Animate like a Programmer

[@Norbingel]

I wasn't convinced until I saw I could bypass trying to line up the animator arrows in the grid

[@ShinichiKudoQatnip]

Exactly!

[@blameyourm8519]

hahaha

[@11sveden12]

I'm comforted knowing I'm not the only one driven crazy by this. I also spend way more time in Shader Graph lining up nodes than I do making actual shaders...

[@LeeTwentyThree]

this saves me soooooo muuuuuuuchhhh tiiiime i love this video

[@mariyamrifa406]

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[@spectralshark]

As a programmer learning game making in Unity I really like this. Now, if only there was a "How to create art/animations as a programmer"

[@Tarodev]

Oh mate... If you find it, let me know

[@neintonine]

You can add StateMaschineBehaviours to your Animator states. That way you can programmatically create animations. It is a bit finiky tho. f.E. the duration of the animation is set by the animation set in the state. There is a default duration you can just repeat or you just add a empty animation with your desired duration or you just use your animation and use it to spice up that animation. Plus there is no transitioning, what makes the creation of good animations hard. Transforms, you want to change, must not have any data in the animation you set. In general I would use this feature for simple animations like idle bobing or for stuff that has the same start and end point like firing a weapon. I personally believe it wasn't really designed for that. Sadly I haven't found a good package, that adds new features for such an use-case.

[@progress_games]

Program a bot to scrape assess from pre existing games

[@kazukixe]

Asset store?

[@jasondads9509]

Dalle 2?

[@lvlGhostlylvl]

I love how this video is under 2 minutes. Quick and straight to the point. Personally, I prefer the tree and have spent a great amount of time mastering it, but for quick prototypes and game jams this would be WAY faster to set up compared to messing with the tree.

[@Tarodev]

Glad you enjoyed the short form content brother 🙏

[@Glooberloob]

What do you prefer about the graph/tree? I've only made a couple small projects in Unity, but this approach seems much more convenient to me. Would it be a problem with scale?

[@KeybiKeyboard]

@@Glooberloob The strength of the graph/tree I believe would be helpful for 3D games such as combo-ing and whatnot. Also, the Finite State Machine Behavior can be more easily used in conjunction with the graph/tree (I think, correct me if I'm wrong but I find it easier to fix there especially with AI)

[@spicyshotz]

I've only found your channel yesterday but already you are in my top 5, short and to the point. Keep up the good work!

[@Tarodev]

Aiming for that #1 spot

[@spicyshotz]

@@Tarodev Im sure you'll get there in no time 😉

[@leukk_]

@@Tarodev You'll get there for sure, i love the fact that you cover "intermediate" / "advanced" topics as well that don't necessarily bring you as many views but are much more useful than having 1000 + 1 character controller tutorials

[@natickgames1821]

Come hang out in his discord!

[@GameDeveloperTR]

Which channels are currently in the top 5?

[@kozinskiandrzej4]

I am working on animations literally this second. God sent you

[@freezeboy13]

More tutorials need to be like this, immediately explaining what you want to show off without fluff. Amazing vid

[@darkfafi]

Have been programming in Unity for over 6 years and always wrote my own animation system to avoid the issues addressed in this video. I never heard of CrossFade, this would have solved everything I solved writing my own systems while keeping it connected to the tools Unity Provided. Thank you for showing this! To return the favor, let me address the following thing I noticed about the video: About the animation states. I categorize finite state machines into 3 categories: Level 1: Tracking state by multiple booleans Level 2: Tracking state by an enum Level 3: Tracking state / having the logics of states in separate classes. You were using a Level 1 Finite State Machine. I highly recommend going for a Level 2 or Level 3 Finite State Machine. The nice thing about having it in separate classes is that you can do simple things such as: * WalkingStateClass (holds logics of walking) * FreezeStateClass (changes color when entered, and back when exited) And to have the player freeze when hit by an object, you only have to: CurrentState.Exit(); CurrentState = new FreezeStateClass(); CurrentState.Enter(); Because WalkingStateClass is no longer CurrentState, it no longer is being updated so no walking logics is available anymore. Keeping your behaviour simple and preventing complicated bugs.

