Jerky Animation when player's character is falling down.

[gubatron]

So I've done a few things, but I think the issue now has to do with the configuration of the sprite animation itself.

I first checked the Player's Animator graph

Then I clicked on the Transition Property on the right side

First there is a bug with the Condition, the player is not falling if it's grounded.

I saw that the condition "IsGrounded", is defined in the Animator > Parameters tab on the upper left

Then I looked for C# code that had something to do with the player, and I found under

Project > Assets > Scripts > PlayerController.cs

I opened up the file and I noticed there is an Animator object called animator

then I saw that this is how Csharp code talks to the Animator, by setting the parameters we saw above:

I decided to create a new parameter IsFalling, which is set when the velocity of the player is negative.
I confirmed this is True using Debug.Log("Velocity Y: " + _rigidbody.velocity.y) and playing the game, it would show negative Y velocity when falling on the Console.

So, I created a new Parameter IsFalling in Unity for the player Animator

I fixed the condition on the transition of the animator:

And then I set that property in C# to be true or false depending on the Y speed, and if the player isn't grounded.

This did not solve the problem, the loop on the animation stays the same when falling, BUT, something weird happens.
When the character is on the ground, now it looks the way it's supposed to look when it's falling. Even when you move it, it stays that way. So I must be getting close.

[gubatron]

I will commit these changes on my repo, but will not submit a Pull Request because it's still not fixed.

However, maybe all of this will give you an idea.

I think another issue might be the way that animation is configured and the key frames.

perhaps it's alright, it should not move, the player should keep the sword up when falling.

Perhaps we're doing something wrong when setting the animation.
I'll play around more with C# and WHEN I update isFalling to true. Perhaps it's not. on LateUpdate()

[gubatron]

Ok, I think I know what's happening!

It's def. an issue with the timing on setting the animator parameters.
When I look at the animation called Player_jump_start, it has these 2 positions, which is what we see when the player is falling:

Moving around WHEN I set isFalling and isGrounded for the animator parameters, I managed to make it look as expected when falling, and now when the player is in the ground, it's repeating the jump start animation that it was doing when falling.

I'm almost there!

[gubatron]

algo que me está ayudando a ver mis cambios, es sacar la ventana del juego aparte y ver el grafo en vivo, y ver como los estados que quiero, no son los que salen activos.

Esto me está saliendo cuando el personaje ya está en el piso despues del primer salto, tratando de entender por que.