In this tutorial we’ll set up our player and spawn it in the scene.

While the player group will have 2 members, we’ll only set up one for now – the fighter. The goal of this tutorial is to be able to run around with our player.

We’ll set up:

• animations
• the player (combatant)
• world scene (spawn, camera borders)
• start game schematic

Let’s get to it!

Animation Types #

First, we’ll set up a new animation type.

Animation types are used to play animations without having to worry what that animation actually is. E.g. an Attack animation type can play different animations based on what combatant plays it, or what weapon the combatant has equipped. You can learn more about animations in this documentation.

A new project already comes with multiple default animation types, so we only need to add one more for our use (though we don’t use most of the default ones).

Navigate to Base/Control > Animation Types and add new type.

13: Use #

This’ll be used to play an animation when using an item or ability.

Animations #

Next, we’ll set up movement animations, i.e. idle, walk and run animations.

The models used in the tutorial assets worked best using the legacy animation system, so that’s what we’re going with. Also, the legacy animation system is great at giving you control over playing animations when you want, instead of relying on state transitions like Mecanim does.

Legacy animations are played on layers, higher layers overrule lower layers, we’ll use that to ensure the correct animation has priority:

• Layer -1: idle
• Layer 0: walk, run
• Layer 1: damage, evade, etc.
• etc.

0: Movement #

Navigate to Base/Control > Animations, select the Default animation setup and change the following settings.

Base Settings #

Legacy Settings #

Since we’re using the legacy animation system, that’s where we’ll do our animation setup.

That’s it for the animations.

Combatants General Settings #

Next, we’ll handle some general settings for all our combatants. You can learn more about combatants in this documentation.

Navigate to Combatants > Combatants > General Settings.

Animations & Movement #

We’ll set up Legacy as the default animation system and use the animations we just set up.

Default Animation System #

Default Animations #

Auto Animation #

Auto animations are best only used with Legacy animation systems. They’ll automatically play idle/movement animations based on the current move speed of a combatant.

The auto animations use the Default Animation Types that are set up in Base/Control > Animation Types > General Settings. A new project has them automatically set up to use the (also automatically set up) Idle, Walk, Run, etc. animation types. In case your auto animations don’t work, make sure they’re set up correctly and use the animation types you use for your movement animations.

Default Move Speed #

The move speed handle how fast a combatant will move for walk, run and sprint movement (e.g. when used by the player controls or the move AI).

Sound Settings #

We’ll make use of the sound types we’ve set up and assign default audio clips to them for all our combatants. The individual combatants can replace them with their own setup if you want.

You can also assign multiple audio clips to a sound type – one of the added clips will be played randomly.

The audio clips can be found in Assets/Tutorial Assets/NinjaAdventure/Sounds/Game/.

Fighter Combatant #

For now, we’ll just change the name and set up a prefab, we don’t need any status setup (other than the automatic default setup), since we don’t fight in battles yet and only want to run around.

Navigate to Combatants > Combatants and select the Default combatant.

Content Information #

Base Settings > Prefab Settings #

Save Changes #

That’s it for the setup in the editor for now.

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Scene Setup #

Open the World scene (found in Assets/Scenes/).

We’ll add an ORK Game Starter, a Spawn Point and Camera Borders.

Add Game Starter #

First, we’ll add a game starter to the scene and set it up for quick game testing. We’ll go with the ORK Game Starter variant.

Game starters are used to initialize your project, without it, you can’t access any functionality without causing errors. You can learn more about game starters in this documentation.

You can either use the scene hierarchy context menu or the scene wizard (e.g. via CTRL + ALT + W, or using the Unity menu: Window > Gaming Is Love > Makinom Scene Wizard).

I’ll use the context menu: ORK Framework > ORK Game Starter

The added game starter should already have your Project asset set up. Change the following setting in the ORK Game Starter component’s inspector.

It doesn’t really matter where you place the game starter, but it’s best to have them somewhere outside your actual level architecture to not get in the way.

Add Spawn Point #

Next, we’ll add a spawn point – we’ll spawn on the right side of town, near the gate.

Like the game starter, you can add a spawn point via the context menu or the scene wizard. The scene wizard has searchable popups for adding game objects or components, which can get very convenient when having to set up multiple things.

I’ll use the context menu: Makinom > Spawn Point

The spawn point will be placed directly on the ground (or whatever else is hit by the raycast into the scene) at the screen’s center – and it automatically has the next free Spawn ID assigned. Spawn IDs are used to identify a spawn point, so when we (soon) spawn our player using a schematic, that’s the spawn ID we’ll use.

Since there wasn’t a spawn point in the scene before, we’ll have the spawn ID 0 assigned.

Transform #

Change the position of the spawn point in the inspector.

Spawn Point #

Add Camera Borders #

If you look at the scene hierarchy, you’ll see a game object called Camera Borders, it’s child objects are for our camera borders:

• Town
• Gate
• Field 1
• Field 2

Those two already have a collider components (used as triggers) set up to cover their parts of the scene – when the player moves between them, the camera will switch over.

All we need to do is add a Camera Border component to each of them using the component menu. The component offers a few settings, but we don’t need any of them for our setup, except for the Gate camera border, so select the Gate child object and change the following setting.

That’s it for the scene, save your changes.

Start Schematic #

A schematic is a reusable, node-based blueprint for what you want to do. It consists of connected nodes that work similar to a flow chart – each node performs a task and decides the next node that’ll be executed. You can learn more about schematics in this Makinom documentation.

You’ll make frequent use of schematics when creating your games, e.g. to talk to an NPC, animate an action in battle or, as in this case, set up what happens at the start of a new game. We’ll cover different setups as part of this tutorial series.

Open the Makinom editor again and navigate to Schematics – it’s time to set up a simple schematic we’ll use when starting our game.

We’ll join the Fighter to the player group and spawn at the spawn point (spawn ID 0).

Join Group #

Add Node > Group > Group > Join Group

First, we’ll add Fighter to the player group. This will automatically join a combatant to the group’s battle group as well, unless no free slot is available.

Spawn ORK Player #

Add Node > Game > Player > Spawn ORK Player

Now, we’ll spawn the player in the scene.

And that’s it for the schematic. Click on Save Schematic to save it, e.g. as StartGame.

I usually save all my schematics in Assets/Schematics/ and sub folders of it.

Start Menu #

We don’t use the start menu yet (we just hit play in the World scene), but we’ll need to set up our start schematic.

Navigate to UI > Start Menu and change the following settings.

New Game Settings #

Save Changes #

And that’s it – we’re ready to take our player for a test walk!

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Testing #

Alright – let’s take a walk. With the World scene still open, hit play.

Great, we spawn, can move around and the camera border is doing it’s job!

Next, we’ll set up the game’s music and connect our scenes.