Head Camera Movement

Hello all,

I am working on a project where I need to simulate the head movement of a large robot while it lumbers along. Here is an example of the desired movement. I will probably add in a slight camera shake in the x axis during the slight pauses to get the effect of heavy foot stomps.

I initially tried using pingpong for the movement but that fell flat pretty quickly. I don't want to use animations because they're not flexible enough for the project, so I have to do it in C#. Any help or suggestions are much appreciated.

 

Use Sine instead of pingpong?

 

I think you can still use an animation curve without "using animations", just a way of storing and getting a position from a curve at time x... http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationCurve.html
that would allow you to customise the movement.

edit:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public class TestScript : MonoBehaviour
3. {
4. // appears in the inspector and can be setup as you like
5.     public AnimationCurve myCurve;
6.  
7.     void Update()
8.     {
9.         transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, myCurve.Evaluate(Time.time % myCurve.length), transform.position.z);
10.     }
11.  
12. }
13.  

etc.

 

Another cool thing about the AnimationCurve is you can treat it like any other float. So you can multiply it dynamically to amplify it's effect, or increase animation speed faster running, ect .

 

Sorry for the late response, I have been super busy. Thanks for the suggestions! I have started using the animation curve and so far it is doing what I want. I just need to tinker around with it some more to get it to where I want it.

I thought about using mathf.sin but I'm not quite sure how it works either, but I am going to experiment with both. Ty again.