Single-Sprite Idle Animations

I'm currently attempting to animate my sprite that moves in 2D in 8 different directions. My animations for walking work fine. However, I cannot find an easy way to achieve the idle states, which each consist of one sprite that has no animation.

I'd like to try to avoid creating an animation for each idle sprite if it is only one frame, but so far I have not been able to find a suitable solution.

 

You should be able to animate your idle as well. If you use a State Machine to dictate your animations then you can easily switch between states. How are you currently playing your animations?

 

Currently I have two blend trees, one for idle and one for walk. The blend tree takes two parameters, X and Y which indicate the direction of movement and then provide animations from there. The idle animations would be set up the same the same, except I want to avoid creating a new animation as each idle position is one sprite.

 

Then use Euler(), eulerAngle(), or .rotation to rotate your player to the direction you want to face. I'm curious actually if the idle animation would respond... Now that I said that out loud...

 

Hi @zalwicker,

I hope you already read https://blog.redbluegames.com/animating-top-down-2d-games-in-unity-5e966b81790e
I will say there is no "good" way to avoid 8 clips for idle animation.

So, for example you can put 8 frames of idle animation into one animation clip, and play single key frame at position, and stop animation if no direction arrow pressed. Animation.play(1,-1, frameOffset); Animation.Stop().

But it is jaggy solution. I personally don't use AnimationStateMachhine, and I use sprite mirroring, so its only 5 clips to work with. But is a lot of code to manage.