Collision detection between characters in Unity3D - unity3d

I am working on 3D fighting game and I am using Unity3D as my game engine. I have a scene, two characters who work very fine and I can control it with my keyboard. But now the problem is in the collision detection.
I have used capsule colliders on my characters and also rigidbody gravity. Now when both these players collide the collision can be detected easily but due to the collision my character will fall down and is not able to stand, just like a capsule. I want to create some realistic effects just like other games have. Is there way to do this?

I would recommend you use a Mesh Collider, but that does not work for animated models.
Here are some suggestions:
Collision for Animated Characters
Note: The mesh collider does not animate. This means that if you want accurate 1:1 collisions for
animated characters, it will need a series of colliders parented to
each joint roughly the same shape as the character.
Another way to do
this is to make a ragdoll out of the character and turn off (or
remove) the rigidbody components. If you just want generic collisions
for humanoid characters, you may use a Character Controller (below).

You have to use primitive colliers because two mesh colliers can never collide with each other.
If you want to make realistic interactions... you should use animations and IK in Unity... its the best way...
For more collision related issues check this : https://youtu.be/Bg73o9JH53c

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It is impossible to implement accurate collisions in 3D SpriteRenderers? Is Billboard incompatible with rigidbodies?

I've been having difficulty implementing enemies with a billboarding system for a while:
For a new project I'm reusing some animated sprites from an old static camera shooter game I made. It consisted of shooting projectiles and hitting enemies advancing towards your position. The enemies were capsules which had an animated plane in front of them.
I wanted to go a step further and make a raycast system that would detect if the impact on a plane is on the alpha part of its texture. I achieved it using a SpriteRenderer and a plane that matched the size of the sprite which receives the impact of the Raycast.
The problem comes with the movement of the enemies. If I use Rigidbodies this conflicts with the plane which detects the impact, since I have to use a non-convex Mesh Collider for RaycastHit.textureCoord (With Convex colliders it doesn't return the correct position). I need Rigidbody based movement for the enemies to push each other when colliding.
I tried using Transform Movement, since the error does not occur, but this allows enemies to pass through each other and occupy the same space.
I started investigating navMesh but I'm not sure if it is possible to avoid collisions.
I started to place a group of trigger colliders on the enemy mimicking the shape of the sprite. But this makes it difficult for me to detect collisions when enemies do certain animations (Some enemies jump diagonally or their animations are a bit jittery).
I would like to keep the impact detection system for the sprite, but maybe there is another way to check the texture at the impact location.
I think my options are:
With rigidbody based movement: separate the animation and hit detection system from the enemy movement. And make the billboarding effect teleport to the object constantly.
With Transform movement: Detect if they are overlapping and move them in opposite direction to the overlapping to simulate the collision.
With motion based navMesh: I'm not sure if it will be useful to me, since the characters jump and I also believe that a Mesh Agent ship cannot simultaneously be an obstacle. I understand that the navMesh cannot be generated in runtime.
Leaving texture based detection and using the trigger colliders group: Animate the colliders to also follow the animations. Or simplify everything to a large collider, losing precision on impact.
-Find an alternative method to detect the impact coordinates in the texture, avoiding using RaycastHit.textureCoord and therefore Mesh Collider. (Although I would like to keep the impact detection system as it is, maybe there is a similar approach for the same result).
The reason I have not yet delved into these solutions is because I would like to keep the system simple. I'm trying to avoid separating the enemy into 2 gameobjects, simulating collisions or animating collider positions. I honestly don't know which way to go in order to move forward with the project.

Preventing collider from glitching through terrain

I'm using a terrain in Unity 2019.2.1f1 and a custom mesh of a cave with a mesh collider.
My character that has a Capsule Collider way bigger than the entry of the cave should not be able to enter in. But due to the roundness of both colliders, he can come into force in the cave, glitching through the terrain collider.
I think it's velocity is not excessive, I'm moving the character with rb.MovePosition() in the FixedUpdate(), and I set its rigidbody collision detection to Continuous speculative (tried all the "continuous" modes)
In the animation below, you can see the mesh of the cave and the capsule collider around the character.
How can I prevent this from happening? How can I say to Unity: "I want the colliders to be rock solid and not marshmallow"?
Colliders in Unity are rock-solid. They are incapable of any kind of soft physics, and the only moment they will warp through each other is when you force them to.
Here, you are setting the rigidBody position by force, into an impossible location. The game tries its best to fit your rigidBody despite the lack of room.
You can
Only use forces, and velocities. You can simply set the velocity to the direction of your choosing, and set it to 0 when you stop moving, or use AddForce, which is basically the same thing.
Keep using MovePosition, but use a SphereCast or CapsuleCast to check if you have enough room to move first.

