Question Having an "Animation within an Animation" (Person in Car)

Hello,
I have a 3D Scene, with a 3d Prefab Caracter (Humanoid) and a Car.

What I want to do: Put an "driving" Animation to the Character (loop) and move the car with the character inside alot the screen.

I am always having Problems with the Charater beeing on totally off positions outside the car when i start moving the Timeline.

What is the best way to do it?

- Should the Character be a "Child" to the Car?
- What Animation Tracks and so on should i put on timeline?

I tried different variations but somehow always ended up with the character beeing in the wrong spot.

Sorry, i am very new to this :-(

WIshes,
Maria

 

I don't know much about timeline and animation tracks. Hopefully someone else chimes in on that.

However most scenarios i would likely put the character as a child of the car either by dragging it in the hierarchy, or by script. Most cases parent and un-parent it to the car as it gets in and or out of the vehicle.

If the car is complex you might need to experiment w placement. Example: parented to the wheel, the character might rotate wrong or something.

In a normal game situation. If you parent the character to the car, you can move the car and the character stays inside. Any other option would have to be to update the characters transform every frame by script.

 

Thanks for your answer. Thats what I tried. I tried to child it to the car. I created also an empty and put the car and the character below the Empty and tried to move the empty.....never were able to get it to work :-(

 

i just don´t get it to work.....getting cray :-(

I uploaded a video for you to see....

There is a humanoid character called "Yasmin", with an Animation Track (a looping driving animation) and an overide Track in the Timeline.
There is a car called "Delorian" with an Animation Track in the Timeline

Then, as you can see in the video, I parent "Yasmin" to the "Delorian" and Press play.

And BOOM...everything f**s up. It puts "Yasmin" somewhere in the scene an also messes up the Animation and the proportions of the Character.....

ANY help really appriciated...:-(

 

Update: I did a test:

- I used a simple 3d Cube as "Car" and did the same as above...and it WORKS!

What does this mean? How can the Car be the Problem? Can i have done something wrong with the Car Model, so that it F***s up the childs animation?

 

The car must have a script or component on it that's doing something. I was actually going to suggest the reverse, that the character had a script repositioning or scaling itself.

Take a look at the car prefab and which components are on it. You can uncheck them in the inspector one by one and hit play to determine which one the issue is in.