Bringing Characters to Life

Once the character mesh and animations are imported and the avatar is set up, you are ready to start making use of them in your game. The following sections cover the main features that Mecanim provides for controlling and sequencing your animations.

• Looping animation clips
• Animator and Animator Controller
• Animation State Machines
  • State Machine Basics
  • Animation States
  • Animation Transitions
  • Animation Parameters
• Blend Trees
  • 1D Blending
  • 2D Blending
  • Additional Blend Tree Options
• Mecanim Advanced topics
  • Working with Animation Curves in Mecanim (Pro only)
  • Sub-State Machines
  • Animation Layers
  • Animation State Machine Preview (solo and mute)
  • Target Matching
  • Root Motion - how it works
    • Tutorial: Scripting Root Motion for "in-place" humanoid animations

Page last updated: 2012-11-08