The Ultimate Character Controller is a professional, kinematic character system refined over more than a decade of real-world use.
Designed to serve as a stable foundation for first and third person games, it handles the hard problems of character control - movement, animation, interaction, perspective switching, and extensibility - so you can focus on building gameplay.
Whether you’re developing a shooter, melee brawler, RPG, or open-world adventure, the Ultimate Character Controller provides the flexibility and polish required for long-term projects.
📦This package includes UFPS and the Third Person Controller.
🎮 Demo | 📚 Documentation | 🎥 Videos | 💬 Discussions | 🌐 Discord
✨Highlights
- Seamlessly switch between first and third person perspectives
- Modular item system for weapons, tools, and abilities
- Full body awareness with advanced IK
- Procedural spring-based animation for fluid motion
- Character & Item Builder for rapid setup
- Supports Unity 2022.3 through Unity 6
- Compatible with Built-in RP, URP, and HDRP
🧠Why the Ultimate Character Controller?
Built for Reliability
- Kinematic controller designed for precise movement
- Stable behavior across diverse gameplay scenarios
- Handles complex interactions and edge cases
Modular by Design
- Ability-based character actions
- Highly extensible item and movement systems
- Clean separation of systems for customization
Production-Ready Features
- Dynamic gravity in any direction
- Per-character time scaling
- Runtime character model switching
- Moving platform and split-screen support
🧑🚀For All Skill Levels
Get Started Quickly
- Character & Item Builder
- Demo scenes and walkthrough videos
- 300+ pages of documentation
For Advanced Developers
- Clean, extensible codebase
- Designed for deep system integration
- Ideal for large or long-running projects
🤖 Atlas: Your Opsive AI Assistant
The Ultimate Character Controller optionally integrates with Atlas, Opsive’s AI assistant. Ask questions about the asset, get help planning or troubleshooting your implementation, or describe what you want to build and have Atlas generate code designed around the Opsive APIs and your project. Atlas works with the Codex access included in your existing ChatGPT plan, so no separate Atlas subscription is required.
Learn more about Atlas
🧠Character Features
- Kinematic Controller
- First & Third Person Support
- Dynamic Gravity
- Character Model Switching
- Moving Platform Support
- Full Body Awareness
- Procedural Animation
- Inverse Kinematics (IK)
- Ragdoll Support
- Split-Screen Support
- Real-Time Character Switching
🛠️Item Overview
- Fully Modular Design
- Shooter, Melee, Magic, Throwable, Flashlight
- Parry, Block, Recoil, Jump Attacks, Special Attacks
- Visible Trajectories
- Pickups & Object Pooling
- Build Items in Seconds
🏃♂️Abilities
- Align to Ground
- Align to Gravity Zone
- Damage Visualization
- Die
- Drive
- Fall
- Follow 2.5D Path
- Generic
- Height Change
- Idle
- Interact
- Item Equip Verifier
- Item Pullback
- Jump
- Lean
- Look At
- Move Towards
- NavMesh Movement
- Pickup Item
- Quick Start
- Quick Stop
- Quick Turn
- Ragdoll
- Restrict Position
- Restrict Rotation
- Revive
- Ride
- Rideable
- Rotate Towards
- Slide
- Speed Change
- Stop Movement Animation
- Target Orbit
🧭Movement Types
- First Person Combat / Free Look
- Third Person Adventure / Combat / RPG
- 2.5D / Top-Down / Point & Click
🤝Integrations
- A* Pathfinding Project
- Adventure Creator
- Behavior Designer
- Behavior Designer Pro
- Cinemachine
- Control Freak
- Dialogue System for Unity
- Edy's Vehicle Physics
- Feel
- Final IK
- FMOD
- FPS Mesh Tool
- High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
- InControl
- Input System
- Interactor
- Juicy Actions
- Master Audio
- NWH Vehicle Physics
- Omni Animation - Core Locomotion Pack
- Omni Animation - Knife Pack
- Omni Animation - Pistol Pack
- PlayMaker
- Quest Machine
- RayFire
- Realistic Car Controller
- Realistic Car Controller Pro
- Rewired
- State Designer
- Tactical Pack for Behavior Designer Pro
- UMA
- Ultimate Inventory System
- Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
📦Add-ons (Sold Separately)
🧑🤝🧑Join the Community
Used in thousands of projects across every genre, Opsive’s character controllers are backed by continuous updates, extensive documentation, and an active developer community.
Build on a controller designed to grow with your project, not fight it.
