🏃┃animation

[daring relic]

Does anyone know what might be causing this?

After messing around with some import settings and such, I managed to get every animation working, except the idle one

The weapons and the armor pieces (+ mask) are all different objects, the way they work is that they're constrained to different bones of the body using Blender's child of constraint so they follow the bones

and that works perfectly fine for every animation

except the idling one

in which it completely breaks

[wheat flint]

friends,is it possible to make the prefab of a magazine filled with bullets appear in full animation when the empty magazine comes out of the weapon?

[daring relic]

you could parent some bullets to the mag and put them inside

you just put one to the entrance of the mag

[wheat flint]

yeah but i wanted to make it more realistic but ok

[daring relic]

wdym

magazine filled with bullets appear in full animation when the empty magazine comes out

[wheat flint]

Like: what happens with the empty mag? after you put the new mag

[daring relic]

oh

[daring relic]

most games usually just despawn them

[wheat flint]

is complicated

[daring relic]

take CS as an example

[wheat flint]

yeah i wanted that too but i preferred to spawn an empty mag apart from the animation to simulate what happens to the empty mag

[daring relic]

to who

[wheat flint]

ahhh,mmmm thats easy i think

[daring relic]

what CSGO actually does is not even spawn a new mag

but I get what u wanna do

[wheat flint]

🫡

[daring relic]

you could spawn in a new, full mag off screen

[wheat flint]

yep

[daring relic]

and make that move up as if you were taking it out of your pocket

[wheat flint]

yep but how is spawn the filled with bullets mag to simulate that

[daring relic]

using a script

[wheat flint]

i forget that is my main problem

[daring relic]

Instantiate() is your best bet

[wheat flint]

you cannot drag it to the scene?

ahhh ok

[daring relic]

well, not when the game is playing

[wheat flint]

prefab scene of the animation

[daring relic]

what you wanna do is when you are reloading, you use an Instantiate to spawn a new clip, and make that go in the gun

[wheat flint]

yeah all simulateed

[daring relic]

btw you'd end up in a much better situation if you used Blender to animate

just a suggestion

[daring relic]

can anyone help with that btw pls?

Update: from Blender, unchecking "Add Leaf Bones" fixed the sword being bad, but the mask and right shinguard are still wrong

[tall sail]

unity is not able to read my parameters at all is there something that i can do to fix it?

[daring relic]

debug if theyre even being changed

[tall sail]

well im getting warning just saying they dont exist

[daring relic]

well then

that explains it

you're trying to read parameters that don't exist

could be 2 things, either the names don't match in your script vs in your Animator

[tall sail]

but i defined them in the blend tree and refer to them in a script wihgt quotes

[daring relic]

or the parameter has the wrong type

[daring relic]

ur getting smth like this right

you dont just define them in the blend tree

you need a list of parameters

and you set them here for the blend tree

[tall sail]

yea but is says 'Move Y' does not exist and same with X

[tall sail]

I've been following a guid on unity and i did that and i dont see were i went wrong

[daring relic]

well I can't see it either considering you're yet to send a screenshot

or any code

[tall sail]

code is in biginner

[daring relic]

code.

this is an error log

oh wait

[tall sail]

Its on the beginner channel

[daring relic]

also send the animator stuff

just the entire animator

[tall sail]

not sure if this is also important

[daring relic]

show parameters

not layers

[tall sail]

its the Move X and Move Y

[daring relic]

those are the blend tree parameters

[tall sail]

do u have a gun by chance

fixed ita

[daring relic]

thats good then

[tall sail]

i didn't difine the parameters

[daring relic]

yup, knew it

thats why I kept asking for your parameter tab

I knew you didnt have parameters because you never even opened the parameter tab

because you were still on the layers tab

[daring relic]

I managed to get the error down to this, but that shinguard and mask are satan I tell y'all.

[daring relic]

problem fixed.

after changing literally every single import setting in unity, and every single export setting in Blender, Simplify, the last option turned out to be the key

[acoustic schooner]

Would anyone know what I should look up if I wanted to splice two animations together?

[wet crow]

Hi Guys, want to do a weapon draw animation from behind my characters back. Should I do this with traditional animation (FK) or can I do this procedually somehow? And am I right that Unity isn't capable of recording keyframe animations on humanoid avatars? So that I have to go the Blender route.
Don't have any experience in that, until now I only use Mixamo and the Animation Rigging package...

[vestal iris]

If I want to play like a demonstration to the player of what they should do (like a hologram version of the player instructing them what actions to take) How would you go about animating that? My instinct is setup the holo character exactly like my player object (with the same animator) and write a custom script that will trigger the animation variables at times. Maybe make "proxy" variables on the hologram, and then animate those values in an animation so the whole demonstration can be animated?

But I wonder if there's an easier way, there's a timeline I never used, can I use it to trigger vars on a character animator?

[vestal iris]

If you don't need multiple sword locations / sizes you'll probably have an easier time animating this manually. (I'm not an animator and I use rigging for simple stuff but I feel it would look nicer if properly animated). I only animated small objects in unity recording keyframes and I never tried a humanoid avatar but I don't think it's any different, you just pose the bones in the animation window and it should work?

[wet crow]

Sadly Unity still doesn't support recording keyframes on humanoid avatars, it just won't record them if you click the record button.
I'm doing first person stuff, so it doesn't have to be very precise, just a rotation behind the camera, send an event to spawn the weapon and rotate it back.
Trying to get something done in blender with Jammo of Mix and Jam for now, also to get into the animation workflow a bit

Found a video by CodeMonkey, even he suggests to use Blender or AssetStore Addons => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZW2IEmwOEg

[vestal iris]

til. doing it in blender is probably better in the long run, but my lazy programmer brain is suggesting to: add another animator that uses a non-humanoid avatar, and disable the main animator, enable the new one, this one should allow you to pose your model, and when the animation is finished swap them back?

[wet crow]

Have to admit, got the same idea but maybe it's better to learn the model/animation Pipeline anyway in the Long run, so why not take this opportunity.....

[viral snow]

I want my soldier to be doing the idle animation anytime he isn't moving or saluting. Then I want him to salute Once each time the player approaches him.
Then when he is walking, I want him to do the walking animation

I have tried a lot of things but couldnt get it to work right

He just randomly does the idle -> walk animation

[jaunty raptor]

anyone here know how to start an animation at a certain frame?

[heady lichen]

how can i stop my animation from playing on awake? i have set triggers for them to go off when i reload and shoot but for some reason the animation plays as i start the level even tho im not touching it

plz ping me if you reply to this so i can check this channel again

[heady lichen]

nvm its cuz i had the animator checked lolk

[agile solstice]

The animator (which would be helpful to see here) is set to play the default state first, which you can define by right clicking a state

[agile solstice]

At a certain frame of what and in what context?
If you mean frames of the game, you can count them using a script and set the animation parameter when hitting the specific frame number
If you mean animations, they don't really deal with "frames" at runtime but you can use Has Exit Time on a transition so that it occurs at a specific time relative to the 'from' animation state

[daring relic]

Is it okay if I delete these Input System elements?

[agile solstice]

Try asking in #🖱️┃input-system
Or try it yourself
Or ignore them

[daring relic]

oh wait im stupid

I thought i asked in #💻┃unity-talk

I just ignored it

[clear current]

what am i doing wrong my animation gets to the end and stops. is this not the correct way to loop animations?

[swift jacinth]

friends of club trying to make stage go up and down the Stage was made With blend Shapes however there blendShapes Are Missing do we need to export the Stage and Make the Toggle First or is this Fixable by Reimporting

[jovial seal]

i am having an issue as i am working with multiple body parts

Each ear part animation has its own rotation & position it should adhere to

at runtime, it ignores these instructions to change position within the animation

If it helps, this is the animation in question for the ear

why is this?

basically, it can only hold ONE position at onetime unless i switch off the animator, change it, then re-enable animator

there's nothing in the code that could be holding it in place

and i can't move the ears around unless i shut off the animator (because its position is locked and constantly playing the animation I want it to), but the position is entirely dependent on what its position was BEFORE the animator was turned on.. hence why in the video the downwards animation for the ear is lined up perfectly while the upwards animation is completely off center

But, if I shut off the animator, then play the animation manually, it will go to the correct position

Idk what I'm doing wrong here edit: apply root motion is enabled btw, but no change

[junior cobalt]

can you tell me guys what is happening here?💀 i just added the Animator and realigned the skeleton, i have no animation clips why is this happening? and how do i fix it?

[quasi girder]

Is there currently any workaround for animator events only having one parameter available? Can I have a dictionary full of parameters as that one parameter? lol

[agile solstice]

What exactly do you mean by "realigned the skeleton"
It should be aligned already when you import it

[agile solstice]

"The parameter can be a float, string, int, or object reference, or an AnimationEvent object. The AnimationEvent object has member variables that allow a float, string, integer and object reference to be passed into the function all at once, along with other information about the Event that triggered the function call."
So, I suppose an object could be a whole dictionary or anything basically, but you can't create a new dictionary from the event itself
An AnimationEvent as the parameter apparently can have one of each type of parameter, but I expect that needs to be predefined in code also
So there's workarounds but probably not a way to get multi-parameter events directly from the inspector

[junior cobalt]

i made my character i didnt import anything, i made it in blender, and when i imported it told me that i need to assign the body parts and when i did it had a bit of misalignment (error), so i aligned them so i wont get an error

[agile solstice]

If you made it in blender you did import it, after which it shouldn't be modified in unity
It sounds like you're talking about Humanoid avatar configuration, which can be a whole process

Humanoid avatars can only be animated outside of unity, but generic avatars can be animated inside of it too

Both types get messed up if you change how the armatures are positioned relative to mesh after importing

[junior cobalt]

ok but it wouldnt even start before so how can i not mess with it

[tribal scroll]

this is just confusing

[agile solstice]

You didn't mention what you're intending to do

And none of the text being readable on the video doesn't help for gathering clues either

[tribal scroll]

Movement animations and layers as I said in the video

[agile solstice]

That's not enough information
Movement animations can be set up in many ways, and there's many types of movement parameters from code also

@tribal scroll https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationOverview.html
https://learn.unity.com/course/introduction-to-3d-animation-systems
These have important knowledge for you to understand the animator

[tribal scroll]

Aight cool I'll check it out once I'm home

[hybrid tinsel]

You can make the animation as generic inside unity, then convert it to humanoid.

[jovial seal]

any solution? disabling write defaults on all ear animations seems to have fixed it but for some reason doing that breaks the main body animation and it won't play

[prisma flint]

Hey guys sometime i need one animation to restart even if is not finished, so for that, i make all conditions for the animation false, and then turn then back to true, but since its all happening in one frame i doesnt really work, can anyone help?

[brazen plume]

I have two sets of arms that came with two weapons which have the exact same rig parts minus the guns, but are in different poses. I'm trying to make one set of arms work for both of them but I think because they have starting poses it gets really messed up. Any advice?

[turbid idol]

I need help with this, what's happening?

Anyone?

[turbid idol]

I really need help

[wintry sonnet]

why can't I use a sprite skin with multiple game objects? I really have to have it all in one image?

like, how would I connect all these together?? I can find absolutely 0 resources for this online. Is this really a unique need?

[dark hull]

morning folks!
Simple question, probably, but i cant figure it out 😦
How do i add an animation clip to transition? I got two states (Standing and Prone). The transition is set, all params work alright, but the default blend seems wierd. I have an anim to transition from stand to prone, but cant figure out how to stuff in in the transition. Any advice would be coveted! Thanks ❤️ !

[uncut salmon]

What do you mean by stuffing in the transition?

