Animating body parts for character movement events

In the previous recipe, we used the Unity animation tool to alter the transition of a sprite based on input. In this recipe, we’ll learn how to animate the hat of the Unity PotatoMan character in response to a jumping event using a variety of animation techniques, including keyframes and transforms.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have prepared the files you need in the 08_03 folder.

How to do it...

To animate body parts for character movement events, follow these steps:

1. Create a new Unity 2D project.
2. Import the provided PotatoManAssets package into your project.
3. Increase the size of Main Camera to 10.
4. Set up the 2D gravity setting for this project – we’ll use the same setting that’s provided in Unity’s 2D platform tutorial – that is, a setting of Y= -30. Set 2D gravity to this value by going to Edit | Project Settings | Physics 2D and changing...