{"id":646,"date":"2026-05-15T18:28:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/?p=646"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T18:28:04","slug":"implementing-player-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/2026\/05\/15\/implementing-player-animations\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementing Player Animations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before letting our peers playtest our game<\/a>, we had to implement animations for the player character, Kauri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula created separate animations for Kauri: Idle, Sprint, Jump, Wall cling etc. and sent them to me as seperate pngs. Which I turned into a spritesheet using this website<\/a>. This lets me keep Kauri a consistent size despite his animations being made on different canvases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is because I can splice the sprite sheet by rows and columns instead of sizes (Unity’s automatic setting):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then, with these individual frames of Kauri’s animations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I can create animation clips, and use Unity’s animation tab to actually set these animations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n

These animations can be controlled using an Animation Controller:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Which plays certain animations depending on certain Parameters <\/strong>(On the left), which are set in the playercontroller script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button>
This screenshot was taken later in development, when we had the grapple animation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I then put an Animator component on the player gameobject so that it can access the Animator Controller:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before letting our peers playtest our game, we had to implement animations for the player character, Kauri. Paula created separate animations for Kauri: Idle, Sprint, Jump, Wall cling etc. and sent them to me as seperate pngs. Which I turned into a spritesheet using this website. This lets me keep Kauri a consistent size despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sprint-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/et4g23-yr3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}