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The animation view allows you to create and

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modify animation clips directly inside Unity.

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It is designed to act as a powerful

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and straightforward alternative to external

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3D animation programmes.

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For instance, if we wanted to have

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a camera fly around a scene to give

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a player an overview of a level

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we can create that animation for it in Unity.

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Here we have a scene with a camera

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in the corner.

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We would like to create an animation

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for that camera which will allow it to move

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from one side of the scene to the other.

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Since we want to make an animation for the

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camera we will want to ensure

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that it is selected in the Hierarchy view.

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We can then open the Animation view

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by clicking Window - Animation.

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Like any other view this is moveable

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resizable and dockable.

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There are many different buttons and options

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visible when you first open the Animation view.

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First and foremost is the animation drop-down.

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Here is where we can select our different

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animations to edit.

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Since we don't currently have any animations

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this drop-down is blank except for the

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ability to create a new animation.

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When you create a new animation you will

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be prompted for a name and a location

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to save the animation file.

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We will create an animation called

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CameraFlyThu and place it

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in the Animations folder.

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The Add Curve button allows us to choose

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which components of our object,

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or any child objects, we wish to modify

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with our animation.

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Each component can be expanded

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to view more options.

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To add a curve click the + sign next

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to the item you wish to add.

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Since we want our camera to fly around the scene

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we will add the transform's position and rotation.

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The timeline is where you will be able to

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establish the timing of your animation.

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The timeline is measured in frames and seconds.

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The red scrubber allows you to choose what

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frame you wish to modify.

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Next is the Record and Play buttons.

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When the record button is pressed

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changes made to the chosen object

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in the Scene view will be added automatically

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to the animation at the currently selected frame.

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The play button will allow you to preview

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your animation.

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The left and right arrows allow you to

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navigate through the keyframes of the animation.

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Next are the buttons which allow you to

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add keyframes and events to the

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currently selected frame.

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The Sample property determines how many

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frames make up one second of animation.

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Reducing this number makes our animations slower.

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At the bottom are two buttons that allow

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you to transition between dope sheet mode,

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which we are currently on,

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and curve view mode.

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With the record button pressed

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it can be very easy to rough out the animation

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that we want.

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Simply select the frame we want to modify

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and rotation in the scene view.

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and then set the desired camera position

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You will notice that a keyframe has been added

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to the timeline with the appropriate values.

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Properties that are currently being animated

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are highlighted in red in the Inspector.

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We can continue doing this for the various phases

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of our fly through animation.

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To preview the animation click the

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play icon next to the record icon

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in the animator view.

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If we were satisfied with our animation

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we could be done now.

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If we wanted to fine tune our animation however

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we would want to look at the curves mode.

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To enter the curves mode select the Curves button

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at the bottom of the animation view.

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Here we can see the various curves of our

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animation by selecting the corresponding

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component on the left.

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Again we can select a frame using the red

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red scrubber on the timeline.

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To modify a value on a curve

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click and drag a keyframe to the new

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desired value.

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To create a new keyframe click the

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Create Keyframe button,

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or double click on the curve.

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Right-clicking on a keyframe will pull up

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some of it's options.

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the most notable of these options is the ability

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to choose Free Smooth.

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This will create two handles are the keyframe

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which you can use to smooth the curve

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to your liking.

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Another way to control our curves is to

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choose the Broken option.

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This allows you to control each side of the

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keyframe indecently.

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In this example we will want to add

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a little variance to the exposition

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of the transform.

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Doing so will give us more of a weightless feel

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to our animation.

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Again we can do so by creating keyframes

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on the exposition curve and changing

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our values manually.

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The animations created in Unity have the same

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Inspector settings as animations made

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in external programmes.

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We can see these by selecting our clip

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in the Project view.

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Since we want our camera to fly across the

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screen only once, we best uncheck

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are Loop Time property.

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It is interesting to note that an animator

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is in charge of animation playback for generic

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objects the same as it is for humanoids.

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Unity has automatically added the

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animator to our camera and created an

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animator controller, a state machine

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and added it to this component

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The clip we just created is added to the

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state machine as the default clip

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that would be played at runtime.

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This means we can go on to record

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other clips and use the animator

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to decide when to play them.

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In this manner, once our animation clip

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is completed we can run our scene

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to see it in action.