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 include Root Motion, we will use the opportunity to illustrate how to overcome the lack of Root Motion via 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...