Make Animal walk cycle to move forward. (also explained in a video)

Good morning people!

I make animation videos and recently I discovered unity, I like being able to mix, and create transitions between animations in the timeline.
so here I'm trying to make a video, where a Dinosaur is running and Cinemachine Camera is following it.

The run cycle I downloaded is animated in the center of the world it does not move forward. So how can I make it go forward. It's just for a video, not for a game.
Do I need to setup any controller for this?

I'm stuck on this problem since 2 days. I need a tiny little help here.

God bless, thank you!

I explained this in a quick video, you can watch here.

 

I'm not totally sure what you might do to have it animate without running the game (hitting play in the editor), but anyway you could just attach a simple script to the gameobject of the dino, and have it do Transform.Translate to move the object forwards at a certain speed, and have the camera either "lock on" with some camera script, or as a child object of the dino, so it moves with it.

 

God I'm really happy that you replied @MD_Reptile!

So when I said "Its just for a video, not for a game" I meant I'm just using unity to render animations for my video projects not for making games. Anyways.

So here all I want is, to make this dino go forward, which you already addressed. And I'm gonna try this, correct me if I'm wrong. Could you also tell me what values do I have to change, I'm not very familiar with scripting.

1. Create a new C# script in project panel with this code.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour {
void Update() {
transform.Translate(0, 0, Time.deltaTime);
transform.Translate(0, Time.deltaTime, 0, Space.World);
}
}


2. Then select dino and, go to inspector window and add script.

3. Hit play and dinosaur will walk forward?



Thank you for your time man!

 

If the script doesn't work you can research generating root motion in the documentation. Might help - though I don't know how it works on a rigged character.
Since this character is animated in-place - parenting the root node to a empty game object that has generated root motion on it should work for your needs.

 

Thanks alot for replying. So now I know this is to be done with programing which I did not know before. And I already have started taking a course in C# language!

Good day!

 

This is what you might name "MoveDino.cs" (although you can't see filetypes in the editor, I just say that to clarify that your scripts name as well as the name of the class in the file must match) and is basically the same thing you posted before with the name change:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class MoveDino : MonoBehaviour
5. {
6.     void Update()
7.     {
8.         transform.Translate(0, 0, Time.deltaTime);
9.         // this would add the delta time each frame to the z position of the object this script is attached to
10.     }
11. }

With this, you should be able to get it going forward, but you should learn about (if you don't already know) what delta time is, so you understand why its working.

Let us know if you hit any more problems! Good luck!

 

It's a root motion thing. Btw, you can use free version of a tool called "UMotion" from Asset Store to animate your characters inside Unity editor, and there is also a tutorial about using Root motion:

 

Today I accidently clicked on this link from my history, and Woo! there are more replies. And I feel sorry for not replying to you guys!
Actually I had abandoned the dino project, because I couldn't figure it out.

But now I can give it a try, thanks to you awesome people!
So yeah, tomorrow I’ll do that when I’m at my computer.

Good day!