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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Player Input and Cameras Move the Player with Animation

Thanitsak Leuangsupornpong
Thanitsak Leuangsupornpong
7,490 Points
Posted by Thanitsak Leuangsupornpong
Thanitsak Leuangsupornpong
7,490 Points

I just want to know that how does the frog move without modified its transform?

As I play the game right now I am a little confused about the frog's transform, because in the code there are no code that modify the frogs transform, but when the game run and I pressed the WASD the Z position in the transform component keep adding up.

If because of the animation can someone please give me a link so that I can learn how to do that great animation.

And will it take a lot of CPU or GPU in order to complete that process instead of a pure animation and use transform.translate or Rigidbody.Moveposition .

Thank you in advance!

1 Answer

Jennifer Gerbl
Jennifer Gerbl
8,772 Points

The magic happens with the Animator controller (and the animation itself). In the official Unity Manual (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Animator.html) you can see that "Apply Root Motion" is responsible for moving without a script.

I'll leave you two links for further research: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RootMotion.html http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/1238987/whats-root-motion-and-how-it-works.html

Hope I could help you :)