ExtraBlender — UnityGameDebut

Blender & Extra Animation — Episode #09

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KidsTronics

3 min readMar 6, 2018

Hi, in the previous post we get the enemies shooting at us randomly (check for the previous code in Github). Now let’s make them fall when hit by a shot.

Now, itttt’ssss timmmme! ops… It’ssss fightttt timmmme!

…Of Blender animation. Sadly the ToonSoldier pack does not come with a die animation 😑. We will use Blender for this purpose 😆. Let’s make our own anime…

Actually I would like to see the enemy fall from the top of the tower. but I have not got it yet … 😒 you reader can try it and once you’ve got please send your solution … publish the result too! so in this manner, we learn from each other. This is the strength of opensource, right?

There we go!

Step #01 — Open Unity and in ToonSoldier_demo > Animation you’ve got: idle, run, shoot and shoot bust animation…where is die or fall animation? nope…but, here is the animation you needed most: I call it to fall:

Download from my Google Drive the file fall_v6.fbx

Save it in your Asset>ToonSoldiers>Animation folder;

Step #02 — To start-up let’s create a vector to memorize the position of the soldier. Open Soldier.cs and declare this property:

//the actual soldier's positionVector3 mStartPos = Vector3.zero;

Step #03 — In the Soldier.Awake() type right below gameObject mEnemy:

//Get the enemy actual gameObjectmEnemy = transform.GetChild(0).gameObject;//Start soldier's positionmStartPos = mEnemy.transform.position;

Step #04 — In the Soldier.Activate() type:

mAnimator.SetBool("shoot", true);mEnemy.transform.position = mStartPos;

Step #05 — How to trigger fall animation? We need to register as humanoid anime first; just do it:

Double click the fall animation, in Inspector click 1) Rig, 2) choose Humanoid 3) click apply and then Configure, click save; a new popup appears, 4) click Pose > 5) Reset and them 6) click Force T-Pose, and 7) finally Apply and 8) Done, you finished to set up the animation to work in mechanism Unity System;

Step #06 — Go to Animator, 1) Drag n’ drop fall_v6 to the flow diagram, 2) Make a transition from Any State to fall, deselect Has Exit Time and 3) then another transition from fall to idle (resurrection); 4) create a trigger and name it fall, 5) select Any State > fall Transition and set Conditions to fall and 6) make some adjustment; there you go! the enemy will fall sideways and resuscitate (yes, believe it or not?).