Swapping the Third Person Armature for a different character

For quick prototyping, the provided robot Third Person Character model is fine. But when making your own games, you’ll want to replace that model with a character in keeping with your game genre, such as magicians, elves, soldiers, merchants, zombies, and so on. In this recipe, we’ll import a free 3D character model from the Asset Store, and customize our scene to animate this new character rather than the default robot.

Figure 9.7: Our downloaded Elf character replacing the default robot

Getting ready

This recipe works on any scene using the Unity Third Person Character assets. So you could create a new project or work on a copy of a project from any of the earlier recipes in this chapter.

Note that you can find the Character Elf free character from the Asset Store at this URL (thanks to Maksim Bugrimov for publishing this as a free asset): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters...