🏃┃animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Also, while you won't see it mentioned much, there is the 'simple animator' on the unity github which is a legacy like basic animation script with no state machine.

[noble pond]

Oh I remembered I also had watched this video, which started me on this path: https://youtu.be/nBkiSJ5z-hE

[hybrid tinsel]

Well fuck Lost Relic, frankly.

Stupid clickbait video.

[noble pond]

Lol oh? I've never watched much of his stuff but the video seemed reasonable

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, no. His video is literally the worst of both worlds- it is still using the animator, but it isn't taking any benefit of the animator's features.

So no performance gains and it is a mess.

[noble pond]

So I'm still using the animator just from having the animations sitting in it? Not using blend trees or connections or anything

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, you are still using 'the part that uses up resources'

[noble pond]

Sorry I'm not trying to be obtuse, I'm just still new at this and I have a flaw where I spend weeks trying to figure out the "right" way to do things at the expense of actually making progress

[hybrid tinsel]

(Also, while this isn't mentioned often playing a state directly from code is marginally slower than setting an animator variable. Not enough to avoid it, but given the penny pinching you're discussing...)

Anyway, if I understand you correctly, you are trying to make a sustem that supports playing a different animation based on character state, for around 50 characters?

And these are sprite animations with no transitions?

[noble pond]

Correct. Think like 50 grunts all just moving or playing a basic 4 frame attack animation

2D sprite sheet

[hybrid tinsel]

There are several options. You could even put all the flipbook animation in the gpu with a shader. Is it WORTH IT? Probably not.

[noble pond]

What's your recommendation? Just using blend trees? And if I have performance issues I deal with it then?

To be clear the blend tree is mostly being used to... Determine what directional animation to play?

[hybrid tinsel]

If you use a single script to animate all the characters you could probably squeeze more performance out, but then again maybe you wouldn't.

[noble pond]

I guess I've already coded my version so idk if it's worth me trying to reinvent the wheel again

[hybrid tinsel]

It really is up to you; I mostly suggest not jumping on half-baked setups that claim to hold easy answers. If they were easy, then...

[noble pond]

Idk shit like this is what makes me want to try out Godot, it was clearly meant for 2D from the start

[hybrid tinsel]

There are a lot if reasons to recommend godot, honestly. More every day.

[noble pond]

Also I think it has built in 2D pathfinding. I've found some guy's unity version of that but sometimes I worry it'll break/not work properly

There was a while where one of his scripts was giving me a compiler error

Well I think I've succeeded in confusing myself if nothing less

[hybrid tinsel]

Take a deep breath =p

[noble pond]

Do you mind briefly summarizing what the official unity/"normal" way of doing this would be? Think 2D top down four way animation like Zelda LTTP, with some basic attack or magic animations, all frame based with no transitions.

[strong hedge]

any way to not care about y position? for example i want my enemy to move left no matter what Y hes on

[trim hatch]

parent object

[hybrid tinsel]

Remove the y keyframes

[hybrid tinsel]

The official unity way right now seems to be firing everyone making examples so I have no idea what they'd suggest

[trim hatch]

probably to use the playables api and make your own animator controller that uses classes that inherit from playable asset

but have you tested using the animator controller in the use case that you want yet?

[granite kite]

there here in the project inspection window

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok, and?

[granite kite]

i figured it out

[ornate storm]

can I put cameras in a scene and set up the rotations and angles and motion and everything and switch the display between them and then just render the display to an mp4? Does unity do that?

if so what's that called

[agile solstice]

I don't see anything that would prevent you from setting up a cutscene in unity and recording it

[ornate storm]

wew
sounds nice
I'll check it out then thx

cutscene lol I should have gotten that

[agile solstice]

There are many ways to animate cameras but Timeline is one tool designed specifically for such

[ornate storm]

https://medium.com/geekculture/creating-a-cutscene-in-unity-aaec5042aaab
yes thx this poster also recommends timeline

and it has the added benefit of being recent

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, timeline+cinemachine work well for cutscenes

[raven kelp]

is is possible to enable and disable animation layers based off events or parameters ?

[calm prism]

am sorry Wat is this error trying to tell me and how do i fix it ??? from what am getting is that the avatar is wrong / invalid but wat does that mean exactly and how do i fix it

[latent needle]

Hello

Anyone knows how to deal with it from script side?

curve = AnimationCurve.Linear(0.0f, 50.0f, 0.0f, 50.0f);
clip.SetCurve("", typeof(Material), "Left Arm Down-Up", curve);

This doesn't work, idk if because of name ( I changed it to test it ) or because the type. ( IDK what type are that two arrows )

I try to animate a VRoid character

|| Maybe someone knows other way to achieve this ||

[latent needle]

Okey

I got this

When you animate a VRoid character with transform

Then remove a animator

[snow depot]

Transitions happen before OnStateEnter() called?

[tidal lance]

For some reason, I can't export an animated camera to Unity with its FOV animations intact.

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried enabling 'import custom properties' in the fbx import inspector? Not sure if that particular one is supported, but...

[tidal lance]

Custom properties are quite different iirc.

And nope, it does not appear on the import settings

[raven kelp]

Is there a way to fix mixamo animations without having to import them into blender and exporting them one by one

[strange spruce]

Is there any foolproof way of getting a group of particle systems total length of time?

Say I want to destroy the particle after its finished, is there a good way to, no matter what the group of particles are find the max length of that group possible?

Or do I have to basically make a custom class with information for each particle animation

[agile solstice]

"Max length"? That depends on the particle lifetime and when it stops emitting
You can check for ParticleSystem.particleCount though

[strange spruce]

Yeah, there are a lot of things which go into it, the start lifetime is a curve, duration doesn't mean how long the effect actually lasts either, and if you have more than one system you have to get the max from all of them. it isn't trivial to find how long it could go for, I was hoping there was some property that calculated all that for you

[agile solstice]

I guess it'd be possible for it to be a feature but it'd have to take into account a lot of things

[strange spruce]

Yeah so what is the best way to handle these things? keep the particle system alive longer than any of your effects? have a info class for each system which you keep data about length etc?

[agile solstice]

That depends what's the purpose is and how dynamic it needs to be

[strange spruce]

Say I have various animations for death and spawn of mobs,

[raven kelp]

My animations i imported from mixamo look weird when imported straight into unity, for some reason the player stands completely upright and straightens his legs while walking. However, I import the same animations into blender then export them and import them back into unity they look fine. This is quite time consuming so I was wondering if their is a better solution ?

[nimble drum]

Hello
I'm absolutely absolute unity beginner and have a question about animation import from blender.
I made some new animations in blender and want to add them to the character in unity.
Is this possible?

[cobalt wasp]

Question: Just purchased the modern interiors pack by LimeZu, and was wondering if anyone had suggestions or advice for creating a character customization/generator within the game itself that would work with all of the animations without needing hundreds of separate animations. Basically, there are multiple sprite sheets for each body, hair, accessory, outfit, etc. Each of these sheets has like 60 animations in them which can quickly add up. I understand the process of layering the animations as "body parts" through a game objects children, but wanted to know if there was an easy way to sprite swap each item so I only need 60 animations for all of the bodies, 60 for all of the outfits etc. Any help would be great!

[cobalt wasp]

If it helps, I am trying to go for something similar to Stardew Valley's character customization

[crystal echo]

A very basic question but I have an attack animation that works just fine in preview but ends at a different rotation in playmode?

[cobalt wasp]

I would make sure that the animation rotates back to it's beginning state as its last frame before looping, or go through code and set the rotation to 0 after the animation completes

[crystal echo]

Alright thank you while the animation does look fine in preview I will set the rotation to 0 after the animation finishes

Yep works fine now :)

[dry kindle]

Is crossfade a better animation tool?

[hybrid tinsel]

Better at what? That's like asking 'Is a screwdriver a better tool?' with no context.

[dry kindle]

I was looking at some vids and posta about game dev, and one of them mentioned that crossfade is a better tool choice for smooth consistent animation

I've had some with issues with Unitys animation tool with its speed and interaction with other objects.

[hybrid tinsel]

Animation.Crossfade is part of unity's animator.

It isn't a separate system.

And 'Some random guy said this particular function is a better choice' Better than what? What are the options being considered? What is the use case?

[dry kindle]

His case had to do with jittery animations that can be smooth down by using crossfade

Although I have another issue with a project where I had to slow down the animation of the object colliding so it didn't go through the other objects

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok, you're being way too vague for anyone to draw a useful amount of info; Crossfade is entirely about transitions from one animation to another, and it uses the same process to do so under the hood as any transition.

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity animation doesn't work well with physics, annoyingly; the unity devs seem to be split between the ones who don't understand the problem(Ted_Wikman) and the ones who believe that physics and animation should be kept separate(MelvMay).

[dry kindle]

So no fix then, guess I will have to do some Clever coding

[hybrid tinsel]

I didn't say there's no fix. There are probably multiple fixes. You haven't really described your issue well enough to suggest something though.

[raven kelp]

How can I fix a UP and RIGHT animation blend for diagonal movement, the animation looks completely unnatural

[dry kindle]

I'm following a game dev tutorial on how to make a 3d bowling game.

After a hit the ball against the pins I need to clear or set the pins for the next play.

So the tutorial instructs to animate a retangular shaped block gameobject to use as a swiper whenever the game needs to clear the pins that fell.

The real issue is that need to slow the animation speed so the swiper doesn't just move through the pins like their intangible.

Which of course slows down the entire set of animations of clearing and setting the pins for next play

[hybrid tinsel]

I wouldn't use an animation for that; I'd just control the swiper with a script that uses physics to move it. But it sounds like what you really need to do it to set the physics to interpolated and perhaps increase the physics steps to make it more accurate. This is getting more into #⚛️┃physics than animation though.

[twin musk]

Question, i have in my game alot of interactable tools and every tool has its own animations for example, a spoon that have a clip animation and when the spoon colid with a plate, the animation run, but the problem is, when i use a different size spoon or whatever tool, i need to make new animation for every single tool, even tho 2 spoons with different size could do the same animation, so is there is a way to reuse the animation clips with different sized tools instead of making the same animation over and over ?

[misty mantle]

Hello everyone, I don't know where to put this but I want to do a 'climbing up on a ledge' thing for a 2D game. I have the literal animation but how to I move the character up the ledge and actually translate the character so it is up on the ledge when it's done, like have the camera follow it and everything?

