Support for CinemaMachine

[nicholas-maltbie]

Add support for CinemaMachine unity as an external package to support more types of camera control and camera modes. Add as a separate package so it's not required dependency and can be installed if required for another project. Should be version controlled with the rest of the package and all updated as a group.

Test out some additional features from cinema machine and ensure that they work correctly with the KCC state machine. Test some features including:

• Vertical damping for jumps
• Camera shake effects
• Camera bobbing with footsteps

Make some samples for different player controller setups including:

• First person
• Third person over the shoulder
• Hybrid first-third
• Fixed perspective (support changing perspective)
• Overhead camera pan

Support movement and character rotation that doesn't have to follow camera. For ICameraController separate the camera heading and player heading so player doesn't always have to face the direction the camera is facing.

[MickL]

Hey @nicholas-maltbie is this still something you want to do? :)

Some years passed by and maybe some decisions were made because this project started before Unity introduced/enhanced some features? E.g. I noticed StarterAssets Character Controller is using Cinemachine and the Input System but OpenKCC is not using Cinemachine. Also I was wondering why you added your own state machine package, isnt Unitys enough?

[nicholas-maltbie]

Hey @MickL , this was originally an extension of my attempt to make a character controller using DOTS. I realized I wanted to learn more about how character controllers worked. I started attempting to translate the project to godot as well.

Original DOTS character controller: https://github.com/nicholas-maltbie/PropHunt/blob/master/Assets/Scripts/Mixed/Systems/KinematicCharacterControllerSystems.cs

I do still work on these projects but have been rather busy with work in the last year or so.

This project does not have more features than other projects like the one you listed, it's mostly an attempt to learn and understand more about game development and physics engines. Unity uses NVidia's character controller for it's basic movement solver - https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/gameworkslibrary/physx/guide/Manual/CharacterControllers.html but I wanted to extend that logic and understand it further.

For cinemachine, I added a sub package - https://github.com/nicholas-maltbie/OpenKCC/tree/main/Packages/com.nickmaltbie.openkcc.cinemachine

I added my own character controller so I could define animations and code behavior together, see https://github.com/nicholas-maltbie/OpenKCC/blob/main/Packages/com.nickmaltbie.openkcc/OpenKCC/Character/KCCStateMachine.cs Here is the docs on that project if you're interested - https://nickmaltbie.com/StateMachineUnity/docs/manual/usage.html

But after learning more about coding and software development in the past few years, I think I would probably re-design a lot of the code in this project.