🏃┃animation

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to smooth the weights more or the loops will have no real benefit. The point is to distribute the bending between multiple loops.

You would usually set that sorting in the sprite editor, because it is per-triangle. You can also use sorting groups on the sprite itself if the legs are separated into different sprites.

[limpid pebble]

Where exactly in the sprite editor?

[zealous elm]

Does anyone have a walk strafe right/left human animation that is compatible with mixamo rig?

I need it very much

[hybrid tinsel]

Doesn't mixamo have those?

[hybrid tinsel]

bottom right corner when editing bones

[zealous elm]

i saw 2 of them but they are not good

He needs something like legs interlacing

and I have something like it but im not good at animations editing so im asking if someone have those anims or maybe can edit it for me

need something like this but less arms movement and bigger steps

[zealous elm]

this anim is way too slow and when I modify keyframes, anim is not the same but it looks like some demonic character is trying to kidnap him

just the entire animation is not playing correctly and it is not armature's fault

[gleaming vector]

ok thanks. guess I have to try it out then 🙂

[vestal iris]

I'm using the starter asset pack tpp setup and I'm having a problem where my character "ducks" mid air because it starts playing the jump start anim midair. It looks like it's because I jump durung the landing animation and while in air the landing => walk transition finishes and start jump starts too late. I tried adding another transition directly from land to start, but even with it there's a time, when I can see on the graph that the highlight goes along the transition from land to walk, how do I eliminate that?

(I was playing around and I think setting interruption source to "next state" fixes my issue. need to read up on what it does)

[buoyant relic]

does anybody know why i cant edit the samples in my clip?

just isnt there

[celest crag]

you need to have a valid instanced object selected

[buoyant relic]

what does that mean?

sorry its just my first time doing ths

[agile solstice]

Then you must first learn the basics by through the docs and tutorials
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationSection.html
https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g

[buoyant relic]

the thing is im watching a tutorial on how to make a game but when i follow the guide it doesnt show the samples like it does on the video

well it doesnt show the samples in my editor

[agile solstice]

As Fogsight said you must have selected a valid object

[buoyant relic]

how do i do that?

[agile solstice]

Meaning a gameobject that has the Animator with the clip

How do you select a gameobject?

[buoyant relic]

what do you mean by that?

what i have is a prefab that has my character in it

[agile solstice]

Perhaps you should look into basic Unity tutorials, not Animation
Or just retrace your steps through the tutorial you're doing

You should at least be familiar with the concept of gameobjects and selecting, first

[buoyant relic]

ok ill try

can you try explain bcs i followed the tutorial perfectly

but for some reason it isnt showing

hold on i watched a small unity tutorial about it and found it was just an error in the animation window

so i had to edit the settings and its there now

thanks for your help

[agile solstice]

Study the docs and the guides
You need to have enough of a grasp on the basics to be able to follow our advice

Otherwise it's a bit pointless to advise

[buoyant relic]

thats fair ill do that tonight

thanks

[chilly lichen]

Hey guys, is there any way I can check if one animation on one object matches an animation on another object?

For example I have a system where I use the user's input to create an animation (MoCap or VR full body) and I want it so that the user poses like an animation already present in the system.

Is there a way I can check if those two animations are a match?

[agile solstice]

It's very difficult to programmatically compare animations per se, but you can animate an invisible character parallel to the player's body and compare their limb transform positions and rotations

[chilly lichen]

I did write a script for that, I have used a threshold for each axes however it seems like the rotation calculations might be off sometimes since the same rotation can be represented using two angles, is there a way to tackle that?

[agile solstice]

If you don't need to know the orientation of the rotation difference, then you could simply get the dot product of their forward vectors

[earnest elbow]

Anyone has this strange bug in the Rigging editor where you cannot select any existing bone? If I click and drag there is a box that goes to the top right, but I can’t actually select bones 😭

[verbal phoenix]

it somehow resets itself to 1
if anyone knows what may cause that please let me know

[agile solstice]

You're in 2022.3. LTS?

[earnest elbow]

Yes, I fixed it by upgrading to the beta 😰

[agile solstice]

Tech streams are always tricky to work in, but 2022.3. really has many issues that the recent patch didn't fix
Sprite editor did work in 2022.3.2f1 but not after that

[versed fog]

Maybe anyone knows any turorial or material about Animating over splines? What I want to do, is spawn 10 objects and line them up via spline.

How ever the information what I find, either how to spawn 10 objects without animating (aka how end animation would look like), or animate one object via spline but always until the end of the spline.

Any material would be greatly appreciated
.

[mossy crane]

I need some help. I want to trigger multiple animators on one trigger, but i do not know how to do it

[sage plover]

Im using animation rigging ik for the arms in my fps. It works great but when rotating the camera the hands delay behind the taget

nvm

[tawdry reef]

I ask myself the question but which script makes it possible to make a tail simulation in Animation Rigging?

[agile solstice]

Damped Transform kind of, but not very well
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.3/manual/constraints/DampedTransform.html
You will want some custom system for it

[tawdry reef]

Thanks, i wil try it !

[sage plover]

Atually, still need an answer to this. I thought I found a work around but It wasn't that good

[buoyant venture]

how can i make the animations in unity less smooth? I want the animations to be instant. no transitions. to make pixelated characters animation look nice

[prime tree]

Guys i have a gun model with some animations i made in blender, and i made a parent for it so i can change its position.. But idk whats hapenning it keeps changing position to another point

not in game

in game

[eager scarab]

My animations are spinning between transitions

Any idea?

Bottom right

[zinc robin]

Is there a way to play walking animation on legs only? I thought you did this with layers and avatar masks but its not doing anything?

[chilly lichen]

Does it happen when the idle animation starts?

[unreal zodiac]

would this animation be hard to make in unity (i´m a beginner)?

[twin musk]

my shooting animation doesn't play. ppl in #💻┃code-beginner said my code doesn't have issues so ig imma ask in here. I'm pretty sure the transitions are workign since the arrows are turning blue when i shoot, and the little loading bar also works. the shooting animation just doesn't play in play mode.

[graceful stream]

probably not that hard. 20 minutes?

[unreal zodiac]

have you got a good tutorial on the basics to do that?

[graceful stream]

uhhh not really, sorry. i took a unity course. if you have the money for it i suggest you do the same, it helped me a lot

[unreal zodiac]

ah shit im broke hahah

but thanks

[buoyant venture]

i try to move the bones but it makes this blue highlight how can i fix that?

i also cant parent bones

same problem like this https://forum.unity.com/threads/blue-box-in-sprite-editor-normal-functionality-messed.1460791/

[agile solstice]

2022.3. LTS has a lot of problems, nothing much to do about it
I think 2022.3.2f1 has the least issues so you could try that

Otherwise you'll have to swap major versions to either 2021.3. LTS or to 2023.1. tech stream
Always use version control or otherwise make backups when downgrading or upgrading the project

[winter lagoon]

why are his legs like that

[buoyant venture]

thanks, the 2022.3.2f1 works

[winter lagoon]

the animation seem to bug out, why

[unreal zodiac]

has anyone got a tutorial on animate that or a tutorial on how to animate in first person (in unity or blender)?

[devout rock]

I have some weird things going on with my animation, my character can't walk or move if I change the animation he uses. What would be the reason for this?

[agile solstice]

If your Animator has states controlling the player's Transform position, then it will completely override it
The visuals of your objects, including animated character meshes should be parented under the gameobject that controls movement

[devout rock]

Oh, so if the animation controls his position, he won't be able to move?

[agile solstice]

Indeed

[devout rock]

But removing the transform might make the animation not work correctly.

[agile solstice]

I'm not sure what you mean by that

The Animator and the character's model can be on a child gameobject to the character's logic components

[devout rock]

Do I put it on his bones or his mesh?

[agile solstice]

No
You could move the whole shebang to be a child under another gameobject which would get all the logic parts like colliders and movement

The hierarchy relations of bones, mesh and Animator should not change if the animations are imported

But you can change their hierarchy position together relative to everything else, by moving everything else relative to them

[devout rock]

This is the structre right now, "Armature" is his bones and everything else is his mesh. The parent that contains all the data doesn't have mesh or bones or anything. I don't get what moving it would do.

[devout rock]

Is this okay or what should I do.

[agile solstice]

Well, the mesh will require bones at a specific hierarchy position to work, and so will the animator
You can't move those three relative to each other without breaking stuff, but you won't have to
If your Animator was on your character gameobject that also had logic components meaning colliders, movement, input, whatever, and prevented it from moving, then you only need to create an empty parent for the Animator gameobject and move every logic component to that empty

[devout rock]

So I need to create a new object that contains all his data and the animator and input?

[agile solstice]

Your character would have all necessary components on its gameobject, except the animator
The animator would be on a child gameobject, together with mesh and bones

[devout rock]

The mesh and bones would have to be children of my new object?

[agile solstice]

No, they should be under the Animator gameobject exactly as they were

That relationship cannot be changed

[devout rock]

They can't, unity won't allow the main parent to not have the animator.

Should the new object house the animator and nothing else?

[agile solstice]

Won't allow? That doesn't sound right

[devout rock]

Yeah, the script i'm using forces it to need to be the highest object I guess.

[agile solstice]

What script?

[devout rock]

The input for the keyboard controller.

Or one of those.

[devout rock]

This is what it keeps telling me.

[agile solstice]

I don't know what components you are using or what specific setups they require

It could be intended to be used with root motion which to my knowledge doesn't override the root transform position entirely

[devout rock]

I'm using this: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/3rd-person-controller-fly-mode-28647

[graceful stream]

if i have an animation that moves both arms, and an animation that moves only one arm, can i have the seperately moved arm ignore the animation that's moving both arms?

[crimson bison]

Is there anything that negatively sticks out from this stabbing animation?

[winter lagoon]

why is every ANIMATION BUGGED

[agile solstice]

You have not given any information to work with
Where the animations are from, for example

[winter lagoon]

ripped em from the titanfall 2 game

but animations from mixamo bug out too

from every model

[agile solstice]

We can't help you with ripping problems here

The rigs look too different to work with human animations anyway

[prime tree]

Guys i have a gun model with some animations i made in blender, and i made a parent for it so i can change its position.. But idk whats hapenning it keeps changing position to another point

not in game

in game

[chilly lichen]

Hey guys, is it possible to extract proper eulerAngles for each axes for an armature rotation? For example, I have this right arm here

When I rotate it on the x-axis, the other two axis y & z seem to enter a gimbal lock which makes it difficult to determine which axis is actually rotation it forward

[blissful patio]

Should i try and rig my 2d character that's always standing still or is there an easier way to do this asides from rigging? I'd like for it to play a random animation if the player clicks on it, upon clicking id like to have a sort of retaliation effect where the hands torso head legs etc. move slightly.

