Build your Godot characters like AAA titles do | Part 2

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Table of transition logic: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

⚠️ There is no branch in repo for II episode.

It’s not critical, use 3rd branch for a reference: https://github.com/Gab-ani/Godot_Universal-Controller-tutorial/tree/episode-3-jumps-and-combat-system

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• video description

Intro

3D character demo sucks again

What is an imported character?

Fall of MVC (Let's suddenly talk about cameras)

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For a 3D camera, it's very logical to be a part of a player scene.

• The camera gives us the ability to literally see something, so the camera is clearly a part of a View component. → presentation
• Well, a camera can be controlled by player inputs and often is detrimental for character behavior, like movement direction, so the camera is a part of the Controller.
• Uh, but the movement direction isn't an input field, it's actually a model field, so the camera is a crucial part of simulation and is Model.

Rise of PAC

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Suddenly the MVC approach stopped working. The MVC idea has a younger but more successful sibling. Some call it HMVC, and some call it PAC.

The core idea is: any manipulatable system can be divided not into one Model, one View, and one Controller, but into many components.

• And the components themselves have internal Presentation, Abstraction, and Control layers.
• For the system to be built properly, components must be encapsulated and only message other components via their exposed control parts.

Now, look at these two pictures, please. Yes, Godot's node system can be a very nice implementation of PAC architecture.