Chapter 1, Working with Animations, describes the tools essential for importing animations from 3D packages. It also covers most of the import settings.

Chapter 2, Working with the Animation View, covers Unity's built-in animation tool, used to animate almost everything apart from characters.

Chapter 3, 2D and User Interface Animation, focuses on animating 2D sprites and UI elements.

Chapter 4, Character Movement, covers different types of movement, using animations and root motion.

Chapter 5, Character Actions and Expressions, is about actions, action points, and facial expressions.

Chapter 6, Handling Combat, covers combat-specific topics, such as using animations for aiming and creating a hit-detection system.

Chapter 7, Special Effects, is not only about particle systems, but also about animating fog, creating wind zones, and even using sound waveforms for animation.

Chapter 8, Animating Cutscenes, describes how to import a cutscene from a 3D package and how to prepare simple cutscenes using Unity's Animation View.

Chapter 9, Physics and Animations, shows how to create ragdolls and break stuff.

Chapter 10, Miscellaneous, is the last chapter and describes a few solutions to common problems—for instance, working with mocap animations in Blender and Unity.

You need to install Unity 5.x (preferably 5.3 or greater). You also need to have your own animations or download the provided example project. It contains the assets needed to follow each recipe.

This book is for Unity developers who have some exposure to Unity game development and want to learn the nuances of animation in Unity. Previous knowledge of animation techniques and mecanim is not necessary.

In this book, you will find several headings that appear frequently (Getting ready, How to do it..., How it works..., There's more..., and See also).

To give clear instructions on how to complete a recipe, use these sections as follows:

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Simply drag and drop the file to yourAssetsfolder."

A block of code is set as follows:

using UnityEngine; 
using System.Collections; 
 
public class Wave : MonoBehaviour { 
//The anim variable is used to store the reference 
//to the Animator component of the character. 
private Animator anim;

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Go to Assets| Import new assetand choose your FBX file."

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