I'm having problems animating a character pack I purchased from unity asset store.
I've placed the character in an environment and created an animator controller. After I drag the animation that to the animator tab, there aren't any motions. Even if I place triggers or booleans in my script as parameters in the animator it doesn't work.
It worked with other characters but the animations were somehow embedded in the 3d models. How is this supposed to work?
For an animation to work in Unity you need:
1.) an Animator component assigned to your gameObject 2.) an Animation Controller asset 3.) an animation clip(s)
The Animator component needs to have the Animation Controller dragged to it's 'Controller' field in the Inspector window. An Avatar is required in the 'Avatar' Inspector field (usually autocreated on import)
Then as long as you've dragged at least 1 Animation clip to the Animation Controller state machine (and possibly set it to default so that it will play first), your gameObject should then animate in Play mode.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Animator.html
It's hard to tell what the issue is without more details/knowledge of the animations/screenshots etc, but make sure you have a look at the actual Animator component on the character in the Scene heirarchy and ensure none of the Inspector fields are set to 'None'. That's where I'd start at least.
This is caused by the fact that the animations are set to 'Legacy', click on the animation clip, in the very top right of the inspector click the three lines with a down arrow on the left of them, click Debug, Untick Legacy, click drop down again and click Normal, Re-drag animations into your Animator Controller, job done
Go to ANIMATOR component -> right click -> click on OPTIMIZE TRANSFORM HIERARCHY. I don't know how it works but it works!
