Model Importer: Rig

The Rig tab allows you to assign or create an avatar definition to your imported skinned Model so that you can animate it. See documentation on Asset Preparation and Import for more details.

By default, the Rig tab looks like this:

There are three Animation Type options:

• Generic
• Humanoid
• Legacy

Animation Type: Generic

If you have a non humanoid character e.g. a quadruped, or any animatable entity that you wish to use with Mecanim choose Generic. After choosing you will then need to identify a bone in the drop down to use as the root node.

Animation Type: Humanoid

If you have a humanoid character (ie, two legs, two arms and a head) then choose Humanoid and ‘Create from this model’. An Avatar will be created to best match the bone hierarchy - see Avatar Creation and Setup or you can pick an alternative avatar Definition that has already been set up.

Property:		Function:
Animation Type		The type of animation.
	None	No animation present
	Legacy	Legacy animation system
	Generic	Generic Mecanim animation
	Humanoid	Humanoid Mecanim animation system
Avatar Definition		Where to get the Avatar definition
	Create from this model	The Avatar should be based on this model
	Copy from other Avatar	Point to an Avatar config set up on another model.
Configure…		Go to the Avatar configuration
Optimize Game Object		When turned on, the game object transform hierarchy of the imported character will be removed and stored in the Avatar and Animator component. The SkinnedMeshRenderers of the character will then directly use the Mecanim internal skeleton. This option improves the performance of the animated characters. You should turn it on for the final product. In optimized mode skinned mesh matrix extraction is also multithreaded.

Animation Type: Legacy

Choose legacy if you wish to use the legacy animation system and import and use animations as with 3.x.

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• 2017–12–05 Page amended with limited editorial review

• Materials tab added in 2017.2 NewIn20172