Animating AI when moving it to an entity

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#1

I’m trying to get Jack to move from his starting position to a box. I’ve configured the starter game as per the example given here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/latest/userguide/component-navigation.html

It works in the sense that Jack moves to the box, but he doesn’t rotate to face it nor does he perform walk/running animations while moving.

To try and animate Jack I’ve added an additional line to the example script to trigger his walking animation, specifically:

AnimGraphComponentRequestBus.Event.SetNamedParameterFloat(self.entityId, ‘Speed’, 1);

Unfortunately this has no affect. When I retrieve the animation graph speed it says it’s still 0.

Does anyone know how to fix this / make it work?

Cheers

#2

I managed to get it working by connecting to the NavigationComponentNotificationBus inside OnActivate, and then setting the animation graph variable inside the OnTraversalStarted.