Unity 5 Tutorial - Animation Control

Use the Animator Controller to play and blend between animations of the beautiful Unity-Chan model from Unity Technologies Japan
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[@thedude8134]

If you ctrl+D onto the animation that lies inside the FBX, it duplicates and separates into an independent animation, so you can now modify its frames. Youre welcome.

[@AaronHibberd]

Where do you do that? on an animation clip in the inspector window? I can't seem to do it

[@thedude8134]

I actually wrote a huge reply, but it dissapeared for some reason. Project tab -> The FBX -> Click onto the needed animation -> CTRL+D. After that, select an object in hierarchy with an attached animator, open the Animator tab, drag the separated animation there, then open Animation tab, select the animation and there you go, you can now modify it the way you want to. p.s. If you delete the original FBX that animation will stop working, cus its referencing to the original one.

[@AaronHibberd]

Dude! You are a life saver. It's working for me, and this is helping me on my current project, thank you for sharing!

[@thedude8134]

You're welcome my man. (;

[@brunopinheirobrazil5352]

I did the Ctrl+D, and posted back to the Object, but.. Still I can´t edit it... Can you help me dude?

[@sternstaubkind]

i really love how one can see that you yourself are having fun in this video. the things we learn are great and structured pretty well (in comparison to some other tutorials) and it was really fun to watch. keep it up :3

[@AaronHibberd]

thanks :)

[@REALNBATVteamupLeague]

Thanks for the tutorial, I'm learning so much from this!

[@AaronHibberd]

REAL NBA T.V. Team-Up League awesome! It should carry over to whatever characters you use

[@REALNBATVteamupLeague]

+Aaron Hibberd I have another Tutorial request if you don't mind. I need to know how to animate enemies so we can attack each other along with player and enemy health. For example, an enemy that attacks unitychan and dies when his health reaches zero and vice versa. Again thanks for the help.

[@AaronHibberd]

good idea! health and damage

[@darthboxOriginal]

This is a fantastic tutorial. Not only do you explain things clearly and break things down nicely, you also provide a few opportunities to practice the concepts within this video. Everything flows nicely from simple to more complicated. I feel I have a much greater understanding now of how animation works in Unity. Thank you! New Sub.

[@greenonion98]

Just started watching your tutorials to help me out with my new VR designs in Unity, thanks a bunch and keep them coming!

[@ferenckocsis9061]

24:30 "Bam bam psh psh psh psh psh! That's what you get!"

[@AaronHibberd]

+Ferenc Kocsis haha :)

[@mahanadelacour]

+Ferenc Kocsis SO FUNNNYYYYYY workign hard and laughing hard

[@NoC4k3]

violence against woman ist funny :P

[@tsunderenekokun]

Poor unity chan

[@IsraelCountryCube]

@@NoC4k3 yes it sure is! LOL LMFA0!!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

[@arcticarts8211]

Okay so I'm a teen getting into coding because I've always loved games and have always been fascinated by coding but always thought it was too hard. As it turns out, many commands are actually quite simple and this video was a REAL help! Thanks to you, I have been able to make a start on my very first game! THANK YOU!!

[@AngelCnderDreamer]

Good luck with your game! :) I myself am making my own, also I know right?

[@OfficialBluePearl]

Good job bro 🖒

[@guchfun]

Thanks, Aaron! Very nice tutorial for teaching the novice trying to learn to control the character in Unity! Appreciate the detailed walk-thru and clear steps to walk through such a complex topic.

[@theplaymakerno1]

Mr. Hibberd, I would like to thank you for taking out time to teach us. I am from Humpback Games, and this will help me a lot. God bless you!

[@sfgmonah]

This guy rly loves pantsu.

[@ArisingHeroBeAHero]

xD

[@Odemsibodoh]

I can see his happy aura in every *bam*

[@zenrhys589]

FBI OPEN UP

[@animeedits373]

Great tutorial. I wanted to learn how to animate those assets from unity, and this tutorial is straight to point.

[@theyellowarchitect4504]

Perfect tutorial. Explained perfectly and was never boring - impressive considering it was a 40 min vid.

