Locomotion System - Ungrouped Animations will not crossfade

Hello,

I have integrated the locomotion system into my project and it is working fine. I want to integrate strafe left and strafe right animations. According to the documentation, one integrates strafe animations in the Ungrouped motion group. So I have, and I wrote a script that starts and stop the animations as specified in the JumpAndIdle script in the demo. I'm using the Q and E keyboard characters to start the strafe left and strafe right animations respectively. But the animations get stuck after the first frame and do not play. I release the Q or the E key, and the idle animation resumes.

Here is the code.

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. void LateUpdate()
3. {
4.     // Use the Q key to strafe left
5.        
6.     if (_doStrafeLeft)
7.     {
8.         if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q)  !_wasStrafingLeft)
9.         {
10.             // Fade to strafeleft animation quickly
11.             animation[StrafeLeftAnimation.name].time = 0;
12.             animation[StrafeLeftAnimation.name].wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
13.             animation.CrossFade(StrafeLeftAnimation.name, 0.1f);
14.             _wasStrafingRight = false;
15.             _wasStrafingLeft = true;
16.         }
17.         else if (_wasStrafingLeft  !Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q))
18.         {
19.             // Crossfade to locomotion
20.             animation.CrossFade(MotionGroup);
21.             _wasStrafingLeft = false;
22.         }
23.     }
24.        
25.     // Use the E key to strafe right
26.        
27.     if (_doStrafeRight)
28.     {
29.         if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E)  !_wasStrafingRight)
30.         {
31.             // Fade to straferight animation quickly
32.             animation[StrafeRightAnimation.name].time = 0;
33.             animation[StrafeRightAnimation.name].wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
34.             animation.CrossFade(StrafeRightAnimation.name, 0.1f);
35.             _wasStrafingLeft = false;
36.             _wasStrafingRight = true;
37.         }
38.         else if (_wasStrafingRight  !Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E))
39.         {
40.             // Crossfade to locomotion
41.             animation.CrossFade(MotionGroup);
42.             _wasStrafingRight = false;
43.         }
44.     }
45. }
46.  

I press the Q key and the first frame of the animation plays and then it freezes. I release the Q key and the idle animation resumes. Same symptom with the E key.

Does anyone have a suggestion? Has anyone implemented strafing logic with the locomotion system?

 

Maybe use GetKeyDown instead of GetKey. Because the way I see it at the momeny you just start the animation over and over while the key is pressed.

 

Thanks for your reply.

The flags, _wasStrafingLeft and _wasStrafingRight, prevent the condition to which you refer. The animation is not starting over and over. I placed a debug statement inside anyway to prove that this is not the case.

GetKeyDown will not resolve the issue either.

Rob