Player controller - how to stop the sliding

Questions & Answers
1

Currently I have a custom player controller for movement. As I am building a network game, I would like to have as little physics as possible. Right now, when I move player up the hill, player slides down. Predictable.

This is my handler right now. I am manually changing the position of the player based on its velocity in the update function, as you can see.

      Direction moveDirection = DPad.MoveDirection();
      Vector3 velocity;
      if (moveDirection == Direction.N)
        velocity = new Vector3(0, 0, 1);
      else if (moveDirection == Direction.S)
        velocity = new Vector3(0, 0, -1);
      else if (moveDirection == Direction.W)
        velocity = new Vector3(-1, 0, 0);
      else
        velocity = new Vector3(1, 0, 0);
      
      GetComponent<Rigidbody>().position += velocity * CalculateSpeed() * Time.deltaTime;

Is there some way to make the player not slide down anything - and even better, when a player moves into a wall at an angle, let’s say, is there an easy way to stop the player right there, instead of allowing it to move along direction of the wall?

2

Well if you’re determined to use velocity to control the character you could enable a movement constraint on the Rigidbody when none of the buttons associated to moving aren’t pressed. This should lock the player in place if you aren’t trying to go anywhere. Have a look at this.

I would strongly advise using a CharacterController to take care of player movements though. I believe in the example FPS Controller that Unity provides they use a CharacterController that can still react with its Rigidbody. I would check that out. This is a pretty good video comparing the two methods.

3

use a higher friction physics material.

4

The problem might be the slope limit too. I would check it out and put it up to 85 degrees.