🏃┃animation

[gleaming lichen]

none of my animations play

Does read only matter?

[agile solstice]

Might be that the deprecated Animation component conflicts with the Animator component

[gleaming lichen]

So should I delete the animations component?

[agile solstice]

I recommend so

[gleaming lichen]

Nope it doesnt work, my gun is just stuck on one pose like before and I cant even move my screen down

Wait

How do flip between my animations with the animations component?

Oh wait thats why

It does play but only the one I put here

How do i make it play on a certain parameter

[agile solstice]

Animation component was deprecated years ago
No one can help you much if you continue using it

[gleaming lichen]

Oh

So what should I do?

[agile solstice]

Use the Animator only and study it well
I recommend these resources
https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g the most detailed video tutorial I know of
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Animator.html the official docs are always essential to start from

[lethal maple]

Is anyone know how to bake Rm animation to in-place with custom animation curve with baked speed\rot into them?

[gleaming lichen]

Ok thx

Ill do some reasarch

research

wait

is the read only thing on the animations affecting my game

or does it not matter

[agile solstice]

it simply means the clips are stored in imported mesh files

[gleaming lichen]

so it doesnt matter

what does this mean

Clip count

[agile solstice]

The docs page I linked explains it

[gleaming lichen]

Also for some reason I can only see the animations through the camera that caem with the asset

[gleaming lichen]

I have my animations but why does it say my clip count is 0

[hybrid tinsel]

Are these humanoid animations?

[gleaming lichen]

Nop

Gun animations

Fps

Anyone?

Ive been trying to fix this since yesterday

[olive prism]

Animated value always 0

[magic robin]

Hey, im working on writing myself an enemyAI and animation controller, because I hate using the animator mecanim for 2D sprites.

In the mecanim, you can transition between states with exit time
set that to 1, and the animation automatically goes to the next state when the current animation is finished.

How can I achieve this through code? I DO NOT want to be setting custom delay timers for every unique animation, I just want some way in code to confirm that the current animation has finished

one solution I can think of is to write a generic script to put into the last frame of every animation that uses an event to broadcast the animation name to all subscribers, but that seems like something the animator would already do

I just dont know how to access that information

if(anim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime > 1)

Is this what I'm looking for?

[raven dagger]

When you're using "IK Pass" in Unity, does anyone know what type of IK it actually performs? Like the underlying IK algorithm

[dense magnet]

Hey , I would love some help. I have uploaded my character from mixamo, got great looking anims back from it, however when I try and apply the animations my character turns out like a WISH orders character all messed up. Animations are messed up and at times I can't even Copy from Other avatar because I am getting super weird errors.

It looks great once imported and the rig is set to:
1.Humanoind
2.Create From This model

And then I get this trash in editor when running the game

Character hands don't meet.
Character leans back completly
Character Feet do not even touch the floor and this is happening with all anims downloaded from Mixamo

[hybrid tinsel]

It looks like your avatar doesn't match the model you're applying it to?

[dense magnet]

Those are different character bit the issue is the same with both avatars .

[hybrid tinsel]

That is for the built in humanoid IK, for the limbs and head/torso.

[dense magnet]

Just recorded the video and forgot to change the character in the preview window

[hybrid tinsel]

Regardless, you can see the error message right in your screenshot

[dense magnet]

I've imported both the avatar and the animation Into Maya and I can't see a difference .

[raven dagger]

Sorry, yes I am aware, I just meant what is the solver the humanoid IK employs? I can't find it documented anywhere

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd say that's something you'd be better off asking on the forum, where unity staff might respond

Unless you wanna go dig into the source.

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, Unity is seeing a difference.

Generally speaking, when things are going wrong and there are error messages, fixing those is a good first step.

[dense magnet]

Sure but I have no idea what that error means .

Is it my current rig I have set as the avatar for the character that does not match the animations I have downloaded ?

Weird cause what I upload to mixamo and what I import into unity should be exactly the same thing .

But thanks for the info

I'll need to sit and figure it out later.

[cunning marlin]

i really just want an animated sprite that i can drag and drop onto a material, but i can't seem to find anything online about how to do this, is it possible?

[hybrid tinsel]

With humanoid, what you want is to define a functioning avatar for both the animations and the character

[cunning marlin]

managed to find this code on a forum: ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimateMaterial : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private Texture2D[] frames;
[SerializeField] private float fps = 10.0f;

public Material mat;

void Start()
{
    //mat = GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
}

void Update()
{
    int index = (int)(Time.time * fps);
    index = index % frames.Length;
    mat.mainTexture = frames[index];
}

}

[celest crag]

Don't do unnecessary assignments each frame. Use a coroutine to count time and swap to a next frame.

[cunning marlin]

ooh, haven't heard of coroutines before, i will look into them, thanks

[celest crag]

You can turn Start into a coroutine by switching to a IEnumerator return type instead of void. Can run an infinite loop inside as long as it skips frame inside of it with yield return null; otherwise it will lockup if it doesn't have any other yields.

[cunning marlin]

fascinating, ill look into that thanks!

shouldn't i turn update into a coroutine though, cause start only runs once, or am i missing something?

[celest crag]

Update is called every frame and doesn't support coroutine. You want to create your custom update which can be awaited inside when you skip time. Coroutine can do that.

[cunning marlin]

fascinating, ill look into it thanks!

ok this seems pretty complex, but thanks to the docs examples i think im getting closer: ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimateMaterial : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private Texture2D[] frames;
[SerializeField] private float fps = 10.0f;

public Material mat;

IEnumerator Start()
{
    yield return StartCoroutine("CoroutineFunctionThingy");
}

void CoroutineFunctionThingy()
{
    //code here should run once a frame, like update, but better somehow?
}

void Update()
{
    Start();
    //int index = (int)(Time.time * fps);
    //index = index % frames.Length;
    //mat.mainTexture = frames[index];
}

}

[celest crag]

IEnumerator Start already starts coroutine. It's perfect to use if you have object life cycle the same as coroutine.

Inside of it you can run infinite loop with yield

IEnumerator Start(){
  while(true){
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(seconds);
    // swap frames here
  }
}```

Coroutine will shut down if you deactivate or delete the object

[cunning marlin]

oh ok fascinating, so it is almost like threads, only different, thanks so much!

[celest crag]

Also inside coroutine you can start and await other coroutines with yield return CoroutineFunctionThingy()
Which is handy to manage nested animations.

[cunning marlin]

ok fascinating, ill keep that in mind!

hmm, this looks like it should work, but it doesn't for some reason... ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimateMaterial : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private Texture2D[] frames;
[SerializeField] private float fps = 10.0f;

public Material mat;

IEnumerator Start()
{
    int i = 0;
    while(true)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(fps);
        mat.mainTexture = frames[i];
        if (i == frames.Length)
        {
            i = 0;
        }
    }
}

//void Update()
//{
//    //int index = (int)(Time.time * fps);
//    //index = index % frames.Length;
//    //mat.mainTexture = frames[index];
//}

}

[celest crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WaitForSeconds.html

[cunning marlin]

thanks

[celest crag]

you want to divide a second on that time to get desired frame rate

[cunning marlin]

oh ye, whoops, forgot how frame rates worked...

[celest crag]

also increment frames somewhere

[cunning marlin]

why?

[celest crag]

you are sitting on 0 frame

[cunning marlin]

oh whoops, thanks a ton!

ok yup this code works now, yay! ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class AnimateMaterial : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private Texture2D[] frames;
[SerializeField] private float fps = 10.0f;

public Material mat;

IEnumerator Start()
{
    int i = 0;
    float PreDivision = 1f / fps;
    while(true)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(PreDivision);
        i++;
        mat.mainTexture = frames[i];
        if (i == frames.Length - 1)
        {
            i = -1;
        }
    }
}

//void Update()
//{
//    //int index = (int)(Time.time * fps);
//    //index = index % frames.Length;
//    //mat.mainTexture = frames[index];
//}

}

and it is super performant aswell, im dropping perhaps a frame at most!

[hybrid tinsel]

Jeeze... just put your sprites into a sprite sheet. Then you can just change the UV offset instead of changing the texture- or even better, just do the flipbook in the shader. (If using shader graph, there's a 'flipbook' node for that exact purpose.)

Or, alternatively(if you need to use separated sprites) don't touch the material at all. Just change the sprite in the sprite renderer.

That will pass right into the material's texture input.

[cunning marlin]

ooh ill definitely try that, thanks a ton!

ok i think i've almost got it working, just gotta workout how to do fps, and how to convert a texture to a uv

[celest crag]

Haven't used flipbook, but if you do this way you would just need to set index there, I think

[cunning marlin]

perhaps

[celest crag]

So you can control that externally for a greater control, with something like a same coroutine only just passing index or for continious scroll pass the frame rate and calculate it inside and turn into frame, using logic from previous example.

[cunning marlin]

oh true, ye ill do that thanks!

ok ye i got it working pretty much, now i just gotta work out how to convert the texture to a uv

[celest crag]

Eh, Tile parameter there should just take index I think

if you are passing untiled texture then you would "cut it" to increments

[cunning marlin]

ye i got the tile parameter working, it is just the uv parameter im stuck on

gather texture 2d looks promising though

[celest crag]

Does it require you to change UV?

[cunning marlin]

no clue, all i know is that the texture belongs in the uv slot, i think?

cause currently i have the ability to pick fps, the tile width and height, and it works, it creates an animation, but using those default uv textures...

[celest crag]

I think Tile parameter would calculate UV for you

[cunning marlin]

not how it appears on my end, as far as i can tell it wants a uv, and then it makes the animation with it, atleast that is what it does to all the default uv's

[celest crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Flipbook-Node.html

[cunning marlin]

ye i have that manual page up

[celest crag]

It outputs UV value that should be used to pick correct texture slice I think

[cunning marlin]

i think i need to use gather texture 2d, it gives me a uv from a texture!

[cunning marlin]

oh, i always used it as a colour, how would i pick a texture slice using it?

[celest crag]

I would just lookup an appropriate tutorial for that

[cunning marlin]

i tried, i couldn't find any

but im getting close, gather texture 2d seems to work, but it distorts the colours a bit, fascinating

[celest crag]

https://youtu.be/gEnsciDtbUQ?t=180

[cunning marlin]

ooh ill check that out

ok that helped a lot, I now have the texture actually displaying the correct colours, but it has weirdly zoomed it in, despite having the width and height set correctly, also it is no longer flipping through the sprite sheet like an animation, but im close, thanks a ton!

oh i forgot to convert to an integer, that makes sense then!

ok i have the width working, now i just need to workout how to flip through the height

ok i got it working, by setting the height to 1 and the width to 5, i have no idea why this fixes everything, but it does..... Guessing it is not measured in pixels, and is instead division of the measurements of the sprite sheet?

[celest crag]

Is your sprite sheet one row and 5 columns?

[cunning marlin]

yes

so it is division then?

[celest crag]

looks like

[cunning marlin]

ok nice!

[celest crag]

sprite sheet dimentions

[cunning marlin]

good way of looking at it!