[hybrid tinsel]

As long as the objects have the same hierarchy and names, you can reuse an animation clip between them

[hybrid tinsel]

There are multiple ways to do it. If you are using root motion, it should just work like any other animation as long as you trigger it in the right spot. If you aren't, you'd want to teleport at the right moment, moving the pivot point and the position at the same time.

[misty mantle]

Im using the Animator component, i tried to key transform.position but it screwed up everything

The animation itself works, i just need to literally move the character onto the ledge

[hybrid tinsel]

That's something you'd want to do in code probably.

[nimble drum]

Hello
I'm absolute unity beginner and have a question about animation import from blender.
I made some new animations in blender and want to add them to the character in unity.
Is this possible?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. On mobile so I can't link the doc but if you export your new animations with the name of the original, then '@', then the animation name they will be treated as extra animations on the original file.

[nimble drum]

@hybrid tinsel I didn't understood the '@'.
Does that mean that I can make changes in Blender and only have to save them into the original FBX.file?

Thank you very much

[hybrid tinsel]

You can update the original file with more animations, too. But I was referring to this:

[nimble drum]

@hybrid tinsel
Thanks.
You saved my Sunday 🙂
Have a great day

[worthy portal]

guys i have set the running animation as main animation but when i go to lay mode it still show no animation

[agile solstice]

This is not really enough information to pinpoint any problem
First try to get the animation to display in edit mode by following a guide or the documentation

[worthy portal]

see the vid

[agile solstice]

The character in the scene should have the animator component and you should see it playing the animation when you have selected them and are playing the animation in the Animation window

[worthy portal]

it have the animator component

[agile solstice]

The Animation window likewise should give warnings if the animator component is in the wrong spot in the hierarchy which can stop animation clips from playing

And it would confirm that you're editing the correct .controller asset

You probably missed some of those steps which is why I recommend retracing your steps with a guide

[gleaming void]

Is there an alternative to Unity's Animation Rigging package? (just need the Damped Transform)

[twin musk]

I am at my wits end
How do I make a kart model move with a sphere collider WITHOUT having the model rotate WITH the collider

[gleaming void]

Screenshots? This isn't very clear

[agile solstice]

There are many IK packages on the asset store, though many were made before Animation Rigging was a thing so I don't know how they compare
One person I know recommends Fast IK

[gleaming void]

My bad - I only need an alternative to Damped Transform

[twin musk]

Ill check how I can record a gif of the problem

[gleaming void]

It doesn't work correctly for me, and it seems like a problem with many users on the forum

[snow depot]

make a script that copies just the position of a gameobject?

[twin musk]

Its way too stressing to make a gif of it but I mean that the Pivot point of the Kart model is the Pivot point of the Sphere Collider instead of having NO pivot point of the Collider, and that the Car model Rotates with the Pivot of the Sphere Collider

[gleaming void]

Is the Kart parented under the Sphere?

Or is the Sphere Collider just a component on the Kart?

[twin musk]

Sphere Collider is Parented OVER the kart Model

[gleaming void]

To what?

See that's why it's confusing. We need a screenshot of the editor, to see the hierarchy and the components.

At least I do

[twin musk]

will do
Edit: BUT FIRST Let me test something related to that

[twin musk]

this is the Hierarchy

[hybrid tinsel]

Write your own damped transform?

Or maybe animation toolkit

[twin musk]

I'm semi-sad to say that If I want some things to work I'm going to have to CODE it instead of using the editor

Because I applied a Lock Rotation script and its now on the right track

[tight light]

I did a quick search and couldn't really find anything on this so
Can animation clips have multiple layers? For example, I have idle animations for each of the 8 directions the player can be facing; is it possible to have these 8 directions all on one animation clip (to reduce the number of clips), or do they all need to be on separate clips? Since the project I'm working on will have quite a few states such as idling, walking, jumping, etc., the number of clips could grow quite large if each direction was a separate clip

[trim hatch]

use a blend tree

[gleaming void]

How would I write my own damped transform? I'm not very well versed in C#

[hybrid tinsel]

That's what happens with you use a game engine; eventually you will need to code something.

[hybrid tinsel]

You will need to define very specifically what you want it to do first.

[gleaming void]

I kinda found the problem. The Damped transforms keep accumulating over time, resulting in extreme transformations. However Animation Rigging toolkit does not offer any in-house solution to clamp the transforms, and I don't know what values to clamp them to, since they change a lot during runtime...

[raven kelp]

Can someone help me with trying to fix or find a solution to something to do with my blending

[hybrid tinsel]

Animation rigging and animation toolkit are separate things.

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you actually post the problem you are attempting to solve?

[raven kelp]

Sure thing

[gleaming void]

I'm not aware of the Animation toolkit. I'm using Animation Rigging toolkit.

[hybrid tinsel]

"Animation Rigging toolkit" is unreal. Animation rigging package is unity's. Animation toolkit is a package on the asset store.

[frozen shuttle]

Can I move an animation transition to another animation clip in the animator window?

[hybrid tinsel]

I believe you can with script but there is no way in the UI.

[frozen shuttle]

Okay, thanks

I'm making a football game and I'm trying to make different teams with their own sprites but basically the same animations and it's getting a little cumbersome 😆

Probably best to just for me to tough it out and not get cute

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use animation override controllers for that. Allows you to keep the logic of the base animation controller but replace the actual clips.

[frozen shuttle]

Oh okay that sounds perfect, googling now, thanks again champ

[hybrid tinsel]

Champ? That's a new one

[cobalt wasp]

Question: Looking to create a character customizer similar to Stardew Valley's (pixel art character with many different options for clothes etc). I have an asset list with thousands of sprites and want to make sure all of the animations work correctly. I understand animation layering, but was wondering if there was a way to switch the sprite sheet used for each animation (each sprite sheet has a different accessory for example but they are all set up with the correct and same animation order) without needing to create hundreds of animations for each different item. Any help would be great!

[raven kelp]

Im using root motion and using a blending tree to blend my movement animations, UP DOWN LEFT and RIGHT all work fine. (UP and LEFT) and (DOWN and RIGHT) also look natural. However (LEFT and BACK) aswell as (RIGHT and UP) dont work well, the avatar seems to spread out their legs and hover. Is there a solution or temporary fix to this issue ? I understand I Ideally would animate a whole new animation for these actions but I have no experience animating and when attempting to do so Im having issues with rigging aswell as making my animations actually look good. Is there something else I can do or do i have to make a new animation ?

[raven kelp]

(Right and up) and (Left and back) are the last two actions seen in the video just to clarify.

[hybrid tinsel]

That sort of artifact is usually caused by animations being out of sync- the 'leg up' motion of one matching up with the 'leg down' of the other, for instance; ideally animations in a blend should match timing wise.

Without actually examining things it is hard to guess more specifically what might be going on.

You should test out the animation in the preview window so you can see precisely which states are being blended when you have the issue.

[raven kelp]

This seems like it very likely could be the issue thanks for the advice

do you think it could be fixed with another animation layer with a new blend tree where the leg on the conflicting animation is disabled and override it ?

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems a lot more complicated(and prone to breaking) than just making sure the animations all sync up

So I'd probably start with the simpler options. And whatever you do, the first step is to figure out what is actually wrong or you'll just end up adding layers and layers of fixes.

[raven kelp]

Yeah your right thanks again

[hybrid tinsel]

Given that it doesn't happen the same in all directions, it might be an issue with the script that is controlling your animation variables as well.

So I'd check your animator at runtime to see that all the floats are what you expect them to be for your inputs.

[raven kelp]

the floats are as expected

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok, was worth checking since that's the easiest thing to fix. 😄

[clever bolt]

How do people turn frames into animation? Like, dool they put the individual frames in a folder

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on what you're specifically trying to do. If you have a sprite sheet cut into frames, then you can drag the frames into the animation window to make an animation out of them that can be played in an animator component. You can also use flipbook animation directly in the shader(either manually or with the shadergraph 'flipbook' node.)

[pallid dawn]

Hey,
i have an question i want that this flashlight model is moving with the camera it kinda does but i does not stick to the Top Body it just moves barely with the charakter.
i think its because of the Walk animation.

[toxic thorn]

hello, I have a problem with inconsistent animations. I made simple game in wich you destroy things. Walking,running and idle works fine but when im attacking somtimes animation plays a copule of secconds after it should or just straight up doesnt't play and freezes all animations so the player just stays still. How can i fix that? here is my code for animations https://hatebin.com/tviqrjiqos and my animator tab (2 screenshots with transitions in both sides)

[pallid dawn]

In your code you go into the Attack method and you set your canAttack to false.
So if you did it once you can never do it again?

the if is only true when canAttack is true and i think you never set it to true again.

[toxic thorn]

so i can't spam attack

in resetattack function im restoring it to true

but it was only intended for code so I can't spam. It shouldn't mess with animations because i don't have canAttack bool

[pallid dawn]

i think the problem is you never set your animator.SetBool("lightAttack", true); to false to return to your idle

[toxic thorn]

i fixed it, it was problem with animations priority

[toxic thorn]

i do

[pallid dawn]

where?

ah i see

[pallid dawn]

sry

[toxic thorn]

yeh

np

[celest crag]

@toxic thorn Don't cross-post next time, please.

[toxic thorn]

sorry, i was a little bit impatient

[raven kelp]

I believe I know the issue, I believe from a movement perspective It doesnt make sense for you to be able to step back and step to the side at the same time. Atleast it doesnt make sense from the perspective of the type of movement a boxer uses. Thats where the issues arise, i believe the only fix is to make a new animation. If you think there's something else that can be done I would appreciate it, but thanks for the help you gave because its helped me narroow down the issue (atleast i think it has lol)

[sturdy halo]

goddamn procedural animation is so damn hard AH

[tame furnace]

Inspired by brooklyn nine-nine ? https://preview.redd.it/8tldud751vp11.jpg?auto=webp&s=ba18170adad77548c076942ff82b0e2e13324712

[twin musk]

can someone help me with an animation, everything is the opposite. the idle is switched with the walking and etc. is anyone possible to call so i can screenshare it?

[uncut salmon]

What do you mean everyone is opposite? 🤔

[twin musk]

can call so i can screenshare it'

[uncut salmon]

Nope

[twin musk]

the idle animtaion is walking animation, and the walking animation is the idle

so if i press a

it shows the idle for the left facing

but if i stop moving it shows a walking animation in the direction im facing in

[uncut salmon]

Are you using an animator?

