Sucks to hear. If you have a specific question, I can help you out with it :)

Not at the moment, but there will be an update in 2-3 weeks including that feature.

I actually found this exact issue! On the GitHub link, you can now change each sound volume in the Unity inspector, as well as its audio mixer. So the sound manager shown in the video is a little bit outdated.

@@SmallHedgeHQ Oh, ok i'll try it

I suppose this is where there is a balance for convenience and optimisation. This method prioritised convenience (having one global AnimatorValues) and ease of use rather than each animator having their own set of values. A design decision that I thought was a good trade off.

For 2d and 3d! I actually showcase how to use these techniques in 2d in the next video of the series 😁kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9qmd9eElty9pYE.html

Duude, you are a genius for finding that bug. I really couldn't have made this plugin without this community. Most of the ideas for this plugin came from you all. Really appreciate all the feedback and suggestions. I have committed a new version with these changes on the github page.

@@SmallHedgeHQ[Edit] The above methods works fine there was a mistake in myside of the code that was causing it to through an error. Hello there this is very important, Please replace the array of the coroutines with a list, otherwise the plugin will give not work but remain stuck on the default animation. private List<Coroutine> currentCoroutine = new List<Coroutine>(); /// <summary> Sets up the Animator Brain </summary> public void Initialize() { AnimatorValues.Initialize(); //Animator animator = GetComponent<Animator>(); layerLocked = new bool[animator.layerCount]; currentAnimation = new Animations[animator.layerCount]; // Coroutine[] currentCoroutine = new Coroutine[animator.layerCount]; currentCoroutine = new List<Coroutine>(animator.layerCount); // this.animator = animator; for (int i = 0; i < animator.layerCount; ++i) { layerLocked[i] = false; currentCoroutine.Add(null); int hash = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(i).shortNameHash; for (int k = 0; k < AnimatorValues.Animations.Length; ++k) { if (hash == AnimatorValues.Animations[k]) { currentAnimation[i] = (Animations)Enum.GetValues(typeof(Animations)).GetValue(k); k = AnimatorValues.Animations.Length; } } } //rest of initialize} And later in the Play function if (layerLocked[layer] || currentAnimation[layer] == data.animation) return false; if (currentCoroutine[layer] != null) { StopCoroutine(currentCoroutine[layer]);} layerLocked[layer] = data.lockLayer; currentAnimation[layer] = data.animation; animator.CrossFade(AnimatorValues.GetHash(currentAnimation[layer]), data.crossfade, layer); if (data.nextAnimation != null) { currentCoroutine.Insert(layer, StartCoroutine(Wait())); IEnumerator Wait() { animator.Update(0); float delay = animator.GetNextAnimatorStateInfo(layer).length; if (data.crossfade == 0) delay = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(layer).length; yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay - data.nextAnimation.crossfade); SetLocked(false, layer); Play(data.nextAnimation, layer); } } I hope you will see this comment and change the Repository again. There is some problem with using an array. Using array only works when there is no next animation for some reason.

@@OrbitZeroStudios hmm that is really bizarre. I’ll look into it tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know

@@SmallHedgeHQ I am such an idiot. It was working fine I had a typo there in the initialize Please remember the following text: "Coroutine[]"was added by mistake currentCoroutine = new Coroutine[animator.layerCount];

@@OrbitZeroStudios aha that would make sense!

Appreciate it! It really helps streamline the process for those types of games.

Thanks! Cinemachine has a lot of features so that video would be huge xD

@@SmallHedgeHQ you should also try making how to switch between multiple cinemachine like if there is 4 or 5 of them

I’ll look into it! Fake shadows would be super useful.

The most likely explanation is the enum value passed in Play() does not exist as a state in the animator. For example, if your animations enum looks like Enum Animations { RUN, WALK, IDLE } Then there must be a state that is named RUN, IDLE, or WALK

@@SmallHedgeHQ Ok, I'll try looking at that again! Thanks!

Sorry for late reply! Took time off and slowly getting through comments. I got asked a lot about blend trees. Unfortunately this is set up to optimise single state transitions, not blending multiple animations together. Best bet is to add more crossfade (transition time) to have walk left, right, forward, back animations and transition between them.

Each layer holds one singular current animation at a time and is tracked through an enum. So to pick a random animation, you could do Animations[Random.Range(0, Enum.GetNames(TypeOf(Animations)).length] to get a random animation. Or make a list of Enum values to randomly choose from. Each Enum value is given an integer, which allows you to look up them through an array.

Thank you so much!!

100%. The only prerequisite is the Play() method can not have more than 1 parameter. Could potentially create a scriptable object which holds Sounds enum and Volume, then pass in that.

@@SmallHedgeHQ In order to keep the sound enum and volume would have to be set dirty between plays

Yes, I do. 😄 That's what happens when you learn something new. It was a way I could think of to play five sounds at the same time for one object. But now I will try this way.

That is a great idea! It would definitely make the sounds feel more authentic.

xD. I should ask the developer to add more features! Its selling point is it’s completely customisable. You can flicker colour, flicker materials, add sound, and trigger events all in just one state. You can add an infinite amount of these states that do anything you want. I genuinely use this asset in most of my projects because of how versatile it is! Would recommend checking out the tutorial video on the Unity Asset Store to see all the features :)

Depending on application. This is more generic, and requires fewer additional assets as overhead.

This SoundManager is optimised for event-based sound effects. Such as playing a sound when criteria are met. For background music, I have a couple of suggestions. 1. Create a separate audio source and set it to looping. When the music needs to be triggered, call AudioSource.Play() and AudioSource.Stop() when it needs to stop. 2. Change the play method to SoundManager.Play(Sounds sound, float volume, bool looping). Then if looping is true, create a Coroutine which calls SoundManager.Play() again after the duration of the audio clip. Of course with this way, you’ll need a way to stop the looping, so there’ll need to be a new Stop() method which interrupts the Coroutine. I would strongly recommend #1. Unless you are looking to use the SoundManager script to manage all the sound/music in your project. I think the best way is a hybrid approach.

Sorry you're having problems! I might be able to help out with a bit more context. I'll also add we worked on making a dedicated plugin for Unity for animator coding following this video, where you hardly need to set anything up, might be worth checking out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9qmd9eElty9pYE.html

@@SmallHedgeHQ Thank you for replying! The hierarchy for my player is "Player > Player Model", my player controller script is attached to the Player game object and the animator component is attached to the Player Model game object. As shown in the video, its "GetComponent" and since my animator component is attached in the child object I used "GetComponentInChildren"

Hmm bizarre! I’ll try to troubleshoot everything that comes to mind. 1. When calling Animator.Play(“”), the string needs to be exactly the same as the Animator state name (not the animation clip name) 2. It needs to be on the right animation layer (default is 0) 3. The Animator itself has no transition lines 4. Ensure that GetComponentInChildren() is getting the right animator component (print animator.GetInstanceId() and go to the inspector and enter debug mode in the top right, make sure they match. Or just call animator.name) 5. After animator.Crossfade() (with crossfade = 0) print animator.Update() then animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo.IsName() then test if it is actually playing the animation 6. Check if the animator component has a valid animator controller Hope that helps! If not, flick through the code and we might be able to spot something.

:) Just wanting to help out best I can

The parameter check only needs to occur when you are in the specific animator state. This was eliminating the need to check parameters each frame when you don’t need to.

Love for animal Controller <3