[dense magnet]

Hey! I am really struggling with animations . I am specifically struggling to sync the Navmesh speed with the animations.

Example, I have a start moving animation. a loop animation and a turn around anim.

[late chasm]

How can I import multiple animations to Unity?

I have 2 animations in blender but when I import this model to unity it only shows 1 animation

[obsidian epoch]

I have issue trying to play second animation where first one left of. Example: Character sitting animation sits on the chair from left side and after that I have looping animation that should play and loop in sitting position. I applied root motion but for some reason sit loop animation just starts from origin, any ideas why?

[late chasm]

lol there is none to help us xD

[obsidian epoch]

Sadly I don't know much about animations in blender :/

[late chasm]

@obsidian epoch you said about secound animation. How did u made 2 animations? I made 2 animations but there is only 1 when I import to Unity

[dark hull]

i ment to put it in there someho. I have Standing anim, prone anim AND the transition anim. But since im transitioning between two blend trees, i only see the setting oc conditions, speed of the transition and so on. Can seem to find a way how to add an animation (guy laying down) into the transition...

[obsidian epoch]

I imported animation from asset store

[uncut salmon]

Well, you can add the transition animation between the two in your blend tree and then use a float value to drive the blend.

But blend literally combines animations, which will probably look odd if your transition animation is elaborate.

Probably don't want to use a blend tree for this at all and just animate with states

[dark hull]

thanks very much. Doesnt seem ALL that bad after all 😄

[violet urchin]

Hey everyone! I have problem transferring animation of a pole dance in to a character
In MotionBuilder everything is ok, but in Unity hand didn't match the animation and clipping through the pole

During animation import I set Avatar Definition to "Create From This Model" and set animation to bake
I noticed that character Avatar that created by unity didn't match to animation Avatar, tried to fit animation avatar to character but got a mess in result

Can anyone please suggest how to fix this?

[dense magnet]

Can anyone help please?
The preview loop looks great, but in the scene view you can see the feet shifting or sliding about

[violet urchin]

choose animation in animator tab and enable Foot IK, maybe it'll help

[dense magnet]

Giving it a try now

[dense magnet]

Sadly no luck.

could it be a root motion issue ?

[violet urchin]

Hmm, had simmilar problem before and that helped.
I'm new to animation so don't know other sollutions sorry 😅

[dense magnet]

All good. Thanks for trying though.

I am in 2 minds just getting root motion anims and syncing up the Navmesh with root motion

[tough orchid]

The first picture is my combatIdle animation in the scene view, and the second picture is my combatIdle in the Animation window. Why don't they match?

[jovial seal]

So I found the issue to my previous problem was that body needed to be on Additive and all other body parts on Override

I have a new issue, though. All body parts (excluding the muzzle for some reason) fall off when the character does a sharp turn (navmesh agent), then readjust themselves

Example:

Transitions are all on 0, no exit time, and I've tried disabling the animator, the body parts do not fall off then on sharp turns, only if animator is enabled

The body parts should be teleporting instantly to their positions, not sliding into them

I use blend trees btw

is there a reason this might be happening?

[hybrid tinsel]

The help you need is using the 'print screen' button to capture a screenshot.

Those videos will just give peeps vertigo

Yellow messages like that are generally not a big deal, they just give information that might help if you are trying to debug things.

As opposed to having an actual error

[hybrid tinsel]

It looks like you might have the wrong transform set as the root; that arrow at his feet in the preview should be pointing in the direction he is moving.

You might just have the incorrect offset in the root rotation

[wheat flint]

god hate me

again with this d*mn error

[hybrid tinsel]

What exactly is going on? You're spawning a projectile with an animation event and it is in the wrong place because the gun moves during the animation?

[wheat flint]

yep but at the start and end of the animation the gun is back to his normal position

which isnt happening now

[hybrid tinsel]

You can try adding something like this to the instantiation script

        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        //fire
    }```

That avoids weird interpolations affecting the spawn.

[wheat flint]

i though it was something about the spamming shoot but that doesnt happened before

[agile solstice]

I think the unnamed problem here is that the weapon transform drifts permanently when having its animation interrupted

I had it before too but never solved it

[hybrid tinsel]

Aah. Yeah, could be.

[lapis ruin]

Is it possible to use multiple animator on the same humanoid character?

Basically it's for modding purpose and I can't add layers to vanilla animator, so I wonder if I can use another animator with upper body avatar mask to override those parts with custom weapon animations while keeping original movement animations.

[agile solstice]

Not at the same time

[lapis ruin]

Hmm. Thanks for the info, still I wonder if there's any workaround

[tough orchid]

Can someone help me with this?

[late chasm]

Please I beg u to help me with blender. I am stuck for 3 days with simple bug and I dont know how to fix it

The animation is perfect in blend but in fbx its somehow bugged

[wheat flint]

its nothing to do with the animator controller state any state?

@agile solstice here is the image of the settings from that state

[agile solstice]

Nothing that I can think of
It occured in my case without Any State, but now I the issue doesn't happen when reproducing my setup from memory

[agile solstice]

Multi-object animations are not saved unless they're in one armature hierarchy, or saved as a "meta" strip in the NLA editor as mentioned here #🏃┃animation message

[jovial seal]

why is my blend tree playing two animations at once? the animations have position properties attached to them so its making the body parts slide

and how would I fix this

it should be teleporting to the designated position the second the position changes

(they all follow the same velocity from the body)

[agile solstice]

Blend trees blend animated properties
This means object positions are interpolated linearly between the animations
Sprite references cannot be interpolated so they're instead snapped to closest

I assume you would've avoided these headaches and a lot of work by not involving transform positions in the keyframes at all

[jovial seal]

well the issue is i have to cause all the body parts are different and need to be aligned differently from one another

[agile solstice]

Instead baking the offsets directly into sprites with the pivot points

[jovial seal]

Well the pivot points won't be the exact same because all the body parts are so different from each other

[agile solstice]

The body part needs an offset
That can be set through the animation clip, or the sprite's pivot point

The end result is the same, except with animation offsets you run into these sliding issues

If you need characters to use the same parts with different offsets, in case they have different proportions, you can apply that through inherited transform positions in hierarchy

(or with scripted offsets after the animator's script execution order if you want to get more technical about it)

[jovial seal]

ok how would I do that

cause each body part needs its own offset for all the directions

[agile solstice]

If all your body parts are imported and sliced in a sprite sheet in a grid layout with all offsets they need, you never need to define them manually

Look up "pivot point" in the context of sprites if that seems unfamiliar

Most important thing is to not use automatic slicing, as any pre-defined sprite sheet offsets will be lost

[jovial seal]

I always use automatic slicing

but I adjust the pivot points myself

[agile solstice]

That's extremely laborous and you're unlikely to get them right anyway

In this workflow you compile the characters before exporting them as a sprite sheet, and when exporting you do it so the offsets are preserved

[jovial seal]

well I tried to do it by grid

but I couldn't get all my sprites to fit neatly in any kind of grid

what do y ou mean compile the characters btw

[agile solstice]

Draw them whole in some 2D program, with parts as a layer each
Then export layers in a grid sprite sheet or as individual sprites
The pivot point will be centered relative to the character and will need no adjustment

[jovial seal]

i did do that, I'm using aseprite though so that option doesnt exist, so i just drew it on the body then copy and pasted it over to a new frame and did it that way

[agile solstice]

Which option doesn't exist?

[jovial seal]

exporting all the different layers separately

[agile solstice]

You can always do so manually, but it so happens Aseprite is one of the few programs that can do that
"Export Sprite Sheet" with "Split Layers" option

[jovial seal]

i don see it maybe its because im using libresprite which is just a fork of asprite

it shouldnt matter anyway cause it's all lined up on different frames

but anyway how would I retain everything cause it doesnt fit into a grid

[agile solstice]

I'm not sure what that means
If the compiled character fits into a grid, it sounds like all the parts should too

[jovial seal]

Wait was I supposed to draw it on a grid?

[agile solstice]

If you want to avoid total pivot point chaos then I'd recommend it

Grids and so sprite sheets can be of any size or proportion

But you want to keep it consistent so you know where the pivot point will be

[jovial seal]

oh 160x160 works

[covert sandal]

Hey I want to import 3 png frames into unity and then into the animator, but the animator does not want those frames, what do i do?

[jovial seal]

omg spazi I love you...

THIS ACTUALLY WORKS

[covert sandal]

@jovial seal what do u use for those animation things. I am new in animation

what format

[jovial seal]

spritesheets?

[agile solstice]

@jovial seal When using this workflow it may seem like you are wasting a lot of empty space for each sprite sheet just for the correct pivots
But you can later use Unity's Sprite Atlas feature to automatically compile only the relevant pixel data to the atlas while keeping the pivots

It's just an optimization step and doesn't require any manual tweaking

[vestal iris]

Just noticed something. using the footsteps via animation events from the standard assets third person example. So it seems whenever I stop my animation blends into the idle state so my character makes one final step. Is there a common way to add an extra step? I can't add an animation event to my idle state cause it'll loop.

[agile solstice]

I'd try an extra state that has the Idle motion and also a step event, but rather than looping it transitions automatically to idle using Has Exit Time
Or call the event method in script when the speed drops below a certain threshold to avoid complicating the state machine

[crimson delta]

When using Shift Click to free move position, is there a way to move just the bone you're highlighted, not the entire structure attached to it as well?
I have an asset, a snake creature, so I can't see the bones, but it does have bones. Trying to move one in the middle, moves the entire lower half as well, i just want to move the middle bone to adjust the mid section, is that possible?

[agile solstice]

Try asking in #📲┃ui-ux or #🧰┃ui-toolkit
I don't know about UI Toolkit but I don't think UGUI uses or needs texture caching
Rather it's procedural geometry that gets regenerated when the Canvas involved changes in any way

[vital dirge]

ok

[agile solstice]

@undone slate It was really helpful that you brought up meta strips for multiple animation exports
I notice however that it seems to attach a copy of every action to every object, increasing the number of unneeded clips exponentially
Have you noticed any way around that?

[undone slate]

yeah! when you export, under baking there are a couple tick boxes, un tick everything apart from NLA strip. Once in unity when you expand the FBX it should just be the one meta strip

[agile solstice]

Great!

[undone slate]

🙂

[wheat cedar]

is it possible to easily change the material slot that this animation refers to?

[stable osprey]

can you transition to another animator layer or do i need to just make a state machine even I'm transforming my character into completely different sprites?

[swift stag]

i exported a model with shape keys to test it out but it seems some of the shape key are not working (dont more or move more objects than it should). it works perfectly in blender. does anyone know what is going on?

[shrewd mountain]

I got 2 objects that basically use the same armature. Trouble is, however, whenever I try to make the hoodie use the same armature as the hoodie, I just... can't. I don't know why. it just does NOT work.

[jovial seal]

is there a less laborous way to make animation clips?

everytime i import a new spritesheet i have to go through all 50 of my animations and manually replace each sprite

[agile solstice]

Editor script that would automate the process
Or a custom component that lets animations control the index of a swappable sprite array rather than explicit sprite reference

[sand dagger]

You might have had a mirror modifier or other modifier that got applied when you exported from blender. This would change the blend shapes.

[swift stag]

Fixed it, it was vertex groups

[sand dagger]

ahh, that warning I always ignore

[grim glen]

idk whhy but my collider doesn't resize

[glad sparrow]

I am trying to change the scale on my gameobject with an animator, but whenever i try to the scale goes back to its default value. If I disable the animator, the scale changes properly to what I want, but whenever I turn the animator back on, it goes to it's default value from when the editor play mode started.

