Animations

Animation is using multiple images and playing them in a sequence. Unity has a built in Animator that allows you to easily create your own animations.

Creating your own animations is easy in Unity!

• To create an Animator all you need to do is shift click all ten of the Idle images and drag them all into the inspector. You will have to save the animation, give it a name like “Idle”.

• Now hit play and watch your new animation!

• Now lets open the animator. When you created your animation it will have made an Animator and an Animation files. These are what the files look like in the Project window.

The animator file looks like:

The animation file looks like:

• Open up the Animator by double clicking the animator file and a window should open up and look like this:

• To create more animations for your sprite, repeat the above steps for the Walk and Jump images.

• Delete both of the new Animators for these two animations. You only need one Animator to control all of the animations for one sprite.

• You can add more animations to the Animator by dragging the animation file into the Animator.

• You can right click the different animations in an Animator and set them to “Set as Layer Default State” and run the program to see your different animations!

• To play different animations with scripts, you just need to get a sprite’s Animator and use the code Animator.Play('the name of the animation').