Problem with ethan prefab.

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1

I do not know why but sometimes the third person character Ethan gets stuck on edges of things like a cube and floats in place. If I don’t touch it for about a minute or two its like the gravity slowly takes over again.

I also cannot for the life of me understand why he wont use stairs. I just downloaded and tried to do the same test with Unity 5.5. Is there something wrong with the settings?

I would really appreciate some help with this.

2

I am sure you have worked out a solution by now. However here is mine for anyone that is stuck on the same issue:

Edit Standard Assets\Characters\ThirdPersonCharacter\Scripts\ThirdPersonCharacter.cs

Add a call to a new method checkClimb() in public void Move(Vector3 move, bool crouch, bool jump):

    ...
    else
    {
        HandleAirborneMovement();
    }

    checkClimb(); // <-- add this

    ScaleCapsuleForCrouching(crouch);
    ...

Then create a method to handle vertical translations based on a ray check that happens from above in front of the character as they move:

        /// <summary>
        /// Work out Y Movement. We may need multiple checks here later too, to prevent us falling into small cracks.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="move"></param>
        private void checkClimb()
        {
            float distanceDown = m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks + 2.5f;

            //float stepOffsetVerticalForHorizontalChecks = 0.1f;
            //float maxOffsetVerticalForHorizontalChecks = 1.5f;

            RaycastHit hitInfo;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
            // helper to visualise the climb check ray in the scene view
            Debug.DrawLine(
                transform.position + (Vector3.up * m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks) + (this.m_ForwardAmount * this.transform.forward * 0.5f), 
                transform.position + (Vector3.up * m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks) + (this.m_ForwardAmount * this.transform.forward * 0.5f) + (Vector3.up * (m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks - distanceDown)));
#endif
            // Actually do the check
            bool collided = Physics.Raycast(
                transform.position + (Vector3.up * m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks) + (this.m_ForwardAmount * this.transform.forward * 0.5f),
                Vector3.down,
                out hitInfo,
                distanceDown);

            if (collided && m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks + m_maxVerticalFall > hitInfo.distance)
            {
                if ((m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks - hitInfo.distance <= m_maxVerticalClimb) && (m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks - hitInfo.distance > 0.0f))
                {
                    this.transform.Translate(new Vector3(0.0f, m_offsetVerticalForVerticalChecks - hitInfo.distance, 0.0f));
                }
            }
        }