🏃┃animation

[north shale]

Nevermind, fixed this, Player was on a wrong layer

[distant valve]

in Unity, I have a player prefab and within this prefab I have my knife object, I have made an animation where the player is tossing the knife up into the air to catch it backwards (blade sticking out from the other side), however, I can't seem to be able to figure out how I can animate both the player and knife at once so they can be aligned and timed properly. Hopefully any of this makes sense.

[glossy furnace]

So I have a 'charging up' animation play when it recieves the trigger 'attack', which then is supposed to immediately transition into an attack animation when it finishes. It successfully starts the PreAttack charge when it recieves 'attack' but it keeps looping and never goes to the actual attack animation. Both the pre attack and the actual attack have looping off

me sad

[cerulean ore]

I have a rotation animation in 2D that is rotating around the center of the parent animator object, which rotates them from the wrong centerpoint of the child

for instance A B C child objects but the centerpoint of their parents are all B

i'm unable to move the parents positions because it is locked by the animator

since they also have a positional animation

for instance, the blue highlighting is the child, but the centerpoint of parent animator here is in the middle as you can see.

[agile solstice]

Ideally all movement animation would happen under a parent gameobject relative to it so its transform doesn't get overridden by the animation, since you probably will want to move it

[cerulean ore]

I am even trying to change the RectTransform's pivot of the parent, it's not fixing it

[cerulean ore]

yes! they're under a parent and that is the same parent that's also trying the rotation animation

which is why there's a problem, because those positions are fixed of the parent

please tell me I don't need to make a 2nd parent

-_-

i do think that would theoretically work, but it seems SO SLOPPY

have a grandparent/parent/child, the animator is on the parent and the grandparents position controls the objects center position?

[agile solstice]

I'm not sure I totally understand
All transform values are relative to parent transform values

The parent is always the "pivot point" of its child transforms

[cerulean ore]

yea so the parents are all in the same position in a container.

the children have differing positions, which contain the sprites etc as you can see in the image.

however, as you just said the parents have the pivot point, which is fixed in the center of that parent container

so if I want to rotate the children at their center, i have no idea how to accomplish that

they all rotate around the center of the parents, which is not what I want 😦

[agile solstice]

If you rotate a sprite (the child) by itself it rotates around its own center / sprite pivot
Rotate any of the parents and the parent acts as the rotation pivot

[cerulean ore]

so I need a separate animator for the child to do rotational animations?

let me try doing that

[agile solstice]

No

[cerulean ore]

?

[agile solstice]

Within the Animator's hierarchy any transform can be animated individually

[cerulean ore]

oh

SHIT

yes i was wondering that

i gotchu

ok let me remake that with the right object (the child)

for just the rotational one

in the same animator

I used the parent, so that would make sense

[agile solstice]

Transform values are simply inherited down the hierarchy

Any and all components in the whole hierarchy under the Animator can be animated

[cerulean ore]

Problem solved. Works as expected now. Ty. Did not understand heirarchy applied to animations in the same way. Thank you so much!

[glossy furnace]

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[agile solstice]

The most common issue with using Any State is that its transitions will override anything
Avoid it entirely

[glossy furnace]

Ah, okay
So if I skip using it, the problem should go away?

[agile solstice]

I can't see the transition settings or conditions, or how the parameters are being changed during playmode so I can only guess what the problem could be
But if someone's using Any State and is having problems triggering transitions I'd give it about 85% occurrence that it's the cause also

[glossy furnace]

Okay tysm!
Yea the second transition has no trigger

[agile solstice]

Any State is the nuclear option and it's very easy to create problems with it
I'd only use it for death animations or any such similar that absolutely must take precedence

[glossy furnace]

Lol thats funny cuz im also having problems with the death animation

I have a transition from anystate called 'death' and if its triggered it should start a death animation

but once i create the animation, even if he doesnt die, he stays still and doesnt move

no matter what trigger

[agile solstice]

Could be a conflict with the other Any State transitions

[glossy furnace]

yeah probably

ill def take your advice and stay away from anytrigger

Thank you again!
Edit: ayy it be workin now! I just gotta fix the death anim

[agile solstice]

It may seem at first like a convenient way to make the state machine simpler and more direct, but that doesn't really pan out
It's better to avoid it and instead learn to master the transition settings and other features of the Animator like sub-state machines and layers to make the animator controller more efficient instead

[toxic orbit]

Why cant I animate my character?!

[agile solstice]

Animating humanoid avatar configurations in-editor is not allowed

[agile solstice]

(memes are not tolerated here so I'd remove that but) quite literally "it's just not"
You cannot keyframe a humanoid rig in Unity. It's disabled by design because our keyframing workflow is not powerful enough for humanoid rig. You should use an authoring tools like blender, max or maya to keyframe your character, they have better workflow and their tools are made to create asset. -Mecanim-Dev

[dusty tree]

This is a semi-programatic animatio question. I'm working in 2D. I have a game where electricity can flow into a tile from up/down/left/right, and leave the tile up/down/left/right. Ultimately, there are 12 different combinations, with lots of symmetry. Each would have a simple animation of a yellow dot (let's say) going from up to left (or whatever). My main challenge here is that these can be overlaid, as a tile could be getting electricity from multiple directions at once, and 12! is way too many animations to draw by brute force.

Does anyone have a recommendation for how to best draw this?

[edgy pelican]

Hi all, how are you doing ?

I have a simple question that i didn't find the answer yet, so i thought directly asking here was good idea.
So i'm using Humanoid Rigs to make Avatars and do some retargeting in Unity. But i also have to do this with facial animations, is it possible to do so ? A "Face" Avatar kind of ? Or is there any option on the already existing Humanoid Avatar ?

Tried with the Generic Type Rig, which seems to do the trick but my models were also copying the proportion of the original model that was animated, i don't want that. I need to keep the proportions of every mesh, that's why i'm using Humanoid. (don't know if my explanations are clear lol)

Thanks in advance :)

[wet crow]

Hi guys, having two blend trees for normal and crouch walk, but I want to make the transition to set the collider size and position (center).
Anyone an idea how I can achieve that?

[agile solstice]

The movement animations can have keyframes for the size and center of your collider, the blend tree will hand the blending

[deft frost]

Hello,
I currently have an animation for an attack with a spear which is using both hands. I want the spear to be hold in both hands during the animation the whole time while both hands are actually grabbing it. The problem I have is that I would have to change the rotation and position every keyframe with what I currently have and I don't want to hard code any values. Is there an easy way to do this without coding, or at least with a universal solution as I have more weapon types using both hands during their animation?

[deft frost]

Would I have to create an animation for the weapon as well? Or is there an easier solution?

[wet crow]

I know that I can implement a property for the collider, but where do I put it? I have a blendtree with idle/walk/run for standing and a second with idle/walk for crouching. By setting a crouch-float from 0 to 1 I can Switch between them, but do I have to put an Animation with exit time between both blend trees that handles the resizing between both states?

[agile solstice]

Collider size would be part of the movement animation clips

Just like they animate the limb transform properties would the collider size be animated as well
Another option is to use synced layers to play different clips simultaneously in the same states

[edgy pelican]

You could maybe use an orientation constraint on the spear, aiming for the second hand ? You can easily do this with the Animation Rigging Package

It'll definitely need some adjust after that, but that should do the trick for the rotation.

[deft frost]

Thank you, I'll try that. It's my first time making a 3d game which is why I still have some difficulties.

[edgy pelican]

I recommend you to do some research on the Animation Rigging package, it's a really powerfull tool for this kind of things :)

And it's fairly easy to use

[deft frost]

Thank you, I appreciate your help.

[edgy pelican]

You're welcome 👌

[edgy pelican]

I take this opportunity to remind my message in case someone has the solution :p

[dusty tree]

I have a 2D game with tilemap where a given tile should have something like a yellow dot moving across it up/down/left/right going in, and up/down/left right going out. But each tile could have multiple of these things going on, so I need to do this programatically.

I’m not sure what is the best tool for this. Ideas:
-Animated tile: I would need 8 tilemaps, and constantly draw/undraw tiles representing the particle effect.
-Different animated gameobjects, each with an animation controlling monobehaviour: This could lead to 2000 gameobjects each updating, and I want to avoid that.
-Other? I don’t really understand unity’s particle system, or shaders, or what tools are available for this sort of thing.

(I’m reasking with some more ideas on what I could do. I honestly just don’t know what tools would be right for the job)

In theory, I would also like to just change color of the tile below as the yellow dot passes over (instead of just drawing a raw yellow dot), but that would be a bonus. idk if I need to learn about shaders, particle effects, other animation, or fancy tile animation.

[wispy nebula]

For 3d modeling for use in unity which program would be recommend for a beginner? I am only aware of Maya or Blender by name. Would one have a steeper learning curve than the other? Which do you personally prefer?
I believe Blender also has some integration with Unity? Would Maya have similar?

[agile solstice]

Blender doesn't have good integration with Unity, don't know about Maya
Both are difficult programs to learn but Blender is probably easier as it's free and recently became more accessible and so popular, so there are a lot of tutorials and courses for it

[crystal parrot]

hi guys i have a question. If i made animations without using a model (no rigging) but then added a model later on, would i have to redo the animations to include the rigging? or is there a better method? thank you for your time everyone!

[agile solstice]

Animations can be re-used for different meshes as long as the mesh has vertex groups that match the rig's bone transforms, so the mesh can connect to them
It should be technically possible to export and import the two separately into Unity, but in my experience Unity enjoys removing "unused" rigs from meshes so zealously that I just export animations with a placeholder mesh / meshes with a placeholder animation to make it easy for myself

If you've got characters with Humanoid Avatar configuration, then you can re-use animations between them even if they don't exactly match, adjusted to the character's proportions too

[agile solstice]

Is it just a visual effect or an interactive one? If the moving dots need to actually change their behaviour in response to something, or if the color-changed tile needs to update its tile type as well then it seems to be primarily a coding challenge

Rather than within just the realm and rules of visual effects and animations

[dusty tree]

so I have an electrical grid that moves electricity through it.

i can represent the yellow dot’s behaviour with like 8 bits: 4 directions going in, and 4 going out, and any number of those 8 bits can be on/off at a given time

when something in the level changes, i need to change what motion the yellow dot(s) display

i have no issue getting the data, and representing it

i could know for sure that X tile needs to show Up/Left going in and Up/Right going out. no problem

but idk what tool to use to display that

because I’m not making 2^8 different animations

does this make sense?

i could draw on 8 different tilemaps, all overlaid on top, each with a different single animation for up/down/left/right * in/out

but that doesn’t seem right

i feel like there’s an important animation tool i’m missing

[agile solstice]

That's helpful
My idea is you could use VFX Graph (or even Particle System in a pinch) to instantiate a dot animation on the corresponding tile
Both of them support flipbook animations and moving particles, whichever makes for a better dot
VFX Graph in particular recently implemented instancing so instantiating a Graph of matching type should combine them to one, rather than creating a new Graph component

[dusty tree]

i see. so VFX graph is the right tool?

[agile solstice]

Sounds like it to me

[dusty tree]

and this is lighter than stacking a bunch of tilemap renderers ina dumb way, right?

[agile solstice]

Most likely
VFX Graph supports millions of particles easily, though it has an overhead cost and is GPU bound

[dusty tree]

so the first time I use it is the biggest cost, and then after that it’s very efficient?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[dusty tree]

ty. i’ll look into it

[agile solstice]

If it's not available to you due to render pipeline or platform limitations, Particle System could be an option
It's not very expensive to instantiate, but does lose out to VFX Graph instancing by a long shot if you need hundreds or thousands of them
You could potentially squeeze performance out of one by reading and writing its live particle properties individually through code, though that'd be a very manual process

[dusty tree]

also, before I go to deep, is VFXgraph good for 2D?

[agile solstice]

Should work just fine with anything 2D
Even compatible with the unreasonably picky 2D renderer
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@15.0/manual/2d-visual-effect-graph-compatibility.html

[magic cargo]

Hey! I’m trying to re-create Billy from Dani’s upcoming game Karlson and for the inverse kinematics, I’ve found pretty much the only tutorial on Billy’s IK. If anyone is familiar with the Happy Chuck Programming video on making Billy, you’d know that before his final attempt, Billy has multiple mini seizures (minor glitches) thus being fixed by swapping the left and right IKs. I’ve tried everything in my power to see if anything I do could fix him, but nothing seems to be working. Today however, I got him to stay balanced in a sort of crouch position. If anyone thinks they can help, I’d be so thankful. I won’t be on my computer for the rest of the evening nor the whole morning tomorrow. (EST) thanks so much!

