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Unity Animation Essentials

By : Alan Thorn

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Unity Animation Essentials

3.8 (10)

By: Alan Thorn

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Animation Fundamentals

1. Animation Fundamentals

Understanding animation

Animation types

Animating through code – making things move

Summary

2. Sprite Animation

2. Sprite Animation

Sprites – importing and configuration

Animation with sprites

Summary

3. Native Animation

3. Native Animation

The Animation window – creating a fly-through

Animating multiple objects together

Invoking functions from animations

Particle Systems

Summary

4. Noncharacter Animation with Mecanim

4. Noncharacter Animation with Mecanim

Preparing a scene with the prototyping assets

Creating animations for the button and door

Getting started with Mecanim

Mecanim transitions and parameters

Creating a door-open Mecanim graph

Creating scene interactions

Summary

5. Character Animation Fundamentals

5. Character Animation Fundamentals

Creating rigged characters

Importing rigged characters

Avatars and retargeting

Retargeting animations

Root motion

Fixing motion offsets

Summary

6. Advanced Character Animation

6. Advanced Character Animation

Creating a controllable character

Blend Trees

Preparing to script with Blend Tree animations

Scripting with Mecanim Blend Trees

Testing Mecanim Blend Trees

Summary

7. Blend Shapes, IK, and Movie Textures

7. Blend Shapes, IK, and Movie Textures

Blend Shapes

Inverse Kinematics

Movie textures

Summary

Index

Index

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