Godot 4.X : Ultimate First Person Controller Tutorial ( 2023 )

[@Adamthegeek70]

12:50 All caps = constant variable. Lower case is local (in method or a parameter) and an '_' usually means private to module/class scope, and starts with a capital letter is public. so at glance of the code you know what are constants and/or what the scope of a variable is. Might be nerd-splaining here but I have watched this excellent video like 5 times now and I am translating it to C#. And I just thought I would point it out. :)

[@boots3372]

I loved the entire tutorial aside from that part haha

[@mihran7785]

Honestly, you're the best tutorial channel I've ever come across. thanks for everything

[@lukky.]

Thanks for the kind words ! :)

[@santivalencia8813]

Try clear code he has nice tuts as well

[@zarbon6319]

agreed , the only channel i found explaining of godot was clear

[@Xavier_Legend]

The voice is mesmerizing.

[@Asonc1]

tip : can add this to close the project with ESC button instead of ALT+F4 / ALT+TAB, 1) add input "quit" in input_map and bind it to ESC 2)add this : func _input(): if Input.is_action_just_pressed("quit"): get_tree().quit()

[@TheInfiniteAmo]

You have no idea how insanely useful this is for workflow on a single monitor setup. Or maybe you do. Either way thanks.

[@Asonc1]

@@TheInfiniteAmo np and good luck !

[@gderuki]

OR press F8 key when running project from Godot editor ;-)

[@Asonc1]

or use hotkey system changer program to unbind ESC and bind F8 it to it with an algorithm that would change it back by reverse doing what it does when you click certain shortcut with admin approval before 2 am, also it requires you to fill 3 enctype php triple coded in 32Bytes passwords and they all need to match from randomly generated text while you sing opera live, but worry not, it will have subway surfer at the side bar

[@banana_pancake1]

doesn't need to be _process(delta) function, it might be more optimised if it was in the func _input(event)

[@AJMarraffa]

This one tutorial contains stuff I had to dig for in lots of separate tutorials over a lot of time when making a character controller in Unity. So good! Thank you!!

[@sealsharp]

Helped me port my FpsController from Unity to Godot. Good work, sir!

[@SunnyShuklathedoctor]

I'm only halfway across and already I am very into this. You are a natural, love this.

[@westingtyler1]

now due to the Unity to Godot exodus we need a good "Every Godot 4 Node Explained video."

[@BINGUS--]

That would take like 1000 hours to finish If he tries to explain it Withall of its functions

[@westingtyler1]

you can give an overview of anything in 30 seconds, just a brief one. 30 seconds per node would be super helpful for absolute beginniners. remember there's no such thing as a complicated topic, only a complicated explanation. the "topic explain in five levels of difficulty" videos is the style I'm thinking. - kingdergarten level. @@BINGUS--

[@lukky.]

That's a great idea!

[@tabletopforgeuk]

Lukky's got a video for every node. Pretty high level but helpful as a starter.

[@SpazeDJ]

So this is the comment resposible for the best youtube series on youtube

[@WoyaThePug]

This was a phenomenal tutorial. Kept simple, demonstrated good practices by showcasing frequent testing at each step of the way, and keeping code clean. Also, this taught me that you could drag nodes into the script to create references for them, and that is extremely life-changing! I am eager to watch more of your tutorials, thank you for this service!

[@blake_bates]

this is the best tutorial i could have come across, your teaching it exactly how teachers at my school would and explaining everything instead of cramming it into 10 minutes and editing it like a mr beast video. thank you

[@spacecityryder]

Mr Beast + coding = 😡

[@fatmike5038]

I used this to make crouching toggle, you cannot put the bool swith in the same logical statement with a lerp running off the delta, because the lerp takes longer than the delta. var crouch: bool = false func _physics_process(delta): if Input.is_action_just_pressed("crouch") == true: if crouch == false: crouch = true else: crouch = false if crouch == true: head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y, 1.0, delta * lerpSpeed) currentSpeed = crouchingSpeed couch_collision.disabled = false standing_collision.disabled = true if crouch == false: head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y, 1.8, delta * lerpSpeed) currentSpeed = walkingSpeed couch_collision.disabled = true standing_collision.disabled = false

[@Tenzalt]

for the crouching logic i used a system similar to the sprint, i just made 2 consts for standing height, then crouching height and lerp the collision shape's height variable if i crouch or not, this, together with the raycast checking upwards, the crouching is adaptable to the surfaces of the map, for example if i let go the crouch button, my collision shape will grow untill reaching the celing above the player, its pretty smooth!

