Hi all,
I’m working on a project that has an aircraft that will travel in a straight line until given “commands” for various maneuvers. The goal is to have pre-determined paths set so that the aircraft will follow these paths and then once complete, will resume its “idle state” - level flight, awaiting the next input from the user.
For the idle state, "I’m thinking of doing a loop animation for full control of the slight, realistic movement, as an aircraft is never perfectly still.
I’ve done a bit of research into the best way to achieve the above goals but I’m not quite there yet. I’ve looked into tools like itween etc but I tend to prefer the control that 3ds max gives me in setting up animations.
Right now, I can create a flight path using a stand-in object in Max using a spline and path constraint, convert the resulting animation to keyframes and export an object following these keyframes as FBX. If I put it into Unity, the stand in object it will animate as intended.
My question really is, is it possible to take these imported animations and apply them all to a single object at various points? IE, import a dummy box object doing a loop into Unity, another dummy box doing a barrel roll etc and then apply these keyframe “tracks” to my main “hero” aircraft model? With some scripting, such a technique would achieve what I want to achieve - ie, have the keyframe animation track appear in front of the current location of the aircraft and get the aircraft to follow it and, once complete, spawn the “idle” keyframe animation in front of it and continue etc.
Is this possible or am I looking at the problem the complete wrong way? I’m very keen to get the views of more experienced Unity users!
Thanks in advance,
c.