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1. Animating UVs in unity? Anyone got a good tutorial on it. Cant find one

   

   Topic by kreativ · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   Animating UVs in unity? Anyone got a good tutorial on it. Cant find one which explains how to do this properly. Check checked youtube to no avail.

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   Reply by kreativ · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   well, yes, I have animated in unity. And used mecanim, etc. But was looking for an in-depth tut Animated UVs and why they are better than texture offsetting, like less drawcalls, etc, and more tips and tricks. I am thinking of using this technique in production and hence wanted as much pros and cons as possible.

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   Reply by kreativ · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   aahh, good point. Just dont have too much experience with 2D. Have always developed for 3D. First, small projects. Now semi-big indie game.

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   Very interesting technique. And it looks like this video answers your question. You should have said you're talking about sprite animation. If you're searching for more info, try "unity sprite animation uv". The third hit on Google is for SpriteManager, might be what you want.

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   Reply by kreativ · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   [ame] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWYINvm64ZI[/ame] the above vid piqued my interest and succinctly explains why animating UVs is better than texture offsetting.

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   Reply by SanderDL · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   If you just want 2D sprite animation, you can just select the sprites that make up the animation and drag them into the hierachy. A prompt to save your animation should pop up. Just hit save and you are done.

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   Reply by Richard Kain · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   Yes, but I'm not talking about just hovering a single sprite over a model, I'm talking about more of a render-to-texture approach. Though, I suppose you could actually use the render-to-texture feature in conjunction with a sprite to do exactly what you're describing. It would be a bit of a round-about approach to the…

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   Reply by Eric Chadwick · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   It's pretty simple. Have you ever animated something in Unity? Create a new animation track in the Project window, drag it onto your model, open the Animation window, press Record, move the timebar forward in time somewhere, adjust the Offset in the material, the press Play. Presto! Edit... I'm moving this to the Unity…

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   Reply by RyanB · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

   There's an example on the Unity wiki: http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Animating_Tiled_texture I use the same technique for looping animations of pre-rendered particle effects that I place on a single quad. It's useful in particular situations.

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    Reply by Richard Kain · Jun 2015 · Home› Unity

    What if I'm not actually interested in Sprite animation, but want a sprite-esque style of animation applied to a 3D model? It is an approach that was used during the 32-bit era to animate basic expressions on 3D characters faces. Of course, if I really wanted to do that, I could separate the character's face into a…