[@Asonc1]

can you explain it more ? or show me the script :c i understand your idea ( pretty cool) but i am stuck at implementing it in the script

[@s1ndrome117]

Implemented parkour mechanics like vaulting, wall running, tic-tac, sliding and mantling all by myself just from watching this part alone, that's how good the explanation was!

[@markmisin]

Thanks!

[@lukky.]

You're welcome! Thank you for the donation :)

[@markmisin]

@@lukky. My pleasure! I've become a lot smarter in 3D game development thanks to your tutorials.

[@whowhowhowhat]

Great tutorial. Only issue is that if you jump and spam crouch, you fall back down in a jittery-floaty sorta way. Also, when crouching under the block, if you jump, you will still clip through the block Edit: I found a solution to the clipping when jumping under the block. Where it says "if Input.is_action_just_pressed("ui_accept") and is_on_floor():". just add "and ! ray_cast_3d.is_colliding()" as an extra condition. This basically disables jumping when crouching under a block, preventing clipping through the block. 2nd Edit: Solution for jumping while spamming crouch causing jittery motion when falling back down For the if statement where it says "if Input.is_action_pressed("crouch"):" just under _physics_process(delta), add "and is_on_floor()". The program essentially thinks that the player is still on the floor if you try to crouch midair, causing it to switch collision shapes midair and for the player to fall down weirdly. Adding the extra condition stops this from happening.

[@neikosar]

There's another way to manage the collision shape when player is crouching, instead of having two collision shape, you can take only one and change its scale and position on y axis. Nice tutorial! It helped me a lot!

[@adzee8711]

honestly your a life saver bro, i can understand everything your explaining witch helps me alot, especially since im currently developing a horror game for my school assignment, so this helps heaps and i cant wait for part 2 and 3 of this controller. Love the content bro keep it up

[@carloszarate963]

A mi teniendo el mismo codigo ( menos por el sprint ) me glichea la colision, sabes porque?

[@akaLuckyEye_G]

The bobcat gets me everytime. 10/10 desktop background. Thanks for a great tutorial.

[@Rizzie95]

I just had the itch the other day to learn how to make a game. Found Godot to be the most welcoming engine for a complete newbie like myself. Following this video just makes too much sense as the very first thing to do and learn. Thank you for the information I can now absorb.

[@devanmauch7843]

I had an idea for future tutorials for newer users of godot to learn better, whenever you're doing something similar to what you previously did it might be beneficial to tell them to try it on their own so they can learn how their code works better. Like for instance when figuring out how to rotate the head horizontally it's a good opportunity to put your mind to work and remember it more concretely. in any case this tutorial was awesome and I hope to see more!

[@carnage2514]

this tutorial is amazing, thank you sooo much, I have tried many tutorials for simple things in godot and none of them work as well as yours or are as well polished, thank you so much and keep it up

[@XAHAK]

big fan. ty for all the tutorials

[@auxiliaryboxes]

Well done, this is exactly the kind of video I wanted for prototyping an FPS with Godot. Clean, to the point, easy to follow.

[@ToonLikeEpic]

Most helpful tutorial for total beginners good work!

[@_mickmccarthy]

Awesome! I've just jumped back into game dev after a few months so this has appeared at a very opportune moment!

[@manfriny_]

Top Demais!!!! Muito bom esse tutorial! Greetings from Brazil!

