3D Animation

~~Presentation~~ - ~~Project Files~~ - Resources - Tutorials - Assignment

Presentation

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Resources

Our own tips, tricks and best practices for working with Unity, with a bunch of gifs
A list of external tutorials to help you with specific topics, from learning the basics to creating a certain effect.
Get graphics, sounds, code and other free stuff from the resources page

Assignment

No assignment for this class.

Topics & Explanation

Animation in Unity 3D

Timeline (use to preview animations in context, with particles, trail renderers etc)

Animator

Animation Clips: split the Jump animation in 3 clips: "startJump", "jumpLoop", "land"

Substates (jump as substate, like a "folder" for your animation clips, to clean up the Animator)

Name your animation clips well! e.g.: "player_run_forward": [Object][Action][Direction/Modifier]

BlendTrees: blend forward/right/back/left animation clips, check "2D Directional Blend"

IK (Inverse Kinematics for head & limbs), humanoid rigs have easy IK like the head looking/aiming at an object

Blending with Transitions, check the settings per transition

AvatarMasks (Layers, e.g. only animate upper/lower body)

Mixamo humanoid animationclips (also for easy rigging)

Cloth Component for dynamic mesh like capes and scarves

IK for secondary motion, 'physics', tails etc: Animation Rigging package in Unity. Close to "procedural" animation

Reusing animation assets: GameObject names should match!

AnimationEvents: Trigger code at a specific keyframe in an animation clip (e.g. for footstep sounds). Script needs to be next to the Animator Component

Feel (not free) / DOTween (free) plugins for animating characters, fx, objects and variables by code quickly