Will a raycast or collider detect an unrendered mesh in Unity3D?

I have a 3d object (a capsule) that I'm using in lieu of a character model because the project is going to be from a first person perspective. You can choose in the inspector whether to render the object's mesh or not. Since this object is meant to be invisible and only a hitbox, I want to know if raycasts and colliders will still detect it. I'm assuming yes because the object seems to behave normally with the physics, but I want to avoid complications in the future.
The only thing that matters for physics is the colliders and rigidbodies, It doesn't care about meshrenderers

Make two physics objects not collide but do detect collisions in Unity

I have a Unity project in which there is a 2D game world that consists of static colliders to make the geometry solid to the characters that inhabit it. The player is a dynamic collider (with a non-kinematic rigidbody). There's also an enemy character that is also a dynamic collider. Both characters walk over the floor and bump into walls like I'd expect them to.
What I want to achieve is that the player and enemy are not solid to each other, so they can move through each other. I achieved this by putting the enemy and the player on separate layers and setting the collision matrix so that these layers do not collide with each other. The problem I'm having now, however, is that I do want to detect whether or not the enemy and the player ran into each other. I added a trigger collider to the enemy character, it's on the enemy layer which means it doesn't detect collisions with the player.
I thought of making a sub-gameobject for the enemy, put it on the player's layer, add a rigidbody and trigger collider to it and use that to detect collisions between the player and the enemy, but it feels so convoluted that it leaves me wondering if there isn't a more elegant solution for this.
Edit (2020-05-26): Nowadays you can tell the engine to ignore collisions between two given objects. Kudos to Deepscorn for the comment. Will leave the rest of the answer unchanged, and read with that in mind.
Yes, you need to create a child GameObject, with a trigger collider, and put it in a layer that interacts with the player layer.
No, you don't need to add a Rigidbody to the new GameObject, the parent's rigidbody already makes it a dynamic collider, so you will get OnTrigger events.
As a side note, just to keep things organized, if you create a child of the enemy don't put it in the player layer. For example, in the future you might need to disable the player's layer collision with itself. Furthermore, if your player interacts this way with many objects, I'd put a single trigger on the player instead of the enemies, on a separate PlayerTrigger layer, just to keep things simple.
Isn't there a simpler way? Not really. You definitely need non-interaction between the player and enemy colliders, but some kind of interaction between them too. So one of them needs to span two layers, or the whole interaction would be described by a single bool. The physics engine processes lots of information in one go, so you can set all the layers and collisions you want, but during the physics loop you have no further control on what happens. You can't tell the engine to ignore collisions between just two objects. Having only 32 layers, and having them behave in the rigid way they do are actually heavy optimizations. If you are concerned about performance for creating another layer, disable interaction between layers you don't need, like the trigger layer and the floor and walls, or layers that don't even touch.
Your alternative is doing it all by code, which is even less elegant. A single child capsule on the player doesn't sound that bad now, doesn't it?

SpriteKit and particle collision

I have a particle emitter and I would like to detect it when the particles collide some physics bodies.
Is there a native way to do that in the SpriteKit API or do I need "to cheat" ?
Individual particles can not collide. Not with physics, not any other way. You do not even get any information about an individual particle - you can't access it's position, rotation, velocity .. nothing.
If you wanted to "cheat" you'd have to emulate the particle emitter using sprites, and animate the sprites with actions or manually. However keep in mind that this is much less efficient than a particle emitter.
In addition, if we're talking "particles" which often means dozens or even hundreds of them on screen, the amount of physics processing and collision detection quickly becomes prohibitively expensive if you were to model them using sprites with physics bodies attached. Do a performance test before you go down this path.
Particles do not have physics bodies, so they don't collide with Sprite Kit's physics engine
You can set the physics body of the particle emitter the same way you set it for any sprite node. Then you can set the category bit mask property and the contact test bit mask. The method didBeganContact can detect the collision afterwards.
didBegan contact is called whenever two bodies contact each other . Here is the apple reference link for how this method works:
Click [here](https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/SpriteKit/Reference/SKPhysicsContactDelegate_Ref/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/SKPhysicsContactDelegate/didBeginContact:"Apple iOS developer library")!