CHARACTER CINEMA 4D HOW TO

From the project window drag the 'Idle' animation (under MyHumanoid) into the Animator window.Call it 'MyHumanoidAnimator', and click Window > Animator to edit. Open Assets > Animators folder (in Projects window) and click Add > Animator Controller.Otherwise you can alter these pretty easily. Inspector will now show you green human, and hopefully will have connected the right bones to the correct joints.In the Inspector window > 'Rig', and change 'Animation Type' to Humanoid, then click 'Configure' button.Expand 'MyHumanoid' and you should see 'Idle' and 'Running' animations have been created.Now add a new animation called 'Idle' and set frame range from 40-90. In the Inspector window > Animations tab, rename 'C4D Animation Take' to 'Running' and change the frames range from 0-40.

Select and expand 'MyHumanoid' in Unity's Project Hierarchy.

Move newly created 'MyHumanoid.fbx' to Assets > Models folder, preferably to it's own subfolder called 'Player'.

Create new project and import 'PlayerController', and create the following directories under Assets: 'Animators', 'Models', 'Scripts'.

Part 2: Load into Unity and Setup Animation

Select: FBX Version=7.3, Animation=true, Textures and Materials=true, Mesh Normals=true, Textures=true.

it will result in fairly crude run, but at least it's a start! Now select these bones indivdually, and change the 'P' values to (+/-40) add keyframes at 10 and 30.

TIP: Fastest way, select the upper_arm, lower_arm, upper_leg and lower_leg bones (on each side), set to default pose and add keyframes to 0, 20, 40.

To make animation check rotate only and select the correct bone at the right frame, rotate it and click the keyframe icon to make each keyframe.

Add a running animation from frames 0-40, and idle from 40-90.

Put arms down to the sides and this will be your 'default standing position'.

Save new copy as 'MyHumanoidAnimated.c4d'.

Sphere & cylinders, even effects like taper seem to be mostly okay though.

Certain parts, you may have to click 'make editable', to turn to mesh.

For mesh: If creating single mesh, name whatever, if creating hierarchy parts I named 'r_shoulder_sphere' to help distinguish from bones.

For bones: prefer 'l_shoulder', 'r_shoulder', 'r_upper_arm', 'r_hand', etc, to help Automatic Setup of Humanoid.

Create hierarchy of bones underneath, starting with a 'pelvis' at (0,0.8,0).

TIP: Create a box 2m tall (to delete later) as a target height.

Create Null Object at 0,0,0 called 'MyHumanoid'.

Part 1: Create the Character in Cinema 4D and Export as FBX

CHARACTER CINEMA 4D HOW TO

There are actually a few great youtube videos which demonstrate how to put a Cinema4D model into YouTube, but the tend to skip over some important steps, so here I wrote down a step by step of how you can create a character in Cinema 4D, add some animation routines, and then import that character into Unity, and create the animation and movements scrips to have him running around your scene. Unity is a wonderful game engine, and Cieman 4D is my favorite 3D modelling software. NOTE: This page is a daughter page of: Unity and Cinema 4D

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