Third-person character animations based on World-relative input and Y-rotation (looking at mouse position)

Questions & Answers
1

Hello and thank very much for taking the time to review my question.

WHAT I HAVE:

  • the camera is above and behind character (like Zelda, GTA V, etc.)

  • the camera always follows player

  • the camera never rotates

  • player always looks at mouse position (like Alien Swarm, Angry Bots by Unity)

  • The World Input can move the player: North, North East, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW; a total of 8 directions

  • crude animation system that mimics this, but the system is not very good

WHAT I WANT:

  • the player should play animations relative to World_Input, AND the Direction (y-rotation) that the character is facing

  • I think that it is enough to have a minimum of 4 animations (run forward, back, sideways left, sideways right) and blend them together when going NE, SE, SW, and NW

REFERENCES

  • Refer to these links on the topic:

My current animation prototype

Alien swarm animation example

Angry bots example

Thank you for taking your time to read my question. I will gladly await any and all responses.

2

I figured it out! After many weeks of struggling to find a solution online and by experimenting, I finally created a scripting method which also uses Unity’s Mecanim system to achieve the animations that I wanted.

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Happy game developing!