The Walking Dead Game Animation Style

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Hi, I am trying to accomplish so that at a certain point in the game, I can press a key (W) and it will play the animation onwards until I stop holding the key. This effect has been seen in The Walking Dead Game made by Telltale games, released april 24th 2012. Here’s an example of what I mean : Link to example video

Yesterday, april 26th 2013, I found a way to accomplish this with a javascript.
But I also discovered a problem when I have release the key and pressing it again, the animation buffers some frames forward in time, and I don’t want that. Here is my script :

var TestObject : GameObject;

function Update () {

 if(Input.GetKey("w")){
 TestObject.animation.Play();
 
 
 TestObject.animation.enabled = true;
 
 
 
 }

else

if(!Input.GetKey("w")){

TestObject.animation.enabled = false;





}



}

How can I make the animation resume smoothly from the last frame instead of just buffering a couple of frames forward?

Sounds fun. Unfortunately, you didn't include a question, so we can't help you.

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It will at least be extremely hard to help you without a better understanding of where you are in programming this, or what specific problem you may have. Assuming you havent written code for this yet, Id suggest you start with [Input][1] and [Animation][2] [1]: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Input.html [2]: http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animation.html

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In pseudocode, you might be able to do something like

if button.isDown {
animation.play
} else {
animation.stop
}

Hopefully this helps!