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Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook

You're reading from   Unity 5.x Animation Cookbook An advanced solution to all your Animation problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883910
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with Animations FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with the Animation View 3. 2D and User Interface Animation 4. Character Movement 5. Character Actions and Expressions 6. Handling Combat 7. Special Effects 8. Animating Cutscenes 9. Physics and Animations 10. Miscellaneous

Using the Animation View to animate public script variables


In Unity, we can animate public script variables. Most standard types are supported. We can use this to achieve interesting effects that are not possible to achieve directly. For instance, we can animate fog color and density, which is not directly accessible through the Animation View.

Getting ready

In this recipe, everything will be created from scratch, so you don't need to prepare any special assets. You can also use the example project and go to the Chapter 07 Special effects\Recipe 03 Using the animation window to animate public script variables directory. You can find the Example.unity scene there. If you open it and press the space bar, you can observe the fog changing color and density.

 

It is achieved by animating the public variables of a script.

Animated fog

How to do it...

To animate public script variables, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new script and call it FogAnimator.cs.
  2. Create two public variables in this script: public...
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