Directional Animations in 3D

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Use Case

Some games use a combination of 2D Sprites in a 3D world, for example:

• Tree of Savior

• Ragnarok Online

Animancer's Directional Animation Sets can do that easily, but Animancer doesn't yet have an example scene to demonstrate the capability.

Solution

Here's a package with a simple example scene that will work with Animancer Lite or Pro: Animancer - Directional Animations in 3D.zip

It has two scripts:

• DirectionalAnimations3D is the main logic which you would use in a game. Instead of telling Animancer to play a specific animation, you can set its properties and it will use them to decide what to play:
  • Animations is the DirectionalAnimationSet you want it to currently use.
  • Forward is the world space direction the character is facing.
• DirectionalAnimations3DController is an example script which uses the rotation of an object in the scene to control the DirectionalAnimations3D.Forward direction.

The system chooses the appropriate animation based on the Forward direction relative to the camera so rotating the camera changes the animation:

And rotating the Forward direction also changes the animation:

Feedback

As always, feedback is welcome. This will likely be added as an example scene in the next version of Animancer.