Alan Wake style 3rd person character controls, help!

Questions & Answers
1

Hey,
Im doing a 3rd person horror game as my degree work and now im trying to get my characters animations to work with the controls. This video i captured will give a idea of the controls im going to have in the game:

Example video of my characters controls

Controls in a nutshell:

  • Character can’t face the camera, camera always rotates with the player.
  • mouse can move freely, character rotates when going far enough in x axis.
  • I have fps input controller. Because i want sideways movement in keyboard to be strafing not rotating.

So my questions are:

  • What kinda code should i use to apply my animations to walk, strafe(left,right), and walk backwards?
  • What kind of code should i use to apply animation to the character when she starts to rotate around herself (mouse looking)?
2

I found out the solution to the first question already, the script goes like this:

function Update () {

animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;

if (Input.GetAxis(“Horizontal”) > 0)

{
animation.CrossFade(“straferight”);

}
else if(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") < 0)

{
    animation.CrossFade("strafeleft");
}
   if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > 0)
{
    animation.CrossFade("walk");
}

else if(Input.GetAxis("Vertical") < 0)
{
    animation.CrossFade("backwalk");
}
else
{
    if (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") == 0)
        {
        animation.CrossFade("idle");
        }
}

}