How to get Realistic Animal Locomotion (Turning Left, Right etc.)?

[Psychocist (foreverastudent)]

Have look through the following thread, it should give you a good place to start:

How to create a responsive but realistic locomotion for animals?

I start this topic because seems impossible to find any kind of tutorial, guide or topic about animal locomotion (apart from rootmotion). I’ve tested rootmotion and isn’t at all what i need (no flexibility for movement speed, turn or pivots, hard to replicate, etc). I’ve tried distance matching, but all the tutorials, guides or plugins are focused on humanoid characters, usually 8 direction movement (i don’t want strafing) and aren’t even complete, so i find myself on a dead end at some point …