Godot: New PlayerController Prefab.

[ca3games]

Hi, I think a node where the user can easily set up a player Rigidbody configured to be the player node could be a great adition to new users.

It could have diferent setups for 4 directionals rpg, 8 directions arpgs, 2D platformer, Fighting game character, roguelike movement, car movement, tank movement, FPS movement and also their 3D version alternative.

[Ace-Dragon]

This would probably be something better served with user-made custom nodes that can be downloaded from Godot's official website. The issue with having all of the possible control schemes as their own specialized node built into Godot is bloat for both the software and people's game projects (in which the latter is possible due to the engine not having an automated stripping feature as of now). The purpose is to keep the engine lightweight with good performance (so as to prevent the many performance issues and regressions seen in the big commercial solutions).

Of course it would help if the official website's asset section had a tag where you can show _just_ the custom node types people made.

[aaronfranke]

KinematicBody already has the icon of a character, since it is intended to be used like this. But it would not be practical to code in all of those use cases.

[DleanJeans]

I think there should official addons hosted on Godot Engine GitHub Account like godot-addons

[eon-s]

The asset library has character controllers already, a place to request scripts/plugins/etc would be nice to reduce this kind of request on the engine itself.

[arkology]

I think the issue may be closed. There is no need to implement this in the engine itself. Own implementation will not take a lot of time, besides there are several assets in the asset library

[clayjohn]

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