I know for a fact that it isn’t a code issue because the scripts were given via the description of the video.

[olive prairie]

How Animation Rigging works?

Where can i find tutorials?

can it work for a bow?

only humanoids?

I tried setup on this bow no IK works

Chain IK does not change a thing about my model

Is there anything wrong?

Chain IK don`t change a thing also

Is there anything that i can do?

[edgy pelican]

Can you explain what are you trying to do first ?

[olive prairie]

bend the bow

attach the string on player hand

[edgy pelican]

Ok, so how does the Bow's Rig working ?

What is making it bend, just pulling the String bone ?

Or do you have to rotate the arms of the bow too ?

[olive prairie]

I`m trying to bind string bone to left hand

Right now animation is bending it but not right

[edgy pelican]

Have you tried putting the arms bones at the base of your IK Chain instead of the root bone ?

[olive prairie]

Humm, MY ik chain was inside the bow not player

Do i need to add it on player?

I can equip multiple bows

[edgy pelican]

Not yet, let's see if we can setup it first

So i think you would have to do two chains everytime (Arm_Low -> String, Armo_Up -> String), one for each arm, setting your IK gameobject as the target of both chains, then in theory you will just have to put the IK Target in the hierarchy of your hand

[olive prairie]

Setup the chain on player itself?

[edgy pelican]

No, on the bow

[olive prairie]

But it is not even working

If i move the target object

[olive prairie]

Look that

[edgy pelican]

In this video the root of you ik chain is your root bone

You need to try with the arm bones

with two separate chains, one for each arm, see ?

[olive prairie]

I will try, i don`t understand how animation rigging works

[edgy pelican]

It's ok

[olive prairie]

I tried using hand l but still nothing changes

[edgy pelican]

Oh, my bad, when i said arms, i was thinking the BOW's arms x)

Could you maybe give me a package of your bow ? So i can show you ?

[hot dock]

I'm just starting out trying to get simple cube guys to do animations, but it sets them to like the position the animator has them set to

so when it starts they all teleport to the same spot

[agile solstice]

Transform overrides from the animator are relative to parent transform, or scene if no parent
Animate a child gameobject's transforms instead

[edgy pelican]

Have you tried using Root Motion ?

[hot dock]

Sorry, I was pretty busy today, I just started trying to learn how to just do some basic animations so I don't really understand, and the videos ive at least seen havent been all too intuitive

do you think I should maybe try to do my animations through blender?

[twin musk]

from going to blender to unity, does exporting the IK/FK bones along with deformation bones matter? do exporting those extra bones affect anything?

[olive prairie]

Why do this jitter happens while using rigbuilder?

animation rigging package

Look at arrow teleporting

[edgy pelican]

It depends on the animations you're aiming for, learning soft like Blender is allways a good idea, but if right now you're just moving a cube, don't bother

Root motion is something simple yet complicated to understand, i recommend you go watch some tutorials on youtube that can explain it.

[edgy pelican]

I wouldn't recommand to export your IK Bones to Unity, the less bones you have in Unity the better it is.
Animations with IK simply need to be baked to function in Unity, then you only have to export deform bones,
If you still need IK functionalities inside of Unity, you should check out it Animation Rigging package who comes with lots of constraint component such as IK Chains, orientation constraint etc.. (that can be enabled or not thru code, more for a dynamic/real time approach if you need specific interactions).

[edgy pelican]

I have absolutely no idea

[golden ruin]

With root motion my character goes up into the sky when facing upwards and having animation of going forward. How do I fix it?

[agile solstice]

Usually when facing upwards the character has an animation (or an animation layer) for looking up rather than rotating itself
It sounds like you're rotating the character upwards in its entirety

[golden ruin]

I mean it moves up (forward from its perspective), not rotates

[agile solstice]

As a result of being rotated, I'd have to assume

[golden ruin]

It's an animation of going forward

[agile solstice]

Forward towards the character's local forward axis
You don't normally ever need to rotate a character when they look up, so this sounds like a special case

[golden ruin]

It's a spider of sorts, can traverse uneven terrains. When staying on a tilted surface, gets slightly tilted too. Is it one of the special cases you are talking about?

Is root motion not suitable in this case?

[agile solstice]

Yes, that's important info
I'd expect that a spider like that would always be moving forward on its local axis even if it rotates to match the surface curvature, but it that's not desired I guess the next option would be to apply the root motion manually using OnAnimatorMove, and rotate the root motion vector to not have the spider's rotation

[golden ruin]

The thing is I don't have code for rotating it on surfaces. I expected it to just get pushed down by gravity but seemingly gravity doesn't work or isn't strong enough when the spider changes from going up on a tilted surface to walking on a ground-parallel surface (i.e. gets to the top of what it was climbing)

[agile solstice]

Hard to say, seems like something that really mostly depends on your spider's movement code

Root motion does different things depending on whether it's on a rigidbody, a charactercontroller or neither

[golden ruin]

Never even heard of character controller actually

[golden ruin]

Is there an answer for when the code only sets states in state machine?

[agile solstice]

I don't have any idea how the code does it, what components are involved or what the problematic movement looks like so I can't say much else

Root motion works in the local space of its own transform, but you can modify that vector by applying it manually via scripts

[clear current]

hope this is the correct channel to ask this question, i have been working the last few years in 2D and now moved onto learning 3D. I am not sure how to create animations in 3D. what i want is my player to do a melle attack. but keep the player and the weapon seprate. my player is 2D like paper mario but in a 3d envirmoment. So my question is if the hammer is animated. will that animation only work in the position i recoreded. so ie. the attacck is recorded from left to right and my player is facing right. if i then turn my player left becuase its a 3d envirmoment will it get the correct angle or willl it just play the position it was recoreded

[hybrid tinsel]

You can separately bake the root motion for y axis from the xz, but you're likely better off fixing the animations in the source for something like this.

[devout osprey]

Just imported an animated character from blender to unity and suddenly the animation is "Read Only" with no way to copy it or something.

Unity is giving me brain damage every single hour.

Oh, I duplicated it and now I can change whatever I want.

[grand ruin]

anyone know how to make it so that when my lower half is running my upperhalf doesnt tilt forwards?

[full bridge]

How can I adjust render layers hierarchy withing the unity sprite skin

[cerulean ore]

I have a script that animates the child GO (no animator attached), then I tried to do some animations on it's parent and hook up an animator with normal parent animator -> child relationship, and I'm getting the dreaded position locking problem where if the child position has changed, the animation is starting from where the parent is located

i'm not sure what i've done wrong but I'm wondering if animating the child via script is causing the problem?

the position of the child is correct, and the child script animations work fine. But whenever the trigger for the parent animation occurs, the position gets all messed up

i wonder if trying to mix parent animations with child scripting animation is a no-no

yea i think it wont work with what i'm trying to do. i'm just going to script all the animations then... if anyone knows a solution that i'm not seeing though pls let me know

[agile solstice]

Generally it causes issues and although technically possible to make them work it isn't usually very practical

[cerulean ore]

yea after beating my head against the wall for 2.5 hours, i just scripted the rotation with a lerp and it works fine 😛 took like 5 min

[agile solstice]

The officially sanctioned workflow for adding scripted motion on top of animation is the Animation Rigging package

[cerulean ore]

sometiems you just want something to work, and its the wrong choice

[agile solstice]

If that ain't the truth!

[cerulean ore]

i'll check out the rigging package later, isnt that more for character animation type stuff?

[agile solstice]

It has a lot of tools that are useful for character animation but it works with anything really

[stuck elm]

Is there any way for timeline to animate the blendshapes of a mesh separately from the animation clips? If not, that feels kinda insane...

[agile solstice]

What do you mean by "separately"?
Blend shapes are properties within the skinned mesh renderer component, they're not in any way inherently tied to animation

You could give them their own clips to be layered with other animation, or control them through scripting:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/BlendShapes.html

[stuck elm]

I mean that when adding an animation override track in timeline to control blendshapes, it seems to work fine in the preview but then when actually running the game there is no animation from that track.

[agile solstice]

Hmm I'm not familiar enough with Timeline
They shouldn't be different from any other property in that regard as far as I know

[stuck elm]

Well, the problem seems to be that the override track only seems to be working for transforms in the avatar mask

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity still doesn't properly support additive timeline anim tracks. It kinda has them in the api but they are a pain. I just use the timeline to control a separate script for my character faces.

Which sucks, but...

[stuck elm]

Weirdly, the blendshape track works when you use the unity recorder

So I'm gonna see if it works in a build

If it does, then I can live with it... though it'll be a pain being unable to test anything without building

[lofty shale]

does anybody happen to know of any good places for finding animation references online?

[errant arrow]

why does this animation play ten times faster than

this one?

when i play the first one the frames progress at a breakneck pace

the second one it's about 5 frames a second

and then when i actually activate it ingame, it either doesnt animate, or is so animating so fast i can only see the first frame

ah it's set to 60fps instead of 12

but...

how do i change it?

you can only change it in... debug mode?

well theoretically it should be working properly now

but the animation still doesnt animate

the animation bar just doesnt progress

[wheat flint]

Does anyone know of a method to animate if a player is pressing a toilet lever? obviously the toilet lever will do the animation that it was pulled and return to its original state

*toilet flush handle

that is the correct name xd

[hybrid tinsel]

You are looking at the fps set in the file; if you want to change the playback speed that is done in the animator

[wispy token]

Not sure what do you have troubles with, of what you are trying ti achieve

[stuck elm]

Yeah,the question is pretty ambiguous

[stable seal]

Hey guys! If I have an animation clip open for my model, is it possible for me to set the current position of my model to the position it's in on the animation? I'm using preview mode to make animations and ewhenever I go off preview mode, the actual model is in a completely different position to the animation, which isn't what I want

[agile solstice]

What do you mean by "completely different position", where do you need to set the position to?

If you need the gameobject to be in a specific spot when the animation begins, I'd use a script to move it there
Or if it's a cutscene, perhaps use Timeline to ensure it all happens in pre-fixed locations

[stable seal]

I just want it to appear in the editor where it currently is on the clip I'm previewing, so I can make another animation from that position

This isn't really a case where I'd need a script. I just want to set it's position in the editor like it is when previewing a particular clip, so I can work from that position to make something else

[wanton tusk]

Today I am learning about animations. Does anyone know how to make my custom animation from a given model I have from the asset store?

What tools should I use? what are some key words that I should search to learn this + any good personal favourite resources to learn from?

[agile solstice]

Then move it? I'm not fully understanding

[stable seal]

Yeah that's fine if I was dealing with one object which maybe just needs its position or rotation adjusted, when it's about a dozen for one animation that's effort. I could still do it, but I thought there'd be a convenient way to do this in the engine without having to move back and forth between the preview and the editor to make sure it's all aligned.

[agile solstice]

Aligned with what?

[errant arrow]

well i imagine i want to have the fps of my animations match

[agile solstice]

@errant arrow Did you try tweaking sample rates of the clips

[errant arrow]

hm i didnt see that

but i got it playing at the correct speed

problem is when the bool that aftivates the animation gets set to true

the animation starts but never progresses

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/502171313201479681/1150219616199643167/image.png

[fleet veldt]

Animation

someone please?

[random gale]

Diving Zombie Boss, diving problem:

In my game there is a character boss that dives, and jumps.
The diving zombie boss has 4 animation that do jumps and dive animations.
When I export my zombie boss to Unity from Mixamo with his dive animation, when the diving zombie boss does his walk animation, then does his jump animation, it's like he does the dive from a standing fixed position, like he does not dive to the left, then continue his walk animation afterwards.
So, I want the boss to dive left, but actually dive 2 meters to the left instead of just doing the animation like he is stuck in his original position.
Can you help with this problem?
Here is a video of what I am seeing with diving zombie.
Do I need to write in C# for Diving Zombie needs to stay in the position he dives to and continue walking from there?