[olive prism]

If someone has some insights on this problem #1068952825188597790

[tight bolt]

Hi, i am facing some "offset" problem, the model, after the animation is applied, it doesn't come to his original position, instead if "Apply Root Motion" is on, it is bugging really hard, like if i look up, it is under me, far away from me etc. if it is turned off, it just sets it's position to 0,0,0. Instead coming to his original position, anyone knows about this issue and possibly could help me out?
(Picture1: Scene view, game off; Picture2: While ingame, looking anywhere, Apply Root Motion off; Picture3: While ingame, looking down, Apply Root Motion active )

The animation is just a pull-out-knife, goes back to it's model 0,0,0 position, should be like in the scene view, but instead unity just puts the location randomly anywhere

[hybrid tinsel]

Why are you using root motion for an animation you don't want to apply root motion to?

[tight bolt]

Since while it is off it sets it's position to 0, and i thought activating it could maybe help

I am not using it currently, still i am searching for solutions

[hybrid tinsel]

With root motion off, the animation will be relative to its parent object.

[tight bolt]

Oh ok, but why does it go to 0 location?

[hybrid tinsel]

Because you have a keyframe at that position on the root of the animation?

[tight bolt]

Ah, unity sets the location relative to the objects animation location? Why not relative to the objects location in unity?

is it possible to enable that?

[reef sand]

Is anyone else seeing errors like attached with 2022.2 (Cinemachine 2.9.4 and Animation Rigging 1.2.1). The patch notes for 1.2.1 contain a similar sounding error (fixed recently) https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.2/changelog/CHANGELOG.html (I am also getting playables in timeline bombing out, making my Timeline not work). I just recently updated to 2022.2, but it sometimes works sometimes does not. I have a number of custom timeline tracks if that matters. If I turn off the animation rigging components on my characters it works. When I create a small project to try and repeat, it all works fine (groan).

[lone plinth]

hello it's my first time using the animator and for some reason i can't rename blend trees

[hybrid tinsel]

What version? I remember that I had that issue a long while back and only fixed it by upgrading.

[little tulip]

Hi, easy question, I'm sure I'm missing something simple here.

Is there a way to copy the transforms of a parent and it's children (say you posed a model and wanted to copy that 'pose' in an animation clip), is there a way to copy that 'pose' to a keyframe so you don't get the bike-seat?

Say you pose a character my using transforms, etc into a waving pose. Then you wanted to (after the fact) animate a waving animation out of it.
Can you save time and somehow copy the gameobject's transforms & it's children's transforms to a keyframe? So you don't have to go through each child and copy the transform?

(context: I spent hours posing a character and now I'd like to animate it, and I want to use the pose I made as a baseline. I don't want to copypasta all the transforms from the hundreds of children gameobjects into the animation tab)

**__Solution: __**My solution was to remove the avatar from the animator controller. Simple and easy fix I didn't think of. 🙂

(I hope this is the right channel to ask in 🙂 )

[hybrid tinsel]

If you create a new animation and add keyframes to all the transforms it will set them to that pose.

There's a package that lets you save a pose directly, but can't recall which one... animation toolkit maybe?

[daring monolith]

hello,
so i currently have set animations for when crouching, walking, and in air (parameters all set). but for some reason, the animation of "inAir" is not working properly and when im grounded, it's playing the animaton in spurts, looping through all the animations, and acting all weird. can someone explain?
code: https://hastebin.com/ifagojibuk.cpp

[hybrid tinsel]

Haven't dug too deeply into it but it might be your character controller settings; you might need to reduce the minimum move speed or play with the skin width, or maybe adjust the gravity settings to make sure that it is 'contacting' the ground reliably.

Alternatively, use a raycast to detect the ground instead.

[little tulip]

Hey, thanks. Yeah I didn't want to have to go through all the transforms, but I've got a solution now. Thank you for the help. I've edited my last message with my solution so hopefully it might help someone else in the future who's doing what I'm doing. 🙂

[nova roost]

Hey, I'm trying to make my player move around and jump with animations and stuff, but the player does some wacky stuff ill put a gif or something, does this animator and code look right?

https://paste.ofcode.org/36wKpk5X6SZwwASe4E3Rqdh

https://i.gyazo.com/72dce52c1656cf03674ae9a3d48fbdd5.mp4

The player slides around, and the enums show that the player is in the right state when it should be, idle when not moving and running when moving,

but the player kinda just glitches out

[glass cairn]

idk what is going on at the start but in the end the idle animation (?) looks like it would start again before it has finished which is caused because of the any state starting point. Make sure to uncheck in the transition the "can transition to self" box.

[hybrid tinsel]

You can multi select transforms and key them all at once =p

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm on mobile so can't check the code right now but that animator is very wrong looking.

Any state transitions are not really meant to be used that way.

[agile solstice]

Any State transitions will override everything if their condition is met, which attempts to happen automatically if they have Exit Time enabled
You shouldn't be using that and if you're using the Animator you generally shouldn't be doing your own transitions in code using .Play()

The correct way is to set up parameters as conditions for transitions, and change the parameters in code

And use Any State preferably never

[sweet osprey]

So... I'm still stuck on the same problem as before.
I've been looking into Root Motion and I've got a couple of questions.

To set everyone in the same page: I've made a test model for a enemy. In one of the animations I have it getting dizzy and stumble in a zig-zag for a bit. My objective here was to try and use root motion so the enemy keeps whatever position it had during animation and ending up wherever he zigzagged into.

I know there's 2 ways to do this, one being through manual code and Root Motion. However, the manual code options isn't optimal as It would be a mess to make a accurate zig zag formula position that would match the animation. The optimal position would probably be to "bake" the character position onto the animation using the root bone, and using the root motion to keep track where it ends up.

However i have a couple of questions/Issues:

1st - If I import the fbx with the animations and then I separate the animations from the prefab using Ctrl+D, the animation will still work fine and move all bones acordingly, but Root Motion is not applied anymore as the character will return to the initial position, even though the duplicated animation is still moving the root bone and the animator has the Root Motion active in both situations. Why is that?

2nd - If I place the animation on the character and he decides to "zig zag" onto a wall, with only the collider, it will bypass the wall ignoring any collision. The only way i found to fix this, is by adding a rigidbody component, which will stop the character from walking through walls... But this created a totally different issue, because if for some reason during the zig zag he jumps or has any vertical movement, all that vertical movement will be ignored. I though it would be the gravity causing this issue. I've tried removing the mass, gravity and all physics from the rigidbody. Nothing works, only way to fix it is by removing the collider.

3rd - This is not so much of a question, but anyone knows of any tutorials or any guide that can help me understand how to use Root Motion better? I've looked into a couple and they all go through the same stuff. They just explain what root motion is and apply it in a single animation. But this doesn't seem to explain any oddities, when or how to use it, best practices, etc...

If anyone knows of any really good way to guide me into knowing more about this, please do let me know.

[agile solstice]

@nova roost also your line public bool DonePlayingAnimator => animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).length >= 1; doesn't work because length is the length of the clip and doesn't change, not the time
normalizedTime would do what you expect, but I expect it still wouldn't be able to detect if a looping animation is done
Anyway don't try to wrangle the states manually unless you have a good reason to avoid Animator's own logic

[agile solstice]

2nd: The character controller (or a generic movement script) decides how to handle motion, physics and colliders
The root motion only communicates the direction and magnitude of movement to the script, not how the movement will be applied

I think your confusion isn't with root motion, but the many ways it's possible to move a character, with or without physics

Non-rigidbody movement will not function properly with a rigidbody

[flint burrow]

Hey guys i need help from someone who used hippo character editor... How do you use animations they made? I made a character prefab a simple movement script and i have troubles to use the animations, ik they have function for attack etc. but i need just the run animation and i cant figure it out 😦 (im a beginner btw)

[hybrid tinsel]

Despite the name, NormalizedTime on an animation state will go past 1.

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried reaching out to the author of the asset you're using to ask?

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you read the manual?

[flint burrow]

no i didnt, but u are right maybe thats what i should do

[hybrid tinsel]

Mostly since I've literally never even heard of it so I figure most peeps here will be in the same situation 😛

[flint burrow]

i mean ik its simple its just me that cant figure it out since its one of my first time using animations

[hybrid tinsel]

What root motion ACTUALLY does is take the motion of the root node of the animation and call the OnAnimatorMove() function. By default, that adds a force to rigidbodies, a move command to character controllers, and directly transforms a transform with neither. You can write your own OnAnimatorMove() function that takes the animator.deltaPosition and applies it any way you like.

[agile solstice]

In the case of looping or something else?

[agile solstice]

Thanks for clarifying that!

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah. Values over one indicate the number of loops.

Basically, it normalizes the length of the animation to 1.

[sweet osprey]

But even if i'm working with a an enemy, do I have to use the character controller?

[sweet osprey]

you mean the documentation? Yep, I did, still slightly confused on how everything works. :/

[agile solstice]

You have to use some component that allows the character to move
The character controller component is a practical option

The Animator alone doesn't do it

[sweet osprey]

Alright. Got it. But why wouldn't the rigidbody then work? Most of my movement uses rigidbody based movement already by working with speed and forces.

[agile solstice]

It should work, but like I said it will conflict with non-rb methods of movement in case you have those too

[sweet osprey]

Ok, I kinda got this as well. So, is the animator.deltaPosition my root bone movement since last frame? I could use that value to calculate the next position, but how would I go about "canceling" the actual movement of the root bone?

eg.: animator.deltaPosition = (1,0,0) because the root bone moved 1 in the X value this frame. If I say playerPosition += animator.deltaPosition it will visually show the character move to (2,0,0) because it has the +1 i added manually and the +1 of the animation. I'd have to somehow disable the animation movement BUT THEN my root bone wouldn't move and so animator.deltaPosition = (1,0,0) ... Or am i confusing something?

[sweet osprey]

in the situation I tested I had none but the ones by default. I just added the rigidbody and removed the gravity and mass. Character still moved and had physics, but wouldn't move on the Y axis.

At this rate I might have to switch the whole system to a Player Controller instead if I want to use this :/

[hybrid tinsel]

Character controller is basically an alternative to rigidbodies specifically for character movement. That's all.

It has some built in benefits, like slope handling and sticking to moving platforms/elevators.

[agile solstice]

If root motion is enabled, it will be applied as motion instead of in the animation, it wouldn't apply twice

[hybrid tinsel]

Right.

[sweet osprey]

Quick question then, if i edit it through code ill get the "handled by script" in place of the root motion instead right. So I have to turn it on in code, or will it assume im using it by default

[sweet osprey]

That makes sense I guess. I always assumed it was only for PC's. My bad there then

[hybrid tinsel]

I actually like it more for npcs, personally.

Mostly since I am used to using rigidbodies for players(no charactercontroller in 2d)

[sweet osprey]

that's also why i'm using rigidbodies in this case, but I might be able to somehow cheat the character controller into working for this 2D particular case.

just will have to find a solution to the hassle

[hybrid tinsel]

You are doing 2d?

That is, physics2d?