[@FreshApplePie]

Hey everybody, there's perhaps a more concise way to switch between random animations: I usually try to see what he does before he tries it, my solution for animation uses less lines of code for the same effect in this tutorial. I'm not sure if it's any more efficient, and perhaps it's not but this is the way I did it: int n = Random.Range(0,2); anim.Play("DAMAGED0" + n.ToString(), -1, 0f); basically instead of checking if the integer is either number, it directly converts and appends that integer to the string name of the animation just another way to do things if anyone's interested then again, it has to use the "ToString()" method rather than just picking the animation, so It could be less efficient

[@alexbaru3768]

thats my way, thks

[@FreshApplePie]

***** normally your names would follow a indexed numbering system, as most application files are, it might make it easier to use a public string variable you can set with an indexer

[@MartinHindenes]

True. Another option is to use a conditional: anim.Play(n > 0 ? "DAMAGED1" : "DAMAGED0", -1, 0f);

[@eeeppp1885]

Just to let later people know. int r=Random.Range(0,2); anim.Play（$“ DAMAGED0 {r}”，-1，0f）;

[@SufferDYT]

It's mindboggling that we have unity 5 now and we still cant zoom in and out of the animator window...

[@AaronHibberd]

+Ricky Johnson haha, yea no kidding

[@MuhammadHosny0]

+Ricky Johnson that sucks

[@SufferDYT]

Tea Requiem I would rather pay for an engine that had necessary features than use an engine that hinders my workflow. They should have had that feature figured out before they put the animator in the public build.

[@SkeweredEel27]

+Tea Requiem jesus christ calm down you sperg

[@luotinluo9194]

Ricky Johnson h b

[@HeroicPunk]

Excellent tutorial. I'm loving Unity-Chan already, haha. Such an impressive model to help learn this big, powerful program. Thanks so much!

[@xRuimei]

Your tutorials are so amazing, really helped me a lot. Since I am a beginner I'm still figuring out where everything is. Keep it up! :D

[@DorothyJeanThompson]

This tutorial saved me. Thank you so much!!!!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Dorothy Jean Thompson Awesome!

[@DorothyJeanThompson]

Do u have a tutorial on how to do mecanim with an AI script? Like maybe have enemy stay idle till player a certain distance away, then enemy walk towards player, then when even closer have enemy run and then at range attack player? Have hit animations and dying?

[@AaronHibberd]

+Dorothy Jean Thompson No I haven't made an AI tutorial yet, it's on my to do list, I want to do that eventually. I just looked at your channel, that VR horror game looks cool. I have actually made half of that before though, for this asset pack I made a zombie that climbs out of the ground, is idle unless the player is near enough to see, then walks toward the player, when close it speeds up, and then you just kill it because you're a car haha kzbin.info/www/bejne/jX-aoIulr6qnh6M

[@DorothyJeanThompson]

Oh wow! That looks awesome! You seem like you really know what your doing. Did you go to school for game design? You look so young. :P

[@AaronHibberd]

Dorothy Jean Thompson thanks, I worked in a game studio for 9 years, I'm actually super old :P

[@tabrezshaikh867]

@aaron Hibberd I am watching in 2019 in still your video is most useful resources available on youtube, you are awesome bro, thanks from India, keep it good work. Also, it would be helpful if you can make video on animation and multiplayer games with unity playmaker, thanks in advanced. :)

[@mahanadelacour]

AAron Thanks! you are seriously one of the best tutors out here. MORE PLEASE

[@AaronHibberd]

+Mahana Delacour haha thanks!

[@MartinHindenes]

Excellent tutorial! Easy to follow, short and easy-to-read code.

[@poi70129]

your a great teacher

[@AaronHibberd]

+許華 thanks :)

[@harishk5075]

i am getting 3 errors as Operator `-' cannot be applied to operands of type `string' and `int' `UnityEngine.Animator.Play(string, int)' has some invalid arguments Argument `#1' cannot convert `object' expression to type `string' Please help.

[@hubertus_putu]

nice tutor, it's great for newbie like me :D make a lot of them

[@AaronHibberd]

+Hubertus Putu thanks :)

[@makisetakashi]

+Hubertus Putu aiss hubert ada disni hahaha

[@hubertus_putu]

hari antara ye we wkwkwkwk

[@makisetakashi]

hahaha, bert kamu nemu ga cara buat animasi biar charnya bisa ambil barang sama naruh barang? kalau nemu minta linknya ya , dri twktu ini nyari ga nemu" tutornya

[@hubertus_putu]

buatin animasinya sendiri ri, kamu dapet karaker yang bodynya bisa digerak gerakin gak? yang ada bond nya

[@lyozov974]

I was affraid that i have to watch it all, but you explain it very well and clear.Got what i needed before 10min mark.

[@821Drifter128]

I thought I knew a lot of the basics but it's crazy how much more i've learnt from this! What a great Tut, thank you so much!!!!

[@tamaskalem1492]

I laugh when you called the Mac version of control the "squiggly button." I call it the same thing too.

