Scripting a change in fps movement speed

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1

Hey, I’m going to school learning basics of game art and the graphic portions of gaming. I’m working on creating a short level that was modeled out in Maya and imported into Unity. I’m trying to set up a script so that when the FPS character moves through a trigger, the movement speed is slowed by about half. My problem is I know nothing about scripting and all of the other questions I can find on here are over my head. Could anyone please help me out with this?

3

The First Person Controller is now using CharacterMotor.js instead of the old and good FPSWalker.js. Changing the speed is more complicated now:

var slowSpeed: float = 5;
var slowG: float = 5;
var regularSpeed: float = 8;
var regularG: float = 10;

function OnTriggerEnter(other: Collider){
  var chMotor: CharacterMotor = other.GetComponent(CharacterMotor);
  if (chMotor){ // make sure CharacterMotor exists
    chMotor.movement.maxForwardSpeed = slowSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.maxSidewaysSpeed = slowSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.maxBackwardsSpeed = slowSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.gravity = slowG;
  }
}

function OnTriggerExit(other: Collider){
  var chMotor: CharacterMotor = other.GetComponent(CharacterMotor);
  if (chMotor){
    chMotor.movement.maxForwardSpeed = regularSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.maxSidewaysSpeed = regularSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.maxBackwardsSpeed = regularSpeed;
    chMotor.movement.gravity = regularG;
  }
}
2

Drag this script in the trigger to change any variable in the FPSController

var changeSpeedTo : float;

function OnTriggerEnter ( other : Collider){

    if(other.gameObject.name == "First Person Controller"){  //"First Person Controller" is the default name of the FPS controller after you add it to the scene
        other.gameObject.GetComponent(FPSWalker).speed = changeSpeedTo; //access the speed variable in the script called "FPSWalker" and changes it to the value you want
    }
}

//You can use any other variable instead of speed to access it and change it.

I Hope it helps!