🏃┃animation

[trim lynx]

First and second events Log a phrase, third one destroys the object
I only see the animation and the log from the first one

[agile solstice]

There could be a number of things happening outside of this one clip so I can't really give any specific advice

Other than to try to follow the state machine's logic and see if the clip is interrupted at some point

If you're using Any State it can be difficult to stop it from taking over

[trim lynx]

When isDead becomes true, I suppose speed will still continue to have a value that would trigger Run animation

[agile solstice]

Run can only be transitioned to from Idle
Does your to Death transition have "can transition to self"?

I think you never mentioned what actually happens when the events fail to be called

[trim lynx]

Yes "can transition to self" is true

[agile solstice]

Then it's transitioning to Death again and again every frame

[trim lynx]

I suppose it gets stuck at the 0:00, only the animation and event of 0:00 gets called

[agile solstice]

Funnily enough I was talking about this exact issue right above our discussion

[trim lynx]

Yes, now I peacefully die

thanks

[agile solstice]

Next time give all the info and symptoms you can up front so the problem can be found sooner ^^

[trim lynx]

I mean I didn't even know where to look for the problem

Thanks again

[slim fulcrum]

hello, is the playhash method instantaneous? if not, is there a way to instantaneously play an animation regardless of it's current animation state? can't find anything online and I don't want to waste time doing something if I don't know it will work

[humble socket]

hmmm

uh sooo how do I end a loop

is it the arrow that points toward exit?

How do I make the levelanimation go towards exit after game

[signal marten]

@humble socket select the animation in the project tab. I the inspector there is a checkbox for looptime

I'm not sure that will do what you want it to though. You could make a second animation that's just the cut screen without the fade, then transition the fade animation into the solid animation and let the solid one loop.

[humble socket]

Thanks that really helped 🙂

[signal marten]

@humble socket my pleasure

[hybrid tinsel]

You have an any state transition that is set to transition to self, so it will transition to itself every single frame while the condition is true, restarting.

Either would work.

Where are you setting it? The state, or the animator?

It is there for triggers mostly.

[ancient zealot]

So the most common case is when you retrigger an animation by trigger ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. Stuff where you might want to play from the beginning even if it's already in that state

[wraith jackal]

state, animator, script, everything but no fix

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok. Start from the beginning. You want your animation to play at a different speed. All animations, or just a specific one?

[ancient zealot]

ok thanks 🙂

[spring spear]

Hello, I wanted to know if any of you know how to create the effect of the 3D coin that falls to make an animated background

[tender tusk]

Hey everyone. I have a character that has 10 different facial animations included within the FBX. When I bring that to Unity as a Generic Rig, the face animation plays correctly. As soon as I change it to Mecanim, only the jaw moves.

I tried creating an animator controller, with the base layer being an idle animation. Then I added another layer below that one and added my looping face animation with Additive and Weight:1. Still I only get the jaw moving.

What am I missing? Thanks!

I have a screenshot in my forum post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-setup-a-mecanim-character-to-play-face-animation.1328193/

[orchid venture]

can someone help me with an animation?

i can't switch from the idle to the running animation

[twin musk]

downloaded some animation assets, and downloaded the unity chan asset, and i duplicated the animations from the animation assets and am using them on a new animator for the unity chan prefab, but now if i want to edit the animation theres no way to visualize the animation while editing it, probably because it isnt "linked" to the model? is there a way to work this out or should i straight up animate on external software instead?

[twin musk]

well i clicked the controller property in the animator component of the prefab within the scene and somehow it made the animation editing work

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to import the additional face bones in the importer; by default a humanoid only uses the humanoid transforms.

[hybrid tinsel]

You'll need to provide more info.

[hybrid tinsel]

You can drag any model you want into the preview window for the animation.

[calm mural]

Could anyone help as to why my animation seems to do one loop then gets stuck at the beginning of the loop? https://gyazo.com/91f23ba7aadc5747a36f0738cc0f63c7

[shell gorge]

Does anyone know how to rotate an attack animation in a way that the swing hits where the player's mouse or character's overall rotation is facing

I have running animations that change the direction in which the armature is facing so only the forward running, backward running and idle animations allow the attack animation to swing at the correct direction

[simple siren]

I've got a character with blendshapes, but playing any animation on the character resets them, whether it be via the animator or timeline. Does anyone know how to disable this?

I've tried masking but it doesn't appear to work.

I've also un-checked Write Defaults.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you not have the animation set to loop? Do you automatically transition to a different state? Do goblins from another dimension sneak into your computer and prevent your animator from looping? No way to tell without more info but I'd check on those first two.

[calm mural]

Gotta be goblins, I tried to find a loop setting but maybe I missed something, ill check in the morning

[hybrid tinsel]

It is in the inspector for the clip.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do the rotation in LateUpdate

[shell gorge]

Holy shit that worked! Thank you very much!!!

[hybrid tinsel]

The animator works after Update, but before LateUpdate.

[smoky seal]

Is there a way to do a mask that only affects the face?

When I only select the facial bone transforms, but click the head in the humanoid green/red thing. The whole head is locked into place.

If I unclick the head, none of the facial bones move.

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationsImport.html

[agile solstice]

Perhaps you added another armature onto the gameobject rather than just adding another clip to the animator?
I'm not familiar with the avatar system at all unfortunately

[rigid salmon]

Is it possible to copy-pasting the keyframes in the timeline?

[agile solstice]

My mistake, for a moment I assumed the menu in the image was on a gameobject

[tender tusk]

Could you elaborate please? What do you mean by the importer? I usually just export the the maya rigged mesh to an FBX, then change it from Generic to Humanoid. Is there another step i need to take?

[orchid venture]

i don't know why but when i move the idle and the moving animation are mixed

[trim hatch]

can you use an animator component without an animator controller?

I just want the animator to play a certain clip

seems wastefull to create a whole animator controller

[hybrid tinsel]

Select the head and make the layer additive?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes; you need to choose the option to import additional transforms in the rig.

[smoky seal]

It still takes over the neck, I had to delete the key frames from the animation everywhere but the face haha.

Thank you though

[hybrid tinsel]

That's what the 'simple animation' component is for https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/SimpleAnimation

[errant plume]

i have a buuunch of animations, all i want to do is automate the process of changing all the target mesh names from Body to Head. Is this possible?

[hybrid tinsel]

Open the anim file outside of unity and regex the names?

Or use a script to do it

(Always backup first just in case)

[drifting wave]

For some reason the eyes aren't blinking

I set up this animation that makes it go from open to closed

As you can see

But the sprite never changes to the closed eyes

it just stays open, even though all the other sprite animation things are working, the stuff under the sprite changing animation is a color changer which works just fine

[wraith jackal]

Hey guys my animation plays in my animator but doesnt play visually

^^ Fixed it, it had to do with the static and Contribute GI

[supple crown]

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to add animation to the new input system script.

[boreal rain]

Hey!
I'm searching for someone who is experienced in Human animation setups & weapon animations.
I don't want animations done, I simply have questions that would be to long to describe here.
I'll even pay for the informations :))
Shortstory : I'm not sure if I set up my human rig correctly to work with first person weapon animations.
And I'm not sure if my weight painting is correct as when rotating the wrist I get odd deformations.

Generally speaking, please only hit me up (DM) if you're experienced and worked with games already that required human & weapon animations. ❤️

[twin musk]

where should i go to make a 3D character for my game that i can also add animations, i was thinking abt blender but just wanted to see if there was a better option

plz @ me if so

[supple crown]

you can go to Maya or Blender

[twin musk]

what is maya? can u show me rq?

like a sreenshot

[supple crown]

this one

[twin musk]

HOLY **** THATS DETAILED

ur good!

[supple crown]

maya for modeling then go to zbrush if you wanna sculpt for more details

[uncut salmon]

Blender is the most popular free option. There's no real reason you shouldn't use it.

[supple crown]

blender you can make models and sculpt

[supple crown]

^ this

[twin musk]

k, thx 4 ur opinions 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

Set the curves to no interpolation?

[boreal rain]

well most likely your ground checking isnt properly set up
or you are not taking it into account in your animator

hard to debug with 0 information

[supple crown]

sorry im not really good with animator

[boreal rain]

uh there is a lot you should fix

I guess you are also not good with coding?

[supple crown]

i never had a proper C# subject/class im sorry

the dashing works

[boreal rain]

anyways.

1. I would check if your isGrounded() really works. Try printing out if you are really on the ground or not. If that's not working correctly fix it.
2. It wouldve helped if you showed us your animator setup with the connections, pretty much you need to check your connection when you want to leave your jump animation, check if the bool is correctly assigned so you leave the animation once ground IS TRUE

[boreal rain]

np.

[supple crown]

it works now ty

[frosty mesa]

Hey! I have a weird artifact with my animation when imported into blender. When it moves from frame 16 to frame 0, this happens:

It seems like the feet move to a centered position at frame 0 for some reason, even though they're keyed to be at the correct position

[proper bay]

Does anyone know whats the best way to do this?
I have around 10.000 and each of them have an animator with the same animation for each exact tile, is there a performant friendly way to animate all of those tiles?

Also im using the regular legacy unity, no URP or HDRP

[agile solstice]

Ten thousand of what?

[proper bay]

tiles with the same animator and animation

[agile solstice]

Tiles? Sprite frame animation or skeletal animation or what?

[proper bay]

frame

[agile solstice]

There are many different techniques for mass optimization, but it depends on the exact case

[proper bay]

i would like to know atleast one, my constraints are that im using 2d sprite animations frame by frame and that im using the legacy unity without URP or HDRP, what are the possible solutions?

[drowsy field]

Long story Short I'm trying to animate a UV and I can't figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do that

Isn't there supposed to be a tiling option? So I can move the UV's coordinates around a map?

[agile solstice]

There's no need to double post

[drowsy field]

Sorry

[hybrid tinsel]

Would be better off figuring out how to actually ask in a way that someone can understand the question.

[dreamy schooner]

right now i have a bunch of script for movement, but it's with a capsule, i have this default player model i found on mixamo, and i was wondering how i can get actual movement animations for it and what i can do to configure animations with my movement script?

[idle moon]

hey guys im animating in unity and im trying to fix some thing with my menu, basically when i click the button in the bottom left i want the image to change to something else to show the button is depressed, currently my menu pop ups and everything like i want but i cant get that to work

is there an on click trigger for that?