[@Tarodev]

Very interesting. Thanks for the write up 🙏

[@maxnibler6090]

Im getting into unity with some friends. Im a professional programmer but this is my first real foray into game dev. My friends are all artists so I handle all the code. This channel is everything I want. I can figure out how to do nearly everything from the docs but never really know if Im following good practice. Most tutorials have been worthless because theyre not written for or by programmers. Loving you channel because its exactly what Ive been looking for

[@Tarodev]

I'm here for you 🙏 enjoy your journey

[@TheDoomLordd]

Bookmarking this for the future as i think ill never use the built in animator window ever again

[@MarkRiverbank]

+1 for Animancer Pro, it makes working with animations programmatically so much easier. And, even solves some awful blendtree glitchiness by letting you disable foot IK on a per-animation basis. Technically, another option is directly implementing the somewhat abandoned Playables API which Animancer uses behind the scenes.

[@syroin123]

"Tell me anything" you say? Well, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[@Tarodev]

CELLS AT WORK!!

[@LostRelicGames]

Great video! I'm glad to see more devs promoting this approach. The mechanim is a clunky and unessessary system (for coders).

[@Tarodev]

You know, I've watched most of your videos, but somehow missed the one on this topic. Another commenter mentioned they originally learned it from you, so I went and watched it swiftly 😂 Love your stuff man!

[@ALX3]

Finally found a channel with 0 BS, straight to the point, non-trivial dev advice. Thank you!

[@Tarodev]

... and maybe I'll get off my butt and make some content

[@susanollington5257]

Thank you so much for posting videos for intermediate level coding, it’s just what I need!

[@lDominicl]

"I read every single one of them." WELL THEN, I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU. that's a very well done video and I appreciate the time and effort that it must have taken to make it.

[@Tarodev]

Oh... Well thank you sir

[@synchaoz]

I switched to code-driven animation almost from day 1 of learning Unity after seeing LRG's tutorial on how to avoid Mekanim spiderweb madness. I barely even know how to use the Unity animator at this point. Your string hash to int trick is something I have not been doing though, until now! Thanks!

[@gamedevteacher7065]

Got a link to that video?

[@synchaoz]

@@gamedevteacher7065 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHPOmoaAat9gnqc&ab_channel=LostRelicGames Simple little string based animator state machine. I've extended it a bit for personal use and even implemented parts of yours, but John's does a fine job even just out-of-the-box

[@gunhann]

I'm relieved that I'm not alone to align horizontally the animator connection lines :D

[@cr4zyhand581]

You can take this a step further by using Scriptable Objects to create states and then having a State Machine Monobehaviour. This way you can link up states to different animations which is particularly handy for games with multiple playable characters and generally works better as a more modular methodology than the firewall

[@Tarodev]

I actually love that!

[@simonwahlstrom1296]

I work as a software developer and I'm just starting to get into game development in my free time. This was perfect for me as I prefer to use code over Unity tools if it makes the process simpler, which this really does. Thank you!

[@SalehGfx]

Good job making this video, I feel the YT algorithm read me my mind and showed me this when I needed it.

[@conedome6845]

I really love your videos man, short and to the point. I’m a little confused on 3D animation but honestly the more I think about how to implement it the more I think I can

[@Tarodev]

If anything 3D animation is a bit easier as you can interpolate frames between two animations (this is handled automatically) to create smooth transitions. You can do it brother!

[@mishaslizhov1056]

Yo, that was extremely helpful, I saw a video from lost relic games talking about the concept of coding animations, but you took it to the next level

[@uhohwhy]

im gonna ughh.. im cooomiiin AAAhhhHh

[@mufelo]

Beware the trigger, the animator, the Mecanim. Love the Animancer shoutout! Preach, brother!

[@ofa44332]

This is so helpful. As someone coming to Unity from GameMaker Studio, this is really similar to how animation is done there. So much easier for sprite work!

[@Tarodev]

I wasn't aware of that, interesting

[@hmzaelmkd]

this looks a lot easier than working with unity animator, it would be great to see a full tutorial on this!

[@Conor_Tuohy]

Yes - an explanation of your full code, and what connects to what components, what terms or commands actually do, why you use the techniques and code you use, etc - that'd be very useful to us folk just starting out!

[@getintheoven]

had to come back with a new channel because the game i was working on last year uses your character controller... thank you for existing btw! hope you're overcoming any stress you're dealing with at this current point in time and that this year goes great for you :)

[@stevennassef]

I really love your videos, they always have interesting topics actually.

[@ZaneBastian]

"...as I read every single one of them". Hah.. Taroboi's in for a load of spam... *checks comments* Wow, now that's a fine, civil crowd right there if I ever saw one...

