I continued working on the character controller, by adding crouching now allowing the player to move underneath surfaces and other obstacles. Getting this working correctly took a lot more time than I expected because changing the character’s collider size introduced several physics related bugs like the character getting stuck or incorrectly standing up when there wasn’t enough room above, as well as making sure crouching and standing transitions behaved correctly which took a lot of time to fix and get right. I also added an unstuck mechanism to help recover the character if they end up in a weird position.
I then cleaned up the code making it easier for me to add other features I have planned. Next, I’ll build on the character state system and start moving toward the animations of the controller.