Thirdperson controller using virtualstick

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Hello
I am trying to control third person using the virtual stick.
could you please help me work this.

Project link:
https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/983586

thank you in advance

2

Hi @Tom_Tom and welcome,

What issues are you experiencing?

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3

@Leonidas Thank you very much fir the reply.
I am having troble on playing animation.

I want to move third person and its animation
Jog forward, Jog Backward play on moving virtualstick.

4

So, animations seems to be working fine when using keyboard WASD. All animation handling is done in the playerAnimationHandler script. The following method is responsible for the animation state logic:

PlayerAnimationHandler.prototype.checkButtons = function () {
    var app = this.app;
    
    var w = app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_W);
    var a = app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_A);
    var s = app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_S);
    var d = app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_D);

    if (w && !s) {
        if (a && !d) {
            this.direction = 'Run Forward Left';
        } else if (d && !a) {
            this.direction = 'Run Forward Right';
        } else {
            this.direction = 'Run Forward';
        }
    } else if (s && !w) {
        if (a && !d) {
            this.direction = 'Run Backward Left';
        } else if (d && !a) {
            this.direction = 'Run Backward Right';
        } else {
            this.direction = 'Run Backward';
        }
    } else if (a && !d) {
        this.direction = 'Run Left';
    } else if (d && !a) {
        this.direction = 'Run Right';
    } else {
        this.direction = 'Idle';
    }
};

You will have to communicate your virtual joystic state (forward/backward/side) to this script and in the same manner run the animation logic. You can use Playcanvas events to easily communicate between scripts.

You can take a look at the First Person controller on how it uses the input from different sources (keyboard/mouse/touch/gamepad) to drive the same controller once:

https://playcanvas.github.io/#camera/first-person.html

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Thank you very much I managed to solve the problem.

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