Hi, all!
In my game, I have a ‘Probe’ enemy. The model has been completed and it has been rigged.
I thought an nice effect would be to have the legs ‘sway’ on a lag with the X axis movement of the probe.
Is there a way to do this? Like, make the legs have drag? I’d like to do this through code.
Thanks!- YA
(Here are some images if you don’t understand what I mean.)
Is it only on the x-axis? Most optimized way then is to have a “sway” left and right animation for the legs that you weigh differently depending on x-axis velocity. But this won’t look amazing when your probe crashes into objects. Therefore to make limbs behave more like… limbs, use a character joint and a rigidbody on each leg.
The game is Galaga-like in nature, so, although the probes do move somewhat on the Z axis, main movement is on the X-Y axes, and it would be weird for the legs to fly upwards when it goes down :D I will look into this and post results. Thanks!- YA
– youngapprentice_1Not working out :? I am not getting it to have any 'drag' whatsoever. Is it maybe because instead of moving the parent rigidBody with force, I'm using iTween?
– youngapprentice_1Ah, yes the character need to be moved with forces or you could try to have a rigidbody that is set to kinematic on the character.
– saveThe rigidBody WAS set to isKinematic. I'll play with it more later and see if I can find a workaround. Thanks!
– youngapprentice_1
Is there some way I could implement a 'smooth follow' on the bas joint and have the chain of legs interpolate and follow suit?
– youngapprentice_1Are there any possible 'armature constraints' in Unity that would allow me to do this? The way I look at it, I can either animate it myself, which would be difficult to implement AND look terrible, animate it by code, which would look good and be customizable, or find a constraint, which would be easiest but not customizable.
– youngapprentice_1No joy? :(
– youngapprentice_1