Among Us in Unity – Character Customization (Lesson 4)

In this lesson on how to make Among Us in Unity, we will show you how to create a simple character customization menu for changing the player’s color. We will begin by creating the menu and the menu is made up of a few panels and a button for each color.

We will then create a the character customizer script. This script will just have one function that is used for each button in our menu. This function will take a color and send it to the player so the player can use that color to set its sprite color.

AU_CharacterCustomizer.cs

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class AU_CharacterCustomizer : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] Color[] allColors;

    public void SetColor(int colorIndex)
    {
        AU_PlayerController.localPlayer.SetColor(allColors[colorIndex]);
    }

    public void NextScene(int sceneIndex)
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneIndex);
    }
}

AU_PlayerController.cs

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;


public class AU_PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] bool hasControl;
    public static AU_PlayerController localPlayer;

    //Components
    Rigidbody myRB;
    Animator myAnim;
    Transform myAvatar;
    //Player movement
    [SerializeField] InputAction WASD;
    Vector2 movementInput;
    [SerializeField] float movementSpeed;
    //Player Color
    static Color myColor;
    SpriteRenderer myAvatarSprite;



    private void OnEnable()
    {
        WASD.Enable();

    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        WASD.Disable();

    }


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        if(hasControl)
        {
            localPlayer = this;
        }

        myRB = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        myAnim = GetComponent<Animator>();
        myAvatar = transform.GetChild(0);
        myAvatarSprite = myAvatar.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
        if (myColor == Color.clear)
            myColor = Color.white;
        myAvatarSprite.color = myColor;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        movementInput = WASD.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        myAnim.SetFloat("Speed", movementInput.magnitude);
        if (movementInput.x != 0)
        {
            myAvatar.localScale = new Vector2(Mathf.Sign(movementInput.x), 1);
        }

    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        myRB.velocity = movementInput * movementSpeed;
    }

    public void SetColor(Color newColor)
    {
        myColor = newColor;
        if (myAvatarSprite != null)
        {
            myAvatarSprite.color = myColor;
        }
    }




}

using Photon.Chat;
using Photon.Pun;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PhotonChatManager : MonoBehaviour, IChatClientListener
{
    #region Setup

    [SerializeField] GameObject joinChatButton;
    ChatClient chatClient;
    bool isConnected;
    [SerializeField] string username;

    public void UsernameOnValueChange(string valueIn)
    {
        username = valueIn;
    }

    public void ChatConnectOnClick()
    {
        isConnected = true;
        chatClient = new ChatClient(this);
        //chatClient.ChatRegion = "US";
        chatClient.Connect(PhotonNetwork.PhotonServerSettings.AppSettings.AppIdChat, PhotonNetwork.AppVersion, new AuthenticationValues(username));
        Debug.Log("Connenting");
    }

    #endregion Setup

    #region General

    [SerializeField] GameObject chatPanel;
    string privateReceiver = "";
    string currentChat;
    [SerializeField] InputField chatField;
    [SerializeField] Text chatDisplay;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (isConnected)
        {
            chatClient.Service();
        }

        if (chatField.text != "" && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Return))
        {
            SubmitPublicChatOnClick();
            SubmitPrivateChatOnClick();
        }
    }

    #endregion General

    #region PublicChat

    public void SubmitPublicChatOnClick()
    {
        if (privateReceiver == "")
        {
            chatClient.PublishMessage("RegionChannel", currentChat);
            chatField.text = "";
            currentChat = "";
        }
    }

    public void TypeChatOnValueChange(string valueIn)
    {
        currentChat = valueIn;
    }

    #endregion PublicChat

    #region PrivateChat

    public void ReceiverOnValueChange(string valueIn)
    {
        privateReceiver = valueIn;
    }

    public void SubmitPrivateChatOnClick()
    {
        if (privateReceiver != "")
        {
            chatClient.SendPrivateMessage(privateReceiver, currentChat);
            chatField.text = "";
            currentChat = "";
        }
    }

    #endregion PrivateChat

    #region Callbacks

    public void DebugReturn(DebugLevel level, string message)
    {
        //throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void OnChatStateChange(ChatState state)
    {
        if(state == ChatState.Uninitialized)
        {
            isConnected = false;
            joinChatButton.SetActive(true);
            chatPanel.SetActive(false);
        }
    }

    public void OnConnected()
    {
        Debug.Log("Connected");
        joinChatButton.SetActive(false);
        chatClient.Subscribe(new string[] { "RegionChannel" });
    }

    public void OnDisconnected()
    {
        isConnected = false;
        joinChatButton.SetActive(true);
        chatPanel.SetActive(false);
    }

    public void OnGetMessages(string channelName, string[] senders, object[] messages)
    {
        string msgs = "";
        for (int i = 0; i < senders.Length; i++)
        {
            msgs = string.Format("{0}: {1}", senders[i], messages[i]);

            chatDisplay.text += "\n" + msgs;

            Debug.Log(msgs);
        }

    }

    public void OnPrivateMessage(string sender, object message, string channelName)
    {
        string msgs = "";

        msgs = string.Format("(Private) {0}: {1}", sender, message);

        chatDisplay.text += "\n " + msgs;

        Debug.Log(msgs);
        
    }

    public void OnStatusUpdate(string user, int status, bool gotMessage, object message)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void OnSubscribed(string[] channels, bool[] results)
    {
        chatPanel.SetActive(true);
    }

    public void OnUnsubscribed(string[] channels)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void OnUserSubscribed(string channel, string user)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    public void OnUserUnsubscribed(string channel, string user)
    {
        throw new System.NotImplementedException();
    }

    #endregion Callbacks
}