[Solved] Understanding Animation with Control Maps

Balive

I am using Control Maps to control abilities in Real Time Battles. I use the input key for the Action Settings> Type. I set Action to Ability and Select the corresponding ability. Then under Animations, I have a Mecanim Animation with Animation Type set to the ability and the State Name the same as in my animator. My animations are properly set from Any State>Ability>idle. And my input keys are setup correctly. I also have Field and Real Time checked under Control Map Settings. My animations are setup with trigger parameters that are called in the combatant animation. My combatant also knows the abilities. The control map is setup to work in real time and field.

I am still not able to use the abilities for some reason. I will keep looking.

Balive

I've gone back over this from start to finish again, even following the tutorial. There's still something missing, I can walk around animated just fine. I still can not get animations to play on my input. Does this have something to do with needing a target selected first?

Balive

Update: Okay made some progress. When I add a menu to select target, after I use the Control Map input key, the menu comes up. I then click the Enemy Combatant's name and it will read out the text I placed. However, I get no animation and ideally I would like to use a no target system. (I will just use Damage Dealers)

Balive

Eureka! I simply had to setup a Battle Event. The Event needs to use a Base Step> Wait For Input. Then I added an Animation Step> Mecanim Animation. I also had to make sure the Event was added under the Ability Animation Settings. So now when I press the input button for the ability, the menu pops up and lets me choose the target, then the animation plays. Now to just figure out how to get rid of this pesky target selection and just let me hack n' slash!

Balive

And we have a winner! Easy enough, in the Ability options simply change Target Settings> Target Range to None. :-)

There must be some step missing here though because multiple abilities seem to not want to work together. I'm guessing reset the trigger or something so you can use a different one for the other abilities. Perhaps this needs to be a boolean instead of just a trigger? This also causes the movement animations to stop playing when still holding down the buttons. Perhaps I need to set up my own character controller? Edit: I just read that Mecanim has trouble when using a character controller. I'll have to look up a different approach for that possibly.

gamingislove

Yup, abilities, items and other actions are animated using Battle Events (and you can use them to do much more with them than the settings allow).

But why do you need to use a Wait for Input step in your event? The control map handles the input and calls the ability - the battle event will animate the ability. The target selection will be gone if you enable Use Auto Target in your control map's key. Or, e.g. when using damage dealers/zones for doing damage, you can set the ability's target range to None to not require a target and simply damage whatever is hit (see the real time battle game tutorials for more details).

Mecanim's Apply Root Motion can't be used with character controllers, the rest should be working fine.

Balive

Ah yep! Of course you're right. That clears it up and makes it work properly. I'm learning a good bit here and there in my spare time as I can, thank you for the assist. Now to just figure out how to handle moving with animations not canceling.

Balive

Fixed this also with adding Wait and Block Player Control in my events that are the same length as my animations. This thread can be marked as solved, thanks!