May 25

How to crouch

One way to do a crouch is to create a layer called crouch and an avatar named crouch. We can exclude the legs and ik, the rest stays on and we can test the character crouching and then when moving, it retains the step placement as well. It looks like…

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May 25

Aim the pistol up and down using blend trees

There may not be an animation available, but we’re going to aim up and down by copying animations

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Aim the pistol up and down using blend trees

May 25

Animation Layer Mask with Aiming

In our scenario, our legs actually stay still when aiming down the sights. What we want to do is carry over our lower body movements while keeping our aim established. To do that, we need to create a layer mask. In our layer, create a new layer called aiming. Delete…

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Animation Layer Mask with Aiming

May 25

Aiming a Gun in 3rd person

To aim a gun, we need to use cinemachine to go to a OTS view. We also need to use layer masks. Start by creating a new virtual camera and place it in the ots perspective.

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May 25

Death State

How to create a death state — let’s first set up your death animation and connect it to the any state since we can die on any state. Set a parameter to a bool called death.

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May 25

Blend Trees for Movement

Bools and triggers don’t take float values, they are on or off, true or false. For movement, that’s a 2D float on the x and y. For that, we need to use floats and something called a blend tree. Right click and create your blend tree.

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May 25

How to setup Plastic SCM

To begin, click on window and choose PlasticSCM Login or signup for a plastic account. Create an account at plasticscm.com if you haven’t already. Use your unity id.

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How to setup Plastic SCM

To begin, click on window and choose PlasticSCM

May 25

Adding a Jump Animation

A jump animation can be broken down into 3 parts, the leap, the in air, and the landing. This can be done in a circular pattern with a landing bool. First, let’s add in our animations. Cut them up into 3 sections — The jump start, hold, and end. Link…

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May 25

Preventing movement during animations

We currently have an issue — we can move while kicking. How do we prevent this? We need to create a bool on the FPC and then do return functions to know when they turn on and off.

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