How it works...

Every animated object in Unity uses an Animator component and an Animator Controller asset. The component is responsible for playing animations in runtime. It has a number of parameters that we have to set or we can use to tweak the component's functionality:

  • Controller: This is the field we have to attach the Animator Controller asset to. It determines which animation graph the Animator component will use.
  • Avatar: In Unity, Avatars are rig definitions. For instance, if we have multiple files containing animations with the same Generic rig, we should use the same Avatar for all of them. You can find more information about it in the Using animations from multiple assets recipe.
  • Apply Root Motion: With this checkbox, we can ...

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