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Kinematica_Demo reviews and mentions

• Trying to start on a 2D RPG and am working on player movement. I got my guy standing and walking in eight directions, but my gosh, I did it in the most inefficient way possible. It works, but what's an easier way to do this? I'd like to add running animations in the future, so I need a better way.
  1 project | /r/Unity3D | 29 Jun 2021

  demo is here: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Kinematica_Demo

• I know it ain't much compared to the rest of the work on this page, but I'm honestly proud of the little bit I've gotten done. I learned how to use Unity's animation system in about 30 mins last night. I love how easy it is to use! Just working on finding some survival/rpg animations now :)
  2 projects | /r/Unity3D | 17 Jun 2021

  On the topic of animations, ik, etc. have you seen the new wave of AI based animations? (if not these 2 videos will blow your mind)? the kinematica package for unity does something similar and you can start using it now (here's the manual). There are a bunch of talks on youtube about it, so you can find out more before diving in, as well as the demo up on github. i'd say this is prob the way to go instead of starting to learn how to build a traditional state machine based animation controller, especially if you're an experienced developer already. AI is going to make that tech obsolete within a year or two anyways (arguably it is already, since it's being used in industry).