Different animations for turning left/right

Unity Engine
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Sorry guys im I noob and unity. I need to make it so my character does a “turn left” animation when I press the “a” key and a “turn right” animation when I press the “d” key. how would I go about doing that? Thanks in advance for your help!

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Check out the Character Animation tutorials in the Unity web page.

There’s one of a soldier that accomplishes what you need.

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I checked that soldier tutorial out but it doesn’t seem like the soldier has any type of animation when he’s turning around in place. I need something that teaches me how to make it so if my character isn’t moving and just turns either left or right it does the respective animation.

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Oh! I see…

I don’t know if there’s a tutorial for that.

But you have to use the same technique as when you move forward, but just check if the player speed is below a threshold you specify. If it’s below that threshold, then you assume the player is rotating in the same spot and run the animation.

As to which animation (right/left) to run, it’s easily verified with the key the player is pressing.

I hope this helps!

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It will depend on exactly how you are handling the animation, but the code will look something like:-

var turnSpeed: float;   // Degrees per second.

function Update() {
   var turn = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");

   if (turn > 0) {
      animation.CrossFade("RightTurn");
   } else if (turn < 0) {
      animation.CrossFade("LeftTurn");
   }

   transform.Rotate(turn * turnSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
}
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Thanks! this is exactly what I needed!

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