[restive scaffold]

anyone have simple way of implementing simple 10< frame, effect like animations?

i feel instantiating a gameObject just to play 2 frames of animation and destroying is a bit wasteful

or am I construing 2 different things with each other

[frosty mesa]

Does anyone know how to fix this? Is this a common thing? I still haven't been able to figure it out today

[south reef]

Hello everyone! I have a separate animation layer for a syringe item in my project. When the player equips the item, the syringe model gets parented to the right hand of the player. Any animations that are played on that animation layer don't get applied to the syringe itself, but they do still get applied to the player's arms and fingers. I believe this is happening because the syringe model isn't a part of the avatar mask that I'm using on the animation layer, but I couldn't find any way to include it in the mask when I instantiate it. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[boreal rain]

is it not possible to seperate a mesh ( like head, chest, arms, legs )
without having those issues when the mesh deforms?

https://i.gyazo.com/8f1efe4c087d35b77c2be09606443fd2.mp4

I want to seperate certain things to enable/disable at runtime for performance

like when he is wearing a shirt, I could disable the upper body as its not visible

[twin musk]

is some1 able 2 teach me blender?

i am so confused by it

im trying to make differnt people, enemys, a ship, 3 different enemy ships, and an ocean with island (which i mght just make in unity)

[uncut salmon]

@twin musk Don't crosspost. Asking for someone to help you in this channel "rq", then proceed to ask someone to teach you an entire skill is completely opposite.

If you want to learn Blender, find a course to teach you. This isn't the place.

[twin musk]

well... i dont want to go through an entire course for what I am doing, bc its a ship, and a person. theres not much to it either than what I have to code. so do u know of a good youtube tutorial, u dont have to find it, just name of vid or name of creator of vid. its fine if u dont, but @ me if you do know of 1.

[uncut salmon]

Grant Abbit is a good person to look up for easy to follow, straight to the point beginner tutorials for Blender.

[twin musk]

tyvm

🙂

[boreal rain]

: )

can ayneone tell me
why it randomly stopped doing that without me changing ANYTHING?

Thanks blender..

[twin musk]

i need help animating my charcter, how do i move the limbs?

[spiral lily]

What's the best way to have character actions animated with or without the lower part of the body, depending on if the character is using its legs (walking, running, etc.), google seems to think i can't switch avatar mask at runtime 😢 and duplicating a layer with a full body and another with a split body avatar mask in order to tweak the weight at runtime isn't really what i call clean and maintainable.
What's the best practice today for this ?

[sharp vigil]

Anyone else find themselves constantly speeding up their animations?
I have recently been checking other games and my animations are almost twice as fast as when I first made them. 😅

[frosty mesa]

I also wanted to try something similar

So that I could clothe my characters and disable any non-visible body parts

But there's probably a way to do it without separating the mesh

There's likely a way to create Masks for the Meshes

If you wanna try to figure it out together, we could DM each other

[frosty mesa]

Oh! I didn't read that

It works now?

[boreal rain]

yeah

I even figured out how to make the mesh seamless

so you cannot see that there are seperate parts

[frosty mesa]

oh?? How?

I haven't started trying this so I haven't even begun dabbling, but I'd be interested in knowing

[boreal rain]

I'm thinking about doing a tutorial on youtube for that because no one I found could answer that online

https://avalab.org/avastar/279/knowledge/welding-normals/

[frosty mesa]

If you could, please do!

[boreal rain]

have a look at that article

I found it on the 6th google page or smth 💀

If you want the head to be seamless with the body click the head then
add the Data Transfer Modifier
You have to make 4 settings here:

1 Define the Target Mesh (Upper Body here)
2 Enable Face Corner Data
3 Enable Custom Normals
4 Set the Max Distance of influence to a low value

[frosty mesa]

☠️

does it work with unity btw?

[boreal rain]

and this issue
https://i.gyazo.com/8f1efe4c087d35b77c2be09606443fd2.mp4
randomly got resolved after I restarted blender and tried it from scratch again, worked the first try.

[boreal rain]

yeah

o

[frosty mesa]

oop

[frosty mesa]

Wait, but I still see a problem with the animation

Oh oh that's the old video

[boreal rain]

yeye that was the 'issue'

https://i.gyazo.com/87f8fe489759e3aa343fb0c52d26f0fa.mp4
here it is working in Unity

[frosty mesa]

Very cool!

[boreal rain]

I can successfully hide all other parts and only make example the legs visible

[frosty mesa]

Did you make these animations and model?

[boreal rain]

bought the model, used animations from Mixamo
I have to much ahead of me to do everything myself haha

[frosty mesa]

oh definitely haha, I was just curious

[boreal rain]

I'm actually a programmer, not an animator or anything.

but I had to figure that stuff out to continue programming

[frosty mesa]

I am too, but I'm trying to do it all myself for some reason

Maybe it's silly

[frosty mesa]

Actually, now that I have you, might you know why my animations do this?

[boreal rain]

depends.
If you're a hobbyist I can see it making sense to learn new skills
but I'm trying to deliver a game xd so time = money

[frosty mesa]

definitely.
I need to put a deadline on myself

[boreal rain]

this just looks like the animation itself isnt perfectly looped

[frosty mesa]

I'm somewhere in the middle, I'm trying to make a finished game sometime in the next half year

[frosty mesa]

strange, because it is in blender

[boreal rain]

like the start frame isnt the same as the endframe

[frosty mesa]

No matter how I do it in blender, it still exports like that

I've even re-keyed the feet animations

[boreal rain]

so are you trying to export from blender to unity
or export from unity to blender?

[frosty mesa]

from blender to unity

[boreal rain]

ah

[frosty mesa]

The video you see there is in the Unity inspector

[boreal rain]

yeah.
Is the animation in blender perfectly looped?

[frosty mesa]

Yeah, at least visually

[boreal rain]

hmm

[boreal rain]

your animation seems to only have 15 frames in blender

and 16 in Unity

you can cut the 16th frame in Unity

[frosty mesa]

even when I do that, it looks strange

it looks stranger even

I think unity doesn't repeat the first and last frame

while in blender it does

Could it have something to do with the IK?

Cause it only ever happens to the bones controlled with an IK, which doesn't get imported into Unity

Since I'm only exporting Deform bones

[boreal rain]

Ah perhaps

check your player import settings

Strip Bones

[boreal rain]

uncheck that

read what it does

it might help

[frosty mesa]

Still have the issue unchecked, but I'll read up on it

[boreal rain]

because I think what it does it doesnt import your IK bones as they don't have weights

but I'm not sure

and

it can have smth to do with your Animation Type you declared.
You have 'Generic'

but not sure as well

might as well read that up

[frosty mesa]

well I'm also not exporting them in the FBX

Because whenever I export all the bones, including controls, it makes the model really wonky in unity

or at least the feet

get very wonky

OH! I think I may have found an issue
Nvm, didn't help

[cedar quest]

Does anyone know the best way to animate a 2d sprite with the weapon. Should I animate the 2d pixel art styled character with the weapon doing the animations together? Or should I animate the character separately and attach the weapon in unity using animation rigging? I’m trying to get it set up a little like Enter the hinge on if that helps.

[wet whale]

I'm trying to check if an animation state in a layer mask is playing but I'm not seeing GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo working for anything but layer 0, Any ideas?

[hybrid tinsel]

No idea what that is but either approach is valid

[pure ivy]

This is more of a conceptual question, but i've been having a lot of trouble figuring out how I would even begin to go about it.

So imagine a 2D side-view platformer. I have a character with hand-drawn animations (so not separate joints on a pivot or with bones) that can idle, run, jump, etc. and, at any point during these actions, do a melee attack in multiple possible directions. I want to avoid issues like the leg positions switching because I attacked during a weird frame.

I was thinking I could have the upper body and legs animated separately for each state, but that has some issues beyond just keeping them synchronized. The body would be bobbing up and down during things like the running animation, and since the upper body attack animation could happen at any point it might end up visually separating from the legs because of the height changes...

How do I even approach this?

[hybrid tinsel]

There's no simple answer there. There is no simple automated solution when it comes to flipbook animation, since like you said there are no pivots or bones. If leg position switching and the like is a big concern you can set up transitions to only happen at specific points in the animation.

There are ways to do some degree of automation- adding metadata for part pivots or the like, but it really depends a lot on what you decide you need.

[pure ivy]

First of all, thanks! It is looking like i'll need some compromise here. Second, about the conditional transitions, what would be a good way to account for the increased time to arrive at the melee attack animation? Since responsiveness is important there.

Or...maybe I could take that idea of frame-dependent animation and just make two sets of animations, of which plays when the left leg is forward, one when the right is forward...

Either way this is going to be a lot of drawing

Actually I guess that wouldn't be necessary for idle and jump, just run

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, you are making hand drawn animations, there's gonna be a lot of drawing.

[pure ivy]

In animator hell before i've even picked up the pen

Alright, I should start actually making this thing and worry about one piece at a time

[hybrid tinsel]

You can create multiple transitions with different times if you need to

Funnily enough, this is actually what kinematica was designed to do

(except for 3d)

[pure ivy]

Ah, so it always plays some transition, that could work

When's some of that AI tech going to be used to automatically fill in blanks between animation states? SMH

Just wait a minute or two whenever you go between walking and running and bam, its generated an in-between frame!

[hybrid tinsel]

Right. You can have a separate transition, and trigger the next one with the correct foot

[pure ivy]

Perfect! Thanks for the ideas, this is probably what i'll end up doing there

[patent onyx]

So, i have this animation in blender , im not worried about how it looks because its just for testing, so, ignore the weird walk and idle animations.
but when i import the character into unity and try playing it through a blend tree, it becomes weird

also these error messages

ping me if u know how to help please

[patent onyx]

i seemed to have fixed the normals problem, but not these problems yet,

[patent onyx]

and theres also some errors in the animation tab

[hybrid tinsel]

Define 'weird?' I mean, that pretty much looks like a blend between those two animations so I'm not sure what you were hoping for?

The console errors are problems with your mesh, nothing to do with animation.

The import errors are a result of the problems listed in the animation tab; your rig doesn't fit the mecanim humanoid, so it isn't being converted without problems.

The errors actually explain the problem- your rig has extra bones with animations on them.

[patent onyx]

the back of the head is stuck in place is what i mean by weird

[hybrid tinsel]

That aren't used by mecanim.

[patent onyx]

oh

[hybrid tinsel]

oh, I hadn't noticed the head. That might be from missing bone weights on those vertices or you might have an extra bone that is being discarded there.

Can't tell from your pictures

[patent onyx]

if i had any missing bone weights or vertices it would have shown in blender right?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not necessarily.

Though I'm not a blender user.

I *do *know that sometimes bone weights aren't displayed exactly the same between blender and unity when there are missing weights since it's been mentioned by other folks.

iirc they might not be completely missing weights but might not be normalized.

[patent onyx]

if i dont use the rig generation and just use the metarig, no inverse kinematics, the animations are fine, not even warnings, but animating that way will take an insanely long time

[west ore]

Hey! First time Game Dev. Can anyone see what I'm doing incorrectly? I triple checked to make sure that "isAttack" has the right spelling and casing

[weary plank]

how can i reverse animation?

do i just set the speed to -1?

[real star]

yo why wont my blend tree work

it shows this no matter what i do

i have all of the anims set up

[clear bramble]

So does anyone know if it's possible to transfer all animations and settings from one model in unity to another model?