[sweet osprey]

Yhea, but i can manage with working with 3D and just ignoring one of the axis

That particular example is better described as 2.5D, but i'm mostly using 2D components.
Might just have to replace them all tho for 3D ones at this point >.<

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, it makes a big difference because you can't mix the two

They are completely separate physics systems 😛

[sweet osprey]

I know, that's why I'm probably gonna have to shift everything out of the rigidbody system i have built

[north creek]

Is there any way for the animation event to not show every public function I have attached to the game object?

[agile solstice]

I don't know if there's an option like that, but you could have another script just for the events that animator needs to call
And also consider if all those methods need to be public in the first place
I'd imagine that PlayAnimation(String) could functionally be used to call DamageAnimation(), FlexAnimation(), etc

[north creek]

Yeah a lot of those functions were just for testing and I need to remove them. I could have a separate script for the animation handling but that wouldn't change anything since the animator picks up anything that implements Mohobehaviour. That includes the animation handler and player controller scripts

[agile solstice]

I tend to keep the mesh with the animator on a child object to keep things modular, so it sidesteps this issue as well

[north creek]

That might work. Gonna try it

Thx :D

[gleaming lichen]

How do I make an animation fade in, like whenever I sprint, the animation instantly plays and it looks like the arms of my characters just teleport up to run.

[uncut salmon]

Click the transition line between the two animations in the animator window and make sure you're blending between them.

Or, for movement, you typically use a blend tree that blends your idle, walk and run animations.

[gleaming lichen]

okay thanks but i have one question, how do i make it so the run animation only starts when I press left shift?

[uncut salmon]

You use a bool parameter in the animator that is toggled true when you hold the button, and false when not. Then you hook it up to your animation transition.

[thorn falcon]

how do i delete a transition in animator

like the arrow

[agile solstice]

Click it so it's highlighted blue, hit delete key

[uncut salmon]

@pine halo You can post jobs/collaborations on the forums, this is the place for recruitment.

[pine halo]

im not look to recruit im looking for assisstance. I cant figure out how to make two animations work at the same time

[uncut salmon]

Then if you have a question, feel free to ask it with details and anyone who has the knowledge and time can help you.

[pine halo]

ok i am trying to get the prop to spin any time that it is moving

[twin musk]

any idea why this happens?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you provide any details about the problem you're having?

[agile solstice]

Don't crosspost this all over

[twin musk]

mb

[pine halo]

the problem im having is inexperience

i dont know how to do it and cant find a youtube video on how to do it

[agile solstice]

That doesn't really help us help you does it
Though you're right that more studying and experience of the Animator will solve this problem of yours

[pine halo]

what im asking for is someone to walk me though it once would anyone be able to do that

[agile solstice]

No
The time and attention of people who know this stuff is worth money
There are sites where you can hire tutors but this is not the place
If you can describe your problem we may be able to help you solve it, but we don't make any commitment to teach you

[pine halo]

i didnt have to pay for the people that know this stuff on youtube that do it for free. Is there a text chat here or on another discord for people to ask for help from common folk that just enjoy using unity and want to help new people?

not looking for tutor or a class just someone that wants to help me figure out this singular problem im having

[gleaming lichen]

How do i lock my animation when Im in a certain animation? like if im sprinting, how do i lock so I can interrupt it if I try activate the walk animation?

Whenever I let go of left shift(sprint) but im holding down w to walk, my gun interrupts the transition so its not on the walk animation.

[agile solstice]

This is the place for questions, but for that we need accurate details
Such as how are the transitions configured and how are you setting the animation parameters
Off the bat you need another transition back between the two states

[agile solstice]

You wouldn't really "lock" an animation state, but rather control the paramaters so that conditions don't cause transitions when they shouldn't
From the sound of it you have incorrect transition conditions, or ambiguous or too lax transition conditions
Personally I keep movement and item animations organized in layers or blend trees so the transition conditions don't get too complicated

[gleaming lichen]

They are in blend trees

My movement animations are in blend trees

I have my transition to only start if i hit a certain key

But the walk animation interrupts the transition back from sprint to walk

Do you know what to do to fix?

Like how to trigger it?

[agile solstice]

You could show a picture of the state machine

[agile solstice]

It could also be that your code isn't holding the sprint parameter long enough

[gleaming lichen]

I coded mine to be trigger when it hits a certain velocity

When it hits 1

the run animation starts

and if press shift

left shift

[hybrid tinsel]

I am confused; why/how are you using sprinting and walking bools with a blend tree?

[gleaming lichen]

Oh

I'm not using those bools

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you gonna post the script?

[gleaming lichen]

Those r old stuff

Oh

Ok

Mb

[gleaming lichen]

https://gdl.space/omuwizoyig.cpp

here

I just need a way to lock the animation so it doesnt play when im transitioning back to walk

[hybrid tinsel]

What the heck is that velocity hash stuff for?

[gleaming lichen]

Animator

The blend tree float

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, it feels a bit premature to be attempting to optimize to that degree before you even have it working.

And I still don't understand what you mean by 'locking.'

[gleaming lichen]

The basics work, its just the transition part.

[gleaming lichen]

Ok

Let me try to explain again

Its kinda hard but ill try

So when I am sprinting, and I let go of sprint key(left shift) but im holding down the w key, it stays in the sprint animation but not the walk animation. Im trying to figure out a way to lock the walk animation to only play if im pressing w. something like that

[hybrid tinsel]

Also, you might not be aware but unity lets you have the input system handle input smoothing

[gleaming lichen]

what does that mean?

[hybrid tinsel]

It means that you can set the input system to smoothly release instead of snapping from on to off

[gleaming lichen]

Yea

blend tree

its smooths into the new animations

[hybrid tinsel]

No, it does not.

That isn't what blend trees are for.

[gleaming lichen]

It does tho

Lemme take a ss or something

[hybrid tinsel]

Blend trees are a lerp based on the input.

It doesn't do any smoothing at all.

Your input value is all that matters

[gleaming lichen]

this is how sprinting is but if i let go of left shift but im still pressing w, the same animation plays

[gleaming lichen]

it doesnt go back to the walk animation

[gleaming lichen]

it does

it blends into the new animation

it doesnt snap

[hybrid tinsel]

both of these do the same thing if (velocity > currentMaxVelocity && velocity < (currentMaxVelocity)) { velocity = currentMaxVelocity; } else if (forwardPressed && runPressed && velocity < currentMaxVelocity && velocity > (currentMaxVelocity)) { velocity = currentMaxVelocity; }

[gleaming lichen]

You're right

I just deleted

But do u know how to fix the problem im having?

[hybrid tinsel]

I imagine that rewriting the script properly would do it; I'm on mobile and can't debug it very thoroughly.

[gleaming lichen]

Do you know what I could use to fix my problem?

[hybrid tinsel]

I bet someone in #🖱️┃input-system could show you a better template to build off of at least

[silk holly]

How can I edit an existing .anim file without creating a new one (by dragging the sprite into the scene)?

[desert kiln]

how do I get an animation that has many armatures into unity when i tried it made several different animations how do I make only one? From blender

[hybrid tinsel]

Select the game object in the scene and then pick the animation you want to edit in the editor.

[hybrid tinsel]

Combine the armatures together?

[desert kiln]

when I try it goes from (1) to (2)

the one that I join loses all of the values and joins the other rig

[modest raptor]

Is there any way to use the Unity animation system to animate only one axis of rotation? Or do I have to do it in code?

[hybrid tinsel]

Set to euler interpolation

Then single axis rotation should work as expected.

[gleaming lichen]

after my reload animation plays, I cant perform any of the other animations

[mental vortex]

Question about animation retargeting:

If I have an animation built for a humanoid rig, is it possible for me to just use the arm and leg bone animations? The reason why I ask is I have a model that doesnt have a upper body, lower body, and head as they all act as one

[modest raptor]

This worked! Thank you for taking the time to answer

[hybrid tinsel]

It might be possible, but your results will vary depending on how well your character can be mapped to a humanoid rig. If the hierarchy is missing too much, it might fail to retarget effectively.

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok? Can you provide any other info at all?

[mental vortex]

Okay awesome, I'll give that a try. Have you had any personal experience with something like that before?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, I usually make custom animations for non humanoids but it really depends on how different it is. The hierarchy is more important than the look of the character, and if you're using leg IK even fairly different proportions can be retargeted well.

[mental vortex]

thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Even if the head and torso are one shape you can likely build a humanoid rig for it, even if you don't use some of the bones. You might need to take care to still export/import unused bones though.

[mental vortex]

Yeah, I'd imagine I would need to do something hacky like that, appreciate the help

[valid atlas]

hey, so maybe im looking in wrong places but i honestly cant find a proper solution, so basically i have a bird gameobject, and a wing gameobject as its child. i basically just want for wing animation to play when i press space and for the bird animation to play when the bool is set to true. i have a seperate script with settriggers etc. so basically now what do i put where, because putting animator and animatorscript components to both of them separately simply breaks the whole bird

[hybrid tinsel]

Breaks how?

[valid atlas]

both of the animations do not play, colliders dont work, half of the scripts attached to the bird stopped working

i really dont understand but yea

[twin musk]

unity does not show my animations in animator how do i make it show em again?

[valid atlas]

last time i had to just restore backup of the game because everything simply stopped working

[valid atlas]

cmon someone has to know how to do that 👀

[dense magnet]

Hey. I would love to know if someone can help me. my animations seem to stutter pretty bad when I go into third person mode while walking. I use cinemachine and I am wondering if the camera can have something to do with the stuttering

[sonic forge]

so for some reason my left animation doesn't play when I walk left, but up, down and right do. did I set the coordinates wrong?

[hybrid tinsel]

You have to select the game object with the animator component to see the animations on it in the animation window.

[hybrid tinsel]

It really sounds like a bigger problem than animation.

[hybrid tinsel]

You haven't really given enough detail; you haven't shown your code, your hierarchy, your animator, anything.

[valid atlas]

well i mean everything works fine as long as the animation is on the wing only, and everything breaks as soon as i try to add the animation to the bird

[valid atlas]

sure i can send some screenshots, just give me a minute

[hybrid tinsel]

Make sure your character is udpating in the same part of the frame as your character is, ideally.

[valid atlas]

though its just tge sinplest thing, literally just bird and its child wing i dont think it ll help a lot

[hybrid tinsel]

The coordinates seem fine; might be some other issue. Does it work in the preview window?

[sonic forge]

No, it doesn't

[hybrid tinsel]

Does the animation work solo?

[sonic forge]

Also this is what it says for the WalkLeft part, it says this for the others

[sonic forge]

In the animation player?

[hybrid tinsel]

In there, or in preview when solo.

[sonic forge]

I might not've saved correctly

idk tho

[hybrid tinsel]

Basically, first step is to make sure you don't have a bugged clip before we check weirder things =p

[valid atlas]

so here are the screenshots (hope thats good enough)

and thats basically the whole animatorscript

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class animatorscript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    public bool Revived = false;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {   
 
    }

    public void jumpAnimation()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("jump");
        //Debug.Log("animated");
    }
    public void bulletHit()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("hit"); 
    }
    public void buttonanim()
    {
        animator.SetTrigger("button");
    }
    public void reviveanim()
    {
        animator.SetBool("Revived", Revived);
    }



}```

the animations right now wont play and im aware of that, im just trying to put components in so that they wont ruin half of the game

[sonic forge]

it looks like there are no frames in my animation and I can't add any frames

I think my animator window is broken, I can't click the dropdown to swap animations or add a new clip

and the frames I drag in dont work

I don't know why it's broken

Do I have to just restart my whole project?