So in the Animation Controller for Diving Zombie boss:
So there is a transition from Entry to the walk animation.
Then there is a transition from walk to the attack animation, Has Exit Time is Unchecked on this transition.
Then there is a transition from the attack animation to the walk animation, Has Exit Time is Checked on this transition.
Then there is a transition from the walk animation to the jump 1 animation Has Exit Time is unchecked.
Then there is a transition from the Jump 1 animation back to the walk animation Has Exit Time is checked.
My friend say:

''Seems like you have the walk animation as default with the animation state.
Moving his position can be done the same time as running the animation in the script.
Honestly most of that positions should correct it self out when you fix the walking, but if not might need to edit the animation a bit.''

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

public class DivingZombie : Enemy
{
    private string[] triggers =
    {
        "Jump 1","Jump 2","Jump 3","Jump 4"
    };
    private string trigger;

    private void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(JumpRoutine()); // Start the coroutine for diving.
    }
    
    // Method to trigger a diving animation.
    public void Jump()
    {
        trigger = triggers[Random.Range(0, triggers.Length)]; // Select a random diving animation trigger.
        Animator.SetBool(trigger, true); // Set the selected animation trigger to true.
        agent.speed = 6f; // Set the NavMeshAgent speed to 6 for diving.
    }
    
    // Coroutine to repeatedly trigger diving.
    private IEnumerator JumpRoutine()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f); // Wait for 2 seconds before the first dive.
        while (enabled)
        {
            Jump(); // Trigger a dive.
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(5f); // Wait for 5 seconds before the next dive.
        }
    }
}```

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

public class JumpStopper : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Animator animator;
    private NavMeshAgent agent;
    private Vector3 Startpos; // Store the starting position of the hips.
    public Transform hips;
    private string[] triggers =
    {
        "Jump 1","Jump 2","Jump 3","Jump 4"
    };

    private void Start()
    {
        Startpos = hips.position; // Store the initial position of the hips.
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>(); // Get the Animator component of this GameObject.
        agent = GetComponentInParent<NavMeshAgent>(); // Get the NavMeshAgent component of the parent GameObject.
    }

    // Method to continue walking after the dive animation.
    public void ContinueWalk()
    {
        // Calculate the distance traveled during the dive.
        Vector3 distance = hips.position - Startpos;

        // Move the parent object back to its initial position.
        transform.parent.position += distance;

        agent.speed = 3f; // Set the NavMeshAgent speed to 3 for normal walking.
        
        // Reset all diving animation triggers to false.
        foreach (string trigger in triggers)
        {
            animator.SetBool(trigger, false);
        }
    }
}

[fleet veldt]

make a thread

[fleet veldt]

cause u use chat gpt

thats the first reason why its not working

[random gale]

he helps sometimes

80%

chat gpt is a good lad

[fleet veldt]

yeah and gives you code which doesnt work

[random gale]

true but sometimes it works

depends on what it is

[inland knot]

If I duplicate an animation asset (which puts it out of the FBX package) Unity seems unable display a preview model automatically. Is there a way to fix this?

[vestal acorn]

Hello, I am trying to do a doom style animated sprite thingy in a 3d environment. However, I cannot figure out how to even make an animated sprite in the first place. I managed to apply a spritesheet as a texture to a Quad, I also managed to splice up the spritesheet into its respective sprites, however I have no clue where to go from here. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Please ping me if responding, thanks

[uncut salmon]

You can use a SpriteRenderer component and then make an animation from the sprites.

[fleet veldt]

how can i animate a humanoid?

because i cant use transforms, i have to use the muscles or whatever they are

[crimson delta]

Working with a Vroid model, and I wanted to know...how do I create a brand new blendshape? And what I mean by that is...putting in the ARKit 52 blendshapes doesn't move my eyes for LookLeft, LookRight, etc, but I can manually MOVE my eyes myself after finding my eye bones in the Hierarchy.

Well after I go into the Hierarchy and move my eyes to the right for LookRight...how exactly do i register/copy/confirm/create a blendshape of that movement? As far as I know, all I've done is permanently (until I undo it) moved my character's eyes on that model.

Or maybe I can use te hierarchy to modify the existing LookRight blendshape by manually moving my bones to record that for that blendshape but I don't know how, and I can't find resources on that.

And no, the sliders that come wit ARKit blendshapes don't work, the preview doesn't show my eyes moving, so I figured I have ot manually do it

[fleet veldt]

@stuck timber sorry for pinging you again, but i just found this video, its super useful, i understand it more now
https://youtu.be/LEwYmFT3xDk

this is exactly what i need

[stuck timber]

yeah that ones good I suppose .
I've used also these in the past
https://youtu.be/fB0P0C_3sPU?si=-5GrlXTw-xsDipz4
https://youtu.be/chgLRjSaoXc?t=3

[fleet veldt]

what do you think so far?

[stuck timber]

looks good

[fleet veldt]

i want to blend the animations, but the thing is when i use the blend tree, there is not transition when i change direction

this is what i mean, thats when i use a blend tree

and this is what it looks like by doing it this way

the interuption source is set to next state and the transition to 0.25 on each of the arrows

its hella smooth, but i cant combine forward and side walking animation

[fleet veldt]

i need this but with blending the animations

this is what i do in my code

so basically i need to make transitions in the blend tree

because im using GetAxisRaw so its instant

[agile solstice]

Blend tree has no "transitions"
The blend is only as instant as your value change

Use GetAxis instead or do your own smoothing for the parameter

[fleet veldt]

i tried doing something like this

[hybrid tinsel]

Blendshapes are generally separate from bone driven deformations in unity; if the eyes are driven by bones then they won't be by blendshapes and vice versa.

[static temple]

Hey So i got 3 animations as poses that i want to use as additive. I have no idea what im meant to do or how to do it and im pretty stuck...

my idea was to have the idle pose as the base

and have the rest be additive

and it is not moving what so ever and i have no clue why

when i click play it just goes to idle pose

is there some settings i need to mess with that i am unaware off

[static temple]

well i just found out i need to have the original pose in frame 0

and now additive works but not really

[crystal parrot]

hi everyone i have a question, I have a fbx package import with a mesh, a quick rig and an animation clip (read only). I also have 2d sprite sheet animations. My question is, how do I combine these 2? How do I get the rigging from the fbx package? Thank you to whoever answers

[obtuse sapphire]

hey guys, im struggling to make my punch animation perform fully. Any idea on what could be the issue?

If i put the Transition Duration to 0, it just "starts" doing the anim, but goes straight back to idle. So it's at 0.25 in the video.

https://gyazo.com/537dcc715b088c79a3b0939de8173ea4

and it freaking starts at like 20% of the animation, instead of the beginning. And never ends it fully

when i spam, it starts doing it a little more, but that's not a fix 😛

[lost gazelle]

Hello, I need some help with animation. I have two fbx armatures with the same bones, but I can't play the same animation from the other armature on the main one.

[red bramble]

If the bones match exactly, then you should be able to import them both with the "Generic" animation type

(which is the default)

you would want to make a single animator controller that uses animation clips from one of the imported models

[lost gazelle]

this didnt work, the character does nothing

[red bramble]

when you say "the same bones", are you talking about two humanoid characters with roughly equivalent skeletal structures, or do you mean they have identically laid out and shaped bones?

[lost gazelle]

when I say "the same bones", I am meaning two humanoid characters with the exact same skeleton, same name, same bones, same amount of bones

[red bramble]

okay, so both Generic and Humanoid animation types should behave properly here

So all of your animations are defined in character A's model, and they're failing to apply to character B.

I created two models with the same skeleton but different meshes. Putting an animator on both and assigning an animation clip from one of the two works correctly.

I don't see any obvious errors if I make the two skeletons different.

although you do see these "Missing!" messages in the Animation window (not the Animator window) if you select something with an animation on it that doesn't match

So I would suggest opening the Animation window and clicking on the character that isn't working (making sure it has the Animator component with the right Animator Controller assigned to it, of course)

see if you get a ton of yellow channels like that

[hybrid tinsel]

.25 is 25% of the way through the animation.

[obtuse sapphire]

yea ik :/ but when i put it at 0 it doesn't perform it at all. just like a 0.00001 part of the anim

then goes back to idle

i could screenshare if it's easier to show

[hybrid tinsel]

My point is that those numbers are a percentage of the animation you are devoting to the transition; you can make that shorter, and/or add more lead time to the animation file.

[obtuse sapphire]

tbh ive tried a bunch of stuff, switching from triggers to bools, playing with the transitions durations, etc. I've been trying to get the animation to perform fully the WHOLE day xd T_T its rly frustrating lol

https://gyazo.com/0f268308eb82c514d2fbd34c61a75f35

this is what happens when the transition duration is at 0

[amber bison]

Hi I'm starting to learn and mess with animations and I'm running into an issue where the camera changes from third person to first person for the duration of the animation and then back to third, any ideas what I could have missed?

[agile ruin]

How come when i input my animation frames to unity the frames randomly change position slightly? its still there even if i delete and put them again (Original animation for reference)

[hybrid tinsel]

Because your frames are different sizes and/or have different pivot points.

[bleak harness]

Anyone know why my walk animations aren't working correctly?

The left and right start to work but are a little laggy but forward and backwards just isn't working correctly

[eager yoke]

Hi guys, a friend of mine made a video in Adobe After Effects containing a loop of a card. I want this loop do be added as an animation in Unity so I can decide when to do the next animation. Should this be done by exporting it to many many images and then glueing them together (like this video suggests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTBOahrXTBE), or are there better ways to import this video as animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, that'll work, or you can just import the images directly and let unity make the sprite sheet. Or you can generate the spritesheet in after effects

Shoebox tools has a good sheet generator too.

[eager yoke]

Oee those are amazing Ideas! Thank you very much!

[vestal acorn]

okay, I did use the spriterendered component, however I have several questions if you don't mind:

How do I scale the sprite on its own?

How do I sort of put the whole spritesheet thing into it? I can only select the seperate sprites I spliced

[uncut salmon]

1. You scale the PPU of the sprite in the import settings, or scale the game object (not ideal). Or, you redraw the art to scale you want to use and match the PPU of it.

2. You don't put the whole spritesheet. If you're asking about animating it using the sheet, you splice it and create a basica animation where each frame is a different frame of the sheet.

[vestal acorn]

Hmm. It seems I am not entirely sure how sprite animations function in Unity yet. However, I did try Create > Animation, however it does not allow me to do anything. Both Add property as well as Add keyframe are greyed out.

I am either forgetting something or I am approaching it wrong entirely

[uncut salmon]

You need to apply it to an object and animate it that way. It's a visual process, it's probably worth just finding a tutorial on how to animate a sprite. It will take <5 minutes to understand.

[vestal acorn]

Ah, okay. If you don't mind, do you know of a good one? I admit it I am not sure if just looking up "animation tutorial" will yield the right result so maybe you know one that fits better

i tried looking for sprite tutorials, problem is it is still all greyed out for me and for them it isnt

[uncut salmon]

Probably this: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-sprite-animations

[stable coral]

How do I add walking animation to my character?

[fleet veldt]

how do i make my player hold the weapon like this?

im going to need to do this for like 100 items

[gusty garnet]

On mixamo you can find some free animations for humanoid rigs.

[winter lagoon]

my character does an specific animation very slow how do I speed it up

[gusty garnet]

the blend tree problem right?

if you have no loop time on your animation this also happens

make sure to tick the box on both animations

i just tested it out. if loop time is not ticked the blend tree acts like that, the animations are played very slow

in the asset folder choose your animation package

[winter lagoon]

I have loop ticked

[gusty garnet]

did you maybe change the blender speed itself

beside that as mentioned in the blend settins in the motion window the animaiton speed

these are pretty much all the things that could affect the speed

[fleet veldt]

how can i still use humanoid with this?

my animations are no longer working

i need it humanoid

[static temple]

dont remove the bones

Im still having issues with additive layers https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/915556506328522772/1151236056155430923/2023-09-12_20-18-42.mp4

the ik hand gun position is all correct. the reload does change the positions and everything but i assume i also need to make reload animation for when its pointing up and down

do i actually have to do the same shit that i did for the looks but this time for reload?

[hybrid tinsel]

The blend assumes that all the clips are the same length. If one of the clips is a lot longer, then the other slips will be slowed down to match the length.