[toxic orbit]

How do i see if loop animation has restarted?

public Animator anim;

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if(anim.restarted("animStateParameter")){
        //do something
    }
}

[wraith jackal]

hey guys i cant change the loop time bool in my animation

i grabbed these animations from mixamo btw

[smoky seal]

So, I have two running states, one with the weapon equipped, and one without. However, when I switch between them, they aren't exactly synced up and the foot placement lags/stutters for a step or two.

Is there a way to sync them up with IK? Or like, only switch from frame X5 to Frame Y5?

[barren seal]

me and my monke

[hybrid tinsel]

Your avatar isn't properly set up

[hybrid tinsel]

If is is a mecanim humanoid then you can just reuse the animation controller. If it isn't, then you can still reuse animations if the hierarchy matches exactly but it won't be retargeted.

[hybrid tinsel]

There isn't enough to say what is wrong. It might be a problem with your animator, or one with your input handling.

[hybrid tinsel]

How are you switching between them now?

[smoky seal]

Just an int change

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[frosty mesa]

Hi, I'm still having this problem, can anyone help me?

[frosty mesa]

In Blender it looks just fine

[frosty mesa]

(I only just figured it out, and it was a strange reason.)
I had a "Foot Control" which the "IK Target" of my foot was following, which in turn the leg was using as the IK target. So instead of the leg using the "Foot Control" as the target, it was using the "Ik Target" which was in turn using the "Foot Control" to copy transforms. For some reason, the leg being two modifiers removed from the destination position was enough to confuse blender when exporting the keyframes. So the animation would always start with the leg's target, or the feet, planted at their starting positions.
But whenever Blender played the animations it would look like it was acting correctly.

[spring tree]

I've been using

Animator.Play(State[i],0,1);

to get avatar hand positions at the last frame of 20 animation Clips / States one after another without transitions.
But..... Unlike when I use transitions to go clip to clip, Play seems to reset the initial transform each time.
Since in normal play the avatar's final position changes, the saved hand positions end up being all very very wrong.
Is this a bug? How can I get around this?

[woven hawk]

How do I check in an if statement what state im in?

[hybrid tinsel]

Usually if you want synced animations you'd use a blend tree(which syncs all animations in the blend)

You can try syncing with exit times on your transitions but that isn't guaranteed.

[smoky seal]

Ah, so moving the two blend trees into one, and giving it a different float to switch between them? I guess that makes sense. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

[real star]

no i did humanoid rig not a different one

[hybrid tinsel]

Your character is in the 'set up avatar' pose.

So that usually means that either its avatar or the avatar for the animations are set up incorrectly.

Or that you haven't actually assigned a clip, but you said you checked that 😛

[hybrid tinsel]

If you checked the #📖┃code-of-conduct you'd see that there is a place for that stuff.

[brazen sedge]

Yeah I'm not gonna do that.

[gritty frost]

!warn 708156039115178014 No job/collab posting.

[dusk vale]

code#3761 has been warned.

[ancient zealot]

Hello, I'm looking for a good tutorial to make this kind of effect: https://youtu.be/sRIgMlWUMjY?t=340
So basically how to draw a zone with minimal movements that can be oriented any direction

[winged vector]

hi quest question with unity 2d how can i make my character idle facing the direction i was walking

[orchid venture]

can someone help me with a first person animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure exactly which thing you're asking about- the direction pad?

[hybrid tinsel]

It depends; you'd need to give more info about your setup, and how you're turning the character.

[winged vector]

ik whats the problem but idk how to fix it

if i move left and stop speed will be less than 0.01 and horizontal less than 0 which makes it turn right

but even if im moving to right and stop it will be the same less than 0.01 speed and horizontal less than 0 its like i was walking left

it needs a script that knows that i was walking right and it makes me idle at right

or i was walking left and makes me idle on left

[hybrid tinsel]

Are your different directions different animator states, or are you just flipping the object?

[lusty pebble]

With the Unity Animation Rigging; it is possible to set individual bone constrains with the IK? I'm trying to use the Chain IK but results are poor because bones are rotating in a undesirable way. I'd like to be able to lock some bones completely and other bones rotate only on certain axis etc..
Is it possible?

[spring tree]

Is there a way to get the Preview button in the Animation Window to Play the animation in place?
It moves my transform to 0,0,0 making it a massive pain in the butt to review multiple start and end positions.

[rocky valley]

First of all, configure your IDE. Second, I'm pretty sure this belongs to #archived-code-general , perhaps I'm wrong

[orchid venture]

someone knows why in the end there is an error?

[rocky valley]

You missed a curly bracket

[orchid venture]

ohoh

okay

thanks

[rocky valley]

Also, anything about code (except animation related) should be posted in #archived-code-general

(atleast I'm pretty sure it is)

[orchid venture]

oh i'm dumb sorry i thougt i was in the #💻┃code-beginner sorry

[rocky valley]

Ah, there is no problem then

You have my pardon

[proper bay]

is it possible to synchronize specific animators including the disabled or hidden ones?

i have culling mode set to completely so it wont run animation off screen

the question is whether its possible to make animators work by the game overall runtime instead of them working individually

[fringe crest]

"Legacy animation clips are not supported" when trying to import an animation I just made to timeline???how tf am I suppose to animate otherwise? also I was able to import a different animation but made earlier and it works fine. Any ideas?

[fringe crest]

I'm not able to create freaking animations anymore

I can make them but every animation I make is "Legacy" any other I made before this pop up started appearing works

and they look exactly the same

alright managed to do it, instead of creating the clip and applying it to the animator component I created it in the animator component. now for some reason it has no problem accepting it.

[twin musk]

Where would I do this? I'm likely looking in the wrong place for this, but right now I don't really know what you mean...

Or would it be here?

[hybrid tinsel]

You might be wrong. The info they posted makes it impossible to tell whether it is their animator or their input handling that is the problem. 😛

So about 50/50 odds of it being a #🖱️┃input-system or an #🏃┃animation problem.

[hybrid tinsel]

You'd do it through code, or by using an anystate transition with 'can transition to self.'

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use a timeline, or try to script something.

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you able to change the animation type in the inspector for the clip?

[deft spoke]

is sample rate on animations basically fps?
in that the higher the sample rate the smoother the animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

No.

Unless you're using flipbook animation.

[deft spoke]

if I'm doing fading in and out for text
it will make it fade smoother tho right

[hybrid tinsel]

No

There's no reason to mess with it for that kind of animation. It is primarily for matching up imported animations and for flipbook animations.

It doesn't affect the interpolation at all, only keyframes.

[deft spoke]

wouldn't text fading in and out be flipbook animation

actually better question
if I do sample of 1
and have 2 keyframes
one at 0 and one at 1
vs
sample of 100 with 2 keyframes
one at 0 and one at 100
there's no difference between the two?

^(specifically for fading text in and out)

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, I'd avoid using extremes of either end.

If your game's framerate drops lower than the sample rate then you can get dropped frames. If it it too low then other things like events might night fire.

But the interpolation between those two examples should be the same for the keyframes.

[twin musk]

... using an anystate transition with 'can transition to self.'
Let's talk about this. How would I set this up?

[hybrid tinsel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Transition.html

[twin musk]

Thank you, I will look into this further. 🙂

[brave storm]

How do I prevent my animator from affecting my character's bone scales? The animations don't have scale keyframes in blender, but the animator is forcing some bones to non-uniform scales like (0.9999998, 1, 1). This causes massive lags since the bones have colliders, and PhysX is apparently slow when calculating non-uniform scale colliders.

[rugged shell]

Hey, this wolf is supposed to play a walking animation when walking, but it doesnt.

It has an animator with the respective controller and avatar, and a AI attached to it

This is the walk animation

And here it is in the script

Does someone know why it doesnt play the animation?

[brave storm]

@rugged shell you have no transitions leading to that Walk animation

[rugged shell]

Is that how to make a transition?

[brave storm]

Yes, but you need some parameter like 'IsWalking' that tells that transition to happen

Parameters can be found next to Layers on the left.

You can create a bool "IsWalking", then in your script call animator.SetBool("IsWalking", true) instead of animator.Play

And set the IsWalking bool as a condition for the transition you made. Click on the arrow to show transition settings

The way you have it set up now, it plays the idle animation and transitions to Walk, since it has no transition conditions

[rugged shell]

Do I keep the GetComponent part of the line?

First time even seeing the animation interface

So much at once to be honest

gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>().SetBool("IsWalking", true); right?

[brave storm]

you can, but I would cache it instead of using it multiple times. Like this:
Animator a = GetComponent<Animator>();

a.SetBool("IsWalking", true);

but your way should work too

[rugged shell]

I think I still set it up incorrectly.

Isn't it supposed to be this way?

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm confused; why do you have it transitioning OUT of walking when walking is true?

[hybrid tinsel]

Is this a humanoid avatar? If it is IK causing the scaling you can disable that.

If it is just some weird precision error, hard to say the best solution

[brave storm]

It's a generic avatar, not humanoid. I noticed that when dragging the FBX to the scene, the bone scales are already messed up.

[brave storm]

Feels like a floating point precision error... I tried a bunch of combinations in import and export settings but nothing seems to fix it

[hybrid tinsel]

Ah, well, have you tried manually cleaning the file of scale stransforms?

[brave storm]

Yeah I removed every scale keyframe in blender and re-exported, didn't hlep

[hybrid tinsel]

And transforms are applied on the model?

[brave storm]

What do you mean?

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried setting all bone scales to 1 in your software?

And 'apply transforms' is usually an option of some sort in your export settings.

[brave storm]

I tried that yes, in the t-pose I added a scale keyframe to each bone.

I might have to try more of those Blender FBX export settings. I think it has 'apply transforms' there

[rugged shell]

I mixed them up. Now it's the other way around with the arrows

I'm still running into my animation issue though. I can't get my wolf to walk

[hybrid tinsel]

And why is the 'rotating' in the conditions?

[toxic orbit]

is this right?
i have the script changing the weight amount from 0 - 1 and restarting the animation when the player is punching. is there a better way to handle melee and weapon animation. i plan to have more?

[hybrid tinsel]

I use an int rather than a float, but otherwise that's a reasonable enough method

[brave storm]

You need a separate transition if you want to change to walk anim when turning. All of the conditions must be true for the transition to trigger.

I mean, you probably arent rotating left and right at the same time

[brave storm]

@hybrid tinsel Related to the bone scaling problem: I created a new Unity test project, and a new Blender file with an armature and 3 bones in it. One of the bones has a scale of (1, 0.9999999, 1) when brought to Unity, so the problem wasn't with my export/import settings or project I guess. But how come I can't find anyone else having this problem It's breaking my game and I'm sad

[brave storm]

DUDE I might've found a workaround: Adding 'Limit scale' bone constraints to each bone in blender

[brave storm]

Ok apparently that didn't work with my own armature, but I'm trying Unity's own Scale constraint component now, seems to work.

