Trigger Animation

Hey there. Trying to make a character walk animation tie into the FPS prefab.
How do I get it to play an animation track on key down or other event?

 

Best place to start is probably to check the "Character animation.unity" scene in the Examples project that ships with Unity.

It gets installed in /Users/shared/Unity/Examples/Assets

d.

 

Well, that works. But how do I get a "walk cycle" to loop instead of just playing once.

 

Maybe you could make a script like this (NOT TESTED, MAYBE IT WILL NOT WORK)

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. function Update()
3. {
4.     while(Input.GetButtonDown("w"))
5.     {
6.         animation.Play("walk_forward");
7.     }
8. }
9.  

I assume that you want to make a character walk when you push a button. Right?

 

Ok! That loops the cycle, but how to make it stop on keyUp?

 

file:///Applications/Unity/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animation.html#Stop

Says:

Code (csharp):

1.  animation.Stop("walk_forward");

 

yes, but if it's in a que it seems like it finishes whatever is in the que.....
Hmmm.....

 

also, looking through the reference, there does not appear to be an onKeyUp event? So I'm setting states. Or am I missing it?

 

Well, if you are doing something like this (guessing on which function you were using):

Code (csharp):

1. if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire"))

then you can just do:

Code (csharp):

1. if (!Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire"))

(note the !)

 

That isn't onKeyUp, I'm afraid. (!Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire")) is always going to be true except the one Update frame in which you press down the "Fire" button.

As far as I know we're stuck with keeping track of the state through a private bool or something.

-Jon

 

indeed. Also don't seem to be able to stop the queued animations.
Hmmm. seems like a walk cycle should be easy...

 

But there are other ways to read input. Check Input.GetButton(). "Returns true if the virtual button identified by buttonName is held down."

http://otee.dk/Documentation/ScriptReference/Input.html#GetButton

d.

 

Interesting. Really what I want to do is to set up game character movment. When the walk key is released, transition into the idel or jump animation from where the walk animation is at, without having to wait until the end of the walk cycle. There could be a second or two lag from the time the user presses the jump button to when the see the animation if you have to wait for the walk cycle to end.

ALternativly,if there were a simple loop checkbox in the animation info window, then whenever I called another animation state it wou ld interupt the current animation with the new one.

Or if there is another workaround for now? Or should I just wait until the next release to complete my game?

 

i think that you can use animation.Play ("name", AnimationPlayMode.Mix);

http://otee.dk/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animation.html#Play

let's try it.