however, idealization of automation can lead to carelessly automating things that are wildly impractical to automate. This can easily eat weeks (to months) of development time with net negative returns on productivity when all is said and done. Or at least that's how things have gone for me in the past.

Sounds like you need to automate that script writing process.

I wouldn't say no to a more in-depth tutorial about CI/CD automation with Godot, but the subject kind of scared me 😅

I think I'm just going to use ramps for now but that is super interesting. Classic style game so it won't be out of place in my case.

Gotta brush up on you bunlish, don’tcha know da hooman is the pinecone that gives the pinecones. 😂 Thanks for the ideas fellow boony dad.

Exciting! Love to see you back. Hope to see something in the lines of the kinematic controller in the future. Lovely video keep up the great work!

building tools for non developers or to speed up adding content is also a part of automation in my book :)

I would guarantee BotW and the other modern games mentioned use a similar system to the stepping algorithm you've implemented, and likely far, far more complex. Ramp colliders, even if still used in some areas of some modern games, are never the only thing anymore. If you don't implement some kind of stepping, then hairline cracks in anything can easily brick the whole game. In a third-person game, the movement collider can get thrown all over the place, and it doesn't matter, as long as the player model ends up in the right spot. IK deals with a lot of that last bit. I'll also add that, in first-person games, the stepping solution on its own is actually pretty common, although most modern games that have some effort put in make the camera interpolate between each step. I liked this vid as an explanation for casual observers, but I really got a bad taste in my mouth from the arrogant angle saying that developers just "don't have time" to fix this stuff, and implying that a bunch of modern AAA games haven't figured this out. This is something any gameplay dev could do, probably 10 times better, in an afternoon. Movement is a make-or-break part of any real-time game. There's constant iteration to movement code over the whole development cycle, and most games probably have dozens or hundreds of tiny little micro-adjustments throughout the character code to make it absolutely perfect, dealing with tons of tiny little things you'd never even think of until you've been fiddling with it for years. And then the next game is built with all that knowledge from the get-go, and perfected even further. For newbies especially, one of the most important skills in game development and programming in general (and life in general?) is understanding that you don't know everything about anything and never will. You don't know even what you don't know. I don't mean this as a dig at the creator of this vid, by the way :). It was a good video, and I hope millions more people find it interesting, it's just that one particular part that I thought was misleading and wanted to comment on.

hello ,i really loved your video, and thanks for this free information, i wated to know if the models with those values on them , are from a library or available openly, ?? they seems such a good thing to test out a lot of things with !!

la noire has the best stairs animation i think as it dont even do that starting animation after the first step it starts from step 1

I've been reading the text book "Game Engine Architecture" and they describe something similar to your IK solution in the animation chapter, so congratulations on independently rediscovering it

I find the hovercraft solution to be a bit more elegant. The character has 2 collision shapes. One for legs and one for the body. When you are walking your legs have no collision. Your elevation is determined not by gravity but a ray/shape cast toward the ground. The target distance should reach one vertical step lower than the floor. This way you have no issues with teleporting. You just glide up stairs.

or,like,remove the collider of the stairs and teleport the player. or like,replace all stairs with ramps because "we are in a modern society and everyone should respect those who have disabillities and have trouble walking up discrete stairs" anyhow,i dont care about aesthetics,so dont listen to me if you want your game to be suitable for more than 5% of the population.

jeez, I wish I had found this video when I was working on my wall riding project. kzbin.info/www/bejne/goWnZZhtnL2GkLMsi=-sjrSsUKGxY86ZZM I just put the camera inside the player object and the math was easier

I do have a question, how can i add air control in this? Most games allow you to move in the air with limitations like not being able to move in the air instantaneously and also using a and d keys to strafe. Is there any way to add them?

ur controller shit what a state machine... with attributes.