Qs on movement concepts

Unity Engine
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I am making a third-person (no player control on camera) game. I’m redoing my movement script and hope it’s close to something I can use. My game is a zombie survival in the 1800s so movement plays a large part in how it’s played. Wasd + shift + ctrl. No jumping.

The requirements for it are
-Easy to expand. Functions clear
-State system. I can quickly and temporarily modify movement vars with simple function calls. Reloading, aiming, ectect. Current expectation is they either blend or strongest takes effect above all others.
-Correct animation playing. No animations if player isn’t moving. Footsteps correctly match feet hitting floor.
-Multiple modifiers - weight, wind, temperature, ectect

So before I jump into this, here are my questions.
1: In regards to the idea on states does anybody have any tips on the general concept? CallMoveState(“statename”); Where CallMoveState would than look up the name of the state in another component and grab the vars from it.

2: Animations. I have not worked with them, but thankfully the code I’ve seen is that they’re easy to use. My question is how are footsteps handled? Is it part of the animation? Can these be manipulated to play different sounds on conditions (terrain type).

3: Does controller.SimpleMove( Vector3 ); automatically adjust with DeltaTime? What’s the point in controller.Move(vector3) aside from lack of Y-axis/gravity movement?

4: (for lack of better words) Is it possible to make a variable that stores other variables? A custom Vector3 as an example that stores ints, floats, strings, ectect.

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Hi from as newb as you are.
As for your questions.
2) For footsteps on different terrains you can see 2DGameplayTutorial somewhere in this site.
4) For variable that stores other variables - there is
classes and structures (I say for C++, not sure about structures in C#). You can use them in such way

class MyClass {
public:
   int intField;
   float floatField1, floatField2;
};
MyClass aClassCopy;

struct MyStruct {
   char charArray[10];
   short short1, short2;
} aStructCopy;

With structures there are all ok, but classes more complicated for usung. If you don’t need include functions in this constructions better use structures. But for the best you have to read some book on programming language if you have such questions.

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By the way, you can go see my question - nobody have answered it for 10 hours :frowning: