🏃┃animation

[agile solstice]

Did you confirm you have only one armature, not several?

[sonic stirrup]

yes, i used one armature and extended bones from it using tab

[agile solstice]

Then your problem might not be one of the two most common ones
Impossible for me to do more than guess

[sonic stirrup]

ig something is wrong with my laptop or my configs ig?

[agile solstice]

Unlikely
Most probably you're not doing the correct steps
If you're following a tutorial you may be doing something incorrectly, or have a faulty or outdated tutorial

[sonic stirrup]

yea prob

but due to that reason, i gave up on animation and started coding since i already knew coding

[agile solstice]

You'll find that all disciplines of game development require the exact same precision and creative thinking when following instructions and troubleshooting problems

[sonic stirrup]

yea, no in case of animation, i tried to find solution for 3 months

im much better off in coding

it takes me 10 min to 30 min at most 1-2 hr because im learning unity module and vector module

[agile solstice]

What you're trying to do is more of a 10 minute thing to learn than a 3 month thing
https://youtu.be/gdOaUv0_TC8 this shows you the basics in ten minutes
(If you're using Blender 4.0 or newer the shortcut to select a bone in weight paint mode is alt + left click rather than ctrl + left click)

[fast swan]

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[hasty scroll]

Yeah I found that and then when I tried it it was like switching back and forth every frame for some reason

[agile solstice]

It should not be doing that, unless you have animation layers, blend trees or blend transitions that override the property at a partial weight and end up conflicting

[hasty scroll]

ok

[agile solstice]

Or possibly if you have both scripts and the Animator trying to overwrite the property

You shouldn't need to set the property on every keyframe either because of this

[hasty scroll]

idk what I just did but it just started working lol

[agile solstice]

I can't see the text but in this case this mainly tells you if the charge animation interrupts falling or idle

Still, I believe it's a problem with your movement code rather than of the animator, since jumping and running conditions are both allowed to be true after / right at the moment of landing

[pliant tulip]

the code instead of the animator?

[agile solstice]

Your code is setting the parameters for the animator

The animator is set to "charge" when Jump and isRunning are true
We can see that happening when landing from a jump

Maybe your code shouldn't allow that in this case, or maybe you want an extra parameter for when a charge should happen specifically

[pliant tulip]

hmmm... an extra parameter... or somehting to do with the code..

[agile solstice]

Both
Parameters are how the scripts communicate with an Animator

[pliant tulip]

well here from the running thing

[pliant tulip]

so... what scripts shoudl I show?

[agile solstice]

Are these your Animator and your movement scripts that you're dealing with?

[pliant tulip]

yeah

idk, but this one also have the script

https://gdl.space/udigupepod.cpp this is the coding from the player script for the frogjump

https://gdl.space/lidizevizo.cs and this is from the charge on the animator

[agile solstice]

What for?

[pliant tulip]

I posted the codes below here

[agile solstice]

Primarily you need to decide when exactly the charge animation should and should not start, and make your parameter sets and transition conditions reflect that

Seems rather clear that the wrong animation is playing because you're setting parameters that make it so
So you need to decide on a way to prevent that

[pliant tulip]

I don't know how

[agile solstice]

Maybe you want a bool for "charge" when a charge should happen, whatever that means, rather than any time landing from a jump

I have no clue what your states mean or when you expect them to play precisely, so I can't hand you any finished solution

Animation transitions occur when their parameter conditions are met, that you clearly know
So the challenge is deciding exactly how the character controller's state should correspond to animator state

The way you've tied everything directly to input makes that a bit difficult

[pliant tulip]

ok, imma try

[pliant tulip]

also, i fixed that it not doing the charge animation when lands on the ground right now, but the jump still kinda glitched bu doing the jump animation twice

[hasty scroll]

Kinda Hard to explain but I have been watching this video on how to do top down movement. Basically I have 5 animations. Player_Idle, Player move left, move right etc. In the video that I have been following it says the exact code that I have rn Ive been staring at his screen then my screen, then his screen for 2 hours. Is there anything wrong that is with my code that maybe has been updated over the past few years?

[azure mortar]

hi i begin in unity and i want to launch an animation wich i create when the player collide the object but this code didn't work mayeb its not the right way to do it but im stuck so if cyou can help me it will be very nice

[hasty scroll]

what is the error its giving you?

[whole fog]

it just says you didn't assing animator in the inspector

[whole fog]

looks like you didn't assing the animator

make it public so you can see it in the inspector and then drag the game object that has the animator in it

it's not the best way but it's the easy way

[hasty scroll]

I found what you meant but I'm not sure that kind of thing you put there

[whole fog]

first select the game object that has this script

not the script it self

[hasty scroll]

okay

[whole fog]

and drag the game object that has Animator on empty animator

[hasty scroll]

Thank you so much

I just figured it out

[azure mortar]

its not giving any error but it just dont do anything

[azure mortar]

like that ? because it didn't work either 😭

[whole fog]

Can you show the animator?

I mean the animator window

[azure mortar]

Sorry I'm very lost with the unity animation system 😭 yesterday when I closed unity I was having the animator window but today after relaunched unity I don't see it and when I click on the asset of my animation it opens a window but I cant see the animation

Thanks you for helping and sorry I'm a little new in all this things 😅

[lunar forum]

You can open the animation window by going to "Window" at the top of your editor and then pressing animation

[wise ether]

hello everyone, somebody knows why my morphers don't work when I import they from 3ds max to unity ? for the context: my character has a skin modifier above the morpher modifier and there is the export settings from 3ds max. There is other thing to importate or change in the export settings ?

(the animation in 3ds max and the result in unity)

[spare bloom]

im confused on why the smg shoot animation doesnt work and the pistol shoot animation works fine but the smg shoot animation just dont wanna play idk why

[hybrid tinsel]

Because unity doesn't support 3dsmax modifiers.

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't really show anything useful bit ig might be tgat you are copying the avatar from another model instead of making one from that model.

[spare bloom]

thats what im doing with the pistol and it works fine

[hybrid tinsel]

And yet here we are.

Generally you only want to copy the avatar if they are in fact the same model, just with different animations.

[spare bloom]

they are the same model but diff animations

[wise ether]

..... so there's really no solution for that issue ?!

[sage brook]

Hi, is there a way to play the animation once in preview? I can find is a discussion about this from 2018 but it seems like the solutions there are outdated

[spare bloom]

i seriously dont know whats wrong and it doesnt play the smg animations ngl

[spare bloom]

I'm so confused ngl

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried create avatar for it just to see it it works?

[spare bloom]

Wdym create an avatar?

It already has one

[hybrid tinsel]

No need to panic. There are several potential solutions, depending on your needs. You can bake the modifier to a point cache, you can use blendshapes instead, you could use vertex animation textures, probably other options too(I am not a max user myself)

[hybrid tinsel]

And it isn't working.

So that is one possible solution.

[spare bloom]

Re creating the avatar?

Like make a new one and delete the old one

[hybrid tinsel]

No, like where it says Copy From Other Avatar

Change that.

[wise ether]

ok thanks, I will trying these options

[spare bloom]

OOOOH OKAY OKAY I will try and see

[rich owl]

I'm trying to make a walk blend tree with root motion clips, but the positions seem to get messed up on the character whenever I enter play mode. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[spare bloom]

i tried and it didnt work

[spare bloom]

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[spare bloom]

I am hoping someone finds a way to fix that

[gritty silo]

Is it possible to generate an avatar mask from a GameObject that doesn't have any rigging? My character is similar to a mii (just a body, floating head, and floating arms) in 2d so I haven't been using a rig to animate them, but now I need an avatar mask for some animation layers and can't seem to find out how to make one.

[agile solstice]

Tried restarting the editor? Tried changing the variables during play mode? Checked if it works despite the issue visually

[hybrid tinsel]

You can create one via code pretty simply. Not ideal, but until they att a ui function to do it...

[rich owl]

Yeah it went away after restarting, but its weird bc it even affected another project on a different version of unity that i opened to check

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, you don't really give any details so it is hard to guess if the avatar mismatch wasn't causing it. Try reimporting the exported file into blender to make sure it works, make sure that all modifiers are applied.

