Ultimate Character Controller

The Ultimate Character Controller is a professional, kinematic character controller designed with performance, modularity, and polish at its core. Trusted by tens of thousands of developers and backed by over a decade of iteration, it's your complete solution for fluid and customizable character control in first and third person games.

Whether you're building a shooter, melee brawler, magic combat system, or open-world adventure, the Ultimate Character Controller gives you the foundation to bring your characters to life - fast.

📦This package includes UFPS and the Third Person Controller.

🎮 Demo | 📚 Documentation | 🎥 Videos | 💬 Discussions | 🌐 Discord

✨Highlights

• Seamlessly switch between first and third person perspectives
• Use modular items for guns, swords, magic, throwables, flashlights, etc.
• Includes full body awareness, advanced IK, and procedural spring animation
• Use the Character & Item Builder to get started in seconds
• Designed for Unity 2022.3 - Unity 6, with URP, HDRP, and built-in RP support

🧠Why the Ultimate Character Controller?

• Perspective Switching: Swap between first and third person at runtime
• Modular Item System: Customize behavior for any weapon or tool
• Procedural Spring System: Achieve fluid, dynamic first-person motion
• Ability System: Add modular character actions with ease
• Dynamic Gravity: Support gravity in any direction
• Per-Character Time Scaling: Set time scale per character
• Character Switching: Change models dynamically at runtime

🧑‍🚀For All Skill Levels

New to Unity or Character Controllers?

Jump in fast using the Character & Item Builder, along with detailed video walkthroughs and 300+ pages of documentation.

Experienced Developer?

You’ll love the clean codebase, modular structure, and extensibility - ideal for deep customization and system-level integration.

🧠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
• Final IK
• FPS Mesh Tool
• High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP)
• InControl
• Input System
• Interactor
• Master Audio
• NWH Vehicle Physics
• Omni Animation - Core Locomotion Pack
• Omni Animation - Knife Pack
• Omni Animation - Pistol Pack
• PlayMaker
• Puppet Master
• Quest Machine
• RayFire
• Realistic Car Controller
• Realistic Car Controller Pro
• Rewired
• UMA
• Ultimate Inventory System
• Universal Render Pipeline (URP)

📦Add-ons (Sold Separately)

• Agility Pack
• Climbing Pack
• Deathmatch AI Kit
• Helicopter System
• PUN Multiplayer Add-On
• Save System
• Swimming Pack
• Ultimate Mirror Networking Controller
• Ultimate Multiplayer - MP Game Modes
• Ultimate Seating Controller

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Join the Community

Since 2012, Opsive’s character controllers have powered thousands of games across every genre. With continuous updates, premium support, and a passionate developer community, you're building on a system that’s proven, polished, and production-ready.