[fringe crest]

you mean the wrap mode? that's about the only thing I can change it seems like

I'm using unity 2021.1.9f1 with HDRP 11

[stoic zinc]

I'm pretty confused right now. One of the objects I added in unity came with an origin point that was out in the middle of nowhere so I added a parent object and animated that which looks right, but it automatically added the same animation to the child object so it looks crazy in the same way.

Anyone know what's goin on here?

[teal elbow]

A better option would be an animation trigger from "Any State" that could be called by script. Think more along the lines of IsPunchingR trigger it from a press key down and every time the person presses say the "M" key it hits right.

[toxic orbit]

Yah I'm using this. Although I'm going to change newAnimState from string to an enum.

public void ChangeAnimState(string newAnimState) {
    if (currentAnimState == newAnimState) return;
    animator.Play(newAnimState);
    currentAnimState = newAnimState;
}

[hybrid tinsel]

go into debug mode on the inspector and there should be a checkbox for whether the clip is legacy or not

Is the object you are animated set to have a legacy rig? That's the only time I've seen unity automatically creating legacy clips.

[hybrid tinsel]

Your screenshots are confusing. It looks like you have separate animations on the parent and the child objects; I notice that both have an animator component)though one is disabled) and one has an animation component too?

Like, all sorts of crazy shit is going on there.

[fringe crest]

yeah nothing about legacy seems to be in the inspector

[stoic zinc]

yah it's super crazy I can try to explain in a minute

[daring relic]

Do you guys think this could be a good "first thing that I'll animate" thing?

I made it myself

the idea is that she's a girl that can clone herself using that backpack

but I am thinking of just removing the backpack

[hybrid tinsel]

It seems reasonable!

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you go into debug mode like I said?

[fringe crest]

oh my bad, I didn't go into that, I misread what you said

[stoic zinc]

okay hi, I'm here.

I'm really confused to

and I'm kindof like should I just start over from the beginning

just remove everything and start from scratch

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems like a good idea.

Don't forget to delete the unused clips/controllers so they don't interfere with the new ones.

[stoic zinc]

pinball kitty.... it's so messed up

I deleted everything

or at least I thought I did

and it's still doing some crazy shit

my setup stuff

only one animation I think it's only on the gameobject thing

keep in mind I deleted every animation in my project and added one that doesn't look anything like this

[hybrid tinsel]

What the fuck is this?

[stoic zinc]

is it not supposed to be like that...

[hybrid tinsel]

NO.

[stoic zinc]

herm

[hybrid tinsel]

The two components are mutually exclusive.

Having both on one game object will break.

[stoic zinc]

I thought you needed both for it to work lol

so I probably need animator cause it lets me do multiple animations?

[hybrid tinsel]

'Animation' is a legacy script that is only there so old projects don't break.

It can still be useful but Unity doesn't recommend it.

[stoic zinc]

Do you have any idea where this animation it’s doing now is coming from cause I cannot find out why it’s doin that

[hybrid tinsel]

You have a million scripts and components on there, so who knows?

[stoic zinc]

ohhhhhhhh

something strange is afoot

thanks, I'll try to get it sorted on my own

[balmy flare]

Hello, haven't been on in a bit, but if you got a modle rigged in blender for animation how hard is it to just drop in unity? For animation, a cartoon?

[dreamy schooner]

is there a certain process anyone here with experience recommends for rigging one's own animations and what you recommend a beginner to do first? i just wanna make basic but custom movement animatoins

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on how you rigged it. For basic bone animations without modifiers you can generally just drop it right in.

[granite oracle]

Is the Unity Animation system still referred to as Mecanim? Or is that considered a legacy term now? Figuring out some resume wording right now.

[warped forge]

Hello, can someone help me with the rigging of this? the red bone will rotate the whole model but the green, orange, pink and purple do nothing

[daring relic]

So ehm.... Blackthornprod has a video about making an animation, and in his video there is a sample button that changes the speed of the animation. How can I do that?

[hybrid tinsel]

Don't use samples for speed control. You can set the speed in the animator.

[hybrid tinsel]

Mecanim is the current animation system; though most people use it to refer to the humanoid rig, it also includes the animator state machine.

[hybrid tinsel]

Are the weights correct?

[granite oracle]

Thank you.

[dreamy schooner]

how do i get started with making player movement animations? im a pure beginner with animations in general

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, first you should define what kind of movement system you are using; these are generally divided into root motion and non root motion. Keeping that in mind, it is otherwise mostly normal animation techniques, such as you can find hundreds of tutorials on.

[trim hatch]

First you need a full body motion capture suit

[warped forge]

I’ve used the auto weight so I have no idea

[hybrid tinsel]

So 'probably not' because autoweights are not good for this sort of thing.

You'll want to apply your own weights.

[warped forge]

hmm ill have a look

[late mica]

Is it possible to make animations at runtime? (using gltFAST i can import .gltf models with animations) especially transitions?

[rigid salmon]

I have made a pool of objects for enemies and activated the objects one by one in the scene but the animation is not running and got this error. The animator worked fine when there was just one object of the enemy but there is a pool of 20 objects now and animations are not playing. This is a 2D game.

[warped forge]

Hello, I've rigged up this model but when i drag it into my scene the bones dont show up. Can someone help?

[mild stirrup]

Is there a way to create a base animator controller that has no real animations so that all other objects can just use it

[uncut salmon]

Yep, make an AC and set it up with the transition stand states. Then use an AC Override component on your object and assign the base AC and override the states with its animations.

[mild stirrup]

Transition stand states ?

I added empty states, but then the ovveride wouldn't let me replace them with actual animations

[uncut salmon]

Mobile auto correct, but yes, those states.

[mild stirrup]

They don't show up in the override like I said

[uncut salmon]

I haven't used it in a while. You might have to create default animations for the base AC so there's a fall back if you don't override it (since it's optional to only override some animations)

[mild stirrup]

Yes probably, sad that there isn't anything better, something that would make the parameters accessible through code instead of string interface

A man can dream, still thanks

[dreamy schooner]

I was gonna play around and see if it was better to use root motion with the player moving without having to add any force or not use root motion and just have a standstill animation that I make move through script by like adding force, I don’t know what’s the best method of creating the root/non-root movements so I wanted to know what people with experience use

[cosmic oyster]

how can i make it so the animation only starts playing once the scene is fully loaded, because i have an animation that plays once you enter a scene but the beginning is cutoff sometimes because the scene was still loading but the animation was already playing ?

[grim python]

Anyone knows how to stop an animation being played and play it again ( Like reset the anim )? im using bools to control the anim transitions .

[steel ivy]

any tutorial on basic animation setup in unity?

also do unity support IK rigging?

[karmic grove]

Hey.. sorry if this is not the place to ask this .. but how do I turn this type of image into an animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, though it isn't simple.

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to add a Sprite Skin component probably.

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes; it has multiple ways to do it, in fact.

[hybrid tinsel]

You can set a different start state and only trigger your intro animation when a condition is met.

[late mica]

Found out about Animation.CrossFade(), tested it and it looks like it would work well enough for my purpose, just have to make sure the .glb files come with animations

Else it would probably throw me an error

[cosmic oyster]

But what would that condition be

[hybrid tinsel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-sceneLoaded.html

It used to be a lot easier(there used to be a built-in method that was called when the scene was loaded) but they removed that because they hate us.

[cosmic oyster]

Uff

[cosmic oyster]

But thank you

[hybrid tinsel]

They decided that forcing you to do the whole 'subscribe to event' thing was somehow more elegant than just having a single method.

[cosmic oyster]

Wait so void start comes after the scene loaded ? From what i read here

[hybrid tinsel]

No. It MIGHT come after scene loaded but it might not.

[cosmic oyster]

Oh okay

[hybrid tinsel]

Things start as THEY Are loaded.

[cosmic oyster]

So i have to use void onsceneloaded

[hybrid tinsel]

You need both.

You need to add the delegate in order to be notified when the scene has actually loaded

[steel ivy]

i read on many post on forum saying it doesnt, but they are quite old, will do more research before doing anything, thanks:D

[hybrid tinsel]

One of the main features of the animation system is the built in humanoid IK, and the Animation Rigging package is a newer, more general tool that doesn't require a humanoid model.

[ripe shore]

who here is using the animation rigging package?

the unity one

[warped forge]

Hey, does anyone know how i can reorder the limbs on my sprite? I want the main body to the the top layer

[tall trail]

I could be wrong but I think that's something you do before importing

[hybrid tinsel]

In the sprite editor, you set the sorting order per bone.

[hybrid tinsel]

Max_R's sprite is on a single layer so they can't do that.

[steel ivy]

would my rig still work if that's the case?

[steel ivy]

only IK no other constrain

[hybrid tinsel]

What do you mean?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you be more specific? Mecanim requires a specific rig to work, and the Animation Rigging package has you build the constraints in unity. If you are using Maya you can import a small number of constraints, but otherwise you have to add and configure IK and constraints in Unity. So IK you set up in, say, Blender would need to be set up again in Unity.

[hexed vector]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/988205214941212682/1018512999532732537/ezgif.com-gif-maker_3.gif

i did this in blender but i have no clue how to do it in unity

it's an emissionmap with keyframed streangth

[lone cradle]

Hi y'all. I am remaking space invaders in 3D. I made 2 objects for one of my space invader guys and wanted to animate these. However I have just 2 prefabs now. Does anyone know how I can make an animation that rotate between these two prefabs?

[hybrid tinsel]

The best way is probably to make an animated shader, but you can also animate material properties directly via script or animator.

[hexed vector]

yeah i animated the material directly

i just love how satisfying this became

[steel lily]

does anyone know if its possible to trigger an animation from 2 diffrent rigs using one animation controller? i have one rig for a gun and the other for the viewmodel arms and when i try to play an animation from both using one trigger it only plays one of them

[twin sluice]

I am not sure why, but my sprite isnt changing and in the animation it should (Not sure where the right place is)

[tepid socket]

So I'm trying to make the player move when doing attack animations. Would I have to code in the player moving forward with the animation, or is there an alternative to this method?
I tried moving the position in the animation but that's just a temporary thing unfortunately and does not actually move the player.

[restive scaffold]

anyone know of a concrete asset with preset animation rigging

I've been trying to rig a humanoid for the last couple days and it's driving me insane

[gilded fossil]

guys how to animate first person hands with third person? in short, I need the first-person arms to be animated in the third-person as well, because I'm making a splitscreen game and i need to see animations of the first player from the second player and vice versa

[trim hatch]

idk
But unity made a multiplayer sample project with full models and animations so maybe check that out

[agile solstice]

In Unity or in a modeling program?

[restive scaffold]

unity

[agile solstice]

Animation Rigging package has examples you can download from the package manager

[restive scaffold]

yeah, I've been trying that for the last couple days

the bones never quite work as I intend

[agile solstice]

Dunno what to say to that other than that I hope you're not trying to make a whole rig within Unity
The package's tools are better suited for controlling parts of an already rigged character

[restive scaffold]

its already rigged

[gentle venture]

Hi, I have a question about animations:
My character has a landing and a take-off animation, which are basically identical, just reversed.
Usually I would apply them in the "normal" way: When falling down, raycast downwards. When the ground gets close, trigger landing animation.
When leaving the ground, trigger take off animation (landing animation reversed).

