Instantiate Unity

Update 3-13-14 Unity kinda released some really nice 2D tools, I really don't know how relevant or helpful this is now. I've been working on a 2D side scroller. Being my cheap self I'm not going to bother buying some helpful tool that would probably speed up everything a substantial amount, and created my own method of 2D animation for things in Unity3D. This code does not work with a sprite sheet, but I hope it makes it easy enough for you to incorporate one if you wanted to. Warnings:  The animation is displayed by updating the meshes material's texture each frame (this can mess up at high frame speeds). This code is assuming the 2D sprites are moving along the X and Y axis. When changing directions, it is scaling the transform negatively across it's x axis. Its assuming default direction facing is right. using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public enum Directions{left,right} public class FlatCharacterAnimation : MonoBehaviour {...

NOTE - If nothing is showing up in your preview section, then you have exported the model wrong. Remember you need to have selected in Blender what to be exported. If you have done this, try reversing the faces in the model and re exporting. So after you have your model from Blender rigged , animated , and exported, you can bring it in to the unity editor.  Scale factor is by default 0.01, to change that, try looking at this link .  Anyways, your going to want to drag you model to your scene and adjust the scale factor till you have the desired size (scale factor 1 is rarely what you ever want it, its huge). To start defining your animation, click the + button that's highlighted purple in the picture. You'll get something like this where you can name your animation, define starting and ending frames, and wrap mode. Remember back when you were making the animation for your model? you had to define frames and you had a certain amount of frames ...

Now for animation.  And I want to apologize for constantly changing the models I use for tutorials, I don't really have an excuse, I'll try to make this the last time I do it.  For this introduction to animation I'll be using a honey badger model, already rigged .  So, on that note, let us begin. Here is the honey badger, rigged and ready to be animated. Truth be told, basic animations are not all that hard to accomplish as long as you know what to and not to select.  In order to start animating, click on the armature and go into pose mode, here you can edit the position of each armature and the vertices assigned to them freely.  Animation in Blender is based on and made simplified by a key frame system, making the animation process easy and the finished product smooth.  Now to actually conducting an animation. Although you can manually put in keyframes, I prefer using the automatic keyframe setting, which can be enabled by selecting the two butto...