NavMeshAgent animation - sliding

Questions & Answers
1

How do you make sure that a NavMeshAgent undergoes the right transition in order to not slide - or to get stuck in the timing of an odd state?

2

I assume your animation uses root motion to move the object? In that case you can implement your own “root motion” through script.

In a script that is on the same gameObject as your animator, do the following:

void OnAnimatorMove()
{
    // You'd have to set this value yourself, lots of ways to do that with the animator.
    bool isMoving = true;

    if (isMoving)
    {
            agent.velocity = CharacterAnimator.deltaPosition / Time.deltaTime;
            agent.speed = CharacterAnimator.deltaPosition.magnitude / Time.deltaTime;
    }
    else
    {
            agent.velocity = Vector3.zero;
            agent.speed = 0.00001f; // Setting it to 0 can cause agent to do weird stuff
    }
}

You’ll notice in the inspector that the animator component now notes the “Apply Root Motion” variables as “Handled By Script”.

3

Open this 1 and read out NavMesh Agent and Animator.