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Downloading 3D Models and Animations

What we'll practise is to get a 3D soldier model from the Asset store. The model comes with idle, run, and shoot animations. Merely it doesn't come with a dying animation. So what we'll do is to download a dying animation from Adobe's Mixamo website and employ this to the Unity character.

Launch the Unity Asset store by clicking Window > Asset Store from the menus at the acme of Unity. The character we're going to use is past Polygon Blacksmith, who has kindly set the pricing for the Low Poly Soldier to free. So, exercise a search for Low Poly Soldier. If you lot tin't discover it, go to this page:

Low Poly Soldier

If you have a look at the package contents, yous'll see the 3 animations listed, idle, run, and shoot:

A soldier model in the Unity Asset store

The idea is that you take a 3D model and dissever animations for the model. Y'all then use the animations to the model whenever yous need them.

So, download the character and import it into Unity. Rename the binder from LowPolySoldiers_demo to Soldier.

In the Projects area at the lesser of Unity, click on your Soldier folder. You should run across two more folders, animation and models. Click on the models folder and y'all should encounter this:

The soldier model imported into Unity

(By the manner, you lot tin conform the slider lesser correct to increase or decrease the size of the icons.)

Click the Soldier_demo file to select it. Right-click this file and rename it to Soldier, as in the image above.

At present accept a await at the Inspector on the correct. You should see iv buttons at the top: Model, Rig, Animation, and Materials. Click on the Rig push button. The Inspector volition so look like this:

Setting up the rig for the soldier model

For the Animation Type modify it from Generic to Humanoid:

Menu with the Humanoid item selected

Make certain Create From This Model is selected for Avatar Definition, then click the Apply push button at the bottom:

The Avatar Definition for the rig set to Create From This Model

(Incidentally, if you e'er download a model and it looks all white when you add it to your scene, it'south because the Materials oasis't been practical. In which case, click on the Materials tab at the superlative and you'll see an option to Employ External Materials. Click Utilize and it should solve the upshot.)

Now nosotros need to exercise the aforementioned for the animations.

Click on the blitheness binder instead of the models folder. It should look like this:

Three animations in the Projects folder of Unity

Select all iii of the animations (SHIFT + left click). In the Inspector, change the Blitheness Type to Humanoid from Generic. And alter the Avatar Definition to Create From This Model.

Setting the Avatar for the three animations

At present hit the Apply push button in the bottom right.

OK, that's the Unity model done. Now to catch the Mixamo animation.

Mixamo Animations

One thing to discover with the animations for the Unity model is that there is no Dying animation. We demand i of these for when the soldier gets shot. Otherwise, he'll just be standing around, even though he's expressionless. To remedy that, nosotros can actually download an blitheness from a dissimilar website. The website is called Mixamo, and you can get free characters and animations. The animations can be applied to about character models, every bit they are simply 'skeletons', every bit it were. So, if you have a soldier model, yous can select whatsoever of the animations on Mixamo and they should work. (They can be a pain to become working, though.)

We only want a single animation for our soldier. Let's download it.

Head over to this site:

https://world wide web.mixamo.com/

Unfortunately, you'll have to sign up for a Mixamo business relationship. The website is endemic past Adobe, so don't forget to read the licence understanding before y'all sign upwards and create an account. At that place'southward probably non a department in there to do with selling the soul of your firstborn to the devil, merely you never can tell with Adobe.

Once y'all've signed up, click on Animations at the top. Type Dying into the search box. You should get a lot of results back. Select i and click the Download push on the right:

Mixamo website showing some animations

When you click Download, y'all'll meet a box announced like this ane:

The download settings for a Mixamo animation

For the Format, make certain you select FBX for Unity from the dropdown list. In the Skin dropdown, select the With Skin pick. There is a Without Skin option where you get the animation without the model, and which is a much smaller file size. Just this can cause bug. So become the total skin and nosotros'll make a few tweaks.

One time y'all download your animation, elevate and drop it into the animation folder in Unity.

The dying animation imported from Mixamo into Unity

We don't need the model itself, merely the blitheness part. Just we need to ready the Mixamo model get-go, just similar we did for the Unity model. So select you Mixamo model. (Ours is chosen swat@Dying, the last one in the prototype above.)

In the Inspector on the right, do the aforementioned as earlier: set up Animation Type to Humanoid and Animation Definition to Create From This Model:

Setting the rig for the dying animation

Click the Apply button when you're done. (Don't worry almost any Import warnings every bit nosotros're only going to excerpt the animation.)

Extracting the Animations

Nosotros only need the animations. And then, aggrandize the model you downloaded from Mixamo by clicking the arrow indicated in the image below. You should come across more items under it:

Extracting the Dying animation from the model

The Animation is the green triangle. Click on the light-green triangle to select it. With the green triangle selected printing CTRL + D on your keyboard to duplicate it. (Or select Edit from the menus at the top of Unity, and so Duplicate.) The duplicate will appear outside of this soldier particular. So you tin can close upward the soldier item by clicking its arrow:

The dying animation highlighted in the projects folder of Unity

It would aid at this stage if y'all created a new folder for yourself to store the animations. So correct click and select Create > Folder from the bill of fare that appears. Call the folder Soldier-Anim. Now drag and drop your green Dying triangle into the new folder:

Dragging the animation into a folder

OK, that's one animation file extracted. Now for the other three.

Expand the demo_combat_idle item. Press CTRL + D on your keyboard to indistinguishable the green triangle:

Extracting the idle animation

Now rename the demo_combat_idle item. Phone call it Idle. Close up the demo_combat_idle detail and drag and drop your duplicated animation clip into your Soldier-Anim folder:

Dragging the idle animation onto a folder

Practise the same for the other two items, demo_combat_run and demo_combat_shoot. When you lot duplicate them, rename them to Run and Shoot. Drag and drop into your Soldier-Anim folder:

Dragging the Run and Shoot animations onto a folder

Inside of your Soldier-Anim binder, it should look like this:

Four animations extracted

OK, we now have all our animations. The side by side pace is to create an Animation Controller.

Animation Controller

Equally its name suggest, an Animation Controller controls your animations. You've seen them before when we did the gun recoil. And so, right click in the Soldier-Anim folder. From the menu that appears, select Create > Animation Controller (we've chopped a few items off the card):

The Animation Controller menu in Unity

When your Animation Controller is created, rename it to Air conditioning-Soldier:

an Animation Controller created in Unity

With Air-conditioning-Soldier selected, take a look at the Inspector on the correct. Click the Open up push button:

When you click Open, you should see a new screen appear: (If non, click Window > Animation > Animator from the menus at the top of Unity.)

The Animator tab showing three default states

(If y'all tin can't see all the items, scroll with your middle mouse push button.)

The idea is that you drag and drop your blitheness clips into this window. Y'all tin can and so set up united states for your blitheness.

The Animator window showing all the animation states

If your Idle cake hasn't turned orange, it ways information technology's not the default state. So simply right-click on the Idle cake. From the carte du jour, select Set every bit Layer Default State:

Unity menu showing the Set as Layer Default State item selected

The names on the animation blocks are important when yous come to code: you play a clip using the name on the block.

If yous wanted to rename a cake, select the block in the Animator window. In the Inspector on the right, type a new proper noun at the meridian:

Renaming an amimation state

Now that we take an Animator Controller, and our animation clips in the Animator window, we can place the soldier model in our scene. We'll do that in the adjacent lesson below.

Placing the Soldier in the Scene -->

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