[twin musk]

first time ive used animator so i dont how to do it

this happens for blend trees, workaround is to get the remainder when devided by 1 normlizedTime=normalizedTime%1

[twin musk]

yes

[uncut salmon]

Check how it's hooked up. Maybe you swapped things around 🤷‍♂️

[twin musk]

yeah i looked but everything seems fine, let me double checkl

everything is correct

[uncut salmon]

Well, animations don't switch randomly unless you're calling them.

So either the animations themselves swapped, or you're calling the wrong conditions on the animator.

[twin musk]

movement.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
movement.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    anim.SetFloat("Horizontal", movement.x);
    anim.SetFloat("Vertical", movement.y);
    anim.SetFloat("Speed", movement.sqrMagnitude);

[uncut salmon]

Watch the animator when you're moving and see what it's calling.

[twin musk]

something really wierd

dont know how to explain it

store it in a variable float

[twin musk]

if i walk it calls back to the idle, and if im not moving it calls to the walking, i changed the default layer but it still does the same

[uncut salmon]

What are all those floats for though? Seems like you only need speed to control movement.

[twin musk]

im doing topdown 2d

so thats why i need vertical and horizontal to control which animations to play when the character goes up down or left right

[uncut salmon]

To be honest, if you're doing a 2D top down style game, you probably just want to call the animations directly in the animator.

No need to create transitions and such. That's mainly used for blending.

[twin musk]

yeah but im not sure how to use the animator, cause i just mostly use unity sprites.

[twin musk]

i just watched a brackeys tutorial and just followed fromt here

wait

i found the fix

ty for help either wya

[clever bolt]

How do I make a spritesheet

[silver musk]

Does anyone experienced with blender know how weight paint works?

I assumed that if something is painted to 0 weight, then the bone wouldn't affect it, but that clearly isn't the case.

It's okay, I think that I get it now.

[agile solstice]

That's how it works

Setting weight to 0 for one bone doesn't guarantee other bones don't have weight on those vertices

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, it is! https://i.imgur.com/PU7f37D.mp4

Normalized time has a slightly misleading name. It normalized the length of a single loop of the animation to 0-1, but then if you keep playing that state after the end you are going past that, so it goes past 1.

I misstated; it doesn't need to actually loop, but you are still running the state. Normalizedtime is the entire time the state has been running. As AB said, you can use modulo to get a true 0-1

Or just clamp the time if you don't want it looping.

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd ask why you're using RawInput, but fucking Brackeys...

[silver musk]

oh, thank you that makes sense.

[marble frigate]

hey guys how do i make my rig have normal numbers in editor?

so like, applying transforms in blender but in unity

these weird ass numbers are diffcult to work with

[hybrid tinsel]

Define 'normal numbers'?

[raven kelp]

Is it possible to add weight to animations in blend tree. for example, having one animation have a stronger effect on the blend then other animations

[young kiln]

hello, I've made some basic idle and walk animations for a model in Blender, and am now importing them into Unity; however, in my animation controller state machine, animations won't loop in their respective states, playing just once instead

I know I can, within Unity, enable "editing" in the animations as imported in the .fbx model, and check the "Loop Time" checkbox, but I was hoping to find a way of exporting from Blender with that enabled in the .fbx

in Blender, I've tried selecting all keyframes, pressing shift+e, and clicking "make cyclic" in the popup, but that didn't seem to work, the animations come with Loop Time unchecked

so, I know this is more of a Blender question than Unity, but what can I do to make animations loop in their state straight from the Blender import? if I change the exported model, I'll have to set those "Loop Time" checkboxes again

[hybrid tinsel]

You can set the loop mode in the fbx import settings.

[hybrid tinsel]

The weights are set by the floats you feed into it.

[hushed socket]

hey my animation going from one animation to another is doing a weird thing where at the end of doing the animation that was transitioned to instead of going back to the original animation in loop it does the same animation a second time which i dont understand

nevermind

i got it

[twin musk]

I have this AI of a chicken that moves around randomly, he doesn't pause very often and when he does, he'll stay until approach, chasing/atk does work except no atk anim yet, i'd like to get that + sound. haven't gotten it all to work tho i've tried, since this is the anim category well, i'd like a bit of help with the blend space for now maybe, but i might need a better code also, i wanted him to randomly pause and do a crow sound/anim when they haven't detected. (chicken is the enemy)
another thing he is supposed to side step and attack, though he looks the other way even after re-doing the animation on blender

[lone smelt]

Anyone know why this isnt working? Im trying to make an idle, running and walking animation

i made the blend tree and everything, but it only does the idle animation, even when running or walking

it only plays the idle animation

any help?

[pallid dawn]

yes

[pallid dawn]

can you show your animator

[lone smelt]

Yeah

Its really odd, because the tutorial im following did the same exact thing but theirs worked

[lone smelt]

Even when I play the animation in the blend tree, it works

[pallid dawn]

then your script?

[lone smelt]

should I show my script?

[pallid dawn]

yes

[lone smelt]

okay

its 100 lines, can i send a copy of it?

or hsould i just screenshot

should*

@pallid dawn

[pallid dawn]

idk why. looks fine to me

[lone smelt]

Rip

[agile solstice]

The weird ass-numbers are "scientific notation", you don't really have to "work" with them normally
-2.096214e-17 is the same as
-0.00000000000000002096214
so you can just round it to zero
If the e has a plus or doesn't have a minus, that means the magnitude of the value is bigger by so many decimal points, rather than smaller

And since you're not working in trillions of units that won't be relevant either

[lone smelt]

Anyone/

[agile solstice]

@lone smelt judging from the warnings in the console I would guess Player has an extra Animator with no controller that you're attempting to control with the script

[marble frigate]

basically position and rotation to be 0

in all bones

like when you press apply all transforms in blender

[agile solstice]

You can right click the transform component and "reset"

Blender's "apply transforms" modifies the geometry data itself so it's a bit different though

[lone smelt]

What do you mean?

and how do i fix that

sorry for asking so many quesitons lol

[agile solstice]

Look at the Player gameobject in inspector
Does it have an Animator?

[lone smelt]

yeah it does

let me send you a dxcreenshot

screenshot

[agile solstice]

That's the problem, then

[lone smelt]

do you see anything wrong here?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[lone smelt]

what should i change

[agile solstice]

Remove the extra animator

[lone smelt]

How do I do that

and under which

player or Toon

[lone smelt]

IT WORKED

NVM

thanks so much

i spent 4 hours on this

tryingto see what was wrong

[agile solstice]

That's how animations work, they override properties such as position, which is relative to parent object (or the scene if none)

So, place it under a parent object and move them together

By move I mean when placing the gameobject around the scene
The animation on the child object will always happen relative to parent object

[raven kelp]

Is it possible to add a diagonal movement that is out of sync with my forward and Right movement on my blend tree ??

[agile solstice]

I suppose it can be in any pace which the animation clip defined for that direction is

[hybrid tinsel]

Just add it as a separate state

blends are for animations that are in sync.

State transitions are for animations that aren't.

Don't over complicate things 😄

[raven kelp]

Thats a good point but since im using a joystick for movement wont that look very snappy ?

Ive spent like 5 days trying to figure out something that works lol, The issue is the movement to the right takes a step with the right leg first and my movement forward takes a step with left leg first. I didnt think about adding a new state but wouldnt that make the animations snap into eachother and limit the degree of motion I can achieve ?. The Issue is im using root motion but i may have to stop using it but again another problem is im making a boxing game and i felt root motion would provide a more natural grounded look.

[agile solstice]

So, the root problem is that the movements are animated in opposite pace
Ideally the pace would be shaded by all the animations exactly to avoid this sort of problem

[silver musk]

In blender, I was animating, and I added on a bone, but it isn't showing up in the vertex groups for my object, how do I add it?

Ok well adding another vertex group and giving it the same name as the bone seems to have worked.

[raven kelp]

Sorry, I dont completely understand can you elaborate

[agile solstice]

Get better animations, basically

[spring ridge]

Why the hell doesnt my mixamo animation not work on unity

[silver musk]

So in Blender, I just deleted some unwanted animations, and now my armature is displaying wierdly. It goes completely invisible if In Front isn't checked, but it doesn't actually appear in front when it is checked on. Does anyone know why this is happening. (Also I already tried restarting Blender).

[fathom kayak]

how do i link something in my animation to a state in my code? im trying to make a crouch animation happen if i crouch and it isnt working

[agile solstice]

If you're using Actions, their animation data persists unintuitively
Every time you preview an Action its keyframes are added to previously previewed keyframes
It sounds like the bone scales might've been inverted to turn the mesh inside out, and one such Action was necessary for keeping them the right way
Not sure what the fix is besides to always have preview Actions on top of an idle pose which has a keyframe for every bone

[silver musk]

Ok thank you.

[agile solstice]

*Well not "added to previous keyframes" but only altered keyframes are overwritten, all the rest carry over

[silver musk]

Alright. I don't understand the animation very well as I just started with it, so I appreciate the information.

[agile solstice]

Hope that clarifies a bit at least
The action editor is a real swamp of strange UX and half-baked features

NLA editor even more so if you have the misfortune of using that at some point

[marble frigate]

hi, im looking for a way to make my animation not influence the rotation of my ribcage, during idle animation i want to be able to rotate the ribcage up and down in order to look around but the animation overrides its rotation.

[raven kelp]

Search up avatar mask unity on Google

Btw that comes off a bit rude but Im actually trying to help 😂

[halcyon belfry]

does anyone know why my animator doesn't show the trigger white circle at the left when I have triggered the animation ?

[raven kelp]

What triggers it ?

Nice

[halcyon belfry]

like this

[raven kelp]

But what do you do that causes that trigger, a button press, a joystick movement ?

[halcyon belfry]

a becaon compare tag trigger

oh its fine alr after a restart, hmm but it doesn't change previously when I have restarted the programme

[hybrid tinsel]

Do the ribcage rotation in LateUpdate() and it will override the animator.

