FPS movement crouch

[Gavin_Durbin]

is there a way to when i press the key, instead of making a movement i just have the player model(bean) shrink on the Y axis and the collision model too? so that way physics takes charge and makes the player crouch.

[Leonidas]

Hi @Gavin_Durbin,

This post may be of help:

First Person Movement Crouching

Hello all I’m new to playcanvas and programming i started with the first person movement script to create a fps game but could not figure out how to implement crouching. I did some research in unity and the forum and found out that reducing the collider to half its original value should work but when I implement this myself everything seems to be really slow. The player moves really slowly in general and when you crouch it crouches really slowly and hardly moves, and the crouch bugs through the…

[Chase_Young]

Crouch in playcanvas
so first what you need to do is make a file by clicking the + button, and clicking script after that you will have some javascript code that looks like this

var Crouch = pc.createScript('crouch');

// initialize code called once per entity
Crouch.prototype.initialize = function() {

};

// update code called every frame
Crouch.prototype.update = function(dt) {
};

// swap method called for script hot-reloading
// inherit your script state here
// Crouch.prototype.swap = function(old) { };

// to learn more about script anatomy, please read:
// https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/scripting/

now you can see the Crouch.prototype.update = function (dt) {
}
what you want to do now is this take my code copy, and paste in in to the update function here is my code

if (this.app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_C)) {
        this.entity.collision.height = 1;
} else if (this.app.keyboard.wasReleased(pc.KEY_C)) {
        this.entity.collision.height = 2;
}