How To Animate Characters In Unity 3D | Animation Layers Explained
Learn the fundamentals of animating characters with Unity's animation layers, and understand how & why it all works!
This beginner-friendly tutorial is a thorough break down of Animation Layers in Unity 3D and explains how each of the layer's properties work and are useful. By the end of the video, our character is able to walk and aim simultaneously!
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This is the seventh video in a series covering Unity's animation system! Be sure to check out the other videos in the series to continue learning!
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►TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 0:00
What are layers for?: 0:28
Project Setup Mixamo: 1:26
Import Characters to Unity: 2:26
Convert To Humanoid: 2:35
What Does Humanoid Do?: 2:59
Setup Scene And Character: 3:19
Setup Walk Animation: 3:46
Animator Grid: 3:57
First Animation Layer: 4:08
Add Layer animation: 4:29
Animation Layer Settings: 4:46
Layer Weight Explanation: 4:59
Avatar Mask Intro: 5:46
Avatar Mask Humanoid Settings: 6:00
Using Avatar Mask: 6:22
More Humanoid Settings: 6:41
Avatar Mask IK Example: 6:54
Avatar Mask Transform Settings: 7:30
Blending Settings: 8:02
Blending Override Explained: 8:08
Blending Additive First Explanation: 8:27
Blending Additive Example: 8:43
How Additive Layers Are Tricky: 9:54
How Additive System Works: 10:21
Additive Reference Pose Example: 10:42
Interactive Additive Example: 11:20
Two KeyFrame Crouch: 12:03
Sync Setting Explained: 12:17
Sync Practical Example: 12:44
Timing Setting Explained: 13:22
Timing Example: 13:40
Timing Re-described: 14:25
IK Pass Setting Explained: 14:46
IK Pass Example: 15:00
Outro: 15:25
Next Time:15:30
Thank you for stopping by and checking out my tutorial -- Hope you all enjoy! Please feel free to leave any questions & feedback you may have. This will help shape the direction and style for upcoming videos!
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As always, the quality of the explanations is just the best. I can't even describe how perfect the pacing and the video demonstrations are, well done!
@Noixelfer
3 жыл бұрын
@@iHeartGameDev It definitely is, thanks to the animations you keep the viewers engadged while also providing aditional informations on the presented topic
Such a well explained video!! Thanks for it Nicky!
Seriously dude, probably some of the best unity tutorials. The fact that you go over EVERYTHING makes this more like a lecture than a regular tutorial
This channel needs more visibility because it's a real gem on youtube!
Can't thank you enough for the tutorials, man. There aren't enough advanced, concise, and digestible animation tutorials for Unity, and you help fill in that gap.
Throughout my entire career of learning from tutorials, this is the only channel that not only goes over what each setting does, but also how they can be useful, which in my opinion is just as important as understanding what something does, you just can't have one without the other. Hope it inspires others to do the same :). Also, HUGE props, must take lots and lots of effort to make these vidoes, but it will help a whole lot of people immensely, and for that you earned my sub despite me never subscribing to anyone really :) It will definitely pay off for both you and others, keep it up man!
@iHeartGameDev
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for such kind words!
@workthenplay
2 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with this. Well done!!
Finally soone who speaks in a calm way and getting to the point asap
This tutorial series has been invaluable to me. Clear instructions with visual examples, concise and sticks to the point of the video instead of being an hour long hard to follow tutorial where the narrator just rambles. Prior to finding these videos my animation setup was unruly and very amateurish. Now the setup is clear and easy to read, professional, and most importantly, bug free. You are saving my game with this series. I'm not an animator, and while my art is good and my coding skills sharpen all the time, using Unity mechanim was a nightmare for me. Thank you for this series.
Just started watching these recently, and I gotta say - these videos are PHENOMENAL!! Thank you so much for all your hard work 💜
I watched all of your tutorials from start to finish ... this step my step really helped me and the best tutorial out there for the unity animation system!
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I love how you show an example of every setting! Keep up the great work!!
You explained things in this video I've never heard of before - and I've watched a lot videos on Unity Animation. Awesome stufff! Thank you so much!
I didn’t even bother with layers in my project and avoided them because I didn’t want to get into it too deep. You made it a lot easier to grasp. Those equations in the beginning were incredibly useful. Thank you.
The Quality of the Explanation is on such a level. Just based on these videos so far. I was able to fix and produce a great prototype. I would love to show you it~! Thank you for your time and knowledge! Please keep it up!
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I paused as you went along and did the steps myself and that helped a TON.
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The additive animation explanation was amazing! I’m having my characters torso aim through IK but that is definitely something I could utilize
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@iHeartGameDev
3 жыл бұрын
Happy you found it!! Thanks for watching!
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Need to repeat viewing this several times. Vaste of essential information.
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Wow you can sync layers with the main layer!? You have saved my life thank you!
Exactly the tutorial I was looking for, thank you so much!
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I'd love to see a short version of this showing how to do it with the generic setup. Great work as always!
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@ramizmollah8279
3 жыл бұрын
No his channel is not underrated. With only 6 videos he has 3k subs. Which justifies the quality of his videos. Thank you for such quality videos.
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Thank you! I was able to make my player walk with a torch when in the darkness super-easy with this method.
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@iHeartGameDev
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much!! Happy to hear that the content is still helpful!
This was an amazing video. Will go to the IK video next
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@iHeartGameDev
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Flip!
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@iHeartGameDev
2 жыл бұрын
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@leofarata8490
3 жыл бұрын
@@iHeartGameDev You're welcome
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@iHeartGameDev
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the kindness Juan!
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@iHeartGameDev
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, thanks for the kindness Dylan!
@bmtsk8er420
2 жыл бұрын
@@iHeartGameDev sure thing man. I also watched your story video. Very inspiring that at 25 you decided to learn. I am 27 now and I began trying to do it all on my own two years ago with KZread tutorials so your story resonated with me but learned that I need to go back to school for fundamental structure. Definitely gonna check out the resources and give it my best. I look forward to your future content thank you so much for providing a great value to me and all other indie game devs out here!
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@iHeartGameDev
10 ай бұрын
Thank you! Glad you liked it :)
Can’t believe that this is the first tutorial that shows the animation features of unity. I’m not sure why no one has covered it till now. Found out about this channel so late.
Respect ! I needed it and you saved me, thank you so much.
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@iHeartGameDev
8 ай бұрын
Glad you like them! Thank you
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