[spare bloom]

in blender works perfectly fine

\in blender i mean

the pistol ahs the same exact settings n everything

but well itsd a pistol

and works fine

but for some reason the smg is acting up idk why

This is pain

[loud sparrow]

I have an animator with a custom script attached to it. I want to pass in stuff to this script but it wont let me put anything into it. Im not sure why

(before it was Animator[]) but i changed it to see if it didnt like the type

it cant see anything either?

[spare bloom]

does anyone know how to fix this? cause i seriously am really confused and dont know what to do anymore to fix it , i did everything as the pistol and the pistol animations work fine but the smg animations just decide to not work for some reason , i searched the internet for solutions and answers but no one had the same problem as mine so i couldnt really find anything really , i tried making the animations again and exporting them in unity , i tried reimporting them and they still seem to not work for some reason , im confused and not sure why they dont work , i really need some help

[hybrid tinsel]

So do the bone transforms animate?

Were there any import errors?

[twin musk]

what am i supposed to choose here? (using the Bird game object) also sorry for a question like this its my first time doing this

[shadow obsidian]

Depends on what you want to do of course

ALL of those things are on the bird gameobject

[twin musk]

i have the bird game object and i want to add a flapping animation

i have a wing sprite i just need to attach to the object i guess and animate it

[shadow obsidian]

Oh... i was gonna suggest the sprite renderer for swapping out different sprites, which would be the easiest

But with SEPARATE wings, that makes it a bit harder

I guess it would be the transform of those wings? Not sure. That is outside my experience

[twin musk]

ill try it

thanks

[spare bloom]

No import errors

[spare bloom]

If the animation doesn't work then I guess not

In blender it works fine

But in unity for some reason doesn't work at all

[hybrid tinsel]

You keep saying that, yes. And there are a lot of ways for it to 'not work,' one of which would be for the bones to animate but the skin to not properly follow the armature.

[spare bloom]

And how can I exactly fix that? Like the skin to properly follow the armature

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, first you can check if the bones are animated, like I said

[spare bloom]

Sorry but if I may ask , how can I check if the bones are animated?

Since they were animated in blender

But in unity

Doesn't seem like it

[hybrid tinsel]

Generally, I'd select one that I know is supposed to move and see if it animates.

Sidenote: did you openm up the animation clip and make sure it has any keyframes in it?

[spare bloom]

It does have keyframes in it yesterday when I checked

[hybrid tinsel]

And none of the tracks in it have errors(yellow text)?

[spare bloom]

I saw that bones are just transforms in unity so I should look for the barrel transform?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[spare bloom]

No errors or yellow text

[spare bloom]

Okie dokie

[hybrid tinsel]

You can also apply the bone renderer from the animation rigging package to view it with blender style bones

[spare bloom]

OOOH that's so cool

I will see when I get home

[spare bloom]

unfortunately seems like the barrel bone isnt moving

[zenith olive]

I am trying to learn Animation Rigging. My problem is that when I click "Restore Bind Pose" my player model will face down in T-Pose. Then I checked my mesh, and the mesh was facing down. I imported the fbx file to Maya and exported it with this setting: "Up Axis:Y" then imported it to Unity again. But the mesh is still facing down.

[uncut osprey]

Ignore the floating gun, I have an idle animation here that plays when standing still, but the second I start moving my guy just ascends and starts floating. But in blender all of my animations are at the same height. Frankly I can't figure out why this is happening

[tawny hamlet]

i'm having this problem where when i put animator on my slime and press play it's size become so big does anyone have any idea how to fix this? i would appreciate the tips and help

[swift tide]

I'm blending between 2 animations (which were fine before), I reimported the idle animation and now when they blend it causes some weird root jitter. Anytime they blend it causes the root to be displaced. Why is this?

