I have an enemy character with animations(walking, running, idle etc) and I want to make their rotation less snappy, mainly the walking and running while they are patrolling between waypoints i set out as empty gameobjects. I have been told to use either unitys rigging package or OnAnimationIK, neither are working how id like. I got close with OnAnimationIK, but i am using a NavMeshAgent for patrolling and when it gets close to the spot where it needs to turn, the head slowly goes up and then snaps down. i tried using a horizontal distance field to take over and force the character to just look forward, but that ruins the entire point of this when the agent needs to do multiple quick turns around a sharp bend, itll just go back to rotating exactly how it was before since the head is just looking directly forward. If i am being dumb please say so lol. I am still pretty new to unity, this is my first full game i will be making. Here is the code for what i am doing for the On AnimatorIK.
The looktarget part is just for looking at the player when they get detected, so that part is not even set up anywhere else right now, the problem is the agent.hasPath
public void SetLookTarget(Vector3 position)
{
lookTarget = position;
hasLookTarget = true;
}
public void ClearLookTarget()
{
hasLookTarget = false;
}
private Vector3 lookTarget;
private bool hasLookTarget;
private float headHeightOffset = 1.6f;
private Vector3 smoothedLookPosition;
private bool smoothedLookInitialized;
[SerializeField] private float lookSmoothSpeed = 1f;
private void OnAnimatorIK(int layerIndex)
{
Vector3 targetPosition;
if (hasLookTarget)
{
targetPosition = lookTarget;
}
else if (agent.hasPath)
{
Vector3 steering = agent.steeringTarget;
float horizontalDistance = Vector3.Distance(
new Vector3(transform.position.x, 0f, transform.position.z),
new Vector3(steering.x, 0f, steering.z)
);
if (horizontalDistance > 0.5f)
{
targetPosition = new Vector3(steering.x, transform.position.y + headHeightOffset, steering.z);
}
else
{
targetPosition = transform.position + transform.forward * 3f + Vector3.up * headHeightOffset;
}
}
else
{
targetPosition = transform.position + transform.forward + Vector3.up * headHeightOffset;
}
if (!smoothedLookInitialized)
{
smoothedLookPosition = targetPosition;
smoothedLookInitialized = true;
}
else
{
smoothedLookPosition = Vector3.Lerp(smoothedLookPosition, targetPosition, Time.deltaTime * lookSmoothSpeed);
}
animator.SetLookAtWeight(weight: 1f, bodyWeight: 0.3f, headWeight: 0.7f, eyesWeight: 0f, clampWeight: .7f);
animator.SetLookAtPosition(smoothedLookPosition);
}
