Question How can lock movement briefly while attacking?

Id appreciate if someone who has mastered this method of creating an attack hack and slash show me what i need to do to make my attack better.

I am trying to achieve where when im pressing attack i cant just run and slash. i dont want movement forward or backwards while slashing

This is what part of what i have now to attack

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.  
3. void Update()
4.     {
5.  
6.         if (Input.GetButtonDown("Attack"))
7.         {
8.             Attack();
9.            
10.         }
11.  
12.  
13.     }
14.  
15.  
16.  
17.   void Attack()
18.     {
19.         if (!isAttacking)
20.         {
21.  
22.             anim.SetTrigger("Attacking");
23.          
24.  
25.         }
26.      
27.      
28.      
29.     }
30.  
31.     void SetAttackTrue()
32.     {
33.         isAttacking = true;
34.      
35.     }
36.  
37.     void SetAttackFalse()
38.     {
39.         isAttacking = false;
40.      
41.     }
42.  
43.  
44.  
45.  
46. }

whats there is my input to activate attack. Its bool so the animation is happening and the animation event. theres more to the code but im just showing the main parts that makes the character attack. I cant figure out what to do to code it where i can attack and not move. right now im run attacking which i dont want

 

The simplest way is to just set a movement-inhibition timer when you attack, and count that down each frame.

Code (csharp):

1. private float inhibitMovement;

In Update():

Code (csharp):

1. if (inhibitMovement > 0)
2. {
3.   inhibitMovement -= Time.deltaTime;
4.   // inhibit movement (eg, ignore it)
5. }
6. else
7. {
8.   // allow movement here
9. }

Otherwise you could use AnimationEvents, which are more setup but more flexible and could be tailored to the animation duration of the attack.

AnimationEvents:

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

https://forum.unity.com/threads/no-function-dropdown-in-animationevent.1256793/#post-7987980

 

Ok i tried figuring it and got no results. event with the event oddly which i was surprised because my other animation events work without fail

but script wise i did this and im still able to run glide attack which i dont want

Code (CSharp):

1. private float inhibitMovement;

and in my update i have this

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2. {
3.  
4. if (Input.GetButtonDown("Attack"))
5. {
6. Attack();
7.  
8. }
9.  
10. if (inhibitMovement > 0)
11. {
12. inhibitMovement -= Time.deltaTime;
13. canMove = false;
14. Speed = 0;// inhibit movement (eg, ignore it)
15. }
16. else
17. {
18. canMove = true;
19. Speed = 5f;// allow movement here
20. }
21.  
22.  
23.  
24. }

 

Are you increasing the value of

inhibitMovement

at any point?

 

yeah at 1 frame i guess i was going for but it didnt work so i left it at zero. im still fresh to this method so i cant honestly say id know exactly what im doing with this script method. for the most part i was using animation events for different things but for some reason i cant get anything i want to happen how i want in this situation

 

All you have to do is when you attack, increase

inhibitMovement

by whatever time period you want to prevent attacking for.

Note that it represents seconds, not frames.