6. Combining Movement, Rotation, and Scale

The step above objects that move, rotate, or scale is doing all three concurrently. However, there are some important challenges to consider when building animations for props that move in multiple ways at the same time.

The step above objects that move, rotate, or scale is doing all three concurrently. However, there are some important challenges to consider when building animations for props that move in multiple ways at the same time.

Since the animation controller can only play one animation at a time, you can’t do moving, rotating, and scaling in separate animations. These animations also need multiple keyframes, since you may want to rotate a prop multiple times per animation. Because you need to build all the keyframes ahead of time, you also need to calculate the position, rotation, and scale at each point in the prop’s journey. What happens if your prop doesn’t make an even amount of rotations? How do you handle half a rotation?

There’s a lot of math involved in this next section, but by the end, you’ll be able to move, rotate, and scale props to multiple points, and create complex, dynamic, and (most important!) fun platforming challenges to make the Fall Guys course of your dreams.