[@ShockingWolf26]

Okay I have a question. I'm at around 23:00 minutes in and i'm having trouble with the walk animation. I can't get the animation to work. I may have missed something in the vid but the blend tree isn't working.

[@irfanchein]

Shocking Wolf me too -_-

[@ShockingWolf26]

let me know if you find a solution because i've tried a bunch of things but none of them work

[@irfanchein]

Shocking Wolf okay, let me know too if you found the solution. i just newbie here, so it will take a time...

[@ShockingWolf26]

yeah im a newbie as well lol

[@irfanchein]

Shocking Wolf i have great news, there is scripts on unitychan, but just a few scripts can works perfectly. i just put unitychancontrol.., idlechanger, faceupdate, and sceneloader. so the movement will work but the character has a bug, there is gap between character and ground, look like flying 😂

[@devianrobotics3877]

I keep going back to this series. Thanks Hibby!

[@andrewklepel9501]

Thanks for putting this out there! I had no idea blending between animations existed, mind = blown

[@HACHIAttack]

This guy is the most sadistic programmer I've ever seen in my entire life...

[@alexbaru3768]

lol

[@cartoomotionstudio8403]

great tutorial :) , maybe you can make a fighting tutorial ! a simple one will be very helpful . thx :)

[@AaronHibberd]

+Faisal Eghzawi thanks! good idea that would be cool :)

[@cartoomotionstudio8403]

+Aaron Hibberd cool. maybe a street fighter type 2d/3d :)

[@AaronHibberd]

+Faisal Eghzawi haha, I suck at street fighter, I'll lose at my own game :)

[@cartoomotionstudio8403]

+Aaron Hibberd something simple , player walking and fight with enemies will do :)

[@Mycobob]

This is a wonderful tutorial, I was trying to teach a group of cs majors how to do this today and kept mucking it up. Glad to have a video to reference now. Cheers dude!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Bobby Benfield thanks!

[@Mycobob]

+Aaron Hibberd Have you thought about doing a video about making a first person shooter, kinda building off the 1st person boat project, and add a gun and make it shoot bullets objects? Maybe even a hit detector?

[@littlegreengamer]

Thank you very much for posting this. I'm an aspiring indie game designer and I'm still having trouble with Clickteam Fusion 2, so this will be a whole new mountain to climb. But people like you provide the right assistance for people like me who would otherwise be in the dark.

[@kittyrocoa714]

Brilliant tutorial, really you put he unity website to shame!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Kitty Rocoa haha thanks!

[@24yrukdesigner]

+Aaron Hibberd Hey Aaron. Got up to speed quickly with this Tutorial thanks. Just one thing is missing from my scene, and I cannot see why? My character is walking only on the spot? I have copied I'm quite sure all the code specifically to match, but she will not move along the plane? thanks.

[@mr_easy]

+24yrukdesigner I think you might have missed changing the velocity of the rigidbody. 26:53

[@RockKevin28]

Aaron, this is an excellent tutorial. I was actually working on a project and this tutorial is better than the one Unity actually has posted. You ever thought about posting an updated version on Cubebrush cubebrush.co/ or the Unity Store? I am sure there are a ton of people that would buy a copy. Myself included. Cheers!

[@AaronHibberd]

Thanks! :) I don't think I'd be allowed to sell it because it uses the Unity-Chan model

[@bravejongenit6682]

great job Aaron!! you make it easier and funnier!! looking forward to wachting the next one!!

[@HanLi1984]

Thank you for coaching this new system. Now it all make sense now!

[@MaxiM_PL]

Your poor mouse. I can hear it's silent screams each time you slam your finger on a button like a ten ton hammer...

[@user-dd2yx9ze6x]

but it make me more understanding his tutorial honestly

[@michaelcardinal8561]

ha so true

[@Di-ft8lm]

Maxim Reality lol

[@saeshii]

Nice

[@FPVLIFE]

Louder than his voice

[@hoiimboxhead7803]

Fun fact: Unity chan is free because she is a vocaloid and the rights to he belong to Yamaha

[@anthonycaldeorn9280]

you are really good at explaining things, cleared up a lot of terms for me. much appreciated!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Anthony Caldeorn thanks!

[@dvkunz]

Great, I've been trying this stuff for days, found your video and fixed it in an hour. Thanks a lot.

[@floofdwagon8359]

What did poor Unity-chan ever do to you? :(

[@IsraelCountryCube]

She exsisted that’s what!,,

[@tannguyentv828]

for move we better added these lines: Vector3 vtemp = new Vector3(moveX, 0f, moveZ); vtemp = transform.TransformVector(vtemp); _rbody.velocity = vtemp;

[@tannguyentv828]

must convert from local to world first

[@Minicronify]

Thank you so much for this. I knew I'll be in trouble since my character wasn't in 0,0,0 !

