Are you looking for a free 3D character for your game?

Are you searching for a cool 3D character blitheness for costless?

Take you lot ever heard about Mixamo?

Nigh game developers struggle with 3D avails similar 3D characters. Either you have to purchase them or yous have to create them in a 3D Modeling Software (e.g. Blender). Only what about those who attempt to learn unity game development and don't want to invest fourth dimension into learning how to use Blender, or 3D Modelling in full general?

Well, we have something crawly for you. Mixamo!!!

What is Mixamo??

Mixamo is a 3D estimator graphics engineering science company. Based in San Francisco, the company develops and sells web-based services for 3D character animation. Mixamo's technologies apply machine learning methods to automate the steps of the character animation procedure, including 3D modeling to rigging and 3D animation.

Open the Mixamo website

https://www.mixamo.com/

Maximo Webpage - Get Animated

Y'all need an adobe business relationship to access the Mixamo features.

Create an Account or login

  • Either yous create a new account or log in with Google or Facebook.
  • Later on the login, you volition see the home folio of the Mixamo website. Equally per your requirements click on either of the two buttons
Click Browse character or Animation Button
  • Click on the Characters Button
Character Selection
Remy in the T-Pose on Mixamo
  • On the website, y'all will run across a list of characters on the left side and the character display console on the right side.

Download a 3D graphic symbol from the Mixamo website

  • If you want to download merely the 3D character (without any animation) just click on the Download Button.
Download button
Download Settings
  • Here yous have to select the format & pose of the character.
Character Model Format

Mixamo provides the file in the FBX file format for the famous game engine – unity for more stability.

"The Autodesk FBX file format is a popular 3D data interchange format utilized between 3D editors and game engines. It was originally created as the native file format for Kaydara's Filmbox move capture tool. The FBX format proper name and extension is derived from the application name FilmBox."

  • Select the T POSE for your graphic symbol.
Character Model Pose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-pose

  • Now click on the download button.
Fbx File

Download Unity 2019.four or newer

https://unity3d.com/become-unity/download/archive?_ga=2.28208380.1946435242.1592192111-400033870.1591534108

  • Open a Unity project and add this fbx file.[I am using Unity 2019.4 with URP Template]
  • Create a new scene and rename it to "Character Demo".
Download Unity 2019.4
  • The grapheme is working in the scene just the character material is non institute.

Import Character & Ready Material of Character

  • Extract the materials from the character model.
  • Click on Model FBX file open Model Settings
Import Character Model Material & Texture
  • Click on Materials Tab.
Extract Materials
  • Now Extracts Materials and Textures in the specific folder in Assets.
Character Textures Folder
  • you got all the textures of the graphic symbol model.
Textures
Character Textures of our Mixamo 3D Character
  • If y'all got this popup about normal map settings and so click the "Fix Now" Button.
  • It volition set a normal map belongings of Materials.
Normal Map setting
  • Now mark all materials in the model file. – Every bit you can see the character consists of many parts and dreg them onto the actor
Materials in Character FBX File
  • Final Output of the character model.
Final Character Output
The Mixamo 3D Character in our Unity 3D Projection

Download Character Blitheness

  • Now you need an blitheness file for this character model. so open Mixamo.com again.
Check Animations in Mixamo Website
Go to Animations. Y'all can encounter the default position is the T- Pose. Change that by clicking on ane of the animations.
  • Select any blitheness clip from the list.
Select Animation from list
Exam the different animations, e.g. the Boxing Animation on Mixamo
  • At present you see that a battle blitheness clip assigned to the 3D Model.
  • you can change the settings in for the animation clip which are bachelor on correct side. [no demand to modify].
Check Animation Preview
Cheque out the Blitheness on Mixamo
  • You can zoom in/out, rotate, reset the blitheness prune using these controls.
Preview Window Feature
  • Download this boxing animation for the current grapheme.
  • Click the Download Button.
Download Setting Window
Download Settings on Mixamo, when downloading a 3D Character Blitheness

In the download settings.

Format – [Blazon of Object file]

File Format Selection

Skin – [animation file including 3D model or not]

  • we already downloaded the character fbx file so select "Without Skin".
Fbx file skin settings

Frames per Second [blitheness frames counter ]

Frames Per Second

Key frame Reduction [utilise animation optimization technique or not]

Keyframe Reduction
Primal
Download Settings final
  • Here the animation file was downloaded in the FBX format.
  • Salvage the file and add it to the Unity project.
Boxing Animation File Download
Save the 3D Graphic symbol for your Unity 3D Game on the PC.

Import the blitheness File to your Unity Project

  • In Avails, create a new folder with the proper name " Mixamo Character".
  • Add a grapheme fbx file, graphic symbol Texture folder, and the animation file in the "Mixamo Character" binder.
Import Animation in Unity
  • Open the animation and the animator window.
  • Create an animator controller for the grapheme.

An Animator Controller allows you lot to arrange and maintain a set of Animation Clips and associated Blitheness Transitions
for a grapheme or object.

Create Animator Controller
animator Controller File

Animator Component

  • Add animator component to the character.
Add Animator Component in Character
  • Assign an animator controller in the controller field.
  • Add the graphic symbol's avatar in the Avatar field.
  • If yous couldn't observe any avatar in the grapheme model then create a new avatar for the grapheme.
    • Select the grapheme model file and open settings.
  • Click on the the Rig Tab.
3d Model Rig Settings
  • Set the Avatar Definition and the Root node so click on the utilize push.
Character Model Setting - Root Node
  • you can see the avatar in the grapheme's model file.
Caracter Avatar
The Mixamo Grapheme now has an Avatar
  • Assign the Character'southward Avatar in the Avatar Holding of the Animator Component equally shown in the image below.
Add Avatar in Animator Component
Add together the remyAvatar to the Avatar property of the Animator
  • Open animator window, and drag the animation clip to the animator window.
Animator window - Add Animation File
Drag the blitheness to your Animator
  • Run game project,
Final character Animation Work
Play animation
  • Keen, character and its animations work perfectly.

Summary

Every bit you tin can see, Mixamo is giving us amazing 3D Models and Animations for costless. Nosotros can utilise them for our projects, without having to learn how to create our own 3D models or animations. This saves a lot of time and makes developing games with Unity 3D an ever smoother experience.
Which animations exercise y'all like virtually? Are you planning on using Mixamo in your projects? Let us know in the comments.