An example of one of the Unity basic shaders – a Diffuse shader. Or I combine two png images with transparency, and instead of just a top layer, I would have a complete “top-and-pants” stylish combo.
#Mixamo to unity shader how to#
Create a new shader (not as hard as it sounds if you know photoshop / concept of image layers and how to blend them) and make a series of nodes that adds a texture at each point.Ĭoncept of shaders – you define nodes, then either add / multiply / take parts of a channel and combine them into a new output – so I could take a texture node, add a red channel and I would have a red top. Save each layer as an image with transparency around the edges of each part – so like a flip book of transparent slides, you would be able to start from underwear and layer on the clothing by adding each layer.Ĥ. Take some time out in photoshop and make a layered outfit file, starting from the minimum and working up to at least a top and pants layer.ģ. Get hold of something like Strumpy Shader Editor (on the Asset store, nice and free)Ģ. I would also recommend asking the RG team if they can help with some of the avatars we used on some of the projects in the past year – I imagine 19 th century would require ladies in longer skirts – and there are definitely some of those meshes already created that you could work with.Ī good question – here’s something I tried out a year or two ago:ġ. I would recommend contacting local colleges and schools and look out for interns, since a lot of art and design courses will teach some of these skills. I used it for a herald blowing a medieval trumpet, and for animating a rat running around a cellar (he had a run animation already, so I just used the Unity animation editor to change his position smoothly over time).Ĭreating new outfits over the existing meshes is a photoshop job, but altering meshes requires skills in a graphics program such as Maya, 3Ds or Blender. Position that joint at each keyframe and the animation will smoothly interpolate between those points when it plays back. The UI is not perfect and tutorials are scarce, but you can create a new animation clip in Unity, then set key frames for joints at the start and end of a cycle. Unity’s own animation system can actually do a reasonable job of basic animation, once you get the hang of it – though again it will take time. Most animation cases can be solved in this way.
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The cost of each animation is far less than the personal cost of making them by hand or hiring an artist to create them for you.
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If your avatars all share the same skeleton, you can reuse it for multiple avatars. For example, I found that a simple walk animation could be adjusted before purchasing (using their UI) to suit either a lady in a dress or a swaggering soldier with broad shoulders. Mixamo is definitely the best resource for animations, it’s simple to use and quite flexible. It should work without issue – let us know how you get on.
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Try adding that prefab character to a completely empty scene and drop the Animate script on them, asking it to play back that same animation. Useful tip – you can rename the mixamo animations after importing them without issue as long as you do it within Unity. But once it’s happy, you should be able to preview and then purchase the animations from their store (some are as cheap as $5 which makes them a good test), then set up your prefab character to have that animation in their list of available animations. I have tried this with numerous skeleton styles, only one of them asked me to do an additional step so Mixamo could recognize the skeleton, the rest had no issues.
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Try previewing any animation by selecting your character as the base prefab.
#Mixamo to unity shader for free#
Try getting the Mixamo animation store editor plugin to try it out – don’t go down the Mechanim route for now, just the standard editor addon they offer for free (though I have used Mechanim with a Jibe avatar and it worked great, but it is a new technique to learn). All the jibe characters have the same skeleton layout, so you could purchase one animation for one Jibe avatar and use it on any of the 14 avatars available. Good news, the Mixamo animations should work well with Jibe, but since each character’s skeleton is different you may have mixed results trying to use a generic animation with that avatar.