Problems with animal movement and head turning

HenryChinaski

Hello,

I have a problem with my new fox model which I want to use with Adventure Creator.

1. The movement via mecanim and automatic motion control generally works. My problem is that everytime the animal comes to a halt, it continues playing the walk animation for about a second. I already checked in the mecanim controller, that there is no "fixed time exit" bool set. Any idea what could be wrong? I think I remember having this problem with AC in the past.

2. It seems that the IK-Head turning doesn't support generic rigs, like the one of my fox model? Anyway, it doesn't work at all. I already checked all prerequisites and already do have experience with AC head turning. Just looking for a confirmation since I couldn't find any information about this issue.

Regards

Deckard_89

Not sure about problem 1, but yes, IK head turning only works with humanoids I believe.

HenryChinaski

Thanks for the answer.
Thought it might work with generics as well since the forward vector is the same.
Maybe I'll program it myself.  

ChrisIceBox

1. What of the state of your "Move speed" float parameter in your Animator Controller?  Ultimately the way your character transitions between idle/walk animations is based on that, which in turn is based on your movement speed values (walk speed scale, deceleration etc).

It is generally best to implement a Blend Tree for your idle/walk/run animations for smoother transitions - see the Manual's "Precision movement" chapter for more.

2. AC relies on Unity's own IK head-turning feature for this, so yes - only humanoid rigs.  Non-humanoid rigs can make use of the "Head pitch float" / "Head yaw float" parameters to blend between pre-made animations for the same effect.