Weapon clipping through walls. Solutions?

[SpecialJstorm]

I noticed if I walk too close to a wall, my weapon clips right through. I was wondering what the best way to overcome this issue is.

I tried putting both a collider and a RigidBody (no Gravity) on the gun itself, but that doesn’t do anything and I don’t understand why. Though another collider didn’t work on my player capsule and I was tolk there was a collider from the Character Controller component, so maybe that’s a related issue since the weapon is a child of the main camera, which is a child of the PlayerCapsule.

The other solution I considered was to move the main camera back so the gun would be within the range of the player collider, but that would presumably also make it so I couldn’t get very close to walls. Should I just try to extend the player collider outwards?

[Nina]

Hi,

There are lots of free Unity tutorials on Youtube. I found this one:

Prevent Weapons from Clipping through Walls in 2 mins (Unity Tutorial)

Did this help you fix the problem?

[bixarrio]

I’ve done this one before. @Nina’s link should help. You basically have 2 cameras - one renders everything except the weapon, and the other one renders only the weapon. The weapon cam is then overlaid on top of the other

[SpecialJstorm]

Thanks for the advice! This was a nice quick fix. Sorry for the late reply - been preoccupied with BG3.

I am curious, though - what is it about the PlayerCapsule or Character Controller that seems to stop all other rigid bodies/colliders from functioning?