[livid robin]

Im having a problem where my animator has nothing in it when I have animations for that object can someone help please

[crisp hazel]

Hello

before I ask any questions, any etiquettes I need to keep in mind

I also did try to search for solutions non stop for 2 days now : " )

[trim hatch]

most people would perfer you just ask your question providing as much detail as possible

dont expect an answer either

[lean sage]

Server rules are in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[crisp hazel]

Ok so I have a question regarding integrating animation in Unity

now there is the Sprite sheet way which is pretty straight forward and simple

and there's the key framing way that well, requires more steps, I animate on after effects and wanted to integrate the animation in Unity using key framing, so I exported my animation as a script

is this how am supposed to do it and is there a better way

[cyan tulip]

Hey everyone... I have a really long shape like a worm I build in Blender. I want to animate it so it moves along a path. Important is, that I can import it in unity for my game. Any suggestions what could be a good workflow in blender?

[agile solstice]

I don't think you can export sprite sheet keyframe data to unity without a converter of your own, at least I've never heard of a way

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/ae2unity-after-effect-to-unity-animation-44618 this might do it

[crisp hazel]

Thank you, I will check it out now

[halcyon jungle]

Does anyone knows how to play a rotating animation when player is rotating?

[pliant kite]

Does anyone know any good first person animation packs? I can't seem to find any anywhere, they need to include some generic stuff to support firearms, melee weapons, interactions etc

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried the asset store?

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on your setup. A typical way might be to either use the angular velocity to drive a rotating animation, or to have the input for rotation trigger an animation matched to the rotation and/or using root rotation in the clip.

[halcyon jungle]

What do u mean?

I have about 3 animations (Forward, Left, Right)

How can i know if the player rotating left or right

So i can play the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

You can either measure their angular speed(just like you do their move speed) or you can measure the player's input.

[twin musk]

Hey, i have an issue with the character animation, the character keeps looping the move animation when i am not pressing anything, i´ve made an script to try fixing it but it still doesn´t work

[trim hatch]

do you set moving to false?

[twin musk]

yes

if moving is false then change the animation to idle, I think it works like that

[snow depot]

@twin musk put a public method that sets the collider to true, nd call it using an animation event

[twin musk]

wow thanks

[willow island]

im trying hard to figure it out but im trying to figure out whats causing this inconsistency with the landing animation

sometimes it works perfectly, but other times it will stick in the air for an uncomfortable amount of time

[random rain]

whats a receiver for animation

how do I end my animation clip after 1 iteration

[hybrid tinsel]

Your animation has an event(the little white thing on the timeline). A receiver is a script on the same object that has a matching public method to whatever is chosen in the event.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have an exit time on the transition from falling to landing?

[hybrid tinsel]

set it to not loop in the inspector for the clip.

Instead of activating it via animation directly, use an animation event to tell the script to activate it.

[random rain]

how do you do that

[hybrid tinsel]

Go to the inspector for the animation clip and set it to not loop

[willow island]

no 😭

[hybrid tinsel]

You're using a spherecast for your 'grounded' or a sphere collider or?

[willow island]

spherecast

I think that it might be just a small delay between the ground check and when the player is on the ground

[hybrid tinsel]

When are you calling the cast?

Before or after animation in the frame?

[willow island]

I have a function set up for casting it, I've tried using the regular bool that I use for the rest of the script and I have also tried calling the function in where you set the bool for the animator

the regular bool is on fixedupdate

and the anim handler is on regular update

but it doesn't change much

[hybrid tinsel]

fixedupdate happens multiple times per frame and can happen after update

[silver musk]

For some reason a whole bunch of my animations got overwritten in Blender, but I still have them saved in Unity. Is there anyone for my to export them back into Blender?

[mellow herald]

How can I make a falling leaves effect in my 2D game?

[trim hatch]

particle system

[distant mural]

a great system for particles that in unity

[heady grove]

Is it possible to have multiple animations for the same parameters in a blend tree?
Say I have a blend tree for locomotion, including everything from "idle" to "running". Can I somehow use a sequence of idles instead of just one animation? Or would I have to make that a separate state?

[sturdy bronze]

None of my animations on my camera work when I build my 3D game on mobile. Another animated object just disappeared. What could cause this?

[rocky idol]

Don't know if this is the section to ask but anyone have any advice/ideas on how to implement a system where different weapons have different "movesets"
I've looked into having a master animator with state machines for each "weapon type" as a separate state machine
and I've also thought of using Override Controllers but I want to have varying amounts of "combo" attacks
C# competent, I also tried saving statemachines as assets but they don't save properly
Highly prefer to create the system due to budget and I want to know how things work

[lucid trench]

My character can attack out of basically any state (jumping, falling, walking, idle etc) so I made a transition from Any State to the attack animation
However this raises an issue where because Idle and Walking can also be triggered out of any state, I can't force any exit time out of the attack animation and it's immediately interrupted by either Idle or Walking. How should I go about implementing these states so I can force the attack animation to conclude before exiting to any other state?

[silver musk]

There's probably a better way to do it, but I would make a boolean that has to be true for it to swap out of the attack animation and make that only true through code when the character isn't attacking.

[boreal valve]

If I buy a humanoid animation pack, would it work on a humanoid rig with no finger?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[hybrid tinsel]

Why do you have so many things with anystate transitions? They really should be a last resort, not used for stuff like idle and walking.

Animations are saved as separate files so any edits you made to them should remain unless the crash actually corrupted the animation file.

[hybrid tinsel]

That is what the override controller is for; if that doesn't work for you, you might need to come up with a new solution.

[hybrid tinsel]

There is an fbx exporter package in the package manager, not sure if it will suit your needs.

[halcyon schooner]

hello, I am trying to use avatar mask for each finger of the player and setting the weight of the mask via a controller, mask are working as intended except the one for the thumb (it is the only one that is being set using bool rest were lerped)

the weight value is updated in the animator but not in scene

[lucid trench]

Because I feel like I can transition between basically any state to any state in my character's controls

Most of my actions are cancelable by other actions

Doing it "right" would create an unreadable spider web of transitions

[hybrid tinsel]

So you want it to look pretty rather than having it work?

Anystate transitions are, like, meant to be a last resort sort of thing.

[agile solstice]

That is a scenario where the Animator could use some improvement

Simply being able to copy-paste transitions or to create reusable generic ones would speed the process up a lot, I image

[vocal spade]

Anyone get this certain pose when you import animations? Is it a problem with the rig not fitting or being compatible?

I made sure it was both the same model and rig used, the model was rigged off Mixamo and it even did this on some Mixamo anims

Until I turned them into humanoid

[hybrid tinsel]

That pose usually means that you either have no humanoid animation clip applied or that the avatar is not configured correctly on either model or animation.

(It is all humanoid curves at 50%, so the humanoid equivalent of the 'default pose')

[vocal spade]

Yeah adding humanoid gives me an actual animation, but then again some of the movement is p strange when turned into humanoid

Legs were never meant to move sideways in this run anim

[vocal spade]

This was a combo anim so the punches he throws are just disorganized which is worse

[hybrid tinsel]

That could mean the wrong number of spine bones in the source animation or some other incompatibility. Did the importer show any errors or warnings when setting it to humanoid?

[vocal spade]

I'll do it again... It might've, that's very helpful

Yup!

I don't know how to fix this though

Isn't there a simple way to avoid these all by turning the model's rig into most of what the animation formats have..?

[silver musk]

Thank you, I'll check that out.

[hybrid tinsel]

First thing is to check the importer to see the specific errors. Some are easier to fix than others

[tepid socket]

is there a way to temporarily change an animation's speed while in-game?

[silver musk]

When texture painting in blender, is there a way for me to not draw soft edges?

[slender bobcat]

Hi all. I am working on adding a delay in my Idle animation in Unity 2D.

I have a blend tree set up for 8 directional movement and a transition between a moving state and an idle state that works perfectly. I am using animator overrides to add more player models without having to recreate the blend tree each time.

Not all player models have the same amount of keyframes in their animations, and I also don't want to have to add key frames for each model I add (since there are 8 directions for each and there are a lot of models to add). Furthermore, the last frame in the animation set is not the same as the first. I want to create a delay where the animation stops on the first frame for 1 second, and then plays the animation. I want this feature to repeat while the player is idle. Can anyone help out? 😄

[hollow blade]

i think for that you usualy use the https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimatorOverrideController.html

its for overriding animations in a animator so you can reuse it

[slender bobcat]

Yep! I am using that!

[hollow blade]

sorry i missed that point

[slender bobcat]

its ok 🙂

It seems like such a simple thing to accomplish but I have been stuck on this for 2 days now

I had tried a coroutine but it didnt stay consistent on when the animation would stop and start.

[hollow blade]

maybe State Machine Behaviours ?

[slender bobcat]

I can try that! I was going to attempt it earlier but could not figure out how to make a function call on the first frame of an animation loop

I know you can make a call on the first frame of entering the state, but unsure as to how to make it continuous

unless Unity reads a repeated animation as re entering the same state over and over

[hollow blade]

you could set the animation speed to 0 for one second and then set it back to 1

[slender bobcat]

Yes that is my plan! Do you know how to catch when the animation is on the first frame?

[hollow blade]

one option is a animation event
but that does not call stuff in the State Machine Behaviours but the normal script on the animator

[slender bobcat]

I see. If I add the animation event for each of the 8 directions, will it scale and apply to the overrides as well? I plan on having 100 or so models so doing it 800 times sounds tedious xP

[hollow blade]

the animation event is in each animation (asset)
if you have a lot of them might be worth automating it

[slender bobcat]

mmmmm

[hollow blade]

give me a minute to look into it

[slender bobcat]

I suppose another solution would be to create a 2nd idle state and have it transition between the first and second idle states where the 1st is just the first frame of the animation and the 2nd is the whole animation. This would require me to assign 8 extra directions for each model though. I would love to figure out some script solution that acts on the single state without having to add key events. Less work the better!

I am realizing it may not be possible with my current restrictions.

Restrictions:
I am using animator override controllers
Different models have different numbers of frames
I am using over 100 models with 8 directions of animations for each one
The last frame of each animation set is not the same as the first.

I think the fact alone that I want the ending frame of the loop to be the first frame of requires me to use key events, correct? In this case, I would have to bite the bullet and just add a key frame for each model I import

[hollow blade]

are the animation clips just imprted clips that are still bound to the imported asset ?

