Maciej Szczesnik - Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook
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- A selection of the most important tasks and problems.
- Carefully organized instructions to solve problems efficiently.
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- Solutions that can be applied to solve real-world problems.
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.
What you will learn- Importing animations to Unity
- Work with different animation assets and components
- Create, visualize, and edit animated creatures
- Animating game cut scenes
- Design character actions and expressions
- Create gameplay by animating characters and environments
- Use animations to drive in-game logic
Maciej Szczenik is an experienced game designer and Unity developer, specializing in gameplay and combat mechanics. His daily responsibilities include motion capture session planning and coordination, creating animation graphs and state machines, and AI design and implementation.
He started his professional career in 2004 at CD Projekt REDthe company best known for the critically acclaimed The Witcher series. Maciej had key roles in the Witcher games, being lead gameplay designer and lead combat designer. He also worked at 11 bit studios, another well-known Polish game development company, famous for the This War Of Mine game.
Maciej gave three talks at the Game Developers Conference and Game Developers Conference Europe. He is also a lecturer at Warsaw Film School, teaching Unity and technical aspects of animation as part of the game development BA course.
Table of Contents- Working with Animations
- Working with the Animation View
- 2D and User Interface Animation
- Character Movement
- Character Actions and Expressions
- Handling Combat
- Special Effects
- Animating Cutscenes
- Physics and Animations
- Miscellaneous
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Maciej Szczenik is an experienced game designer and Unity developer, specializing in gameplay and combat mechanics. His daily responsibilities include motion capture session planning and coordination, creating animation graphs and state machines, and AI design and implementation.
He started his professional career in 2004 at CD Projekt REDthe company best known for the critically acclaimed The Witcher series. Maciej had key roles in the Witcher games, being lead gameplay designer and lead combat designer. He also worked at 11 bit studios, another well-known Polish game development company, famous for the This War Of Mine game.
Maciej gave three talks at the Game Developers Conference and Game Developers Conference Europe. He is also a lecturer at Warsaw Film School, teaching Unity and technical aspects of animation as part of the game development BA course.
I'd like to thank my wife for her support, Kacper Kwiatkowski and Grzegorz Mazur from Vile Monarch for their reviews, Marek Ziemak and Piotr Tomsiski for inspiring discussions about games and animations, and Micha Piekowski and Marcin Iwanek for countless RPG and tabletop game sessions.I'd also like to thank all my friends and former coworkers from 11 bit studios and CD Projekt RED for helping me develop my skills.
Grzegorz Mazur is a programmer who graduated in information technology from Warsaw University of Technology. He is currently co-boss and technical director at Vile Monarch. Previously, he worked for 11 bit studios, where he was lead programmer of This War of Mine and Sleepwalker's Journey. He specializes in gameplay and AI programming and is a teacher at Warsaw Film School. He is also an amateur musician and board game enthusiast.
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This book describes Unity's animation techniques from a designer's point of view. It is focused on achieving interesting gameplay effects and creating game mechanics. Each topic is presented in the form of a short recipe with a list of steps needed to implement the given feature. All the recipes are prepared in the most condensed forma good basis to build your own solutions on.
This book doesn't cover animating in a 3D package, although you may find some helpful tips regarding Blender 3D in it. A lot of the recipes presented in this book use C# scripting not only for triggering animations, but also for creating interesting motions and effects. If you are a game designer or a Unity developer and would like to know more about what's possible with Unity's animation system, I hope this book will be an interesting read for you. Also, if you have any questions regarding this book or the topics it covers, you can contact me via Twitter (@MaciejSzczesnik). I will be happy to help.
, Working with Animations , describes the tools essential for importing animations from 3D packages. It also covers most of the import settings.
, Working with the Animation View , covers Unity's built-in animation tool, used to animate almost everything apart from characters.
, 2D and User Interface Animation , focuses on animating 2D sprites and UI elements.
, Character Movement , covers different types of movement, using animations and root motion.
, Character Actions and Expressions , is about actions, action points, and facial expressions.
, Handling Combat , covers combat-specific topics, such as using animations for aiming and creating a hit-detection system.
, Special Effects , is not only about particle systems, but also about animating fog, creating wind zones, and even using sound waveforms for animation.
, Animating Cutscenes , describes how to import a cutscene from a 3D package and how to prepare simple cutscenes using Unity's Animation View.
, Physics and Animations , shows how to create ragdolls and break stuff.
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