Any ideas? It does not appear that I am editing the scale anywhere in the animations - but it's definitely somewhere related to the animator

[grim glen]

Could it be due to WriteDefaults?

[glad sparrow]

Honestly, not sure. All my animations have write defaults checked, but it was always that way and I didnt used to have this issue.

[grim glen]

Maybe unchecking them could help?

Idk been having similar issues

[glad sparrow]

Hmm, seems to be the same result with them unchecked

[ornate dirge]

do you need to draw the arm of a 2d character seperate to attach weapons to it.

[uncut salmon]

You can do whatever you want and entirely depends on your art

[deep birch]

Hi, I would like to ask why my animation preview window in animator cannot show full animation. How can I fix this? (happens after update to 2022.3.16f1). The animation play as normal when in game mode, but I want to see it in preview window

[white hollow]

Hello, how can I solve this issue?

[red bramble]

Where did you get the FBX from?

[red bramble]

Your transition duration is zero. What if you increase that?

[white hollow]

Do you answer me?

[red bramble]

Yes. Where did you get the FBX from?

It looks like it has bad animation data in it

(the framerate should not be zero)

[white hollow]

Link here: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/stylized-character-customizable-modular-clothes-181717
Just imported to unity

[red bramble]

If they're not meant to have aniamtions, maybe the FBX was just mistakenly exported with some junk animation data

[white hollow]

Do you know how to solve that?

[red bramble]

Is it causing a problem? If not, you can ignore it

[white hollow]

Yes, it causing many problems

1. No textures
2. Mis-functional asset

[wide rapids]

Hey people!
I have a problem with my animations. They screw up completly and I am unable to understand why.
I rigged my model in Blender with Auto-Rig-Pro. I send uploaded to Mixamo and downloaded a applied idle animation (without Skin!).
Then I created an Animator with my custom Animation Controller attached to it. In the controller I added the Idle animation from Mixamo as an entry animation.

In the screenshot one can see that my whole transform is super funky (scaled down to 0.0.1) and crazy rotations etc. The Animation window also shows errors with missing bones which I can verify do exist (see Hierarchy window).

What is going on here? Can someone give me a hint please?

[wide rapids]

nevermind I had to download with skin it seems

[deep birch]

Thank you for replying. I increase it to 0.25, it shows a bit more but still dont show full animation

is this a bug in 2022.3.16? because before update I dont have this issue

[red bramble]

This is exactly the expected behavior for a very fast transition duration

I see there's no exit time

That means that you'll exit as soon as the transition is valid

[red bramble]

If you want to play the entire animation before you're allowed to transition out of the state, turn on Exit Time and set it to 1

[deep birch]

I want to see the entire animation because I want to know the timing of the action occur so to determine the attack timing, damage timing. If I set the exit time to 1, the timing is not accurate. I know I can see the timing from the original animation but I have a speed multiplier in the animation. It's just matter of convenient. Just curious if anyone in 2022 version has the same problem?

[red bramble]

What makes the timing “not accurate”?

The animation will play to completion, and then it will transition to the next state

And animation events will always fire at exactly the same time

[deep birch]

wait I miss read your cm, I thought u means turn transition duration to 1

ok that solve it. Thank you very much.

[static haven]

Hey guys.. I started in unity 2 months ago in 2d games.. now I want to start in 3d games.. and first step is to understand some stuff.. one question for you guys.. if I create a character in 3ds max or blender.. do i need to rigg and animate them there or I rigg and animate them on unity ? thank you

[red bramble]

Ah yeah, that’s different!

Transition duration is how long it spends switching

[cedar ruin]

Unity has some limited tools for animating. The concept is the same both in 2d and 3d.
It's still recommended to rig and create animations in a dedicated software.

[static haven]

But can I also exporte the rig with the model to unity?

[cedar ruin]

Yes of course.

[static haven]

or I will need anyways to use the unity rig system?

[cedar ruin]

No. In fact, you can't rig in unity. Not by default at least.

[static haven]

hmmm, ok because I have 10 years exp with 3ds max, was thinking about trying 3d games now as I finished my first game already in 2d, and I think 3D is more fun

[red bramble]

"rigging" is the process of deciding how each bone in a skeleton moves a mesh around

[static haven]

even tho harder prob

[cedar ruin]

You can animate an already rigged character, but that not recommended as I mentioned previously.

[red bramble]

oh, okay, you know a thing or two :p

[static haven]

i know 😛 thank you anyways 😛

i dont know about unity.. 3ds max and zbrush I know a lot, 😛

[red bramble]

My main bit of advice: make sure it's really easy to export your model into unity

i have a one-click export process

you don't want to have to pick a bunch of settings correctly every time you want to update the model

[static haven]

hmm.. I already have a game in mind to start.. just need to do some learning on char animation, rigg etc in unity to make sure I can proceed with it.

hmm.. i see, well it will be a long journey but at least I know now its possible

thank you guys !!

[slender egret]

Hi all not sure if should I post it here or in the vr section. Anyone is able to help me with this question on the forum? Thank you all.
https://forum.unity.com/threads/record-humanoid-anim-from-vr-full-body-tracking.1534852/?gq=vr recording

[rapid lynx]

hey guys

is it possible for 2d rigs to flip the bones in the animation

do i just change the scale of the bone?

[jovial ruin]

are ylou tryna flip a character?

[rapid lynx]

flip his head

but i save only the bones

not the IK stuff

[jovial ruin]

you could try rotating the Y 180 degrees

idk if that will work

[full mesa]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/animated-low-poly-angel-knight-269667

[rapid lynx]

no it has to be flipped, it will be upside down if its rotated

[jovial ruin]

oop i meant Z

not Y

rotation 180 along z should flip it

[rapid lynx]

i just set the xscale and yscale

anyway how do i make the weapon appear behind

the weapon is a separate object

from the rig and stuff

its a PSB file

[agile solstice]

I think you're looking for https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1080140002849214464

[agile solstice]

If it's not part of the rig, then it obeys the standard rules of 2D sorting
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html

[dense agate]

Do you guys use mixamo for generic animations?

[rapid lynx]

Yeah but the psd asset is on one layer

[icy mist]

Hai! Having issues with my animation not playing for some reason? I explain and show better in the video
https://youtu.be/gnZet1bFQaw

[karmic dome]

whats the best way to go around making a 3d bow string animation?

for like charging and shooting

[agile solstice]

What's "best" is nearly always different in each individual situation

Bow string can be rigged like all geometry, if it is geometry, but whether the string pull can be a baked animation or if it needs to happen in realtime may require a bit of a different approach
It could also be made with a line renderer

[brazen plume]

Hey so is there a way to make this guy stop clipping through the floor without completely culling update transforms?

[polar dust]

I have this very basic setup with one transition. The condition is not triggering and the Walk_Forward animation doesn't play even though I set the condition parameter in the update loop which I output to the console. Why doesn't it transition?

Debug.Log(animator.GetFloat("VelocityZ"));

[agile solstice]

Your transition looks to be at the very end of the idle animation, so I expect it takes almost a full 4 seconds of walking before the transition occurs

[polar dust]

So I got the live update to work, and the transition does occur but the animation does not play. If I swap the walking and idle animation, the walking plays just fine but then the idle animation does not play

turns out the asset i'm using already had an animator attached to it, so i removed that and now i'm good

[olive cape]

#🖼️┃2d-tools

[covert sandal]

The animation is the reason, I think.

[nova dagger]

I need help object rotation is not rotating how I want it to, I only want it to rotate on the y axis it starts at 0 and ends at 360

I think it has to do with parent constraints but I don't see how I can make this rotate the way I need it to without having the objects parented

[wide rapids]

How can I change the speed of an animation state with a script? Using Animator.speed will change the speed for all animations. However I simply want to set the speed of one animation state for it's particular animation time and leave all other states as they are

[polar dust]

see the multiplier checkbox? check that and use animator.setFloat("MyParam", ...)

[nova dagger]

fixed it

[wide rapids]

Thanks a heap

[twin surge]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[brazen plume]

Is there a way to do something like this? (Enemy loco is an animator controller.)

I don't want to change the speed of the whole animator just the state or layer

[ancient pagoda]

I don't really know what I'm doing but I was told to ask for help here so here I am

I was copying blendshapes from a model to another one using a custom package I downloaded. everything is displyed in the face, but they don't appear on the blendshape list (which I need to have for the thing I need to work)

[hoary salmon]

how can i play two animations simultaniously in animator controller

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1192022099624214588.webp?size=48&name=FIRE_IN_THE_HOLE&quality=lossless

[grim glen]

Use layers

[hoary salmon]

the anims are different length
uh how can i sync tem then

[grim glen]

What do you mean

As in how do you want to sync them

[hoary salmon]

like when anim1 on layer1 starts/at beginning of loop
immediately play anim2

[grim glen]

Aah

Then yeah give them the same parameters to play them

Anim2 should be on layer w

2
Layer 2

[jovial seal]

I don't know if this is necessarily an animation issue but; for some reason, when any of my randomly generated characters are flipped, it overrides the animation event that tells the tail body part to appear over the body (normally the tail is behind the body).

But when the character flips to the other side, the tail gets on the correct layer again.

But this only happens when I build & run the game. In the unity editor preview, it works

If relevant, this is the code for flipping the sprites (just flip the body and all the body parts under it flip as well)

        _bodyTransform.rotation = (movingHorizontally && velocity.x > 0) ? Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0) : Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);  

An example of the issue:

this can be really dark on some monitors and my recording isn't the best quality at all so you may need to turn brightness up

flipping the body outside of horizontal movement has other visual issues, so i tried to contain the flipping to only horizontal movement but as you can see that doesn't work, and I really don't want to create many more sprites just to have left/right when I can flip the sprite

[agile solstice]

@brazen plume right above you here are instructions just for that

[agile solstice]

In my experience a different sorting in build compared to editor implies that the sorting is actually ambiguous with those settings, what method are you using for it specifically?
It's possible that the event isn't called for some reason, which you can also test
Since you're using sprite renderers I'd use the flipX option instead

Also, at a very specific point in the characters' path the tail seems to be fixed
That could be due to sorting ambiguity if nothing seems to "change" at that point, or it could be a clue that something does happen there

[vernal kiln]

can someone tell me how to fix this? i am using animation rigging/inverse kinemtaics
when i move the ik tagets manually the leg is moving to it's target, but if i move the body itself and move it away from the target the leg is not oriented towards the taget, if i move the target manually tho it suddenly does

the twod red cubes are the targets but the legs are not looking at them, only if i click on the target and move it

[rapid lynx]

guys how do i get the animation clip in a blend tree

[sullen wasp]

how do I change the frame rate? the tutorial guy has a sample field but its not there for me

Found it

[hoary oracle]

can someone gives some feedback for me on this animation. I am only a beginner in pixel art and have 0 experiences in actual drawing

I know the arm contracting part is really off

[jovial seal]

Yeah no it’s when they flip

You can see the sprite flip over it gets fixed

Im using an animation event to set the tails sprite render layer to 1, and it’s default is 0

Also if it matters, the body itself is on a sorting group, but idk why that’d change anything

[agile solstice]

By render layer do you mean sorting layer? Which sorting layer and order in layer dies the sorting group have then?