[@Tarodev]

Tarobois are good bois

[@iHeartGameDev]

So much information condensed into a video that's under 2 minutes. Beautiful Taro! And now it feel like a ton of my videos should be refactored to use this method of animating XD

[@pedrinkss]

Combining this with the state machine that you showed us = gold!

[@glassmarble996]

maybe you make a video about this.would be good.

[@hegworks]

I always appreciate seeing new approaches to the same repetitive things I've been doing all the time. Thanks mate🐦

[@matthewsmith2682]

I'd like to understand ANYTHING you just said. Well done mate.

[@ThisProgram]

This is amazing! Getting rid of transitions and blend trees is a god send. I work exclusively with pixel art games and this is a perfect solution to the spider web woes I continue to deal with. This method is simple and intuitive. As a newb to game dev, a more detailed video doing a deep dive into creating the script and going through some different interactions of the code with various actions like attacking, jumping, et cetera, would be great. Thanks for the code and the quick video on how it all works.

[@Tarodev]

I'd love to hear how you go with it. Reply here when you've had a play 😊 I have a pretty fleshed out version on my patreon if you're ever interested

[@ProdigiaGames]

Good stuff! My current game is a track- based music game so all of my character animating is being done on the timeline for this one, but I'll definitely keep this in my bag of tricks for future projects. The more you can calculate programatically, the better!

[@Tarodev]

This strategy seems ideal for that type of game, so long as you have events being fired for the beats

[@ProdigiaGames]

@@Tarodev Actually, that makes sense. I was just going to make manually animated segments with timeline triggers to branch/loop, but that could potentially help automate at least some of the animation setup. I'll have to weigh my options!

[@sapientunderground]

Good stuff, I use a very similar system for a 2.5D platformer project, the level of control is very good to have, and no animation/transition setup overhead.

[@francescagreetham1804]

This is sooo handy! Definitely going to play around with this. Thank you!

[@646AWESOME]

I highly recommend using Playables graphs for 3d animation. It's built into unity (but with little documentation) and offers even more programmer centric design. For instance, you can use animation clips as serialized fields and reuse animation graphs just like you reuse code. There is extra work needed to get it set up but it gives you so much more control. It also let's you customize transitions so they're not linear!

[@mufelo]

Animancer takes away most of the extra work and uses playables in the backend.

[@MujjMujj]

What an amazing video, this is so much better than trying to fiddle with the unity ui

[@eliphillips4392]

What an effective, quick video. Humour, bit size and taught well.

[@Tarodev]

Thanks Eli

[@MidasButSilver]

This Channels like finding a hidden gem, informative and quick to the point. Nice content

[@fmproductions913]

Really like this idea tbh. In the past years, for a few of my games were animation transitions aren't that relevant, I always just made a state machine that is used in the MonoBehaviour and just play and adjust animation state in the logical states, kinda like you showed in the video. It prevents a lot of the pains of having to deal with the Animator and having to maintain 2 different state machines. More recently I also worked on a small editor script that basically generates the hashes of the animator state names and parameters as static variables into a file, that's pretty useful as well ^^

[@ilikesnow]

It's like you were sitting across the "office" from me today! I've been struggling the past week with this exact scenario but 3D. Thank you so much sir.

[@Tarodev]

Here to help 😉

[@AetherXIV]

Always love your stuff. Best unity tut tuber

[@Tarodev]

Thanks Caleb 😘

[@WeenieWalkerGames]

Wow, that looks a lot easier to follow than the spider-webs with parameters that you can't tell apart. I'll also have to look into that string hash thing you used; never heard of that one.

[@williamhiciano394]

this is absolutely awesome did not know about this, thanks !

[@AlexBlackfrost]

