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Unity Animation Essentials

Unity Animation Essentials

By : Alan Thorn
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Unity Animation Essentials

Unity Animation Essentials

3.8 (10)
By: Alan Thorn
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Overview of this book

This book is targeted at hobbyists, students, and game development professionals familiar with the Unity basics, looking to extend their skills and knowledge in the field of real-time game animation. You will need to be familiar with level design and basic scripting in C# and have a good knowledge of game development.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Animation Fundamentals
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1. Animation Fundamentals
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Understanding animation
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Animation types
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Animating through code – making things move
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2. Sprite Animation
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2. Sprite Animation
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Sprites – importing and configuration
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Animation with sprites
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3. Native Animation
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3. Native Animation
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The Animation window – creating a fly-through
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Animating multiple objects together
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Invoking functions from animations
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Particle Systems
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4. Noncharacter Animation with Mecanim
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4. Noncharacter Animation with Mecanim
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Preparing a scene with the prototyping assets
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Creating animations for the button and door
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Getting started with Mecanim
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Mecanim transitions and parameters
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Creating a door-open Mecanim graph
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Creating scene interactions
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5. Character Animation Fundamentals
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5. Character Animation Fundamentals
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Creating rigged characters
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Importing rigged characters
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Avatars and retargeting
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Retargeting animations
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Root motion
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Fixing motion offsets
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6. Advanced Character Animation
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6. Advanced Character Animation
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Creating a controllable character
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Blend Trees
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Preparing to script with Blend Tree animations
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Scripting with Mecanim Blend Trees
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Testing Mecanim Blend Trees
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7. Blend Shapes, IK, and Movie Textures
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7. Blend Shapes, IK, and Movie Textures
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Blend Shapes
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Inverse Kinematics
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Movie textures
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Chapter 7. Blend Shapes, IK, and Movie Textures

In this concluding chapter, we'll explore three largely unrelated animation methods available in Unity. These are Blend Shapes, for creating morph-like animations, such as lip-synch and facial motion; Inverse Kinematics (IK), for posing character hands and feet at runtime; and movie textures, for playing prerendered movie files, such as MP4 files, on a 3D surface as a texture. All of these are less common animation methods in Unity, but can nonetheless play a powerful role in creating emotive and believable experiences. Let's consider each of them in turn.

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