[@raghav.bazari]

This was helpful!

[@DMatthewHenry]

I have been looking for a video like this for over a year!!! Thank you!

[@AaronHibberd]

:)

[@qwqk0xkx]

10/10, much much better than the official unity tutorials. Keep it up man, this is a really good video!

[@iamlibra3014159]

15:40 really creepy there, but thanks for the awesome tutorial!

[@IsraelCountryCube]

Lmao stfu up bitch

[@rinrin6454]

I don't mean to be a code nazi, but a Case statement would have probably been better instead of the 4 if statements. This is more for people who do not know C#, so jeah, If you don't know it, google it, it will definitely help if you end up with even more ifs. Also I loooove these tutorials. By far the most informative and overall best quality I've come by. Thank you for making them, I've already spent many hours here and you might get me to finally make a GAME!!! :D

[@AaronHibberd]

Thanks! :)

[@DarkEclipz]

It's a switch statement.

[@rinrin6454]

+Lars, Ah, you're right. Thanks. My first language was Delphi, so it stuck. Just reading my comment is making me cringe. He's so obviously a better coder than I and here I was giving advice... smh. I think I wanted to phrase it in more of a question, like "wouldn't a case (switch I know now) statement be better instead of all those if's?" blugh. Whatever it's over now. Sorry about that.

[@AaronHibberd]

just for the record, I didn't even know how to write a switch statement, I always use if statements because it was just the first way I learned, most of the time I actually have no idea what I'm doing and just go with whatever seems to work :P

[@rinrin6454]

Haha, I love and respect that. If statements are nice and easy to look at, but it becomes tedious to write if it's for simple cases like 1,2,3,4... especially if there are more than 4. Switch statements might be a nice tool for you to use later. Again, thanks for the videos. Unity is amazing, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't even know where to start.

[@Garjilius]

Great tutorial, it was really useful for me! I've also seen others at my uni using this video to understand animations in Unity! :)

[@CJEXP]

I dont know why millions arnt subbed to you! I been looking everywhere for a tutorial on this and you are the first one ive seen! You earned a new subscriber!

[@TheVerbalAxiom]

15:45 Lol

[@AaronHibberd]

+Omar Moodie :P

[@nicolasrey4341]

good tutorial but the sound is bad !

[@GreedC]

wow this is an awesome tutorial on the animator, so clear and useful. Thx man subscribed

[@AaronHibberd]

+GreedC thanks :)

[@jean-francoistasse7788]

That is an excellent tutorial, 10/10 for me and I just did everything with unity version 2017.3 and no problems. What I liked the most is that you did not assume that we would know what to do, and you have explained every steps clearly. Unfortunately, I am doing a tutorial with a book and there is so many "assumption" that I cannot finished the project. But with what you teach here, I will be able to, thanks :)

[@kumarsaikat3303]

very good tutorial for the overall animation system in unity. This is what I needed!! Thanks a lot.

[@carpediem4619]

Definitely one of the best tutorials I have seen. Great work! Fan + Subscribed. :D

[@fnord_lander]

Thank you so much! I'm surprised how much sense code makes as I'm just starting out. You do a very good job at explaining what we are doing as you walk us through.

[@Chacobo]

Followed it step by step, learned so much! Thanks!!

[@djfajs7087]

you've helped me understand how to make models trigger and object and then do an action and possibly perform an animation! thanks

[@dooleymurphy]

Great tutorial-well paced and very thorough. Cheers

[@AOZMONSTER]

love the sound effects

[@neilgoss6334]

Really good tutorial. Just getting back into Unity, mega helpful.

[@darkscorp4415]

After 8 years still help! Thank you.

[@AaronHibberd]

that's good haha :)

[@mahammadalbarrrak5106]

Thanks a lot Aaron really helped me through the struggle with the unity animator

[@AaronHibberd]

+Mahammad Albarrrak :)

[@OneAngrehCat]

Well after a full day of trying everything to get the animations to properly shift from Idle to Moving, I think you just saved my skin. Thanks a lot mate!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Endlesswhiner haha, that's good

[@XRachLWX]

Thank you for this video :) been trying to get an animation to play only once and never worked but doing it this way helped me alot. Thank you :D

[@AaronHibberd]

+Rachel Williams Awesome :)

[@Dastan1991]

The greatest mechanim tut on the KZbin. Thanks for everything!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Mercury26222 thanks!