[@ebrahimkheder9629]

The greatest channel for learning godot ,TNX 🔥🔥

[@isaacyauk2966]

I just followed your video verbatim and I got the exact result shown! Thanks so much for making a clear and understandable video that didn't rush, but took it's time to explain EVERYTHING. You just earned yourself a sub sir! GOOD WORK!!!!

[@joel2430]

Great tutorial! Very clean and easy to understand code. I would explain what is written in the Godot manual though: " CSG nodes are intended to be used for level prototyping. Creating CSG nodes has a significant CPU cost compared to creating a MeshInstance3D with a PrimitiveMesh. "

[@bonddang9550]

Awesome! Can you show us footstep on different material when you walk on it next? Thank you!

[@lukky.]

I'll try and include it in part 3!

[@Motaz4k]

great work! loved the lerp stuff, it solved so many issues in my mind

[@scotmcpherson]

This is a great start to a 3d course, and I am looking forward to following the rest. Godot + GDScript is a bit different than Unity + C#. I have just one comment. By convention constants are typically ALLCAPS. It's a convention that is used so it's understood you are looking at a const value, and not looking at a variable and so that others that are reviewing your code are signaled that the value is a const. Sure you can go back to the header of the file where the values are cast and set, but this prevents it as a necessity. This convention is shared across most languages.

[@ShVanesMusic]

Very important detail about the convention

[@akiftheafk]

Great tutorial to understand basics of Godot. Thanks!

[@lukabrasi001]

this is a really good tutorial, your narration is very good. one thing i'd do is change the raycast to a shapecast to avoid standing up halfway inside objects though

[@gderuki]

17:48 -- I have just discovered that by default you could exit any running game by pressing F8 (a hotkey for stopping debugging session/game, quite useful in scenarios when you don't want to implement a custom exit routine or pressing Alt + F4, etc.) P.S. worth mentioning it only works while running from inside the Godot editor.

[@Theinvalidmusic]

Couple of things I picked up on which may be useful to some people: - If you want to split your sprint function out and not have it inside your crouching behaviour, you can use boolean variables like 'is_crouching' to control whether sprinting is allowed, i.e. you can set 'is_crouching = true' when your character crouches, and then write if 'Input.is_action_pressed("sprint") and !is crouching:' when calling your sprinting code - If you don't want to use two separate colliders for crouching, you can modify your collider's height directly using collider.shape.height. The advantage with this is that the camera will follow the collider's relative height, and you can lerp between the two different heights for smooth transitions.

[@uliveulearnandregret]

to clarify on my issue more both of the if statements work fine however one of the speeds either crouch or sprint doesn't work if it's the 2nd if statement in physics process

[@uliveulearnandregret]

I have 2 is_action_pressed I came from roblox and generally the approach would be to have 2 different input action functions as I can interpret from your example

[@uliveulearnandregret]

if Input.is_action_pressed("Sprint") and IsCrouching: IsSprinting = true CurrentSpeed = SprintSpeed else: IsSprinting = false CurrentSpeed = WalkSpeed if Input.is_action_pressed("Crouch"): IsCrouching = true CurrentSpeed = CrouchSpeed else: IsCrouching = false CurrentSpeed = WalkSpeed

[@abdou.the.heretic]

​@@uliveulearnandregretthanks for the idea! Very well explained!

[@jutraim2422]

add these to the beginning of the code: var IsSprinting: bool var IsCrouching: bool replace crouching and sprinting with: if Input.is_action_pressed("crouch"): IsCrouching = true current_speed = crouching_speed head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y,1.8 + crouching_depth,delta*lerp_speed) else: head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y,1.8,delta*lerp_speed) IsCrouching = false current_speed = walking_speed if Input.is_action_pressed("sprint") and !IsCrouching: IsSprinting = true current_speed = sprinting_speed elif IsCrouching: current_speed = crouching_speed else: IsSprinting = false current_speed = walking_speed I'm a beginner ^^ I managed to do it like this and it works for this project =) Please correct me if I did something redundant.