[slender bobcat]

Nope its a spritesheet that I slice

[hollow blade]

not super neet
but it should to the trick
https://hatebin.com/qmgotkjurl
put it in a folder called Editor

you can select animation clips and rightclick
then select AddAnimationEvent

it will add a animation event called "AnimAtStart" at frame 0 to each selected animation
(if one is allready with that name there it will not add one)

[slender bobcat]

Editor folder inside of Assets folder?

or just outside of it

[hollow blade]

Assets or your script folder
so its
Assets/Editor
or
Assets/Scripts/Editor

[slender bobcat]

ok

it works holy molyyyy

that is so cool

I didnt know you could add a function like that

Thank you. So now I just need to add a behavior to the Idle state that catches the event and returns a IEnumerator yield return wait for x seconds?

[hollow blade]

sounds like the way to go

[hollow blade]

you can extend the editor in wounder full ways if you have specific needs for it

[slender bobcat]

@hollow blade It works. Holy crap you are a god. Thank you so much. I have been so frustrated the past 2 days figuring out a good approach to this problem

[hollow blade]

Glad you found a solution
Good luck with your project. 🙂

[hollow turret]

Sorry if this is the wrong place, trying to setup a simple FootIK script that uses Raycasting but for some reason OnAnimatorIK is not firing at all, it's on the same Object as the Animator for the Player and I have IK Pass enabled on the Base Layer, is there something I'm missing?

[hybrid tinsel]

You're sure it isn't firing at all?

It's a humanoid avatar?

[hollow turret]

As usual, shortly after posting I realized I'd setup a check for a ground tag that I hadn't set on the object... 🤣

User error

[sturdy bronze]

None of my animations play when I build to mobile :(. Happens to any object I put an animation on.

[lucid trench]

sorry for the late response, it's less that I want it to look "pretty" and more that I'd be having at least 15 states that can mostly transistion to one another. But yeah, any state is not going to cut it either. Spiderweb of states it is.

for example, very early in development I already have these states and pretty much every single one can precede another one. Am I going to have to make every single transition for every single combination?

[sturdy bronze]

None of my animations play when I build to mobile. Happens to any object I put an animation on.

[hybrid tinsel]

That is kinda unusual, to have "pretty much every single one can precede another one." Usually there's a bit more structure to it.

[lucid trench]

I'm not sure what the alternative is :/ I'm sure I'm missing something but I don't know at this point

I've read that joining the movement states into a blend tree is massively helpful so I'm going to look into that

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, every game is different so itbis hard to give fully universal advice.

Like, kinematica is dead or you could look into that.

(Unity's attempt at a pose matching animator)

[lucid trench]

That's fair. A lot of the example I see online seem to have very limited controls judging by the state transitions. Things like only being able to attack from idle, etc

[hybrid tinsel]

In some cases an any state transition is worthwhile.

In my game, I handle it by having attacking on a separate layer from locomotion.

[lucid trench]

I should probably read up on layers as well

[hybrid tinsel]

And yes, combining states into blends or sub statemachines can help too.

[verbal phoenix]

Anyone can help me with this? I pretty much made an animation in blender and imported the entire FBX. In unity for the FBX hierarchy, I go to animation tab and the animation plays like normal. However, when I actually go to the animation itself the animation is stuck on the first frame and same goes for when the game plays

[azure bay]

I don't know whether it is appropriate to ask stuff like this here, but,
I have a bunch of Animators, which have only one AnimationClip event in each of their controllers. Do they demand higher performance costs compared to the Legacy Animation component?

[random rain]

please help

Live has no receiver

Ive been stuck on this for a week

[charred belfry]

https://help.vertx.xyz/animation/animation-event/receivers

[random rain]

I did all the steps

Got it, I just created a blank method for the animation event that was needed

[hybrid tinsel]

You could also have just deleted the event.

[hybrid tinsel]

Define 'a bunch.' There is a higher performance cost, but for many projects it won't be enough to matter. If it is thousands of objects at once... then it might matter 😛

There is also the simpleanimation component unity released on their github, which is a playables version of the animation component, but I believe that they are no longer updating that.

[random rain]

how do I make my animation play once instead of looping

[hybrid tinsel]

In the inspector for the clip, set it to not loop.

[hybrid tinsel]

In the importer, does the timeline get split into multiple clips?

[random rain]

where

Im boutta sleep so just finish this last step

[twin musk]

What are you trying to do?

[random rain]

play the animation once only when it shows up

[twin musk]

Ummmm I cannot understand let me think

[random rain]

ok

[hybrid tinsel]

First of all, you're not supposed to have 'animator' and 'animation' on the same gameobject- they are mutually exclusive.

Second, that isn't the inspector for the animation clip. You need to find the actual animation file in the project.

[halcyon jungle]

I've a left and right animation for my character any idea how to make them play while rotating ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on your setup. A typical way might be to either use the angular velocity to drive a rotating animation, or to have the input for rotation trigger an animation matched to the rotation and/or using root rotation in the clip.

[halcyon jungle]

I tried the angular velocity method before and i couldn't control the stop rotating animation

[agile solstice]

You do need to shine more light into what the setup is like

Meaning how the character and input work

[halcyon jungle]

    void Update()
    {
        ///////////////--- Anim Values ---///////////////
        animator.SetFloat("AnimX", animationX);

        ///////////////--- Animation On Rotating ---///////////////
        yValue = ((int)((transform.eulerAngles.y + 540) % 360) - 180);

        if(yLateValue > yValue)
        {
            print("left");
            animationX = Mathf.Lerp(animationX, 0, animSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
        if(yLateValue < yValue)
        {
            print("right");
            animationX = Mathf.Lerp(animationX, 2, animSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }

        if(yLateValue == yValue)
        {
            print("Stop");
            animationX = Mathf.Lerp(animationX, 1, animSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        
        yLateValue = yValue;
    }

I used this code to control a float in the animator, while i setup the animations in a blend tree on the X axis like this (left : 0 , forward : 1, right : 2)

The whole thing starts to get buggy at the end of the stopping the animation, where somehow the

if(yLateValue == yValue)

And

if(yLateValue > yValue)

Play at the same time so the animation don't stop

[ocean iris]

anyone know how to use the animation rigging package? i set it up the way they did it in the official showcase and it just doesnt seem to work

[ocean iris]

nevermind, i forgot to attach an animator component

[fallen arch]

i have a question about Write defaults. For animations with a lot of complexity, should i have them on or off? i feel the explanation on them is vague in unity and i can't seem to decide if i let them on or off
Also, can i have states with layers with just WD on, and others just with WD off?

[agile solstice]

I can't find any reason why complex animations couldn't use WD
They are two different workflows

If you have to mix them, keep it uniform within a layer and avoid additive layers, seems to freak out easily in that scenario

It kinda seems that when everything has write defaults on, override layers do not override unchanged properties, as if the whole layer had WD off

[fallen arch]

so preferably the layers have all to be the same write defaults state.
I had a package that only worked on projects with WD off, since it was made with WD off

[agile solstice]

Keep it per-animator to avoid a headache

[fallen arch]

i only have 1 animator

so uniform inside of the animator

got it

ty

[hybrid tinsel]

don't use == with floats if you can avoid it. Check the absolute difference against a small value.

[fluid frigate]

how to export animation to .fbx without it messing up ? whenever I export the animation it just looks a mess in blender , doing something wrong

[agile solstice]

The most common stumbling block for exporting armature animations is that you shouldn't have "apply transforms" checked

[fluid frigate]

@agile solstice yeah I think I tried both -

[agile solstice]

What type of "mess" is it?

[fluid frigate]

Distorted - where is the apply transforms just so I can check

I want to open the fbx animation in blender

Basically the animation I’m importing has no rig and it works fine in unity - and I am sure Unity rerigs so I want the exported fbx animation rigged

in unity

blender @agile solstice

however it's clearly looking ok here

it's bad in fbx viewer also

[lucid trench]

is it possible to force an animation to only loop that last portion, that it initially plays in its entirety and then goes back to the keyframe at 0.2 over and over?

[uncut salmon]

Nope, create two different animations and transition between them, having the second one be a looped animation.

[lucid trench]

alrighty, thanks.

[fluid frigate]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/979277738659696691/1003041668318109726/unknown.png

How can I convert this to bones either using Unity and exporting or what ? It’s weird how most animations are like this in fbx format when I buy many Unity asset packs? Why it’s a common theme . And is this bvh really ?

I think people are importing bvh in blender and exporting as fbx

The only thing is it’s not a bone rigged fbx - it’s weird

Empties hmm I don’t know ? Why are almost all animation fbx files like this maybe someone knows

[ocean iris]

There might be blender addons that convert this stuff

[misty mantle]

Hello everyone, I'm not sure how to word this, and I'm not finding anything googling, but I'm making a 2D game and I want to have a character automatically climb up on a ledge

when the character climbs up enough I want an automatic animation climbing up.

I have the animation, but I don't know how to physically move the character up onto the ledge automatically

I tried to key the transform position in the animator but it made the character unplayable

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm thinking it is more likely to be an issue on your end; I've not seen problems of that sort with any animations I've gotten off the asset store, at least.

[hybrid tinsel]

Best way is to either use an animation event to tell your script when to move the character to its new position or use root motion to allow moving the root of the object in the animation.

[fluid frigate]

Open any animation from any unity animation packs in blender and you’ll see no rig bones

I can even dm you the fbx file

I’ve checked 3 packs so far

It’s weird it’s like why would anyone strip out the rig bones and I’ve even checked them all out with fbx viewer and no rig or bones

Animation via Empties

Which indicate to me they used the empties to control the rig ? And then only exported the empties or they converted bvh without a rig to fbx ?

Mixamo animations all have a rig / bones

So I wouldn’t call this an issue at my end as such more like Unity package creators are doing something weird

Or unity stripped the rigs out when importing the package but I find that unlikely

Like I said they work fine in unity - unity can load the fbx file and they play normally but they do not contain rig or bones

[hybrid tinsel]

I don't use blender.

But most likely the animation packs don't have meshes, because meshes are a waste of data for an animation file.

Do the filenames have the @ symbol in them?

Like in

[fluid frigate]

@hybrid tinsel I know they don’t contain meshes - that’s standard

Yeah they contain @ symbols - some of them not all

What I am speaking about specifically is there’s no rig or bones in the animation fbx files - they come up like …

[fluid frigate]

This

While all mixamo animations contain a rig and bone . All of the unity packs I’ve bought so far contain none . It’s so weird

Unity can import it and play normally

[hybrid tinsel]

FBX files with a @ in the name are imported as just transforms and/or humanoid curves.

