Character states     

States are an important part of the character design. They will also drive the kind of actions and movement you will need to create for each state. For instance, at a minimum our character will need to have the following states implemented:

• Idle
• Walking
• Running
• Jumping
• Attacking
• Die

You character may have more states defined; this is something that you, as the designer of the game, will need to identify and eventually implement. Each one of the states identified will need to be implemented as an animation. The person creating the character models will usually also develop the animations for the character.

For instance, the Orc model has the following states/animations defined:

You may consider implementing all of the states or some of the states. The theory and practice are the same either way.

I can also use RawMocap data to animate the models, since the models I am using are Mecanim-ready, including Face Rigs. In fact, we will use some RawMocap data to animate the models.

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