Adjusting walking animation for different directions

armagon

I just started working on a new engine and it appears that there's no support for animation blending inside animation trees, like in Unreal. The coders asked me to create walking animations for NW, NE, SW, SE directions. So far, i only got N, S, W and E animations. Do you guys have any ideas on how to automate this? I'll have to adapt all my animations, including walking, running, crouch walking, etc.

StephenVyas

Add a controller as the root of your skeleton. Make one forward walk cycle , then rotate that controller 45 degrees in either direction. Export , rinse and repeat

Mark Dygert

Depending on what program you're using and how your rig is set up there are quite a few different ways to tackle this. I've done this exact same thing in 3dsmax using animation layers.

armagon

I'm using 3DS Max and MotionBuilder.

armagon

Do animation layers work in MotionBuilder as well?