Introduction to the 2D World of Unity - Unity 2D Game Development - page 10

Let's now place the player in the world just like we did for the platform.
Drag-and-drop playerSprite_idle_1 into the Hierarchy or Scene tab,
rename the sprite to Player in the Hierarchy tab, and change the position to
X: 0, Y: 0 . The player should now be standing on top of the platform as shown
in the following screenshot. If it looks a bit large, no problem—just change the scale
to X: 0.7, Y: 0.7 and it should look fine.

Let's move it!
With the player sprite in the world, let's set up some animations for it. From the
sprite sheet, you can probably gather that our player has two animations: idle and
walking. If you are at all familiar with Unity's Mecanim system, then this setup will
seem familiar to you. If not, no problem—read along and we shall explain in the
following steps:

1. Create a new folder in the Project tab called Animations .

2. Inside this folder, create another folder called Player .

3. At the top of the screen, navigate to Window | Animation to open the

Animation tab. This is where we will actually build the sprite animations.

4. Select the player object in the Hierarchy tab then click on the little red circle

(the record button) in the top-left corner of the Animation tab. A Create New
Animation window will pop up.