[bright spear]

When I import an animation from my Blender model into Unity, it does this weird jitter a couple times. This only happens when I use the avatar I created when importing the arm mesh. When I just import it and just leave it as it is, it works fine.

I'm importing an animation in a separate file from the base mesh

[devout rock]

How would I use that?

[agile solstice]

You'd want to first research what root motion exactly is
Then how Unity deals with it

[devout rock]

The thing is, I need the character to be able to move. He needs those extra transforms on his animation so all his bones will move. Is there some way it can move those transform positions relatively as he moves?

[twin musk]

anybody have an idea as to why the animations just stop working after importing the animation from blender into unity? everything worked perfectly up to the point where i imported the shooting/gun animations into unity and the slide doesn't move back in preview mode nor play mode. The code has no errors, I've checked with multiple people

gun just stays in the idle pose permanantly

[eager meteor]

a very simple question yall I am sure...is there any way to remove a read-only attribute from an animation? I have an asset I imported from the Unity store, but there are not colliders and I wanted to animate one with it

[agile solstice]

Duplicate it with ctrl + D in the project window and you'll get a clip that can be modified

The read-only one is embedded in the imported mesh asset and can only be changed through mesh import settings

[vagrant swan]

hi guys, do you know how can I replace the Animator Override Controller so that it becomes the default controller with the displayed animations in it?

[agile solstice]

Controller and Override Controller are different assets for different purposes, I don't think you can really transmute one into another
Why not simply use the Override Controller you have?

[terse vale]

Why is it that when I insert an animator controller into the animator, the character half falls under the platform?

without animator controller

[agile solstice]

It either has no animation to play or the animation is not Humanoid-compatible

[bright spear]

in my animator controller, my shooting animation is only halfway playing? I know it's not the animation itself, as it looks fine outside of the animator.

ok so it looks like if I set the animation to loop, it plays fully on the second loop

[agile solstice]

It could be that your transition to shooting has a duration that takes up a part of the animation
If you're working with sprites, transition blends will not show at all, and only the sprite with the most influence will be displayed

[bright spear]

I'm doing this in 3d, could the script used to play the animation be the issue? I'd assume not as I can tell it's wrong in the animator preview window

I have fixed it

[agile solstice]

What did you find?

[bright spear]

I had transition duration set to 0.75, which my animations don't need

[jovial ruin]

hey i was wondering how do i open the rigging menu

with the bones and the like

[agile solstice]

You may be thinking of humanoid avatar configuration

[jovial ruin]

im not sure

this thing

[tacit warren]

i dont know why but sometimes when i jump up and land on that platform the jump animation dont transition to fall then to idle or running

nvm i found out the problem it was the ground check

[agile solstice]

That's the 2D animation package's sprite editor

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@6.0/manual/index.html

[jagged ruin]

pretty cool animation actually... since you asked for critique though.. i find the head movement (first person camera) to be a little jarring -- could be your intention, idk

[hoary knot]

WHY DOES THE ANIMATOR KEEP RESETTING

i make some transitions, save it, open the project again and everything is gone

including the parameters

[snow depot]

Every once in a while, these animated characters' hand bones will snap to this strange position, and I have no idea what the problem is.
No animation that I have has the bones set to these position, not even in the model's default pose. At no point in my code am I manually setting bone positions. Has anyone else ever encountered this?

I don't even know what context would even be relevant. Animator settings? Layer settings? Animation data?

[snow depot]

@solar cometuncheck "has exit time" in the PlayerWalk->Idle transition

[hybrid tinsel]

Do your animations have any import errors? It could be a euler/quaternion conversion issue in the import, or a problem with interpolating between animations.

Is the flipping of the bones visible when viewing the animations in the animation editor?

Or only in play mode?

[snow depot]

those idle animations are either 1 or 2 frames in duration, so I'm skeptical of import error. I'll check again later, but they seem to play only in play mode

It seems to happen regardless of the current animation. I only showed idle animations, but you can see it happens regardless of clip

[hybrid tinsel]

If the animations are shorter than the transitions between them, that could be causing issues.

[bright gale]

animation play properly when game isnt running but dosent when game is running

[bright gale]

i also got no idea what this is the forums dont know either it seems

[snow depot]

do you have old animation behaviors attached to your clips?

[snow depot]

also, there's a chance a script is interfering

[bright gale]

weird thing is there is one on the other side of the platform and that one worked properly and it was coppy and pasted only thing changed was the transform but now both dont animate properly after i reastarted the editor

i turned off everything ecept the animator in the inspector and its the same

ima test it in a blank scene

yeah it does it too in a new scene

yeah i reanimated it and the left doors still dont move when scene is playing

oh im an idiot

the mesh was set to static for some reason

thanks probuilder combine mesh button

[drifting lotus]

Hello, i'm having some trouble using Mixamo animations on a model. This is the model, but when I give him any kind of animation he adopts a weird position

In mixamo works fine, but the real fbx cannot have any animations

Somebody knows what to do?

I can get the same position while in Muscles & Settings tab, but i don't know if that means something

[agile solstice]

This suggests the animations are not humanoid-compatible

That's the default pose when there is no animation or it can't be displayed for whichever reason

[harsh basin]

is there any Character rig animation (Character rig package) basic tutorials from some site or youtube?

And I don't know much animation and animator. I want to learn basics of Animation and Animator.

[autumn river]

Does anyone know how to transition smoothly between animator layers? I can’t find a way to blend it

[bleak arrow]

How can i make a character who has apply root motiom move along platforms as child? Or any other method??

[timid prism]

How do I animate the parameter that is a float with curves? All I see is keyframes on the animation timeline.

[agile solstice]

I think you probably can't
But you perhaps could store multiple curves in a script an lerp between them using property or properties that you can keyframe
Why do you need to?

[timid prism]

I just want to have very specific acceleration/easing camera which follows the path. The path values are 0-1, and I kind of need precise curve handle tweaking to achieve that easing.

It is on cinemachine track. I am fairly new to animation in unity.

I can definitely remap my linear keyframe on some new curve component.

I just don't know the workflow

[agile solstice]

Animations themselves can map any keyframed property to a curve, or multiple if blending between animations

[hybrid tinsel]

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[twin musk]

low poly link

help NONE of my gun animations work ive been stuck on this for at least 2 weeks now, they work fine in blender but nothing works at all when i import them into unity 😭

doesnt show any animations when pressing play in the preview window either

[unique yoke]

BEST PRACTICE FOR SYNCING ATTACKS WITH ANIMATION?

In fighting games, you can divide an attack's frame data in three stages:
a) Startup: The time until the attack's hitbox activates
b) Active: The time the hitbox is enabled and remains active
c) Recovery: The time it takes the character to return to idle

So far i've been coding the attacks for my 2D characters using a scriptable object to define an attack's frame data, and a timer to trigger each phase, using the scriptable object's values. In this case, animation is not really tied to the attack's mechanics, and syncing must be done with manual measurements.

However, I recently discovered Animation Events, and those can be used to trigger the hitbox and other relevant events from the animation itself. And so, to change the durations of each phase of an attack, you must move around the frame order.

I'm just starting with this system, working on simple attacks. Both seem to work fine, however, would you say using Animation Events is a much better way to go?

[finite shuttle]

Hey, is there any way to call a function when a property is changed inside an animation key? For example, I have created this custom script and I set its "Mask" property on an animation. I would like to automatically send the mask property to the material once its value is changed on a key. Is there any way to do that?

I.E as if this property was set in code

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use animation events, or you can actually keyframe the hit boxes.

[unique yoke]

what would 'keyframing' be? :x

[hybrid tinsel]

Um, you know how animations work in general, using keyframes? You can add keyframes for nearly anything that can be serializedm including hitboxes.

[candid kelp]

Any improvemetns I could make

open it in preview since the tape on one of the frames blends in with discord

[shut axle]

I have an animation where the gameobject's Z rotation is set to a specific value (steady throughout the entire animation). When I reset it, though (setting the bool parameter to false), the rotation seems to be kept during other animations (which don't change the rotation). Isn't the rotation supposed to be reset since the animation is over? What's going on?

[bleak cypress]

Is there anyway with the AnimatorController to make a transition only fire if enough time has passed?

IE:

A->B, if condition is met (someVar == someVal)
A->C, if just enough time has passed sitting in the A state

Basically I am setting up an attack combo system (purely visual, each attack does the same thing) but Id like to make it such that they go back to idle if they dont continue to be in the attack state

Also is there any better way to browse this menu at all? Any other way I can select specific animations?

I have over 100 animations for my character, scrolling through this list is agonizing >_>;

[rough wolf]

I imported this PSD character to Unity, and it looks bad in Unity:

while it's ok on gimp

why?

[candid kelp]

Set filter mode to point no filter and compression to none

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity has three official IK tools, one of which is built in(mecanim IK) and two of which are in packages (animation rigging package and 2d rigging package)

[hybrid tinsel]

Add a timer to your script and have it send a second variable to the animator?

[lilac zephyr]

when i import animations on armature, all bones have keyframes even those which arent actually animated in blender
how to do this to clear that thing? this destroys my car animator xD
maybe idk some export function in blender or import in unity? something easier than manual clean up

[lilac zephyr]

okey i found it XD

nevermind

[bleak cypress]

"with the animator controller" was the key part, I wanted to sanity check Im not re-inventing the wheel if I do it with a script, if the animator has a way to do such a thing already built in

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, technically if you have a second transition with an exit time, that can work. If I understand what you're trying to do.

[rough wolf]

thank you

[hybrid tinsel]

No to both for the built-in, but yes for the other two.

While using the animation window or timeline, by default.

[candid kelp]

also if youre going to make a game with pixel art i suggest you look up presets

[rough wolf]

Also why does this "round" the edges or something? This is the skinning editor

[candid kelp]

change the sprite to full rect

[rough wolf]

Uhm... it's already full rect

Oh I fixed it in some way

[hybrid tinsel]

The skinning editor isn't really designed with pixel art in mind. You can just edit the shapes though.

[bleak cypress]

Lets say I wanted a 0.5s "grace window" for where it will switch from A->B if the conditions are met (and A has completed and is "waiting"), but then if 0.5s is up it will auto swap A->C instead

What would that look like?

[pine badge]

I wonder if i should ask about DoTween here
Anyone familiar with DoPunch? In my experience it's not affected by SetEase? Altho nothing says that in the docs

How would one edit the ease for DoPunch then?

