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This recipe-based practical guide will show you how to unleash the power of animation in Unity 5.x and make your games visually impeccable. Our primary focus is on showing you tools and techniques to animate not only humanoid biped characters, but also other elements. This includes non-humanoid character animation, game world creation, UI element animation, and other key features such as opening doors, changing lights, transitioning to different scenes, using physics, setting up ragdolls, creating destructible objects and more. While discussing these topics, the book will focus on mecanim, the Unity 3D animation tool, and how you can use it to perform all these tasks efficiently and quickly. It contains a downloadable Unity project with interactive examples for all the recipes. By the end of this book, you will be confident and self-sufficient in animating your Unity 3D games efficiently.

What you will learn

Importing animations to Unity

Work with different animation assets

and components

Create, visualize, and edit animated creatures

Animating game cut scenes

Design character actions and expressions

Create gameplay by animating characters and environments

Use animations to drive in-game logic

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Ali Apr 15, 2017

True to what it says on the cover. Basically this is the missing manual that Unity should have provided. All the practical details that you need to get your animations going.

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M. Fischer Jun 02, 2017

There is some documentation out there on mecanim and the animation tools, BUT most of them seem to be missing so many things compared to this book.And as an already davanced unity useryou search for indepth information and you can't find it on youTube or in the Unity documentaion..This book finally has it !!!!!!!It explains you the basics very well as well as things that will make your work faster and easier.Always showing it on practical exampels or recepies ;)Totally can suggest this book to every animator that also integrates their animations into unityI simply can say - buy it and have _so_ much more fun with the animation tools in Unity.- Animator Override Controller- UI Graphics and mecanim usage- Rigid Body character movement- A lot about controlling the charatcers root motion- many exampels for using triggers- and sooo much more

Mohan Krishna Dec 15, 2016

Lots of information in the book it's use full for beginners like me

Carlo R. Montoya Jun 25, 2017

I'm using Unity 5.5.0f3 and I gave up after reaching Recipe 03 in Chapter 1. I'm sure these worked in the Unity version the author used but there are just too many errors in the new version to disrupt learning. It would be better if the content is online and updated to sync with Unity's latest version.Good thing I ordered a Kindle version and 'returned' it for a refund.This review is not about the author but rather the sad fact that Unity's engine changes so fast that code written a year ago is not guaranteed to work smoothly today.If you're using the same version the author used, I'm sure you'd have a smoother time learning about Unity animation. In my case, I have to look elsewhere.

Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook: An advanced solution to all your Animation problems

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