Particles whilst walking

jamesfootlight

Hi Chris, is there an easy way to have particles appear as the player walks?

ChrisIceBox

Attach a Particle System to the same object as their Animator and use Animation Events to call its Play function in their walk animations.

jamesfootlight

Does this still work if using Spine to animate the Player?

ChrisIceBox

Spine has its own animation event system, details can be found here:
http://en.esotericsoftware.com/spine-unity-events

Otherwise, you can read an AC character's charState to determine if they are walking:

using UnityEngine;
using AC;

public class ParticlesOnMove : MonoBehaviour
{

    public AC.Char character;
    public float frequency = 0.5f;
    public ParticleSystem particles;
    private float timer;

    void Update ()
    {
        if (character.charState == CharState.Move)
        {
            timer -= Time.deltaTime;
            if (timer <= 0f)
            {
                timer = frequency;
                particles.Play ();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            timer = frequency;
        }
    }
}

jamesfootlight

Hi Chris, do I attach the above object to the Players root or whichever object has the Animator attached?

ChrisIceBox

Either - the variables are taken from the Inspector.