Scripting animations

With our player’s Animator ready, it is time to do some scripting to make these parameters be affected by the actual behavior of the player and match the player’s. In this section we will do the following to achieve this:

• Script shooting animations
• Script movement animations

Let’s start making our characters execute the Shoot animation when necessary.

Scripting player shooting animations

So far, we have created a behavior to shoot each time we press a key, but the animation is prepared for sustained fire. We can make our PlayerShooting script shoot a bullet every X number of seconds while we keep the Fire key pressed to match the animation, instead of having to press the key repeatedly.

Let’s see how to do this:

1. In the PlayerShooting script, add a public float field called fireRate, which will measure the seconds between bullet spawns. Remember to set this value in the Inspector of the...