Unity Script Reference – CharacterController

CharacterController Inherits from Collider

A CharacterController allows you to easily do movement constrained by collisions without having to deal with a rigidbody.

A CharacterController is not affected by forces and will only move when you call the Move funtion. It will then carry out the movement but be constrained by collisions.

Variables

isGrounded	Was the CharacterController touching the ground during the last move?
velocity	The current relative velocity of the Character (see notes).
collisionFlags	What part of the capsule collided with the environment during the last CharacterController.Move call.
radius	The radius of the character's capsule
height	The height of the character's capsule
center	The center of the character's capsule relative to the transform's position.
slopeLimit	The character controllers slope limit in degrees
stepOffset	The character controllers step offset in meters
detectCollisions	Should other rigidbodies or character controllers collide with this character controller (By default always enabled)

Functions

SimpleMove	Moves the character with speed.
Move	A more complex move function taking absolute movement deltas.

Messages Sent

OnControllerColliderHit

OnControllerColliderHit is called when the controller hits a collider while performing a Move.

Inherited members

Inherited Variables

attachedRigidbody	The rigidbody the collider is attached to.
isTrigger	Is the collider a trigger?
material	The material used by the collider.
sharedMaterial	The shared physic material of this collider.
bounds	The world space bounding volume of the collider.
transform	The Transform attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
rigidbody	The Rigidbody attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
camera	The Camera attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
light	The Light attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
animation	The Animation attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
constantForce	The ConstantForce attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
renderer	The Renderer attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
audio	The AudioSource attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
guiText	The GUIText attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
networkView	The NetworkView attached to this GameObject (Read Only). (null if there is none attached)
guiTexture	The GUITexture attached to this GameObject (Read Only). (null if there is none attached)
collider	The Collider attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
hingeJoint	The HingeJoint attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
particleEmitter	The ParticleEmitter attached to this GameObject (null if there is none attached).
gameObject	The game object this component is attached to. A component is always attached to a game object.
tag	The tag of this game object.
name	The name of the object.
hideFlags	Should the object be hidden, saved with the scene or modifiable by the user?

Inherited Functions

ClosestPointOnBounds	The closest point to the bounding box of the attached collider.
Raycast	Casts a Ray that ignores all Colliders except this one.
GetComponent	Returns the component of Type type if the game object has one attached, null if it doesn't.
GetComponent.<T>
GetComponent	Returns the component with name type if the game object has one attached, null if it doesn't.
GetComponentInChildren	Returns the component of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children using depth first search.
GetComponentInChildren.<T>
GetComponentsInChildren	Returns all components of Type type in the GameObject or any of its children.
GetComponentsInChildren.<T>
GetComponents	Returns all components of Type type in the GameObject.
GetComponents.<T>
CompareTag	Is this game object tagged tag?
SendMessageUpwards	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object and on every ancestor of the behaviour
SendMessage	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object.
BroadcastMessage	Calls the method named methodName on every MonoBehaviour in this game object or any of its children.
GetInstanceID	Returns the instance id of the object.
ToString	Returns the name of the game object.

Inherited Messages Sent

OnTriggerEnter	OnTriggerEnter is called when the Collider other enters the trigger.
OnTriggerExit	OnTriggerExit is called when the Collider other has stopped touching the trigger.
OnTriggerStay	OnTriggerStay is called almost all the frames for every Collider other that is touching the trigger.
OnCollisionEnter	OnCollisionEnter is called when this collider/rigidbody has begun touching another rigidbody/collider.
OnCollisionExit	OnCollisionExit is called when this collider/rigidbody has stopped touching another rigidbody/collider.
OnCollisionStay	OnCollisionStay is called once per frame for every collider/rigidbody that is touching rigidbody/collider.

Inherited Class Functions

operator bool	Does the object exist?
Instantiate	Clones the object original and returns the clone.
Instantiate.<T>
Destroy	Removes a gameobject, component or asset.
DestroyImmediate	Destroys the object obj immediately. It is strongly recommended to use Destroy instead.
FindObjectsOfType	Returns a list of all active loaded objects of Type type.
FindObjectOfType	Returns the first active loaded object of Type type.
operator ==	Compares if two objects refer to the same
operator !=	Compares if two objects refer to a different object
DontDestroyOnLoad	Makes the object target not be destroyed automatically when loading a new scene.