[@ipherial2929]

One thing I have discovered for crouching that I use instead of using code to change the height is an animation player. It lets you adjust the height of anything on your player while also not cluttering your code as much since all you have to do is tell it to play one animation when crouch is pressed and another when it is released.

[@cmcdonough2]

Very easy to digest, has a great pace, and is extremely informative. Thanks.

[@DMG4yt]

you're a legend man 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@trillius]

THE BEST TUTORIAL!!!!! I LOVE THIS

[@VasilisChatzikostas]

Your video is amazing. You actually taught me so much and I am on the 31:00 min. Note I have 36+ hours in Godot as of writing this comment. I am not such a begineer. Well done with your video!

[@lopsidedpolygon]

Hey babe! Wake up! Lukky posted a new tutorial!!!! 💜🖤💜🖤

[@dynstinn]

Best tutorial i have found so far, after this i was able to tweak and make my own code in GD script. while crouching you can still jump which causes the camera to clip into the ground, i fixed it by adding another raycast check to see if there is anything above us, if yes then we wont jump while crouching.

[@midnightmuni]

Really helpful tutorial as always! Are there plans to cover ladder climbing or even ledge hanging in the future?

[@lukky.]

Going on the list for part 3! No promises tho there are alot of Request and I wanna keep the videos focused

[@ge-fe-st]

Thanks! Really useful and detailed guide. You have talent😊

[@aqua3942]

I ran into a small bug with the raycast i haven't seen other comments mention, so I thought I'd share my solution incase anyone else needs it. When I set my RayCast3D node to the bottom of my player, it would detect the StaticBody3D that I had set as the scene's floor, basically locking the player into the crouched position after the crouch input was pressed. All I did to fix it was raise the raycast node's Y position by 0.1, and then shorten the raycast node's target position by 0.1 on the Y axis. So now the node is now off the ground, and still reaching the top of the player. Great tutorial btw, really appreciate it!

[@lenawillis2484]

Lifesaver, 6 months later. Thank you!!

[@Recals]

nice tutorial ! I came for the mouse look and got by the way everything else i wanted, thank you !

[@GPEART1]

This tutorial is WAY better than 2 other channels I tried doing the exact same kind of script, but both of theirs did not work, due to "path not found" errors and such, and no real explanation of half of the code. Thank You!

[@Theinvalidmusic]

Really great tutorial. Now to go and rip out my old extremely janky character controller and replace with this.

[@ChristopherYabsley]

Clean and concise. Thanks for making this series.

[@TuncTurel]

Thank you so much for this amazing tutorial! I followed it and wrote my C# version of your code and it works like a charm! I learned so much thanks to you.

[@WrongNicholas]

Really, really good tutorial. Keep up the good work, dude!

[@steffensensa]

Very good clean tutorial, straight to the point. Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

[@pointblankeloquence9578]

Thank you so much! This is empowering :)

[@niels5036]

Amazing, almost as relaxing as Bob Ross to watch!

[@АртурАмбаров-ы1ю]

thanks for the video, I think it's worth adding a ray_cast_3d check during the jump when the platform is overhead

[@sean7221]

Well done! Thank you!

[@itsakram0]

thank you for this tutorial, I just found your channel and i like it, keep up the hardwork

[@gradman999]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@Pichotweb]

Thanks for your time and effort to teach us! one tip when renaming variables is the Ctrl + D that will select all similar ocurrecies, like in other editors like VS Code!

[@SiisKolkytEuroo]

Nice video! The only detail I'm seeing that I would improve on, is that you're lerping the camera inside the physics_process function. You want to figure out a way to do it in process, so that the camera position updates on every frame (interpolates smoothly).

[@TheRealKaiProton]

Im 10mins in and loving this video, Im not new to Godot, or programming in general, but I am new to 3d, so I really appreciate the pace and explanation of this video..

[@Seth_Makes_Sounds]

Thanks dude. I doubt I'll ever finish a game, but this is a good starting point.

[@devanmauch7843]

Lukky you make everything so simple keep it up!

