Character Controller Size

[tjheldna]

I'm not sure if this has been looked at as of yet, but is it possible to change the cylinder size of the character controller?

 

Cheers

[Rick]

When I said that Josh mentioned the navmesh is built with this size in mind and so having different sizes would require different nav meshes.

[tjheldna]

So every character has to be the same size, I just cant see that working, will that limitation change eventually?

[Josh]

You run into problems like characters on two different navmeshes not avoiding each other. So at this time I am not going to try to make it more complicated than that. I think you will find characters of very different sizes can use the same size physics. I see this all the time in AAA games.

[tjheldna]

Is the height of the characters collision something we can edit? That would help. Don`t think we can currently, am I wrong?

 

Cheers

[Josh]

It is not presently. It could be done for non-AI characters, but AI characters with different heights would require different navmeshes for each height.

[YouGroove]

But is character controller cylinder size dependent on character size ? i mean radius not height ?

[Rick]

The character controller is completely independent of the actual model character if that's what you are asking.

[beo6]

I remember when i played with the Skyrim Editor that the actual collisionbox of characters where always the same size no matter how tall i had set the character-model.

[YouGroove]

Anyway, you can keep that uniform cylnder for navmesh only , and check character collision agains other bigger using a simple vertical cylinders collision math.

And against roof or passing a tunnel or arch , you can just make a raycast from character head to highter position.

[shadmar]

Havent tried but you could probably extend it by attaching a tube using a joint.