Unity Asset Store - Freebie of the Week - Mocap Online - Animation Pack

Every week Unity Asset Store has a publisher sale and you get a free asset. This week's Publisher sale is Mocap Online - and the freebie of the week is the RIFLE Basic - Mocap Animation Pack. Coupon Code = MOCAPONLINE ► Unity Asset Store Freebie - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations

If you didn't know it, the Unity Asset Store runs a publisher sale every week, and each featured publisher gives one asset away free. This week's publisher is MoCap Online and the freebie is their Rifle Basic mocap animation pack.

How the weekly freebie works

Each week the Asset Store features a publisher, discounts their catalogue, and attaches a coupon code that makes one specific asset from that catalogue completely free.

It runs every week without fail, which means it's worth a bookmark. Most developers who use the Asset Store regularly have built a substantial library this way without spending anything.

What's in the free pack

The freebie is the Rifle Basic mocap animation pack from MoCap Online. What you get is a fully set up character with a rifle, plus different weapons, and a full set of animations driving all of it.

The animations are motion captured rather than hand keyed, which is the reason this one is worth grabbing even if a shooter isn't on your roadmap. Realistic weapon handling is difficult and slow to animate by hand, and mocap weight and timing are hard to fake.

Because the character comes already set up, you can drop it into a scene and see the animations running immediately instead of spending an afternoon on rig configuration before you know whether the pack is any good.

The pricing

The pack normally sells for 44.99. During the publisher sale it's marked down to 22.49, which is the standard 50 percent publisher sale discount.

With the coupon code applied, you pay nothing at all. The sale price is only relevant as a measure of what you're actually getting, which is a mid-priced professional animation pack rather than a token giveaway.

Claiming it

Scroll down on the sale page to find the free asset and the coupon code, which for this week is mocaponline. Copy the code.

Go to the asset, add it to your cart, and at checkout insert the coupon code. The total drops to zero and the pack is permanently attached to your Asset Store account.

One habit worth adopting: claim the freebie every week whether or not you have a use for it that day. It takes under a minute, the assets never expire, and the week you need a specific thing is rarely the week it happens to be free.