Ground detection on slopes

[grave marsh]

I need a tip for ground detection. I used a trick I found in many tutorials online which is raycasting. My problem is that when my character walks down a slope the state is quickly alternating between being grounded and falling. I can increase the size of the raycast which fixes the problem, but then you can jump in the air... And with jump buffering its especially noticeable, anyone have any great tricks?

Code that I use:

[ember harness]

I guess you could make a separate ground check for jumping

[rancid pier]

When you jump, you add a time where it will be consider in the air.

[ember harness]

being 0.1m above floor still counts as grounded but you can only jump if youre touching the floor

[grave marsh]

I guess that would work but there's still a problem

when the player is on ground I handle the Y velocity (for sticking to the ground), so if you're detected too early you will kinda start floating in mid-air

[rancid pier]

I was suggesting more of:
bool IsGrounded => CheckIfOnGround && HasNotJumpRecently

[grave marsh]

Yeah I got that

[ember harness]

I suppose you could instead handle movement relatively to the angle of floor

[grave marsh]

it would take care of jumping too early

but not the float issue I described

[ember harness]

like if youre on a 30deg slope, you will jump at an angle of 30deg

[grave marsh]

I dont see how that would help at all besides being a cool mechanic

[rancid pier]

I do not understand what velocity has to do with Ground check.

[ember harness]

and if you move, your horizontal movement will also go at an angle

[grave marsh]

Wait Ill explain

[ember harness]

uhh Id illustrate it but Im on phone right now

[grave marsh]

When my character moves down slopes normally he would keep fall rather than walk down the slope

and when walking up it would create a bounce if you stopped

to fix that I added this code

but now if you're grounded too early it will cause the y to be set to 0 and you get stuck in air

[rancid pier]

Normally, you snap your character on the ground directly.

If it is like 0.1m over it.

You do not modify velocity.

[grave marsh]

wouldnt that be noticeable, and by snap you mean set the y coordinate directly?

[rancid pier]

Yes

[grave marsh]

hmm

[rancid pier]

And no, you would not notice a small snap

[grave marsh]

and worst case some smoothing could be added

[rancid pier]

True

[grave marsh]

I guess I will try it out, thank you

Wow

it worked really well

thank you guys 👍

[grave marsh]

actually

upon further testing its far from a perfect solution