[@Afurai_]

After finishing this tutorial I have no idea why the sprint and crouch did not work for me initially (Godot 4.1.2 stable) but I figured out a solution; only changing some of the _physics_process(delta) code, I also fixed being able to spam crouch while underneath a surface, bugging out the crouching a bit if not fixed. I hope this helps anyone else having issues like I did! var canClick = true func _physics_process(delta): #Movement States #Crouching if Input.is_action_just_pressed("crouch") and canClick: currentSpeed = CROUCHING_SPEED head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y, 1.8 + crouchingDepth, delta * lerpSpeed) standing_collision_shape.disabled = true crouching_collision_shape.disabled = false canClick = false elif !ray_cast_3d.is_colliding(): #Standing if Input.is_action_just_released("crouch") and canClick: currentSpeed = WALKING_SPEED head.position.y = lerp(head.position.y, 1.8, delta * lerpSpeed) standing_collision_shape.disabled = false crouching_collision_shape.disabled = true canClick = false #Sprint / Walking if Input.is_action_just_pressed("sprint"): currentSpeed = SPRINTING_SPEED elif (Input.is_action_just_released("sprint")): currentSpeed = WALKING_SPEED canClick = true # Gravity

[@Soacer0]

your problem might come from the "just_pressed" instead of is_action_pressed

[@Th3BadThing]

Dude, thank you heaps. I needed a refresher so bad and this was perfect.

[@Bluepikminproductions]

"chairicter body" -Lukky 2023 (did anybody else hear this?)

[@jetoge]

Hi! Just wanted to say that this code has a small bug. By putting ray_cast_3d.is_colliding() on the elif, the player could get his head stuck in the ceiling if he is fast enough, since he can stop pressing the crouch button long enough for him to get down on the ground, but not fast enough for the lerp function to put his head down. No other side effect, since the speed is already set, but the head pòsition won't be properly set until the player exits the low ceiling, or presses again long enough the crouch button. This could be fixed by putting it in an or with the crouch press button

[@fabianojeda3078]

Thanks brother, you are the very best

[@nolew]

12:37 if you press Ctrl + R a find and replace menu will pop up you can use to replace all instances of a string in the text editor

[@traumwelt1975]

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge, i really like how you explain everything and test it step by step, that makes it easy to follow. oh and btw, you have a very nice voice ^^

[@streider1347]

Here are a few improvements you might want to have. 1. a collision when you jump while crouching. # Handle jump. if Input.is_action_just_pressed(“ui_accept”) and is_on_floor() and !ray_cast_3d.is_colliding(): velocity.y = jump_velocity 2. if you should not crouch when jumping. # Crouching if Input.is_action_pressed(“crouch”)and is_on_floor():

[@blondinchik4563]

Thanks for tutorial! It is very informative and without further ado!👍

[@MTRFRK]

Absolutetly fantastic tutorial

[@loopatronic]

you can kinda skip the creation of 2 different collision shapes by referencing the main collision shape and in the script where you enable/disable them, have a script part "col.shape = col.shape.height = the whole lerp function" and it should do the same thing but without needing to have 2 collision shapes

[@bitbutter]

great series, im helping my son learn using these

[@samuellangford6126]

Thank you, your tutorial was the only one that worked.

[@Source-bc1ph]

To prevent crouching mid-air add this to your physics process function func _physics_process(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("crouch") and velocity.y == 0:

[@Asonc1]

i somehow made a spaghetti touch to the code and kept the crouching mid air possible but it doesnt drag you down made the crouching collision shape a bit higher to make jump crouching tech possible ( famous in Fps games like csgo/ valorant)

[@adriwan1948]

Improved Version: func _physics_process(delta): if Input.is_action_pressed("crouch") and is_on_floor():

[@gavinboyd5312]

At 7:17 when you enabled Triplanar under UV1, how does that magically align the texture to be layed out 1m X 1m? Does it have to do with the texture being 1024X1024 pixels? I've always wondered how devs layed out perfectly aligned grid textures over maps while developing them.

[@ForgottenCorners]

excellent video, thanks!