I'm not animating the root from what I know

[swift tide]

In animation export you might have to export at 0.01 scale

[tawny hamlet]

like in... blender sorry i dont have any idea where or what is animation export

[swift tide]

Ah I assumed you exported the animation

[swift tide]

Try adjusting the Scale factor of the animation in its import settings to like 0.01

[tawny hamlet]

ok i will try it

[tawny hamlet]

thank you so much for the help it works but now i have a new problem with it when it walks he is not facing front and he become so small that i cant see it

NVM fix it heheheehehee

[spare bloom]

Anyone know how to fix the bonenot moving?

[celest crag]

@nova dagger #1180170818983051344

[nova dagger]

okay

[wise ether]

little update for them who would want to know how to make the morphers working from 3dsmax to unity with a skin modifier above it: I found this video in the abysses of the Autodesk forums, it's really dumb as solution, you have to cut the modifier skin and just past above the morphershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyPfEO2kuto

[swift tide]

Is there an equivalent for “Mesh Space Rotation Blend" from Unreal in Unity? Where a layered animation say from the spine up, wont use the spines rotation, so the upperbody stays stabilized?

[vivid yoke]

Not strictly a game showcase, but my mad Blender skills xD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj3aGjORDE&ab_channel=FunFunZeroOne

[spare bloom]

My only guess on why it's not moving is something to do when I was rigging the gun otherwise I'm not sure

[karmic dagger]

anybody experienced in getting enemy animations working with A* pathfinding active?

[shadow obsidian]

What relation do the two have in your code?

[karmic dagger]

@shadow obsidian i have a blend tree that takes the horizontal deltaPosition.x and y and uses it to trigger the blend tree, but it was skipping around. i messed around for hours and got it working using "LastMoveX" which was basically how it sounds... but unity crashed and i lost my progress and even though the code is the same, whatever i did in the animator is messed up 🤨

[spare bloom]

my guess was right , i rerigged the smg and did every animation again n everything but now the barrel is uh acting weird in unity even tho in blender looks normal

nvm my smg file didnt save properly

fixed it

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you using any modifiers on the bone or just manual keyframes?

[twin surge]

Hey guys. I have ik and child constraints on my fps weapon rig(meaning bones are not parented but anjmated to look like they are) set up for some of my bones in blender, but after exporting to unity as fbx, there seems to be a bit of wobble.

Geometries that looked completely locked together in blender, now wiggle out of place, like my weapon magezine.

Any way to fox this?
I turned off keyframe reduction and it still isnt fixed.

[lunar bronze]

I have 2 animations, one that changes the rotation of a gameobject, which transitions into the second animation, which sets the color of a gameobject.

My issue is that the second animation also RESETS the rotation made from the first animation. Why??

[dense agate]

Maybe the bake into pose setting?

[lunar bronze]

This isn't on an avatar, I don't see those options

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you animating the root? Is root motion enabled?

[spare bloom]

Yeah using the mirror modifier

But I rerigged the smg and it works perfectly now

[hybrid tinsel]

Right, like I said modifiers need to be baked before export or they won't work.

[spare bloom]

Oh damn , didn't know that

Oh well

[twin surge]

assistance please?

[fierce jewel]

Guys, how animations are made smooth ?

Like jumping and then walking or running

I have an example video, watch this! How can we achieve these types of movements in unity?

[fathom finch]

is Unreal Engine, There was probably a lot of production behind using Xsens

[fierce jewel]

Ooh okay, got it

Thanks for the info bro

[hollow portal]

I attempted to follow Brackey's Scene Transition tutorial and finished it, but I can't seem to stop the transition animation from playing whenever I start my game

Is there a way to prevent that from happening? Because his tutorial did not cover that part

[hybrid tinsel]

That seems to be a mix of techniques; might be using motion matching, it maybe just good transitions. Also seems to be using ik limbs and physical sim for the ragdolling.

[dense agate]

motion matching?

maybe

[stuck sable]

What are some good resources for learning the correct use cases for Animator setups?

So far, I've seen two code based methods, one which simply calls animations directly through code, aand another, which uses a complex wrapper for doing the same.

