July 3, 2019
Creating Basic FPS Camera Controller
FPS Controller in Unity
Youtube – How to construct a simple First Person Controller with Camera Mouse Look in Unity 5
By: Holistic3d
This first tutorial is a good example for setting up the most basic type of first person camera in Unity. Since the project I was using didn’t need a character at all and I was just attaching this directly to the camera, I needed to make some slight modifications to have it setup properly. This is because I didn’t have a parent object to apply the second type of rotation to. This just required me to set both rotations in both directions at the same time (since setting one and then the other to the exact same object had the second rotation constantly overriding the first).
This camera had a slight issue though where it moved relative to wherever the mouse starts on the screen. While I was just creating this camera controller for debugging purposes for an AR project, this would be an issue to investigate in the future if you actually wanted to use the controller for a game. Just implementing something simple using the mouse’s initial position relative to screen space somehow.