How to avoid character controller collider for slide over floor.?

Question

I have a character controller to move my player on a surface. All the things work fine, but I can't make a perfect slide with the character controller on the surface.

When I try to slide, my player animation plays in the center of capsule collider, which is attached to the player. That's why my player can not touch floor, which means my animation play in mid air. After some time I found that my problem occurs due to using the character controller. I am using Character.Move() to move my player.

Can anyone help me? How can I avoid the collider on the character controller, or change something to make my player slide animation perfectly align with the floor.?

I am using controller.transform.Rotate(0,0,60) to rotate my player on floor.

This is my script:

using UnityEngine;
using Assets.Scripts;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class ControllerMovement : MonoBehaviour {

private Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
public float gravity = 20f;
private CharacterController controller;
public float JumpSpeed = 8.0f;
public float Speed = 0.1f;
public int swipeStep = 3;
int swipeD,pos;
bool rx ;
int i=0;
public Transform CharacterGO;
bool isInSwipeArea;
private Animator anim;
IInputDetector inputDetector = null;

// Use this for initialization

void Start()
{
    moveDirection = transform.forward;
    moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
    moveDirection *= Speed;
    UIManager.Instance.ResetScore();
    UIManager.Instance.SetStatus(Constants.StatusTapToStart);
    GameManager.Instance.GameState = GameState.Start;

    anim = CharacterGO.GetComponentInChildren<Animator> ();
    inputDetector = GetComponent<IInputDetector>();
    controller = GetComponent<CharacterController>();   
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    switch (GameManager.Instance.GameState)
    {
    case GameState.Start:
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
        {
            //anim.SetBool(Constants.animaationStarted, true);
            var instance = GameManager.Instance;
            instance.GameState = GameState.Playing;
            UIManager.Instance.SetStatus(string.Empty);
        }
        break;
    case GameState.Playing:
        UIManager.Instance.IncreaseScore (0.001f);
        CheckHeight ();
        DetectJumpOrSwipeLeftRight ();


        //apply gravity
        moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        //move the player
        controller.Move (moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
        break;

    case GameState.Dead:
        ////anima.SetBool(Constants.//animaationStarted, false);
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
        {         SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
        }
        break;
    default:
        break;
    }
}
private void CheckHeight()
{
    if (transform.position.y < -10)
    {
        GameManager.Instance.Die();
    }
}

private void DetectJumpOrSwipeLeftRight()
{
    var inputDirection = inputDetector.DetectInputDirection();

    if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.Space)) {
        moveDirection.y = JumpSpeed;
        anim.SetBool ("RunToJump", true);
    } else {
        anim.SetBool ("RunToJump", false);
    }
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) && controller.isGrounded){
        controller.transform.Translate (-0.1f,0,0);         
    }
    if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D) && controller.isGrounded){
        controller.transform.Translate (0.1f,0,0);          
    }
    if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.S) && controller.isGrounded) {                                    
        anim.SetBool ("RunToSlip", true);
        controller.transform.Rotate (-40, 0, 0);
        Invoke ("StopSlidding", 0.2f);
    } 
        }
 void StopSlidding(){       
    anim.SetBool ("RunToSlip", false);
    controller.transform.Rotate (40,0,0);

  }

 }

Answer 1

Change your sliding animation with translated down position and use root motion of this animation in Unity.

Or use a parent child setup for controlling a character or figure.

In parent keep the Scripts, CharacterController component.

In child keep the character body with animator component.

In the script use GetComponentInChildren<Animator>() instead of GetComponent<Animator>().

When sliding, translate down the child as you need towards ground. Go back to normal position when not sliding. You can resize height of the CharacterController if you need.

You can do it in same object but above way keeps them separate and interfering with each other with better control.

Answer 2

@hardwork, I think, and if I read your question right, you could change the location of the animating part, not the controller, whiile it's sliding to have not so mid air. Then, change it back to it's normal location later on. In javaScript, you'd use "transform.position", but I'm not sure if that is it in C#. You can type in that under the Js search, then swap it over to C#.