Because it treats the time as going from 0-1 for each clip.

[lost gazelle]

Hey I need some help with avatars please

[wheat flint]

Hey, does anyone know about this error? I wanted to make it so that every time the player pressed E the lever was lowered but the animation only ran once, does anyone have a solution?

also im using this script :void InteractWithObject(GameObject obj) { if (objectAnimator != null) { objectAnimator.SetBool("Flushing", true); } }

[lost gazelle]

I made an avatar for my character, it works, but some bones are missing their animation. Also sometimes the root bone doesnt move the character in animation

[hybrid tinsel]

If it is a humanoid avatar, then it will default to only including animation for humanoid definition bones.

[lost gazelle]

I need it to be a humanoid avatar so I can have the same animations work on different characters, but I need other bones to work in animation too

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, I'd suggest checking the unity manual for more details about precisely what the humanoid avatar process does; you can add extra transforms to it but they won't be retargeted and if they are between humanoid bones then they will likely be ignored because the animation is converted into muscle pose space.

[wheat flint]

run once per start

[lost gazelle]

So how do I fix this, I looked and didn’t see anything about it

[hybrid tinsel]

What do you mean by 'fix' it? If the bones are outside of the humanoid structure(stuff like tails or wings or whatever) you can add them as extra transforms on the avater. If they are inside the humanoid structure(extra spine bones) then you can't.

[lost gazelle]

Oh, I couldn’t find an option for this in unity, I guess I didn’t look hard enough. Do you know where it is?

[hybrid tinsel]

the import options for the object's rig

I am on my phone so I can't post a screenshot

But there's a foldout optiomn for adding additional bones in the avatar setup tab

[lost gazelle]

Oh ok

[random gale]

I can get Diving Zombie boss to walk then do the diving animation with this state machine transition.✅

I can make the diving zombie walk for 10 seconds then do the diving animation.✅
So this is great...but.

If I check loop pose on the jump 1 (which is a dive animation to the right) he does the dive but in place where he stands and it does not look right, like he is rooted to the spot where he stands.
Without loop pose checked the diving zombie boss moves back to his original position where he started the jump 1 (dive to the right animation) after the jump 1 animation is finished.
Do I need to write in C# for the Diving Zombie boss to continue his zombie walk animation from 2 meters to the right after he has done the jump 1 animation.
So I need to update the zombie boss's position based on the jump animation's end position.
I made this video so you can see what is going on with my diving zombie boss.

[fleet veldt]

sooo, im thinking, i have a holder on my camera for like weapons, axes, u get the point, and thats for like the object which the player holds, and im thinking to have each of the items in the holder have its own arms

like export just the arms from my character

and i can then easily animate everything inside the unity editor

but im not sure how i could attach the arms to the shoulders

IK?

if someone could just watch this video and tell me how hes done it

https://youtu.be/7Cd1ETJ2Euk?si=sF5RudL1RzH3fw0s

this is also that he wrote

can someone open a thread and help me out make the same thing?

have each object have its own arms

connected to the rest of the character somehow

also same here

https://youtu.be/yexW1VBgFbA?si=KQ4W__N_bg_iYAW4

i need to make this so it wont look weird in multiplayer

[lost gazelle]

Ok I tried to find this but it still didn’t work, can you send a screenshot soon?

[hybrid tinsel]

ok, it is the animation tab, a dropdown called Mask

You need to set it to 'from this model' and add your extra bones

[bleak arrow]

can any one help me with a certain syntax to access the animation track of timeline asset so that when the game starts i can have the animator changed for that animation track

[livid oriole]

Guys

I have animation clips for my weapons in game

How do I actually play the animations?

These are all my clips

[fleet veldt]

can someone help me make this?
https://youtu.be/WxqsIGeCxg0?t=143

this is exactly what i want

each item you can hold to have its own arms

but the arms are bugging out

im not sure what i can do

they have to be attached to the shoulders

someone please help i've been stuck at this for like more than a week now

i cant progress any further

[fleet veldt]

i beg someone just help me out with this

i wanna get back on track but i cant

im willing to even pay at this point

[obsidian stream]

My attack animations will repeat whenever transitioning from idle to movement, these are all in 2D Unity, and are 4-directional. How should I fix animator to prevent this from happen?

[lost gazelle]

Yep, I did that and they still remain unanimated

[hybrid tinsel]

Are the bones between humanoid bones?

[hybrid tinsel]

Remove the anystate transitions, probably?

[lost gazelle]

?

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean like extra spine bones or something. Those won't work.

[lost gazelle]

I’m meaning about bones for props that are animated

[stable coral]

how can i add to my character some animation? did you have some tutorial?

[gusty garnet]

Not easy to explain , too many steps, you want to watch some tutorials instead or read some docs on that. A good place to get some free animations is mixamo, but i already mentioned that earlier.

[fleet veldt]

please

[plucky viper]

guys i want to animate the offset od this material, but when i click to recor it move offset of all materials

[lost gazelle]

Wait, I have to do this for every single animation??

[fleet veldt]

anyone know how to get over the "Keyframing rotation on humanoid rig is not supported!"

im trying to make animations for my humanoid character in the unity editor

any way to get around this?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can do it once, and then use 'copy from other mask' for the rest.

[lost gazelle]

I Am a bit confused. It’s on the animation tab right? I need to do it for every animation of the bones are there. Also for other armatures it’s not working on those bones

[hybrid tinsel]

They don't want you to edit humanoid transforms in editor. The usual workaround would be to make the animation as generic and then save it to an FBX that you import as humanoid.

[lost gazelle]

Yes, I have found it and done this. But every other animation I need to do it again

[hybrid tinsel]

Once you have the mask made, you can copy that mask to other animations.

[lost gazelle]

How do I “copy” it?

Copy from other mask option?

[lost gazelle]

Now it wants me to use an avatar mask

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. The mask you made in the previous step

If you haven't actually made one yet, you can't add it

[lost gazelle]

? How do I copy the mask from the previous animation

it wants me to choose one of these but that isnt for the actual thing

Ohhhh

Wait

[fleet veldt]

oh alright

does it work?

[lost gazelle]

How do I create the mask for the character and the bones

[lost gazelle]

Where do I find the mask from the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes

[fleet veldt]

i tried it and its too much effort

might just do them in blender

prob easier at this point

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, that's what they expect you to do

[crimson delta]

I created a path that a trail of smoke follows, The path is a game object, I copied the path, adn want to mirror it so it's symmetrical with the first one, side by side.

How do I mirror it?

[hybrid tinsel]

right click, create>avatar mask

[crimson delta]

Changing scale below zero doesn't work

[hybrid tinsel]

Add the skeleton to that, choose the transforms

[hybrid tinsel]

reverse the sign of the position for each point of the curve on whichever axis?

[crimson delta]

reverse the sign means what exactly?

[obsidian stream]

Doing that makes it so that I can't attack

[crimson delta]

Oh wait i see

this might work

[lost gazelle]

Ik how to create an avatar mask

I don’t know how to add the extra bones and which character to specify

[crimson delta]

Nah, that didn't quite work

[crimson delta]

Is there no way to just simply mirror a path over an axis?

[wheat flint]

Hey, does anyone know about this error? I wanted to make it so that every time the player pressed E the lever was lowered but the animation only ran once per Start, does anyone have a solution?

[orchid pumice]

Hello, im a bit newer to animating, but was wondering if I would be able to take a humanoid animation and apply it to this "undead" character. When I try converting the rig over it doesnt seem to help. Is this even possible?

with the exception of eyes, the generic (left) and the model I want to use (right) have the same bone structure, so I seen no reason why this wouldn't work. Also they are both from protofactor so I feel like that raises the chance that they would mesh

[orchid pumice]

got it figured out. For anyone wondering you just have to convert you model / animations to humanoid. This tut works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxn24UKtw4A

[jovial lark]

I'm trying to import a png file to unity but despite setting the compress setting to none my image is still being compressed/distorted, has anyone had this same problem?

this is for unity 2d

[edgy pelican]

Yo,
anyone has experience with Mechanim (Humanoid Rig) + Facial ?

[fleet veldt]

• facial?

i got plenty

[lost gazelle]

I need some help please

I have some avatars and I need help with the rigs

Some bones don’t have animation anymore

[full bridge]

what program do you guys use to animate 2D drawing

[west chasm]

Hi animators, all I'm trying to do is make it so that when my player picks up a puzzle piece a different animation is displayed on the UI but I'm new to unity and don't know how to code with tutourials and can barely use the animator. Anyone generous enough to walk me through this process?

[jovial lark]

Aseprite

[full bridge]

and for non pixelart

been using asesprite for a while know and wanne try something else

[jovial lark]

Oh I haven't really been using anything else currently, I don't have much experience with 2d animation

[full bridge]

ive been using clip studio paint to draw art but animating in it has been a struggle

[hybrid tinsel]

Anyone happen to know what to add to a script to execute while timeline/animation preview is running? I remember that such a thing exists but not what it is called to search for

[prisma lintel]

Question. Im new to animation and have been using aseprite and its great, Im now importing my sprite sheets into unity and have suddenly just realized....animations dont save over...and you have to reanimate the timing in unities animator...now treat me like a child when I ask this question...but isnt this anti condusive or anti productive? If you spend time animation something why would you animate it a 2nd time in the game engine and not just have it running as a gif?

[past plover]

Hello! Im starting work on a retro styled FPS and am working on adding basic weapon bobbing to the weapon using basic animations. I have added in a basic sway left to right kind of animation to the sprite and have also setup to have transitions back and forth between the default state and the moving state.

https://streamable.com/xvkvis

However Im running into the issue of the animation having a hard cut back to its default resting state without any smooth transition out of its current state

I was wondering if there was anyway to script it so the animation can grab where its at and smoothly transition to its default standing position instead just hard cutting back to default once the triggers have been activated

{

    public Animator gunAnim;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S))
        {
            gunAnim.SetTrigger("Bob");
            gunAnim.ResetTrigger("Stop");
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.W) || Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.S))
        {
            gunAnim.SetTrigger("Stop");
            gunAnim.ResetTrigger("Bob");
        }
    }
}```

I have a very basic script attached for this animation to trigger. Not sure if I was supposed to go to scripting or here, so sorry if Im in the wrong channel for this type of question

[past plover]

Ive checked online and it seems like maybe crossfade might do that? Not sure

[slow veldt]

Hey Idk where to ask this but I have a question about the Unity's spline tool. I want to make a train with multiple carts follow the spline but now I only have the front following the spline and I don't know how I can make all the carts follow it as well. Does anybody have an idea how I can do this?

[crimson delta]

I figured out how to do my tornado like effect, it was literally just using Velocity Over Lifetime

[echo flume]

do we have any pro within animation rigging here?
Ive been trying to set up a turret with multi aim constrains and Im about to pull my hair..
I get the base rotation to work but I cant get it to aim up and down
https://i.gyazo.com/ec3f1f078e96b7e9f0e8417db77f9caa.png local axis
https://i.gyazo.com/3731dce712f421aae5ac1f0d0af9883e.png setup

[hybrid tinsel]

Isn't there an aseprite importer that handles animation?

[wheat flint]

Anyone knows how to solve this error in which objects that contain the same animator, having one instance reproducing the animation, all instances will do the same?

[echo flume]

does it happen even if you leave prefab mode in the hierarchy? and how does the code look like

[wheat flint]

here its (the interactiveButton tag is the toilet flush handle tag)``` public float interactDistance = 3f;
public Animator objectAnimator;

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

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E))
    {
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(new Vector3(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2, 0));
        RaycastHit hit;

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactDistance))
        {
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("InteractiveButton"))
            {
                InteractWithObject(gameObject);
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        objectAnimator.SetBool("Flushing", false);
    }
}

void InteractWithObject(GameObject obj)
{
    if (objectAnimator != null)
    {
        objectAnimator.SetBool("Flushing", true);
    }
}

and what do you mean with prefab mode?

[echo flume]

InteractWithObject(gameObject);
shouldnt that line be
InteractWithObject(hit.transform.gameObject);

ah wait nvm this is on the actual toilet, right?

the script

[wheat flint]

yeah,in the flush handle

that thing with the purpose to flush the toilet

[echo flume]

in the video that you sent, inside of your hierarchy you can see that you got the actual prefab selected and not the scene hierarchy, it would be wierd if that was the issue but can you try and unfocus the prefab in the hierarchy ?

