How to Animate Characters in Unity 3D | Two Dimensional Blend Trees Explained

Learn how to animate characters in Unity 3D with dynamic animations from blend trees!

This beginner-friendly tutorial is a complete walkthrough of two dimensional blend trees and how we can use blend trees to create new animations for our characters using two float parameters!

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This is the fifth video in a series dedicated to understanding the fundamentals of Unity's animation system. Episode 0 was an introduction to the project and explains how to import free characters and animations from Adobe Mixamo. Episode 1 was a full break down of the Animator Component. And episode 2 explained how we can use booleans to give players control of animations! And episode 3 covered covered one dimensional blend trees! Today we blend trees to the next level 🤘 Be sure to check out the other videos in the series to continue learning!

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►TIMESTAMPS:
Intro - 0:00
Catch Up - 0:30
Mixamo.com - 0:57
Mixamo Export Settings - 1:23
Setup In Unity - 1:43
New Blend Tree - 2:00
Adjust Parameters - 2:20
All Blend Tree Types - 2:42
Difference in Blend Trees - 3:04
2D Simple Directional - 3:12
Add Motions - 3:28
Motions Graph Explained - 3:35
Set Motion Animations - 3:58
Set Motion Positions - 4:23
Motion Node Explained - 5:18
Testing Simple Directional - 5:57
Fixing Current Problems - 6:27
Freeform Directional - 6:30
Simple Directional Explained - 6:45
Simple Directional Proper Example - 8:00
Switch To FreeForm Directional - 8:13
Freeform Cartesian - 8:26
2D Blend Tree Comparison - 8:37
Freeform Cartesian Example - 9:21
Direct - 9:28
Why Freeform Directional - 9:46
Control to the players - 10:00
New Script - 10:23
Set Animator - 10:42
Set Velocity X and Z - 11:06
Start to Get Player Input - 11:17
Modify Velocity - 11:44
Add Acceleration And Deceleration - 12:07
StrafeCode - 12:28
Set Parameters - 13:13
Needed Improvements - 13:45
Max and Min Velocities - 14:02
Implement Deceleration - 14:32
Implement Reset of Velocity - 15:30
Handle Running - 16:07
Declare Max Walk/Run Velocity - 16:30
Set Current Max Velocity - 16:50
Learn Ternary Operators - 17:01
Replace conditions with currentMaxVelocity - 17:22
Creating Caps and Locks for Forward VelocityZ - 17:50
Replicating For Strafing Velocity X - 19:30
Refactoring Code - 20:05
Parameter Hashes - 20:22
Replace Keycodes - 20:45
Separate Code in Update Function to Two Functions - 20:55
End Result - 21:59
Outro/NextTime - 22:10
Thank you - 22:26

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