I've tried this approach myself for 3D characters in the past after watching LostRelicGames video, and honestly, I didn't like how it turned out. I'm going to share the pitfalls I encountered using this approach just in case someone is curious about it: In 2D spritesheet animation this approach sounds good because you don't need to blend between animations or to handle animation transitions offset, but that's something you need to do in 3D or 2d skeletal animation (most of the time). While you can store the transition duration and the timeOffset parameters outside the animator and pass them to CrossFade() or CrossFadeInFixedTime(), this approach makes it harder to tweak the animation transitions. In Unity's animator you can easily tweak the transition duration and time offset parameters with some sliders and textfields and see the results immediately. However, using this approach I had to execute the game every time I wanted to tweak those parameters. I also tried creating the transitions in the animator window, tweak those parameters in the animator and then copy/paste them into my code so that I could get the best of both worlds, but then you'd be working twice as much, it felt like re-iventing the wheel to me. I also tried to just use the animator to store and tweak the transition duration and transition time offset parameters and then read those parameters using scripts, but the classes that store that information (like AnimatorStateTransition) are editor only, so it didn't work in builds. Another problem I faced was detecting when an animation has ended. Sometimes I wanted to trigger an action right after an animation ended without having to use a timer or re-inventing the wheel (like switching from attack state to idle state after playing an attack animation ). I tried to use Unity's OnStateExit() method from StateMachineBehaviour classes, but that method only gets called after a transition to a new Unity's animator state happens, something that doesn't happen if you are using CrossFade() and don't have transitions in your animator. It felt like working against Unity's animator rather using its tools. I also considered using Animancer back in the day, since it expands on this concept as you mentioned, but I didn't feel like using an asset that replaces such a core component of a game engine (the animator system) would be a good idea, it felt like re-inventing the wheel again. If someone finds an alternative to any of the problems I've faced I would be very glad to hear it. Now, while I didn't succeed in implementing this architecture into my game it doesn't mean it won't be good for yours, I'm just sharing the problems I faced making a smashbros-like game. If I had to make a 2D game with sprite animations I would try this approach again. That being said, thanks for making this video, it's a very interesting topic that only a few people like LostRelicGames have covered on youtube. Also, looking forward to see the quaternions video👀

[@Tarodev]

You touched on the solution to your problem... Animancer. It is always a good idea to reduce third party plugins, but it really does fill the gap well. The visualiser is a great addition to the workflow. Nice writeup mate!

[@rjnebrja1599]

For your second problem you can always use Animation events and put one at the last frame of your animation and hook that event up somewhere else in your codebase. No need to use a timer or OnStateExit.

[@AlexBlackfrost]

@@rjnebrja1599 Thanks for your suggestion. I also tried what you mentioned and I think it's a bad approach, specially when your are developing something bigger than a game jam game. The first problem is having to create an animation event for every single animation in your game. It's very time-consuming, specially if you have to re-import animations or you modify the animation speed of an animation. Another problem is Unity's Animation Event function selector. It doesn't escalate well: the dropdown function selector doesn't have any kind of filter to select the function you're looking for, and the list of functions grows very fast as your game grows and your character has more components and thus, more functions that show up in the function selector. As far as I know, the only way to quickly scroll through the list of functions is to use the arrow keys, the mouse wheel doesn't event work (using unity 2020). Finally, a last, but not least important problem is to tweak the transition crossfade duration parameter and the animation event frame so that your animation event is fired before the transition ends (otherwise it won't be executed). Yes, you can get it working with animation events, but it's very time-consuming and doesn't escalate very well, in my opinion.

[@rjnebrja1599]

@@AlexBlackfrost Oh I'm not saying there aren't any drawbacks with AnimEvents. I just wanted to suggest that there is an alternative to using timers as a way to check for the end of an animation. Especially for cases where there are varying animation lengths and you have to account for them each time you set up a timer waiting for one to end. Using AnimEvents, you can just attach them on the near end of the animation and you're done for now. Though I agree with your with your opinion that it can be time consuming, I just consider it to be part of the animating process and it helps with the psychological part. Anyways, I guess it's all up to preference and working around the kinks of the features Unity gives us. Goodluck with your game!

[@AlexBlackfrost]

@@rjnebrja1599 maybe my reply sounded a little harsh (sorry about that). I have to say that it was actually a pretty good suggestion! Back in the day I tried it because I thought it was a really good solution and even used it for a long time (that's why I was able to make such a long reply about my experience using this approach haha). You're right, it has its advantages and disadvantages. I found it very time consuming for my game (3D fighting game), but it may be a good solution for another type of game, like a 2D game. And it's not like I know a better solution, so it's definitely an approach to be considered. Thanks! Wish you the best in your gamedev journey.

[@Glooberloob]

thank you so much for sharing this. it seems like a much easier way to animate considering i always just set up animation triggers and call them one by one. and great presentation too!

[@Tarodev]

Enjoy your new power

[@RedCabinGames]

Thank you! I didn't know about this feature! I already have a state machine in code to manage transitions and trying to match the Unity animator with it was painful. This just works with basically one line of code! I think about this video almost daily and feel thankful for it :)

[@luisrosado7050]

The shear anount of happyness, anger, gratitude and shock i feel after learning this is astounding, im subscribing for my foolishness

[@DePistolero]

Incredible content!!! Feel like a beginner watching your videos!!! Grow that channel!! Grow like crazy!!!

