Let us now set the transitions between them! We will use the former to determine if the player has pushed the attack button and the latter to know if our player got hurt.Īt this point you should have 3 blend trees, namely “Idleing”, “Movement” and “Attack”. That leaves us with just two more parameters of type ‘Bool’, namely the ‘isAttack’ and ‘isHurt’. The ‘Speed’ parameter will store the information about character speed that we may use for transitioning between different animations. To this end, we are going to specify ‘Last_Horizontal’ and ‘Last_Vertical’ parameters that will store that information.

Because we also want our character to attack and stay idle in each of the 4 directions, depending on which direction he previously faced, we need to store his last recorded position. Press on the ‘Plus’, select ‘Float’ and name this parameter ‘Horizontal’ – this parameter will be used to detect whether player press ‘left’ (-1) or ‘right’ (1) button. We want this functionality to be driven by player actions and mapped directly to correct buttons.įirst we need to specify few parameters in the ‘Parameters’ tab. Here we must set up all the transitions between different animations depending which direction player is facing. Right-click on an empty space, select ‘Create State -> From Blend Tree’, name it “Idle” and open up the new Blend Tree by double clicking it. In here delete (yes you read that right) all animation nodes that you have just created from the panel. Once we have created all clips let’s open the ‘ Animator’ panel. Setting animation transitions in animator panel

For the attack animations set higher sample rate to say 12 since we want our character to trigger animation immediately upon pressing the attack button.

Repeat this process to create a full range of walking cycles in all 4 directions. Start by drawing a circular shape in the upper part. mimics) the player will be interested in the most. The reason is that the facial area carries the visual information (i.e. Given that it is such a small canvas we have to make sure that his head occupies most of the designated space. To keep everything straightforward, the sprites are 16 x 16, and each animation lasts no more than 4 frames. I am going to use Aseprite to create a quite simple version of a game character along with his walking cycles and attack animations in all 4 directions. Making simple character sprite animations Binding everything together with scriptsġ.Setting animation transitions in animator panel.Making simple character sprite animations.This type of style can be commonly seen in a lot of older RPG’s such as Alundra from PS1 era. In this tutorial we are going to investigate the implementation of an RPG top-down movement and attack game mechanics in Unity.

Unity 2d animation layers