Problem with this: The falling speed of the character varies. So if the character is coming in hot, the landing animation might play too slowly.

My potential solution:
Instead of triggering animations, I measure the distance from the character to the ground and set the animation frame each update accordingly. For example (on a 30 frame animation):

=1m above ground: Frame 30
0m above ground: Frame 1
0-1m above ground: Frame 1-30

Is this a valid way to animate or are there any pitfalls I'm missing? Is it a bad idea performance wise?
Also I feel like re-inventing IK a bit...

[agile solstice]

It's generally difficult to create a system that predicts player character movement, so usually it's enough to settle for just having a quick landing animation upon ground impact
There's no right or wrong way to go about it though, but it can be tricky to control animations directly from scripts, especially considering that you can't set animation frames, only clip time/normalized time, and the system can get messy if you skip the animator state machine that way

[gentle venture]

I understand what you mean with it becoming messy, especially with other animation layers using the built-in state machine on top.
The quick landing animation is not an option unfortunately as my character is bouncy and takes off the moment it hits the ground.
Maybe I will just have a take-off animation and skip the landing animation completely, I'll give it a try. Thanks for your input!

[agile solstice]

Helps a lot to have a two-part mid-air animation, with states for going up and going down you transition between when upward speed turns negative

[gentle venture]

This is a really good idea. I'll have a play about, thanks!

[bleak field]

guys where can i edit animation sample

i don't see it in animatino panel

[paper drum]

one of my first time rigging anything, so don't judge me. - anyways i am rigging a simple rope, and i did all the bones and stuff, but it doesnt do anything when i put the rigged sprite in the scene, it just stayes like a sprite without bones

[agile solstice]

What is it meant to "do"?

[paper drum]

just be a rope hanging about

that the player can interact with

[agile solstice]

So, physics?
You'll need rigidbodies, colliders and joints on all the bones for that
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Joints.html

[paper drum]

No i mean the problem is that the bones do not get imported into the scene

[agile solstice]

Bones appear when you add a sprite skin component and hit the "create bones" button

[hybrid tinsel]

Triggers are 'used up' by the first transition to get it.

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to make sure that you have weights on the skin, and also in the scene view you need to add the sprite skin component as Spazi said.

[bleak field]

hello guys how can i solve this bug

'player' AnimationEvent has no function name specified!

[agile solstice]

When you create an animation event, makes sense that you need to specify a function to call

[bleak field]

i fixed it by reanimation it

[lethal bramble]

how do I fix this issue? the TP_Dash trigger doesnt work properly while TP_Forward is true, it seemingly just plays a single frame of the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Don't use an any state condition with 'can transition to self' with a bool condition or it will keep transitioning to itself and playing the first frame.

[lethal bramble]

everything has can transition to self unchecked

[stuck elm]

And is dash immediately transitioning to idle, which is THEN transitioning right back to dash?

[round stag]

What is the most performant way to play a one shot animation right now? As we know animators are always dirtied on the background unless they're disabled, and Animation component is legacy. I tried using Playables, but it had the same issue after playing one animation, it gets stuck in an "always playing" state.

[hollow grove]

I have an issue where my animation transitions into a state it doesn't fulfill the trigger for

    {
        if (animator != null)
        {
            
            if (enemy.transform.position.y >= 2)
            {
                animator.SetTrigger("JumpTrigger");
            }
        }
    }

It goes from running to jumping without the transform.y being 2 or higher

Idk what more info you'd need to help, I just started with animation this evening

It like, does the running animation for a second, then it transfers to jumping, then to running

And so on

I figured out most of it, I had forgotten to add the triggers as conditions between jumping and running

But it still does the jumping animation when I spawn the enemy even though they spawn on the ground

[hybrid tinsel]

Do they spawn with the trigger set to true?

[hollow grove]

Oh I see what you mean

I didn't understand what it meant for the trigger to be set to true at first sorry

Turning it to false made it work, thank you

[humble elm]

Can someone help me? I want to use an animation pack from the asset store but I can't use it on my character at all

gives a sequence of errors

[hybrid tinsel]

Were you planning on telling us what those errors are or should we figure that out you you too?

[agile solstice]

If you're worried about CPU cost of animators, I suppose running them on the GPU using something like this could be an effective solution
https://youtu.be/KUuuXowdYyM

[round stag]

That isn't an option for me since my animations are sprite based.

[strong hedge]

i downloaded some running animations from mixamo, ive set the rig of the animations as humanoid and they work, i can see my characters playing them. But theres something happening with their feet, its glitching a bit. Does anyone know why?

(ops ended up showing medium run here but happens the same thing with it)

[azure sorrel]

I have an walking animation, but I want to change and constraint the position of the arm. For example, holding a flashlight.

I am trying to do it with Animation Rigging. Is that the right way?

[trim hatch]

i think you need to look into animation layers

read this through

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationLayers.html

[rigid salmon]

animation events are properly setup. still got this error

[sage horizon]

anyone know why once i add an animation to a humanoid model, whenever i go into play more they switch to a strange curled pose rather than t-pose? and how to prevent this?

[azure sorrel]

Will do, Thanks! But managed to solve it with Animation Rigging. First time using actually but looks pretty good. Used a Rig with Two Bone IK Constraint

[twin musk]

Hello. I reimport my char, just in maya chagen UV and after import in new char old animation stop work. Can somebody tell me please what happen and how to fix this?

First anim broken anim second char without animation

[strong hedge]

does this somehow make the medium run faster or something? I have fast run set to speed 1. But is this making the animations more smooth somehow?

[lone goblet]

Hi all,
My game has had a big issue where, suddenly, project wide, characters are glitching into getting stuck various non-T-poses in the editor (not in play mode) and having various big and small animation issues. It affects every character, but how it does so is random. We have no idea what is going on and something is overwriting the position of character rigs constantly.

One my my team members and I are currently trying to dissect the issue in a Unity Forum post to figure things out. I've explained the issue there in far better detail than I have space for on Discord. If anyone wants to help, feel free to check over this thread.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/models-suddenly-stuck-in-poses-in-editor-and-animations-messed-up-across-project.1334213/

[regal coyote]

hey I tired to import my animation sfrom blender into unity and when I did, it only loaded one of my animations, my idle animation, and on top of that, it called it "Scene" instead of idle

I'm following a tutorial by sebastian Lauge and Brackeys

[regal coyote]

is anyone here

[hybrid tinsel]

If you just have a oneshot sprite animation with no interactivity, can do it in a shader.

It won't batch with regular sprites but you can use the same flipbook shader for all animated objects using it so those will all batch.

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, but you haven't really asked much we can help with.

[hybrid tinsel]

All animations in a blend are synced.

[hybrid tinsel]

Pretty wild. I am guessing these aren't using mecanim humanoids?

[lone goblet]

Doesn't matter if they're mechanim or not

[hybrid tinsel]

Was just trying to narrow down possibilities.

[solid sail]

Hi guys! Anyone has info on some free humanodid movement animation pack containing directional and back dodge roll? Im trying to animate dodge roll with just forward roll animation and setting transform.forward to the move direction but it just looks like this https://streamable.com/cy2ds4

i cant get it to work :/

[lone goblet]

Yeah, narrowing it down has been really hard. So far we've been able to tie it to the preview function as a trigger but we're still really lost.

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried taking the roll you have and adjusting it? The actual pose will be pretty much the same, so you should be able to just edit the root motion and rotation curves for whatever direction you wanted? Or even remove the root motion for that animation and just control the rolling movement through code, which would let you roll in all sorts of ways.

[solid sail]

actually im not using root motion at all, its all through code

[solid sail]

https://streamable.com/1au5oc this is how it looks with no animation, it works just fine i think. So only issue is that i cant adjust animation properly

when using dodge roll movement and mouse looking is disabled btw

[solid sail]

i added avatar for animator and now he clips into the ground XD

cant mixamo animations work with humanoid rig?

[light rover]

I have a character with about 25 different animations and this leads to super huge bundle for it even though I only use say 10 of them in any given scene and others are scene specific. Is there a way to split these into their own bundles so I can have a scene-specific bundle setup that only has the animations required for it?

[earnest trail]

How do i animate objects which have parent constraint component

[gilded fossil]

hi, i have an animated character and i need to attach arms to weapons, but weapons only appear in game mode (because they spawn via prefab). How can I attach a character's arms to weapons?

[shell escarp]

How would I get animations to play one after another? I don't want them to all play at the same time. I have a list of gameobjects each with animations. I want them to play 1 animation each.

private void BattleStateEnemyTurn(){
        Debug.Log("EnemyTurn!");

        //Go through every enemy checking if enemy has attacked, if not, attack!
        StartCoroutine(PlayAttackAnimation());
        currentState = BattleState.playerTurn;
    }

    IEnumerator PlayAttackAnimation(){

        for(int i = 0; i < enemiesSpawned.Count; i++ ){
             //int attackNum = Random.Range(0, enemy.numberOfAttackAnimations); //gather a random attack number
            enemiesSpawned[i].enemyAttack.SetActive(true);
            AnimationFinished AnimationFinishedSript = enemiesSpawned[i].enemyAttack.gameObject.GetComponent<AnimationFinished>();
            animator = enemiesSpawned[i].enemyAttack.GetComponent<Animator>(); 
            
            animator.SetTrigger("AttackTrig" + 1);

            yield return new WaitUntil(() => AnimationFinishedSript.animationFinished == true);
            Debug.Log("Animation Finished");
        }
        
    }```

Currently, I Think what is happening is that the coroutine is being done multiple times. and the trigger keeps getting triggered. How would I make it so, that the trigger is only triggered if the previous animation in the list has been finished?

[proper bay]

Hey again, would appreciate if someone could help me out
so im doing something rather unconventional, im using legacy built in renderer and im trying to make animated tiles
the tiles have animator with a single goal to swap material as if animating.
the reason im swapping materials instead of only texture is because the materials contain also normal and occlusion maps
The issue this leads to is constant load of materials without releasing it... how do i release it?

[hybrid tinsel]

That generally means that the avatar of either the character or the animation have a problem.

[hybrid tinsel]

There's way too much info missing to guess. Why are you even using a coroutine for that? What is your AnimationFinishedSript actually doing?

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't need to swap materials to use secondary maps for sprites. You can just add them to the sprite data. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SpriteEditor-SecondaryTextures.html

[proper bay]

it will animate the material?

[hybrid tinsel]

No, it will animate the textures.

But swapping materials is one of the worst things you can do for performance, so you generally want to avoid it.

[proper bay]

so how exactly do i animate textures? it only shows how to add secondary textures

do i use animator?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. Totally normal sprite animation.

