Organizing States into Sub-state Machines

Whenever content in the Animator panel gets too cluttered, you can always consider organizing your Animation States into Sub-State Machines. In this recipe, we will use this technique to organize animation states for turning the character. Also, since the animation clips provided do not includeRoot Motion, we will use the opportunity to illustrate how to overcome the lack ofRoot Motionvia a script, using it to turn the character 45 degrees to the left and right:

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have prepared a Unity Package named Turning, containing a basic scene that features an animated character. We have also provided the FBX animation clips Swat@turn_right_45_degrees.fbx and Swat@turn_left.fbx. These files can be found in the 09_04 folder.

How to do it...

To organize States into Sub-State Machines, please follow these steps:

1. Create a new 3D project and import the Mixing Unity Package, as well as the FBX files Swat@turn_right_45_degrees.fbx and Swat...