[agile solstice]

The window states "no animatable object selected" which is usually the case when that message appears

[sonic forge]

weird, i'm gonna try to reselect the player, though it says i'm selected

[agile solstice]

You need the gameobject with the Animator component specifically

(or something under that in hierarchy, I suppose, if you want to edit existing animations)

[sonic forge]

I see, I accidentally selected the background, my bad

[hybrid tinsel]

Let's see...

You seem to have two separate animators, but your script only references one...

[dense magnet]

Thanks for getting back to me. I unfortunately doe not understand what you are trying to say?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, basically, each frame executes in different stages- onanimatormove(), onanimatorik(), update(), lateupdate(), fixedupdate(), and if you have the camera moving before the character while trying to follow it you can get(for instance) the camera constantly out of sync- especially if you them use camera-relative controls that are using the incorrect camera position relative to the player for input.

Usually 'smart update' in the cinemachine brain component can handle it but sometimes it guesses incorrectly.

[dense magnet]

@hybrid tinsel So that you see in the video is the cinemachine lagging out and not the character or animations? Not sure How I can fix this though. The transitoin happens in Update when I push right click.

I have tried changing the update settings manually now and it's all the same

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm on mobile and can't actually view your video at the moment, sadly.

Try putting the cinemachine brain to lateupdate?

[dense magnet]

tried that

[fierce depot]

Slightly pervasive issue; we've got clipped animations that loop perfectly in software, but hiccup when we put them in engine, as if they're still reading a frame or two before and after the clip. Is there an easy fix to this, or should we be exporting every clip isolated?

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you set the clips to loop in their inspector?

[gleaming lichen]

What else?

Should i add?

[gleaming lichen]

why are the materials on my gun on different than my materials I have in my materials folder

They look different

Does anyone know?

[plucky locust]

so here what i want to do but have no idea how:
i want to animate a dude flopping around like a puppet using vr controllers to move him with my hands like an actual puppet (digital puppeteering)
i've seen this done in Unreal Engine, but have no idea how to animate real time in unity with ragdoll physics.

so like, ideally, i'd start the animation recording, flop the guy around for a bit, stop it, and be able to play it, modify it, and loop it like an actual animation

could anyone help?

[gleaming lichen]

Anyone?

[hybrid tinsel]

Don't do that. If anyone knows they'll say something.

Going 'anyone? anyone? anyone?' just annoys peeps.

[hybrid tinsel]

As long as you don't want to do it in a build, you can use https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.recorder@2.0/manual/index.html

[cinder harness]

my sprite is not showing no matter what i do

I drag a image into it and nothing shows

No matter what layer

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you give any more details?

[cinder harness]

Nws i fixed it

[hot pendant]

How can I animate keyframes and procedural animation together?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you be more specific?

[rare lotus]

can somebody help me

i want to start animation when Shoot(); Triggers

[rare lotus]

animation can start but can't end

[agile solstice]

On a button click you're first executing Shoot() which sets Shoot bool to false, then setting it to true right after

So it stays true

[rare lotus]

oh

where should i put it

[agile solstice]

It may be more intuitive to use a trigger instead of a bool when you shoot, so you don't have to worry about turning it on and off as a bool

Though, there are still some situations when a trigger can get stuck on like a bool and need to be reset with ResetTrigger, but usually that shouldn't happen

[gleaming lichen]

How do I blend a transition between animations?

[agile solstice]

What do you mean exactly? Transitions are blends between animations

[gleaming lichen]

I mean like how a blend tree is

but Only for a transition

Here

I want the blend tree transition to the shooting animation blend in instead of just snapping.

[agile solstice]

Transition duration under transition settings determines how long the blend will take
0 duration makes it instant and snappy

[gleaming lichen]

Oh ok

Thanks

@agile solstice I have transtion duration on the transition frmo the shot to the blend tree but there is no blend

Its a snap

[agile solstice]

I'm not totally sure what's going on in there, but that's a different transition from the one highlighted above
It tells me that when you have stopped shooting, the shooting animation would play over 4 times while blending to the blend tree (assuming the shooting animation is looping)

Back when the Animator was confusing to me, I used to make a lot of test animations with just spinning and wobbling cubes to get a feel for how the transitions work

In my experience if an animation clip is incredibly short, like about a tenth of a second here, the transitions may sometimes work in unexpected ways or fail randomly

[gleaming lichen]

It's not looping though

Its also the same thing as the one above

Just the transition back frmo shooting to blend tree

[olive heart]

how can I convert?

[midnight terrace]

This is my walk cycle it looks rlly bad in game does anybody know how to make this look better

[trim hatch]

Learn about animation fundamentals

[grim mesa]

Instead of recording the sprite that gets swapped directly, is it possible to record just the action of getting the sprite from a list entry?
I don't want to "hardcode" the sprite in the animationClip.
(Yeah I know that works with code but would be cool if it works in the animator too)

[agile solstice]

You'll probably need a script that sets the sprite reference to match an index of a sprite array, fill the array and animate the index instead of the sprite

Would be nice if it didn't need a custom component

[grim mesa]

Is it possible to record the index?

[agile solstice]

If by record you mean keyframe I believe so yes

[grim mesa]

Ah I see thanks. Well chaning and enum works in the keyframe, should be good enough.

[olive heart]

how can i fix this?

[olive heart]

also

i fixed it

but my animation doesnt start when i move it takes a second to start and stop when my animate function is happening every millisecond from the update function

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use a flipbook shader and change the index from the animator.

[grim mesa]

thanks

[olive heart]

please help asap

ok new question how can I cut off an animation instead of waiting until its done

[trim hatch]

remove transition duration

or has exit time

in the transition arrows

[slate steeple]

I want to give something in my game some eyes that can switch between looking around randomly and looking at something specific but I'm not sure if I should have the eyes as a separate gameobject in unity or if I should have it connected to the model in blender. Any ideas on what I should do?

[fleet salmon]

I'm looking to do a little first time user experience feature for our game. We have a little blobby character that I want to juice and bounce around the screen. Anyone have some good resources for tweens/sequences/scripts?

To be clear, I'm not looking for how to do the tweens, I can do that just fine. I'm looking for nice scripts.. like.. 0-50ms, squash, 50-500ms parabolic movement to destination, 500-550ms unsquash.. Everything I do looks horribly amateurish, I'm a fairly bad animator. 🙂

[olive heart]

how can I delete a transition line?

in my animator

dont mind that

but all my exit times are off but theres still delays before my animation changes

pls help

[steel lily]

does anyone know how to give a camera animations from blender?

[weak sand]

Is there a way to slow down a running root motion of an animation without lowering its frames count?

[hybrid tinsel]

Change the speed of the animation?

[dusk vale]

You can format your multiline code block with C# highlighting! Just add cs to the start of it. Highlighting example below!

class Fluffs : FluffyCat
{
    public void PetCat ()
    {
        Debug.Log ("Petting Cat.")
    }
}

[light kestrel]

If you were to create a pixel art 2d animation and you wanted your character to shoot a gun when they clicked how would you animate that while keeping the walking animation normal

[trim hatch]

Seperate objects seperate animators

[mental vortex]

Got a question about additive animations:

If the animation that is being additive on top has limbs at the default pose position (doesnt move throughout the anim), does that mean that it won't affect the underlying animation for those limbs at all? Or will they try to move it to the default position?

[magic robin]

Hey so I'm having a slight problem....
https://giant.gfycat.com/ExhaustedAccomplishedEasternglasslizard.mp4

its not super noticeable unless you know what to look for...
But I split my characters run animation into two different sprite renderers, so that the tail could be on a layer between when running (in front of the background leg sprite, but behind the foreground sprite)

I'm setting the bools to transition between animation states at the same time for both animators, but sometimes one of them lags behind, which causes the run animation to be slightly off...

any idea how to fix this?

https://i.imgur.com/wH4KFBN.png

also this happens sometimes...

[magic robin]

https://giant.gfycat.com/SecretImpressionableCornsnake.mp4

got it all sorted out!

turns out I had some missing bools in my animator for going between animations

[hybrid tinsel]

Personally, I'd have just put both sprites into the same animator

It can be very hard to guarantee frame perfect sync between animators sometimes because Unity doesn't really think in terms of frames(its animation system is entirely time based).

[magic robin]

oh hm... I wasn't aware you could do that

it wasn't letting me, but I think I just realized its because the child object I wanted to animation on the parents animator had its own animator

which disqualifies it from being able to be animated by the parent animator

but I think if I remove that, I can have the parent animator control the sprite renderer of the child directly

I got it working just fine, but thats def a better solution than managing two animators

[hybrid tinsel]

Correct. An animator controls all children until it hits another animator.

[open ivy]

As you can see in the graph i have 4 animations.
The character jumps, it transitions into a falling idle animations and when they hit the floor they transition into the fall animation and then to move.
The problem is there is many instances where the character jumps and then almost imidietely hits the floor so when it's transitioning from jump to falling it doesn't go to fall (like it's supposed to after they hit the floor) but actually keeps transitioning into the idle falling which looks weird like the character is falling while on ground. It only takes like a second since it goes to the fall animation right after it transitioned into the falling idle, but its incredibly annoying and looks unprofessional. Any ways of the animator ignore the transition and go straight to the fall animation?

(I tried Any State, it's horrible I am never using it again)

[agile solstice]

"Interruption Source" setting of transitions is designed for this
I also like to use sub-state machines for animations that are always more or less sequential to make the transitions to and from that group of states more intuitive

[open ivy]

Yeah I'm using subs-state machines since i got a on of movement and combat animations

these 4 + like 2 additional make up for a inair substate machine

tho i resolved the issue by making the transitions to fall instant

because i think what was actually causing the issue was the transition itself

it just had like 0.4 second hang time between idle fall to actually playing the fall animation while being on the ground for that hang duration

[tight bolt]

Sup, i got a problem with the weapon disappearing on the game start, it reappears if i look down, and somehow if i am in the Scene view and Game view, the bug is not there.
Build and Run/Restart Unity did not solve this Problem

uh, why is there no video player

https://streamable.com/wjzvd3

[tight bolt]

Draw animation

The Animation is changing the location of the gun yes, but the gun is parented to an object, so the 0,0,0 point is the actual point of the parent object, look in the video, you can see a small cube on the side

I wonder what the bug this is

[next wren]

Sorry to barge in, but how would I go around multiple sprite renderers in an animation?
To specify, I'd like to animate my main sprite, e.g., player, who creates a sort of particle effect at some point during the animation, which is a separate spritesheet in of itself. Would I need multiple objects with SpriteRenderers and individual animators? If so, how would I connect them together?

