Animation Workflow Question

Unity Engine
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Hi Guys

Im just moving back to Unity from UDK for one particular project i had half started.

Now im looking to animate a vehicle around a predetermined path and im wondering what will be the best way about it. In UDK the answer would be Matinee, but ive seen that mecanim is not as good.

Should i just move the vehicle around a spline and set triggers to speed it up and slow it down? (i could then add shake animations to the vehicle to give it more realism)

I don’t want the vehicle to feel as if its on rails, so animation seems like the better idea.

Just wondering what peoples thoughts would be on this.

Cheers

Mark

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Waypoint based AI is probably better than animating.

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Thanks lee. Im now looking into using a Waypoint System while using fbx animations for motion, like bumps swerves and shakes.

The Simple Waypoint System on the asset store seems the way for me to go.