Crouching problem

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Godot Version

4.2.1

Question

Hello! I’m trying to add crouching to my FPS game, but I have one problem: when I use RayCast3D node (I tried ShapeCast3D, but it ignores collisions) to prevent player from standing up under low object all works fine, except one thing: if I stand close to low object, hold “W” key and press “crouch” for a small time, my player starts to bug out (clipping into the wall). Can someone tell me better way to make crouching? Currently I use animations in AnimationPlayer node (crouch, uncrouch). Also tried enabling/disabling two different collision shapes, same problem.

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Hello !

Can it be that the starting position of your RayCast3D is inside the object you want to collide with when your too close to it ?

Check the hit_from_inside property of you RayCast3D : RayCast3D — Godot Engine (stable) documentation in English

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Actually, it’s not, because my raycast comes from the bottom of the character collision

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It sounds like you’re not detecting if an object is above your character until after you hit the crouch key. Can you show that part of your code?

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Thanks for helping, the solution has been found

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Would you mind elaborating on your solution?

@GodofGrunts you’re exactly right about what I’m doing. I’m blanking on a more clever way to handle this, do you have any suggestions?

	var speed = SPEED
	if Input.is_action_pressed("Crouch"):
		speed = CROUCHSPEED
		if !crouched: 
			$AnimationPlayer.play("Crouch")
			crouched = true
	else: 
		if crouched: 
			if not $HeadRayCast3D.is_colliding():
				$AnimationPlayer.play("UnCrouch")
				crouched = false