Unity 3 Animation Positioning Problem

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I have a throwing object animation, w$$anonymous$$ch we worked on inside the unity animation editor.

then in my project I created an empty gameobject and made the animation prefab c$$anonymous$$ld of it. t$$anonymous$$s gameobject goes as c$$anonymous$$ld of the Main Camera, so that when the player MouseLooks, the arms and object will follow apropriately.

problem is, the animation is a little off the camera to the bottom side. The logical solution would be to get the empty gameobject Y position "$$anonymous$$gher".

i did that, the game kinda worked, but sometimes the position gets crazy. I noticed that the Inspector is showing me some funky values for position and rotation like t$$anonymous$$s:

-5.549297e-09

does anyone have a clue to what is going on, and more specifically, how to adress t$$anonymous$$s problem?

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Answer by Loius · Nov 29, 2012 at 07:27 PM

That isn't (shouldn't be) a problem, it's just float inaccuracy. That number is exactly the same as zero as far as the computer can tell (though if you multiply it hard enough you might eventually get to a non-zero number).

The e indicates scientific notation; the decimal point is actual (09) places left of where it appears in that number. So that's -0.00000000554.

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Yamauti · Nov 29, 2012 at 08:38 PM 0

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That's a bit odd then... I do agree, it is supposed to be considered as 0, but then again, the animation goes wild and ends up far from the gameobject origin (even though it was zeroed before, too.)

Loius · Nov 29, 2012 at 08:45 PM 0

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"When" does the position get crazy? Can you replicate it consistently? Is the animation setting the object's position when it shouldn't be? That's usually what's happening.

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