Assuming I need one character to be capable of performing an extremely long list of possible animations (It's going to be for a turn-based RPG), where should I look for info on how to integrate unity's Animator component with such a long list of one-off animations that don't really need transitions as firmly as other usecases?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not at a computer so I don't have link handy, but you probably should check out the talk by the devs of Firewatch on the subject. Similar usecase with a bunch of one-off animations on top of regular ones.

https://youtu.be/8VgQ5PpTqjc ah, found it

[stuck sable]

It sounds like I should be skipping Mecanim as much as possible, for something more turn-based.

[fierce jewel]

Yeah, it may be motion matching, isn't there any website that provides motion matched animations??
Is there so much difference between unreal and unity in terms of animation??
One last question, how to implement that type of small animations like stopping suddenly while running?

[fierce jewel]

Oops! I forgot to add it to this reply

[dense agate]

you could do the stop to run in mecanim too

[hybrid tinsel]

There are a few motion matching systems for unity, though unreal's is probably in a better state right now it also depends a lot on the wuality if the animation data.

Yiu can achieve similar results without motion matching but it will take intermediate animations and soforth.

[glossy marsh]

where do u get ur gun sounds?

[spare bloom]

I forgot the site but I just searched like pistol shoot sounds or smg shoot sounds and I found them

[glossy marsh]

ohki thnks

[spare bloom]

Np

[hearty parrot]

Guys, what kind of problem does it cause if it stays on Generic option instead of Humanoid when I add animation?

Because the character I bought from mixamo named Mutant has a knife like thing instead of his left hand, I cannot select the Humanoid box because the Left Hand is missing.

You can ping me when you answer my question thanks.

[hybrid tinsel]

As long as the overall structure of a humanoid is there you can still use humanoid.

Using generic is not generally a problem unless you need humanoid features.

Specifically retargeting, mecanim ik, etc.

[jade sand]

How can I set the transitions for an NPC or the animations?

[hybrid tinsel]

It looks like you have already set a couple, so did you have a specific difficulty?

[jade sand]

Well I didn't know how this was going

[spare parcel]

In Unity 2022.3 I have some issue with the TimeLine, I have one to control the scene and one inside the character but when I switch from one to another, the second one (the timeline inside the character) is uncontrollable, the cursor gets back to 0 and the play didn't work at all. Could be because Animation Rigging?

[vernal kiln]

Hey, i am working on an fps (and i already set up animation rigging/investe kinematics)

my question is, when i spawn a gun on the player, how do i make the hands move to it, or how do i play animations, for example shooting or reloading with the hands included, if i add the animation to the gun, don't the hands have to be children to be animated? And if i include the hands in the animation, once i change the hands they will be marked missing in every animation.

So how do i make this stuff

[stuck sable]

Okay, so, after doing some research, I think I know how I want to handle my turn-based game's different variant attack animations, but I'm not totally sure what I want is possible, since Mekanim can be a bit rough with simpler applications like this.

Is it possible to;

1. Modify an Animator Override's clips during runtime?
2. Create a list of Animator Overrides during runtime and set clips to them then?

I plan on having one "Attack" animation in my Animator Component, which is played directly, and use code to change which clip is in that state, so I can have a Scriptable Object that contains every possible Attack Animation, using scripts to swap them out based on what the player chooses.

My rationale for this is that I want all entities in battle that are humanoid to share one library of attack animations, and have all of them be capable of all types of attacks, but I am worried this will result in tons of overhead, since every enemy would need to have an animator component with a state for every possible attack, which is heavy on processing, memory, and worst of all, development time, especially if I end up wanting to have an extremely large library of possible "moves"

It seems wiser, then, to have one "attack" animation defined in Mekanim, which is modified directly by taking Animation Clips from a Scriptable Object Array and replacing it with one set in that list.

[stuck sable]

Sorry, is this more of a code question? I wasn't sure which channel to put this in

[hybrid tinsel]

Does it still happen without animation rigging?

