Player Controller - Pro Unity Game Development with C# - page 166

Figure 5-17. Using the Animator window to control animation logic
Note Personally, I'm not entirely convinced the term Animator is appropriate for this editor. It's not wholly
descriptive of what it actually does. Specifically, it's a node editor and a form of visual programming that's
concerned with wiring-up animation sequences into a logical arrangement to control their playback under
specific conditions. I think that animation dynamics or animation nodes would be more descriptive names.
But anyway, Animator is the name currently assigned to the editor by Unity Technologies; and I'll use this
name throughout the rest of the topic, where applicable.
To control the logic for camera animation I've added two states: a default state, with no associated
animation clip, that transitions into the death animation state, associated with the CameraDeath
animation clip. The transition between the default and death state is controlled by a Death trigger
parameter. This means that when the Death trigger is set to true, the camera death animation will
play (see Figure 5-18 ). For this trigger to fire, a script must be used.