How exactly do I prepare an animated character for Unity? (using Maya)

Check out the link below:

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Manual/Character-Animation.html

You can access animations created from your 3D package (such as Maya or 3dsMax) in two ways.

Method 1: Save out a different Maya or 3dsMax file for each animation, like so:

enemy@idle (these are what you name your 3D files) enemy@walkcycle (these are what you name your 3D files) enemy@runcycle (these are what you name your 3D files) enemy@jump (these are what you name your 3D files)

Import the files into your Assets folder.

Now you need a script to call each of these animations depending on what key you press. If you press 'w' to move forward, then enemy@walkcycle should play. If you press 'shift+w', then enemy@runcycle will play.

Method 2: Save out 1 Maya or 3dsMax file with all of your animations in 1 file. Then use a script to call specific frames from that file. You could have frames 1-48 be the walk cycle and frames 58-96 be a run cycle, etc.

All of the above settings can be accessed from the importer.

For more information, please check out http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/Animation.html Hope this helps! =) Let me know if you have any more questions ...and if this solution helped you or not. Thanks!

Shawn