[agile solstice]

One of the frames when the punch begins seems to be completely misplaced

Or I'm not understanding it

[jovial seal]

Sorting group has 7 and all their layers are on the players layer so the player can layer sort via pivot point

[agile solstice]

Sounds right to me

[jovial seal]

And yes I mean sorting layer. The one on the sprite renderer

[clear current]

hi i need some help in the animation window when i play the animation its good. but when i add it in scene view and play it. the legs look odd and the player has a air gap underneath

[topaz fog]

Hey, I have a general question about the approach of animators when making games... I am mainly a software dev but made some games and continously wanted to enhance the feeling of the game, graphics, etc. Personally, animations are one of the most interesting parts of games, and I am confused about which approach you take when animating a 3rd person player which can walk, run, etc. all that and then also like combat, pickup etc. The last named animations would be somewhat procedurally done, I did that, set things up all good, but still it does not seem right (opinion-wise), and I struggle with having smooth animations and transitions in the motions, e.g. basic movement like forward and right, I just wonder if anyone could give me a somewhat professional response, explaining how you normally approach all that: Do you use keyframe animations for all movements as much as possible, Or do you use procedural animations (maybe for everything)? I also had a look at motion matching and a unity implementation but I do not have the capabilities or budget to expand such a system...

I really just struggle with the idea of the ideal animation architecture, the logical (most logical) approach.

[hardy tartan]

Hey, so I'm making a homemade version of Jeopardy, but I'm struggling to make the animations work.

So right now I have a grid of buttons that are the questions, and when pressed, they should grow to the size of the screen and then change the scene.

After the question is done, the scene comes back and the button is disabled. But every time I do this process with another button, the original one gets reenabled.

Help?

[uncut salmon]

Do each button have their own animator component?

[jovial seal]

also whatd you mean by this?

I removed rotation, and it's not related, it really does just fix itself in that point in the path

Really random

layering and navigationa ren't relayted to eachother at all

[jovial seal]

So I think I found a fix, I changed in the animation for it to go from 1 in priority to 4 in priority from the layers and the issue seems to be gone

weird

[crimson delta]

do i need to be in Play mode to make an animation?

I remember needing to be in play mode for a particle system animation, idk if i have to be just for a head turn animation

[red bramble]

No, but you do need to have an object with an Animator on it selected

[crimson delta]

what if there isn't an animator on it, but i use it anyway to create an animation clip?

[hardy tartan]

No, one parent gameobject has the main animator

Each animation fades all other buttons while making the pressed one grow to the size of the screen

[elfin remnant]

hi id love to give you some feedback just create a thread with me or alternatively you could just dm me cause im not sure when your active and im going to sleep here pretty soon

[red bramble]

You just sent me down the motion matching rabbit hole! I’ll need to take some time to look into that

[uncut salmon]

You should be making each button have their own animator that animates them grow or fade out, then call the correct animation on each button based on the player's input.

[polar dust]

I'm following this tutorial to combine character controller movement with root motion, but when I implement OnAnimationMove , animator.deltaPosition is always (0,0,0). Root motion was working as expected before adding the method. Does anyone know why deltaPosition is 0? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNxEetKzc04

[cedar cloak]

Lads need help with 3d animation. So when I added a animation from maximo from no where my animation moves my model without moving object itself, is there a way to block so the animation can't move the model or avatar?

Like can you solve it in unity

Or you need a code?

[polar dust]

Was there an option to download "in place"?

Otherwise you can make the animation writable and remove the root xyz translation

[cedar cloak]

How?

[polar dust]

I haven't tried this before, but I believe you can mark the animation read/write, then go to Window->Animation select the animation and delete the keyframes that move the root

[knotty bridge]

Beginner question, how come the last keyframe of my animation is only lasting half as long as the others?

[hoary oracle]

Fixing My Animation

[hoary oracle]

because the last keyframe only has that 1 space

others have 2 as you can see

[knotty bridge]

Yeah I'm confused how to increase that

[hoary oracle]

there are some dumb but still effect way is that you duplicate the last key frame

[knotty bridge]

Gotcha thanks

Also is changed the sampled the best way to choose the framerate? I chose the same samples across 2 different animations but they seem to be going at different speeds

[hoary oracle]

yes

[knotty bridge]

Nvm I think I get it now, thanks!

[cinder gale]

Hey there. My character Mario has an animator and a gray silhouette behind him. This silhouette should always be the same sprite as Mario himself. When I set this in code however, the silhouette always updates 1 frame too late. Is there any way to make this happen on the exact same frame? Here is the code I use for it.

 
playerSilhouetteSpriteRenderer.sprite = playerSpriteRenderer.sprite;

[crimson delta]

I downloaded a model asset from the store, but i can't seem to edit the animation clips that are on it

I can open the prefab, see the anim clips, double click to open the animation window, but i can't modify anything here, how can i?

I know i can Control D to copy it, but then how do i put it back INTO the asset

[charred belfry]

You cannot modify assets in Unity, only their import settings.
Modify it in a modelling program, or duplicate the animation and then use that duplicate in your state machine

[crimson delta]

also, even after Control D, and opening it up, i can't turn on the recording function to record any changes or additions to it

the recording function is still grey'd out

ah

[charred belfry]

You have to have a model selected in the scene (or a prefab iirc) with the animation assigned to record the model's changes

[crimson delta]

Does the model have to be in the SCene

[charred belfry]

I am fairly sure prefabs work too, but I cannot remember

[crimson delta]

should i use the prefab, or the FBX model then

eh i'll try both

Still can't turn on recording to add or modify the keyframes

so can i modify someone's created asset that i got from the unity store at all?

like i want to just add a movement to one of tis animations, am i able to do that at all?

[charred belfry]

I feel like I already answered that? #🏃┃animation message

You can modify the duplicated animations

[crimson delta]

I figured it out I think. I had to drag and drop the duplicated animation onto the asset in the Hierarchy window, then it created another animation controller for it, and now i can edit it freely

I could not just straight up modify duplicated animations, it was not letting me

[crimson delta]

If I copy and paste a keyframe, and then move the second keyframe on top of the first one....is there two keyframes there, or just one?

Trying to copy and paste the entire list of keyframes here for the animation, in order to prolong the animation, not slow it down. I"m trying to prolong so there's time for the head turn animation to happen. As it is now the animation is only one second, but it's looped over and over to simulate an idle.

I can copy and paste the keyframes, but idk if having too many keyframes is gonna get just messy or too big of a file size, etc

[hoary oracle]

why Unity can only load sprites with 8000 in size

[agile solstice]

I think the default texture import max size is 8k but can be increased to 16k
If you are importing a PSD/PSB with layers, the effective max size is lower as every layer must be stored side by side in the imported texture

[agile solstice]

Usually that happens if the animator (or clips themselves? not sure) are using a humanoid avatar, in which case the ability to edit animations is blocked

[agile solstice]

Animator runs in LateUpdate, so your script must run in LateUpdate as well but also after the Animator in script execution order

[cinder gale]

Alright thanks!

[hoary oracle]

I am currently making a 2d top-down game and am using conventional 2d hand-drawn sprite sheets for my character. I just watched a vid on youtube saying I can replace the labour intensive process by using Blender and meshes. Can someone give me some recommendation? Should I learn Blender? Will using 3D meshes significantly affect the performance of my game?

[spare rose]

Is there an option to turn on transforming objects in Maya?

I can't move metahuman after importing and rigging it with advanced skeleton

[red wasp]

Hi please I need help. Why is my animation of jumping and falling looping even though I turned off "Loop Time"?

[agile solstice]

The transition to it could be triggering repeatedly, also

[red wasp]

this is the transition

[agile solstice]

Possibly because it's from Any State
Try not to use it

[red wasp]

at all?

[agile solstice]

It creates unpredictable behaviour, such as what you're experiencing, because it overrides the state machine
And leads to bad practices, again because it overrides the state machine

If you want to avoid problems with it, use it only when you have one-way states like a death

[red wasp]

now I'd have to change the script and I have no idea how, but thanks anyways

[agile solstice]

If the transition Settings give you the option to "can transition to self", disabling it might solve this specific problem

[red wasp]

it worked! Thanks so much!

[gleaming stump]

hey, i have this animation "blow kiss" witch not contents a character mesh unlike the "walk" which has the character fbx

i'm already try change the avatar

but it gives a error when i select "copy from other"

[sullen wasp]

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

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed;
    public Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Vector2 movementInput;
    public Animator animator;




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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        movementInput.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        movementInput.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        movementInput.Normalize();

        rb.velocity = movementInput * moveSpeed;

    }
}

How do I figure out which way the player is facing so I can apply the right animation (I am working with animations for the first time)

(2D)

[granite heath]

Hey, I'm using the microgame fps template and I want to animate when I use the weapon, it took a long time to figure it out but what it wants is an animator component as an input (1). So I make an animator component on the weapon and link it but then it says (2). I am not sure what thing it exactly wants. What is an animator?

[sullen wasp]

I figured it out

[sullen wasp]

animator is a component

[granite heath]

I see

[sullen wasp]

it allows you to manipulate the animations with the controller

(I am a beginner and only learned this myself like half an hour back :D.)

[granite heath]

hmm.. well. the issue is that I'm not sure what to apply to the weapon animator

or how to apply it-

[sullen wasp]

good luck

[dense magnet]

Hey! I currently have an issue where I set a death animation from the Any state node triggers every frame or so. I am not sure how to fix it .

[tough orchid]

Why isn't the display of the animation of the 3D model showing up?

[agile solstice]

Most likely minimized
There should be a striped horizontal bar at the bottom of that window
Clicking it would maximize the preview window

[agile solstice]

Confirm that "can transition to self" is disabled on the transition, and perhaps use a boolean parameter to minimize the chance that the condition becomes true repeatedly

[dense magnet]

Managed to fix it. Thanks a bunch

[cinder gale]

Hey there, I have a state machine for my player and I've been trying to add the correct animation to each state. Everytime I change to another state, I call the animator in the Enter() method and tell it to play the correct animation. However, if I quickly change from one state to another, the animation sometimes doesn't get played, even though the Enter() method is called. I know this because Debug.Log still sends out a message to the console. Is there any reason why it doesn't play the animation sometimes? I've added a small video and code below for more info:

public override void Enter()
{
        player.GetAnimationController().PlayAnimation("Jump");
        Debug.Log("EnteredJump");
}

[quasi girder]

Hey guys, I have this sample project where character animations are set like this, with the parameters set as "animator", which got me kinda confused, is it animated using the rigging system? How can I edit, control or add animations from or to the character?

Also every rigged character I set as the model works with the animations, which lead me to believe it maybe is animation using the Unity rigging system?

[agile solstice]

These are not Animator's own methods
Is there a reason for doing it like that?

[cinder gale]

You mean the PlayAnimation method?

Actually let me change that, it might be better indeed

[agile solstice]

What is it, and change to what?

[agile solstice]

I think this is what humanoid avatar animations look like
You're not meant to edit them, but import them from an external program

[cinder gale]

Nevermind. The PlayAnimation method has this as code:

public void PlayAnimation(string animationName)
    {
        playerAnim.Play(animationName);
    }

Which is a method from my AnimationController script which handles everything animation related

[quasi girder]

Oh, didn't considered that, I thought external animations weren't editable in the Unity animator (I can edit them changing the parameters lol). But then I guess external anims made with rigs... find rigs from all characters automatically? The character I've set has bone naming different as the default one in the sample, but the animations worked instantly

[agile solstice]

Seems redundant
Play() method sometimes has trouble playing the clips, but it's worth noting that it's not the intended way to use the animator
You instead set animation parameters to trigger state transitions via transition conditions and let the Animator choose what states to play by itself

[quasi girder]

I'll play around with it to find out more, or will read some documentation as well.

