SITUATION: I want to create an animated "3D experiment" which will be imported to Unity for Vuforia AR. The animated 3D model will include lots of small 3D objects(10 chemical equipments,...).
I'VE DONE: At first, I had them animated in Blender by changing each "equipment's" state, one by one at each keyframe (140 keyframes in total). Then I exported the file to .fbx and put it in Unity.
I EXPECT:: The "experiment" had all of its equipment animated, which means there would be only one big model - The "experiment" and its one Animation.
TURNED OUT: each object has their own animation, 10 "equipments" - 10 animations, each lasts 140 keyframes. The inspector only let one animation run at a time. (I haven't tried but I guess: to make all of them animate in parallel in Unity we have to assign each "chemical equipment" to its according animation, somehow...)
MY QUESTION is that: Is It Possible to make all 10 "chemical equipment" as only one big object and all the animations into one animation, so that when animating each "equipment" is just like animating a part of an object and when exporting the file, we will have only: ONE big model and ONE animation for that model.