[hybrid tinsel]

In my game I use raycasts and if there isn't room for a full fall loop I just transition directly to landing instead of the fall loop.

[agile solstice]

An Animator component overrides properties of components of the gameobject, but also of any child gameobject (unless they have Animators as well)
So, you only need one Animator

I don't know if it's possible to have multiple sprite renderers per gameobject but it'll be better to make them child gameobjects

[next wren]

Thanks for the response. I just managed to scrounge up some thread on the web and was able to get to the child's sprite in the animation editor. Glad I'm on the right track. ^^

[tight bolt]

The bug seem to be fixed: The issue was fixed by adding Mesh Renderer

Cringe bug, but everything now good

[open ivy]

I do thay too, that wasnt the problem. Like I said the landing happened WHILE the animation was already transitioning to the second part of the loop instead of auto changing to land.

[near sierra]

is there an easy way to set the parent of all these missing things? Cause I simply moved the animator up on the hiearchy but otherwise the bones are there, I just want to set them all to the same parent

butt - > silverwolf/butt 
butt/l_thigh -> silverwolf/butt/l_thigh```

[agile solstice]

You can rename them with F2 key after selecting one
I think it's also possible to edit the asset itself with text editors, so you could use multi-line editing or find&replace for changing many at a time

[near sierra]

what's a good way to do the latter?

[near sierra]

nvm found out, tysm Spazi

[opaque spoke]

i know this is a pretty vague question but

how do some 2d games have a "smooth" look?

i know they (probably) aren't using sprite animation

are the using some form of skeletal animation?

cuz i just finished playing pikuniku and i was wondering how they made everything so smooth

games like ori as well, they just look super smooth

[mint osprey]

They use 3D rendering and skeletal animation and just constrain the gameplay logic into 2D

[opaque spoke]

What about games like pikuniku

Or limbo

Where it’s flat 2D but it’s real smooth

Even at lower frame rates it feels smooth

But maybe that’s just me

[mint osprey]

Skeletal animation

[opaque spoke]

Ok

I figured

[mint osprey]

https://unity.com/features/2danimation

[opaque spoke]

I’ll play around with it, thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Ori 1 was 2d spritesheet animation, Ori 2 was 3d.

[opaque spoke]

really?

i guess they must have animated ata high fps for it to be so smooth

jeez

[hybrid tinsel]

Iirc they said it was 30fps, might've been higher

[opaque spoke]

i mean as an amateur animator thats a pretty high fps

especially if they did a pose for every frame

which they more or less did

im looking rn and they seem to only hold for 2 or 3 frames at most

guess thats what you get when you are backed by one of the biggest tech corporations

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, the sprites were rendered off of 3d in the first game

The big difference is that their animation rig wasn't suitable for a game engine at the time

It was closer to something you'd see in a proper animated film since they had all film animators working on it

But it was very limiting, so they moved to full 3d in the sequel

[agile solstice]

Back in the day it wasn't uncommon to use something like vector graphics tools to animate characters with unlimited framerate, and bake them to pretty high framerate sprite sheets for use in games

[hybrid tinsel]

It is still common, especially for particles and effects. Less often for characters these days.

[ashen ferry]

what's the best way to make 2d frame-by-frame animation in unity nowadays?
built-in tools or is there any great, outstanding and useful 3rd party solution?

[opaque spoke]

Interesting

Maybe is skeletal animation doesn’t work out I can try this

How would they do animation transitions this way though?

[agile solstice]

They did not, unless the transition states were baked too
Smooth transitions can only occur on properties that can be averaged, like position, rotation and scale, so bones work for it but sprites do not

[unborn night]

player doesn't play walk animation when he moves, does anyone know why?

[lone plinth]

well you arent actually using the isWalking value u just set it to true or false it does nothing

if you wanna use it in the animator set it using animator.setBool

[unborn night]

ok

[lone plinth]

and you then add a condition in the animator that if isWalking is true then play the animation else dont

[unborn night]

ok

[lone plinth]

if you want more help maybe you should watch a tutorial on animation basics

[unborn night]

ok

[unborn night]

it should work now

yeah it works

[opaque spoke]

Ok so animations just played on after another

I guess the animator just had to start each new animation with the position the player would most likely be in

Or like a weird average/idle position

[agile solstice]

Not sure what you mean by this

Perhaps you're thinking of some kind of specific case
Usually you just swap the active animation clip to a new one when needed, transitioning instantly
The animator doesn't normally have to worry about what position the 'player' is in

[coral light]

im new to animation, i wana make a object rotate in clockwise wheel rotation, but its rotating in a orbit like earth around sun XD.....any help
i can screen share, it will take 10 mins max to get it sorted

[agile solstice]

Rotation of a gameobject happens around its transform origin
If you see orbit motion, it sounds like the sprite, mesh or child gameobjects are not positioned near the transform origin

[agile solstice]

@coral light Also, a new origin point for animation can be set by animating an empty parent object instead, so the children can be offset
But mainly the important thing is to minimize unnecessary offsets with whatever assets you're working with
It'll become familiar pretty quickly with practice

[coral light]

i basically imported models from blender and fusion360

[agile solstice]

A common mistake with 3D meshes is not keeping track of the scene origin point in the modeling software, so the mesh ends up being exported with unnecessary offset when transforms are applied

[coral light]

can be

[opaque spoke]

I just meant like if you do a jump animation, you might want to start it with a running pose

Because the player will most likely be moving while jumping

But I guess sprite animations are isolated and there aren’t any sort of transitions between each

[agile solstice]

This is an option but I don't recall any games that bother doing this, unless there'd be a drastic disconnect between states otherwise
Rarely worth the effort for something so subtle if you have to generate and store each frame separately

[opaque spoke]

Ok 👍

[agile solstice]

But with skeletal animation you get those blends for free with the Animator

[glossy furnace]

I'm new to animations, and im trying to make this cube float up and down, but i only want it to affect the y position so it works on any cube i attach this animation to

How do i do that so it only affects the y position?

cuz rn it affects all 3 axis

[agile solstice]

Place the cube under an empty parent gameobject before animating

Afaik you can't keyframe individual parts of a vector variable, but since all Transform values are relative to the parent transform you may not need to

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use a script that sets the position and control the script from the animation if you really needed to.

But usually that is overkill.

[tawdry lava]

Anyone know how to export animation once its been retargeted in unity? I have one rig that I normally deal animations with, then another rig inside the engine that I apply the animations to. The problem is now that I want to simply use the second rig in the original software and for that to happen, Id need to save the retargeted animations

[hybrid tinsel]

Fbx exporter package?

[tawdry lava]

from what I was reading it only supports generic clips not humanoid

[stark storm]

is there a way to export ik bones from blender into unity? when i use an fbx, the bones don't do anything when moved

[hybrid tinsel]

Convert the animation to a generic clip using the unity recorder first?

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to bake all the transforms to keyframes in blender.

[stark storm]

how would i do that?

[agile solstice]

No
The code that processes IK in Blender and Unity are entirely different and incompatible

[stark storm]

i see

i was wondering if that was the case. thanks for letting me know

for some reason my leg isn't following the target i have set using my 2 bone IK constraint. what am i doing wrong?

[tawdry lava]

the recorder and fbx exporter packages are seperately installed

I just used it and got humanoid animations, thanks

its the fbx recorder if anyones interested

[hybrid tinsel]

That isn't what I said. I said record it to an animation clip and then export that.

[tawdry lava]

I said they use seperate rigs

the .anim just reads transform data

[hybrid tinsel]

...which is what you want, isn't it?

[tawdry lava]

no I want the animation from rig 1 to be added on rig 2

One was using a CharacterCreator rig and the other was using a Mixamo rig. The mixamo rig was retargeting and recorded on the cc rig

but thanks for the recorder recommendation

[hybrid tinsel]

If you record the transforms using the recorder, that produces a generic clip of the retargeted animation, that can then be exported using the fbx exporter.

I just tested it and it seems to work fine.

[tawdry lava]

I think that’s what I did earlier

It even recognizes similar frames and loops the animation

My 200 frame recording saved as 30frames

[hybrid tinsel]

Since it is baking the animations, it depends on the sampling rate.

It isn't using the original animation data at all, because that no longer exists as far as the retargeting system is concerned.

Have you considered just doing your retargeting in blender or mixamo?

[tawdry lava]

mixamo doesnt seem to walk to read my rig no matter the export settings I use, and blender sounds like a lot of work

ill just use this, I dont want pinpoint accuracy

I have an actual .fbx sampled at 30 fps that looks basically 1:1 with the mixamo

[tame violet]

how do i make her foot the center of the player

[tacit hazel]

Is there a way to slide this?
EDIT: solved => these blue lines must be moved first

[inner bridge]

Hello guys, see, I'm new to Unity and a few days ago I had some problems with animating the characters of the game of my first jam. Any tutorials about Animation in Unity that you would recommend?

[sleek spire]

is there a simple way to do this in the animator

so if
parameter = 1
play frames 1 to 2

parameter = 2
play frames 2 to 3

on the same animation

so i can use an animation as an Index kinda

[inner bridge]

The thing is that when I did it, the animations sometimes were playing I bit weird, I bit inconsistent.

[sleek spire]

its a very basic animation system so just look up how to do animation on general

for blender or sfm

[inner bridge]

Ok, thank you ❤️

[whole bone]

I wanted to make additive head tilt to an animation with custom animation clip made in unity
But all transforms are locked so Im not able to create any animation keyframes other than the rest pose
What do I do?

[whole bone]

I can change the rotation and it updates both on the scene and in animation window but as soon as I move timeline cursor it goes back to the basic value

[calm tangle]

Hello,
How do I create a 2D animation clip?
The only way I know on how to create a 2D animation clip is selecting the sprites and create an animation from them.
However I want to start from scratch. I want to create an empty animation clip and then add the sprites and keyframes myself.
Everything is greyed out.
I have searched online and all the guides are outdated or the options don't exist for me(greyed out).

[dense magnet]

Can someone please help me.
I have a set of animations I bought and when I preview the animation on the unity model the hands are correct
But when I put my own character in the hands just don't line up Also it's like he has a kink in his arm/wrist

[glass cairn]

i had a similiar issue with mixamo animations. My Problem was that the avatars werent exactly the same so that for example the left hand was slightly out of position. For me i fixed it with uploading my player model to mixamo and download the animation this way. Dont know how to solve yours but maybe its the same cause.

[dense magnet]

@glass cairn Thank you for the reply. THese are baught animations and every time I try the Copy From Avatar, I get errors. I assume I need to take both the model and the aniamtion into blender or maya to see if they match and if not, edit bones or add bones where needed to get it to match ?

[glass cairn]

yeah i got the same errors when i just tried to use my avatar. I guess editing in Blender can solve it but honestly idk. I got lucky that i can upload my model to mixamo 😄

[dense magnet]

Ya, I need to understand why this happenes and how to fix it .

[acoustic thorn]

how do i animate 2 different gameobjects in the same animation tab?

