Animated Scene

Unity Engine
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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a project that focuses on camera control. The thing is that I don’t want my scene to be interactive. My project is actually more about simple Story-telling than interactive storry-telling, so I don’t want to allow the user to have any interaction with objects or character in the scene. I’ve recently watch the butterfly effect short-film, and this is basically what I want to do : I want to create an animated scene using Unity. Obviously I don’t wan’t to do anything as complex as the butterfly effect ; I don’t really care about lighting, shaders, and my scenario will be quite simple.

The problem is that I’ve never really done animation in Unity. I also watched the making-of and it seems they were using some really interesting tool and features (such as live scrubing). Unfortunately I only found the animation window (I’m currently working with the free version of unity), and I’ve only been able to handle translation, rotation, sacling, etc. So how could I do to make my character walk from point A to point B, then run to point C and finally kick someone. So is there a way to create animated scene with unity (without any scripting) as “easily” as with blender or maya for example. Will I need Unity Pro to do that.

I’m really new with Unity, so if you could give me a few tips or tutorials, it would be great. And sorry if my question really is too stupid.

Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Quentin.

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Can anyone help me here ? What wouldbe the easiest way to make my animation ?

Thanks,
Quentin.

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I’m pretty sure you will need to create the animations on a skinned mesh in another program such as 3DSMax, Maya or Blender. Then you can import the model with animations to use in Unity. There is no built-in way to create complex animations in Unity (such as a walk cycle).