# Animation While the animation of the Carno was done in Blender, implementing them in Unreal Engine 5 took some additional steps. #### State Machine UE5 uses state machines in the character's animation blueprint to determine what animation should be playing at any point of time. As a default state, the Carno will be in its idle animation. The condition to move from default to run (BS\_CarnoRun) is the game starting (a Boolean set to true). Next, between running and jumping, the conditions to move back and forth is a Boolean set to True by the Spacebar key, and set back to False after the jump animation is complete.

#### Blend Space Mentioned in the previous section was BS\_CarnoRun. BS stands for Blend Space, which is what UE5 uses to blend between animations based on user-defined parameters. In this case, I blended the Carno walking animation at regular speed and at 2x speed, controlled by a horizontal parameter "Speed". The speed of the player movement is scaled by number of map pieces exponentially, which is explained in [Game Mechanics](https://jeremy-yeh.gitbook.io/carno-run/production/game-mechanics). As the speed of the player movement increases, the speed of the animation increases accordingly to match the faster traversing of the level.