[sleek spire]

have multiple inspector tabs and lock them

cause you cant just click the objects

[cloud hornet]

I have a loop issue that's driving me crazy. This anim is a perfect loop, and I'm not moving the player at all, but for some reason every loop the player shifts back slightly. I have other loop anims that don't move the player, and the config is seemingly identical but only happens for this one.

Root motion disabled, root transform rotation & position y & position xz all baked into pose. Root motion node set to none.

Anyone have an idea what would cause this?

[hybrid tinsel]

Very strange. And it definitely isn't a script moving them? Possibly some sort of weird loop of the camera following a transform in the character who then tries to catch up to the camera and overshoots?

[cloud hornet]

I do have a camera following a transform-aligned target, but that shouldn’t move the player at all.

[graceful yarrow]

Is it possible to use jsons animations created with Blockbench in Unity?

[agile solstice]

I don't know the tool but it advertises being able to export to Blender and Maya, so I assume there's some way to save them to an Unity-compatible format such as FBX

[bold lake]

Does anybody know how to add some animations to model in unity?

got 2 new animations for this model and cant find how to add them to him

[agile solstice]

By "add" do you mean add to the model asset, or make the character animate?

[bold lake]

add new animation

that blue triangle (already have prepared animation)

[agile solstice]

You can't directly add more animation clips into the model asset, unless you replace it with a new one with more animations though that might mess any changes you've made to the asset's import settings

I usually import a new mesh with the clips, duplicate the clips so they exist outside of the model asset and move them to an animations folder, then use them normally

Clips don't have to be embedded in a mesh file for you to use them

There's also this old workflow which may or may not work for importing animation clips separately:
Another way to import animations is to follow a naming scheme that Unity allows for the animation files. You create separate model files and name them with the convention ‘[e-mail]’. For example, for a model called “goober”, you could import separate idle, walk, jump and walljump animations using files named “[e-mail]”, “[e-mail]”, “[e-mail]” and “[e-mail]”. Only the animation data from these files will be used, even if the original files are exported with mesh data.

[bold lake]

k ty for help

[weary saffron]

in the animation preview, why is the model in the default pose and not doing anything when it's supposed to play an animation? also for some reason it says the animation has 100 keyframes when it has 50

[agile solstice]

Some problem with export settings, likely

The last one I had was that when Blender's animation preview framerate was below 60 it wouldn't export any keyframes for the clips at all

[weary saffron]

i don't think i'm doing it wrong tho

[agile solstice]

The video doesn't show the export settings nor the framerate on blender's end so it's hard to give any input

[weary saffron]

export settings?

isn't that the window that shows up when you click "export"?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[weary saffron]

idk why it didn't show in the video i sent

the reason it is armature only because it's an animation, the model is in another separate file

[agile solstice]

Not visible here but "start/end keying" setting can cause random problems

[weary saffron]

the start and end frame?

[agile solstice]

No, in export settings

The all relevant settings which I don't remember right now should be in most export guides

That said I haven't had luck exporting animations without their models anyhow
As mentioned I import a new mesh each time and duplicate the clip in Unity to detach it from the model asset

[weary saffron]

i changed the animation type from generic to humanoid, played around with settings a little bit, and changed back to generic and it works now...

[naive mortar]

is there a reason why i shouldnt just transition all animations from "Any State" instead of making a cobweb of transitions

[agile solstice]

Any State transitions skip other states and any transitions, even ones from Any State
The Animator is a state machine, so you know at all times what the active state can and should be
Any State effectivey skips that whole process, and if you've got a lot of Any State animations their conditions start very easily racing against each other and at that point it'd be better to just play clips manually in code without a state machine at all

It's very easy to fall into a "cobweb" of transitions, but ideally you wouldn't have that either

You don't need a transition between every state, instead you can categorize them by using animation layers, blend trees and sub-state machines, only using Any State or Play() when you're totally sure that skipping the state flow saves trouble

In my experience when you start using all the Animator's tools strategically, state flow starts helping you organize animation states and transitions rather than making things messy

Though it could be a lot simpler to work with for sure

[naive mortar]

Yea i tried Play() at first, but that didn't give me smooth transitions, since i use rigged character. So i tried Any State and it worked fine. Only tried 2 animations, so it might get bad when i add more.

[dense magnet]

Hey!
Animations and rigs have been driving me up the wall for the past few months now. My animations don't match my rig or my animations are broken, or the joints are messed up. There is always something. I simply do not have the core fundamentals so it's extremally hard for me to even google what the issue could be.
I would like to know if there are courses paid for or free that anyone would recommend getting to get comfortable with animations in any game engine.
I am very comfortable in Maya so if courses recommended could use the MAYA 3D package, that would be amazing.
TYIA

[round yoke]

Is there a way to get check if a state that is inside of a sub-state is playing?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can attach a behavior script to the state. I believe you can also check by the clip name if it is unique.

[round yoke]

Thank you. I will give those a try

[hybrid tinsel]

Much of the official documentation is maya based, so that's where I'd start.

Reading through the manual gives a pretty good understanding of the system's underpinnings.

[wild sleet]

Is there any way to increase the frames per second of an animation that I downloaded?

or like interpolate at a higher framerate than 60?

[twin musk]

on input i made an animation play which worked, but it only works once and then doesn't work when i press the input again

[agile solstice]

The normal expected behaviour is that animations will be interpolated at whatever FPS your game is running, in fact limiting it would be tricky because animations don't run in "frames per second"

[wild sleet]

Odd. It seems so laggy

like its not updating at 144hz

[agile solstice]

One setting that can do that is "animate physics" which restricts the Animator updates to the less frequent physics timestep

[wild sleet]

Is that on by default or something?

[agile solstice]

No, so it's not a very likely culprit but worth checking

[wild sleet]

thats a shame

is there like anything I can do to make it feel more smooth?

[agile solstice]

You'll probably have to find out why it isn't smooth first

I don't have more ideas
May help to demonstrate the type of lag you're experiencing and to show Animator settings and the keyframes and curves of a typical animation clip

Otherwise you could try to isolate the problem by making a new clip of some cubes moving
By default those should be entirely smooth

[wild sleet]

If you don't have a 144hz monitor you won't see it. I don't think I can upload files that large anyways. "Resample curves" seems to smooth it out, but now everything jitters

[agile solstice]

So, try to make a super simple test animation within unity with generic gameobjects
If the problem happens with that too, it rules out keyframe baking/interpolation issues from from the source asset
I don't have any idea what kind of objects or keyframes you're working with so I can only take stabs at the dark

[wild sleet]

Unfortunately I'm not an animator. So I'm looking at the clips in the animation viewer and the "curves" tab is just displaying straight lines

this looks much different from everything thats popping up on google images

[agile solstice]

Can you show a screenshot of the curves

[wild sleet]

yeah one sec

Each one is like this

[agile solstice]

Press A with your cursor over the curve window, send another pic if the view adjusts to display the curve better

[wild sleet]

every single clip is like that as well

[agile solstice]

That property has no motion so it's straight for that reason
Could find a property that does have some motion, select that, hit A and see how it looks

[wild sleet]

oh I see

I just didn't look down far enough

[agile solstice]

But regardless I think this does clue in what the problem is, which is that the animation keyframes have been baked and exported poorly, or imported poorly

[wild sleet]

thats a shame because its a banger gun animation

one of the best I've ever found for free

[proud nest]

Hey! I downloaded a running animation from mixamo and for some reason its weird legs and feets move like they are broken. I tried to turn on and off all off the settings on the ss and checked root motion. None of it changed anything. Any idea how i can fix this animation. ( Tried other mixamo animations, they are weird aswell )

[mellow zealot]

Root motion moves the root transform automatically; you could solve your problem by checking "Animate Physics"

What's your rigidbody interpolation and collision detection set to?

oh bruh

that's a big rip

You shouldn't need to rb.MovePosition it

[agile solstice]

rb.MovePosition ignores colliders the same as rb.position

When moving a rigidbody you need to use forces, velocity or some form of pre-emptive collision detection if you want to ensure it won't clip inside of things

[fast swan]

In 2d physics MovePosition is fine tho

[steel sun]

Anyone have advice for getting cloak physics to work with a rigged cloak? I've tried the cloth component, but I've already rigged my cloak and I'd think it'd be easier to use the bones. But I've got no idea what the best way to make cloak physics work. Thoughts and recommendations?

[strange wedge]

My walk animation still plays even when i stop pressing any input, I disabled exit time. How can i fix that?

[glacial heart]

A'ight y'all I need a genius to help me please. I've been stuck on this mf problem forever
https://gyazo.com/c3dbc5017cbccc772415716880d3e406

I need help cause i've been stuck on this for 12 days

can't figure this out

nobody answers when I type it out so here's the gif

[odd dove]

Hi I am doing animation for the first time and I have some problems. I have 2 animations on my plane model. One of them is the propeller spinning and the other is wings moving which will later be activated by player but it doesn't seem to work. I have it on a child object because the child object has a rig on it but nothing plays. Could you help me please?

[hybrid tinsel]

Wvery case is different when it comes to cloth animation, really. Unity cloth is surprisingly good if you need actual cloth-like interactions with colliders and stuff. If you can get away with simpler stuff then you can either use physics on bones or spring bones to fake it.

[novel badger]

i have an issue with my animations, when we play it goes into the muscles mode. i just forget what it's called so it's hard to trouble shoot, any one know the name for it? where they crouch into like a ball state

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have any transitions out of that state?

[strange wedge]

idk what settings i should be changing here

[hybrid tinsel]

You have three options; you can set a speed float in your animator and use that to control on a per state basis, you can control the overall animator speed, or you can write your own root motion handler in OnAnimatorMove().

[hybrid tinsel]

I can't tell what your problem is from the gif so...

[hybrid tinsel]

If you have a second animator, you will need to control it separately.

[hybrid tinsel]

Probably should make the transition a lot shorter

[hybrid tinsel]

Humanoid rest pose is the technical term, I believe?

Not certain since they are pretty vague with terminology.

[strange wedge]

If it looks wonky guessing theres no fix to that? (i mean like the animations is cut short)

[novel badger]

thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, that's what you wanted right?

[brazen lintel]

can anyone help me with death animations

[strange wedge]

wat exactly

[brazen lintel]

well i have an animation but im having trouble with the code to run the animation when the enemy goes below 0 health

[strange wedge]

Maybe show your code coz like this it's a bit hard

[brazen lintel]

just not sure what to write for the animation part

and i dont think

GameObject.GetComponent.Animator.SetTrigger("Death"); is correct

[strange wedge]

Depends on what the script is

If it's on the enemy where the animator controller is

then it's fine

But u can just do
[SerializeField] private Animator animator;

and just put the correct animator there

when do u set isDead to true

[brazen lintel]

one moment

I changed it a bit but I still get an error about this not being valid in the current context

from unity

[strange wedge]

u have } at line 11

[gleaming lichen]

Why won't unity let me import premade animations?
I have premade animations for a pistol, but for some reason it wont play on entry

[brazen lintel]

got that but still says that the code that runs the trigger is invalid in the current context

[strange wedge]

gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>().SetTrigger();

then put "Death" inside

You should probably try and use Unity documentation

[brazen lintel]

ok thank you

[strange wedge]

this doesnt exist and the documentation would show u that

[gleaming lichen]

?