If you animate the sprite the secondary textures will animate with it

[proper bay]

ok you lost me there..

so whats the role of the secondary textures? they hold normal map and such? or they hold the next frame?

[hybrid tinsel]

They hold secondary textures.

Could be anything. Normals, occlusion, emission, flowmaps, whatever

You just have to make sure that the name matches the slot in the shader you want it to go into.

[proper bay]

thank you! but i just ended up writing my own custom animator that will just animate whatever i need in the current material

[tiny quartz]

for some reason my animation triggers are not doing anything, please help! https://gdl.space/feralewuse.cs

[shell escarp]

That script just sets a bool to true when the animation has finished using an event on the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Feels like the entire thing is somewhat overcomplicated.

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you be more specific?

[solid sail]

Guys maybe im dumb but i want to use animation layer just for attacks animations, upper body only. How to make my second layer not play anything until atacking?

[tiny quartz]

I have a transition set to a trigger condition but when I trigger it in a script using that anim.SetTrigger(); it just goes back to the entry state instead of to the next state

[hybrid tinsel]

So it is doing something, just not what you want. Do you have your transitions set correctly?

[tiny quartz]

I do and its not actually making a transition just replaying the entry animation. This is coming as a result of setting a new animation curve in script

the transitions were working when I set the new curve in Start() but not when in another function

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not sure about the effects of editing the animation curves while the animator is running.

[tiny quartz]

hmmm

how do you reset the animator/would reseting it work after I edit the curves?

[hybrid tinsel]

 anim.Rebind();
 anim.Update(0f);```

Not sure if that will fix it, since I've not experimented with editing the animation curves at runtime

[brave storm]

You can use animator.SetLayerWeight() in a script to control that layer's weight.

[solid sail]

yess, i figured it out allready, thanks a lot ❤️

[brave storm]

Would be something like this var animator = GetComponent<Animator>(); animator.SetLayerWeight(animator.GetLayerIndex("YourLayerName"), targetValue);

ok good :)

[solid sail]

theoretical question, is it hard to learn blender on "i will make my own attack and dodge animation" level?

[brave storm]

Theres a massive amount of tutorials on that subject, I'd say go for it.

[tiny quartz]

hard not impossible (maybe 5 hours to follow a tutorial and make it look good, 20 to be independent)

[tiny quartz]

This worked and I cant tell you how happy I am!

[tranquil glade]

I just realized, if you wanted to set individual poses to interpolate between for a blend tree, you would create them as animation clips with only a single frame, apply them to the motion parameter of an animation state, and remember to control the transition time between poses. Am I correct in this understanding? It's something I was concerned for, but I haven't had to use yet. I genuinely wasn't sure how to set just the pose for a blend tree.

[tiny quartz]

Why are my animations returning to the center and not their startPos? https://gdl.space/toconuxusa.cs

[warped kiln]

how do i make an animator just refresh its values?

something like rebind but dont know how to stop the last animation

or if rebind doesnt call onstateexit maybe

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes

[hybrid tinsel]

You're setting the positions in world space I guess?

[tiny quartz]

That was not it it was a bunch of annoying "set a new animation in a script" bullshit

but i figured it out!

[hybrid tinsel]

Cool

[velvet geyser]

Any idea why my FBX file with a model, materials and animation is 5983KB, but when I copy the animation data to a new file (so I can edit bits of it) the size is 41,491 KB?

[pulsar tundra]

I think Unity isnt detecting my keyframes properly

this animation goes from 0-40, but in Unity it shows up as this

(i cant enter a number higher than 1.3 for the range)

also why the heck does it say "1 fps"? the FBX clearly uses 30 fps

[hybrid tinsel]

The copies of the animation are uncompressed text files for editing so they can be significantly larger than the compressed version in the fbx. Unity only compresses them again when you build the game.

[hybrid tinsel]

40 frame animation x 30 fps = 1.3 seconds.

Unity animation is in seconds, not in frames.

[pulsar tundra]

huh

but why does it show the length in frames there then?

the seconds are on the timeline

like with every other animation in this project

[velvet geyser]

okay so it's not actually a problem for the build, but is there a way to manually compress the animations? They're big enough to be a huge pain to commit to our repository, but we had to make them because the compressed animations in the FBX files aren't set to loop.

[hybrid tinsel]

You can set the looping of imported animations from the import inspector.

[hybrid tinsel]

Hrm, now that is a curious thing.

[pulsar tundra]

what unity version are you on?

hey for you it shows the length in frames too

but my issue is that Unity thinks the animations only consists of 2 frames

[hybrid tinsel]

Like I said, it is curious. I hadn't actually looked at that animation but it seems to be different for different ones. I'm supposing it must have something to do with the metadata but I have no idea of the details.

[onyx quail]

When I click the Controller section of an Animator component to choose a controller, it lists every single controller in the project, most of which aren't relevant to the current character. Is there an easy way to filter these, for example based on the Avatar?

Similar question - if I'm picking a Motion when editing a Controller, it lists every clip for every character in the game, which makes it really hard to find which ones are the matching ones. Any way to filter this list?

[harsh delta]

Hi, can someone point me in the right direction? I have an animator with 9 positions to run forward/backward/strafe etc. But I also now added so the character I'm moving will look at the mouse by rotation around its Y-axis. So therefore the animator must someone rotate as well.

[agile solstice]

You would use IK to override the upper body rotation to point at the cursor
Or have another animation layer that overrides upper body motion with another blend tree for looking at other directions

[harsh delta]

Having an IK to override the upper body would make his torso turn basically while moving in one direction?
What I want to accomplish is that if I hold mouse on top of screen and run with W (up) I want to have full sprint there. If I change my mouse position to left of character and press A (left) I want to have the same animation but right now he's running in the right direction but animation is strafing left.

[warped forge]

Hello, im struggling to import SVG files into unity. I've been looking in the package manager but anytime i try add com.unity.vectorgraphics i just get an error.
Can anyone help?

[warped forge]

nvrm i unbroke it

[manic sable]

hello, I have a character with animations, it has idle walk run etc animation, I want to add a weapon like a sword or a gun, but I want it to move along with the current animation, how could I achieve that? I child it to the hand bone, but it remains static not following the bone movement but rather the space position

[brave storm]

Hmm what do you mean by space position?

[manic sable]

it follows the position of the character's hand, but not the "swinging" of the hand sort to say

[brave storm]

Oh so it follows position but not rotation

[manic sable]

yeah

[brave storm]

Weird, does the weapon have any scripts attached to it?

That would maybe alter its rotation

[manic sable]

no, it's just a mesh

[brave storm]

Or does it have an animator in it

[manic sable]

it doesnt have any animator component on it

[brave storm]

A child always follows its parents rotation and position, there must be some script or animation resetting its rotation

Can you screenshot your bone hierarchy and the weapon?

In hierarchy

[manic sable]

I used animation rigging package, and created a rig builder, the rig asks me to constrain an object (the weapon in this case) and the source objects (the bones that it must follow) in this case the hand

[brave storm]

So its not a child of the hand

Its just a constraint?

[manic sable]

Its a constraint atm, because when I tried to child it to the hand, the weapon would offset its position when moving the character

[brave storm]

Well you shouldve said that first, instead of saying that it is parented to the hand

[manic sable]

my bad

[brave storm]

I havent used anim rigging yet, hope someone else can help you

Wherever you set up the constraints, try to see if you can constrain the rotation too

@manic sable would help if you screenshot your rig settings and constraint settings.

[wet whale]

Anyone know how to get the animation speed of a specific animation clip in script? I want to find the speed for "Attack Right 2" in code. The clip may or may not be currently playing, I just want to get the value.

[agile solstice]

Post only once, on the relevant channel

[hexed vector]

sorry, didn't know which channel it fit best in

[agile solstice]

Also, anything you can tell or point to in the asset would help give clues how to solve the problem, what you tried, what the scripts do, etc
Having to download and install an asset and still have no clues what might've gone wrong in your end is a super tough troubleshoot

[hexed vector]

yeah, the only way i got it to work is by manually keyframing the x offset on the lava texture, which is what the scrolling UVs is supposed to do

[hybrid tinsel]

You set the speed of the state you want to change to be controlled by a float, and you can get the float from the animator using GetFloat()

Alternatively, you can just get it from the script that is setting the float.

[wet whale]

@hybrid tinsel I set a modifier that I'm accessing for the cooldown speed but I need to affect the overall animation speed to match the attack speed of the weapon now. I can't seem to access that property through a script.

I cant find any script examples of reading the speed of a clip from an animator. Thats what I'm currently looking for.

[hybrid tinsel]

AnimationState.speed doesn't work?

[wet whale]

I'm not currently playing the animation is the problem. The math I'm doing to convert my weapon cooldown to speed up / slow down the animation is hardcoded off the animation speed, it works but then I have to change code when my animator makes changes.

I just want to get the speed of the clip before I play it, change the speed according to my weapon, and then play it.

Was hoping for some super simple "GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(1).IsName("Attack1").speed" property, but can't seem to find anything usable.

[velvet geyser]

nope, I thought I said they're read-only so the option is greyed out

[manic sable]

hey, I did check and that wasn't the problem, the problem was that my constrained object was an empty without any children, as soon as I set the weapon as child of that empty, everything worked as I wanted thanks!!

[hybrid tinsel]

The actual animation clip is read only. The file you imported has import settings.

[velvet geyser]

@hybrid tinsel huh TIL

yeah just fixed it thanks mate

[wraith jackal]

how do i fix this clipping with my playermodel

[median pulsar]

if i do like this, it is like "AND" or "OR"?
(&& or ||)

[hybrid tinsel]

That is AND. If you want to do OR, make two transitions with different conditions.

[frosty dove]

when renaming child game object of animted character, it becomes missing and i have to animate it again, is there is a way to assign that missing part again?

[gilded fossil]

guys how to animate humanoid?\

[iron kettle]

Anyone have an idea how to animate tank tracks? I could make it using UV animation but I think actually revolving tracks would look better

[median pulsar]

ah

[median pulsar]

then it's good

[brave storm]

1. Attach the camera to characters head
   or
2. Use first person animations that don't move around that much

[bright chasm]

How do you guys handle death animations for enemies that are killed in-air? I thought I could play the animation and have the rigidbodies drop to the ground by activating their gravity. Unfortunately the colliders wont work while the animator is still enabled, so they will fall through the floor. The only way I can think of would be not to use physics at all or disable the animator when the body is very close to the floor

[gilded fossil]

try using ragdoll

[bright chasm]

Currently looking for a freelancer to help me set that up as i just can’t make my joints stable. So I was thinking about a possible workaround

[gilded fossil]

you can watch these videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_HXJ11KAU0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInV-jHm9rk&t=699s

[harsh ruin]

How could i make it so my 2d character would have for example a seperate "layer" of animation that could like make them link or something independentyl of their walk cycle

[silver pawn]

Not an expert but I blended blinking and walking somehow. The blinking is too fast but having two animations on the same weight in animator is how I did it

[rotund blade]

hey all,
I have downloaded a character with animations. I'm trying to add an event (walking audio event) but the animation is readonly. I've been googling for the past hour and can't work out how to make it editable.

any tips?