[hybrid tinsel]

1. Yes
2. Not automatically

[stuck sable]

I'd like option 1, or the resources for where I can find out more about it. I've looked at the documentation, but I wasn't able to figure out how one would go about changing an Animator Override's clips through code

My end goal is basically just to have an animation state whose clip is decided purely through code and a list of Animation Clips

[hybrid tinsel]

I believe that you'd just set the AnimatorState.motion directly

On mobile right now so can't do much research

I believe that you might also be able to replace by clip name, but I wouldn't recommend that.

[stuck sable]

So basically, I have a node in my animator, "Attack", and in code, I just do something like getting the Attack state, and setting the AnimatorState.motion of that to a specific animation clip in the assets folder, which I have a reference to?

would I even need to use an Animator Override for that?

Like I said, my plan is to use a scriptable object that contains a list of every Animation clip I want, and use that list to substitute in and out various clips to the "attacking" state

[hybrid tinsel]

You should be able to do that without an override, yes.

[spare parcel]

Nope 😅

[hybrid tinsel]

Then strong maybe!

[twin musk]

I'm trying to set up animations for my player but the pivot points wont change even when I click apply, and I don't know what to do 😦

Nevermind, I figured it out 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

You have 'center' mode enabled in inspector.

Oh, I see you got it

[covert zealot]

hi im experimenting a good amount of time now but how can i change the framerate of my animation?

[covert zealot]

how are 20k people online but no one replies hello?

[uncut salmon]

Maybe they're not interested in answering you. You change the frame rate on the animation tab, at the top left.

[covert zealot]

ok ty

[shadow obsidian]

20k people that have joined the server at some point in their lives and happen to have an app instance open on some device (even in the background).
Not 20k people actively checking this channel of this server.

There are only about 2 to 5 people that actively help in this channel

Just to help show what is happening.

Good luck with everything!

[covert zealot]

well fair point

[hybrid tinsel]

You also asked a phenomenally difficult question if you want a correct/in-depth answer. Osteel's suggestion for changing the sample rate will be useful for the specific purposes of changing the framerate of a sprite flipbook. Unless you manually control the animator playback by script there is no way to actually control the framerate outside of the unity recorder.

Your question was also vague because there are multiple possible things you might mean. Setting the framerate of the entire game, for instance, could be a suitable solution for your needs. Or if what you actually care about is the speed of the animation.

The biggest issue, of course, is that unity does not calculate animations in terms of frames at all, but rather in terms of time. Other than sprite flipbooks, it doesn't really have a proper understanding of frames at the animator level.

So in effect, changing the sample rate changes the way the data is read but the game still evaluates the current time in an animation once per game-frame.

So the way you deal with that depends a lot on the specific effect that you want.

[sand inlet]

hi guys, I've encountered an issue and is in dire need of help

I made a model in blender fully animated, with 2 attached clothes that are also animated (cloak_Armature, skirt_Armature)

but somehow when imported to unity, only the Equier, which is the main body, the one where all the clothes armatures are parented to, part is animated

The cloak_Armature, that is containing the animation for the cloak, can not be animated at all.

Although its very clear that the cloak_Armature contains animations of the cloak in blender

can someone help me out please, I've been scratching my head for a while now, and its my first time importing animation from blender to unity as well.

[sand inlet]

Wowzers, I figured it out, the answer was animation layers, damn Im dumb

[zinc grail]

When I play my animation in preview in the scene view it doesn't move away
but on play mode it moves away a little
I made the animation in blender and there are no mistakes in there
How do I solve this?

[gloomy sky]

I'm trying to do choppy animation, which means I would use a lower framerate in my spritesheet. However, I also need that animation's speed to get faster (as the game goes on) and using the speed change in unity causes the framerate to appear smoother as more frames are now passing by. Is there a way to make an animation faster but skipping frames to still make it appear choppy but also get faster?

[hybrid tinsel]

Probably would want to make separate animations for each speed interval.

[fathom finch]

I experience a problem when I am configuring an Avatar set to Humanoid. The inspector menu stays stuck, and I have to close and reopen, it also seems that the changes are not stored (in this case put it back to T Pose, and although all the errors are resolved in the Rig tab of the model it still says that there is an error, as if it was not saved.

use Unity 6 B15

[coarse depot]

I am trying to make my NPC jump a little bit using a position based animation. The way it is setup is that the default animation is a 4-directional Idle blend tree based off of the NPC's facing direction values. Then a trigger called "hop" is called and it transitions from 'any state' to 'CharacterHop' which is an animation that only manipulates the position of the sprite.