[@Tarodev]

I'm tryyyyyyiiiinnnnngggg 😂

[@pliniomourao]

Simple, objective and precise. Thank you Tarodev!

[@lamarhoward8478]

Yoooo 🤯 this is literally exactly what I need after just deciding today to make my platformer 2.5D with models instead of 2D with the same models baked as sprites. Nice 🤝🏾

[@Tarodev]

I love 2.5D. Good luck with your project!

[@lamarhoward8478]

@@Tarodev Thanks, good luck with your projects as well 👍🏾

[@JimPlaysGames]

Damn. I wrote my own animation script because I found the cumbersome web of nonsense in the Unity animator not worth the effort for 2D stuff. This seems like it cuts down on that problem though and still allows making the animations in the animation editor. Excellent stuff!

[@Tarodev]

When you say you created your own, do you mean you manually looped through subsets of sprites?

[@JimPlaysGames]

@@Tarodev yeah I tracked time elapsed in the update function and then changed the sprite to the next one in the array when it reaches the duration of a frame. It's pretty basic but it works for the project I'm using it on right now. If I need something more complex though like for a platformer character I will refer back to this video.

[@obo7172]

Amazing idea. Animated transitions have not been relevant for some of my games over the past few years. I just created a state machine for the MonoBehaviour and just played and adjusted the animation state in the logic state like you showed in the video. It avoids many of the problems of dealing with animators and having to maintain two different state machines.

[@NickMaltbie]

This is marvelous

[@Tarodev]

Good luck brother! Remember, the provided script is still basic. You can deck it out with some advanced features like OnFinish and OnStart events

[@NickMaltbie]

@@Tarodev I have a state machine based character controller so I already have all the transitions mapped out! Thinking of switching it to coyote based state machines so I can decorate the states with attributes on what animation to switch to when loaded!

[@mrstruijk]

This is super useful! More of this please :)

[@stevencraeynest7729]

with a title like that, I expected a comedy video :p

[@mrcroco5121]

this channel is a blessing ..honestly. superb content.

[@Tarodev]

Thank you ❤️

[@eerongal]

Probably outside of the scope of a quick vid like this, but if you're using a state machine pattern within your own code, changing animations like this can easily be handled more elegantly than a block of if statements, ESPECIALLY if your animation is tied to state. Just have some sort of "onStateEnter" function on your states where you set your animation.

[@Tarodev]

I use state machines all the time, but I like my current approach more. Way (way) less boilerplate, exact same result.

[@Mickplouffe]

Anything I want? - The video on Quaternions ;P. (Take your time) - Also you replacing Brackeys on YT. - ACTUAL IDEA: I would like a revisit of your Ultimate 2D Platformer Controller in Unity, but 3D 3rd Person. - Lastly, I want you to be happy and loving what you do. Same for all fellow devs!

[@theonlycatonice]

LockState is probably what I needed. I followed LostRelics version of this in a lil endless runner I made and I noticed animations being overridden. So in the animator I linked necessary ones back to idle, also turning off the autoloop, and then in my if statement checking player states, I stop/prevent the state changing unless it's not one of those animation states. E.g. player is landing from a jump, even if they are grounded, I don't want idle to play since I want the jump animation to finish, if not jumping play idle but when jump is finished in the animator it will go back to idle. Your LockState example essentially does what I wanted 👌 Also I wish beginners knew of this because Unitys spider web is a nightmare and I can't see an advantage over just coding it.

[@noodle-eater]

I just know this API after a few years working with unity, thank you this is looks awesome.

[@smokedsalmon665]

This video just gave me a "goddamn!" moment and reminds me again of why I love programming in the first place. Thank you!

[@Tarodev]

Program all the things

[@firstvf]

Didn't expect that 2 minutes video could be so useful.. You are genius, thanks!🙂

[@matteomanicone5717]

Thank you. I converting the state to hash looks like a good idea and it could be used for an enum. Can't wait to test it out.

[@Tarodev]

Just ensure you're still sending the hash to the animator as it's significantly more efficient

[@atmegaphil]

thank you! This reminded me of a tutorial i watched last summer from Kiwicoder but in 3D. Programming animations this way seems the cleanest way.

[@xena-spectrale]

This tip is so simple yet so effective. It just pulled me out of a full half-day unity animator nightmare. Thanks Tarodev 💙

[@jaylahouse5100]

Omg this is everything I ever needed as a programmer. Thank you

[@Tarodev]

Enjoooooy

[@PitiITNet]

Mr Taro, that is fantastic video! Thank you so much for it :D. I had no idea this method exists!

