Play animations from other programs?

Unity Engine
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I made an animation in Blender, and I don’t know how to make it play in Unity.

Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:

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First, is the .blend or FBX file in the Assets folder.

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At first I had them both, but I saw that the .blend file had the camera following the animated object so I moved it (The FBX file is in the assets folder).

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When you drag the FBX asset into the Hierarchy, it must have an Animator component on it, and then, the Animator component must have a animation Controller assigned in the Motion slot. The controller is another asset in your Project folder. Create one, and then add a new state by dragging the animation clip in the FBX into the Animation window.

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Denis, please don’t forget you have an outstanding invoice to pay.

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OK, I did everything you said. Do I have to do anything else, or can I now activate the animation using scripts?

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That should work. What does it do?

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It’s a spawning animation that makes the character grow from nothing as it floats up and rotates, before floating back down and giving control to the player.

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I should have phrased that better. When you press play, what happens?

Also, is that animation related to @AaronC ? You should probably pay his invoice.

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The animation I’m talking about is my own version of what I’ve asked AaronC for, since I couldn’t get his animation to work as I wanted it to.

Also when I press play, the animation works fine. Would I use scripts to make it play only at a certain point? Since whenever I hit play it activates and that’s it, it just stands there.

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Yeah. So, in order to control it from script, you’d probably need to add another state for idle/inactive, and then assign the appropriate transition lines. Then, when you click on the transition line, you will see that you can add a parameter. You’d add a trigger param, and in script, you’d call Animator.SetTrigger() to switch states.

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Thank you. :slight_smile:

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I’ve never used the animator before, could you possibly show me what it should look like?

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Watch this whole video:

Moving forward, doing google searches and reading around, you can probably get some good results for most of your questions. It’s the most valuable skill a game developer must acquire to finish a project.

You got a pass for this one, because the Unity documentation actually doesn’t tell you how to add transitions, only states. Shame on them.

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Thank you. :smile:

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Thank you for the advice. :smile:

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The solution provided was the solution requested - and was done on the cheap as a favor, and was modified even after delivery for you because you changed your requirements. If you request a solution and that solution is delivered, you pay. Its called business.

If you’re going to be a dodgy client around here - expect to be treated like one.

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Invoice unpaid and cancelled…

A warning to others…

Denis Pawszok /dawit444@wp.pl