📚Tutorial

In this section we will learn how to use Magic Blending.

Create Rig Asset

First, we need to add our character to the scene and select its root bone:

Root bone is the top transform in the hierarchy.

Now right-click and select Auto Rig Mapping:

Click that button.

After this, a Rig Asset will be generated in the active folder:

Rig Asset contains information about your character skeleton.

The Rig Asset plays an important role - it stores the information about the character's hierarchy as a Scriptable Object.

Create Magic Blend Asset

Right-click on your Rig Asset and select Create Magic Blend:

Hit that button.

Now, a Magic Blend Asset has been generated in the active folder. Let's see what properties it has:

Magic Blend Asset.

Blend Time defines the time in seconds to blend this asset in.

Blend Curve defines how the blending will be handled.

Base Pose is an Animation Clip that defines the idle pose. This pose will be "subtracted" from the animator controller pose to compute additive animation dynamically.

Overlay Pose is your weapon or item Animation Clip pose.

Layered Blends define the layers that will be blended in real-time. By default, the system generates:

• Lower Body

• Spine

• Head

• Arms

• Fingers

Global Weight controls the universal influence of the system. If set to zero - nothing will be applied, where 1 means the system will be fully active.

Magic Blending Component

Go to your character prefab and add a Magic Blending component. Make sure you add it to the same Game Object, to which the Animator is attached:

Magic Blending.

All you have to do is assign the Magic Blend Asset in this component. Now you can start the game and play around with the values in the Magic Blend Asset!