Jumping onto higher ground Collider issues

Question

What's the general solution to the following character animation problem (I'm using Unity)?

You have a character with a capsule collider and a jump animation that allows you to jump onto higher ground (such s boxes, etc.). The character shouldn't be able to jump unrealistically high so she goes into a crouched posture while in the air and the collider is scaled accordingly in an animation curve.

However when the character jumps onto the box to land, the character animation (and collider) want to extend back to wards the ground but there is not enough space and either collision detection fails and the character falls into the geometry or the collider starts a collision fight with the box and keeps bumping up and down, keeping the character in an airborne state.

Please see screenshots to get a better idea...

What would be a good way to work around this problem?

Answer 1

It seems like you are missing to move the transformation of the player high enough. like on the picture I think the problem is, that you set a jump height according to the animation and not to the player without animation. So jump height looks fine when in crouch position, but when u turn of the animation, you will see, that the player model jumps way to less high.

I think this is your problem. So just fix the jump height and all will be fine.

As a side node, an animation should allways be applied only, when the actual movement is ok.

So in your example, only when the player model jumps correctly to its complete transformation, then apply an animation for the whole duration of the jump.