Animating body parts for character movement events

In this recipe, we'll learn to animate thehat of the Unity potato-man character in response to a jump event.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we have prepared the files you need in folder 08_03.

 

How to do it...

To animate body parts for character movement events, follow these steps:

1. Create a new Unity 2D project.
2. Import the provided PotatoManAssets package into your project.
3. Increase the size of the Main Camera to 10.
4. Set up the 2D gravity setting for this project – we'll use the same setting as from Unity's 2D platform tutorial, a setting of Y= -30. Set 2D gravity to this value by choosing menu: Edit | Project Settings | Physics 2D, and then at the top change the Y value to -30:

5. Drag an instance of the PotatoMan hero character2D from the Project | Prefabs folder into the Scene. Position this GameObject at (0, 3, 0).
6. Drag an instance of the sprite platformWallBlocks from the Project | Sprites folder into the Scene. Position this GameObject at (0, ...