[@Tarodev]

Thanks buddy :)

[@viramyar4259]

Hey TaroDev! Great video, honestly struggled with animations and the damn spider webs way too much. Actually checked you out after the blackthornprod 3d game dev video, you were a complete machine in that! Thanks for the video mate, have a good one!

[@Tarodev]

Welcome aboard mate 😊 I've had a bunch of complaints that I threw out too many previous dev implementation in that video, lol. Woops.

[@viramyar4259]

@@Tarodev all good mate, p.s I liked your changes

[@Analyzer_Games]

just one word THANKS

[@newarteest]

This is the most useful Unity tip I've seen in a while. Mecanim is a very useful tool for 3D characters, but so much annoying overkill in many other situations.

[@Tarodev]

Glad you liked it

[@bumbowo]

YOU MY MAN ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE

[@bruggles1135]

This is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much! I love doing things through scripting, it just makes so much more sense in my head, and I feel like I have so much more control over how I do things. Never going back to spaghetti trees lol.

[@the3rdr0b0t]

I thought this was an asset you made and wanted to show off but no, this is straight up base unity functions. How has this evaded me for so long?!?!

[@Tarodev]

It evaded many of us... But we now have the power.

[@the3rdr0b0t]

@@Tarodev I will follow you to the ends of the earth, finder of ancient treasures

[@emailforsomething5286]

very nice and looks interesting

[@skymanito]

you are a fooking legend!

[@mehmedcavas3069]

wow thought this is a tool or something like that, but the animator itself has it. how did I not see this for all these years :D

[@mattkaiser8984]

😭 the line… you just touched my heart. That line drove me insane for so long. I hate it.

[@M4nichean]

You had me at OCD, really enjoying your vids man keep it up PLEASE. Learning lots even started making my own space shooter!

[@Tarodev]

Hell yeah brother!! Good luck with the shooter

[@calebgilbertyt]

This was really helpful, I'm just not a big fan of the unity animator, and my brain works very logically, so I will be using this method a lot more, thanks so much!

[@JamesMakesGamesYT]

Great video Taro! Never heard of CrossFade or the firewall pattern before this, definitely have to try them out

[@Tarodev]

You've never heard of the firewall pattern as I coined it while writing the script :D

[@JamesMakesGamesYT]

@@Tarodev Well now I don't feel too out of the loop :D

[@gogokowai]

The standard name for the "firewall pattern" is "guard clauses". It normally refers to returning after checking function parameters for valid values, but can also refer to a string of conditionals and return statements. Firewall pattern sounds cooler, but it might be a confusing term if you're writing network code.

[@lp-games]

Oh man! Thank you so much... I love this!

[@ezphantom]

FSM is all you need. Good day

[@TurboMakesGames]

Crossfade is new to me, this seems right up my alley. Great video man 👊👊

[@StarshipJais]

This was helpful and motivating, thanks.

[@TegridyMadeGames]

animancer is great i always use it

[@Tarodev]

It's truly amazing. Possibly overkill for sprite sheet animation, but amazing for everything else

[@unbroken-hunter]

Your awesome m8

[@Morphexe]

Animancer was one of the best assets I ever purchased in Unity.

[@voodoo5191]

I always had so much trouble with animator in unity. This video is great!

[@captainjet-pack]

I know nothing about animation or programming. 10/10 video very helpful!

[@Tarodev]

Thanks Captain!

[@Димас-ТвойРазработчикИгр]

Amazing work, bro !

[@antijulius]

Thank you for acknowledging the most important reason; animator tree OCD. It just taunts you with its awkwardly connected different-sized boxes. Been using Crossfade for a few months now. Never going back.

[@Keanine]

I recently started doing this after getting frustrated with the animator for years, funny that its popped up in my recommended now! I'd highly recommend this method, it doesn't have many downsides if you've already implemented your own state machine anyway

[@bike_n_fish]

you would be proud of me taro kun

[@Tarodev]

Tell me

[@FakeMelon]

I love your videos, you just get the point so efficiently. thanks.

[@rutchjohnson]

Nice editing, Tarodev! Very useful animation. I hate that animation window. Ugh

[@mariocamspam72]

Ah the wonders of concise unity content. love it

[@BrainDeadSlime]

That's an easy sub for sure. Gonna try this sometime soon

[@omerpasa3328]

aaa learned this from Lost Relic Channel in detail so I know already but your flow and his flow is kinda different...