Standard Assets Characters (repo) vs Starter Assets: Character Controllers (asset)

News & General Discussion
,
1

Hello World!

I’ve been using the First and Third person asset controllers that are bundled in the “Starter Assets: Character Controllers” asset package on the Unity Story. I’ve modified it to do what I wanted, but just realized there’s a repo out there called “Standard Assets Characters” that’s not on the asset store, and it has more complex animations such as implementing strafe.

Would someone enlighten me as to which is the more recent, as well as why “Standard Assets Characters” is only found in Github repo form (not on the asset store) and why “Starter Assets: Character Controllers” is only available on the asset store but not in Github.

Also, what’s supposed to be the difference between the two?

Many thanks in advance,

Anthony

2

Standard Assets are super old and no longer being maintained. It’s quite possible they don’t work on new versions of Unity.

The github repros are likely not hosted by Unity but by other people who want to keep them available.

1 Like