Animation (week #6)

This week I put a lot of work into animation and making my enemy game objects perform different actions at certain distances. The animation was fairly simple to pick up and use as I was using prebuilt prefabs I gathered from the assets store in Unity3D already built with an animation controller and animations.

The animations were performed using the Animation.Play() and Animation.Stop() functions using several if statements to determine when these functions should apply. Here is a link to the Unity Scripting API if anyone is interested

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animation.Play.html.

In order to determine the distance from the player to the enemy, I created a float using Vector3.Distance and using if statements which check if the value of the distance is greater than a certain number or below it. once again here is the link to the Unity Scripting API for Vector3.Distance

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Distance.html

Next week I expect to learn more about health and scoring in my game and I will let you know my findings.