Melee questions

[francesco]

Hi, I have bought the shooter asset and I think it's very good. Actually I'm using the melee component as I don't need to shoot anything for now. However I have some questions, some related to my unity "noobishness", others related to the lack of written documention. So :

1) docs : where is it? I can only find one file that's not a realistic documentation I'd like to receive for an asset. Then there are the videos, but where is the rest of the docs? How do I know what attack, reaction, moveset IDs I can choose? Everything I know up to now I just deduced from reading from various sources.

2) this question makes me feel ashamed but I don't understand how to know if my models use root motion.

3) I've been able to create a weapon, to equip it and to have the same on a AI, so that we can fight. My weapon is aligned in the right way when the character holds it, but when swinging it looks like it would need some custom rotation. Could this be the case or I'm just imagining things? I have read about equipPoint but how can I set it? There's no option for that unless I use the inventory component?

4) If I set my weapon as attack and defense, when I'm blocking receiving a hit just makes the character go back to the default stance.

5) Only the final combo attack seems to trigger a reaction on the enemy. I seem to understand that this is due on how the animation is set up, but then I don't understand what the reaction id, recoil id and defense id do on the melee weapon script component. And how do I know these IDs?

6) Related to #5, how would I have a stunlock happen? Like attacking an enemy will keep him stunned as long as I'm attacking him.

7) Are light and heavy attacks animations the same?

That's all for now, I'll add more questions if I have (and I'll have :D ) more. Thanks a lot.

[Invector]

I think it's pretty hard to miss the documentation, they are very easy to find it:



2- the model has nothing to do with root motion, the animations that use or not.
root motion is when the animation actually drive the character out of the root, and 'in place' animations are animations that the char walks but doens't leave the root position/rotation

3- You can adjust the weapon on playmode and copy the pos/rot when exit the playmode to the handler and it will be saved.

4- you can setup different hit reactions or recoils using ID's, check our video tutorial about the melee

5- same as above, check the video tutorial... this one:



6- you can use a custom hit reaction that makes the oponent stun on a idle animation for a while or something like that

7- we don't have animations for all the weapons, but the unarmed are different.

[francesco]

First of all thanks for your answer. Then :

1) I saw those files but I was wondering if there was more. Those files only show how to do some things but it seems like there so much more behind that one should know to unleash the full power of this plugin!

2) thanks, it looks like I have to study animations more

3) I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Or maybe you did not understand my question, I'll try to record a video about this.

4 and 5) I watched the video, and I was able to add my own animation for another attack Id, but now I have other questions, see from #8 below

6) ok I understand

7) yes I saw those, thanks

New questions :

8) when you say that you can make attacks use other body parts, like the head for a zombie, what do you mean? If I add a head to my character and say an attack will use that body part what would happen? Would the attack only check for the head collider to know if we hit our enemy? So is that only for unarmed attacks?

9) your melee controller creates a collider on my model elbow, so should I put my sword in the elbow part of the model and then position it near the hand? Or is it more correct to move the elbow collider (and the script) on the hand?

10) I cannot find moveset ID in any transition, is that something that's currently not used and we have to implement our own?

Thanks for your time

[shadex]

Dec 1, 2017 11:12:07 GMT francesco said:

First of all thanks for your answer. Then :

New questions :

8) when you say that you can make attacks use other body parts, like the head for a zombie, what do you mean? If I add a head to my character and say an attack will use that body part what would happen? Would the attack only check for the head collider to know if we hit our enemy? So is that only for unarmed attacks?

In vMeleeWeaponAttack it basicly turns on collider's during the animation. So say you wanted to add a headbut in, you can setup a head collider in the melee manager (on the player) and then in the animator, on the headbut attack you can select head, which if the animation of the headbut hits, it will cause damage just like punch or any other attack.

9) your melee controller creates a collider on my model elbow, so should I put my sword in the elbow part of the model and then position it near the hand? Or is it more correct to move the elbow collider (and the script) on the hand?

If your talking about the equip point, you want it on the hand. to fine tune a weapon, i typically adjust the weapons position (usually with the child of the weapon called components). If your talking about the actual collider, it's what detects the damage, so it should be slightly larger then the hands, at the position of the hands.

10) I cannot find moveset ID in any transition, is that something that's currently not used and we have to implement our own?

Thanks for your time

[/quote]

Moveset is something you typically add in. There is an example in Base Layer -> Locomotion -> Strafe Locomotion -> Strafe Moveset
Basicly you can add differn't idle and movement animations. Like if your holding a spear or a two handed sword, you would use it to add in your two handed It's also good for things like random idle's, or martial arts stances.

Hope that helps!

[darknubis365]

I have been messing around with this,is there a way to have the zoom taken out and use the default camera when pressing crouch?and also any way to make the player not move while attacking?i changed some animations which i dont know much about but is it also something i need to do to make them transition smoothly ?

[Invector]

Simple remove the Crouch CameraState and the system will use the Default cameraState when you crouch.
Make sure to use the tag "CustomAction" or "Attack" in the attack animations, this will 'lock' the movement.

[darknubis365]

Jun 26, 2018 16:52:17 GMT Invector said:

Simple remove the Crouch CameraState and the system will use the Default cameraState when you crouch.
Make sure to use the tag "CustomAction" or "Attack" in the attack animations, this will 'lock' the movement.

Where is that located cause i don't see it with the other camera state files?