[exotic garden]

Hi folks,
Does anyone know to to export .anim to FBX ?
I've tried FBX RECORDER, but the result is totally broken :/

[magic tundra]

hello guys, I wonder if there's a way change the default unity rotation space from local to something else. I have 2 animation layers, one for upper body another for the lower body, and the hip bone rotates the spine a lot, I need to stabilize it

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you counting that .5s from the start of the state, or...?

[bleak cypress]

end of animation A

[deep oxide]

i have an animation controller and a script setup to control the animations that play when an enemy detects a player, the problem is that the animations aren't playing and I dont know why. If anyone could help me out, here's my setup:

    {
        enemyAnimator = GetComponent<Animator>();

        enemyAnimator.SetBool("IsIdle", true);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (FOV.canSeePlayer)
        {
            enemyAnimator.SetBool("IsIdle", false);
            enemyAnimator.SetBool("IsWalking", true);
        }
        else if (!FOV.canSeePlayer)
        {
            enemyAnimator.SetBool("IsWalking", false);
            enemyAnimator.SetBool("IsIdle", true);
        }
    }```

[oak comet]

51235

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have the object selected in the scene view?

Or did you just select the animation from the project files

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have conditions set on the transitions? And is your if statement actually triggering at all?

[deep oxide]

yes and yes, also the problem has evolved quite a lot since i posted

let me pull up the project

@hybrid tinsel right now my gunner has an animator with the controller and avatar assigned, but the problem is that animations aren't playing even if the controller says they are. I checked the controller while running the game and it showed that the animations were definitely being triggered

the animation is also being played in the component editor, but in-game it doesn't play

i also did a few more checks and those red spheres are moving according to the idle animation when the enemy is standing there, the problem is that the avatar or mesh or whatever just isn't moving according to those. I have no idea how to fix this

[oak comet]

51235

[hybrid tinsel]

If you move the bones in the editor does the skin follow it?

[deep oxide]

yes

[hybrid tinsel]

And the animator component is on the right object?

[deep oxide]

yes

@hybrid tinsel

[outer hare]

@gusty zealot hello, my friends

[vernal hinge]

this question has probably been asked a lot, but how do i make animations feel more realistic? i understand the overall process of each keyframe and how to make arm move from point A to point B, but the inbetweens are obviously very stiff, and i feel there must be a better way than painstakingly forcing it to make it realistic by editing every single keyframe

tried searching youtube for animation workflows for unity but all i could find are blender tutorials, which id love to use but i dont have enough storage lol

[shut axle]

I change a sprite during an animation, but when it stops, the sprite is not reset back to its initial one (before the animation). Is that supposed to happen?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, that isn't really a unity question, so looking up general animation tutorials- even for drawn animation- should help.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have root motion enabled?

[shut axle]

Where do I see that?

[vernal hinge]

Was hoping unity would have some features or possible code that can be implemented to create the in-between frames

[hybrid tinsel]

In the animator component

[shut axle]

It's not enabled, no.

[hybrid tinsel]

There is no 'make animation look nice' button, no.

Sadly

[vernal hinge]

Anyways,

On the timeline, is there a way to add a starting key frame, other than making the slightest motion and just using that?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. You can directly add a key from the editor, or go to the inspector and right click on the element you want to add a key to there.

[bleak cypress]

I have the following transitions at the moment:

AnyState -> BowDraw, When "State == 5"
BowDraw -> BowIdle, When "State == 5"
BowIdle -> BowRetract, When "State != 5"

Issue I am having is I can transition from BowIdle -> BowDraw because the condition continues to be met, resulting in rapid fire ping pong between BowIdle <-> BowDraw

Is there a way I can make BowDraw transition automatically into BowIdle, and prevent it from transitioning back to BowDraw?

Like theoretically what I want is to "block" a specific transition

Note that this question is with respect to "with the animator", Im aware I could fix this with a code solution, but Im wondering if there's a clever trick with the animator itself to "block" an animation chain from "regressing" backwards when its "root" starting point comes from the "Any State" node

Like theoretically I want to add a filter so AnyState -> ignores a small handful of specific states, so it becomes "Almost every state, but not quite all of them"

[ivory plover]

heyo, i'm having a bit of a noob issue here...

So I've set up and imported a rigged character, and have set up an animator with a walk cycle blend tree, and a masked override layer for a primary attack "swing" animation.

But when I play the scene, no animations play... the states seem to be transitioning properly since the character changes pose to match the first frame of the animation that should be playing, but it gets stuck on that pose.

The weird part is... if I touch almost anything in the Animator window while in play mode, i.e. tick and untick an arbitrary checkbox, or even just move a state around slightly, the animations start playing as expected, including the override swing attack.

What am I doing wrong?

[ivory plover]

... I was in Playback mode, having naively set it in a script. 🤦‍♂️

[bleak cypress]

#🏃┃animation message

I now think I know how to do this.

Lets say I have animation A that can transition into B if "Condition is met", otherwise if enough time expires it transitions to C instead.

So lets say animation A is 12 frames long, and I want the "transition window" for A->B to be for frames 7 to 12.

I would set the A->B exit time to be 0.58 (~7/12), with the "Condition is met" conditions.

I would also set A->C with no conditions, but an exit time of 1. That way it will transition automatically to C, but only once A is 100% completed its animation.

This should achieve the results right? Is this the "right" way to do it?

[agile solstice]

I expect it could
Why not try it and report back?

I've been wondering if a transition like A>B still runs if the condition is met after the normalized time has passed, but I haven't had a chance to test it

[balmy wing]

**I created disappearing animation for first unknown image (preview in the video)

Can I in some way create the same animation, but for different gameObjects? (to not create 5 animations instead) **

[cursive hollow]

Is it possible to combine a Humanoid animation with another hand-only animation that is Generic?

[twin musk]

can anyone help me with my animation

its well

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
public CharacterController controller;
public Animator animator;
public float walkingThreshold = 0.1f;

private void Update()
{
    // Get player movement input
    float moveX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float moveZ = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
    Vector3 moveDirection = new Vector3(moveX, 0f, moveZ).normalized;

    // Check if player is moving
    bool isMoving = moveDirection.magnitude > walkingThreshold;

    // Check if player is crouching
    bool isCrouching = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftControl);

    // Set animator parameters based on player input
    animator.SetBool("IsMoving", isMoving);
    animator.SetBool("IsCrouching", isCrouching);

    // Play the appropriate animation
    if (!isMoving)
    {
        animator.SetBool("IsWalking", false);
        animator.SetBool("IsRunning", false);
    }
    else
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            animator.SetBool("IsWalking", false);
            animator.SetBool("IsRunning", true);
        }
        else
        {
            animator.SetBool("IsWalking", true);
            animator.SetBool("IsRunning", false);
        }
    }
}

}
for some reason its not playering the animation and idk how to make it work

[left berry]

We pointed you here because you mentioned that your animation is not working. Considering this is a coding question, you should just share this in #💻┃code-beginner

The whole point was that you didn't share anything to begin with

[twin musk]

bruh

I JUST WANT TO FIX IT

and whats not better than to ask ppl that can code

its unity discord you should be able to ask for help because thats litterly part of discords

[rapid surge]

Yes but we're not supposed to guess your actual problem if you don't give any detail. Like, you're sharing code, it's alright, but it doesn't tell us what you're trying to achieve and what is the behaviour that's not to tour liking

[twin musk]

ok then im trying to achive where i can walk crouch crouchwalking jumping sprinting idle animations but i think its in project settings idk tho

[left berry]

Please just share the code in #💻┃code-beginner because this is not the channel for issues related to animation in code.

[twin musk]

you know what nvm becuase they say go to animation and now back to it

[left berry]

I don't see why you would get banned, just ask a proper question this time instead of asking to ask something

[twin musk]

but i did

and they just sayd https://dontasktoask.com/\

i dont get it

so illl just give up

[rapid surge]

You just said "can someone help me" that's why they answered you this

[twin musk]

oh so how do i say it then

help me what way

[rapid surge]

state your question

[left berry]

There's no point arguing. This was send because you're not providing details. "can anyone help me with my code pls" and "my player animator isnt well animationg" whilst providing 0 context is not a good question. Please read #854851968446365696 -> "Asking questions" and we can help you if you actually share the code.

[rapid surge]

what's the problem and all

[twin musk]

ohhh

ok

[autumn pilot]

guys when i animate my player and i click on play the player doesn't have like the animations of right and up, can someone help me?

[sacred tapir]

How do i make the current animation stop before transitioning to another? i have checked exit time and it still doesent work, the player just stays in an awkward position when he switches from running to idle

[sacred tapir]

he's supposed to be straight up but he's tilted like that to the side from the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have write defaults on?

[twin musk]

Anyone here do procedural animation?

I'm kind of stumped on how to approach movement animation in my game

On one hand I can't reasonable animate a walk cycle through code. But on the other, how am I supposed to handle stuff like crouching without IK? No way I'm making like 30 animations for all of the combinations of crouch and stand movement

I currently use IK to put my character's hands on the gun

I downloaded some shit from mixamo and but it looks so god damn silly

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/377316629220032523/1137113059379396698/2023-08-04_13-00-47.mp4

I did set a mask so it only affects legs. Everything except legs here is code animated.

Why they jiggle like that

[sacred tapir]

What do you mean?

[fleet osprey]

Hey so im new to blender and I am having some problems. So I imported a model and already animation into unity and then I think I added a second layer of animation to it that randomizes the vertices that I made using AnimAll tool. The problem is when I import it to unity the random vertices animation dosen't work. Im complelty new to this stuff so I have no idea what im doing and just want some help. Thanks!

[agile solstice]

only object transform and armature transform animation is supported by fbx

[fleet osprey]

How can I import a vertices animation to unity?

[digital lantern]

I'm generating some animation in unity so they're just anim files, I'd really like to attach curves to these like curves you can normally stick on fbx anims... any idea how this is doable?

[agile solstice]

Generally you don't
exceptions are shape keys/blend shapes, the alembic format and vertex animation textures

[drifting lotus]

Anybody knows how to remove this animation interpolation?

The attack animation's sprites are in a wrong position, to fix it I changed the Position attribute but it gets interpolated with the first sprite

[oak comet]

51235

[sacred tapir]

How do i make unity wait for an animation to finish playing before playing another

[drifting lotus]

You can set a timer (with coding) and a transition condition that activates with that timer

[sacred tapir]

but if i made a timer wouldnt the time waited be specific? Isnt it variable as the player can change between animations whether there's 50 frames left on the animation or 5

[drifting lotus]

What do you mean? You want to lock the animation till "is ready" to change?

