Intertwine animations with gun sway.

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Guten tag mine freunde. Nu vil jeg snakke Engelsk.

Waw. What a weird intro, right? Everwho.

I have on my gun an animation playing called Idle(simulates breathing). What I also have is gun sway when the player looks around the gun sways around. But when playing the Idle animation(or any other animation) along with looking around and the gun swaying the movement becomes gittery and they gun does only sway a tenth of what it usually dose.

So I guess what I am saying is is there a way to run an animation fluidly while having gun sway?

I am sorry for my poor formulation.

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You’re probably using blend and weights to combine the two motions? That averages the motions – at 50/50 you idle and sway 1/2 as much on each; 90/10 cause one animation to play at 90% (it will sway only 90% of the total distance) and the rest to be really muted, at 10%.

Blending (averaging) is good when you want to build a jog out of a walk and run, say, but there are two other ways to combine. You probably want to use blendMode.Additive. That will add the full arm sway to the idle or whatever else is playing on the lower level.

Using blendMode.Additive seems really good an preferable the best solution. It works really well. Although the only problem I have is it messes up the animation. But I will have to play around with it a little later and see how it turns out. Thanks you.

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Making an ADD animation is tricky -- you have to remember that everything is a change, so the arm sway should be animated from rest pos, even if it will usually be played with the arms in front, say. If you get the "super-spinny" effect, it's because something always has to play underneath an ADD (even a 2 frame idle.) Could also look at AddMixingTransform to limit the motion to just the arms (call it once for each upper arm bone.)

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