How do you create walking people in you're scene

[jo6x]

I found the asset “population system pro” (

Unity 2018 - Tutorial 3 "How create Walking People with Population System"

), but is there another way free of charge to make people walk in you’re scene.

[ImAldu]

You can use a single rig for this and animate it yourself easy in like an hour. Walking animations are fairly easy to do. Look up “blender rigging” and “blender walking animation” and you’re good to go.

[computertech]

You suppose to animate with the Maya software, but do not animate with the Unity.

To animate with Maya. Use IK leg and FK arm rig. You suppose to animate a cycle. Start at frame zero and end with around frame 24 timing. The character at the beginning and the end must be the same character positioning, because it is a cycle like a chain. At the middle frame of the cycle is when the left side and right side of the character foot and arm are rotating in the opposite frontwards and backwards. Each of the foot step must be the same as the left foot and the right foot, so the one full walk cycle is only two foot steps in total. So, you should add the Ground Controller by two foot steps distance going forward, so the foot does not slide when going forward.

Remember, a walking animation does not start with a standing position. You only use standing position only for a transition animation to do a walking animation later. Like Standing Animation in the beginning —> StandingToWalking Animation in the middle —> Walking Animation in the end.

You should try to get at least some YouTube online tutorial.

ALAN BECKER - Animating Walk Cycles

3D Animation Masterclass: Basic Walk Cycle Tutorial

And than you export the character animation from Maya to Unity.

Tutorial - Animating and Exporting from Maya into Unity

Hope this will help you to create a animation walk. But, to make the animation walk in a crowd will need to know how to program codes and will need to know some physics at least.