[fluid frigate]

So no rig or bones ?

[hybrid tinsel]

But why are you exporting from unity instead of just using the original files?

[fluid frigate]

If you open those fbx files in blender what do you see just the empties ?

I am loading the original fbx files

I am attempting to export form unity to get a rig as a result since those files do not have any

[agile solstice]

I don't think it's practically possible to edit an already exported fbx armature*

[hybrid tinsel]

Anyway, I don't use blender

[fluid frigate]

Either way the rig doesn’t exist

Try opening it with fbx viewer

From auto desk officially

No rig no bones

But why did they / the authors go to great lengths to strip the fbx files down and remove the rigs ? Or did they never have rigs to begin with

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you sure they aren't joints? Because that image you linked definitely looked like a humanoid hierarchy.

[fluid frigate]

They are empties

Not bones or rig format of any kind that blender can use

[hybrid tinsel]

And you generally want to strip out as much as possible, because that makes for smaller files?

[fluid frigate]

They play as animation but you can’t do anything with them

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you link one of these files? I can take a look at it

[fluid frigate]

They are simply markers per bone

Sure I can send you it

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not sure I understand what you think a bone IS aside from a transform.

[fluid frigate]

But also if you can open one of them @ animations in blender or your software of choice you may see the same issue

[agile solstice]

Unity doesn't differentiate between empties and bones, so I guess it wasn't necessary to export them as anything else
I'm a bit curious why that happens, but I doubt knowing will change much

There are addons and scripts to convert empties to bones within Blender, but even if they were bones exporting them again after importing is so tedious and prone to errors that I wouldn't do it to even my own rigs

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah. Most likely whoever was exporting the files found that more efficient for whatever reason.

Unity bones are literally just empty transforms.

And unity animations just look for an object with the correct name.

[fluid frigate]

@agile solstice I've been looking for that but i can't seem to find anything, or that works anyway. there is one empties to bone script on github but that fails to load, maybe older blender needed

the crazy thing is most animations in unity packs have this issue, from several authors I've tried so far

[hybrid tinsel]

I've literally never seen that, but then I create my own animations mostly

[fluid frigate]

You know the animations with the @ symbol if you want can you send one of them to me as I can load it on my end to see if it has bones/rig or this empties

I will probably end up writing an empties reader in my code but It's just weird to see this is common

[hybrid tinsel]

If the animation works in unity why not just apply that animation to a rig that has exportable bones, and then export that

[fluid frigate]

I tried that

that's the first thing I tried since I thought that would work

[hybrid tinsel]

Or email the person who published the asset and ask if you can have the original file instead of the optimized one, I guess

Worst they can do is say no

[fluid frigate]

I'm just surprised that nobody else has seen this commonly since it's very common in the unity packs I have.

walk mixamo, malbers horse rider, rpg animation pack

left to right

I've even got more packs with these animations, in fact I find no rig/bone animations in anything I've checked

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, most people who buy animation packs for unity are using them in unity.

I imagine.

[fluid frigate]

I wonder what is causing this to occur though

[hybrid tinsel]

There are other places to get animation for blender, I'm sure

[fluid frigate]

I'd love to know if it was conscious effort, a mistake in creating animations via unity or some tool, or if these are mocap data being converted to .fbx without rig/bones

either way it's so common it's unsettling as rig/bones are common place in the animation world?

[hybrid tinsel]

Like I said, my guess is that it is an optimization to make smaller files.

[fluid frigate]

when creating the unity packs perhaps ? hmm

[hybrid tinsel]

Or maybe it is to stop peeps from turning around and reselling them on the unreal marketplace or something.

[agile solstice]

Exported armatures are practically never edited

The process strips all control and helper bones; animating without them is not really worth anyone's time

[hybrid tinsel]

2d artists work in layers but they post flattened images.

Character modelers sculpt in high res but publish baked low res models.

[agile solstice]

Indeed
Some artists will give you the source files for extra payment

[hexed gazelle]

hey everyone, I get this layering problem with my model, How do i go about fixing it, is this a rigging problem or a model problem:
https://puu.sh/JdRy9/8295b0f072.mp4

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure what you mean by 'layering.' You mean how the body clips through the jacket, or...?

[hexed gazelle]

yes but there is no body underneath, its just the inner layer of the jacket

Ok maybe there is...

Anyway, assuming there is, how do I go about making it not overlap?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, the easiest way would be to just delete anything under the jacket

could also fiddle with the weights to try and make the deformation of all the layers match up

[fluid frigate]

@hybrid tinsel used

this was the only solution I could find, aside of writing my own code to do it.

my issue has been resolved I guess, interesting really, glad there was a very cheap option

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, the horse rider asset has a whole discord for itself you coulda asked on

[fluid frigate]

@hybrid tinsel it’s a general issue for all animations i have

And I wondered to export via Unity at first but that clearly doesn’t work

Exporting via unity is very poor it seems

[granite kite]

Hi i am using unity's new input system and am having an issue make certain animations play when i press or don't press any buttons here is my animator and code

[hybrid tinsel]

since basically everything in that animator is wrong, here

[tiny quartz]

I am wondering what the best way to attach models to another model mid animation so that it starts out disconnected then they enter the same space and start moving together

[granite kite]

yes i belive i have followed the steps correctly and now it just plays the animations one at a time without input then stops

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you set conditions for the transitions?

[hybrid tinsel]

Parent constraint script?

[tiny quartz]

That is what I am thinking, i’m new to all this are there any good examples out thwre?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure about examples but unity comes with a parent constraint installed.

So you can experiment with that

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ParentConstraint.html the documentation is well detailed

[random rain]

someone tell me how to play 1 iteration of an animation without being vague

[uncut salmon]

Well, assuming you know how to play an animation, you can set your animation to not looped by unticking the loop checkbox on the animation asset.

No need to do anything special, outside of that.

[random rain]

its an animator

it has a controller

[uncut salmon]

Yes, which you've added your animation to.

And turn looping off on that animation asset

[hybrid tinsel]

"Don't be vague when answering my vague question!"

[random rain]

I already figured it out thanks guys

[livid ferry]

I made a character and have them rigged. Can anyone point me to a good video to start learning how to animate it? I've always heard "animating in unity" but the video i found is only showing how to set up animations that were imported, not creating my own

[silver musk]

I just uv mapped and texture painted my object in Blender, but now the animations that I previously had working on it, are affecting the bones, but not the mesh. I checked and nothing seems to have changed with its weight paint. Any ideas?

[silver musk]

I dont know if this would help but this is what I used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C2ClFO3FAY

[stuck sable]

Should I be using the Animation Component for things like a Windmill turning, or go ahead and use a full on Animator + Animator Controller? I'm unsure how the whole "Legacy Animations" thing works, and if the Animation Component is what I should be using for something like this.

If I should use the Animator + Animator Controller, should I be making a new controller for every object, or is there a way to make one controller that will play one animation, and have a way I can assign that animation in the scene editor, so I can just use one for all the things that just need to play a looping animation?

[agile solstice]

The animation component is meant to be there only for backwards compatibility, I believe
Nothing wrong with having controllers with just one animation clip

[stuck sable]

Just making sure I'm not accidentally doing something REALLY inefficient, in terms of having animated objects in my scenes.

[stuck sable]

https://imgur.com/cQmleZk

If I want to add a Mesh Collider to this, should I just split this into two models, (One for the tower, and one for the moving parts) or is there a better way of making the tower have collision while still having the animated parts?

Currently the windmill is animated through an armature, since I assumed that was the way to do it.

[agile solstice]

Armatures / skinned meshes are more expensive, but they allow for weighted deformations

If all you need is spinning parts, I'd make the rotation purely in code

[stuck sable]

So split the model into three parts for each rotating component, then assign them scripts that rotate them at specific speeds?

[agile solstice]

Yes

Not sure if it makes a difference whether it's a generic spin animation clip you can assign to any object, or a generic spin script

[stuck sable]

Seems like an odd way to do it, but I'll look into it. Maybe I could try making them spin in blender as objects, then try to export that as an animation without an armature?

That might not work, though. I haven't tried to export non-armature animations from blender yet as FBX files

[agile solstice]

You wouldn't export animations

Export with each moving part as its separate object, make a spin script in Unity which you can assign to each part

Doing it that way but with a spin animation clip instead works also

But I'd prefer the script as it gives you quicker access to modifying individual part speeds or stop conditions
With clips you'd need a script for that on top of the animator

[stuck sable]

Interesting. I assumed all the animation I'd be doing would be in the animator stuff, but I can definitely set up a script and see how that works.

Thank you very much for your help.

[hybrid tinsel]

I have a dead simple rotation script I use for a ton of stuff

[twin musk]

So um I got a "scetch" of a character but I have no idea how to animate it's walk

I want it to go like sideways

the uper things are arms btw

[ocean iris]

is there any good way to animate a 3 bone leg using animation rigging or do i have to write my own IK solver for that?

[silver musk]

I just uv mapped and texture painted my object in Blender, but now the animations that I previously had working on it, are affecting the bones, but not the mesh. I checked and nothing seems to have changed with its weight paint. Any ideas?

[fallen arch]

What is the difference between a parameter in the animation controller.
A Boolean vs a trigger?

[hybrid tinsel]

A trigger is like a bool except that it is set back to false once a transition 'uses' it.

So you don't need to manually set it to false.

Good for stuff like jumping and single attack actions where you want to only 'trigger' it once.

Bools stay at whatever you set them until you set it to something else.

[fallen arch]

OH

This is helpful

[toxic orbit]

Why dosnt my character animation match the preview animation!???

[buoyant trellis]

is there any tutorial where i can see how to animate a button when i hover over it like animation for button hover

[toxic orbit]

I recommend using this https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/gui/icons/2d-casual-ui-hd-82080

and button transition swap

[hybrid tinsel]

Do your inputs match what your 2d blend is expecting!??? Is the 'wepon' layer interfering!???

[hybrid tinsel]

That isn't a tutorial 😛

[hybrid tinsel]

You are using unity's built-in UI button class?

[buoyant trellis]

yea

[hybrid tinsel]

This is 90% of it

You can have it create empty animations all set up in an animator for you; and as long as you use the same gameobject names you can use the same animator for all your buttons if you want.

