Unity in Action

Chapter 7. Creating a third-person 3D game: player movement and animation

This chapter covers

• Adding real-time shadows to the scene
• Making the camera orbit around its target
• Changing rotation smoothly using the Lerp algorithm
• Handling ground detection for jumping, ledges, and slopes
• Applying and controlling animation for a lifelike character

In this chapter you’ll create another 3D game, but this time you’ll be working in a new game genre. If you think back to chapter 2, you built a movement demo for a first-person game. Now you’re going to write another movement demo, but this time it’ll involve third-person movement. The most important difference is the placement of the camera relative to the player: a player sees through their character’s ...