Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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In this video we look at automatic height adjustment for our character and implement improvements to our collision handling so we can walk up stairs.

Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Explanation of height adjustment
00:53 Implementing automatic height adjustment
02:35 Using our session state signals
03:15 Testing our automatic calibration
03:35 The problem with calibrating too early
04:40 Recalibrating on pose recenter
04:55 Testing our recalibrate option
05:23 Adjusting our collision based on player crouching
07:00 Testing our collision shape adjustment
07:22 Fixing our stair issue
07:48 Separate upper body collision
08:24 Further upper body configuration
09:15 Adding a raycast for height control
09:48 Implementing a PID controller
11:45 Using our PID controller with our raycast
12:30 Final demo

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- github.com/BastiaanOlij/godot4_tutorial/tree/first_person_controller_part3

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