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alexvalladares
21,478 PointsPhysics and animation
One simple question: The physics applied to the hop are implicit in the animation or it depends on the unity phisycs like rigid body? I see there is a model called Hop that already seems to have that physics, but this point it's not clear for me.
2 Answers
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi alexvalladares,
Broadly speaking, there's two ways to do locomotion on a character in Unity:
- The animation is stationary and the player is moved with physics or by changing the transform, OR...
- The animation actually translates through space, and the movement is dependent on the animation
In the case of the frog, we're using method #2. The frog's hop animation is what actually moves the frog forward. The flies are a good example of method #1, where the fly only flaps its wings in the animation; code changes the transform which is what makes the fly actually move through space.
I hope that helps! We'll talk more about this in courses that focus on animation.
alexvalladares
21,478 PointsPerfect Nick, it would be awesome starting to plan Maya or 3dStudio courses also, this is a great one, but most of the heavy part (3d design) it's already done for us.
Thanks for the answer!