Good evening, team!
It's possible to use in and out of combat animations. Is it possible, if using Mecanim rather than legacy animations, to simply switch from one Animator_Controller to another, or should this in/out of combat distinction be handled within a single AC?
If the latter, how can Mecanim tell if my combatant is in or out of combat (and thus when to switch the AC)?
One way would be to use Conditional Prefabs to have a different prefab (e.g. set up with battle AC) during battles.
The other is to use ORK's built-in system to use different animations in battles. It'd work the same as with all the other animations, e.g. setting parameters to transition to different animations.
Generally, Mecanim is a bit overblown or too complex for the task if you're having regular turn based or active time battles (or even real time), as you mostly just want it to play an animation when told to (e.g. perform an attack animation or play a different idle animation). The legacy animation system is more convenient in that regard :)
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But it's been, what, four or five YEARS at this point?
I'll give the Legacy animations methodology a shot!
It hasn't even been marked as deprecated yet, like the old particle system, which is still around and working. And I haven't yet heard/read anything about dropping legacy animations.
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