Slow down and play walk animation on left shift?

Questions & Answers
1

Sorry for this silly queston but I’m not good at coding at all. I have a very simple 3rd Person controller script, many animations, but so far I’ve only integrated a ‘run’ and ‘idle.’ I know almost nothing about Javascript and I don’t plan to know more soon especially because my current project requires very little scripting. I know how to add independant animations like ‘bark’ or ‘sit’ on keypress, but I’d love to know how to reduce to 4 speed on my main controller script (below) and crossfade to the walk animation when the left shift is held. This is my script:

function Update () {
    if (Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis("Vertical")) > 0.1)
        animation.CrossFade("Run");
    else
        animation.CrossFade("Idle2");
}

I’d also like to be able to play random Idle animations at different times, but I know this is another question…

Thanks!

2

if (Mathf.Abs(Input.GetAxis(“Vertical”)) > 0.1)
{
// decide between run and walk here
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) == true)
{
// we’re walking
MyCharacterSpeedVariable = 4;
animation.CrossFade(“Walk”);
}
else
{
// we’re running
MyCharacterSpeedVariable = 10;
animation.CrossFade(“Run”);
}
}
else
{
animation.CrossFade(“Idle2”);
}

Set the speed variable and values to whatever is appropriate for your project.

3

The Mecanim tutorial from Unity is perfect for this sort of things. Here it is.

It requires no scripting at all :slight_smile:

4

I am not sure why you are going for Mathf.Abs(), but I’m still going to use it because it is your code.

function Update() {
   if( Mathf.Abs( Input.GetAxis("Vertical") ) > 0.1 ) {
      
      //Input.GetKey() returns true while the key is being hold down
      if( Input.GetKey( KeyCode.LeftShift ) ) {
         animation.CrossFade("Walk");
      }
      else {
         animation.CrossFade("Run");
      }
   }
   else {
      animation.CrossFade("Idle2");
   }
}

As a bonus, I will propose a solution for your random idle animation

var idleAnimation : string[] = { "idle1", "idle2" .... };    
animation.CrossFade( idleAnimation[ Random.Range(0, idleAnimation.Length) ] );

But you will have to figure out how to time the CrossFade() of the idle animations so that you will get a smoother transition between different idle animations. You can use CrossFadeQueue(), but you will have to figure out how to code that part yourself.