Animation Clips

The great thing about the Unity Animation System is that you can animate nearly any property of the UI. To create an Animation Clip, simply open the Animation Window (Window | Animation or Ctrl + 6), and with the UI element you want to animate selected, select Create:

Figure 14.1: The Animation Window

Once you do so, you’ll be prompted to save the Animation Clip.

After creating the Animation Clip, you can then add any property to the clip’s timeline by clicking on Add Property:

Figure 14.2: The SliderExampleAnimation timeline

Doing so will bring up every component of the object, as well as a list of all of its children:

Figure 14.3: Adding an Animation property

You can also view the components and children of each child:

Figure 14.4: Expanding Animation components

Then, you can view the components and children of those children. You...