[toxic orbit]

yes it was thank you

@hybrid tinsel thanks

[toxic orbit]

Is there a way I can fix diagonal movement animation?
the legs and feet don't move right. don't worry about the top part I need to learn how to use IK's to aim the gun.

[hybrid tinsel]

All animations in the blend should have synchronized steps

If you are blending between two animations where the feet are rising at different times it will try half-raising both feet for instance

[toxic orbit]

They should all be the same, ill check it out.

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, if you are mirroring your sideways movement then one of them will be out of sync because it will reverse which leg is lifted

[granite kite]

yes

[hybrid tinsel]

Then you did something else wrong I guess

But I'm not going to blindly guess.

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you show your updated setup?

[granite kite]

i look in around 20 minutes

[granite kite]

here are my conditions ive played around with it a little to try to fix it

the code

[hybrid tinsel]

You want it to go to walk when walk is true, and go to idle when walk is false.

[granite kite]

now only idle is playing

[hybrid tinsel]

You have your input set up correctly?

[granite kite]

i believe so how would i have done it wrong

[spring gust]

When I set my animator type to humanoid, my animation looks kinda wonky and not the same as the actual animation which I've made on blender, also if I change the animator type my character no longer play jump or dodge or roll animations, please help me

[hybrid tinsel]

Look at your code. GetKeyDown is the old input system

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.0/manual/Migration.html

[hybrid tinsel]

That likely means that the rig is not entirely compatible with the humanoid structure- most commonly too many leg or spine bones. Check the warnings/errors in the inspector?

[cosmic oyster]

for somereason my animator window in unity 2020.3.32f1 is brocken and i cant create any new transitions nor move arround the animations

and if i click on an animatioon my inspector just looks like this

[agile solstice]

This is a bug in that specific version
Update to 2020.3.37f1

[cosmic oyster]

okay

[cosmic oyster]

i updatet to 2021 and all the materials broke

i should have made a safety copy

this is how it looked before

[agile solstice]

Did I advise you to update to 2021

[cosmic oyster]

no

ups im dumb

i hate myself

[cosmic oyster]

now i downgraded it to that version and everythings purple

[agile solstice]

That's what happens

[elfin tiger]

can anyone tell me how to turn off this smoothing in unity editor? (explenation: when i want a animation of a object moving, there is like acceleration and it slows down at the last frame)

[agile solstice]

Change the keyframe interpolation to linear
You can see the effect in Curves tab

[cosmic oyster]

waaaaaaaa

[elfin tiger]

okay thanks

[elfin tiger]

wait where can i change the interpolation to linear?

[agile solstice]

Right click the keyframes in animation window
You might not need to be in the curve tab but it's clearest to do it there

[elfin tiger]

okay thanks

[sharp ruin]

is there a way to use frames per second in the 2d animator

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends. For flipbook animation, yes. Otherwise no. (Not directly, anyway)

[sharp ruin]

im using the sprite sheet kind

can i use frames per second on that?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can set the sample rate; click the three dots in the top right corner of the animation panel to find it

[sharp ruin]

tysm

btw is there a way to set this sample rate in a script

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[sharp ruin]

ok good

[steady cliff]

Is there a way to change the pivot point of a game object aside from making it a child of another game object, or changing the pivot point via the mesh with ProBuilder?

[agile solstice]

Nope
Aside from that pivot points exist only for sprites, or for meshes generally as "origin points"

[steady cliff]

Ok

[silver musk]

I just uv mapped and texture painted my object in Blender, but now the animations that I previously had working on it, are affecting the bones, but not the mesh. I checked and nothing seems to have changed with its weight paint. Any ideas?

[silver musk]

Please help, this is the third time that I've asked with no response.

If more information is needed, please let me know.

[hybrid tinsel]

That's a pretty software specific question; have you tried askin' on the blender discord/forums?

(Not saying it doesn't belong here but that might get you an actual answer)

Though if you mean that it has stopped working in unity, I'd check the skinnedmeshrenderer's bone list to make sure it is correct

[bold vector]

does anyone know how to fix animation rigging package making arms not bend at all? just a hand moving, nothing else

[hybrid tinsel]

Don't rig the arm with IK?

[bold vector]

i need to for the game

[modern tendon]

does anyone know good tutorials on how to start learning FPS type animations in unity?

ive looked but can't find one that im really looking for

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, if you don't want the arm to move, then don't rig it to move?

[sage marlin]

Why my animation stops at some point, i have 0 0 0 rotation at the end of the animation and its not going into 0 0 0 rotation but stops at some time

here is the keyframes

[twin musk]

did u enable looping?

[sage marlin]

in animation?

[sage marlin]

i think so

[twin musk]

can you show the amination component attached to the cube?

[sage marlin]

here

[sage marlin]

i found this, do you know how i can open this?

[twin musk]

im not sure what that is

im not really familiar with animations

[sterile kestrel]

Hey guys! I am stuck with some problem regarding the animation... can anyone help?

[snow depot]

making changes to the transform in the animation will override everything else

so if you try to change the transform via scripting it won't do anything

[sterile kestrel]

But I want to change the transform right after the animation ends. So I assume animation event is not the way to do this

I should somehow detect the end of animation

do you have any ideas?

[sick crow]

Hi, I'm making top down shooter 3d game. I would like to make the weapon of the player to follow the hands. I have idle and aiming animations from:
https://mocaponline.com/
How should I approach that issue? Everywhere I look the aiming animation is being done with the Animation Rigging package or final IK. What's the correct approach? Should I use those to make aiming animation or is there a way to make the object held in hands to follow the hand position when you're using the animation pack like mocap? Or do you somehow combine those two approaches?

[acoustic roost]

Use animation rigging if you need the precision.
Depending on your style you can get away with just parenting the weapon to a hand bone and you are done.

[stray obsidian]

Hello, character is a human but I can't add animation to the character because there is no bone structure. How can I fix this?

[white coral]

I'm having this issue where the Two Bone IK Constraint won't align to the actual target but instead to the side for some reason. The Multi-Aim Constraint on a few separate bones but the two-bone ik constraint just is misaligned. The multi-aim constraint is turned off and I'm not sure what could be causing this... anyone not sure what's going on?

Oh yeah; I should mention that I'm talking about the animation rigging package.

[granite kite]

i made it just get key and the issue persist

[white coral]

changing the initial target object position doesn't work, parenting the target object to another object that's to be held and offsetting the target object to align properly in play mode then copying the location over to edit mode and then restarting the play mode also doesn't work. Seemingly nothing is working as a janky work around...

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have an offset set in your constraint?

[hybrid tinsel]

But you set up WASD to be a composite axis input, didn't you?

[white coral]

There... isn't one? There's isn't any offset value in my constraint that I can see. Is it in a different component from the Two Bone IK Constraint?

[white coral]

I am so dumb. Thanks, I thought that was for what the target was being tracked for. My bad (; -v-)

[hybrid tinsel]

The 'weight' sliders are what actually do that.

[calm prism]

wat is another solution for IK because animation rig Gives me this burst error that apparently no one has figure it out yet

[hybrid tinsel]

You can just use the built-in ik if you are using a mecanim humanoid rig

[calm prism]

any other solutions

those two dont work for me i think

[harsh flame]

how do I offset animations on the x and z? I can change the offset on the y but not the x and z.

[velvet dagger]

Hi, I am really new to this. I want to animate an Image when clicking a button and then make it go back when clicking another button. I am using LeanTweening to animate this.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class OptionsAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void OptionsAnimationIn() {
        LeanTween.scale(gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>(), scaleTarget, 1.2f);
    }

    public void OptionsAnimationOut() {
        LeanTween.scale(gameObject.GetComponent<RectTransform>(), scaleTarget, 1.0f);
    }

}

[hybrid tinsel]

Neat.

[warped crystal]

Sir why doesnt this work

[warped crystal]

I want to animate an Image when clicking a button and then make it go back when clicking another button

[hybrid tinsel]

No idea. I don't use leantween.

[warped crystal]

How to do without leantween

[hybrid tinsel]

You set up your animator and then use events on the buttons to trigger the animations.

[wet whale]

Lesson of the day, having an animator on the player model and one on the root gameobject holding the player model will stop all animation transitions from firing. You'd think it would animate twice, not just fail to work. No errors or warnings either. Found that and removed the extra animator (not sure how it got there!) and things work again.

[hybrid tinsel]

That doesn't sound correct...

[wet whale]

Yeah, we had someone reimport models and we got an extra animator somewhere in the process, spent an hour figuring out why things stopped animating in game finally when we found the culprit.

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, the lowest-in-the-hierarchy animator will have precedence over objects it contains, but that shouldn't affect the parent otherwise.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your setup...?

Though I'm glad you got it working 😄

[wet whale]

Yup, thats how we had it:

We somehow ended up with another animator on the "Player New" empty object that just holds everything and by having that extra animator both animators don't work.

Not sure if its a bug in that the lowest animator stopped working, going to try to recreate the issue in a smaller project/scene and try to bug report it.

[quartz ore]

Can anyone recommend a tutorial or something for how to take something you downloaded from the Unity store and use it? Ive been looking at tutorials for animating but am running into problems none of them talk about.

Ive been testing using a plain cube as the player model, I deleted the mesh renderer, copied the skinned mesh renderer and the animator from the prefab to my Player, but the model is being rendered way over there, and doesnt move with the player or react to anything I press at all.

[hybrid tinsel]

There's more to set up with a meshrenderer if you apply it to a model that isn't already set up; you need to bind the bones and all that

It is probably easier to just have the rigged model be a child of the character controller object, and make the character controller invisible

[quartz ore]

I copy/pasted the whole thing from the prefab so its got its bones and such. Think I tried doing that invisible controller idea last night and the model just wouldnt move, but imma try again real quick

oh ok i dunno what i did last night then but that does work for making him move

[storm crest]

anyone here who could help me with an error

[storm crest]

ive seen your pretty helpful could you maybe help me with my issue if not thats ok

[bold vector]

i need it to move, but when i move it, the hand doesnt bend when you pull it closer to the body

[storm crest]

fish

[hybrid tinsel]

feel free to ask, no promises

[hybrid tinsel]

Just use an aim constraint on the upper arm?

[bold vector]

how

[twin musk]

is there a way to easily reassign the path of objects within animations?

say i move it under a gameobject

[hybrid tinsel]

select the path you want to change and hit f2

[twin musk]

I mean for these-

[storm crest]

my error is linked below

[storm crest]

this is my error

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, so do I.