[sacred tapir]

i want it to change animations the moment the current one ends

[drifting lotus]

"Has Exit Time" option will solve your problem

[sacred tapir]

@drifting lotus Here is the problem, when the animation changes to idle the player stays in an awkward position from the running animation, or is it a problem because it forcefully stops the animation when there is a condition?

idk

and i have exit time on

[drifting lotus]

That happens to you with the code? Or just with manually checking / uncheking bool conditions

[sacred tapir]

the player runs when the speed float is higher than 1

[drifting lotus]

For some reason when manually changing bool conditions it will ignore the exit time

[sacred tapir]

changing the speed via code will solve it ?

[drifting lotus]

No no, im talking about something else

Maybe can you send a photo of the akward position?

[sacred tapir]

heres the video, the player is just stuck at an awkward angle

[drifting lotus]

Your idle animation only changes the position up and down

It never touches the rotation

So it won't mind if the rotation is the right way

Recording the rotation in the idle animation should fix the weird angle

[sacred tapir]

Oh thanks, never thought of that sorry for wasting your time :p

[drifting lotus]

Worked?

[sacred tapir]

idk im trying it

it worked, once again thanks for helping : D

[magic tundra]

You can just create a crouching blend tree for thelower body, and for the upper body use custom made animations like walking, idling, etc. You can go fully-procedural, it's possible. In my project, I have a full-body character with procedural idle, walking and jumping animations in combination with mixamo anims for the legs and pelvis

[magic tundra]

for someone who will encounter the same issue - it's not possible out of the box, the only way is to rotate the spine procedurally so it looks stable 😔

[obsidian shoal]

guys idk wjy but my animations arent working properly the player moves around.
https://screenrec.com/share/t3ungKSZ5P

[hybrid tinsel]

The real fix would be what fankulaa said AND fixing the pivot position in the sprite editor instead of using position keyframes.

[drifting lotus]

Wdym?

Which animations should be visible?

[twin musk]

@everyone

i have my animation set up but i dont know how to attach it to the model

[uncut salmon]

@twin musk Do not ping usergroups or anyone not in a conversation with you, it's obnoxious.

[twin musk]

Ok

[harsh patrol]

Question, but is it fine to use a model with unused bones? My main character model has a backpack, holsters, and other secondary objects that are all rigged. But I also have a version of the model without those things. In Blender, I just share the skeleton between the two because it's easier, but I'm unsure if there is a cost to doing this in Unity.

[hybrid tinsel]

There is a minimal cost.

Like, it isn't free but unless you take it to an extreme it is unlikely to be an issue.

I believe that unity defaults to culling bones with no skinning weights in the model, as well.

[harsh patrol]

That's handy if that's the case. Thank you for your answer!

[hybrid tinsel]

(If not, there is an option to do so in the importer.)

[digital bison]

hey guys, I need help with my animation, I have a crowbar that has an idle state, a pickup animation and a use animation ( the use one is not implemented yet ) and the problem is, the animation and transitions between pickup and idle loop when the conditions is triggered ( I use a trigger condition, there is no loop on animations and use multiple combinations of has exit time with the transitions ) but I only want my animations to happen once and get back to the default state, I searched the internet and the solutions wouldn't help, what should I do?

[tough orchid]

When I click on the model in the project window and expand it, and click the animation from the expanded part, it is different from the animation when I click on the model, go to the inspector window, and click on the animation from the clips. What is causing this discrepancy?

[misty echo]

is there a way to add an aiming animation without animations if that makes sense

[twin musk]

Yes

It’s called procedural animations @misty echo

You can look tutorials for it

[twin musk]

You do it by code

[summer fjord]

can anyone help me with adding walking animations to my character

[misty echo]

i got it thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Probably, if you had specific questions.

[summer fjord]

My character has a rigidbody, I already rigged it and made animations. I just need help figuring out how i can set up an animation transition for whenever its moving

[agile solstice]

You wish to know how to make transitions in general?

[summer fjord]

I need to know how i can make it to where if i dont move, it plays the idle animation and if i do move, it plays the movement animation

[agile solstice]

You'll probably want to make a transition between the idle and move states, with a parameter such as a float as the condition, set from code by speed

[summer fjord]

I made a bool parameter to detect if its moving or not

I just dont know how to make the script

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.SetBool.html has an example

[twin musk]

so i noticed @everyone that when i try to input my animation it says that it is missing the hip bone but i am using mixamo for it so idk whats wrong

[lean sage]

thanks for trying to ping the entire server, that really is something that 20k people must know immediately

[uncut salmon]

#🏃┃animation message

🤦‍♂️

[hybrid tinsel]

Don't ping people for random stuff. If they know the answer they will respond.

[hybrid tinsel]

Of course it can do it.

Change the offsets of the animation clip

Or, of course, use a 'turning walk' animation clip

Or use a second track with apply scene offsets enabled

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems odd. Break it how?

[hybrid tinsel]

I feel like you have to be doing something wrong there, but it has been a while since I've needed to do anything like that and I don't have unity handy to check

[hybrid tinsel]

The easiest thing to do would probably be to just use a character controller plus the recorder to record a clip of the character walking wherever you want it to.

[celest remnant]

Hey,
I've created an animation that I've set to "Play Automatically"

But when I start my game nothing happens ?

they say rotation (missing)

[agile solstice]

@celest remnant Don't use Animation component
missing means there is no gameobject named clavicle_r to be found at the expected relative hierarchy path

[celest remnant]

What should I use ?

[agile solstice]

Animator

[celest remnant]

If I have already an idle animator on my player, should I use animation rigging then ?

even if the second animator is on a child game object ?

[agile solstice]

"Animation" component is a legacy predecessor to Animator
Animator component finds the animated transforms hierarchically so the component or the gameobjects can't be moved around in the hierarchy
Animation Rigging works in tandem with Animator

You should not have multiple nested Animators in a hierarchy unless you know for sure that you need them to use separate animator controllers

[celest remnant]

so what should I do if I need to activate an idle animations on my character and an animation on my arms when I hit something?

[agile solstice]

I'd use Animator's animation layers

[celest remnant]

Thank you !
But now I want to start the animation only when a event is triggered

I’d start the animation when a bool is true

But then how can I set the bool to false after one loop?

[agile solstice]

You could set it to false immediately, or use a trigger which is basically what you're describing

"Has Exit Time" transitions happen automatically so you can have make the state return to idle that way

[celest remnant]

I can set it to true, and in the line which is just under a set it to false?

[agile solstice]

"line" in what context?

[celest remnant]

anim.SetBool(true)
anim.SetBool(false)

like that

in the code

[agile solstice]

I'm not sure if the false overrides true when called this quickly, but if it does use SetTrigger instead

[celest remnant]

anim.SetTrigger("hit")
anim.ResetTrigger("hit")

like that ?

[agile solstice]

I expect that will work

[celest remnant]

    public void OnFire(){
        Debug.Log("fired");
        anim.SetTrigger("HitPressed");
        anim.ResetTrigger("HitPressed");
    }```

this is not working

    public void OnFire(){
        Debug.Log("fired");
        anim.SetBool("HitPressed", true);
    }```

this code isnt working too

hitpressed isnt set to false

[agile solstice]

It looks like the script is not being logged into console, so the method is likely not running at all

[celest remnant]

the "fire" is logged to the console

so the method is called

[agile solstice]

During Play Mode you can right click and "jump to state" to confirm the animation state itself works

I would also confirm that the Idle state has "write defaults" enabled as it looks to be an empty state, and I'd also unfold the transition Settings to see if there's something weird there

[celest remnant]

When I set manually to true, the animation is working

[celest remnant]

all is good

but it still doessnt works

[agile solstice]

Are you sure the "anim" is the correct Animator?

I'm not spotting any obvious issues

[celest remnant]

Found the issues

The Reset trigger is overrinding the SetBool

So HitPressed is never set to true

but then should I use coroutine to set the bool to false ?

[agile solstice]

Are you saying you were resetting a bool with ResetTrigger?

[celest remnant]

yes

[agile solstice]

Trigger is a different type of parameter than bool

You could try using just a trigger parameter without resetting it

Resetting is only necessary if it gets stuck on

If you need or want to reset a trigger or set a bool to false after the transition has started I'm sure a coroutine or an animation event or any other type of delayed method will work
Generally it wouldn't be necessary

Make sure not to mix bool and trigger methods though

[celest remnant]

ok thx, so I'll use coroutine

[rough wolf]

Hi, could someone explain me why these textures get "ruined" like this when I rotate the bones?

[celest crag]

You probably using pixel snapping https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@1.0/manual/index.html

[agile solstice]

Scene view's resolution increases when you zoom in, whereas game view is limited to its target screen resolution

[mortal kelp]

Hello. Do I need an animator to make something like this?

[agile solstice]

No but it seems suitable for this task

[misty echo]

guys

should my parameters be checked off

or not checked

and also

why are my animation transitions not smooth

for exmaple they just snap whne i change them

[uncut salmon]

Your parameters should be checked off if you need them checked off.

Your transitions are not smooth because your transitions are probably not blended.

[misty echo]

and I would need a Blend Tree for that?

or is there a way to blend without one

[uncut salmon]

You don't need a blend tree. You use a transition between two states.

[honest ivy]

Hi guys im making a cutscene using unity's animation timeline, I'm not too familiar with it and I have a problem I have my game object with an animator component in timeline, and whenever I add a animation to the timeline, my game object disappears from screen.

[mossy nest]

hey, so i have this animation that has a ton of keyframes (cuz mixamo) and im realizing the plater is too high up in this one animation. is there a way to just change all the y-position keyframes by an increment? i dont want to have to go through all the keyframes and adjust them manually 😅

[mortal kelp]

Trying to understand how to make it. But can't.

[hybrid tinsel]

Go into the curve editor and move the entire curve down?

[mossy nest]

you are a legend thank you sm

[agile solstice]

That doesn't really help us help you
Do you have a sprite sheet of the animation you want

[mortal kelp]

An explosion sprite sheet, yes.

[mortal kelp]

I have made color changing only.

[agile solstice]

Well, try this
https://youtu.be/FXXc0hTWIMs

[bleak cypress]

Is there any way in the Animator Controller, that I can take a big chunk of existing interconnected nodes and "move" them into a new Sub-StateMachine?

Ah copy paste works, but I have to make sure I also copy AnyState state when I paste in to preserve those ones too

[bleak cypress]

Okay new question:

Is there a way to declare an "empty" state purely that has the job of holding a "partial" if check, but it does actually do anything on its own, but then the "next" checks happen after it?

Like I have a giant swath of states that all have 4 conditions, but 2 of their conditions are all identical, it'd be nice if I could extract those 2 conditions out to 1 "empty" node than then passes off to the rest of em based on further refined conditions

Like a... switch statement

[bleak cypress]

WAIT.... O_o... does this work? How do we get that part in orange to work though?

