I had an idea to use Unity’s Animation system to move one object around a city. That object would have a dragon parented to it. So even though the dragon has a lot<\/strong> of joints, moving it around the city would not<\/strong> involve animating all those joints for a huge, lengthy path. Instead, it would move the whole dragon on a single joint, and then the dragon would simply animate a flapping motion and a gliding motion, along with a launch and landing animation. Those are all short animations, but they are played during the pathing, so we really got a huge animation efficiency from my idea.<\/p>\n However, others wanted me to use an existing pathing system that our NPCs used, and while I thought it was possible, I knew it would not be as easy as using Unity’s Animators.<\/p>\n This system caused bugs. The dragon kept flying off his den without flying, and would sometimes play its flying animations while sitting at its den. Among other bugs.<\/p>\n So at one point, after getting dozens and dozens of bugs on this, I decided to rip out the pathing system and go with my original plan. After that, there were no bugs.<\/p>\n (Recently during a 3D renovation of the city, which I was not involved in, the dragon was put back on a pathing system, and now there are bugs again.)<\/p>\n So anyway, this game is based in reality. But just\u00a0based<\/strong> in reality, it is very specifically\u00a0not reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But it certainly fueled the MacGuffin<\/strong> in this game.<\/p>\n It got me to the office where the rest of the story could play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dragon Bugs You Say? I had an idea to use Unity’s Animation system to move one object around a city. That object would have a dragon parented to it. So even though the dragon has a lot of joints, moving … Continue reading