I am sorry to interrupt Unity’s plan but I feel the strong need to do this.
As @ said in the latest stream, when the player releases the moving buttons during a jump, our pig character stops moving and falls straight down.
Now, while Ciro explicitly said that it doesn’t look good (specifically because there’s no inertia) and he almost treated it like a bug, I want to hear the community’s opinion about it.
Because - and if you’ve played a videogame before you should have noticed it - most of the times it isn’t a bug, but a feature. The original Donkey Kong had the character forcedly continue to move until the jump finished, and there is a reason why the big N changed that in their future games.
Of course, I don’t have anything about Ciro - he may have had his reasons to say what he said - but please let me know YOUR opinions as well. Game feel and movement mechanics are important, and we should at least discuss a bit before we change anything
OK, let’s see. But in any case, I am not too sure of which game stops the horizontal movement immediately as you release the input. I bet 99% of them have different degrees of inertia.
Well, maybe I have been too quick to critique your comment. Most of the games that wander around in my mind are 2d games, in which I am pretty sure the character stops almost immediately whether on the ground or not.
3d games are different though, and I haven’t played many of them in recent times, so I can’t make you examples; and if you say most of them have inertia, I believe you.
I still think we shouldn’t make use of inertia because that’s the way games/reality works, but we should test it out and see how it feels better. Not all jumps are created equal, and different properties of the jump - length, height, floatiness - could make for different degrees of inertia.
I might be wrong, but I think no games nowadays interrupts the movement instantly as soon as the input is released. There’s always at least A BIT of inertia. To various degree of course.
I couldn’t reproduce this behavior in the game nor could I found an issue on the repository. What branch are you using? I want to fix this bug as a way to start working on the character controller.
So, there was #48 which was a while ago, but the Character Controller has changed a lot since then.
Then there’s #58, but I think again it’s a product of how the CC works: there’s no physics, and the edge on which the character is “stuck” is horizontal, so for the CC we coded that is effectively a walking surface.
I think a good fix is to tailor the CC’s collision a bit better, which we did already. So I wouldn’t worry too much for now, let’s create more final scene geometry and then we’ll see!
Reviving this thread because I’ve made a PR that changes the way movement in the air is handled, effectively making the player not suddenly stop mid-air. It’s actually a PR to another PR I made. Besides mid-air movement, it also contains changes to the sliding mechanic. Both PRs could use some testing and reviews so please check them out!
It made me laugh.