[subtle umbra]

hey guys im having a issue with the animator? it wont let me drag new sprites into it nor let me play the animation inside the animtions tab

[gleaming lichen]

There is a clip count of 1

But it never plays

[subtle umbra]

have you set it to play in the animator

[gleaming lichen]

yes

Play on entry

[subtle umbra]

is it attached to anything?

[gleaming lichen]

also when I press the play button in animation tab, it never plays

[strange wedge]

Does the animation play when you go on ur prefab? Here

Then ur animation is wrong

[subtle umbra]

the arrow is greyed out for me and i cant import sprites into my animations tab?

any can help?

[gleaming lichen]

I dont have that preview image there

[strange wedge]

Do you not have a prefab?

When u imported it?

[gleaming lichen]

I do

[strange wedge]

Are the animations with it?

[gleaming lichen]

yes

[brazen lintel]

how do I destroy the GameObject after the death animation plays

[strange wedge]

so you should have an animation tab and be able to visualise them

[gleaming lichen]

tab as in a window or a component?

?

[strange wedge]

Yeah that

hu wait

nvm

for example, this is my fbx

[gleaming lichen]

Yeah mine looks like that

[strange wedge]

When i click on the first one called cat 1 i get this in inspector

and I can see the animations playing in the window there

[gleaming lichen]

Got it

it was closed

I had to reopen that tab

[strange wedge]

Do ur animations play there?

[gleaming lichen]

Yes

But they don't play while in game

Oh wait

I fixed it

[strange wedge]

wat was it

[glacial heart]

You have the IK targets for the arms in the gun. You move the targets directly, the arms move, but when you move the gun, which is the parent of the targets, the arms don’t move

[gleaming lichen]

The rig was set to legacy

I made it generic

And it works

Thx

[subtle umbra]

i flip coin
it comes out as tails which = 0 but for some reason the Paramiter is 1?

??

how does this happen

im so confused

result is true

and tails should only happen when its false

so why is it playing

[agile solstice]

Because of "has exit time":

Exit Time is a special transition that doesn’t rely on a parameter. Instead, it relies on the normalized time of the state. Check to make the transition happen at the specific time specified in Exit Time.

[dense magnet]

Hey! I am at my wits end. I can't get the animations to look right on my character. I bought both the animation pack and the character from unity asset store.

1. The Unity model looks perfect in the preview , but my character looks messed up
2. When trying to copy from the rig/model the animations came from I get a "Copied avatar rig config miss-match. Bone length in copied...."
   3.I have tried taking both the animation and the rig into maya and mess around there but I am not to sure that changed anything. The character had in-between bones that I removed but that did not fix anything

Edit
I'd really like to understand why I am getting these errors and why the animations don't match so that I can identify and fix it in future.

[gleaming lichen]

Anyone know why my animation is just stuck like this after it plays?

If i spam a bunch of buttons, it starts to work aagain

[reef barn]

so, i have this nice idle animation, with a strong wide leg stance.

but all my turn animations, aren't as 'strong' and the stance is really narrow.

whats the most straight forward way, to modify the turn animations, to just give the legs a wider stance (and maybe keep the nice strong upper body pose)? Can I do it with Unity? or better idea to pull into blender?

[tawdry lava]

I haven’t had any experience with simple solutions but I do have experience with other animation stuff. One idea that comes to mind is you can give IK targets to a humanoid character, offset them from the center however wide you need them to be, and finally use the Recorder+FbxExporter packages from Unity to record the retargeted looks onto a fresh fbx

That being said you need to read the animator bone data, assign it to the feet target and goal then offset it, FinalIK should resolve pretty close to the original look of the anim

Oh I thought this was the finalIK discord

You’ll need to use Unity’s animator IK in that case

[bronze island]

Hello I just want to rig some arms on my character. Can I add arm rigs inside of unity or does it have to be done in a software like blender?

[jade niche]

You can use UMotion for that. There may be other ways but that is what I use.

[hybrid tinsel]

You are setting clicked before you set the heads or tails, so it will always triggering the false transition before you set it to true.

[tulip forge]

(sorry if this is the wrong text Channel)
im trying to animate buttons with the built in feature of the button component, but it only gets "highlightet" if it there is no text or anything above, but it needs to have some text in the Front of it...
does anyone know any work arounds or solutions to this?

[floral walrus]

guess i'm kinda hopping around channels but now i'm almost finished with the animation but i only want it to run by activating the play trigger by script and i don't know how or where to move around the blocks

[agile solstice]

First you need two clips as animation states to transition between, then set your parameter as the condition for the transition
https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g?t=1014

[floral walrus]

i found a workaround and just decided to instantiate a new object of the animation since it was going to disappear anyways

[rapid lynx]

do you guys know why is my two bone ik twisting the end bone like that?

[strange wedge]

is it not possible to use animation rigging constraint at runtime?

[agile solstice]

It'll reset the Target transform unless you use Maintain Target Offset

[rapid lynx]

oh i see, thanks

[reef barn]

I have not been successfull adding the component at runtime, but they work at runtime if thats what you're asking? For example, I have used Unity's Animation Rigging to let me move head and heads of full body characters in VR.

[strange wedge]

yeah changing the component at runtime is not a thing. someone just suggested me to put one object and set its position at runtime which worked

seems abit weird to not be able to just change it at runtime :/

[smoky coral]

my pc makes a weird noise when I play or drag and move any animations in unity animation tab💀

can someone help?

[quasi bluff]

i imported a character from blender and downloaded an animation from mixamo, because of armature parent animation mixamohips keys missing? how can i fix it

i guess i have no other choice than unpack the fbx and delete armature

[gleaming lichen]

is there anyway to reverse an animation?

[quick garden]

I think you can set the playback speed to -1?

I was wondering what the best way would be of creating distant power flashes? (Sort of like here: https://youtu.be/k5OqgeB7bvo?t=104 )
I've created a point light with an animator that gets triggered, the intensity changes a few times then goes to zero, however even with lens flares enabled I can only see them from around 200m away, but ideally would like them to show up even if the point light is ~1km away

[gleaming lichen]

yeah i got it

thanks anyway

[rapid lynx]

guys

i have a chain ik on the spine

and two bone ik on the hand

when i move the spine ik

it offsets the target for the hand ik

now if i move the hand target ik it is ofsetted

[agile solstice]

Google first before asking the question
Or at very least edit it to indicate you've solved it

[gleaming lichen]

ok mb

[rapid lynx]

someone pls help

[strange wedge]

My exported animation look glitchy in Unity but fine in Blender? (the collar is disappearing and the tails are glitchy?)

(other animations are completely fine its only some of them..? + i baked them)

[rapid lynx]

about my issue, nevermind, the problem was the order in which the IK was being applied, now that i changed the order it all works

[agile solstice]

Two primary causes are first the skin weight bone limit being too low in unity, which is easy to increase, second is that if a rig uses complex hierarchies with constraints to keep everything in place or to implement squashing or stretching, some data will be lost or become distorted on export as FBX doesn't support constraints

[reef barn]

Greetings. I want to create a pose (single frame animation clip) of my character as it looks in scene view. But, once I hit that record button, it drops down, and all the bones change rotations. What's up with that?

[hybrid tinsel]

There is a free addon that will copy/paste poses... iirc 'animation toolkit'

Though I don't believe that that will work with humanoid avatars; not certain.

[reef barn]

I think i figured out why it was being weird. I needed to try recording the animation on the original FBX rather than the copy of it in my scene. 🤷‍♂️

[twin musk]

why does my character do this

This happens when I enable root motion and if I don't the animation just doesn't play at all

[twin musk]

now the animation works but only when the object is drag and dropped from assets folder

[twin musk]

it doesn't work with the one I had made before

[remote shoal]

How can I rig my stylised eyes as they are so that they work correctly in Unity (without using eye socket geometry/3d spheres/uv manipulation/shape keys) ? The eyes have enough space to slide across the eye cage but I need to know how can I set an armature with constraints which Unity can read. The iris is a 3d mesh which should be able to be controlled by bones.

[gleaming lichen]

I have this weapon switching script and I want this draw animation to play once I switch to the other weapon. Is this how I would make it play upon exiting or do i need transitions of some sort?

As soon as my play switches to another weapon

I want this withdraw animation play upon exit

Do i need any triggers?

Because I thought upon exit, it would play

thank you in advance

[hybrid tinsel]

mecanim humanoid eye bones are really not set up for that kind of eye, but you could probably add additional bones for them and make sure to include them in the rig on import(there's an option to include extra bones)

Though using a blend shape is the typical way of handling that sort of eye.

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. You have to transition to the state if you want it to play.

[remote shoal]

I am trying to do it with using bones so that I can have the eyes "look at" different objects in the game if needed, my question is that it looks like I have to reset the bones transform for the eyes in blender in order to be able to symmetrise them and I was wondering if when importing the rig back to Unity if it will still know how the bones for the eyes are oriented and supposed to move like or if I need to do additional work for them to work properly ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Step back a bit. You don't need to use bones to have it look at something.

As for the other thing, you'd absolutely need to do extra work but since I'm not a blender user I'm not much help there.

[remote shoal]

But if I am using blendshapes won't there be limitations to the way the eyes can move and alot of more work since I have to tell the code which blend shape to use when looking right, left, up, down etc. ?

Isn't it easier to automate the movement with bones by having them parented to an empty in Unity and then not bothering with manually telling the engine which direction is left/right etc. ?

Or will there be issues with setting up the constraints if I use bones ?

As far as I understand any constraints I set in Blender for the eyes will not be transfered to Unity and I'd have to do set up the constraints via code in Unity or something like that.

[hybrid tinsel]

Your eyes are 2d shapes, so you can't just 'point them at something.' You are going to need to use SOME kind of trick to convert an angle to a position.

Probably something like getting the difference in angle between where the head is pointing and where the target is and using that difference to drive whatever you do.

[snow gust]

pls someone tell me how to do better what should i use instead

[agile solstice]

Don't use Any State, use animation layers, blend trees and sub-state machines to group up states logically

Each of them reduces the need for explicit transitions between states, and simplifies the whole state machine

[gleaming lichen]

But I thought the animations that are for exit always play on exit

So I need a transition from every animation to play this transition on exit?

[agile solstice]

What do you mean by "on exit"
Exit state loops back to Entry, or in case of sub-state machines exits that state machine

[surreal niche]

Hey, could someone give me some advice (or point me to a place where to ask) on inverse kinematics? I am using the documentation (https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/InverseKinematics.html) and so far everything has been alright
the issue is that I need to set a default pose for the avatar
how would I do that? no matter how I orient the avatar in the scene, it always ends up like this in play mode (that is without IK enabled)

[agile solstice]

Afaik that's the Avatar default pose when no animation clip is active

[surreal niche]

Isn't the T-pose the default one?

[agile solstice]

The Avatar system has its own default pose with all muscles/joints at 50%

[surreal niche]

I see, thanks

So to get the desired pose I need to rotate the joints to the pose I want and add every one to the animation clip separately?

