Advanced Movement & Animation System

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Developed a comprehensive movement and locomotion system based on a custom character state coordinator and a dynamic animation controller. The primary challenge lay in integrating over 30 separate animations (sprinting, sliding, dashing, vaulting, landing) and ensuring seamless blending and transition states. Constructed a user input routing layer mapping keystrokes to specific physical forces. Implemented a central state coordinator to handle execution priorities and eliminate state conflicts (e.g., preventing sliding during a mid-air dash). Built an animation manager to synchronize physical states with appropriate AnimationTracks. The manager handles track weights, playback priority levels, and transition smoothing to avoid visual snaps. Optimized client performance by minimizing concurrently active animation tracks. Individual physics sub-modules handle specialized movement forces, including slide friction and dash velocity vectors. Built modularly to allow simple additions of new actions. The final product resembles mechanics found in modern fast-paced action titles, delivering high responsiveness, clean animation blending, and modular scalability.

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