Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
#unityanimation
In this video I show you a simple way to give a character a blink idle animation which is performed with random time intervals.
I play games here - twitch.tv/zzotoff
You are very welcome :-)
Thank you :-)
Project Here drive.google.com/file/d/11zr883hdLX_xfqjSsKm_zgZn1HxpESNd/view?usp=sharing
Here is my empty project. Let me set it up quickly.
Here I have a character simple sprite sheet. First I need to slice it. Select it. Set sprite mode to multiple. Hit Apply to save toe change and go to the sprite editor. Here I select the automatic slice option and hit the slice button. Make sure slice boundaries outline a picture accurately. Very good. Hit apply to save the changes. Expand the sprite sheet and bring the first sprite to the hierarchy. Here is my character. Let’s create Idle animation first. Select the character and go to the animation window. Hit create new animation. I rename it as Idle Animation. Take a sprite with open eyes and put it to the timeline. Idle animation is ready. Create new clip. This one will be a blink animation. Take the first sprite and put it here. Take the second one and put it here. Take the first one again and put it here. Let’s check it out. Animation runs too fast. Reduce the number of samples down to 10. Hit enter. Let’s see. Ok. Notice that animation duration is about 0.5 seconds. We will need this value in the script. Blink animation is done. Let’s examine the script that will control our animations. Here it is. It’s a pretty simple one. I use coroutine to switch animator states. It's time to blink variable represents the time interval between blinks. So in Update I check if that time interval has passed and if it has then blink coroutine is started. In coroutine I switch to blink animation and in 0.5 seconds I switch back to Idle animation. And after that it's time to blink variable gets a new random interval. between 0.5 and 2 seconds. Script goes to character. Now I can hit play and see how it blinks.
#unityanimation
In this video I show you a simple way to give a character a blink idle animation which is performed with random time intervals.
I play games here - twitch.tv/zzotoff
You are very welcome :-)
Thank you :-)
Project Here drive.google.com/file/d/11zr883hdLX_xfqjSsKm_zgZn1HxpESNd/view?usp=sharing
Here is my empty project. Let me set it up quickly.
Here I have a character simple sprite sheet. First I need to slice it. Select it. Set sprite mode to multiple. Hit Apply to save toe change and go to the sprite editor. Here I select the automatic slice option and hit the slice button. Make sure slice boundaries outline a picture accurately. Very good. Hit apply to save the changes. Expand the sprite sheet and bring the first sprite to the hierarchy. Here is my character. Let’s create Idle animation first. Select the character and go to the animation window. Hit create new animation. I rename it as Idle Animation. Take a sprite with open eyes and put it to the timeline. Idle animation is ready. Create new clip. This one will be a blink animation. Take the first sprite and put it here. Take the second one and put it here. Take the first one again and put it here. Let’s check it out. Animation runs too fast. Reduce the number of samples down to 10. Hit enter. Let’s see. Ok. Notice that animation duration is about 0.5 seconds. We will need this value in the script. Blink animation is done. Let’s examine the script that will control our animations. Here it is. It’s a pretty simple one. I use coroutine to switch animator states. It's time to blink variable represents the time interval between blinks. So in Update I check if that time interval has passed and if it has then blink coroutine is started. In coroutine I switch to blink animation and in 0.5 seconds I switch back to Idle animation. And after that it's time to blink variable gets a new random interval. between 0.5 and 2 seconds. Script goes to character. Now I can hit play and see how it blinks.
