Moving the Character

Unity Engine
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Sorry for such a noob question, but I’m just starting to use characters in my work…

I’ve animated a character in Maya and am able to chop it up into the appropriate ranges. I’ve created a Character Controller and am using the following script (copied straight from the Manual):

function Start ()
{
   // Set all animations to loop
   animation.wrapMode = WrapMode.Loop;
   // except shooting
   animation["shoot"].wrapMode = WrapMode.Once;

   // Put idle and walk into lower layers (The default layer is always 0)
   // This will do two things
   // - Since shoot and idle/walk are in different layers they will not affect
   //   each other's playback when calling CrossFade.
   // - Since shoot is in a higher layer, the animation will replace idle/walk
   //   animations when faded in.
   animation["shoot"].layer = 1;

   // Stop animations that are already playing
   //(In case user forgot to disable play automatically)
   animation.Stop();
}

function Update () {
   // Based on the key that is pressed,
   // play the walk animation or the idle animation
   if (Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) > 0.1)
      animation.CrossFade("walk");
   else
      animation.CrossFade("idle");

   // Shoot
   if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1"))
      animation.CrossFade("shoot");
}

Sure enough, all goes well, when I push ‘w’ it calls up the walk animation; but the character just walks in the air - he doesn’t actually move. I’ve brought Lerpz into the scene and he takes off when using the CharacterController script and CharacterAnimation scripts included with that tutorial.

I’ve checked to make sure that the character isn’t intersecting with anything in the scene (I’ve put him way up in the air), but on play, he stays stuck. Any suggestions?
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2

The code that you copied isn’t moving anything. It just playing animations.

What other script are you using for doing that?

Perhaps you forget to add the script behaviour of the movement to the game object.

3

Oh. I see. I guess I assumed that the Character Controller did that. I’ll have to delve into another script more I guess.

Thanks much for the lead!