How To Create Realistic Walking?

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#1

I’m wondering how to achieve a walking animation that changes when you walk in a direction with shift lock. Like sidestepping or walking backwards. Here’s an example:


I know there is a post just about this but I want to achieve this effect with Humanoid.MoveDirection . I don’t plan on using inverse kinematics since it’s not needed for my project.
I want to know how to see directions like left, right, diagonal upright and etc. Please do not explain how Humanoid.MoveDirection works, I know how to use it just having trouble with it.

#2

I’ve heard of this having been done by fetching the humanoid root parts’ velocity via vectorToObjectSpace and getting the relative velocity on X/Y (checking first if MoveDirection.Magnitude is over some threshold to make the character stop animating at standstill). From the X/Y values you’d be able to tell where the player is moving and animate accordingly. Not sure of the exact directions but you’d know if it’s a four-way direction should X~=0 and Y=0 (or vice versa) or 8-way direction if both X and Y have value.

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#3

Yep, this is true, however unfortunately @SetOnRoblox has made a repost of the same topic.

But yeah this is the concept mark @MP3Face as the answer.

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