[wheat flint]

yeah

[echo flume]

https://i.gyazo.com/ddea32c05ad4b3ce4d22b4f2b410c992.png

the litle arrow under the + symbol

[wheat flint]

ahh ok

Do you want me to show you the hierarchy of the project? not the prefab

[echo flume]

Wait nvm I think I know what it is

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactDistance && hit.transform == transform))

[wheat flint]

Ahhh thank you

💀

[echo flume]

did it work?

[wheat flint]

welp, this seems to have disabled the animation/interaction

[hot dock]

I'm using a unity blend tree for a character walking motion and when I try to make the character go diaganol in the blend tree it goes the right speed, but in the game it ends up being slowed down and then the characters steps dont match the move speed

[stoic depot]

Is there no way to hear audio while in preview mode?

Not even with a package or smth?

[agile solstice]

What's "preview mode" in this context?

[stoic depot]

The animation preview in the Editor

[agile solstice]

Probably not easily
You can call AudioSources to play in the editor with scripts that run outside of play mode, but the animation preview of the inspector is not coded to care about any other components afaik

I prefer to use the scene window for previewing animations anyway

[stoic depot]

So there is no way in unity to sync animation and audio/other events unless I press play?

[agile solstice]

As I said, I believe you can

[stoic depot]

But how do I make a script that runs outside of Play mode?

[wooden lark]

can somone help me make animation of a updown 2d game

[crimson delta]

Still asking, can anyone help me with this? Want to make the particles all flow upward in a line, not spread out at the top there. There is no gravity modifier applied, just velocity over time.

[wooden lark]

not that many pepole in animation chat ,-,

[cursive hollow]

1 - its from animation package, rest are from mixamo / net. Why is there such a big difference?

[wooden lark]

can anyone help me get updown movment with animation

[wooden lark]

.-.

[agile solstice]

This is not an animation question

[agile solstice]

You have to be more specific

[wooden lark]

i just want help geting top down movment into my game i dont think i can add more to that

[agile solstice]

Because the proportions are different
Animations only store rotations, so if the skeletons have a different shape the rotation error becomes multiplied down the limb chain
IK must be used to ensure a specific end position of for a limb chain

[agile solstice]

You will only get help if you can point to specific problems or obstacles and can show effort in solving them yourself first

[wooden lark]

the coding and animation

and they leave

[crimson delta]

Which is BS beceause there's no way for anyone here to know if someone asking a question put in zero effort, or put in a lot of effort.

Is this high school, you want us to show your work before someone on here decides to help?

A bit silly

[agile solstice]

Not as a general rule
We're happy as long as it's possible to see a sign that someone's walking the path themselves and aren't expecting handholding

If one is stuck on that path, then I like to help them get moving again

[hybrid tinsel]

The easiest way is to use timeline

[hybrid tinsel]

This is a room full of people donating their time to help, but they are unable to read minds so if you can't articulate what you need there isn't much to be done.

[hybrid tinsel]

I can't even figure out what hrldon wants, and they mihht not even be asking for something appropriate to this channel

[wooden lark]

can somone help me with updown movment code and animation

[wooden lark]

then wich channle somone led me to this channle for animating and codeing up down movment

[agile solstice]

This is the right place for the topic, but your approach to learning game development is wrong

[wooden lark]

ok thx

[final wagon]

Is there a something to learn animation

[agile solstice]

There sure are a lot of resources for it
But since there are many styles of animation you'd have to look for a specific one
Additionally the technologies to make animations and to implement them in game engines are often different

[iron cobalt]

Can someone help me? I made a animation in blender, and when I import into unity I get like 30-40 actions

[agile solstice]

Blender actions are stored per-object or per-armature
An armature can have multiple animated bones in an action so you'll probably want that if they're meant to move together
The individual objects can then be parented to bones if you want to keep them separate and don't want to merge and weight them to the armature like you would when rigging a character mesh

[iron cobalt]

Is there a way for me to find the one animation I made for it?

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not a blender user but I believe that unity will default to creating a clip for all 'actions' or 'takes' in the source file. You can edit that in the file importer dialogue.

[agile solstice]

I don't think there is any "one" animation, even in Blender
Blender plays all the objects' associated actions in sync when you preview the animation there

[iron cobalt]

How would I set that up from when I imprt the fbx into unity

[iron cobalt]

Baking it doesn't turn it into 1 animation?

[agile solstice]

Keyframe data must be tied to an object, baked or not
If the objects are separate, they must each be in control of their own animation

[iron cobalt]

Its a door with like 6 parts.

[agile solstice]

Like previously mentioned you'll probably want the animation in an armature, since it can be solely responsible for animation of all bone transforms in its hierarchy and let them share actions that way
If there is some way to do the same with non-armature objects, I have not figured out what's the way to do it

[formal schooner]

Hey! Can someone help me understand why my animation is doing this? See video. I'm currently finishing up Creating With Code 2, and am in the process of replacing all primitives in my near-finished "game" with existing assets. I thought it would be even better with adding animation, which I had done earlier in the course. But something is acting up. Here's what I want to achieve:

• When the player runs, play the running Running_Static animation
• When the player stands still, play the Idle animation

Here is my full Player script:

And here's an excerpt which sets my paramter bool:

https://gdl.space/inaqiqexek.cpp

        //Animation
        if (Input.GetAxis("Vertical") > 0)
        {
           playerAnim.SetBool("Running_b", true);
        }

        else
        {
            playerAnim.SetBool("Running_b", false);
        }

[agile solstice]

What are the transition settings from run_static to idle like

That's the one that seems to start when it shouldn't

[formal schooner]

I wanted to show you, but after posting my message I decided to start over by deleting the assets, and re-importing them. I had played a bit with the parameters and wanted everything to be as it was when I originally imported. That broke something. 😅 So I'm first rebuilding and then I'll try again and post here. 😒

[stable coral]

someone know why i get this?

[agile solstice]

Either no animation is playing or the animation is not humanoid-compatible

[untold rampart]

Hey, folk. So I am taking a prefab that I see in a scene in the first pic - the fishing rod. It has an Animator attached to it which matches the animation on this current character.
Anyway, I took the prefab and put it into the same bone position on the character in my practice project, and it's much, much smaller and in the wrong position, even when I give it the same transform data. And it's in the same bone for sure, so it should just work with the humanoid, afaiu.

[stable coral]

i downloaded it from mixamo

[stable coral]

fix it, i set only the one wlking as humanoid

thx

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you include all humanoid bones in the export or only the skinned ones?

[weary pond]

Hello ! I have an gunsling animation which is launched randomly after an idle and I want to know make the gunsling cancellable. For example if I start running while being in the gunsling animation, it cancels out and start animation run. In fact, I need every state to cancel the gunsling. How can I do it ? Thanks !

[random gale]

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

public class ZombieBossTenSecondParticleSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Reference to the particle system attached to the zombie.
    public ParticleSystem zombieParticleSystem;

    // The time interval (in seconds) between each particle system activation.
    public float interval = 20f;

    // Timer to keep track of the elapsed time.
    private float timer = 0f;

    private void Start()
    {
        // Check if a ParticleSystem component was assigned.
        if (zombieParticleSystem == null)
        {
            Debug.LogError("No ParticleSystem assigned to the script.");
            enabled = false; // Disable this script to prevent errors.
            return;
        }

        // Initialize the timer to start counting.
        timer = interval;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        // Decrement the timer by the time elapsed in the last frame.
        timer -= Time.deltaTime;

        // Check if the timer has reached or gone below zero.
        if (timer <= 0f)
        {
            // Trigger the particle system to play.
            PlayParticles();

            // Reset the timer to the specified interval.
            timer = interval;
        }
    }

    // Function to play the particle system.
    private void PlayParticles()
    {
        Debug.Log("Playing particles!"); // Add this line to check if this method is called.

        // Check if the particle system is not already playing.
        if (!zombieParticleSystem.isPlaying)
        {
            // Start playing the particle system.
            zombieParticleSystem.Play();

            // You can also add additional logic here if needed.
            // For example, you can play a sound effect or apply gameplay effects.
        }
    }
}```

This script chatgpt does not work to play a particle system on a object after 20 seconds, what is wrong in the script?
The particle system is a child on the cube and the particle system is in the box of the script.

[hybrid tinsel]

What is wrong is using chatgpt.

[random gale]

yup he wup my ass sometimes

[gleaming timber]

what are these lines?

[zenith fable]

Hey, I need some help on making an object appearing or disappearing when its animated or not, I am doing a FPS animation which consists on the arms picking up a box, but I don't know how to make the box disappear at the end of the animation and when it is not animated at the start, I was told to use "SetActive()" but I don't know what the hole script will consist of, I also don't know how where does the script needs to be added, is it in the prefab or only in the object, I also don't know how can I tell the code if the animations playing or not, I tried using a bool parameter in the animator but I didn't got it to work. Some help will be deeply appreciated

[gleaming timber]

you can do this in different ways... the easier is to add an event inside the animation. than append every method you want

[zenith fable]

do you have a tutorial on this?

[gleaming timber]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[zenith fable]

thx

[untold rampart]

I am not entirely sure what this means, but I can do some Googling when home later.

[untold rampart]

But then what about all the golden toilet salesmen?

[little path]

#archived-pricing-updates-talk

[pliant tulip]

I have a problem, when I run and attack, it keep on playing that animation but it stops when I stops moving or just walking, how can I fix that?

[zenith fable]

Hey, Using a script and Animation Events I made an prefab disappear when its animation was not playing, I got it to work but now the animation won't start, I believe it is because the script for making the prefab disappear is present in a parent of the it but the script that launches the animation is in the prefab itself and that maybe causes a bug when the two got to start at the same time, I tested and saw that the animation was not starting at all in the Animator, is there any way to fix this?

[frosty notch]

Hey there, i have sprite sheet animations that has a freezing problem but can't figure out how to solve this issue

basically i have a player character with sprite sheet set attack animations that i play using Animator.Crossfade, but when setting up the animations i have this weird invisible frame at the end that i can't edit or remove and that causes the animation to freeze on the last frame, any ideas why this happens or how to remove this last ghost frame?

also i'm pretty sure the sprite sheets are set correctly since they don't have an extra invisible frame (i checked multiple times)

[random gale]

they can shit on the regular with the riff raff

[pliant tulip]

does anyone know the issue with the animatino?

[hybrid tinsel]

Instead of just repeating your question, can you try providing more information?

[pliant tulip]

I don't know what I'm supposed to say

[severe canopy]

could someone help me with animations

I wanna play knife animation after pickup the knife object

Wanna make the knife play attack animtion for the player

[pliant tulip]

I don't know what more to say

[pliant tulip]

I got an issue with the animation, the attacks when do a slice attack works for the three other animations, but when i hold in shift to run and make an attack, the animation keep on repeating the same running attack and it only disappears when I walk or just stop running

[severe canopy]

how to play the knife animaton if knife script unity

????

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't show your code, you don't show your animator, you don't describe what SHOULD happen...

[frosty notch]

any help with this? i really can't figure out how or why this freezing key frame is appearing and i can't find anything online :((((

[pliant tulip]

I did show the animator in the video

[hybrid tinsel]

Ah, yes, sorry. seems my phone hadn't loaded the whole video.

Though an explanatiuon of what we're looking at might still help.

[pliant tulip]

two images below is showing the arrows which I normally use for when the player attack while at the top is having the issue

[frosty notch]

wow that's a whoole spider web in there :///

[pliant tulip]

yeah I know my second game is going to be bigger

[frosty notch]

yeah i really hate working with the animator just because of these :(((

[pliant tulip]

yet I still don't know why the run attack is the only one that is not working

[hybrid tinsel]

I personally put my attacks on a second layer that overrides the locomotion

But that doesn't work for everyone

[devout moth]

I'm not sure if this is the right channel, but I'm trying to upload a 3d model to vr chat using unity and I had to add an animator component coz there was an error in the vrchat sdk companion thing about no animator component. However, I'm not sure what all the settings mean and I'm not sure where to find any guides that are up to date.