[short thorn]

can you use something with wings like an angel/demon for example in the unity humanoid rig?

[honest ivy]

anyone know a solution to this?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. You need to make sure to include the extra bones in the avatar, and they won't be retargeted like the humanoid ones will.

[hybrid tinsel]

Set it to use scenes offsets, probably?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can indeed do that. I'm not sure what you mean by the orange stuff, though.

[bleak cypress]

As soon as it goes back to State A its going to instantly try and loop back to Empty State and just ping pong between the two

[hybrid tinsel]

make a=1 a trigger instead of a bool?

Or add additional conditions

[bleak cypress]

That defeats the point, lol

Like the core of my point is imagine what the left looks like in my example pic, except theres like... 20 of them or whatever, all of them have a=1 but then they have a variety of other conditions

But then lets say I change the logic of the a=1 part to something slightly different... just something small like "oh actually its a=2 now"

now I need to go and update that change on all 20 nodes, which is a huge pain.

whereas in, like, normal code I can do

if ( a == 1 ) {
   if (b == 1) { ... }
   else if (b == 2) { ... }
   else if (b == 3) { ... }
   ....
   else if (b == 20) { ... }
}

And if I change that logic for a == 1 to something else, it is 1 single change, not 20

Basically what I want is for my state to transfer from State A to Empty State only if it will then successfully transfer to one of states B through n

if it would not be able to transfer a "second" step out, it wont go to Empty State in the first place

Like what I want, theoretically, is for Empty State to not be a "real" state, its purely syntatical sugar that merely adds its own Conditions onto all "sub states"

Another good example of this, in terms of like another game is the concept of "Chain Signals" in games like Factorio / Satisfactory.

Effectively, I am imagining a "Chain" state (that it itself cannot be "hit", it just carries a signal).

The result would be that the right behaves exactly the same as the left. If you have a=1, b=3, it wont change state from State A

The big key is, if I change a=1 to a=2 on the right on, it updates for both, so if I actually have like 20 things and not just 2, I dont need to go and update the conditions on 20 items, I just update the 1 spot

[hybrid tinsel]

Right, you can absolutely do that.

[bleak cypress]

Aight, Im listening 😮

[hybrid tinsel]

The problem comes when adding in a return state with no conditions from the second state to the first.

[bleak cypress]

?

[hybrid tinsel]

What you show in your more recent diagram is easy. It is the extra bit in the previous diagram that is trickier.

[bleak cypress]

well the more recent one is the goal effectively

I was pondering in the earlier pic if that was the "route" to achieve the goal I describe in the latter

What way would you go about achieving the results of my pic above here?
#🏃┃animation message

[hybrid tinsel]

You can just do that, exactly the way you show in that last diagram, Just add one state with the transition to it and the multiple transitions out.

[bleak cypress]

#🏃┃animation message

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, that one.

[bleak cypress]

If A==1, B==3, it will still go to Empty State, wont satisfy my conditions with what you said

[hybrid tinsel]

'go to empty state'?

[bleak cypress]

it shouldnt leave State A for the conditions a=1, b=3

because it "lacks" the secondary state to get to

thus the concept of a "carry signal"

@hybrid tinsel imagine for both those pics on the left vs right, if you are currently State A, and A=1, B=3

[hybrid tinsel]

right

[bleak cypress]

Or do "empty states" actually behave as carry signals?

I have been presuming they dont

[hybrid tinsel]

Empty states are just a state with no animation. They still otherwise entirely behave as a state.

[bleak cypress]

will it stay on State A in the right pic? I thought it wouldnt, it would go to that theoretical "middle" state and get "stuck"

Whereas on the left pic, it does not leave State A

[hybrid tinsel]

Your terminology is all confused. If there is no transition out of the empty state for b=3, it will stay there.

[bleak cypress]

yes... I know, thats my point

thus it doesnt work

[hybrid tinsel]

If it is 1 or 2 it will go to b or c.

[bleak cypress]

yes...

Thus it doesnt satisfy my conditions

What I am talking about would be considered a "chain" state or "signal", its not an actual "real" state, its just "syntactical sugar" for your logic so you dont need to copy paste a condition 20 times

Lemme draw it like this, one sec

Note on the right there isnt a "state" in the middle

[hybrid tinsel]

Then no, you can't do that.

Because it is in fact a state.

[bleak cypress]

yeah, Ive been trying to figure out some way to achieve this "logically"

[hybrid tinsel]

Write code.

[bleak cypress]

using some kind of clever approach to the logic

even with code it doesnt seem like it will be good performance

Id have to basically write an entire new addition to the editor itself that is just a visual stand in for the left

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not sure what the problem with having a transition from the empty state back to a is.

[bleak cypress]

This one?
#🏃┃animation message

If you have a=1, b=3 it would ping pong back and forth between the two

[hybrid tinsel]

So?

[bleak cypress]

????

[hybrid tinsel]

Is that a problem?

[bleak cypress]

yes?

how is that not a problem lol, itd mess everything up lol

youd be rapidly triggering State A over and over

if State A is like your idle animation or whatever, youd keep triggering Frame 1 of it over and over

no thats terrible hahaha

[hybrid tinsel]

Anyway, it isn't that hard to write a transition by code if you need something the nodes don't support.

[bleak cypress]

yeah might be what I consider tackling

ideally I try and create my own entire custom type of node

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems like overkill.

[bleak cypress]

like effectively speaking this custom type of node simply has baked in secret extra enter condition of "one of its exit conditions is satisfied"

So you can only enter into this node, if you also can exit it same frame

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, you could just sanitize the input so that only valid choices are possible.

Or use triggers instead of bools to avoid ping ponging.

[bleak cypress]

triggers wouldnt work cuz youd have to trigger every single time you mutate

[hybrid tinsel]

mutate?

[bleak cypress]

and sanitize the input means now you need to "Track" every distinct mutation on the output and include each in "flipped" on the input

[hybrid tinsel]

You're throwing a bunch of terminology that is presumably unique to your game at me.

[bleak cypress]

like if instead if the "secondary" conditions are
B=1, C=3, F=2, H=4, etc etc... You'd now need your first "signal" node intrance to track B, C, F, H, for a "change" to refire

[hybrid tinsel]

I feel like you are almost certainly overcomplicating things.

[bleak cypress]

mutate is not a unique term to my game lol

mutate, as in a change of something from one thing to another

[bleak cypress]

Not really, this is basic stuff for signals and state machines

[hybrid tinsel]

I know what the word means. But not what you are using it for.

[bleak cypress]

"Carry Signal" is the term for what I am talking about

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, but that is not something unity's animator does.

[bleak cypress]

... I know lol

but implementing it seems like something worth the effort, but also Id be shocked if someone else hasnt done this in some way

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, fuck, just buy animancer I guess.

[bleak cypress]

the animation controller does appear to be turing complete

does animancer support carry signals like this?

it came up in my search but I didnt see anything in its information that resembled the concept

[hybrid tinsel]

No, but you won't be dealing with nodes so it won't matter.

...actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't know if it does, since he might've added that since I've last looked.

[bleak cypress]

I mean I like the state machine overall

"I like 90% of this thing but its missing a key feature or two Id like to have" doesnt mean "drop the whole thing and swatch to an entirely different architecture" :x

I havent looked into how difficult or easy it would be to add my own type of custom node to the animator controller, how sealed vs extensible it is, etc

[hybrid tinsel]

Harder than it should be, I can tell you that much from having used their node editor stuff for a different project.

The documentation is terrible

[bleak cypress]

you know of any guides that dig into how to extend the functionality?

it looks like I need to inherit from NesterState or something along those lines, and implement a custom widget for it

[hybrid tinsel]

Best of luck

[devout rock]

How can I get my animation to effect all of my characters bones? My character has a lot of extra bones that are crucial so he doesn't clip with himself.

[hybrid tinsel]

Use a generic avatar?

[heady storm]

Who is master reactor?

[violet dragon]

anybody know an easy way of animating walking,sprinting,jumping and crouching without spending like 5hours of my time cuz Im a begginer and it will still look bad

btw this is the hierarchy

[twin musk]

yeah i dont really know how to get the animations working but try using mixamo

[harsh patrol]

How would I go about getting animations between two characters aligned correctly in Unity? Like a handshake or hug?

[vernal hinge]

third track on the timeline should play an animation but the asset doesnt appear, why is that?

[tawdry wagon]

I want to animate with 2 different objects in Unity (3d), like this first object1 then object2 will move but I can't. Any video suggestions?

[twin musk]

I am a complete beginner... Why cant i name a parameter?

[agile solstice]

You've cropped out the parameter list so there aren't many clues here

[twin musk]

wdym, sorry

Nvm i see it now, thx!

[hybrid tinsel]

I dunno, but he probably run Barter Town.

[hybrid tinsel]

timeline

[devout rock]

Okay, Thanks!

[balmy niche]

moving this here from code-general, although not sure if this is the right place for scripted animation, thanks!

I'm trying to control the animation controller via script with a single blend tree that has all of the poses. Since I do everything via script, I'm using a direct blend tree with no transitions.
I noticed that values seem locked from 0 to 1 (both in the inspector and using animator.SetFloat()). Is there a way to set a negative value with direct blending (I'm using a generic rig, not a humanoid either)? The docs doesn't say anything about a limitation like this.

[dusty fern]

I'm not sure why you would ever want a negative value as an animation blend.
If you mean that there are negative values in here, that just means that Jog Backwards go from 0-1 when you walk backwards for example.
So I'm unsure what you want with this, can you explain further?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-BlendTree.html

[balmy niche]

Tthanks for the response! im actually on that page as well. In my case, the character is swimming, and I want to go between -1 and 1 for blending poses that tilt the character up/down and left/right (left/down would be -1).

here for example, it tilts the character to the right (right/up work perfectly fine, setting negative values is the only problem)

[dusty fern]

Then I would expect 4 animations, swim up, swim down, swim right and swim left, and those go from 0-1. Inverting animations is as far as I'm aware not a valid way to do things, but maybe an actual animator here can help you with that. (I normally just program)

[balmy niche]

Got it, thanks (and same for me, quite new to animation). I hoped setting the strength -1 would be able reverse the pose direction to the left or down

[balmy niche]

was able to get it work by using 2 mirrored "animations" which are just set to 1 frame long so I could use them as poses! thanks again for the help

[heady storm]

@hybrid tinselWhat is Barter Town? I don't know about that. Could you tell me more detail? I will waiting for your answer.. Anyway thank you.

