Unity: Animation

Name: Unity: Animation
Author: Ken Geary

Work with the Animation, Animator and Timeline

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Hello. My name is Ken Geary. In these lessons, you will add motion to your game objects by using animation clips and controlling them using the animator. First, create a new scene. Click Basic. Click Create. Now let's save the scene. Save as go to scene S. We'll name this animation. There are a variety of ways to animate objects in Unity. You can create animation clips, use physics, for instance, dropping a ball and making it bounce. Or you can create a script in C sharp and control the motion of your object. We will be using animations and the animator component to control animation on our pickup object. Open the prefabs folder. Drag the pickup prefab into the scene panel. Press F to focus on it. Now let's hit play. We don't see the pickup because the camera is not lined up with it. So stop play. So whatever we work on the scene view might not necessarily be what the camera sees in the game view, but there are times where you want to match the two up. Simple way to do that select your main camera, then go to Game Object and select the line with View. Or hit CTRL Shift F. Notice the main camera preview window in the bottom corner shows that a game view will look just like the scene view. Now if we hit Play, we can see our pickup, but it's fairly boring. Stop play. In game design, you want to give visual cues for the player, such as using colors and the placement of objects. Adding animation makes it even more interesting, as well as acting as an indicator to the person playing the game, that it's something we want to interact with. In order to animate an object in Unity, we need to create one or more animation clips. First, let's keep organized and create an animations folder. In our Assets folder. Navigate to Assets. Right click create folder. Name it animation. Open the animation folder. Now we'll select our pickup object in the hierarchy. And in the top menu, select Window, animation and animation. You can also press CTRL and Six. This will open a floating animation panel. You can dock it, but we will leave it as is. Resize the panel width a bit by clicking and dragging the edge of the panel. selected and the animation panel open, you see a Create button. Click Create. This opens a file browser to save your animation. Click the Animations folder if you're not in the folder already and we'll name this animation spin. You it. Click Save. Now an animation control is automatically added as a component to your object. In the Inspector, you need to have an animator component assigned to any object requiring animation. The animator name is also the name of your object. In this case, pickup. You can see both the pickup animator and the spin animation inside the animations folder. If.

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Course Description

Unity can add motion to your GameObjects in your scene by utilizing Animation clips, which are edited in the Animation Panel and controlled by the Animator panel. You will create animation clips to be applied to the Prefabs in your scene. You will then assign an animation clip to a Prefab and using the Animator panel, add and adjust keyframe values to control GameObject transforms over time. Virtually any GameObject parameter can be animated and we will focus on rotating the pickup Prefab and learn how to smoothly loop the motion.

Other Animation clips will be created and will be controlled using a node methodology inside the Animator Panel. You will animate the hovercraft Prefab and adjust its timing by creating clips in the Timeline panel. Learn how Animation is a critical aspect of game development and helps to bring life to objects as simple as a pickup element to a fully functional character.

What You'll Learn

Create animation clips and edit keyframes in the Animation panel
Assign an animation clip to a Prefab and adjust keyframe values to control GameObject transforms over time
Animate the rotation of the pickup Prefab and smoothly loop the motion
Transfer from one animation clip to another using a node methodology in the Animator panel
Animate the hovercraft Prefab and create clips in the Timeline panel
Adjust animation clip speed and timing in the Timeline panel

Key Takeaways

Unity adds motion to GameObjects using Animation clips, which are edited in the Animation panel and controlled by the Animator panel.
Virtually any GameObject parameter can be animated, including transforms such as rotation, controlled by adjusting keyframe values over time.
Animation clips can be transitioned between one another using a node methodology inside the Animator panel.
The Timeline panel is used to create animation clips and adjust their speed and timing.
Animation is a critical aspect of game development that brings life to objects ranging from a simple pickup element to a fully functional character.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will I learn to animate in this course?

You will create animation clips applied to Prefabs in your scene, focusing on rotating the pickup Prefab and smoothly looping its motion, and animating the hovercraft Prefab while adjusting its timing in the Timeline panel.

Which Unity panels does this course cover?

The course covers the Animation panel for creating clips and editing keyframes, the Animator panel for controlling clips with a node methodology, and the Timeline panel for creating clips and adjusting clip speed.

What topics are included in the lessons?

The lessons cover Creating Animation Clips (Part 1), Creating Animation Clips (Part 2), Creating An Animator, and Using the Timeline.

What skills does this course relate to?

It relates to skills including Animations, Character Animation, Object Animation, Motion Capture, Adobe Animate, and UnityScript.