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried the vrchat server? Most of us here aren't reallt familiar with the specifics of what it needs

[devout moth]

no, i will do that now.

[hybrid tinsel]

Good luck getting it to work!

[agile solstice]

Look into utilizing animation layers, sub state machines and blend trees to design simpler and more efficient animators

But that's just a general tip for the future

[hybrid tinsel]

@pliant tulipSo are your bools being set correctly during gameplay?

[agile solstice]

What you're looking at on the animation timeline is not a "ghost frame" but the minimum length a keyframe can have, the length of one sample or "frame" as you think of them

The delay is more likely because you're using crossfade

You can't blend or crossfade sprite animation, because there fundamentally is no interpolated state between two sprite frames
It just picks the one that has the most weight

This causes the sprite change to be delayed or flicker between sprites with competing blends

[pliant tulip]

ok

[frosty notch]

so what can i do to fix it? is there another function to play animations through code without going throught setting them up in the anim controller?

[agile solstice]

Animator.Play()

Iirc it cannot replay an animation state that's already active though

But that's probably a limitation with the other functions too

[frosty notch]

okay i will try replacing it and see how it goes

[cerulean ore]

In a 2D project with sprite rigging, how would I do an animation with rooting the feet, so I can move the hips without the rest of the body moving?

Currently, the hips are the parent of the rig

So if I move the hips, then the body just moves with it

oh sounds like i need to do IK?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[cerulean ore]

sweet

[random gale]

This script will make a zombie do a animation it got from mixamo every 10 seconds, you could use it for a boss attack every 10 seconds.
drag the animation into the fil=eld in the script in the inspector, and select the animator controller for that zombie in the box filed in the inspector.
then add the attack animation in the animator controller, but have the animation not do any transitions from other animations.

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class ZombieBossTenSecondAnimation : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator; // Reference to the Animator component (if needed).

    // Name of the animation to play for this specific zombie boss.
    public AnimationClip animationClip; // Drag the animation clip into this field.
    public float initialDelay = 10f; // Initial delay before the first animation.
    public float interval = 10f; // Time interval between animations.

    private void Start()
    {
        // Start the coroutine to play the animation after the initial delay and repeat every interval.
        StartCoroutine(PlayAnimationRoutine());
    }

    private IEnumerator PlayAnimationRoutine()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(initialDelay); // Initial delay.

        while (true) // Infinite loop to keep playing animations.
        {
            // Trigger the animation.
            animator.Play(animationClip.name); // (if using Animator)

            // Wait for the specified interval before playing the animation again.
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(interval);
        }
    }
}```

[crimson delta]

If i have an .anim file that is a pose, how do i get my model in the Play scene to do the pose? Where do i put this .anim file on my model hierarchy so they do it when i press Play?

[agile solstice]

That's handled by the Animator
https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g?t=127

You can add animations to your controller by drag&dropping the animation assets into the animator window

[agile solstice]

Delays and transition offsets are handled in the individual transition settings

[marsh zephyr]

I've set "Has Exit Time" to off and "Transition Duration" to 0 in both setups

I am pretty sure it's something specific with using the "Any State" state

[sour lava]

how can i setup a 2d sprite animation so i can set different times for windup, swing and cooloff through script?

[agile solstice]

You would build a state machine that implements delays

Or use the Animator which does just that

[quiet ivy]

Hello, I have a problem: I need to make animation the enemy die like in super mario bros nes? (if necessary I can show the enemy script)

[agile solstice]

That doesn't sound like a problem

[quiet ivy]

Well, for me now this is a problem, as for a beginner

like that

[agile solstice]

The likely simplest way to do it is to have a squashed sprite for the enemy, and play that sprite as animation when enemy is killed
Or instantiate a prefab that's just the squashed sprite, as there's no need to have a functional enemy gameobject after it's stomped

[quiet ivy]

Can you show how it should look in code or post a video on this topic?

[agile solstice]

I don't have any example of something so specific

[quiet ivy]

ok

[sour lava]

for a simple animation like this. if i want to implement a delay in it through script ( stay on frame 3 untill attack is completed ) how can i accomplish that?

ive already written some statemachines for attacks, but no clue on how to match my animations to it

[snow depot]

@sour lava animation event

[sick spindle]

Is there any way to stop an animation from moving an object away from the origin of its parent? I downloaded some mixamo attack animations which dont have an in place check so they offset themselves and dont go back after attacking

[crimson delta]

Would I need two different Controllers for tow different models being animated separately

[agile solstice]

Are the different models connected in some way?

[sour lava]

thanks, ill look those up

[snow depot]

@sick spindle The problem is that those animations were made with characters moving in mind

you can delete the root gameobject property in the animation file, which requires that you duplicate the original animation file so that it's no longer readonly

it's not going to look good

[sick spindle]

yeah i found that to be a solution

its not nice

[snow depot]

uhhh

other alternative is to leave that root gameobject property

[sick spindle]

so im going to attempt to move my parent in accordance with animator.deltaPosition

[snow depot]

have that character model be the child of a gameobject that has all your player scripts on it

[sick spindle]

yeah the main problem is that it calculates the rotation based on a parent rather than the object that gets animated so when the animated object gets offset by root motion the radius of rotation gets altered

[snow depot]

oooh that sucks

......

[crimson delta]

No, but I got it ot work, I did have ot use two diff controllers so i could have each of them pose different

[snow depot]

@sick spindle is it possible to take the animation data from the original and put it in an animationcurve?

what I mean is that the animation file itself won't modify the root

but you can manually move the parent with the root animation data?

[sick spindle]

you can definitely remove the root motion in the animation curve i did that already

but im still on the fence about whether I want the motion or not

because one of them is a greatsword jump attack

and it doesnt feel quite right in place

[snow depot]

don't you just want the y motion then? I assume the character physically jumps

[sick spindle]

oh yeah i kept the y* motion

but like

the feet placement looks off if they're standing in place

because in the original they step forwards

[snow depot]

rip. There's only so much you can do with assets that weren't purpose made for your game

[sick spindle]

yeah its only a school project so im not super worried in the long run

anyways i have my solutions I just need to mix and match etc.

[agile solstice]

Yes, each individually animated gameobject hierarchy should have its own Animator and Controller
If they're individually animated in the same hierarchy, then animation layers and nested Animators are both options with their own tradeoffs

[crimson delta]

I'm working with VRM models, would you know how ot make it so their necks and heads can rotate? LIke I can manually rotate it myself? Scale seems to be the only option that works in Unity when I click on their Head or Neck in the hierarchy

Or maybe I just can't do it in an active Play scene

Is there a way to apply a .anim pose outside of Play Scene so i can line up my models how I want before pressing Play?

or will the .anim pose ONLY work after I press play?

[bleak glacier]

Hi! Does anyone know how to have two objects animated in the same animation?

I'm trying to take the object in the glass case and move it down as same colored cylinders move through the glass cylinders, like water pumping through a pipe.

[hard brook]

do you need to be working with a human rig to use animation layers? i have a mech robot im working with and wonder if i need a different approach to do what i want

[jovial lark]

Does anyone know how to move a sprite in an animation? here in the video you can see that the sprite automatically centers on the player location, and I do not know how to change this

[hybrid tinsel]

Nope. You might need an avatar mask in some cases, though.

[hybrid tinsel]

Either have the animator on a parent object of both objects, or use timeline.

[stuck elm]

If you are using UniVRM, they have a script on the character that controls the head and neck for look IK- you either need to disable that, or control it yourself.

[mortal zealot]

Hi. I am currently using skeletal animation for 2d. Can I change the bone sprite somehow. It baffles me that the sprite is one, and not a composite of other sprites

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@8.0/manual/SpriteSwapIntro.html

[hallow bay]

currently working with rotation animations, and I've seem to run into a problem where I believe an animation isn't finishing correctly, causing it to slowly become more and more offset, despite the values on the curves being the correct rotations

[mortal zealot]

ty!

[bleak glacier]

Thank you! (not gonna do ping just in case)

[solar halo]

Why does my character's legs break when playing an animation? All downloaded from the MIXAMO. What to do with it

https://youtu.be/UXX4PGBJIMg?si=BnrTI_iRDpd-Hv_9

[gritty walrus]

Hi everyone!

So I'm trying to create a simple equip animation, and I made a test one to make sure its working. However, when I try to edit the animation, it seems it completely ignores it, even after restarting the play view. The animation updates correctly, as shown in the gif, when I preview, it plays the new animation, however when I go to pick up my gun, it plays the old, test animation.

The animator is switching to the animation clip properly, however it for some reason is not updating the animation! I've checked that it IS the same animation and there is no duplicates in my assets.

https://gyazo.com/a9dd978856645dfaad66b418fbf4f0fe

[gritty walrus]

Ok! So I can modify the position of the gun, but for some reason the rotation of the gun is not being updated, even with keyframes.

Fixed it. For some reason it allows the gun to be moved anywhere and will be updated, but the rotation doesnt get updated. To fix, I just created an empty game object and used that to rotate, then made the gun a child of the game object

[signal mulch]

Hi hoping this is the proper spot to ask, Im working on an assignment and Im strggling with the animation, dose anyone have some time to help?

[agile solstice]

It's best to ask specific questions so someone who knows the answer can get spot it

[signal mulch]

ok. . . . .Im trying to move objects if the player interacts with them, as well as hiding and unhiding if the object is in the player's possesion

Im also trying to make an object spin, and another object create an emission light

Im open for a Dm if anyone would like to have a better understanding

[crisp jungle]

Uhh... so I've got two animations - riverE and riverE_W, and whenever I do Play(riverE_W) it plays riverE. Is this a quirk of the animator?

Do I have to rejigger the names so there are no nested titles?

It will be inconvenient so I'd rather not

Oh never mind. riverE is just the default state. So something else is wrong

[hybrid tinsel]

That shouldn't work at all

You're supposed to give it a string

[crisp jungle]

I wasn't giving literal code

The problem was that I changed the name of the animation 'asset' but not in the 'state,' which is the only place where it looks

[hybrid tinsel]

That would do it

[crisp jungle]

Yeah it's kind of confusing... I feel if you change the name of the animation it should also change the name of the states for that animation

not sure why that would be separate

but there's probably reasons

[hybrid tinsel]

There is a pretty good reason.

You can have animator variants that use the same states but different animations.

So if changing the clips changed the states it would totally break.

[frosty notch]

Hey there guys! i've asked this question before but did not get any answers, basically i have a characters sprite sheet animations and use them to create some animations, i use animator.play(int StateNameHash) to play them through code, however the animations have this weird freeze at the end where they freeze at the last sprite frame
I also have this weird extra space in my animation window where the last sprite is in the animation (not sure if it's just something normal) but idk if it's what causing the animation to lock on the last frame, can anybody help me solve this issue?

here's what i tried for now :

• remaking all animations (maybe i set them up wrong at first) and that did not work
• adding and remove extra keyframes but that does not do anything

i really don't know where the problem comes from and i really can't seem to fin an answer, i don't know if it's the animation window bugging or if it's something within the sprite sheet (although i checked the sheets many times and they are totally fine and imported correctly) i've also made sure to check off animation looping for animations that do not require looping and there is no exit time on any state since i don't use the animator states anyways

[frosty notch]

can anyone help me with solving this issue? :(((((

[agile solstice]

Since you're playing your animations manually through code, your code is responsible for switching the animation from hitting to idle at the correct time

[hybrid tinsel]

What Spazi says applies, but also that 'gap' after the last keyframe is actually the duration of a single frame, determined by your sample rate

[frosty notch]

Yeah i know, i don't think the code is messing up anything since I'm basically when changing animations I'm checking first with a coroutine that waits until the animations play completely before going back to doing idle animations or walk..etc

Basically i have a coroutine that does:
Float delay = animator.getCurrentStateInfo(0). length
Yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay)

And then switch back to checking for idling or walking animations and setting them accordingly

But even with that the animations keep freezing

[random gale]

Can a box collider and capsule collider effect each other in the scene, especially with ray cast?