[uncut salmon]

It's probably a joke because "master reactor" doesn't mean anything. What is your actual question?

[heady storm]

@uncut salmon lol. Do you know reactor using unity multiplayer engine. So I am looking for expert man about that.

[cursive hollow]

Why character back to start position?

[vapid jackal]

Hey there,

Currently working on a mod for a game (The game supports mods)
I'm looking to add a new animation to the player. I've got an animation clip from Mixamo, I'm just not sure how to add this animation clip to the controller at runtime

[hybrid tinsel]

Because you aren't using root motion, and the clip has root motion.

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on what the game supports; that's the sort of thing where you probably wanna ask them.

[hybrid tinsel]

Hm. In that case, the clip might not actually have correct motion on the root.

Root motion only works if the clip has root motion in it.

[cursive hollow]

It have - Humanoid@ClimbUp1MeterObstacleAssaultRifle_RM and Humanoid@ClimbUp1MeterObstacleAssaultRifle

i use this RM

its from Ultimate Animation Collection

[tidal echo]

I'm creating a 2D animation, which is supposed to be a looping animation like a pendulum, but when the animation is starting and ending there is a lag, I tried to convert the keyframes to auto but still its giving a bit of lag in the animation, any suggesstions how I can smoothen the animation?

Here's a reference

[hybrid tinsel]

You might have it set up incorrectly, I guess. Maybe you have the wrong root node selected?

[hybrid tinsel]

First suggestion, mute your microphone. Blew my poor ears out there.

For the animation, I'm not really sure what you mean by lag; your curves seem pretty continuous at the loop point. The motion itself vould be improved, depending on the effect you want, but you probably at the very least want to even out the shape of the curve, it is kinda lopsided.

[south anvil]

my unity crushed after I made ton of animations for UI, when I opened it again, I did not see my animations clips, even tho they are saved in my folder and when I try to open them, there are no keyframe animations at all, what the fuck?

it's literally gone?

[echo charm]

The code works well the animation states works well but the character doesn't move..

When I make the model generic, the animations work

[agile solstice]

That's the default Humanoid pose it resets to when there is no valid animation state, for example when missing motion or if motion is not set up for Humanoid avatar

[echo charm]

the animation states work

but the character doesn't animate

when I make the rig humanoid

normally, it works on the Generic model

[agile solstice]

So that seems to suggest they're not Humanoid-compatible animations, assuming the rig's Humanoid setup is correct

[narrow tusk]

I've tried to create an Animation Controller through script and saved it to the Assets Folder, but when I close and reopen Unity, the Animator tab is completely broken and doesn't show any of the states anymore :/

This is what its supposed to look like...

Or, at least, that's what it looks like when I initially generate the Animation Controller

[vapid jackal]

The game just injects third party .DLL files and assetbundles, modders have all the freedom

[brisk flax]

hello can anyone help me with my animations

I would like my anims to play only when my player is moving

[hushed phoenix]

I need some opinions. My game involves a top down player like this. I can animate it using 2d skeletal rigging. But I am concerned about other animations. Like for reloading, this same character image sprite cannot be used and frame animation is more suitable. So what should I do?

[agile solstice]

You have to use the techniques that are suitable, obviously

Which means you may need multiple different rigs if you want to use 2D rigging

Swapping between them, or swapping to frame animation

[hushed phoenix]

But that swap won't be smooth

[agile solstice]

You have no such luxury, unless you make smooth frame animations for every animation and transition

There's also the sprite library for swapping individual sprites of a 2D rig which is often used to create the illusion of depth or rotation in side-viewed characters

[hushed phoenix]

Hmm. I see

Thanks for the help

[agile solstice]

Another option is to do the character fully in 3D, maybe with some shader or effect to make it look less 3D
That'd give you fully smooth animations and dynamic transitions

[hushed phoenix]

It'll be so hard to model the character. Out of budget

[agile solstice]

If you have to draw multiple animations frame by frame and even make multiple 2D rigs, then it seems it's more work in total
A 3D mesh needs to be built and rigged once and then it works for every type of animation with little effort
But ultimately it depends on what level of modeling expertise you have at hand

[compact plover]

hello! im trying to attach a weapon to my character. The order of the body parts are defined in the skinning editor, they are fine. But when I attach a weapon to my player, I want the weapon between the front arm and the torso. I only can put the weapon in front or behind the entire player. Any tips? Thanks

Changing the Order In Layer of the weapon does not work

[tidal echo]

Apologies, I wasn't aware about the mic being recorded at max,
Coming towards the animation, I could see a half a second jerk at the end and start of the animation, I read about the warp mode in unity "pingpong" "Loop", but I dont see these options in my animation clip.
Yes the curves are pretty smooth, idk if adding more keyframes will help.

Thanks for the reply. Apologies again

[hybrid tinsel]

Depending on the type of animation, you can get a pretty good idea as to the sort of curve shape you want. The one you have now is extremely lopsided, like there's a strong directional wind or something.

For a basic pendulum motion, I'd start with a sinusoidal curve and adjust from there for feel.

[tidal echo]

Oh okay, I can understand a little bit, I will try it with a Sine shaped wave.
Again much appreciated with the feedback, will get back to you soon with some output 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

That's just a good starting point; it will be functional but boring. But from there you can adjust things a bit to add a bit more life to it.

[compact plover]

next to Bone tab, should be a Sprite tab, right?

[normal basin]

why is my sprite turning green for a single frame in my animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[vestal iris]

I'm trying to implement a simple combo , I have 3 animation state melee1 melee2 melee3 and 3 boolean animaition parameters with the same name. I count key presses within a time window and set the parameters accordingly. And I though I can reset them with:

        var animState = _animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(1);
        var c = animState.shortNameHash;
        if (c != _animIDmelee1 && c!= _animIDmelee2 && c != _animIDmelee3) {
            Debug.Log($"{Time.frameCount} out of state, setting false");
            _animator.SetBool(_animIDmelee1, false);
            _animator.SetBool(_animIDmelee2, false);
            _animator.SetBool(_animIDmelee3, false);
            meleePresses = 0;
            //_meleeButtonTimer = meleeButtonWindow;
        }

This doesn't work. Seems like my bool params get reset back to false before the animation plays out, I was expecting, if I set all 3 bools to true, they would stay true until the last animation state finishes. Does this approach even sound right for this problem?

[vestal iris]

It looks like after setting the a bool param that initiates the transition, I get about 30 frames when the current animator state is NOT in that state, and only after that it reports the correct state. Looks like the animator doesn't consider being in the target state for the duration of the transition?
(even though it looks like it is in the animator window)

[vestal iris]

checking for !_animator.IsInTransition && .. solved it.

[exotic garden]

Hello,
Do you know if there is a way to mirror a clip animation ( a grab animation) done within timeline unity) ?
There is a "mirror" check box but it doesn't seem to work.

[vestal iris]

not sure what you mean by "mirror"? you can probably set animationspeed to -1 (I'd guess that's what the mirror checkbox is doing) if you mean mirror like left vs right hand than probably no.

[exotic garden]

It's more left vs right.
Finally it's seems to work with the following method :
duplicate the animation clip and paste negative value inside timeline keys.

[misty echo]

Why doesnt my animatior tab update

[foggy isle]

How can I select a bone? I tried left clicking it but it doesn't work. The left click drag also doesn't seem to work... Is this a bug with unity?

[rough wolf]

Hi, this is my game and I'm trying to add a particle effect to simulate a "smash" on the soil. Is there any way I can make the particles have the same colors of the soil without creating a single particle effect for each type of soil? For example, the particles should be green if the soil is green (grass), grey if the soil is grey (stone) etc

[hybrid tinsel]

You can set the color per particle.

[grand ruin]

anyone know why my character gets deformed when he starts to do a running animation?

ignore the obvious issue with teh clothes, focus on the legs and torso

as compared to the base model:

[grand ruin]

nvm, I figured out it was because I forgot to apply the scale in blender

[tidal marsh]

as you see I am manually selecting all and moving it one to the right and then repeating with 1 less selected (to put a gap between all the single diamonds) is there a faster way to do it?

like a way to automatically put a gap between then with size 1 2 or maybe 3

[uncut salmon]

If you select them all, you can drag the edge of the selection to scale the group.

However, if your intention is to slow down the entire animation, you can just decrease the sample rate.

[grand ruin]

Does anyone know why my model's arm has those stretching artifcat thingys

[valid rover]

Anyone know how to get a objects base mesh to update as an armature animation plays? Pic below shows what I mean

[agile solstice]

You'll want to use primitive colliders attached to the bone transforms to approximate the collision shape

Otherwise you'd have to call a method to recalculate the whole collision mesh every frame the skinned mesh deforms

[grand ruin]

Anyone have any ideas? I don’t really know much about the specifics of what’s going on so something like this is a bit hard for me to figure out

[valid rover]

Do you know how I could somehow grab the result of a skinned mesh deformation?

The best I can guess if from the skinned mesh renderer component

[agile solstice]

You sure you can't use primitive colliders instead?

[valid rover]

It's a 3d mesh so no

[agile solstice]

Primitive colliders are 3D also
They're what pretty much every game out there uses for skinned mesh collisions

Even if there are ways to generate new mesh colliders at runtime, the generation is an expensive process and the mesh colliders themselves are expensive to do physics on as well, and there's no simple way to reduce the polycount of the collider
Which is why I want to triple-check that you really can't use primitive colliders for this

[valid rover]

Unfortantly not, the mesh I am working with is a bit of an odd shape and a primitive sphere collider isn't going to cut it

Also there's going to be blendshapes aswell

[grand ruin]

Could you use multiple sphere colliders or no?

[agile solstice]

You can use multiple primitives of any shape together

https://discussions.unity.com/t/collider-on-skinned-mesh/12114
There are multiple solutions here, but none of them are recommended

works as a charm! and slow as hell as expected.

[fallow sun]

Think of it as a merry-go - round. I have a pole coming down the center of the platform and horses all around. Now I want to animate a rotation.. I have all objects in an empty as one grouping. Open up Animation and it is rotating on the edge of my empty.. Not the center. How to I fix this?

[agile solstice]

When you animate an object to rotate, it will rotate around its transform component, which for meshes is also the mesh pivot/origin, always relative to parent gameobject's transform
To see the pivot when selecting objects make sure the tool handle position is set to "pivot"

[fallow sun]

Thanks I thiink it was, but I will check again

[agile solstice]

You can animate an object to rate around its center point or any other point, but it rarely works well

Because the position will also have to be keyframed to perfectly compensate for the rotation's origin

That doesn't really work with any animation curves or blends

[fallow sun]

Yep. That is what I am up against. Will take a lot of keyframes

Not imperative to my design, but would love to solve.