[@Moon-re5sd]

Wow. You're the best. I couldn't understand what you were saying but I just followed instructions. Thank you so much

[@citizenvictor5123]

You make the best tutorials !

[@larrygj4764]

Excellent tutorial and very helpful. Thank you. By your putting so many things into one tutorial, I have a much better sense now of what kinds of options can be employed.

[@brettmelnrick4854]

This is great! Thanks for the video, my man! Excited to see what's in store for the future -- keep it up and stay classy.

[@AaronHibberd]

+Brett Melnrick haha, thanks!

[@realcryocore]

Best Tutorial I have ever saw on Animator. Thanks alot.

[@AaronHibberd]

+Peter Andre thanks! you're welcome

[@joe-ldp]

Great tutorial. Covered all the basics, helped a lot!

[@InHiGear]

Thank you so much for this video! I learned quite a bit. You did a great presentation and I enjoyed watching and following your instruction.

[@indahpermata539]

Woah, great video mate!

[@FirstGearGames]

Excellent tutorial. I liked how you explained the small details on things as well; many tutorials leave out those explanations and I'm left having to navigate away to research them. With your tutorial I was able to add a few modifications to test what I learned. I added an additional transition from Run to Walk when InputV < 0.1, from Slide to Run when Run == True && InputV > 0.1, and two transitions from Slide to Walk when InputV > 0.1 && Run == False as well when InputV < 0.1, and added the conditions of Slide to Idle when InputV < 0.1 && InputV > -0.1.

[@jasontan6286]

im just starting and tNice tutorials video was perfect.Well explained and easy to follow for a beginner.I never understood soft soft till i watched tNice tutorials.

[@mathieumartin9344]

Wow man, this was super helpful! Thanks so much!

[@DeoxySynchro89]

Great tutorial Aaron. I'm using this as my first tutorial on getting myself learning Unity :-) It's really concise and get the works done. Going to do this with OSVR and see how it looks.

[@Bigfootdu78]

So clean, so easy to understand, thank you you helped me well :)

[@hight3mp1]

Thanks dood!!! Its hard to find people that know how to teach! You did a great job!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Jose Marcano thanks!

[@lopoyadriang.9114]

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

[@jeffrobyoung]

Really outstanding tutorial! Thanks!

[@starsiegeplayer1]

Helped me more then anyone so far thank you. Great teacher.

[@eeerrrrzzz]

Excellent tutorial! I learnt a lot. Thank you.

[@alexiosv7954]

Thank you very much you made me understand how to use the Animation Controller.

[@demedev1940]

ty for this tutorial, now i know everything about the animator controller, its awesome, there is not a good official tutorial about this

[@michaelkavanagh8440]

I am enjoying your tutorials. Thanks.

[@Sniper_eyes]

ahhh out of all the videos this worked thanku

[@donaldgervais872]

Great Video! Thank you so much for making it.

[@Nick-rq4gy]

I saw this and it was soooooo awesome thank you for making these videos.

[@bobworld2881]

Thank you for this video. Was very helpful during our game jam :)

[@Silverstar3]

Great job explaining the steps. Thanks!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Silverstar3 thanks!

[@miltongmendezbenet8859]

Awesome tut! learned alot!

[@johndangelo5689]

Awesome tutorial. Just to avoid confusion for those still learning, at 18:45 he refers to the bread crumbs at the top of the state machine as layers. Those are actually the SubStates... layers can be created using the Layers tab to the left of the Parameters tab and are used for entirely new animations such as a hand wave or taking a drink etc... these new animation layers will in turn each have their own state machine. But really an amazing tutorial here. Of the best I've seen on the topic.

[@AaronHibberd]

thanks man!

[@roesti6214]

Nice tutorial! Thank you!

[@Chmelewsky]

Dude! Finally! Someone made a clear tutorial on how to communicate to mecanim with scripts! Great tutorial can't wait to see the others!

[@AaronHibberd]

+Michael Malleske thanks!

[@messagesys181]

You are the best Unity tutor on KZbin :P

[@AaronHibberd]

+Gracie Zhang thank you :)

[@nguyenhoainam4326]

The way you guide is very interesting and easy to understand. thanks you!!!

[@GUGGISBERG-MR.MARTIN]

Very well explained Thank You Aaron :)

[@activemotionpictures]

Great post!! Thank you for sharing the setup with unitychan.

[@AaronHibberd]

+activemotionpictures thanks!

[@thesilenthack]

Thank you very much! This helped me alot in getting in touch with the animation system of unity :D