A Touch of Polish

Our coin boxes work, but they could be a bit more polished. We have obvious feedback that the player has successfully struck a box, with the color changing and the coin popping out, but how about adding a little “bump” animation as well so that it feels like we’re really hitting it with some force? We’ll do this by creating a small animation.

Creating a Bump Animation

Thankfully, our disabled coin box is under another GameObject so we can just use a Transform curve to make it bounce. Let’s get it going with the following steps:

1. Select the boxCoin_disabled Prefab.

2. Click the Add Component button and select Miscellaneous > Animator.

3. Create a new Animator Controller named “Block” in the _animations folder of the Project ...

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