[cinder gale]

Yeah I did that at first, but it gets messy rather quickly with all the transitions and I thought this way it might be better as it's less messy and would work well together with the StateMachine I have

[agile solstice]

Imported animations by themselves are editable, but only if they're duplicated so they exist outside of the file
Humanoid avatar animations however are not editable even then
The avatar system is a technical convention that lets Unity understand poses and motion regardless of how it was originally named, kind of like a layer of translation

[quasi girder]

Got it, so if the character has the same rig (for example, mostly humanoid ones I guess), the animations will work across them

[cinder gale]

Are there any Unity Animator alternatives which would work better with what I'm trying to accomplish? So just directly calling an animation without transitions?

[agile solstice]

It gets messy if you don't know how to build it efficiently, which is admittedly a bit hard to master
Otherwise you'll be programming the same kind of state machine the Animator is anyway
Not totally incorrect, but not something I'm familiar with or that I'd put myself through

[agile solstice]

In that position I might try the Animancer (or its free Lite version) which purports that it should be very simple for playing animations on demand like you do

I'm really not sure why Play() seems to fail in this case, but from what I know you can't re-trigger an animation state you're already in using it

Maybe the third party one can fix that

[cinder gale]

Thanks!

[agile solstice]

Yes, the important part is that the animation is Humanoid-compatible and the rig* has been configured
It also enables more features like IK and partially masked animation layers

[quasi girder]

That's gorgeous, I'll have tons of fun playing around with it then, ty for the information!

[mental sluice]

Is it possible for an transition to interrupt another transition and rather than queuing the first one, just ignores it entirely?

[grand ruin]

is there a way to import an animation into blender?

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.formats.fbx@5.1/manual/index.html
This one I guess
Usually you want to avoid bringing assets from Unity to other programs as the process is often lossy in some way

[grand ruin]

as long as its not too bad it should be fine, im just trying to replicate what I presume to be a weight painting error in blender that Im having trouble replicating

[agile solstice]

Unity by default imposes a limit of how many bones can affect a vertex, which is two I think
But can be increased

[grand ruin]

are you saying that might be the cause of my error?

[agile solstice]

Only a guess but sounds like it

[grand ruin]

Thanks, let me see if that helps

[agile solstice]

Blender often lets a huge number of bones have weight influence, especially with the automatic weighting options, so that often seems to cause weight painting errors in Unity visually before the limit is increased or the weighting tidied up

[grand ruin]

is it this setting?

[agile solstice]

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/unlocking-unity-animator-s-interruption-full-power this gives a pretty hands on explanation of how the interruptions work

[agile solstice]

I think that can cut down the weights for the specific asset, but there's also another in Project Settings>Quality iirc that has a global effect

[grand ruin]

appreciate the suggestion unfortunately doesnt seem to be the problem

[agile solstice]

You could show the problem, if you want me to scrounge for more ideas

[grand ruin]

Issue (left) blender t-pose (top[ right) blender pose replication (bottom right)

[agile solstice]

I see
I'd try to see if it also manifests in the tiny import preview window with any of the poses
And use with a default material just to rule out problems with the shader's vertex displacement

[grand ruin]

So i tried both of these things and for both it still had the issue, yet I really cannot replicate the error in blender. Do you have any other ideas?

[agile solstice]

Hmmm blender's fbx export settings and unity's import settings have something about simplifying keyframes
Maybe it's a keyframe data comperssion issue that causes the bones be slightly off which becomes apparent if they have a relatively sharp weight falloff between them

[grand ruin]

yeah thats another thing, in order to have that kind of issue there would have to be some kind of weight paint with a sharp falloff, yet none of my weight paints have that

[grand ruin]

theres another set of the assymetrical ones on the other side i j didnt send them

[agile solstice]

Tried to wiggle all bones individually to confirm?
I'd triple-check that the current quality level allows for enough bone weights, maybe set both settings to unlimited

[grand ruin]

lmc

[agile solstice]

In my life double-checking often isn't enough

[worn flicker]

Hello, i have set up this character but i have a problem. I dont know why the fingers are pointing like that. Do you have any ideas ?

[grand ruin]

I just checked all the bones again and still cant replicate it, what do you mean when you say "both settings"?

[grand ruin]

can you show the armature?

[agile solstice]

Remove bone weight limits in mesh import settings, as well as project graphics/quality settings

This should be a setting per-quality tier

[grand ruin]

are the thumbs the only issue, because it looks like a bunch of the bones are pointing in incorrect directions to me, but I've also never used this kind of rig

[grand ruin]

Im restarting after changing settings to make sure they applied since I didnt see an apply button

[worn flicker]

i took a existing rig and transfered it. In unity the rig looks fine, i just have this problem fingers

[agile solstice]

They should be saved automatically
The only gotcha I know of is that the last quality tier you clicked on is the only active one

[grand ruin]

Aye problem fixed! Thanks

[agile solstice]

Worked? 👀

[grand ruin]

Try seeing if this tutorila helps you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWTMXCwFwQ

[worn flicker]

i'll try this thx

[grand ruin]

oh wait it says unreal, idk if thatll help

it might still work, lmk if it doesn't

[grand ruin]

ik i cant believe it

[agile solstice]

triple-checking saves the day again!

[grand ruin]

looks a lot better now, but still I have a long way to go before the jacket is done. I've been working on my player model for a month, as a newbie, this is exhausting

Thanks so much though, I'd never have figured that out on my own

[agile solstice]

Definitely clothes in particular are a big challenge
Even pro riggers/modelers/animators use a lot of tricks to minimize the trouble

[grand ruin]

Yeah I have so much respect for them. It's been a constant storm of remodeling and little texture paint edits and everything inbetween. You'd think that going for a toon style would be easier, but lowkey I wish I could just fool around with more geometry and make something realistic looking

Cant wait till I'm done with it and I can just worry about making boxes and barrels and static things (surely I wont spend months on those too)

[worn flicker]

ok the video didnt work but i found a fix that seems to work

i changed the rotation of the joint directly in unity and it looks like it's working fine for now

dont know if its a good technique tho

[arctic venture]

Hello everyone! Did anyone experience issue when changing the animation from mixamo to other mixamo animation and got warnings that the bone length does not match the position? I've switched from my idle animation to a new one, both from mixamo but I can't figure it out why I'm getting warning only for the legs. I've did this long time ago and as far as I remember, I did not have this issue. Now all the idle animation I use from mixamo i get this:

Also, this happens after I set the animation type to humanoid, select the current avatar i have and hit apply

[late trench]

hello, I have an animation on an override layer masked to the left hand of my first person character but whenever it plays the hand stays still and weirdly rotates in place. Can anyone help me out on this

[worn flicker]

do you know if its possible to merge multiple animations ?

[sick heart]

this is something I've been trying to figure out for a while, super new to unity, but how would I go about toggling a skinned mesh renderer through animation events? looking to use it for stuff like expressions on a characters face and toggling props, searching the internet gave me a lot of results but none really ended up pinpointing/guiding me through the process of it

[lapis latch]

I got a character with a spritesheet for animation, as well as another spritesheet with clothes to overlay. Can i somehow use the animator from the body, and swap the whole spritesheet via code?

[orchid kernel]

Hello, I´m using some assets from itch.io and there is one in specific that has an animation, but I want to slice it so I can use the corners animation, is there any way to slice the animation or do I need to animate each part from 0?

[magic venture]

you can slice here

[paper owl]

Hello, I am literally completely new to Unity (my first 10 mins in it right now) and I couldn't figure out how I could change the speed of this animation, it is going WAY too fast.
If someone could help me out with this then that would be awesome!

[timber raptor]

space out the keyframes (little grey diamonds), the numbers at the top are fractions of a second, so right now your animation is playing in 0.1 seconds

[paper owl]

oh ok

thank you

sorry, it was kind of a stupid question, I just dont know anything about unity yet

[timber raptor]

thats ok, everyone starts somewhere

[paper owl]

🙏

[timber raptor]

Hey guys. So What I'm trying to do here is alternate between two attacks, and it's technically working fine. Heres the problem. My attack key is space. So I hit space, attack happens, hit space again, attack 2 happens but THEN I hit space and nothing happens, and if I then hit space for a second time, attack happens again. Why is this extra keypress happening to get back to attack 1?

To clarify the order:

Space>Attack
Space>Attack 2
Space>nothing happens
Space>Attack
Space>Attack 2

and so on

[uneven granite]

I'm stuck with something if anyone can help me out. How can I add animations to a character that uses animation rigging? They have a rig builder. I can't really edit the character, but I figured I can add an animation clip to the character, and have it play. I converted it so it will control the character like it should, but the character just kinda bobs up and down, and the limbs move very slightly, but it's supposed to be a dance. How do people add animations to a character that uses a rig? Or is this not normal? I'm probably missing something. Btw, if I disable the character's rig builder, the animation works just fine, but the existing animations that play on the character won't work anymore.
Sorry for no videos. I'm heading to work soon, but if someone happens to know what I'm talking about, and if it's a simple answer, could someone let me know?
Maybe I'll post a video when I got time.

[rapid lynx]

guys, is it possible to use Position parameter in 2d rigs for animation and have it respect the rig`s relative positions?

lets say i have one character with wide shoulders and another with not wide shoulders, if i set the position in the animation for the one with the wide shoulders, it will set that position for the other with the not wide shoulders

and it will look weird

[little sluice]

Hi, what does the "Additive Reference Pose" checkbox mean on an imported FBX animation?

[agile harness]

Hi, I am trying to animate expressions for an imported VRM model. I used UniVRM with an VRM 1.0 file, which was exported from VRoid Studio.
When creating the animation I can select the blendshapes and the preview animation works. When in play mode and playing the animation via an animation controller not all blendshapes change.
The animation is on the expression layer, which is set as override. The active base layer animation does not use the same blendshapes.
Can anyone explain this behavior?

[agile solstice]

Additive animation layers add their motion to the base layer's transforms
Clips used additively must refer to some pose as the zero point that their motion is added relative to

[agile solstice]

These are question and discussion channels, not showcase channels

[hybrid tinsel]

VRM also has its own expression system that might be overriding your animations.

[magic venture]

i got an animation playing at start, the layer is set to additive

inside, i made my object go to position.y = 1 to 0 (so I am making the object appear high then going down)
screen 1: before playing animation, initial state
screen 2: animation ended

why is it doing 0 to -1 ?

(here it is located around y = 3.5 and finishs at 2.5)

[wet crow]

General question regarding full body First Person Camera. How do I combine those properly with animation? Prevent any head movement in my Animation, let the cam always follow the head (uncontrollable headbob?), set bodyparts to be ignored by the cam? Is there a good Tutorial for this anywhere?

[agile solstice]

Not sure about a tutorial as the right way depends on the game

If you look at what other games are doing they often hide the head and arms of the character body and stabilize the torso by the head using an IK chain, and move it back a bit so you see the front of your chest rather then the neck stump when looking down

The biggest point that makes a difference is what kind of enviornmental interactions are required for the body

[wet crow]

Oh, never thought about using IK for the head

[wet crow]

Independent movement of the hands to climb on walls like boulder sports is my goal with some First Person bow usage

[agile solstice]

This great glitch in Dead Island let you see the first person body from the outside which reveals the illusion

Requiring the body parts to make accurate physical contact with the world can be difficult if you're using the camera and the body collider as the "authoritative" position of the body, so in that situation you may want to allow the body to move the head, and by extension the camera, but add some kind of stabilization

[wet crow]

So fixate the head with IK, attach Cam to a point in front of the head and put some parts of the head onto layers not rendered by the cam.