[agile solstice]

If you need a rotation animation around a specific point it's often best to have a parent transform specifically as an axis of rotation
But also keyframes aren't really great for continuous spinning motion anyway since they're required to have clear start and end rotations, so it's often for the best to make the transform spin using scripts instead

That'd avoid the trouble of altering animation hierarchy as well, if you're already deep into it

[fallow sun]

Thanks. It is a learning curve for me! LOL

[feral falcon]

i cant adjust the samples of my animation
the samples value thing is missing

[pliant tulip]

Star's idle animation

[misty echo]

why does the reload just stay full

[twin musk]

What's the recommended way to do IK based animation?

I have my own custom IK implementation

Right now I have a walk cycle for my character. I want to be able to drag my stomach (root) bone down so it turns into a crouch walk animation

And for the past few days I've been in over my head trying to figure out a way to only animate IK points

If I export an animation from blender keyframing only the IK points, it ignores that and keyframes every bone, essentially baking the animation

I've tried separating out the IK points into a separate rig in blender, animating only that rig, which has gotten some success

And I can keep tweaking it to get it to work

But I feel like if I'm in this deep trying to do something so simple then I'm doing something wrong. I'd like advice from people who have worked with procedural animation before. Thanks!

[misty echo]

@twin musk why dont you try to set up IK in unity

so you export the skeleton fully rigged

wihtout the IK

then watch this video on how to set it up in unity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl7ysv10Qs&t=752s&ab_channel=Brackeys

I know its brackeys but it helped me alot

[twin musk]

You can't "export IK". I use Blender's IK to preview the animation in blender then use my own IK implementation to get the same (almost the same) result in Unity

[twin musk]

Not using the Animation Rigging package, but will check this video out

[misty echo]

k

[twin musk]

as for this, your transition from reload back to whatever else might be messed up.

[misty echo]

Yeah idk what it is ive been messing around w it for an hour

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems like more of a blender issue than a unity one; I am pretty sure that there is a way to specify that you don't want procedural stuff baked, but that is the opposite of what most folks want so you'll have to mess with the settings.

Though in unity, for generic rigs at least, you can also specify which curves to include/exclude at import.

[keen jolt]

I think there's an export setting for that somewhere in the fbx export settings in blender

[worn lynx]

Any idea why it doesn't loop seamlessly ?

[celest crag]

Many ideas. You need to show the details to not make people guess. Show how the clip is rigged in mecanim, show inspector meta data, even animation curves perhaps.

[worn lynx]

Ok

Wait 2 sec

Just inform that animation has been made by blender

with*

[celest crag]

Static images are not helpful and you have most useful information cut off. Take a proper screen recording. You can use ShareX and I think Windows even has a built-in one I don't use...

[worn lynx]

Ok let me try

[celest crag]

Also you really should work with any tutorial explaining the workflow how it should work.

[worn lynx]

It is the first time i have trouble with it, i already made lot of animation without any trouble

[celest crag]

It's not my speciality, but I think these animations are designed to work with blend trees. Where it would naturally switch to/from idle. (And only part of the clip should be used to loop walking)

[worn lynx]

it means i need make it with unity so ?)

[celest crag]

To loop walking use the part of the clip that loops

[worn lynx]

that's what i made

from 1 to 59, it return to original position

[celest crag]

The clip has 3 parts. Start walking, walk and stop. You need to loop the middle part to continue walk cycle. Lookup tutorials how to do that or wait for someone who knows how to do that to answer.

[unborn arch]

is there a way i can fix this? the hand turns the wrong side

[worn lynx]

already tried, doesn't work 😉

[worn lynx]

i don't see it turn the wrong side, at what second of the video ?

[unborn arch]

the elbow is the wrong way

[worn lynx]

ok i saw, you should just select the elbow and not the hand

[unborn arch]

you mean place the ik on the elbow not the hand?

[worn lynx]

ik ?

[unborn arch]

inverse kinematics

its whats causing the problem

[worn lynx]

i don't use unity for animation, but blender is similar and if you want resolve the trouble, you should move on the elbow and not the hand

[unborn arch]

like i said im using inverse kinematics. im am moving the hand elbow and arm at the same time. its just that the elbow moves the wrong way

[worn lynx]

hmm sorry i couldn't help for unity^^

[unborn arch]

no worries!

[agile solstice]

Well it is the problem you're having even if your application of a solution "doesn't work"
If your walk cycle starts from idle and ends in idle there is no reason to expect that it'd loop

Not seamlessly anyway

[worn lynx]

How i can arrange that ? Starting from frame 4 ? For example

[agile solstice]

A walk or any move cycle should not include idle poses at all

[craggy hawk]

Hello everyone, I'm working on my FPS character, but I'm just a programmer I'm not really good with animations, so I have a basic animation of a humanoid character who is holding a weapon with both hands, and with the Animation Rigging asset I've been doing the IKs, in my right hand I have a GameObject that contains all the weapons available in my game, and so far everything works fine, but since I'm creating a recoil system for the weapons, I don't want the weapon to be controlled by movement of the hands if not that the hands react to the movement of the weapon by the recoil, how can I do that?

But when the character walks I want the weapon to bounce with the animation of the character since I have the ik with a weight of 50% so that it looks a little more dynamic.

[violet hawk]

@knotty leaf pivots are what determines the "center" of your sprite

So check what frames are happening when your skeleton gets displaced and look at the pivots (the blue circles) in the sprite editor window.

Your pivots need to align across all the sprites of your skeleton

[knotty leaf]

these are my currents tates. first one is while attacking, 2nd is after attacking and walking and 3rd is before starting the game

so where would i place them/how do i mvoe them?

[violet hawk]

Is your skeleton a sprite sheet?

[knotty leaf]

yes

[violet hawk]

Good

So go to the sheet and open the sprite editor

Thats the only way to edit pivots

[knotty leaf]

Omg

nvm

i take it back

it's not a sprite sheet ._.

it's teh only character thats not a sprite sheet

[violet hawk]

Usually you want characters pivots at the bottom center

[knotty leaf]

so i guess i do it by hand for every single one of them? XD

[violet hawk]

Thats scary so youll have to find the frames that are misaligned and set the pivots

Well its okay to have your skeleton pivot in the weird spot there just make sure theyre all in that spot so he doesnt move unexpectedly

So you might not have to set it for all of them

Do you use aseprite?

[knotty leaf]

no

i found the skeletons on itchio

and the only thing i used regarding sprites was the unity sprite renderer

just checked the sprites. seems that the pivots are all at different locations

should i just place the pivots for all of them on the middle of the skeleton would that fix my problem?

its not a lot of work technically

[violet hawk]

Yeah that would be best.

I like bottom center instead of middle for sprite layering reasons but middles fine

How do you handle movement behind those graves? How does your game know what sprite goes on top?

[knotty leaf]

i have differnt layers
player is above the gravestones, so it walks over them

they arent an obstacle (for now)

[violet hawk]

So what happens when player is behind the grave?

[knotty leaf]

but i think i have to give them some sort of a box collider so nobody can walk over them right?

my gf was working on that and wasnt able to "hide" the player

[violet hawk]

Well no theres actually a really cool method you can do

Lemme link you the article

https://www.sunnyvalleystudio.com/blog/how-to-sort-sprites-in-unity

and this is what most 2d games do

basically to summarize instead of sorting objects by z values it sorts them by y values so if your object is above another object in it's y value it will appear behind it and if below it will appear in front of it

only annoying thing with this is you have to set pivots for your objects carefully

but its less hassle imo than layering with z axis

[knotty leaf]

oh jesus

i think that's something that we'll tackle at the end of the game

just first making sure everything works

also quick question regarding the pivot thing: in the sprite ediotr i placed it between his feet. but after i dragged it back into the game the pivot is again at a weird location

[violet hawk]

did you click apply? also are you sure thats the same frame?

[knotty leaf]

yep to both

it also states that the pivot point is at the set location

yet displays right next to the skeleton

[violet hawk]

dont use custom pivot

I think?

[knotty leaf]

so just bottom?

[violet hawk]

because custom pivot isnt the pivot you set in the sprite editor iirc

[knotty leaf]

still dindt change anything

[violet hawk]

is you animation fixed

is it just this one frame?>

[knotty leaf]

havent changed all pivots yet

was waiting if i should change something

that's how i tried adjusting pivots

did i do something wrong?

[violet hawk]

no uhh lemme see the sprite editor of that one

[knotty leaf]

I've set them all to bottom, didnt change a thing

thats if i put them to bottom

but i think i know why the problem is occuring

is it mabye because in the attack animation it seems to be bigger?

like the sprite looks like its bigger no?

they are all 32 pixel per unit but.. that attack move is bigger ._.

[violet hawk]

as long as the pivot is right, the size wont matter, but if you are using the automatic way to set pivots it would change it. Can you record putting a skeleton sprite into the scene then change its pivot in the editor and let me see what happens.

it should 100% be changing so i need to see exactly what ur doing

[knotty leaf]

like that?

[violet hawk]

yeah see it changes so youre saying it doesnt change when?

[knotty leaf]

it does a jump for some reason

[violet hawk]

thats the pivot

[knotty leaf]

but the blue circle is still next to the skeletons head no?

i though that blue circle was supposed to move?

[violet hawk]

yeah im not sure about that it should

maybe someone else knows?

[knotty leaf]

but what are we trying to do now? If i put the pivot of every animation from center (what it was before) to bottom, is there anything supposed to change?

[violet hawk]

well initially the pivots were messed up

in the pack you got

thats why he jumped up

so play the animation

and then if its still off move the pivots of the off-frames to proper positions

[knotty leaf]

with the custom pivot then?

[violet hawk]

yeah i guess i use sprite sheets so im not used to that setting

but probably

[knotty leaf]

ok, doesnt work ._.

let me show you

[violet hawk]

right werent you going to use the custom pivots for those messed up frames?

[knotty leaf]

not sure how i would do taht tbh

besides

[violet hawk]

do you understand what a pivot is

not flaming just want to help

[knotty leaf]

in the video i changed the run animation from bottom pivots to top pivots, but the animation dindt change at all

so i thought if i change the pivot like that the animation should look different, maybe jump even more or something

[knotty leaf]

i think I'm not sure anymore

[violet hawk]

okay so go to the frames where the skeleton is moved down and youll need to lower the pivots

[knotty leaf]

so it changes from attack to walk and after the attack animation is done, it jumpes and goes back to walkin

so i need to adjust the pivots from the attack animation right?

[violet hawk]

yeah adjust them so that when the attack animation plays the skeleton doesnt jump down

[knotty leaf]

but i do leave the pivots at the same poin in the run animation?

