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Animating Text - Star Wars Style - Unity Game Development Tutorial

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  In this Unity game development tutorial we're going to look at how to use a basic animation to recreate the scrolling text from the opening of Star Wars.

Fixing Slope Bounce - Unity Game Development Tutorial

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In this Unity game development tutorial we're going to look at how we can prevent a character from bouncing, when moving down a slope.

Animation Retargeting - Unity Game Development Tutorial

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In this Unity game development tutorial we're going look at how we can make use of animation retargeting in Unity, to use the same animations between different characters. You can either watch the video version below or continue reading for written instructions. OK, we're going to start with a very basic scene that just has a plane to represent the ground. We're then going to head over to www.mixamo.com , to make use of the free characters and animations they offer. First of all, we'll go to the characters tab and select the ninja character. We'll click download and select 'fbx for Unity' in the format dropdown. Then we’ll download the character to the Assets folder of the project.  If we switch back to Unity, we can see the character has automatically been imported into the project. We'll drag this character into the hierarchy to add it into the scene. You'll notice that the textures are missing at the moment.  This is because they

Creating a Third Person Camera - Unity Game Development Tutorial

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In this Unity game development tutorial we're going to look at how to create a third person camera. We’ll look at how to have the camera orbit around the character, how to zoom in and out, and how we can make the character move in the direction the camera is facing.