[agile solstice]

Still, most games are built for a capsule shaped player collision that never rotates as the basis
That might not be your starting point with such a climbing system

[agile solstice]

Could start with that
A trick is to use a 0 or incredibly small bone scale to effectively hide body parts, as parts of a skinned mesh renderer can't have different layers, nor materials without their own submesh

[wet crow]

Thanks, now I at least have a starting point

[wet crow]

Wait a minute, the Player Transform never actually rotates or just the collider? The collider as a child would rotate anyway....

[dapper rune]

Hey so im pretty new to unity and I need some help. Im tryna animate a dude walking using mixamo which great works, but the main issue is im tryna make a kinda swat raid animation and my main issue currently is the walking animation wont loop and if i make it loop it more or less resets the whole animation rather than a small part of it plus resets the position

[wet crow]

Did you try a Blendtree?

[dapper rune]

whats blendtree

[wet crow]

Instead of one Animation, a Blendtree blends smooth between several. Imagine you have an idle, Walk Forward, left, right and backward Animation, all triggered by a X/Z Velocity. The Blendtree blends between all of those, so that switching from idle to walk looks seamlessly

Check out IHeartGamedev YouTube Channel, He has an amazing video for that

[agile solstice]

You're probably using root motion animations without implementing root motion

[dapper rune]

how do i use that? haha. im VERY new to unity. quite literally got it today (doing all this for a cinematic in a vr game)

[dapper rune]

how does one do so. i saw the option but its greyed out

like i cant select anything there

[wet crow]

Maybe your Animation checked "in place" when you downloaded it from Mixamo? Than it doesn't have any information for that. IHeartGamedev has this covered as well, watch His Animation series

[dapper rune]

bet 😄

[agile solstice]

You'd look into how to implement root motion if you want to use it, or export the animations from mixamo without it, as far as I know
I don't use mixamo

[dapper rune]

anywhere else to get animations? i mean, ive looked around but havent found anything

[agile solstice]

Asset store probably has Humanoid compatible animations

[wet crow]

That's a good one, there are some free Animation packages. Think Unity has one itself with a robot model or something

[dapper rune]

sorry for the long ass wait, was helping someone in my house w sum, but root motion enabling did not fix the issue, looking into the yt vid yall recommended

Purchased an animation pack and uh...

it doesent work 😭

(im most likely not using it correctly)

roots moving, character is not moving

ok

fixed it

but hes still not actually moving. just in place. and ive tried quite a few things from the vid

😭

hes just moving in place

[fleet crypt]

I am not an animation expert by any means... and I was hoping to get some feedback/perspective from others more experienced in this area.

I have two bipedal characters:
• Character1
• Character2

I am using Humanoid Animation for both of them:
<pistol_idle.anim>

**Character1 **(which came with the animation in question) works as expected
(both hands are where they should be)

Character2 (a separate asset) mostly works as expected, despite some minor differences.

However the minor differences are affecting something overall obvious
(hands holding pistol go inside one another)

SOLUTION???
What are the best methods to adjust/modify/refactor this so the hands are where I'd want them to be for Character2?

Is this within the "Configure Avatar" (Muscle/Mapping settings?)

Or something else?
Trying to fix it genuinely for Timeline/Sequence (not in Play mode)
~ so IK/Targets don't seem to be the method I can use (unless there is a way to see that procedural layer in editor and not Play)

[agile solstice]

Animations don't move the character itself, it's correct if the model is walking in place
If the character seems to be moving but snaps back, that means the model is moving relative to its root, which means it's made for "root motion"

[dapper rune]

right yeah hes walking in place, how do i make him, walk with the thing?

[agile solstice]

If you mean walking in place without moving and snapping back, that sounds like it's animating fine but you need to do something to move the character for real as well

[dapper rune]

no so now i found an animation pack that basically is all in place, they dont snap back or anything. but there 0 movement, how would i move the actual character with the animation

[agile solstice]

Animations in games aren't the thing that moves the character, it's the movement code
If you're making something like a cutscene, you'd use a Timeline to keyframe the character's position to change in addition to playing the walking animation

[dapper rune]

ah shit 😭

idk how to code n shit

ok

wait

so it works with node stuff

now the question is. how do i stop/ play animations with smooth transitions between then

[agile solstice]

Visual scripting does

[agile solstice]

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

[fathom finch]

Hello, how can I record the movements of a transform in the Animation component but these movements are made from a script (play mode) but they are not saved even though I am recording and playing the animation

[dapper rune]

your stuff doesent save in playmode

[fathom finch]

I know, but I can copy it manually. Although my question is to detect the changes made from a script that modifies the transform, because animation only detects the changes I make from the inspector

[dapper rune]

not sure then im new as shit 😭

[dapper rune]

i cant find it in here but is there a way to straight up just stop an animation mid animation?

[agile solstice]

You'd trigger a transition from that animation state into another, like an idle
Or if you need to literally pause the animation, you won't need transitions to do that

[fathom finch]

Don't worry, I'm still discovering what things I can do with Unity. For example, I suppose it's a matter of saving each transform change frame by frame and when finished, saving it in a prefs, then seeing how to reproduce it in Editor mode. My idea at least is to try to export that animation and make it compatible with the animation component.

[dapper rune]

gotcha thanks 😄

[dapper rune]

one more quick question sorry. is there a way to hold an animation for a specific ammount of time before playing the next one?

[agile solstice]

If you need to hold it at a predetermined time, then you'd want to split the animation into two halves, with the transition to first half to second half occurring only when the condition gives it the go-ahead
Ideally put those in a sub-state machine for organization

But if the animation must be able to be held at any point, then you might need to change the speed or pause it through code directly

[dapper rune]

uhhhh how would i do that.... 😭 im literally brand new to unity.... this is all very confusing 😭

been tryna animate all day

[dapper rune]

also genuinly the final question for you... (im so fucking sorry) is there any way to actually view the animation your making in the animator in the scene while making it? just so i can line it up with where i want them to be during the animation / switching animations

so like. per say i want him to stop at the door of the house, is there a way for me to see the animation while im editing it in the animator so i can find the time hes at the door and place another animation there

ect

[covert heath]

I thought I could use chain IK constraints from the animation rigging package for procedural hair animation but it's super stiff, is there a better way to do it? the hair is a couple groups of 5 bones per group. I want to use IK constraints to have more control over the hair movement instead of a cloth simulation

[fathom finch]

Using [ExecuteAlways] in the script also did not work for me, Animation does not save the changes made from a script.

oh wait, this work!

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animations.GameObjectRecorder.html

[agile solstice]

Normally you see the animation you're editing when you're editing it
Perhaps you're asking how to see the animation while editing a different animation?
In that case you're probably making a cutscene-type thing and want to use the Timeline I mentioned

[agile solstice]

IK is for ensuring that the final bone of the chain is always at specific position
That's not really how we expect hair to work

Unless the tip of it is attached to something

Otherwise you want FK animation (meaning no IK so every bone inherits rotation from above them in hierarchy) potentially with a jiggle bone script for simulation

[covert heath]

I thought if I had a couple points the hair aims to and move them with some noise or a sin wave it'd look nice. in this project, extremely long hair (in some cases multiple times the character's height) will be quite common so I need something that is easy to control. IK was the only thing I could think of. is FK procedural hair animation easier to control?

[agile solstice]

Easier is relative, but IK makes it hard to do "wavy" motion as you can only control the target point, which makes more sense for limbs or chains with a moving, fixed endpoint

[wide marlin]

I'm not sure where to send this, but I try to make stuff in Blender, and when I export into Unity, I get all these faces transperent.. why?

[charred belfry]

You've definitely looked at the other side of the objects in Blender (not just the perspective you screenshotted)?
Otherwise, I'd check the console and model's inspector for import errors

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow is the correct channel btw

[wide marlin]

Does it explain that? 😅

[charred belfry]

Yes 😛

you have overlapping geometry, and Unity's importer is removing it all

[wide marlin]

Could you please help me? 🥲 What is the source of the problem? How I created the models in Blender? Should I redo them?

[charred belfry]

Select the face that has the problem in blender and delete it, note that there should still be a face there, because there's two overlapping faces

[wide marlin]

It's weird, because I don't remember modifying those faces you see in the picture

And ofcourse when I deleted the face, it's gone

[charred belfry]

hrm, are you sure it was that end of the geometry?

You may be able to run Merge Vertices or some sort of mesh cleanup in blender to fix it

or selectively dissolve faces if you can find the correct ones

but I'm not a blender expert, so I can't really help you fix it more than that

[wide marlin]

Thank you anyways 🙏 I'll try the other channel after I try somethings

[ivory minnow]

just send the obj, i'll check

[dapper rune]

i meant like how can i watch the animation through the controller while im editing it. Lemme like be a bit more specific. i wanna see the changes i make to the controller, on the scene so i could see how it moves without having to go into play mode*

[agile solstice]

You will see them when selecting a gameobject with the Animator while editing/playing the animations through Animation window

[dapper rune]

thats not what i meant but its alr. No worries

[unique slate]

Hello everyone!
After days and hours of testing I just can't seem to find the problem so I came here to search for help

Basically I have an animation which rotates the pickaxe and I have already tried to delete and redo it a lot of times
Now whenever I insert the clip into a new state of my animator the pickaxe starts moving even though my mine animation is not playing but the Idle animation with no movement is.
My old workaround was to not use an animator at all and just play the clip in the script. Now that I am implementing multiplayer I need an animator to use the NetworkAnimator to sync it.
I have already tried enabling and disabling various settings of animations and the animator.
I'm was Unity 2022.3.9f1 and just updated to 2022.3.17f1 to look if my version was at fault

Thanks a lot in advance for helping!

[dapper rune]

yeah so like. now that im home ill be able to provide visual input

is there any way to mix the two together

so i see both at once

[agile solstice]

With Timeline yes, as mentioned

[dapper rune]

what it timeline

im legit brand new

[agile solstice]

It's a part of Unity, a package iirc

[dapper rune]

i have it how do i use it

[agile solstice]

See "view documentation"

over there

[dapper rune]

gotcha

i already have stuff though

ok so i put it in

still cant see the scene though

or for that matter anything lol

[viral lion]

can LeanTween "fade out" the 3d models?
Like if one would decrease alpha little by little with 2d character sprite, can LeanTween do the same with 3d models?

[dapper rune]

Yk what. Actually i was wondering is there a way to create a whole animation by simply mocapping it in vr? i have a whole vr setup and i think it would be easier @agile solstice

[dapper rune]

Hey ya man sorry for doing this to ya AGAIN. but i cant figure out how to move my door

ive setup an animation n everything

but it just wont play

im not sure why

door animation, ive applied it to the door

but it wont play

nvm fixed it sorry

i had loop enabled

im being very stupid

[agile solstice]

Mocapping gives you a lot of freedom, but may take work to setup and clean up animations
Can't say if it's easier, but if you're confident about it then it might well be

[wicked ember]

Anyone know the best animation rigging constraint to use for finger IK?

I just want to rotate from the first finger bone, and have the tips of the fingers to follow the same rotation and curl

[dire tartan]

Hey guys, if anyone has any input on animation rigging please help aha, I have got a player character with 2 arms, i want to make it so that when a player picks up an item through my item pickup script, the hand of the player uses IK to move to the object position to simulate the holding of that object. Only problem, i cant edit the IK in real time, I toggle the IK objects off and the arms remain extended to the position. Im not sure how to fix this

[tidal nymph]

what ik object do u mean? is it object for ik goal or ik hand itself?

[scenic osprey]

Hellow there

I wanted to know if there are any other tools beside mixamo for free humanoid animations?

[rocky sail]

why do I have so many animations here, when I only have 1 in blender?

