Adding a Third Person Character Controller to a scene

Once we’ve added the Unity Third Person Character Controller starter assets to a project, we can use them for our own scenes. In this recipe, we’ll create an empty scene, add a squashed Cube as the floor, and then add a controllable character with a linked camera by using a Prefab from our imported assets.

Figure 9.3: The scene we’ll build in this recipe, with a third-person character added to the scene

Getting ready

This project builds on the previous one – so either work on a copy of that one, or add the Unity Third Person Character Controller starter assets to another project using the steps from that recipe.

How to do it...

To add a Third Person Character Controller to a scene, perform the following steps:

1. Create a new scene.
2. Add a Cube to the scene named Cube-ground and scale it to be large and thin by setting Transform Scale to (20, 0.01, 20) in the Inspector...