Character animation help

Hi everyone,

I’ve just recently started using Unity and im having a lot of fun with it.

I have followed TornadoTwins worm tutorial on youtube and the learnmesilly tutorials and ive got a basic understanding of using unity.

But now I want to make a jump and start learning how to animate characters and use them in unity but I don’t know where to start.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials, preferably video ones, which shows you how to animate a character?

Thanks :smile:

What 3D application are you using to model your characters in? You will be animating your characters in your choice 3D app and then importing them into Unity. Unity has a basic animation system which will be upgraded in 3, but still will not be as powerful as a 3D app designed for it. If you post what modeling program you are using perhaps someone knows some good tutorials for it. Otherwise a quick Google search should be able to find some basic stuff for you. :slight_smile:

Basically you animate your model and have groups of frames that refer to certain animations like 0-29 are walk cycle, 30-59 are run 60-89 are jump etc. Then you can look up how to import a model with animations in Unity to see how you can tell Unity to find each animation in your saved 3D file.

Thanks for the reply.

Im using cinema4D for modelling.

I think I understand the animation with keyframes as Ive done a house with an open shut door but im not sure about riggin the character or using it in unity.

Thanks again :slight_smile:

Any ideas plz?