[agile solstice]

Separate objects get each their own Action

Workaround is to use an Armature to animate a hierarchy of transforms in sync, or use NLA editor's Meta Strips to make actions that contain multiple actions

[rocky sail]

that was quick! I will use an armature, thanks for the feedback!

[agile solstice]

If you have mechanical parts, Armatures may be slightly awkward because they're designed to work best with a continuous weight-painted mesh
With multiple parts you may have to join them into one mesh, and then weight paint each to their respective bone
(which sucks a bit because while there's tools to mask verts by selection and then paint the whole thing, there is no tool to do that in one click, like a "flood-fill" weight paint tool)
An alternative to that is to keep them as separate objects and use bone parenting, which in turn sucks a bit because bone parents are lost on export, so you'd have to re-parent the parts in Unity, and also make sure the armature is not stripped due to having no geometry associated

Still, both of those might be less awkward than using the NLA editor for anything

[rocky sail]

Thank you!!!!

[ocean stump]

yo can someone help add my idle animation to my character in unity
not the x bot the character that I imported

bc it seems to not work
like I have the animator and the idle animation put into the block put idk why it will not work

how do I fix this plz tell me

[twin surge]

Its actually quite easy. In blender you can go to edit mode, select whatever you want to follow each bone, and in the tab that shows all you vertex groups, you can select the vertex group you want and then click "assign"

You can select seperate objects in blender with L. So if i have two cubes in one mesh i press L whilest holding my curson on one of them, then i assign them to whatever bone i want in the vertex tab

[ocean stump]

plz help me !!!!!

[agile solstice]

Easy, but tedious if you've got a lot of them

My usual go-to is to use the Linked selection in edit mode as a vertex mask in weight paint mode, and then paint it fully in one click with the gradient tool or with a big brush with no occlusion
But that requires jumping back into edit mode to change the selection each time

[twin surge]

I mean, if you already have the diffrent parts of your model in seperate meshes its not that bad. Assign each mesh to your bones then join all the meshes

[rocky sail]

Hi so I've added an armature to my model and made the animation. However when I export to unity the armature disappears. Have I got all the settings correct?

[agile solstice]

By tedious I mean the list of vertex groups might be like a hundred long and they don't get immediate visual confirmation of where the bone of the selected vertex group physically is

[agile solstice]

What I assume is happening here is that the armature has no vertex groups and/or none of the meshes weighted to them so it assumes the armature is unused and removes them
But first and foremost check that the armature object type is enabled

[rocky sail]

yep all are enabled

[agile solstice]

Then I'd look into parenting one of the meshes to the armature with empty group, or weighting it to one of the bones

[rocky sail]

I've parented the armature bones to the meshes

[agile solstice]

You're meant to parent the meshes to the bones, rather

And one of them with some type of weights, to see if that tricks the exporter into exporting the armature

[rocky sail]

thanks I'll give it a go

[feral falcon]

my clip editor window is missing

[twin surge]

Oh i am so-oh sorry!!!!! Have tried... i dont know.... opening it?!

Its so goddamn easy, you either open an animation or... like evrey other software ever, open it in the window tab on the top

[feral falcon]

Where tho

[twin surge]

I just said it

[feral falcon]

Lmao

[twin surge]

Have you atleast googled your problem?

[feral falcon]

Its not there

Im on my phone now anyway

Ill do it tomorrow

[twin surge]

Its in window>animation

[feral falcon]

Yes

Nope

[agile solstice]

Why ask if you're not in a position to try solutions

[feral falcon]

I was on pc like 5 min ago

[twin surge]

I just searched "how to open unity animation editor" and it was the first resault

[feral falcon]

The clip editor not animation editor

[agile solstice]

I have not heard of a "clip editor"

[feral falcon]

The guy in the tut has it

[uncut salmon]

@feral falcon There's no memes here. I also suggest removing the pronoun trolling for this server, in your profile.

[short ravine]

I wanted to learn some procedural animation so I modeled a simple spider leg and rigged it and added IK. The IK works in blender but doesn’t work in Unity. I made sure I was exporting the mesh and the armature. What am I doing wrong?

[agile solstice]

Can't export IK

In modeling programs it runs using their native code, and the intermediate file formats don't support it, so it's lost when exporting
Animations made using IK are still preserved

To have IK in Unity you need to configure it in Unity, for example with Animation Rigging package

[short ravine]

Ok, thanks

[wide rapids]

What is the default behavior when I trigger or bool/true an animation without having transition from another animation state? Will it start immediatly (like No Exit Time) or won't it start at all?

I wonder if Transitions are just options to make animation transitions configurable or they acutally enable the transition from -> to another state. Therefore having NO transition to another animation state will result in that animation not to start at all (even tho it's being triggered by code)

[agile solstice]

You either modify parameter values, so as conditions to transitions those transitions will change the animation state
This is the only way to change animation state within the Animator state machine

If you play a state from code, you skip the state machine and transitions will be ignored

[wide rapids]

gotya

[woeful ledge]

does anyone have tips on animating idle animations for tails?

[soft sluice]

Hi! I am fairly new here. Is this the channel to ask question on Avatars? Trying to help my son, and I am struggling on the subject of showing the bones on his avatar! Seems something is not properly attached from what I gather

[feral falcon]

everytime i add an animator to an object it resets the position to 0,0,0

[agile solstice]

An Animator overrides component properties, including the gameobject's Transform if a clip modifies it

[feral falcon]

why is the debug.log not being triggered?

[agile solstice]

I see nothing here that would call the method

[feral falcon]

the animation event

but its not working

[agile solstice]

Avatars are a pretty complex system which I haven't looked into, but it seems the best way forward with it is to read the docs, find the tutorials and progress step by step

[agile solstice]

Assuming the event is referencing the script correctly, the method also needs to be public

[agile solstice]

That's very vague
What kind of tips are you looking for

[feral falcon]

still doesn't work

when i added "footstep()" i get this error

[noble phoenix]

now i understand this mesh is poorly made, that's not what this is about

its just that I imported it into Unity (avatar was created without issue) and got a whole multitude of problems that i don't know how to fix

Problem 1) The Rig stays in T-Pose position when it should be utilising the StarterAssets animations (if possible)

Problem 2) The Mesh Renderer is visible and very clearly below the rig, causing the rig to float

Problem 3) The Rig has to face sideways in the Scene in order for it to face forwards in the Game

My logic was: If you can swap out Humanoid characters with the StarterAssets Armature, I'll make my own and it'll work exactly the same!

It did not.
So, how do I fix these issues?

[agile solstice]

If you move the bones in blender's pose mode, do the mesh limbs follow as expected?

[noble phoenix]

Ehhhh..... no :P

actually yeah now they do, i just re-parented the armature with automatic weights after moving the bones

of course the legs are stuck together but thats not an issue

[noble phoenix]

....okay now we got bigger problems

I re-imported the character model and its not facing sideways anymore however its bones have absolutely crunched together

Why has this happened

[twin surge]

Use your own rig, you have to use animation retargeting from humanoid animations(mechanim)

[noble phoenix]

Alright I've nearly fixed everything pretty much

I just need to figure out how to solve the rig needing to be sideways
and slightly clipped into the ground

for it to work

[fleet pewter]

hi, i'm using a rig for my character animation. something weird is happening when i place an object in the hand empty of the rig though. all of the parent empties change their position to the newly placed object, ruining the rig. is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

[quasi fable]

i place an object in the hand empty of the rig
What do you mean by this exactly?

[lime hound]

like in the actual hierarchy of the bones????

maybe

[fleet pewter]

yeah in the heirarchy of the rig bones, it seems like something that wouldn't work but i searched online and it seemed to be fine for everyone else

but yeah it doesn't work, so not sure if it's a bug

[fleet pewter]

here's a video of the problem i'm having

[agile solstice]

Does this behaviour still occur if your tool handle point (the button in scene window that says "Center") is set to "Pivot" instead?

I expect that if the transforms were really moving the character would be scrunched up into a ball, assuming the limbs follow the bone transforms if you try move them with animation (or with move tool when the animator is not controlling them)

[fleet pewter]

oh you're a lifesaver, thanks :D

turns out that setting was the reason for some other messed up stuff too when trying to rotate stuff

[silk viper]

little cutscene thing W.I.P

[little sluice]

Hi, anyone here have experience with animating whip-like weapons? I initially tried doing it in Blender using Bezier Curves, but it turns out that Blender can't export Curve meshes with an animation (as far as I could tell). Anyone here know how to do something similar?

Trying to do this

[agile solstice]

Bone chains are an option
Unity has its own curve API in the newer versions I think
Pretty much any kind of motion can be baked into alembic file format and maybe also into vertex animation textures

Each of the four methods has some limitations

[gray plaza]

Hi, I have a very quick question.
I am using Animators (Animation Controllers) in my 2021.3 project to use state machine logic. I don't actually use Animation Clips; the states simply trigger C# methods that deal with animating stuff “by hand”.

At runtime, it seems that my state machine/animator updates every 1+ seconds-ish (if that's what that little blue progress bar means on the current state?).
→ I'm simply asking if it is possible to CHANGE that looping/update speed for an Animator?

For example, I'd like my animator/state machine to update every frame (check for transition parameter conditions, etc.), or every other frame… How can I do that?

Seems I can speed it up by increasing the states' speed values (or others) from 1 to something else, but is there something generic that just does updates every frame?
(don't hesitate to ping me! thanks :D)

[hybrid tinsel]

Hou should probably just write your own state machine or use one of the ones already made for unity... the anjmation graph is designed for animation and is really stupidly hard to get to act precisely in terms of specific frames.

Which can be annoying enough for animation but disastrous for other applications.

[gray plaza]

Hmm okay I see, thanks :3

[ocean stump]

plz help me I tried adding the animation but it won't work what am I doing wrong

[ocean stump]

the model format is in blender

and I use c# as my script

[hybrid tinsel]

You haven't told us what you did so we can't tell you what went wrong.

[nocturne kestrel]

is there any way i can add run to my char fbx so that i can bake it the animation into its position using the the modle animations tab

ping me on reply

[exotic garden]

Has anyone managed to get a VAT texture to work on 2022.
I'm trying to export an avatar animation set made via mixamo)/. The rendering is all broken :/

[fossil hill]

Hey I have a enemy ball that has a idle animatior that is just floating around; when the player is near, it make a short transition where it shows some blades via blendShapes; and then enters a state where they just spin them around. All these clips work perfectly when playing them on the inspector, however, for some reason only the transition seems able to change the blendShapes; I need the blendShapes to remain at 100 during the spinning part; and I have set various keyframes in that clip setting it to 100 but it does nothing, it just reamins stuck at 0. Why?

Here is the setup Idle is just a floaty movement up and down

New State does nothing, Prepare makes the transition and AttackMode enters the spinnig state; the transitions are manipulated by a boolean where only tries to attack if the boolean is true and goes back to doing nothing if it false

This is the preview of the animation clip and it spins properly with the blendShapes applied

This is the enemy doing that same animation inGame (it has some trailRenderes that are not visible in the clip). The rotation is applied but the blendShapes are not

This is the item showing how it is actually able to use the blendShapes ingame and not just in clips BUT ONLY in that transition clip, even though the AttackMode tells it several times to set the blendShapes to 100. Why could this be happening?