[violet hawk]

yes, you want to change the attack pivots to match the others

your run works properly

the attack is just wrongly pivoted

[knotty leaf]

i feel so sorry for you

i'm so stupid haha

[violet hawk]

did it work

its okay i was stupid once too

im just watching some Monk and stretching my back while helping you

no worries

[knotty leaf]

nope still not working for me q-q

[violet hawk]

so to be clear you only changed the attack animation

right

[knotty leaf]

wait

i might now why

one secon

ok didnt work

frick

[knotty leaf]

es

yes*

attack animation

walking animation

[violet hawk]

move the attack pivot so it lines up, just need to find the right spot

im gonna work on my stuff, you should watch a video on pivots I dont think you understand them fully

good luck

[knotty leaf]

yeah i think

thank you for your help anyways

[violet hawk]

yeah np

[knotty leaf]

So i tried my best to fix it, looked at youtube vids and couldn't get it to work

if anyone has any idea how to fix my animation problem with the pivots please let me know

[cosmic oyster]

i have set up a 2 bone ik because that has a hint wich makes it look more natural but the thing is my shoulder doesnt move at all since it would be the third bone wich looks very unnatual. the chain ik looks even worse because it doesnt support a hint. how can i make my shoulder move aswell ? can i use a chain ik and limit the bone rotation ?

[tidal marsh]

anyone know what a trigger parameter would look like if:
that if a gameobject comes close enough with x coodinate to another gameobject that it will trigger an animation?

like what the code would look like?

I am having trouble making one

[warm prawn]

I keep getting this error. I'm trying out multi-Aim constraint in Animation Rigging

.InvalidOperationException: The PropertyStreamHandle cannot be resolved.
This Exception was thrown from a job compiled with Burst, which has limited exception support.
0x00007ffe49461860 (391666fec440dd1421194b669d7ee9c) [unknown:0] UnityEngine.Animations.PropertyStreamHandle::UnityEngine.Animations.PropertyStreamHandle.GetFloat
0x00007ffe4946733e (391666fec440dd1421194b669d7ee9c) [unknown:0] UnityEngine.Animations.ProcessAnimationJobStruct1<UnityEngine.Animations.Rigging.MultiAimConstraintJob>.Execute(ref UnityEngine.Animations.Rigging.MultiAimConstraintJob data, System.IntPtr animationStreamPtr, System.IntPtr methodIndex, ref Unity.Jobs.LowLevel.Unsafe.JobRanges ranges, int jobIndex) -> void_c8f33d8311b05a719af63ba3c6df9340 from UnityEngine.AnimationModule, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null 0x00007ffe49466b06 (391666fec440dd1421194b669d7ee9c) 94d5c1f8e5738c317ab470f74caee94d 0x00007ff701aa3e75 (Unity) ExecuteJobWithSharedJobData 0x00007ff70224df7e (Unity) AnimationScriptPlayable::ProcessAnimation 0x00007ff7021d9dc9 (Unity) anonymous namespace'::ProcessPlayableGraph
0x00007ff7021d99cb (Unity) Animator::ProcessAnimationsStep
0x00007ff7021f6038 (Unity) UnityEngine::Animation::BlockRangeJobAnimator::AnimatorJob::Job
0x00007ff701a9f56c (Unity) JobQueue::Exec
0x00007ff701a9f89e (Unity) JobQueue::ExecuteJobFromHighPriorityStack
0x00007ff701a9ff74 (Unity) JobQueue::ProcessJobs
0x00007ff701aa218f (Unity) JobQueue::WorkLoop
0x00007ff701ca1977 (Unity) Thread::RunThreadWrapper
0x00007fff108655a0 (KERNEL32) BaseThreadInitThunk
0x00007fff112a485b (ntdll) RtlUserThreadStart

[warm prawn]

I have this feeling it is because my bone is set to humanoid

[hybrid tinsel]

That is more of a #1062393052863414313 sort of issue than an animation thing?

Since it's an error from the burst compiler

[hybrid tinsel]

Not really an animation question but something roughly like:

float distance = (target.position - transform.position).sqrMagnitude;
 
if(distance < (Math.Pow(range, 2)))
{
   Animator.SetTrigger("whatever");
}```

Though you'll probably want to also have some check to avoid setting it every single frame that they are in range, or use a bool instead of a trigger and turn it off when they leave range..

[mild sleet]

Hi was wondering if someone could suggest how to add a tool to my 2d sprite character (who is also customizable.) Right now I've just childed an empty object to the characters arm bone so it will swing and move with the arm movements. I'll add a tool sprite library to this. Is this the correct way to do this? (It seems a little awkward to child a tool sprite directly to the arm bone, and not the arm sprite, which is why I'm asking.) Thanks for any help!

[round arch]

Hey I've just started doing animation and tried out using Coroutines and tweening but I keep facing the same problem.

lets say I made a function MoveTo(from, to) and I want to run it twice. How do I make the second one run after the first one is done? Because in my code both functions are running at the same time.

public void OnPress()
    {
        MoveTo(start, end);
        MoveTo(end, middle);

    }

    async void MoveTo(Tower from, Tower to)
    {
        Disk top = from.disks[from.disks.Count - 1];

        
        Transform T = top.transform;
        await T.DOLocalMoveY(350, time).AsyncWaitForCompletion();
        await T.DOMoveX(to.transform.position.x, time).AsyncWaitForCompletion();

        T.parent = to.transform;
        from.disks.Remove(top);
        to.disks.Add(top);
        
        print(to.transform.position.y);
        await T.DOLocalMoveY(9 + to.disks.Count*18, time).AsyncWaitForCompletion();

    }

[junior zinc]

Yea you start them at the same time, because in normal non-async non-coroutine functions all code runs immedaitely line after line

You need to either start the second one in the coroutine after the first one ends (and use a flag to prevent an endless loop) or alternatively dotween has a class in which you can combine multiple tweens and execute them one after another, but I dont remember how it was called

Your code executes normally, until it hits the first await. Then it returns back to OnPress and goes to the next line, and calls MoveTo again. Then it gets to the awair again, and returns, and continues on in whatever function called OnPress.

Then, when each particular tween is done, frames later, those functions resume running code from after the first await, until they hit another await - then they wait for frames and frames again. But because they were started on the same frame, they're going off at the same time.

[round arch]

I'll look into the dotween one, thanks

[fiery smelt]

Hello, I had a question; How do I reliably set up retargeting store bought animation assets for a custom rig/model between Blender and Unity for my own editing?

[round arch]

I should probably learn more about async and coroutines before doing actual animation lol

[fiery smelt]

I posted this here too where I elaborate futher

https://www.reddit.com/r/unity/comments/15rbigf/how_do_i_reliably_set_up_retargeting_store_bought/

[frozen cloak]

So I am coding a 2.5d game for unity 2022.3.4f1 and I am working on the blendtree animations for the character in which the players control. For some reason, the character is moving in 3 of the 4 movements (Forward, Left, Right) but when it comes time to activate the backwards animation it defaults to forward again? I am pretty new to unity so bare with me. Below is a video of it happening and a screenshot of my code. `using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class playermovementtest : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 1f;
public Rigidbody rb;
public float groundDist;
public LayerMask terrainLayer;
public Vector3 movement;
public Animator animator;

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        rb = this.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        movement = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical")).normalized;

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


}


    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        moveCharacter(movement);
    }


    void moveCharacter(Vector3 direction)
    {
        rb.velocity = direction * speed;
    }

}`

If anyone can help, it would be a lifesaver

[tidal marsh]

Thanks this helps

But now it's if it's closer to mathpow ... What does that have to do with another game object?

[hybrid tinsel]

The power thing is squaring the range to avoid using a square root in the distance calculation.

Which may or may not be important depending on your build target- these days it is mostly a big deal on mobile.

(But it is good practice anyway, I believe.)

[rich owl]

Hi, I'm experimenting with root motion and I have a character using Rigify. In this animation, the root control (circle on the floor in blender) just has 2 keyframes, 1 at frame 0 and the other at frame 24 where it's moved forward by 3 blender units. The root of the model is set at the spine bone (hips) and the rig is imported as "generic".
What's causing this issue, and how can I fix it?

[hybrid tinsel]

In this case, the other game object would be 'target'

[hybrid tinsel]

It is impossible to say without more info but it looks like it might just be missing bone weights

[hybrid tinsel]

Basically it is getting the squared distance between the transform and the target transform position(because getting the actual distance takes a square root operation, which is slow on some hardware). Then it is comparing that to your chosen range, squared to match the sqrMagnitude.

[hybrid tinsel]

Can't view that image on mobile; can you embed it?

[tidal marsh]

Oh I should replace the target with the name of the game object?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, generally what you do it you set that as a variable that references the game object you want to target

At the start of the script you would declare something like public Transform target; and then set the target either in the inspector or through whatever targeting method you like.

[twin musk]

hello ive been trying to chain some animations togheter altough i have no clue how to play the chain

(it only plays Planestage1)

[tidal marsh]

Ahhhh that makes sense

[twin musk]

?

entire setup looks like this just incase i did something wrong

actually nevermind i may have saw it now

[frozen cloak]

Yes give me a moment, obs exports to a weird file

[frozen cloak]

sorry for the bad farmes but you get the gist

in the blend tree it even show the character animating perfectly fine, and then when I try and move him around he does that for some reason

[twin musk]

hi im having a problem with there being a big delay between the same animation playing which isnt on a loop. in the animator its playing 0.1 times a second but in the game its playing around 3 or 4 times a second and there isnt an actual difference in the length of the calling delay and the length of the animation. ill show a clip below

[pure lagoon]

try increasing the speed?

[twin musk]

that would just increase the speed of th animation but there is an unwanted delay between them and idk whats causing it

[gusty garnet]

do you transition back when playing that aninmation

[twin musk]

what do you mean by transitioning back? the animation is the whole cycle of going back then forward to its original position

[gusty garnet]

can you show the state machine

[twin musk]

the animator?

[gusty garnet]

yes

[twin musk]

could it be something with the entry?

[gusty garnet]

no i don´t think so

[twin musk]

any other ideas on what it could be?

[gusty garnet]

hmm really difficult . you could try these settings.

[twin musk]

what should i put those settings on?

[gusty garnet]

HasExit time could be interesting

[twin musk]

what should i put th settings on

[gusty garnet]

just tick untick the box

[twin musk]

on the recoilhip transition right?

@gusty garnet it still does the same as before

[twin musk]

yoo i fixed it by putting exit time on 0.1 seconds

[grand ruin]

anyone know what might be causing my arm to distort like this during an animation?