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#1

I have agents that are required to move to exact positions at various workplaces to then play their “job” animations. In some cases those are root motion or a sequence of animations.

I have it working but it’s very clunky and rough with lots of sliding and bad positioning/rotation. However the scenarios are only going to get more complex from here with more complicated position/animation sequences etc.

I’m assuming I need to separate concerns between what astar/moveTo can accomplish, then what I have to take over and do manually for finer levels of position/rotation/root motion and control?

My main question is if that logic is correct? Should I assume astar moveto will only get my agents “close” to their exact required position, then I have to take over control (right now I’m disabling richAI) to do my own tweening of movement/rotation to help sync the animations correctly. Especially when the animation requires root motion I need to essentially disconnect the agent from the astar/navesh? Then when the agent is done their job and moving to something new I turn the agent back on.

Or am I going about that wrong? Or is there a better way?

#2

Hi

I would recommend that you check out the beta version and try the new FollowerEntity movement script. It’s pretty new (so it may have some rough edges), but I have designed it to be much more robust and predictable in situations like this. It can stop very accurately on a point (if you set stopping distance to something small like 0.01), and can even align itself with an orientation automatically (use SetDestination(point, direction)).

#3

Ok that sounds at least more what I’m looking for, are there any example scenes using FollowerEntity?