Rotation Movement during Attacks [SOLVED]

[ghosttales]

Hey all,

So I want to make most of my game animation control based, meaning I want to handle a lot of the logic from animation events. Right now, it seems that during an attack animation, your movement and rotations are locked, with the option to free movement after a certain period of time during the attack.

I want to allow rotation movement only, for a specific frame of each attack. Basically this would allow you to start an attack while facing one direction, but allows for a brief moment to snap it into another creating an interesting dynamic. I was wondering which functions and scripts handle the locking of movement and rotations when using an attack, and if there is a simple way to temporarily allow rotation movement by using a public function on an animation event which function would I call?

I hope I've made this easy to understand, if anybody needs me to be more clear please just ask :^)

Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

[Invector]

Hmm currently you can enable after a period of time using the "Allow Movement At" as you mentioned, but if you want to enable and disable you will need to do some modifications.

You could create a new verification to use with Animation Events and only apply the "Attack" with controlled events like "EnableAttack" - "DisableAttack", and for that you will need to do some changes, for example in the vMeleeCombatInput which has the method that controls the lock movement when attacking


protected virtual void UpdateAttackBehaviour()
       {
           if (cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack")) return;
           // lock the speed to stop the character from moving while attacking
           cc.lockSpeed = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
           // force root motion animation while attacking
           cc.forceRootMotion = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
       }

Perhaps replacing this method, with a custom method to enable/disable using your animation events could be the way

[ghosttales]

Nov 26, 2018 12:43:15 GMT Invector said:

Hmm currently you can enable after a period of time using the "Allow Movement At" as you mentioned, but if you want to enable and disable you will need to do some modifications.

You could create a new verification to use with Animation Events and only apply the "Attack" with controlled events like "EnableAttack" - "DisableAttack", and for that you will need to do some changes, for example in the vMeleeCombatInput which has the method that controls the lock movement when attacking


protected virtual void UpdateAttackBehaviour()
       {
           if (cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack")) return;
           // lock the speed to stop the character from moving while attacking
           cc.lockSpeed = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
           // force root motion animation while attacking
           cc.forceRootMotion = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
       }

Perhaps replacing this method, with a custom method to enable/disable using your animation events could be the way

Cheers! Thanks pal :^)

[ghosttales]

Nov 26, 2018 17:43:14 GMT ghosttales said:

Nov 26, 2018 12:43:15 GMT Invector said:

Hmm currently you can enable after a period of time using the "Allow Movement At" as you mentioned, but if you want to enable and disable you will need to do some modifications.

You could create a new verification to use with Animation Events and only apply the "Attack" with controlled events like "EnableAttack" - "DisableAttack", and for that you will need to do some changes, for example in the vMeleeCombatInput which has the method that controls the lock movement when attacking


protected virtual void UpdateAttackBehaviour()
       {
           if (cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack")) return;
           // lock the speed to stop the character from moving while attacking
           cc.lockSpeed = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
           // force root motion animation while attacking
           cc.forceRootMotion = cc.IsAnimatorTag("Attack") || isAttacking;
       }

Perhaps replacing this method, with a custom method to enable/disable using your animation events could be the wa

I just solved it by making a script that handled attack logic, made a function that could control the "allowRotation" from the motor script and I called the function on an animation event for a single frame :^)