Timeline

Timeline is a tool that allows us to animate things within our game (cutscenes, sequences, animating enemies, etc)

• Window > Sequencing > Timeline

• Window > Animation > Animation

• Create separate game object Timeline

  • empty object
  • Click on that object, then go to the timeline window, and click create

• Click on + and add animation track

  • Drag the object in here. Then click recording!

• Then you can click Gameobject > Align with View to snap your gameobject to wherever you are

• To help you calculate how much time it will take for the player to move, you can go to Edit > Preferences > Colors and set the grid to another color

Editing animation

To edit animation, click edit in animation window

• you can middle click to slide, and drag box everything to click all at once to squish or expand everything

Curves

• Click on the button next to recording, and you can see the curves on the x,y,z position
• Then you can add key