Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Your model now has all the necessary components needed to work with our AI script.
Scripting the animations
To script our animations, we will take a simple approach to it. There won't be a lot of
code to deal with, but we will spread it out in various areas of our script where we
need to play the animations. In the
Idle
function, add this line of code:
animation.Play("idle");
This simple line of code will play the
idle
animation. We use animation to access
the model's animation component, and then use the
Play
function of that compon-
ent to play the animation. The
Play
function can take the name of the animation to
call the correct animation to be played; for this one, we call the
idle
animation.
In the
SearchForTarget
function, add this line of code to the script:
animation.Play("run");
We access the same function of the animation component and call the
run
anima-
tion to play here. Add the same line of code to the
Patrol
function as well, since we
will want to use that animation for that function too.
In the
RangedAttack
and
MeleeAttack
functions, add this code:
animation.Play("attack");
Here, we call the
attack
animation. If we had a separate animation for ranged at-
tacks, we would use that instead, but since we don't, we will utilize the same anima-
tion for both attack types. With this, we finished coding the animations into our AI. It
will now play those animations when they are called during gameplay.