[rotund blade]

ah. i worked it out. instead of using the "animation tab" I can go to the animation directly and click the "edit" button and place the event there. seems a bit disjointed, but i guess someone smarter would know why it's the way it is

[agile solstice]

Usually games don't render the player's own head for this reason, and restrict the motion of the first person body

[severe harbor]

would anyone know why an animation with 1 second in length would only play for a split second ?
it doesn't even have an outgoing transition

[bright chasm]

Is it expected behavior for joints to start glitching when an animation was played & stopped? Or is it necessary to manually stop/deactivate all physics before starting an animation and then re-enable physics afterwards?

[ripe skiff]

does anyone know how to make my character not go into the facing camera animation when i'm not moving but instead keep it's direction

thank you!

[harsh ruin]

maybe like have the bools for input stay until another button is pressed

[ripe skiff]

good idea, thanks!

[harsh ruin]

np

[trim hatch]

i used another blend tree in my case

[remote scroll]

so what does linear mean @brave storm

[brave storm]

im not google

[remote scroll]

ok ive made both tangents into linear

nothing has changed

still stops

[brave storm]

explain your issue here again and maybe someone can help you

[remote scroll]

this is my issue, why doesnt it rotate infinitely

why does it stop at the end

and then start again

[brave storm]

you are changing only position tangents in that video, not rotation tangents

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't show any relevant information so it is hard to say.

[hybrid tinsel]

Only update the direction when the magnitude of the movement input is greater than zero.

[hybrid tinsel]

Or, if using analog controls, greater than some tiny amount.

[brittle raft]

When I chance the "end" frame here it keeps snapping back to 1, why is that?

nvm, had the wrong 'source take'

[steel ivy]

if I have an IK rigged character in blender, can I still use the IK in unity? mostly for dynamic foot placement

someone told me that I had to rig it again in unity with a downloaded package

[agile solstice]

Correct

[steel ivy]

do I rig the entire thing or just the IK?

just the IK I hope

and for blender animation with IK, the animation will be baked right?

[agile solstice]

Correct
Bone positions and bone weights are transferable by FBX, but IK (which moves bone positions via code) is not

[primal rain]

Hello ! Would it be possible to change rigs of a skinned mesh renderer at runtime ? To use a different set of animations

[agile solstice]

You can play any matching animations without touching the renderer/rig
But if you must play nonmatching animations from an entirely different skeleton, it's probably simpler to have one gameobject for one rig and animator which you disable and swap out for another gameobject with the other rig

If the other set of animations is nonmatching but similar, retargeting may be an option

[primal rain]

@agile solstice Thank you ! Retargeting means converting an animation from a previous rig to a new one ?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[primal rain]

thanks, I'll look into this !

[plain pumice]

so i got my animation done but why does it flip like that?

idk whats happening

i think its the flip sprite depends on direction thing

[steel ivy]

your sprite origin is the problem

I think.

[agile kernel]

Hello is it possible to disable and re-enable animation for parts of a humanoid rig without having an animation layer & avatar mask for each part?

[agile kernel]

Oh now I've got another problem. How do you disable just part of the rig for the animator such that it's limp, floppy, physics engine hanging? If I disable the whole animator, the ragdoll collapses on the ground correctly. But I want just one arm to be limp. All I've done with avatar masks is make the arm stay frozen still, not animated but also not ragdoll floppy. (I think I might have got this to work in the past with a generic rig?)

[agile kernel]

Maybe I will make an invisible arm with physics enabled, and keep moving its shoulder to the animated model's shoulder, and make the model's arm relocate every fixed update to where the physics arm is.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do it in lateupdate.

You don't need to do it 30-60 times per frame, you're only rendering it once.

[agile kernel]

:o

[hybrid tinsel]

(Especially since most of those fixedupdates will be run before the animator is)

[stuck elm]

If you're using a humanoid, enable IK and have the arm's IK goal swing on the end of a joint?

[wraith jackal]

mecanim vs crossfade and play()?

[hollow portal]

Why is my arrow slightly tilted when it tries to rotate 90 degrees?

[hybrid tinsel]

That has a question mark but isn't a question.

[wraith jackal]

What one is better to use

[hybrid tinsel]

None of them are best for all situations. They are for different purposes.

[wraith jackal]

Hmm

What about player movement animation

Im assuming crossfade or mecanim

[hybrid tinsel]

Mecanim is the entire animation system.

Crossfade and play are parts of mecanim

[keen hawk]

guys , i m exporting a character and some animations from blender to unity
the fbx file if i open it with the 3d viewr has all the keyframes and plays smoothly
But inside unity i only have 1 keyframe per second
I m so stuck i need help i m going crazy

[agile kernel]

Yes that's a good idea. I used the Animation Rigging package.
Gah it turns out Unity's physics engine makes the forearm violently spasm if there's a lot of force on the hand. I can still make it work though. Maybe I will limit how far apart the object and shoulder can be.

[brave storm]

have you checked that in your Rotate animation clip, it actually is straight at frame 42?

[short ginkgo]

I'm trying out Unity's new hair particle system, which works great except when I add animation

it doesn't seem to follow the model's animation

and this is with alembic

[twin musk]

I got a question, so I am trying to make an animated light source using point light.
However, no matter what light I use. My animations tab is grey and I can't select or do anything with it. Anyone knows why?

It happened with my main project (A VRC world) however, I just crated another clean project to test this out but it turns out to be just the same. Am I using this wrong or is it not working?

[jade tendon]

Hey All,

I have bit of a lengthy question so please don't rip me a new one.

I have a animator I have created assigned a model you see in the Player.png (black character).

This animator works fine. However, the trouble comes attempt to add the top half of a pistol idle animation as a layer to the base animation which also works fine with the exception of the top half being rotated and not centered like it looks before I drag it on as a layer animation. It's centered and forward before but crooked off to the left after.

I have applied root motion on the animation and root motion on the animator and that breaks it in a whole different way, but in theory I think this should solve my issue.

Any help with this would be so greatly appreciated. It's so tricky!

Images attached for reference

I can't understand why the animation looks fine then twists so much left

I have tried to mess with the offset but doesn't affect it properly.

[hybrid tinsel]

You have your animation window squished down to hide the 'add an animator to this object' button.

Should look like

[hybrid tinsel]

Because there is a serious twist in the spine in the animation- look at the difference in the foot positions for the two characters who I presume are facing the same direction

[jade tendon]

@hybrid tinsel Okay so I see where I can twist the spine of the pistol animation, so before applying the mask do I just align his legs with the same position as my character (or as close as possible)?

[jade tendon]

Okay so I squared up the spine and made a little animation where the up shoulders moved just a bit and applied that animation as a layered animation with a mask of only showing the upper body but when I hit play the upper body is not aiming the gun but the shoulder movements are there?

Maximize to see movement. Sorry for the small screen

TEST animation with arms out and slight shoulder movement applied as layer mask excluding the legs and only supposed to show arms on top or character.

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure; personally I'd handle the aiming with IK

I'm on mobile now so can't see very well

[stoic zinc]

I copied and pasted an object a few times

and for some reason when one object's animation is triggered they all play

    public string LogCollisionEnter;

    public void KnockoutAnimation()
    {
        anim.SetTrigger(AnimationTags.DIE_TRIGGER);
    }

    void Start()
    {
    anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        anim.Play("KO");
        
    }```

when it says anim.Play KO does that trigger every KO in the scene?

and I guess how would I change that

[open plume]

Idle and Running animations are working whilst Walking animation isn't working?

#region Animation void DoAnimation() { float animationSpeedPercent = ((running) ? 5 : .5f); animator.SetFloat ("speedPercent", animationSpeedPercent/*, Time.deltaTime*/); }

[jade tendon]

This typically just happens to be a typo for me most of the time.

If I mistype a string name or overlook a boolean

double check those and let me know?

[open plume]

I put the code bellow, I mentioned running but I don't know how to type it for walking.

[autumn meteor]

Hello, I'm a complete beginner, I'm trying to add a script to my character but it says "can't add script" ... ?

It's a brand new script I just created, I don't understand

I want the player to be able to simply press a button so that the character go from idle to crouch idle

[lean sage]

Show the full error

[frail thistle]

Hey there, I'm working on a tutorial project and have a bit of an odd issue. I have a circular object falling from the sky in a straight line. I've animated it to spin around, and made sure that I've set the center point of the sprite to be in the actual center of the circle. It works fine when standing still, but as soon as I make it fall, it seemingly spins around a different point slightly off to the left.

[autumn meteor]

Whoop I didn't see the message sorry, here you go

[shut tusk]

show the code

[lean sage]

The error message tells what's wrong

[autumn meteor]

What do you mean ?

[autumn meteor]

I searched for that on the internet, people say that the class name and file name are the same thing......

[lean sage]

They must be the same. But yours aren't.

[autumn meteor]

Woaw I didn't see that, okay so I changed it but I have the same error ?

I did something wrong here ?

[lean sage]

you didn't save the file

[autumn meteor]

Ah jesus, thanks, something as simple as this and I'm already struggling, dunno what it will be like when I'll try to make a full game..

[glad idol]

Is there any way to keyframe blendshapes (morph targets) on a bone/curve and then have those bones/curves keyframe exported and the data drive the blends/morphs in engine?

or do I always need to bake blendshape animations to a mesh :<?

I'm trying to share a rig on multiple models and all of the models use similar blends. I don't want to save those keyframes directly on the mesh and be forced to reanimate those blendshape keys on each model.

[cold pecan]

woah

cool

[white snow]

Hey, sorry for the bother, does anyone know if it would be better to animate STRAIGHT IN unity, or animate in blender and export to unity then tweak slightly if needed.

[glad idol]

depends on the animation you're trying to achieve. do you have more context @white snow

[white snow]

Mostly single and multiple character animations in the settings of a fighter, building a move list, aswell as general grapples, which require me to animate both the grabber, and a one fits all "Grabbed" animation

[glad idol]

Base animations in Blender, export, any blending of the animations in engine by influencing where the bones point to. I imagine it's similar to having an idle animation for a character and then influencing the neck bone to look at the player bone as they move around.

just with more steps

ideally your rigs are all similar and you can just animate to one rig size/position and you don't have to do that latter step of influencing the bones

[hybrid tinsel]

curves are curves. You can copypaste a curve between a transform and a blendshape channel.

Or link them via code

[glad idol]

What would I save the keyframes on? is it better to save them on a custom attribute on a bone or group in the rig hierarchy?

and then how woudl I look up that information from the rig? is there a special function to call keyframe data off rigs?

my google foo to search this kinda scenario is weak. I'm not sure how i'd phrase this

[jade tendon]

Hey all, I imported a Mixamo animation and it's just a blue block and if you drag it into the scene there is nothing.

ideas?