I have a box collider on my zombie boss which acts as the trigger for the zombie boss to punch the player I use for when the player.
Also on the zombie boss is a Capsule Collider that I use for when the player shoots at the zombie boss to trigger a particle system hit effect (as if bits of flesh are coming off the zombie boss when hit by bullets)
On some zombie bosses the box collider and capsule collider overlap and it's working fine, but on other zombie bosses the guns do not trigger the particle system hit effect, so I lowered the box collider and I got it working again in play mode when the player shoots at the zombie boss.
So the capsule collider and box collider effect each other?
and what can I do to shop the capsule collider and box collider from interfering with each other in play mode?

[agile solstice]

Have you confirmed that the length returned and time waited matches the real duration of the animations?
Why not use the Animator?

[hybrid tinsel]

Put them on different objects, in different layers that don't interact

[hybrid tinsel]

So is there a reason you can't just use animator transitions?

Like I said, the length of an animation includes the length of the last frame.

[frosty dove]

https://youtu.be/fmWAEL_0sfs

got issue importing animation from mixamo to unity, any idea why?
ping me if u know
thank you

[frosty notch]

okay then, but i still don't know why it would cause these freezes in the animation :((( like i said i control the animations switching based on coroutines

[frosty notch]

i did, some animations have a bit of extra time on the delay that i reduce to have the animation play just once (like the attack animations) but other than that i don't know where the script could cause a problem :(((

[wide rapids]

In Blender I have 4 bones. finger 1-3 and one finger.ctrl as bone control. finger.2 has a bone constraint (chain length 3) attached.
When exporting to Unity and using the Bone Renderer however I can only see finger.1 and finger.2. The rest is available but not visualized. Any idea why that is?

[agile solstice]

The bones are not in the Bone Renderer's list
It only visualizes bones you add to the list

You can alt-click the arrow of a GO hierarchy to maximize (or minimize) it entirely, then shift+click to select a range of GOs and then drag&drop into the renderer's list to instantly have it render all bones

Maybe there's an even better way but this one seems quick enough

[wide rapids]

I am putting them in there as you can see on the right side - however the finger.3 and finger.ctrl aren't rendered properly :/

[agile solstice]

The final bone of a chain is meant to be a sphere, because technically they have no length in Unity

The 4th bone is called "ctrl" which implies to me it could be a control bone and may not be connected hierarchically

[wide rapids]

yeah it's separate and I used ctrl only for posing purposes to build the animation in blender. But now using Animation Rigging package in Unity I feel the ctrl bone is messing up the posing somehow :/ I thought it's related to the visual representation somehow but doesn't seem to be the case

[random gale]

thank you

[random gale]

Also I was looking at the unreal engine and the graphics are a bit better by like 10% but thats it

[sleek field]

Hello! I'm looking for a Unity artist, someone who can animate movies within Unity. Please DM me.

[mellow zealot]

I'm having the most confusing animation problem ever.

I have an animation that looks and works fine
Until I copy the keyframes

Which I need to do, in order to edit it and add animation events

This is frame 56 in the source clip

and this is frame 56 in the new clip, which consists of
the source clip copied into the new clip

There's no errors on import, no errors in blender, no errors at all actually

But somehow, it just fucks up

In blender, I have now changed the rotation order to ZXY to match Unity, and shall check if that works

it is now broken but in different directions.

I'd really appreciate some help with this, because this is the first time that its happened

A new development has been made

ONLY the arms are broken

scratch that

[bleak glacier]

(nvm I figured my question out)

[zenith ginkgo]

so im pretty new to unity and Im trying to learn how to add animation to my sprite.. My box collider was working well until I added my idle animation, which it moved the box half way under the sprite, im trying to fix this but cant seem to get it working properly.. does anyone know the problem?

this only happens when i click play

[sly sedge]

does anyone have a youtube tutoral or something to help me get started with game develpment and just get the basics down

[agile solstice]

!learn

[dusk vale]

🧑‍🏫 Unity Learn can offer you over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience! Make sure to check it out at https://learn.unity.com/

[agile solstice]

Animator overrides component properties such as transform position when the animation plays
Transform properties such as position are relative to parent transform, and collider center is relative to its own gameobject transform
I guess you might have moved the character "above floor" when making animations for it, but that means the collider is still centered to transform zero, and so is the sprite when the animation is not playing

[soft cloak]

Im trying to edit some coliders on an animation

but everytime I do something

only the first one is changed

and Im not even trying to change the first one

[red bramble]

hey, did you even wind up finding a solution for this? I'm having this exact problem now...

[peak sigil]

uhhh maybe? i don't recall too well

give me a sec i'll open up the project

yea no i can't recover the blend file i have nooo clue where it went since i changed my file organization since then: however

somehow i got the animations to be humanoid animations and i'm fairly sure that was a large part of the problem with my og setup that i was trying to troubleshoot

i don't remember at all how i went from then to now though >>

@red bramble hope that clears something up

[red bramble]

the problem I'm having is that I'm trying to export animations that just set one bone to a constant value

Blender really likes throwing those out completely if I don't turn on "Force Start/End Keyframes"

I guess that's because it "bakes" the animation, so it just looks at what each channel's value is at each frame

there's no real difference between an unkeyed channel and a channel that's constant

oh! i just realized

i can export one animation that has many poses and then make many clips from it

[red bramble]

bit of a nuisance -- I can't easily make an animation that just animates one bone to be the same as the default value, since Blender eats it

[crimson delta]

Why can't I press Play, record something new, or add a property to this anim file i got from mixamo? Is it because it's already tied to a blendshape? I can delete keyframes and change values which modifies it, but that's it. I want to add a property to it

is it read only or something?

[agile solstice]

I guess it's a Humanoid Avatar which cannot be animated in Unity

[crimson delta]

What do you mean? Yes it's a humanoid avatar, but I don't udnerstand why i can't edit this animation that I got separately from Mixamo, is it because when I downloaded it from Mixamo, it was already attached to a rig?

[agile solstice]

Humanoid type animations cannot be authored or modified in Unity
Simply not allowed

[crimson delta]

I see

so if I download an animation from Mixamo, am I able to modify it, or do all of mixamo's animations just come baked as a Humanoid type?

[agile solstice]

If they come with source files, you can modify them in a modeling or animation program
I don't think mixamo does though, never used it
Otherwise you can technically modify them but without animation controls it'll be miserable, and you have to figure out importing/exporting while keeping all the orientations and unit scales consistent

[crimson delta]

Got it, thanks

[wind sparrow]

hello i have a question about blend trees
so i currently have a 2d blend tree for simple movement like this
but im wanting to add the ability to have the characters head position move up or down
ive made a few simple 2 frame animations to try to blend like the following
https://gyazo.com/49763d5136187c2c779f52be5ca26bfe

but how would i use them in a blend tree like this?
is there such as a 3d blend tree?

[agile solstice]

No, but you can have blend trees on multiple animation layers

[wind sparrow]

would you mine explaing a little further, i find this a little confusing, thanks.

[agile solstice]

Animation layers can be used to layer animations separately from each other, for example body movement and head direction
There are no 3D blend trees but if your limb animations are separated by layer you may not need one such
Animation layers can be of type override or additive, and if using Humanoids masked using Avatar masks

[crimson delta]

I watched a video on how to change the idle pose for a model, by applying a Controller (in my case a second one) to the ROOT of the model, then going into the Animator window, and drag/dropping the .anim file onto it, then linking it to the Entry node.

My problem is that that video had an anime file that was simply a pose change, like from standing to a sitting position. What i want is to use a whole 2 second animation for my model's idle pose, basically make their default standing pose a swaying motion, not just static standing in place.

I can't seem to get it to work, is there an easier way to change a model's default idle to a moving animation instead of static standing/t-pose?

[wind sparrow]

Okay that makes a little more sense ill give it a go, thanks.

[agile solstice]

Any animation state that's set as the Entry state would be considered the "detault idle", regardless of the motion in the state's animation clip
The Entry state will play first, and will keep playing (whether set to loop or not) until a different animation state is played either by your code or transition conditions

[crimson delta]

@agile solstice I get that, but in the video, she does this....Entry is linked to the Orange tab, which is her Empty State that she linked her pose animation too. And it worked. I do the same exact thing with an animation that isn't just a single frame long on a loop, but with a 2 second looping animation, and it won't work, yet the animator says that it is running and looping

[agile solstice]

I can't glean any relevant info from this
Like I said the animator state machine doesn't care what motion the clips have
Either you missed some step or the animation is not compatible with your character at all

[lost gazelle]

Click the character

[twin musk]

unitynub here, got a new 2d animation working perf, except the 360 rotation of my player body (top down) messes with it when playing during player rotation. What's the trick do make the anim play and also account for the player's movement?

the animation is a pickaxe swing - so pretty basic - 90 degree z axis rotation, then back. it works, but if I also rotate my player the same 90 z, then it ends up negating some of the pickaxe swing.
My player object hierarchy looks something like:
Player
-PlayerRotation
--PlayerBody
--PlayerPickaxe

[twin musk]

here's the issue demonstrated. anim look good when player not rotating. can i make the anim play and stay relative to the player's rotation? i'm guessing it's easy, like i said, i'm newb, so thanks for any insight!

[hybrid tinsel]

That's not entirely true; as much as they try there are workarounds.

[hybrid tinsel]

Imported animation clips are read only but you can add additional curves in the import window. You can also duplicate the clip to a new file which won't be read only.

If you want to use unity's animation editor to edit the animation, import as generic.

[agile solstice]

It is staying relative to player's rotation, which is probably not what you want
I'd pause the player's rotation for the duration of the swing

[agile solstice]

I'd imagine so, but is that something we want to recommend as a solution when someone runs into this?

[sage onyx]

Is root animation even worth the effort.. my character is moon walking forward??? not synced with the walking or running.. ik is checked and unchecked??

[hybrid tinsel]

The animation has to be authored with root motion in mind; it isn't magic.

And foot IK is mostly to correct for different proportions when retargeting.

[agile solstice]

It's better for motion that needs to be controlled by animation
A lot of characters have their animations be controlled by the motion instead

[static cosmos]

Hi, I'm having problems exporting an animation from blender to Unity

This is what it should do

And this is what it does

[agile solstice]

Only object or armature bone keyframes can be exported
Blender's modifiers must be applied at export (with the exception of armature deform modifier)

[static cosmos]

these are my options and modifiers, the animation only moves the object to the X, that's the reason why it only moves to that direction but in Unity, it doesn't consider the curve that makes it move that way, the animation is doing what it should but it isn't moving curve how it should

[knotty condor]

I have a slash vfx using particle system, however I want the slash vfx to launch forward, do i just use the animator to achieve this or another way?

[raw zephyr]

Anybody know how Starfield has such good lipsyncing? I'm not sure I've seen another game with lipsync as good as it

[dark jetty]

attacks instantiate gameobjects. How can I make those gameobjects play a spritesheet animation with least amount of work?
also don't want it to be performance heavy.

[agile solstice]

No matter what your export settings are modifiers are not exportable

[astral cave]

Hello everyone! Im new here and I'm not very into unity yet 🙂 But I've made couple of 3D models in Blender, with animations, textures etc. Something weird happens with some animations while used meta-rigs. My model goes wild 🥲 I have no idea why tbh, have tried every solutions I've heard about, but nothing worked at all. I hope to find some tips here (probably it

[agile solstice]

There's many ways to move a gameobject
I'd first look into giving it some speed/velocity in the particle system itself, seems like the simplest way

[astral cave]

probably it's simple but I have to idea haha

[agile solstice]

Rigify rigs from metarigs do not support being exported into game engines or this happens
They rely on constraints to correct distortion, but those are lost when they're exported into non-blend file types

There's some addons to fix that, I use this one https://github.com/Arminando/GameRig/

[astral cave]

Ouh that's what I was afraid of. Does it mean that I'll lost my animations made while using rigify rigs?

[static cosmos]

I see, thanks

[astral cave]

However, thanks a lot, that's precious lesson for the future 👋

[agile solstice]

I think yes
Last time I had to fix that issue I ended up "tracing" the animations by overlaying the old and new rigs
Maybe there's some better way to convert them but I didn't find it

[astral cave]

I'm already mentally prepared to make new animations haha. thanks a lot

[thin ginkgo]

anyone know a good assetpack with 8 directional animations for basic, pistol and rifle? and i need strafing for left right

[west chasm]

UI animation is not playing and I have no idea why?

