Animating from current coords

Scripting
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I animated a ball bounce with the Unity animation editor. It works fine but always starts from the starting position it was recorded at. Would a movement path imported from Lightwave or any 3D package do the same? How do I get the object to start such an animation path movement from its current coords ?

2

Has this been covered anywhere at all ? I’ve searched but can’t find any reference to it. Can anyone suggest how to place such an object, animated on a motion path, wherever the mouse is clicked for example?

3

Have you tried grouping objects under 1 ?

we had the same issue with Max :slight_smile:

4

Which version of Unity are you using? It must be an old one if you have any animation editor at all. A thoroughly overhauled editor will be available in the next version of Unity (see this blog post for details.

5

My current project is on Unity iPhone ver 1.5. I don’t use the Anim editor much, it just was just a little easier to make a quick path movement with that than using Lightwave, although I intend to import a spline path using LW for the purpose of path movement.
Either way, I’m trying to start animating an object along such a path, made with either of the above methods, from the current object coords but, on the Unity-made path it jumps to the animation path start coords.

6

One solution is to create an empty object in Unity and make it the parent to your 3d imported object (which will have (0,0,0) transform as a child). Then code your scripts using: gameObject.transform.root.position when translating the child 3d object.

Hope that helps…

7

Thanks noocell, that was helpful. I now have it animating well.
I’m now dabbling with a coroutine experiment. My experiment is this; I have an object constantly moving forward, thus travelling in the direction of its rotational value. Could I call a coroutine such as this;

// co-routine to call...
function move()	{
	 	 
	 		rotation=-150;  
		 yield WaitForSeconds(1.5); 	 
		 
	 rotation=100;	 
			 yield WaitForSeconds(1.5); 	
 
	   rotation=0;	 
			 yield WaitForSeconds(1.0); 	 
			 
}

This moves an object in a rotating (negative) direction for 1.5 seconds, then another (positive) for 1.5, then in a straight line (0 rotation) for 1 second. Is this good practise? If not I’ll look into the Ani.Mate script on the Wiki that seems to do all of this for me.