Animation overriding Nav Mesh Agent

[ChrisBadger]

Hopefully someone can help shed some light on this for me.

I have created an idle animation for the Enemy capsule, and was really happy with it. I have since found that the Enemy no longer gives chase when entering the chaseRange.

I am assuming that this is due to the position animation overriding the movement provided by the Nav Mesh Agent. I have tried enabling Apply Root Motion, and while this reinstates the chase mechanic from the Nav Mesh Agent, it also cancels out the rotations on all but the Y axis.

I have tried removing the Position property from the animation, which once again reinstates the chase mechanic, but prevents the Enemy from facing towards the player.

My rough idea for a workaround would be to possibly have the Nav Mesh Agent on a parent, and then have the Enemy capsule with animations as a child, although I’m not sure if this is the most efficient solution, or whether it would cause problems further down the line with code/triggers.

For now, I think I’ll simplify the animations and not do anything that involves rotation or position, so that I can continue with the lectures but any advice or suggestions on how to get this working would be appreciated.

[Nina]

Hi Chris,

@ChrisBadger

My rough idea for a workaround would be to possibly have the Nav Mesh Agent on a parent, and then have the Enemy capsule with animations as a child, although I’m not sure if this is the most efficient solution, or whether it would cause problems further down the line with code/triggers.

That’s what I would have suggested. The animations are somewhat unpredictable. If you encounter issues, just move the animation part to a child game object and move the parent via code.

[ChrisBadger]

Thanks for the reply Nina, I’ll give this a go and let you know how I get on.

[ChrisBadger]

I tried to modify the existing objects to a parent/child setup, but I couldn’t get the behaviour I wanted (maybe I missed a setting or something). I deleted the entire Enemy game object, Animator Controller and Animations.

I created a new empty GameObject with the NavMeshAgent, then added gave it a child Capsule with a new Animator Controller and new Animations, which seems to be working so far. Thanks again for your reply.

Edit: I’ve noticed that this approach requires some changes to the code, hopefully I’m up to the challenge!