UNITY 2D SCREEN WRAP SERIES

For this example, we're doing the running animation for a character Repeat the steps for this animation - dragging the images for the animation into the animation timeline and spacing each image keyframe out appropriately. We can create another animation by going into the animation window again, clicking clip, and choosing add new clip.This means that once the game objects loads, it will start off with that animation. Open up the animator window in the window menu and make sure that the created animation is the entry point for the animator controller.Generally you'd have about the same number of frames showing per animation image in a 2D animation sequence. The reason we do this is so that the last image gets frames 30-39 to display making the animation more proper. After the final keyframe occurs, the animation will loop so frame 40 would be end up at frame 1. If you have 10 frames per keyframe and four images, the last image would be at frame 30 so the first frame should be copied to about frame 39. Copy the first frame to somewhere after the last image keyframe.These are represented as keyframes but if you expand the menu for the sprite renderer in the animation window, you'll see the images on each of those keyframes as well which makes it very easy to see the images that should be swapping out as your animation progresses. Typically you want each of the sprite images to be 5 or 10 frames apart from each other. You'll need to spread the sprites out so that the animation doesn't play too fast.For Sunnyland, this would be going into the player - idle sprites folder and dragging all four frames into the animation window for the idle clip. Drag the sprites for the animation you want to create.Click it and save the clip with a name to your project assets folder. In the window, there should be a create clip button.Open up the animations window with Ctrl-6 or using the Window menu of the unity editor. Select your game object so we can create animations for it.Drag the animator controller into the controller component on the game object.Give it any name (I like to put AC somewhere in the name so it's easily identifiable like player_AC) In your project window, add an animator controller for your character by doing right click - add - animator controller.To do this, hit add component and type in animator. Add an animator component to your character game object.If you need some sprite images to build a quick prototype, try finding Sunnyland in the asset store like we were using in this crash course.Let's revisit the steps to add an animation controller and animation clips for any gameobject actor within the game. One of the coolest parts of making a game is watching animations come together on your player or enemies based on what events are happening in the game (idling, running, jumping, or landing on a enemies head) Prefab art assets for the first few videos can be found here Basics of Prefabs - Essentially stored copies of a game object and their components that can be reused anywhere in your game.Some basic scripting concepts like finding game objects in the scenes, modifying component properties, and setting property values in the Unity inspector.Example functionality of UI buttons and learning the how Canvas UI elements work different from normal game objects in 3D / 2D space.Adding in a player to the game with movement, sprites, and an animation controller.Unity specific basics like understanding Scenes, GameObjects, Components, and how they tie together.

The videos are kept short, sweet, and easy to understand. It's a very short course so rather than trying to explain everything, in this one we focus on learning the essentials for absolute beginners.

UNITY 2D SCREEN WRAP SERIES

This course is meant to introduce you to the Unity game development engine with a series of sequential tutorials that show you many basics of the editor while getting to the start of something that resembles a functional 2d platformer.

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