Carly Meyerhardt
Game Developer
Palm Tree - Environmental Art and Animation
Animated Palm Tree.
I used two different animators to facilitate the movement: one for trunk, one for branches. This allows for any number of branches to exist in the transform hierarchy of the tree which saves me from having to edit the animation files for bare vs full trees.
The coconuts are on Hinge Joints.
One single branch modeled in blender
Palm Tree Branch Variation of Transform
Palm tree branches are duplicated in Unity and can be rotated individually for variation.
Branch Bones
Trunk Bones
Palm Trunk Anim
Palm Branch Anim
Used a small script to set a float offset parameter for the animations of the palm branches so they weren't all on the same cycle.
Test Scene Demo of Palm Trees with Zone Music