How should I make a custom character controller?

[FloofyNezzled]

@InfinityDesign

I would recommend the new character physics controllers. I haven’t used them yet personally, but they were added for this purpose.

I’ll try messing with those, thanks!

@InfinityDesign

You don’t. Server sided movement would be delayed by at least the players ping, which wouldn’t feel good to the player. You want to leverage Roblox’s distributed physics system to make physics updates on the controlling client, and let the engine propagate them across the network.

Sorry, I worded it weirdly. I was mainly asking if there’s a way to have movement work client side while being smoothly “validated” by the server (sorta like what this post describes)

@InfinityDesign

Manually setting the CFrame is the most precise way to update the player’s transform, but that isn’t using physics. With the new controllers you’d assign to the MovingDirection and FacingDirection properties.

So it depends on the use case, that makes sense! Thanks