Jump Sword Attack Movement: Driven by Animation or Vector?

[eXi (Cedric Neukirchen)]

@;183542

Either
-create something like a jump cycle (as you can see in the 3rd person template) -> when the player presses W+Jump the character will move forward, otherwise he will stay where he is. Depending on how exactly you want to implement your jump attack, you can also let him always move when you play the jump (e.g with a “set velocity”)
-or use a root motion animation -> then the character will stay at the landing position. https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/RootMotion/index.html

Probably there are other ways, but those are the ones that came to my mind

Root Motion sounds good. If my english is well enough, it says that the Animation moves the character mesh forward and “Root Motion” keeps the capsule always at the Root Point of the Bones.
So that we always have the collision etc at the right place.

@Vaei;183548

Whether the character is moved in the animation or code depends on your game, there is no “better” way.

The question is as simple as do you want your character to actually move vertically for interaction purposes when he attacks or is it just aesthetics for the attack to look good?

I think there are pros and cons to both ways. And that is what i’m asking for. That this question depends on my game is pretty clear, although i didn’t know if code driven movement is possible
for this kind of animation. I would need to match the speed of the animation exactly to make it look good.

I guess i will try to really let the mesh move with the animations and use Root Motion to keep track of the capsule etc.

Is it right, that i can use a transition between the Jump and some “Jump was blocked” animation to let the character get repelled by a shield or something?
Like: “If SwordJump && Enemy->Blocking == True” -> Transition to some throw back animation, although the Mesh Movement depends on the Animation.
It’s hard to imagine all of this without knowing much about it

Sorry, i’m really bad at animation. I am more a coder :D, but i need to get some simple animation ready to test Zelda(Link) like Movement.