Reusable Animation with different Sprite Sheets

This have been a problem for a lot of years and I couldn't find something useful, so I'm reopening a thread, I hope you can help me with this.

I have 2 spriteSheets as you can see in the next images:



The player and the NPC. they should have exactly the same animations, but I had to do the animation files and the animator controller again. I want to put more NPCs with same SpriteSheet but different textures. How can I do this without doing more animations + animators?
Thanks in advance.

 

Check out Animancer (link in my signature). It has a Sprite Renderer Texture Swap script that does exactly what you want.

I obviously recommend using Animancer for all your animations, but that script doesn't care what animation system you're using so if you want to keep using Animator Controllers you can just delete everything except that script then open it and remove the

[AddComponentMenu]

and

[HelpURL]

attributes at the top.

Here it is in action:

 

Hi, thanks for your reply. I tried to implement it but I still don't know how can I handle an animation controller in order to have more than 1 animation. I don't know if I can find a tutorial with a full animated character with this method.

 

Hi! Thanks for your reply. I'm looking at animancer documentation and it looks very good! I'm still very new with Unity, I don't know if you have a Tutorial where I can see how to make a full functional character with animations using this asset? Thanks in advance

 

The State Machines examples go through the general ideas of how you can build a character's logic and the 3D Game Kit example remakes the character from Unity's 3D Game Kit in Animancer.

 

Thanks for the help!