Links

There are a bunch of links out there having to do with 'movement', but most are imbedded in tutorials about other stuff. There are also a lot of 'character controllers' that you can try, and many of these have associated tutorials with them. The Standard Assets package itself has some of these. We built our own, because we like building things.

Class Downloads

• movedemo.zip -- the basic movement script ("observermove.cs" -- see below) we built up. Also a 'stepped move' demo.
  
  
• teleportdemo.zip -- three demo scenes showing a 'teleportation' move. One is triggered by a space bar, the other by going through a GameObject set to 'isTrigger', and the third with a space bar but with a nifty fadeout/fadein effect on the flattened cube directly in front of the camera.
  
  
• tryraycast1.zip -- very basic raycast usage: select objects with the mouse.
  
  
• raymovedemo.zip -- use a raycast to select a plane and teleport to it.
  
  
• observermove.cs -- use this file to add movement capabilities to your Unity scene. Here's what you do:
  
  1. Create a GameObject (it can be an EmptyGameObject, but doesn't have to be). Maybe call it "observer" or something like that.
  
  2. Make the Main Camera a child of that object. You might want to then reset the Main Camera position tramsform to (0.0, 0.0, 0.0). That will put it exactly where the GameObject ("observer") is.
  
  3. Add the "observermove.cs" script as a component to the "observer" GameObject.
  
  Once you do that, you all set to move with the arrow keys, the w/a/s/d keys, rotation with the SHIFT-arrow keys, etc.