How to disable gravity on main character in battle arena?

Griever

I use random battles zone & separate battle arena (i.e. "battle" script) at another place of game scene. (I try to migrate from ORK 1 to ORK2). So, after I setup turn-based battle start event, everything seems ok for now, except one thing... My main character after moving to battle arena falls down infinitely (because battle arena has no bottom, it's just a background (2d battle). Other characters (that's spawn only in battle, not in field) spawn correct, enemies also spawn in correct way.

So, how to disable gravity on main character after moving to battle? I don't use rigidbody, just a button player controller. Do I need to use some hacks like invisible floor or special script to disable gravity or I just miss ORK2 setting somewhere? I don't have such problem in ORK1.

Griever

Falling down in Battle Arena stops when I disable character controller in editor. It also stops when I set gravity to zero in battle start event. But I don't sure, is this corrent way or not.

Griever

At last! I solved this issue by uncheking "Apply root motion" checkbox on Animator component of my main character prefab. Strange, because it has not affect in ORK1.

hellwalker

Hey, The simpler option would be for you to add a simple plane in the editor and disable the mesh renderer. So you have invisible collision to support characters. If you need more complex invisible collision, you can also use ProBuilder which became part of Unity. https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/111418

Alternatively, if you still need to disable gravity you could use Battle Start events to either disable gravity globally using Change Gravity node. Or you could search for Combatant Game Objects and Disable gravity with Send Message.

Griever

I thought about these ways, but they seem pretty hacky for me. Disabling "Apply root motion" on character's Animator looks like more proper way.

hellwalker

The cleanest way to do this would be to set Rigidbody to Kinetic. You can do this via send message and custom code on characters, or you could write your own Event that takes selected combatants data and set's it's rigidbody to kinetic.

gamingislove

Using character controller and root motion isn't working very well, so you'll have to decide which one to use. However, ORK's built-in controls need a character controller, so in case this is also for the player combatant, you'll have to use custom controls when you want to use root motion.