[fossil hill]

I also tried to create new clips that just alter the blendShapes but it doesn't seem to work ingame either, just the transition clip is working and I literally have no idea why

[agile solstice]

Please post only to one relevant channel

[willow dirge]

Ive been trying to get constraints to work on this rig for like 2 hours and Im getting insanely tilted. This stupid rig just imported from blender and converted to humanoid rig and it came out with its rig as a child, I cannot put an animator on the actual rig object because for some insane reason, the avatar that unity creates needs to be put in an animator on the parent of the rig, fine, thats how its set up. when I put the rigbuilder component on parent object with its animator and try to constrain any bone, unity just throws out one of its iconic incomprehensible errors and shuts the entire animator down

When I put a second animator on the actual rig with null slots and put the constraints on that, it actually works, except the weights dont derive from the correct animator, theyre deriving from the null one so when the weights are zero those bones are static.

surely someone has some solution, its clearly coming from the fact that the rig isnt the parent and the avatar insists that I put the animator on the parent, I tried to edit the avatar to make the rig the parent but this totally breaks it altogether. this is pissing me off so bad does anyone know why this is happening

[agile solstice]

Animation Rigging package with Humanoid Avatars can be a bit tricky from what I hear, and in the past buggy too
https://forum.unity.com/threads/ongoing-humanoid-issues-in-animation-rigging.1080695/
If you're on newish editors most of these bugs should be fixed but there may be some relevant information there regardless

[willow dirge]

I updated from 2021LTS to 2022LTS, it didnt fix it but Ive noticed that even when putting the rig builder and animator on the rig itself it still gives the error that the head bone is not a child of the animator hierarchy so it seems like the issue may not be with the root rig

[willow dirge]

I found it out finally! its because I childed the armor onto the rig, which is why I havent had this issue before, apparently this breaks how the bone contraints work, so I'll need to find another way to attach the armor to the rig

[agile solstice]

Parent constraints are a good alternative to parenting

There's two varieties, those that work outside of Animation Rigging and those that work within it

[willow dirge]

thanks for that info! makes sense, was going to try that after seeing if putting them on the MCH bones did anything, blender has the same component. Could you elaborate on the two?

[agile solstice]

The default parent constraints are older than Animation Rigging and thus not a part of its conventions
The AR constraints might be more modern and possibly more performant, but it may be more convenient to use the old components for the item parts if you don't actually need to include them in the rig hierarchy, so they can't get mixed up

Constraints like parent constraints are a fairly generic concept so blender has them too, but they can't be exported

If you have MCH bones that implies you're probably using Rigify
You should have only DEF bones after exporting, but because Rigify is not designed for exporting it produces a strange mixed hierarchy of nearly random bone types, often with deformation issues also

In my experience in addition to deformation issues, it makes IK rigging within Unity way too complex, and ragdolling nearly impossible

[willow dirge]

interesting, I had done a little ik before but just the basic stuff like attaching the foot to the floor, I havent had issues with it yet. I think I had to manually reorganize bones in unity because of the mch bones issue but rigify has an export to unity button and I dont recall having to edit it in awhile so maybe they improved it?

also I cant find AR constraints? is it from a package? I cant find it online either, but so far the parent constraints are working perfectly

oh you meant the constraint components that come with the animation rigging package

[agile solstice]

Since when and where would that export to unity button be? Those are usually custom extensions, and if they work correctly should fix the hierarchy

[agile solstice]

Yes, Animation Rigging hasconstraints like these:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.3/manual/constraints/MultiAimConstraint.html
Whereas these constraints live outside of it in vanilla Unity:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ParentConstraint.html

They do much the same thing but are technically very different

[willow dirge]

oh youre right, I could have sworn that it was a default feature of rigify but I probably actually got this: https://github.com/AlexLemminG/Rigify-To-Unity
I think this rig was exported using it though, wouldnt be surprised if there was a remove MCH bones option I missed.

[agile solstice]

If you're using a modern Blender, Rigify has changed a lot in the past 4 years since the last update, and many its extensions no longer work right

I used this usually
https://github.com/Arminando/GameRig
Though it doesn't work in 4.0 yet, instead should work on 3.6 blender
There's also this one
https://toshicg.gumroad.com/l/game_rig_tools
But I have not yet tried it so I don't know how up to date this one is

[willow dirge]

nice, I'll probably grab the paid package, thanks! luckily Ive procrastinated on bringing over most of my models so thats really nice

[dapper rune]

is there a way to speed up the play feature?

as in speed up the playback?

[dapper rune]

im tryna animate shit and having to wait for the whole animation to play rather than just the one part i need to check is infuriating

i can show u what i mean one sec

ok so basically i wanna see where the character is while im animating the door

or being able to play when he gets to the door faster

rather than wait for him to walk all the way to it

[agile solstice]

Timeline solves this, which I've pointed to several times

[dapper rune]

once again ive already animated a shitload of stuff and timeline needs me to REDO all of it

so no, timeline does not solve my issue

ive basically animated half of what i need

so timeline would indeed not solve it cuz from what ive seen id have to reanimate everything ive already done

every tutorial starts from animating using timeline too

so im not sure id be able to just import the animations i currently have

👍

[agile solstice]

That's why I brought it up several days ago
You can copy keyframes from a solo animator into Timeline clips if you want to transition to correct tools
I assume your other option is to make a script that lets you temporarily change timescale using keys/buttons
In that case for your sanity you'd also enable enter play mode options to speed up entering play mode

[dapper rune]

appreciate it also, not sure how id copy seperate key frames for like 6 characters into one timeline clip. isent that for 1 item same as animator

[agile solstice]

A Timeline is a collection of clips that are synchronized

[dapper rune]

yeah i dont know at all how to use that

[dapper rune]

i dont really see a speed up option in play mode.

not sure if thats what u meant by it

[dapper rune]

seems like its for 1 ingame object.

[agile solstice]

You'd make it yourself with scripts
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeScale.html

[dapper rune]

yeah im not sure at all how to use scripts. or make them for that matter

[agile solstice]

Timeline has one gameobject with the Director component that holds all the motion for other gameobjects
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-timeline-2019-3

[dapper rune]

if ima be real with you. i know fuck all of what that meant

[agile solstice]

Pick your poison

[dapper rune]

😭

[dapper rune]

suppose im off to learn timeline

[agile solstice]

That's why I linked the instructions

[dapper rune]

🙏

[dapper rune]

tried to copy and paste the keyframes

dint really work

nothing happend

that dint work out too great

💀

[agile solstice]

You still need a clip to paste to, and then replace the keyframes
I only had to do that kind of switcharoo once so I'm very fuzzy on the detail

[dapper rune]

alr either way. just wanted to mention for some odd reason

hes all the way out there

[agile solstice]

What'll help you the most is more familiarity with the Timeline

[dapper rune]

and his legs are fucked

why is he staring at the floor

ughm

the entire fucking house is moving

what the fuck.

[hybrid tinsel]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dint

[dapper rune]

hm? ive deleted everything ive done so far

restarting from scratch 😄

so hopefully it fixes itself

[elder galleon]

my weapon's idle animation messes up when i switch between them too quickly?? is there anything that causes this

[dapper rune]

after resetting all files and trying again it seems like he just stays there t posing

ok so his legs are still fucked

ah i had to disable foot ik

😄

[agile solstice]

It's very useful to have the Animator window side by side with Game window and the gameobject with the Animator selected, so you can see what's the state of the animations, transitions and parameters for troubleshooting the issue

[elder galleon]

yeah ive tried that and it says the idle animation is looping correctly im just not sure why it kind of bugs out

i know that the gameobject is still there its just not at the correct y level

[dapper rune]

my character dissapears once i add an animation to him in the timeline

[elder galleon]

ok so I’ve identified the issue, its getting stuck on the first frame of the equip animation

[dapper rune]

nvm they just get centred again

anyway to disable them getting centred randomly?

[agile solstice]

That doesn't sounds like a feature I've ever encountered
Maybe you're doing something weird

[dapper rune]

nah i just click add animation, then add the animation

then they get centered to the centre of the map

add from animation clip

then i do that and they get centered

its weird

[agile solstice]

I'd guess it's an animation that overrides the character position in local space (relative to parent), but Timeline animations are in world space instead (as you might expect from a cutscene)

[dapper rune]

neither of them are connected/parented to anything

[agile solstice]

Giving a character an empty parent is very helpful to let its animations happen under that parent so they can be moved as a whole while animating
That is likely to help with Timeline too

[dapper rune]

i see

alright thanks 😄

[dapper rune]

having same issues with doors in the map.

not sure why that is

but its pretty easily fixable

[agile solstice]

iirc you should be able to control animator parameters from the timeline, so you don't always need to make animations from scratch for it

[dapper rune]

nah but i mean the doors are in the incorrect position

when i apply an animation that is

[agile solstice]

I assume because letting the Timeline control a gameobject's transform overrides it so that could be why it resets to zero
But instead of overriding the transform you may be able to override another animator's parameters as transition conditions

[dapper rune]

whats intresting is for the doors

they dont get centered

but only moved a little bit to the right

[void pelican]

hi there, is there a way to create a hold on a animation clip from the beginning of it? right now it seems like i am only able to create a hold from the end of it

[solar halo]

Why is my leg breaking? Everything is fine on the mixamo website

[agile solstice]

Split them into two animations so you can have two states with a transition between them

[timid osprey]

Anyone have an idea on why my animation is jenky? I imported an fbx animation from cascadeur but the unity model tends to keep its head generally centered and doesnt want to follow the tilt of the animation. Would that be a rigging problem? The retargetting looks fine to me unless I'm not seeing something.

[timid osprey]

Nevermind I finally found the solution by accident, I had to enabled Foot IK for the animation in the animator window

[weary stone]

Hi! I have a Low poly character, it has an armature, moves etc. And I made some clothing for it, but don't really know how can I make it work inside unity. I would greatly appriciate if someone would show me how to achieve this. I want the clothes to move with the body etc.

[leaden prism]

Try having the clothes rigged to the same armature, then it should move with it

I've got one question as well:
Is it possible to read Custom Properties from an FBX during runtime when an animation is playing?
As I have a custom int property which controls which sprite should be used for the eyes in blender, and would like to see if it's possible to have a script read it in unity while an animation is playing

[digital viper]

Any ideas on the best feedback to use when playing a fire spell animation to make it look better instead of it just spawning it out of know where? Whats happeneing is a flame is appearing behind a character and it just dont look good with just activating it in with a timeline...

[hybrid tinsel]

By default, it is disabled and needs to be enabled. (You also have to make sure that exporting the custom properties is enabled on the blender side, though I'm not sure of how to do that since I'm not a blender user.)

[hybrid tinsel]

Maybe post some video of what you have and we can try to critique it?

[leaden prism]

In blender there is a toggle while exporting for it
However I’m not sure how to read them afterwards
I used animator.GetInteger("variableName") and it did not find a thing
Tried both using variables that were on a per-bone level and on the per-rig level

[hybrid tinsel]

That method is to get an integer parameter in the animator, not an animation. I've not used the feature, but from what I understand it should be present as an animation curve. Not certain, though; the first thing I'd check is whether you actually have any extra curves being imported.

[leaden prism]

Alright, will check it out once I get back on my pc

[young shadow]

What do I need to do if I exported a model from blender to unity with a sword and sword animations, but after exporting the sword is not in character hands and it has no animations. I'm new in Unity and sorry for my bad english. Please help me with this problem

[ocean stump]

yo I have a model with a rig and I put it into unity and added a idle animation and dragged the triangle to the model but when I press it nothing happens how do I fix thi s ?

[leaden prism]

Checked it and no curves are being imported, which is weird as in the export I double checked in the binary and it does have those custom variables in it

[leaden prism]

did a bit more digging and used a custom importer, which confirms that unity sees that data, but the clip itself seems to not have an animation curve associated with it, even with that animated custom properties option turned on

[hybrid tinsel]

Hm, curious.