Question Navmeshagent turn & slope angle parameters for animation controller

Hi all,

My query is regarding how to reference the navmesh agent’s velocity, turn angle, and slope angle to feed the relevant parameters in my animation controller. I managed to correctly reference the agents velocity, but I am still stumped on the turn and slope angle references. The first option to solve may be borrowing and reworking components from the thirdpersoncharacter script. I also browsed through the unity c# documentation, my best guess would be using the variable angularVelocity, or just velocity, may work if referenced to movement in the y+z axis for turning and slope angle (with some further maths) but this is beyond my ability!

Currently, I have these lines in my AI patrol script as an example (snippet):

Code (CSharp):

1. void Update()
2.         {
3.             animator.SetFloat("InputMagnitude", agent.velocity.magnitude);  [speed, works]
4.            // animator.SetFloat("InputAngle", velocity.y); [turn angle, feeds all turning animations]
5.            // animator.SetFloat("FloorAngle", velocity.z); [slope angle, feeds walking up/down stair animations]

If anyone has any ideas or solutions on how to solve this, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

Alex

 

Did you ever find an answer to this? Im currently stuck trying to figure it out.

 

Hey there!

I never found an answer to this - I’m now working with a developer though admittedly she is a Unity c# specialist and not animation, we could not find a solution. You can reference the turn angle using one command but it only plays the animation for a split second and not the entire length of the corner.

I did get a lead after posting this using something like vector3 as part of the script, but I genuinely have no idea how it works. Hence why I am here.

Please let me know if you have any success! All the best.