Allow player to attack while moving

[fluxo]

Hello, 

I purchased Invector Third Person Controller - Shooter Template

Currently, Invector character controller is working well but the problem we see is we are unable to allow our player to continue attacking while moving foward. I would think this should be a default feature of Invector as most 3rd person melee games work this way. 

Can you help us with understanding how to enable this feature, if it is a built-in option? Or if there is another way work-around that you might have that we can easily implement for this? It is very annoying for the player to be forced to come to a complete total stop while he is attacking. It's best to allow the player (character controller) to keep moving while attacking. 

Please help! This is an important feature we would like to add to our game so players can experience fluid melee combat. 

[fluxo]

Hello, So I was advised by someone from support that I should switch Attack state machine from FullBody to UpperBody layer, but I am still having trouble. See below...

So I was able to switch the Attack state machine from FullBody Layer to UpperBody layer, but it appears that the FullBody Layer requires a default state machine. I'm not sure I understand what kind of default state machine would make the most sense here? Or if there are any other settings I am missing to check off to get this setup properly.

Is it possible for someone to help walk through how to properly configure this to work?

As right now if I try to set FullBody to say a Default State Machine that simply has an Idle animation, and I set the UpperBody layer to have default state machine set to Attack. The effects of this is a Frozen Player in-Game. None of the attacks animations ever execute, and player movement, run etc. totally stops. The player is just frozen in place, while I can move him around, the animations all break when I do what you suggested.

So It seems there is some missing steps to properly configure this to work. Can someone please assist with this?

Or refer me to any youtube video, or possible conversation / thread that explains how this can be achieve properly?

Note I do have different animations that come with the character asset. I'm just unsure of how it's suppose to be blended properly or whatever other steps i may be missing to allow UpperBody to execute those animations while lower body continues playing the run, movement animations if we are still running moving foward.

Please advise. I'm sure this is something many others would be curious about achieving as well.

[shadex]

Jul 1, 2019 22:57:05 GMT fluxo said:

Hello, So I was advised by someone from support that I should switch Attack state machine from FullBody to UpperBody layer, but I am still having trouble. See below...

So I was able to switch the Attack state machine from FullBody Layer to UpperBody layer, but it appears that the FullBody Layer requires a default state machine. I'm not sure I understand what kind of default state machine would make the most sense here? Or if there are any other settings I am missing to check off to get this setup properly.

Is it possible for someone to help walk through how to properly configure this to work?

As right now if I try to set FullBody to say a Default State Machine that simply has an Idle animation, and I set the UpperBody layer to have default state machine set to Attack. The effects of this is a Frozen Player in-Game. None of the attacks animations ever execute, and player movement, run etc. totally stops. The player is just frozen in place, while I can move him around, the animations all break when I do what you suggested.

So It seems there is some missing steps to properly configure this to work. Can someone please assist with this?

Or refer me to any youtube video, or possible conversation / thread that explains how this can be achieve properly?

Note I do have different animations that come with the character asset. I'm just unsure of how it's suppose to be blended properly or whatever other steps i may be missing to allow UpperBody to execute those animations while lower body continues playing the run, movement animations if we are still running moving foward.

Please advise. I'm sure this is something many others would be curious about achieving as well.

Default State is not a State Machine. It's something you do to a state machine to make what amounts to the base of a loop. To create one

1) In the animator, right click and choose Create State -> Empty

2) Right click on the Empty State, Select "Set Layer as Default State"

3) Optional * Rename the Empty State "Null"

The point of this is so that you can make an Exit Transition for EACH attack so you can smoothly transition out of an attack animations. Not having the Exit Transition for an attack will stop the animation at the last frame, which is why your getting the frozen character. Note: You can also technically use Exit instead of Null however that animation will be choppy.

Here, This is a tutorial i did of the animator. It's long, but it covers 90% of everything your going to be doing.