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Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook

By : Maciej Szczesnik
Book Image

Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook

By: Maciej Szczesnik

Overview of this book

This recipe-based practical guide will show you how to unleash the power of animation in Unity 5.x and make your games visually impeccable. Our primary focus is on showing you tools and techniques to animate not only humanoid biped characters, but also other elements. This includes non-humanoid character animation, game world creation, UI element animation, and other key features such as opening doors, changing lights, transitioning to different scenes, using physics, setting up ragdolls, creating destructible objects and more. While discussing these topics, the book will focus on mecanim, the Unity 3D animation tool, and how you can use it to perform all these tasks efficiently and quickly. It contains a downloadable Unity project with interactive examples for all the recipes. By the end of this book, you will be confident and self-sufficient in animating your Unity 3D games efficiently.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Synchronizing subtitles


In this recipe, we create subtitles and synchronize them with the animation:

Subtitles synchronized with animation

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the same cutscene as in the previous one. You can also open the example Unity project and go to the Chapter 08 Animating Cutscenes\Recipe 05 Synchronizing subtitles directory. If you open the Example.unity scene there and play the game, you will see changing subtitles synchronized with the animation.

How to do it...

To synchronize subtitles with a cutscene, follow these steps:

  1. Import the cutscene the same way as in the previous recipe.
  2. Create a new Image (go to Game ObjectUIImage).
  3. Name it SubtitlesContainer.
  4. Create a new Text game object and parent it to the SubtitlesContainer. To do so, right-click on the SubtitlesContainer and choose UI |Text.
  5. Change the color of the SubtitlesContainer's Image component to semitransparent black. Change the color of the Text component to white. Adjust the position and size of the...