[@silver_forest-k5i]

Awesome tutorial, thank you!

[@klause2s]

*scooby doo confusion noise* alright, i tried this after trying like 4 other fps controllers, and not only did this one work perfectly, but it also immediately considered "forward" to the camera as opposed to the start of the model, as if like magic. i got a good feeling about this guy.

[@savmass]

Great Stuff! Subbed.

[@noahsoffian4050]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you so much.

[@funlabsdesignstudio]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Something I have always wanted to do and learn and because of your awesome video tutorials I am! Bless!

[@Primal_Real]

Thanks I just about to literally shoot myse- seasoned salad as nobody you know EXPLAINED MOVEMENT the most fundamental thing was barely talked about and I was tryna learn it so you know I could make a character move and understand how to but nobody did they just explained the bare bones basics or just the camera. TY so much you are the goat and I will forever be thankful to you.

[@wassimelmabrak5456]

guys I have a problem, I can't seem to sprint as lukky did at 15:30 can someone help me troubleshoot the issue (btw I checked the value of each speed and the keys in the input map) later on I found the same problem with crouching, it doesn't last long -Edit: if you faced the same problem you should just replace the "is_action_just_pressed" with "is_action_pressed"

[@clxakz]

i used collision shape scaling for the crouch: collision_shape.scale.y = lerp(collision_shape.scale.y, 0.5, delta * crouch_smoothing)

[@thecube_godot]

If the set_mouse_mode function does not appear in Godot 4.3, it is because it has been replaced. It would currently look like this: func _ready(): Input.mouse_mode = Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED

[@margarita2077cyber]

Man, thank you. Really BIG thanks.

[@lukky.]

You're welcome :)

[@margarita2077cyber]

@@lukky. I've got a problem. Where can I contact you?

[@yermekfun8203]

21:50 actually this "looking back" moment could be fun part of gameplay, like if main character would be some robot, with 360 look view)) so he can shoot enemies behind him, that would be non-stop action

[@roccolucente6152]

22:50 if you are getting an 'invalid get index' error here; as of godot 4.2 this line should be "head.rotation_degrees.x = clamp(head.rotation_degrees.x, -89, 89)"

[@asdfghjkl-jk6mu]

Glad to see a fellow pallas cat enjoyer!

[@legionsalt]

22:02 I typed in the code, and it doesn't work at all. I've re-typed the code multiple times and restarted godot, what's going on? Everything works up until this point.

[@triple0k]

Tnx bro it was very helpful 💙

[@asdfghjkl-jk6mu]

Recommendation: Zoom into code as it's hard to see.

[@xbelanch]

Amazing and helpful tutorial. Just a tip: perhaps jump action needs to check if raycast top is not colliding. For example: try to jump under the plane and you'll get a glitchy situation

[@Fatherlake]

for the part under "# Handle Jump." just add another "and" and then the raycast collision check

[@TheMarand]

In player scrip go to Var crouching_depth set it to -0.5 or what ever how low you want to crouch and in crouching_collision_shape node in player scene make the height subtracted what ever your crouch_depth is crouch_depth = -0.5 your collision shape should be 1.5m Now the player can jump and bump is head! I think?

[@tedTV_1]

god send of a tutorial, thank you 🙏

[@4SIGMAMAN]

you help me alot i put another code: func _physics_process(delta): if Input.is_action_just_pressed("mouse visable"): Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_VISIBLE) mouse_sens = 0 and this: if Input.is_action_just_pressed("play"): Input.set_mouse_mode(Input.MOUSE_MODE_CAPTURED) mouse_sens = 0.4 that puts them in physics_process function Add another INPUT called "mouse visable" and another INPUT called play

[@cyberbruh521]

13:40 quick tip press ctrl + r godot already has a tool to replace all words

[@RobertShane]

20:00 Instead of converting it to radians, which is multiplying the mouse_sense by pi/180 each frame, you could compute this directly by doing var mouse_sense = 0.006981317 which is 0.4 * pi/180. Not a huge performance gain, I know.