How to add momentum to sword swing

Just starting out with Unity..

I have an animated sprite that will swing his sword when triggered. I want to add momentum to that swing. This means that the character should move forward with the swing somewhere halfway through the sword swing animation.

I can add a force to coincide with the start of the swing, but this is not what I want: i need it to start halfway through.

How can I accomplish this?

Thx!

 

Did you know you can tell your animations to kick out an event at any point you specify? Then you can "react" to that event. See this page:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/animeditor-AnimationEvents.html

I only played with that once and ran into a weird bug so stopped using it, but that was many moons ago and the bug is probably fixed and I was doing something non-standard anyway, so give it a shot.

Jay

 

This works perfect.

Thank you!