Player Controller - Pro Unity Game Development with C# - page 165

Note More information on the Unity Legacy Animation Editor can be found at https://docs.unity3d.
com/Documentation/Components/animeditor-UsingAnimationEditor.html .
Remember, the animation and completed project for this chapter are included in the chapter companion files
at Chapter05/Completed .
The animation asset itself just defines a generic animation sequence in terms of key frames and
transformations; these could apply to any GameObject. For the death sequence, I'll first create
empty objects (named AnimatedCamera ), added to the First Person Controller, as parents of the
Camera objects. Make sure their transformations are set to 0 for all positions and rotations (see
Figure 5-16 ). Then add Animator components to the objects, which will handle the animation
functionality through the Mecanim system. Animator components can be added from the main menu
by choosing Component ➤ Miscellaneous ➤ Animator .
Figure 5-16. Adding animations to camera parent objects. Doing this may break connections with existing Prefabs—but that's
fine in this case
The added Animator component begins empty, without any associations to animation. We'll fix
that now. Specifically, we'll create an AnimationController asset that will drive the camera death
animation when health reaches less than 0. To do this, create a new AnimationController asset,
right-clicking in the Project panel and choosing Create ➤ Animation Controller from the context
menu. View the Animation Controller (see Figure 5-17 ) using the Animator window ( not the
Animation window).