I used the same technique on my other scene and it works perfectly fine

[loud halo]

hey guys, anyone got some tips for mobile animations? We have 2d characters animated for 30fps, but those animations don't really feel smooth compared to 60fps, but I think simple animations like idle/movements should be smooth in 30fps

[ancient cove]

Hello, is anyone familiar with IK? I am using LIMB IK but for some reason if you straighten the limb the ik seems snappy.

(2D)^

[torn stirrup]

not sure if this is supposed to be here, but

When dealing with animation controllers, avatars and the like

is there any major difference between a regular Mesh Renderer and the Skinned Mesh Renderer?

I know bones are a thing, and you can use those to control deformations, but, I'm under the impression that if you're just going to use keyframes anyways, aren't bones kind of unecessary? Or am I misunderstanding what's the skinned mesh renderer for?

[dark jetty]

can I animate a spritesheet without using animation controller?

[agile solstice]

Only if you avoid the Animator entirely, but why would you

[dark jetty]

I want to have animation spritesheet for every projectile/ melee slash attack. Wouldn't I need to make an animation and a seperate animation controller for each attack?

seems kinda bad

[agile solstice]

Skinned Mesh Renderer deforms meshes according to weight maps so you can fit them over armatures in a flexible way, regardless of what's moving the bone transforms be it animation, scripts or physics
"Keyframes" are just points of animation data that tell the Animator to override properties of a component, usually Transform position or rotation, but it could also be blend shapes or sprite reference or anything

[agile solstice]

Yes, I think that's a notable exception where the Animator is unwieldy
Unity doesn't deal with sprite sheets, just individual sprite references
If you want to reuse animations across sprite sheets you may want to make a script that assigns Sprite Renderer's sprite by index from an array of sprites

Then you'd animate that index instead of the Sprite Renderer, so your sprite arrays would then be functionally sprite sheets

Scripts can be set to run in editor so you can see the sprite changing when animating without touching the Sprite Renderer

These arrays could be most convenient to store as Scriptable Objects

[dark jetty]

yeah seems like that's a good option. I imagine performance would be worse than with regular animator controllers tho?

or not tested?

[agile solstice]

Negligibly worse, I'd assume
You'd need an extra component for each of them that runs one method for every keyframe, but I don't see anything particularly expensive about either

[dark jetty]

ok thanks

[agile solstice]

If you need like a thousand of them at once then you could look into shader based flipbook animation instead or something else more heavy duty like that

Though even with a thousand of them the scripts might not be your bottleneck

[knotty condor]

Oh thanks!

[west chasm]

why cant i press the play button or anything?

how do I change the sprite to an Image.Sprite

[lost gazelle]

click the sprite

Hey, how do I fix some avatar animations? Some of the animations play strangely, like my character's head goes up too much.

[visual carbon]

is anyone there !?

like i have a problem with timeline , im tryna add animation on a character like a walkin animation but the terrain the character is on is not flat , and the animation, well , is pretty much on the x axis , how do i apply like physic on the animation so that when the dude walkin , he stay on the floor and doesnt fly away

i tried usin collider and shit but it only apply once the animation end , not b4 , not durin only at the end

and that piss the shit out of me off

[jovial seal]

so this is my issue and i have no idea how to fix it !!

does anyone have any idea, because i guess its waiting for the idle animation to finish

but id love that delay to not be there and i also dont want to wait for the running animation to stop before idling again

this is the code, btw

    void FixedUpdate()
{
        rb.velocity = movementInput * moveSpeed;

        bool state = false;

        if(rb.velocity.magnitude > 0) {
            anim.SetBool("isRunning", true);
        } else {
            anim.SetBool("isRunning", false);
        }

        if (movementInput.x < 0) {
            state = false;
        } else if (movementInput.x > 0) {
            state = true;
        } else {
            state = spriteRenderer.flipX;
        }

         spriteRenderer.flipX = state;
}
     void OnMove(InputValue movementValue){
        movementInput = movementValue.Get<Vector2>();

        anim.SetBool("isRunning", true);
    }```

i added it in the on move input too just in case but it didnt help

i think its just an animator issue

[agile solstice]

Show the transition of Idle to Running with the settings visible

There's probably a delay/offset and or an exit time set there

[magic frost]

Hello, im using this line to get the progress of animation in my animator:
scroll.size = _playerScript.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime;
problem is, recently i had to make a few avatar masks and animation layers to combine them, this code kind of works, as it still gets the animation progress in the end but on the start it looks to mix it up with other animations because my scroll size is moving buggy at the start
So i wanted to know what would be the way to get the animation progress in the particular layer

[west tulip]

Hey guys ^^
Is there some documentation/tutorial with the animation rigging package? Because my constraints are lost when I build the game...

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@latest
Also you can download samples for it from the package manager
There's nothing platform specific about it, to my knowledge, but script execution order may change when you make a build if you have not defined it unambiguously and have scripts that rely on execution order

[west tulip]

Thanks ^^ I'm on it.
Unfortunately it's just a prefab with animator and constraints 👀
Maybe it's because of ECS, but it would be weird.

[agile solstice]

I don't know anything about the practicalities of ECS so I wouldn't be surprised if it has an effect

[west tulip]

I'm just remotely controlling a gameobject, the animation part is still not ECS. That's why it's weird. Maybe more something about prefab. Will see u.u

[lean valve]

First time doing 2d animation. So I was watching this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LkNtp9_wU&t=142s which was the most detailed and most up-to-date video I could find, but then they click "Auto Geometry" at 4:35 and it creates a mesh for every body part of their sprite, but for mine (pic), it just makes a big blob around it. I did notice that they have they have all the body part spread out kind of like I do (2:21), but I don't know how to separate them like how they did in the video. Do I have to create a separate png image for each of the bodyparts or is there a way to manually split them?

[west tulip]

what the hell... I'm not sure of what I did but it's working now. Maybe because one of the object didn't have an animator controller

[lean valve]

Oh shit I had the sprite mode on Single instead of multiple, but I still dont know how to do this

[west tulip]

Honestly I never touched 2D so I don't know, but I don't see any bones on your sample. If you really have none, maybe it's why (but as I sais, I don't know).

[lean valve]

Bruh, almost every single time I come ask something here I manage to fix it right after posting the issue

[west tulip]

That's a good thing u.u

[jovial seal]

Thanks so much, disabling exit time altogether fixed it

[agile solstice]

Animation Rigging fully relies on there being an Animator and a Controller

Since it works on top of Animator code

[lean valve]

..Okay so, the tutorial has me confused. On the picture you can see the bones I have on the test rig, but the head has bone influence of every bone, whereas I want each of the body part to be influenced by the bone that is on it. I think I could create one the bone under one body part, then move on to the next, but not sure how the hiearchy would work then, and it is not what they did in the tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4LkNtp9_wU&t=142s), and I am pretty lost

[west tulip]

I though so, but it worked fine in the editor. It was just a stick with no animation.
Well at least now I know ^^

[west tulip]

looking at the interface, you could paint the weight of each bone I guess? There was a cut in your tutorial, and the weight brush was selected after the cut. Maybe the auto weight is enough though

[west tulip]

Or maybe I have a real problem xD I just removed the samples and so the objects I added to my scene. And I no longer have my constraints x)

[lean valve]

No, I mean I don't have the bones influence on each body part like they do. wenever I select another body part so that i could change their influence, all the bones disappear, as they all belong to one of the body parts because I made them all with that one selected

Does anybody know a goddamn up-to-date tutorial like this? There are several major thing missing or different in the tutorial than it is in my editor (2022.3.7f1)

[west tulip]

Well let's hope some 2d guy comes here 🤞

[lean valve]

Man what the hell, they all just add bones without any body part selected, but for me it only allows to add bones when a body part is selected which screws everything up

[west tulip]

Wah for real... my constraints works only if I have imported the package samples. Even if I include nothing in my scene xD

[merry garden]

Hi, does anyone know why this is happening? Unity version 2022.3.4f1 - I've restarted and still have the same issue.

[agile solstice]

Update to 2022.3.10f1

[merry garden]

Will do

[stuck elm]

It looks like the difference there is size and possibly compression. Their image has empty space between the segments and a relatively large pixel scale. The auto geometry is based on the pixel transparency to find islands, and the padding it applies is based on pixel size.

For such a low res image you'd probably have to manually draw polygons.

[stuck elm]

That's a known issue with certain versions of the sprite editor.

[lean valve]

Yeah, did it (I think), and it worked, but I really can't seem to get the bones correctly. Do you happen to know how to do this, or at least a newer tutorial explaining this? So far all of them did the thing I can't do, add bones without a body part selected. But for me, that causes all of the bones to be made only for that one body part and I can no longer follow the tutorial as they rely on adding the bones like that.

If the question is a little difficult to understand, then my apologies, when I get home I'll add some pictures if you'd like that

[twin surge]

Hello guys! im trying to add root motion to this model but something is not working. the charachter is moving faster then it should(with foot sliding) and then teleports back a little when the animation loop starts over. can anyone tell me what might be causing this?

does it have something to do with the "Root Transfor Position (XY)" loop match being red?

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you not actually enable root motion on the animator?

[twin surge]

yes!

here it is

okay. so i assigned the avatar that unity made for me and umm... this happens

evrey bone that is controlled by ik in blender just.. breaks

[lost gazelle]

Hey, how do I fix some avatar animations? Some of the animations play strangely, like my character's head goes up too much.

[stuck elm]

Blender IK isn't imported into unity. And if the naming and hierarchy don't match what unity expects then the avatar might be built incorrectly, too.

[dense magnet]

So I have a few animations I would like to add events to. The animations are Read-only and I would like to know if there is a way to remove the read-only status from the animations to add events OTHER than duplicating the animation?

[agile solstice]

You can add events to read-only animations from animation tab of the mesh's import settings

[dense magnet]

Oohhh, mind dropping me a screenshot?

here?

Found it

Thank you

[random gale]

With this script I am trying to get the audio source that is on the zombie boss model, to play when the zombie boss explodes when he dies.
the enemy script is on the empty game object parent, the zombie boss model is a child of the empty game object parent.
In the enemy script Explosion Audio Souce box fild the zombie boss model is selected.
I just want the audio source to play when the zombie boss dies and explodes, right now it plays but when the zombie boss spawns in the boss room when the player walks through the trigger

[jovial seal]

hi im back with another issue lmao

idk why but if i just lightly tap left or right on my keyboard the transition is perfect because the sprite just barely moves

but if i lightly tap downwards the entire animation for the bottom plays which makes no sense

down and left/right transitions are the exact same thing and they have no exit time

exact same thing and yet for some reason the downwards animation just plays the entire thing and wont switch

[split compass]

is my jumping animation good?

or do i need more frames

[lost gazelle]

Hey, how do I fix some avatar animations? Some of the animations play strangely, like my character's head goes up too much.

[jovial lark]

I have a problem where I want my running animation to be on the ground, like my idle animation, but the running animation is not as tall as the idle, so it gets lifted up to the center of the player position. Does anyone know how I could lower the sprite within the animator?

[agile solstice]

If your sprite renderer is on a child gameobject to your moving Player gameobject, then you can keyframe its position as part of the animations
But another option is to add the offset as pivot point position to those sprites in the sprite editor

If you slice your sprite sheets by grid count / grid size and your sprites are drawn on the sprite sheet correctly relative to the sprite grid, then their relative sprite pivot will not change and no extra work is required to offset it

[jovial lark]

For the first option, should the animator component be on that child gameobject as well?

[twin musk]

Woah blender for 2D pixel art

I rarely see that

[agile solstice]

No
An Animator handles all gameobjects below it in hierarchy, but you cannot have it override its own transform properties or it will be stuck in space

(nested Animators are possible but that's not what you want here)

[jovial lark]

Yeah I see now, got it to work. thanks a lot

[lucid monolith]

idk but thats a sick animation

[jovial lark]

Thanks, I appreciate it

[jaunty prawn]

Hi do you know a method for giving a feeling of animation on a 2d image, i try to animate resize (increase and decrease) but it not render well

For giving breathing effect

[agile solstice]

Not "render" well?

[jaunty prawn]

Image get bigger after smaller it s not look good

[burnt fiber]

I have some crazy idea would like to ask

Would it be actually possible to remove humanoid system out of animation system, and then inject the humanoid system back with Animation.Rigging package instead ?