[trim hatch]

you need to look at some tutorials

[hybrid tinsel]

You just have to make sure to turn on importing of custom attributes in the importer

Though I'd suggest just importing the blendshape animation as is and then you can copy those curves.

And of course, if all your models use the same blendshapes and use the same naming scheme you should be able to adapt them

[glad idol]

ty pinball \o/

[jade tendon]

@trim hatch Thanks.

[autumn meteor]

Hello, do you guys see an error in this ?

I'm just trying to follow a tutorial on how to blend 2 animations together with the input of the player

and apparently there is an error in my script, that the guy in the tutorial doesn't have, exept I'm pretty sure we wrote the same thing

[lean sage]

Configure the IDE and it'll highlight the errors. Instructions are in #854851968446365696

Visual Studio is easier to set up than VSCode.

also #💻┃code-beginner next time

[autumn meteor]

I thought it was this too but it didn't work either, I'm currently trying what Nitku said

[hybrid tinsel]

You're also missing a bracket

Your IDE is already hilighting it

[neat mist]

I am trying to get models/animations from mixamo, but when i put them in my project they have to texture: how to fix ?

[fallow eagle]

what is the problem?

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class zombieScript : MonoBehaviour {

  private Transform goal;
  private NavMeshAgent agent;


  void Start () {
  

    goal = Camera.main.transform;
    agent = GetComponent<NavMeshAgent>();

    agent.destination = goal.position;

    GetComponent<Animation>().Play ("Z_Run");
  }


  //for this to work both need colliders, one must have rigid body, and the zombie must have is trigger checked.
  void OnTriggerEnter (Collider col)
  {

    GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().enabled = false;

    Destroy(col.gameObject);

    agent.destination = gameObject.transform.position;

    GetComponent<Animation>().Stop ();
    GetComponent<Animation>().Play ("Z_FallingBack");

    Destroy (gameObject, 6);

    GameObject zombie = Instantiate(Resources.Load("Zombie1", typeof(GameObject))) as GameObject;


    float randomX = UnityEngine.Random.Range (-12f,12f);
    float constantY = .01f;
    float randomZ = UnityEngine.Random.Range (-13f,13f);

    zombie.transform.position = new Vector3 (randomX, constantY, randomZ);
    while (Vector3.Distance (zombie.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.position) <= 3) {
      randomX = UnityEngine.Random.Range (-12f,12f);
      randomZ = UnityEngine.Random.Range (-13f,13f);
      zombie.transform.position = new Vector3 (randomX, constantY, randomZ);
    }
  }
}

[autumn meteor]

Hello, how do I change the transition speed between 2 animations ?

[fallow eagle]

how to fix this

the animation i think the zombie when the animation start it go back then contiune to front

[grizzled eagle]

Why does my prefab removed animator come back when I create a build?

[agile kernel]

Hello I am wondering if this is a common problem I am having, with Unity's "Animation Rigging". The tip bone does not actually go where the target transform is, it is instead offset. This is with both the 2 bone, and the chain IK constraints.
It's not offset by the same amount in every position so I can't simply adjust the target position by that amount. Offset examples when the target was in different places:
Vector3(0.0666987896,-0.0212202072,-0.0188022256)
Vector3(0.0411155224,-0.0251646042,-0.0190845132)
Vector3(0.0289028734,-0.0264058113,-0.01510638)
"Maintain Target Offset" does not change this. Changing which bone is the tip does not change it.

[fathom sandal]

hey guys "first time animating in unity"

so i made a annimationscript with statements bools etc,

how do i ge them into the code like my "run" bool set true ?

Animator.SetBool("Run", true);

like how do i set game object ?

[jade tendon]

Hi I have a very specific question that I'm having trouble answering and came across your post and was hoping to gain some insight. Into best practices.

When games like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and other AAA shooters model their characters do they create let's say a running animation with a rifle in their hand with no rifle in hand and then in the scene view lock the rile in place and march it's transform with the animation OR is everything (gun and character) all part of the animation itself?

Does anyone have any best practices or resources to review for things like this or professional experience to answer this?

Thanks all!

[fathom sandal]

https://gyazo.com/69e63c173f509ce663c3b0d3f5346e28

how do i make it so it playes the "full annimation without hinderence ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Assuming I understand what you want, you'd want to add an exit time to the transition out of the attack to allow the attack to finish first. Also, make the transition into the attack MUCH shorter; it is transitioning for the full length of the animation the way you have it.

[fathom sandal]

ok and the exit time how long should that be ?

https://gyazo.com/5589fbdb6bc0f447400133199dc8e382

@hybrid tinsel

[hybrid tinsel]

Both transitions should be very short; just long enough for a smooth transition. And the ending time should be near the end of the clip.

[fathom sandal]

ok but it looks like its waiting for the "idle annim to complete" before doing the attack annim

https://gyazo.com/8746608979a40c4ed7f9b76f21ea1249

or now it works better

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you put the exit time on both transitions or just the exit? If you put it on both, you'll get a delay before attacking.

You want the delay on leaving the attack, not on entering it.

[paper cloak]

hello, i have a run animation and an idle animation. however when the player changes horizonal input direction quickly (i.e. releasing a and pressing d to switch from left to right), the idle animation plays for a few frames before transitioning to the run animation which looks janky. what can i do to solve this? thank you

[agile solstice]

You could reduce the transition duration to zero, or use a blend tree

[paper cloak]

I’m not familiar with blend trees, I’ll look into them

And the transition duration is already 0, sadly

[craggy grail]

how do I make an animation out of multiple images

[harsh coral]

how do i make a pose for my character? i want it to be stored as an animation clip

[glass cove]

click on the animator game object, open the animation window, click create an animation, press the record button on the animation tab, put your character in pose. Done

[glass cove]

check youtube there are several tutorials on this

[harsh coral]

so i put my character in the scene to a pose i want?

[glass cove]

you can do it inside the prefab itself, whatever u want

[harsh coral]

not too sure how can i put him to a pose. this is my scene hierarchy, animator is on PlayerArmature along with previous animations

[cunning whale]

Hi guys I have a problem when I try to rig animations. Basically I have two characters, the first imported from Mixamo and the second made by a 3d artist. I imported one animation from Mixamo (without the skin just the animation) when I use this animation on the Mixamo character I haven't problems while if I use the same animation to the second character he stands in the T-pose. So I made the humanoid avatar for both the characters and when I try to rig the animation using as avatar one of the two avatars I get errors like this : " Transform hierarchy does not match: Transform 'mixamorig:LeftEye' for human bone 'LeftEye' not found ". How can I let these 2 characters play the same animation correctly?

[white coral]

I need to make an avatar mask for a Spriter animated character, the Spriter importer doesn't make avatar's for the skeletal mesh and I seemingly can't figure out how to make an avatar from transforms or such. I have the animations, I have the skeleton, I just need the mask.

Using the Spriter2UnityDX importer for Spriter to Unity btw.

[neat mist]

i have a hint attached to my two bone IK, but when i move it the arm doenst move

only when i move the target

why ?

it makes the arm look weird

[lyric rover]

Can someone tell why this happens??

Some parts of my animations dont fit in unity

They split or are out of place like this??

I hate it.. why cant it be like in blender... wtf im i doing wrong

[sweet pendant]

Does anyone know why I have this message in the animation clips of a humanoid rig?

Detail: I reimported the model and set it to humanoid. I managed to configure some clips with "bake into position". When I applied the changes, the bake options disappeared and this appeared.

[exotic orbit]

i have this VFX property variable that I want to manipulate with an animation clip. but how do i get it there ? i cant seem to figure out how to expose it so i can add it as a property in an animation clip

[lyric rover]

Hi there... who here does know alot of unity animstion.. i mean who here is a senior

I need really some profesional help

[unreal oyster]

oy
does anyone know how to export mixamo animations from blender to unity without errors cause i haven't been able to do it yet

[jade pollen]

i am making a automatic door i have the script and the animation and it all works but the door closed to fast for me to be able to get into it

[reef sand]

Why do you need to export mixamo animations from blender? Why not just get them from mixamo.com? Do you want them as humanoid or generic? (I have downloaded Humanoid animations from mixamo.com and they have worked pretty well - some tweaking needed for the models I use)

[unreal oyster]

from mixamo to unity they work fine but if i wanted to take them to blender to modify them( even without modification) and back to unity i get an error when i try to rig the animation with humanoid and my character profile

[still vector]

Hey people I have a noob animation question.
There is a game I'm developing which goes well, but I have problem with animations.
I'm trying to add a "pickup, hold and throw" animations with chairs (Yeah chairs).
The problem is that I don't have any idea how to make the character hands hold the chair in a proper way...

Any suggestions?

[hybrid tinsel]

Inverse kinematics is the usual solution.

[still vector]

Yeah I've made a research but haven't got solid understandment how and why to implement it. Do you have any suggestions for a method to use IK? I saw Unity has official package but don't know if its any good, also saw multiple asset store assets on that...

[hybrid tinsel]

If you are using mecanim humanoids, IK is built in and can be accessed pretty easily through script. There is also the animation rigging package(probably the one you looked at), which is more complicated but works on any rig. I am not a huge fan of it but it does definitely work. There are multiple assets but I've not used any of them so can't judge.

There's a full explanation and example script for the built in IK here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/InverseKinematics.html

[still vector]

Yeah I saw it right now. I'll try it and see how it goes. Thanks!

[hybrid tinsel]

What I usually do personally is set up a basic IK script that assigns weights and targets to each limb/head and then control that rather than controlling the IK in each script.

[still vector]

Got it to work It's so cool!. Now its the fun part of writing a good system

[jade pollen]

i have a swinging arm animation but i was wondering if it could hit objects and they would like move back like collision and idk if this would be a code or animation question

[hybrid tinsel]

More #⚛️┃physics probably but I suppose it is a complicated issue with a lot of elements to it.

[royal radish]

Question if you have the answer, I made a jumping animation that squats first then jumps, but in the game he floats (i think because of the Character controller?) does anyone know about this or have any input that would help?

[reef sand]

My shaky understanding is "Humanoid" is a Unity concept. So if you take a Mixamo animation to blender, it just animates bones. You can edit it in blender, or leave it alone. When you export from Blender it would be a generic animation however. So you would have to convert to a Humanoid animation clip again when you import it into Unity - which requires things like an Avatar definition for the character (so it knows what bones to map to which muscles etc). Could you share the error message you are seeing and when it is coming up?

[hybrid tinsel]

That is basically correct.

Mixamo's unity setting knows exactly what unity's importer is looking for and setup is pretty much automatic.

But if you modify things you might need to fiddle with settings to make sure it's all correct.

You also need to make sure that you don't change the naming of the bones, if you want it to find them

[true osprey]

I have a character hand animation, and I want to move the gun together. But I don't know what to do.

[agile solstice]

Parent the gun to the hand bone