You select the (Missing!) path and hit f2

And fix the path

[twin musk]

I did that, the scaling is all sorts of wack

I'm using an imported animation

That came w/ the items im editing

[hybrid tinsel]

That means you need to go into the avatar configuration and manually find the right bone. Usually caused by a mismatched name or a break in the hierarchy.

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, that sounds like a while different problem.

[storm crest]

so the problem is that the foot isnt a child of the left foot but whennn i open config and move it to a child of the leg and hit save it says saved then it reverts back to not working

[hybrid tinsel]

Maybe try fixing it in your 3d rigging software?

[storm crest]

i didnt rig it its a downloaded fbx

[twin musk]

Can I do something like this?
@hybrid tinsel

[storm crest]

i founnd an articale with my problem but it doesnt say how to fix i can send it to you so u get more of an idea of my problem https://answers.unity.com/questions/1443785/transform-not-a-child.html its got some pictures set as links wihcih show my problem

[hybrid tinsel]

No, you can't animate the activation of an animator in itself.

It will break.

[twin musk]

Well how could I get it do what I want?

[hybrid tinsel]

I don't know what you want it to do

[rich whale]

how should i go about animating somethings thats made up of a bunch of smaller objects that are seprate

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you be more specific?

[rich whale]

oh something like this

oops, cant show gifs apprently

[hybrid tinsel]

You should be able to.

Just upload it to imgur and post the link

Alternatively, use words. You'll probably need to describe to some degree anyways.

[rich whale]

I’m trying to recreate this effect in unity to make it come back together and extend and move around

[hybrid tinsel]

You could use an animation, or you could do it with shader tricks

Or a combination of both

Or even a particle system/vfx system

Lots of options

[fair fern]

so this is the pain of doing the bone based animation as opposed to sprite based animation

to flip the bone based animation (e.g. make the character to face left), you have to redo everything from the start but only for facing left

[white coral]

Rotate the character instead. One pi around and it’s effectively the same as flipping it, no need to reanimate. Either have the character mesh and armature a child of the character object and only rotate that or rotate the whole thing.

Unless you want symmetry in which case, I’m sure there’s a way I’m just not sure of it myself.

[fair fern]

it's in 2d

wait

does it even work

[white coral]

The model is 2d or the dimension is 2d?

[fair fern]

both

[white coral]

what are you using for the model?

as in; program

[fair fern]

does it matter?

||gimp + photopea (i need the .psb file to work on the models)||

[hybrid tinsel]

Like Iochi said, you can rotate the root to effectively flip the character in most cases.

If you REALLY need to get fancy you could also render the character to a texture that can be flipped as needed. But for most purposes that is overkill.

[fair fern]

like create a brand new gameobject for the character model, put it on the exact same position and animate it so it'd look like flipped?

[covert thicket]

Hey I need some help with Root Motion. I am using a generic character model and I have apply Root Motion checked in the animator tab. But the character keeps sliding back as soon as the animation is over. I tried changing root node in the motion tab for the animation but it didnt work.

[nimble granite]

I'm trying to work through the official tutorials, but hit a problem. In the Junior Programmer mission, Lesson 3.3, step 3, I'm using the provided character and animations to add the jump animation. The animation controller is correctly going to that state, but the character it controls is still just in the run animation. I have a warning under import messages: "Clip 'Take 001' has import animation warnings that might lower retargeting quality. 'Body_jnt' has translation animation that will be discarded."

[covert thicket]

Ah actually nevermind, scripted motion for the W

[covert thicket]

Hmm i dont really know what that is but did u try using a different jump animation?

Plenty on mixamo.com

[nimble granite]

I suspect the order of the layers, but mine matches the tutorials. I tried swapping the running_jump animation with another (idle_dance), but it didn't appear.

[covert thicket]

Is the weight of the layer set to 1?

[nimble granite]

Yes, for all the layers. I tried messing with additive, and with reordering, but nothing good came of it.

One thing I might try (going off the tutorial) is consolidating the Movement and Jumping layers. I'm not 100% sure on how the layering behaves.

[granite kite]

yes so what would i replace this with

[hybrid tinsel]

That page I linked gives a pretty full rundown

But really this isn't the channel to dig deep into the input system

[proven otter]

Hello I am just looking for tips to animate a stiff character (Like a rock). Currently I just tilt the character a little in the given direction and add a little squash and stretch for jumping but I was wondering if there are better techniques to use to give it more personality.

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, there are a few options; You could use physics to add more secondary effects to the motion, or could use animation curves to add more interesting wobbles/squash/stretch to your movements. Really up to you and what kind of personality you want.

[stoic flax]

guys i am not a good artist yet i am good at everything except for art

like everything that has to do with game dev

what can i do ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Make an ugly game?

Like, make a functional prototype.

Because no artist is going to want to join a project that they do a bunch of art assets for and then the game doesn't happen. Unless you offer cash up front, of course.

[safe vault]

sorry for this very stupid question, but what is supposed to go in the avatar space in the animator tab?
I finished all the coding for animations and set up the animator controller yet nothing with my character is happening in terms of animation and Im wondering if that is the issue

could someone just @ me in the response, I won't be on till tomorrow

[hybrid tinsel]

An avatar is not required except for mecanim humanoids. If you're using a mecanim humanoid you need to put the avatar asset for that humanoid into the animator for it to properly handle retargeting.

[safe vault]

?

[hybrid tinsel]

It might be the issue, or it might not.

Hard to say without more info.

[safe vault]

Would you like more info?

I can send a video

[hybrid tinsel]

Entirely up to you if you want if fixed. 😛

[safe vault]

Ok

Sorry I am very new to everything, whether it be coding or animating or modeling

[hybrid tinsel]

Everyone starts out new, and there are a lot of weird things that can go wrong with setting up an animator.

I just don't want to rule anything out without seeing more. 😄

[safe vault]

Yeah for sure, Thank you so much

also heres what the component looks like

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok, none of that seems wrong, though you didn't show the conditions on your animation transitions.

When in play mode, does the animator show any response? The bool being enabled/disabled, transitions triggering?

Does your movement work fine?

Do you have any errors?

[safe vault]

no

my movement is good

the window does show animations being triggered and bools turning on and off

I just find it strange because everything seems like its supposed to work yet It doesnt

here is the transition things btw

[hybrid tinsel]

And the conditions?

And you actually have the clips assigned to the states?

What happens if you play the animations in edit mode, from the animation window? (NOT the preview window)

[safe vault]

I will get back to you in the morning

[covert thicket]

Is there any place I can get sword attack animations ?

Also where I can make animations? Blender?

[trim hatch]

3D or 2D?

you can get 3d sword animations from mixamo

for 2d use opengameart.org

[covert thicket]

I already checked mixamo and found some but I need more

[proven otter]

alright, I hadn't thought of adding squash and stretch to the movment but I think it will really fit my game! Thank you!

[amber orchid]

Hey all, quick question that I hope has a simple answer: I'm working on a fighting game at the moment, and I'm in the process of adding a second player object to the scene to act as player 2. Since it's a fighter, the characters need to be mirrored so they are both facing the screen, and this means that if a character on the left side of the screen kicks with their left leg, then they should use their right leg if they're on the right side of the screen (if you've played like any 2D fighter you know what I mean).
So right now I am able to mirror the player by setting their X axis scale to -1 and rotating them 180 degrees, and this also mirrors the animation like I want, but the issue is that the motion of the animation isn't mirrored. So if they do a kick that moves their body forward and then back into position, they will do the animation correctly, but they'll slide backwards instead. Is there an easy way to fix this? I tried messing with the "Mirror" and "Motion" settings in the animation inspector but neither have the outcome I'm looking for.
EDIT: Looks like it's easier to leave the model's scale the same but mirror every animation, I should be able to do that in a script after checking what player the object is 👍

[nimble granite]

Fighting with the animation controller here. I have a simple state machine with just Run_Static and Running_Jump, and it behaves correctly in the animator, but in the scene, the running animation is always the only animation. I tried putting other obvious animations in place of the Running_Jump one, (e.g. throwing a grenade), but I never saw them play, despite supposedly being in the Running_Jump state. What am I missing?

[agile solstice]

If they play fine in editor but not in play mode, that suggests the transitions are not working right

(Or they're working overzealously)

[hybrid tinsel]

Looks like you came around to the same solution I did 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

If you watch the animation graph in play mode does the transition ever fire?

[nimble granite]

The transitions to and from the Running_Jump appear to fire.

[hybrid tinsel]

Does the animation work properly in scene view when played from the animation window(not the little preview window)

Are you mixin humanoid and non humanoid animation?

[nimble granite]

The Scene and Game windows both fail to show the Running_Jump animation. Character is humanoid.

[tawny mirage]

hello! i just followed this tutorial and the animation looks good when i go left but doesnt flip when i go right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkaysu1Z-N8

what could i have missed?

[hybrid tinsel]

I hate that tutorial so much

You included the flipping code? you assigned the correct sprite renderer to the script?

[tawny mirage]

flipping code? there is no such thing in the video

[hybrid tinsel]

One more reason to hate the tutorial

[tawny mirage]

but how does it work for him

[hybrid tinsel]

No idea; his tutorials are always incomplete

And I really don't wanna watch the whole thing to debug his tutorial >.>

[tawny mirage]

i understand

but it still seems like there might be a code-free way to achieve the effect

[hybrid tinsel]

If you want it to happen in response to your character controller, you'll need at least a little code.

[tawny mirage]

yeah ik

[tawny mirage]

i did it in 2 lines of code

if(movement.x > 0) { gameObject.transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1, 1, 1); }
if(movement.x < 0) { gameObject.transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1); }

in Update in player controller

[safe vault]

@hybrid tinsel alright new day new issues

[hybrid tinsel]

My telepathic powers aren't working well at the moment, so you'll need to be more specific.

[safe vault]

in the animation window it does not let me play it since it states that it in in read only mode

as for conditions, if IsRunning is false then it plays the idle and if IsRunning is true then it plays the running animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Er, show your animator?

[safe vault]

animator or animation

heres the animation window

heres animator with conditions

[hybrid tinsel]

Being read only doesn't stop you from playing it

[safe vault]

yeah the play button is greyed out

[hybrid tinsel]

so what's the current problem