[agile solstice]

That I don't know about
Just that the "half-fetal" posture is not wrong or weird

[surreal niche]

Okay, thanks;

[gleaming lichen]

I have a weapon switching script. I have this withdraw animation. How can I make that animation play when switching to another weapon? I thought I could just leave it on on exit because it would play when the weapon exits or gets disabled.

[agile solstice]

When switching a weapon set a condition that plays a transition to that weapon's animation state
The state machine cannot transition to a state that has no transition into it

Always read what the docs say rather than assuming things

[gleaming lichen]

So I need a transition for it to play on exit?

[agile solstice]

Yes, but there's no such thing as "on exit", at least not in the way you appear to think of it

An Animator has no knowledge of what's happening outside of it, except via Conditions

[gleaming lichen]

wait so then what is this for?

[agile solstice]

I already explained it to you earlier today
I expect you to find that explanation or do a quick google search about it
Both are a trivial effort

[fleet forge]

Hi, my player's idle animation is static and I wanted to add a jumping animation to it but I couldn't figure it out. Can someone help?

[agile solstice]

What part of it seems to be the problem?

[fallen bloom]

I know this is probably a dumb question but is there a tool that can take a 2D character animation that is only made for up down left right movement and make it so that the animation can move on 45s and other angles?

Or is that not a thing lol

Like if you don’t manually do that

[agile solstice]

If you mean to convert 4 directional movement to 8 directional, then no there's no "tool"
They're wholly new animations so you need a whole artist for the job

[fallen bloom]

Hmm

Well rip

Thank you though for answering lol

[fleet forge]

I couldn't figure out how I can play the animation once the player jumps

I've watched multiple videos but I couldn't understand

[agile solstice]

If the problem is that you "can't follow the instructions of a tutorial", frankly I don't know how to rectify that
Maybe the real problem is something more specific, but we couldn't tell

[remote shoal]

After alot of headache I've managed to rig my eyes accordingly, I need to know how in the world do I set them up in Unity now because:

1 - I want to be able to have them look at anything I want them too and dynamically move towards the point of interest and
2 - Somehow I need to set up constraints so they can't move outside the eye cage

Everything that was supposed to be done in Blender was already done, I can't set constraints in there as they will not transfer back to Unity, I've been told the rest of the work has to be done inside the Engine so I'm asking for some help here.

[snow depot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Constraints.html I have never used these before, but I'm 80% sure it's what you want

actually the behavior you're looking for is probably more complex

I would imagine that the character's head should rotate towards the point of intrest within boundary, as well as the eyes

[agile solstice]

Could use those constraints to good effect, could also use the more advanced constraints of Animation Rigging
Another idea is to keyframe the extreme pupil positions in X and Y, and put those in a blend tree

Then with some maths translate a look target position into two eye rotations, and map those rotations to eye blend tree values

maybe there's smarter ways about it out there, considering this system exists in many games, but that'd be my first idea

[remote shoal]

Yes

[hybrid tinsel]

There are lots of potential ways. You could do a raycast from the center of the eyeball to the plane of the eye surface and use that for the eye bone position. You can take the dot of the difference between the target angle and the head angle and remap that into positions for the eye bones. You could hard code positions based on zones.

You could do it entirely in screen space if you just care about the visual over accuracy.

[tawdry lava]

You can always just do 3D and use isometric view

[hybrid tinsel]

The biggest issue is that there is no single right answer when you are the one arbitrarily deciding the constraints of your stylization.

https://imgur.com/4AbZiCL Like for these eyes I am basically doing what you are; I have a single control bone for the eyes that is simply offset to 'turn' the eyes. I just normalize the target position compared to the head in screen space and then remap that to the actual distance I want the eyes to move.

[regal stirrup]

Greetings. I have been doing Unity for a little bit, but I am finally taking the jump into using 3D models. I am doing a Blender course right now on Udemy, and out of curiosity I looked up if it is better to do Animation for a game in Blender or Unity. Of course it said Unity, so I looked up some courses on Udemy, and it seems the courses are more how to do animated cutscenes and shorts, and not really how to create the animations for the character, let's say being Idle, Walking, or Jumping. Are there courses out there that will teach how to create a model with rigging set up in Blender, then work with the model in Unity? I am sorry if I am phrasing this wrong, or if this is in the wrong channel. Does this make sense what I am looking for?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, generally speaking blender has better character animation tools. You can do animation in unity, of course, though with some caveats. I dunno of any courses for it.

[regal stirrup]

None of my learning has even covered how to get these models into Unity. I am sure there is stuff on YouTube about that. I am comfortable with doing the animations in Blender and I understand it. And I know how to use Unity pretty well, just haven't worked with 3D models in Unity. I've only done pixel art. Thank you for your answer. This leads me on the right path.

[fallen thicket]

Hiya! Currently working on a project for university, I created a model in blender with two animations idle and walk. the animation tab in the inspector shows both animations (multiple times) but only one shows in the asset window. Perhaps I am doing somethig wrong?

[acoustic ledge]

Hi. I'm noticing that sometimes when I'm in the Animator window, the graph will highlight the flows of the animation while I am in playmode. And sometimes the graph does not do this! Is there a way to ensure that the graph does do this behavior? Not sure if there's a toggle for it or something.

[acoustic ledge]

Most game devs use premade animations from Mixamo.com. Not sure if that helps
But chances are if you were following a Udemy tutorial and wondering where they got their idle/walk/run animations, it was from Mixamo.

[regal stirrup]

I don't know that site. I am very new into getting into 3D and Animation. I am doing a Blender tutorial right now, but want to take the dive on the next project I am going to work on. I wasn't really good at Pixel Art is the main reason why, and kept getting frustrated. Yea, I know, if I was getting frustrated with creating Pixel Art, then what is doing 3D models going to do to me. I was just thinking ahead of how I would go about creating my own characters to use in a project. I know it is a lot of work to do it on my own, but, right now, I am enjoying the journey.

[thick orbit]

You must select a GameObject that contains an Animator, then the AnimatorWindow will show you in real time that object's Animator as it is being updated/transitions are being fired, etc.
If nothing is selected, it'll show whatever last AnimatorController you last selected/had it shown.

[acoustic ledge]

Thank you!

[formal urchin]

as you can see Default has played only once

I just copied the keyframes of the first frame of a complex reloading animation, then pasted into the m9_default anim

[formal urchin]

removed the slider transform from the animation so that I can move it in real time

but I still can't move the slider transform

like I don't know what's happening, the default anim seems to not play as a loop but I still can't move any transforms included by the animation

[formal urchin]

the animation doesn't even include that transform anymore

[surreal niche]

I need to set up a default position of an avatar in an animation clip, do I need to add every single bone to the clip separately?

[remote shoal]

I am trying that, thank you.

[hybrid tinsel]

I dunno about 'most.' I've still not actually used mixamo animations for anything except helping other people to get them working.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do any?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can move them in LateUpdate after the animator has run in the frame.

[remote shoal]

@hybrid tinsel It looks like it can't find the bones for the eyes, the names are correct though, could you have a look please ? https://0bin.net/paste/bbzB8Xon#EX73nfVdQ-CR3O6OmGnFyFoa9fzDPBXLPOw/PQ8Awg1

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure what you want me to say; congrats you found them?

I'm not sure why it matters if you don't plan to use the animator to control the eyes, but you can just manually add them.

[remote shoal]

They rotate in place, oh man.

[formal urchin]

I don't get what you mean

[remote shoal]

They rotate instead of sliding

[trim hatch]

time to use eyeballs

[remote shoal]

Right ? That's make everything easier but I don't want to use eyeballs so I need to find a way to make it work with what I have.

[trim hatch]

maybe the eyes could be further away from the bone

that rotates

so it doesn't clip

but if they're flat meshes, you'll always have problems

[remote shoal]

They're flat just like the rest of the eye cage so the should have no issues just sliding since it's just a plane with a constant angle.

[low crown]

Hi all!

How to replace movement animations via Animator Override, if there is no option to automate blend tree thresholds for new movement clips?

[acoustic ledge]

Ah okay. How do you ensure that an animation will retarget to your character properly without using Mixamo? I use it because I am worried animations will look messed up otherwise

[surreal niche]

why wont it let me change any of the values?

[remote shoal]

They refuse to move

[agile solstice]

Unity's Avatar system as well as real animation programs can do retargeting
Mixamo doesn't do anything special, it's just a simplified tool with a big standardized asset library to work with

[dapper birch]

Can someone Help Me? Why does it look so weird in Game View but good in Scene View? Looks like tearing but only in Game View....

If you look closely, it seems like the pixels get sqished in Game View...

[lean sage]

Set the scale back to 1

[dapper birch]

Looks better thanks. But you can still see that its squishing pixels. In Scene View i can zoom in a lot and dont see squished pixels…

[agile solstice]

If you zoom in scene view, it renders at higher resolution relative to your sprites
If you zoom in game view, it just enlarges the pixels that your camera is rendering with no change to resolution

Decreasing your ortho camera size would do what zooming in scene view does

The "weird lines" are a visual artifact of a point-filtered sprite at a scale that does not match the display resolution

Our monitors don't yet have infinite pixel resolution, so pixel graphics will blur or distort if not rendered at pixel-perfect scales and offsets

[tacit hazel]

Does anyone know why Idle has bigger priority? 180Turn bool gets true for a moment and animator has to choose if it will go to idle or to 180Turn but it always chooses idle

[dense magnet]

Hey! can anyone assist me with this issue please?

[agile solstice]

I guess it's because when you reverse your movement, the speed is 0 or close to 0 at that moment

[hybrid tinsel]

I use unity's retargeting mostly. Just have to make sure to use a compatible skeleton.

[whole kayak]

can anyone help me with sprite sheet animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not if you don't ask an actual question.

[whole kayak]

??

[twin musk]

hello there

how are animations done in unity the "correct way"? ive been searching alot around youtube and various other sources which made me kinda lead to the point where i only need photoshop to create 2d animations

its kinda weird for me to imagine cause photoshop is made for single photos not for animations for that i have various other tools i.e. adobe after effects adobe animate adobe character animator are they of no use for me when creating games with unity or do i miss something out?

[uncut salmon]

Have you never had a normal conversation before? If you need help with something, you need to specify what it is you're needing help with. Not give some vague inquiry.

[whole kayak]

sorry

[uncut salmon]

Depends on what you're animating and art style, really.

[whole kayak]

i need help with making a animation for my character with sprite sheet animation

[uncut salmon]

You want someone to do it for you? 🤔

[whole kayak]

No I just need some guiding

[uncut salmon]

What part are you having issues with?

[twin musk]

iam trying to replicate 2 of my simple games i made in unreal to choose which engine i gonna use long term

animations i made for unreal were created by 3d animations from adobe substance 3d painter/stager/sampler/designer/modeler then converted into 2d animations by simply letting the engine do everything else where i had no work with

[whole kayak]

well first i dont even know how to bring up the animation menu

ik it sounds kinda stupid but we all start somewhere

[twin musk]

did you read the unity documentation? all basic functionality ive found in there