Immediately after completing the Mario 64 HD demo project I began working on the second version of the Super Character Controller. For over a month now I’ve had a download link up on the controller’s page for a Beta version of the project, which allowed users to see what I was working on at the time and contribute to the latest version.

As per usual, the Super Character Controller can be downloaded from it’s main page.

Just a blue man in a technicolour world

2.0.0 adds a number of features that are discussed in detail in the accompanying documentation, changlog, or previous blog posts, but below is an outline of the major changes.

New Grounding Techniques

The grounding algorithm in version 1 of the controller had numerous problems, mostly that it was inaccurate and inconsistent when dealing with several edge cases. Most of these have been resolved, with the solutions described in a previous post here.

Binary Space Partitioning Tree

Replacing the RPGMesh class is the BSPTree. BSPTree recursively partitions a mesh’s triangles into two sets using a series of partition planes. The component is complete, but not necessarily fully optimized or the best possible implementation of a BSPTree. More can be read in the Future Work section of the documentation.

Other updates can be viewed on the controller’s main page, as well as a list of contributors to the project. These changes are also showed in the README in the package, and all code and libraries used are sourced in the PDF document also included. If I missed anyone in the changelog or anyone’s code in the sources section, let me know so I can fix it.

There’s been a lot of interest in having a Git repo setup for this project, so now that version 2 is out it’s definitely on my radar, and hopefully something I can get setup soon. I’ve never setup and maintained an open-source project, so if anyone has any suggestions on best practices or tips n’ tricks, please leave them in the comments below.