Movement & Controls

Game Controls

By using Game Controls, you can create interactive experiences where you can control characters by walking or flying around. It allows you to control your character's speed and acceleration, as well as its rotation. Take control of your character and navigate your scene using key inputs, joysticks, buttons, gravity, and collision detection.

In Spline, adding game controls is really easy. Select the object that will be your character, then add the game controls event. Enter Play mode to see the results. As you can see, the cat jumps really high and moves really fast. Now let's play with the properties.

Movement

In this section you can move or make your character fly, as well as adjust its position and rotation’s speed and delay. We are going to set the position speed to 200. When it comes to auto-orienting an isometric scene, we have to use a trick to get it to work. Rotate the object to ( -180, -45, -180 ), then group the layer underneath it and apply Rotation to ( 0, 180, 0 ).

• Walk: Character is affected by gravity
• Fly: Character is not affected by gravity
• Auto-orient: Character is facing the direction of the input (up, down, left, right)
• Pos.speed: Speed of the character
• Rot.speed: Speed of the rotation of the camera
• Pos.delay: Acceleration of the character
• Rot.delay: Acceleration of the rotation of the camera

Desktop Controls

With Desktop Controls, you can determine what keys will control your character and what each will do. RotateBy enables the camera’s rotation by mouse, keys or both. The keyboard keys can be assign a new key or an another function. On the right side, the icon is to reset the all changes. This is how you customize your controls to move the character.

• Rotate By: Enable camera rotation by mouse, keys or both
• Keyboard Keys: After selecting a key, you can either assign it to another key or change its action in the dropdown menu.
• Reset: Resets all changes
• Dropdown: You can move, rotate, jump or assign none to each buttons

Multiple Game Controls Events

There will only be one Game Controls event in your scene where desktop and mobile controls can be defined if you have multiple Game Controls events. The warning will appear every time you edit a new Game Controls event, notifying you that it is not the main Game Controls event.

It is always possible to change the controls from the main button by pressing the one below.

Touch Controls

You can customize your experience using Touch Controls on touch-based devices such as iPhone and iPad, and you can enable or disable this option.

• Rotate By: Drag the screen or use a joystick to rotate
• Joysticks & Buttons position: Position the joysticks and buttons for Move, Rotate, and Jump.
• Offset: Space between the control and the screen edge
• Button size: Size of the button
• Visibility: Selected button is shown or hidden