The issue I'm having is that the sprite renderer of the character is changed to facing down when the character hop animation is played. I'm assuming this is because it is the sprite Renderer's default sprite (assigned to the prefab). Is there anyway I can prevent this from happening?

Both transitions have exit time and transition duration set to Zero.

Heres a gif showing the issue in play mode. When the character hop animation is played the character sprite changes despite no sprite changes being present on the hop animation.

[coarse depot]

Nvm, I solved the issue. If the animator is not given a sprite it will default back to the sprite assigned outside of play mode. So, to combat this I moved my physics based animation to a separate animation layer and have it activated there so that both the idle and hop animations are playing at the same time. Note that you may have to change the new animation layer's settings

[true zodiac]

not even sure if i'm asking in the right channel... keep trying to get unity to auto geometry in the sprite editor and getting this error message every time

can't find anything about it online

enabled full stack trace and it's blank lol

[agile solstice]

You can't really debug problems within the editor itself
Mostly you can just try restarting it, deleting Library, patching the editor, trying to reproduce the bug in a new project or considering upgrading to a newer feature version of the editor

[true zodiac]

thank ye, updated and now getting a totally different error?

[agile solstice]

I recall seeing that a bunch in some versions but if it doesn't break anything, there's no need to worry

[true zodiac]

unfortunately it does break it, as it doesn't allow me to auto geometry

[agile solstice]

Which editor version are you using now and were using before?

[fossil reef]

I imported an animation that enlarges an object and makes in smaller again
but now the object has a fixed size in unity even if I make it smaller it has the starting size from the animation
I dont want that but it still has to change its scale
how do I do that cause I know its possible it always worked normal before

[frosty crag]

Hello uhm im trying to create a UI wherein if the enemy hits the main character a heart score is gone. How do i connect the script to the animation of the health bar?

[true zodiac]

2021.3.19f1 before and 2022.3.25f1 now which i believe is the most up-to-date

[covert zealot]

but the weird thing is if I just drag like a few sprites in the scene at the same the frame rate of the animation is set to 12fps. but if I create an animation and then drag the sprites into the timeline its set to 60 fps.

[agile solstice]

Usually you want to get the newest of 2021.3. if you're on that
going to 2022.3. is a leap that can break stuff of introduce new problems

[true zodiac]

can i reasonably go back?

[hybrid tinsel]

That is because when creating an empty animation it assumes that you're creating it for a general 3d object. When creating from a Sprite it uses different defaults.

[covert zealot]

so what can i do about it?

[hybrid tinsel]

Live with it, I suppose. Though note that is not the framerate, it is the sample rate.

You can set it to whatever you want

[covert zealot]

ok

[vague nymph]

Hi everyone. I'm beginner in Unity. I want to ask if I downloaded model from low poly pizza. It is without T Pose. And I attach to this model in Unity animation from mixamo and have something like that at the screen. My guess is that I need to open 3D model in Blender and stay it in T Pose and the next download animation for this model. Correctly?

[fleet glen]

Hello I currently am implementing combat animations into my game and have the input working for a punch attack but when my animation is transitioning back to the idle state my character just gets stuck on the last frame of my punch attack and can not go back to the idle state. I keep trying to reset the trigger back to false after it is turned on but it wont. can anyone help?

[eager arch]

So i made a spineIK script for my player, but when used in combination with animations it breaks as im using Lerp for the IK, the animation moves the bones to another pos causing the lerp to break, the workaround i found was this hellish thing, is there a correct way to do this, i don't think avatarMasks would work as it moves the bones to Tpose every frame

yeah i will cache the *90, /90 values

[covert zealot]

hi im currently animating my 2d character but cant figure out the transitioning if i walk the animation gets played to late when the player may have already stopped moving somebody know what i could do about it?

[charred ermine]

my models are all getting contorted when the game runs

[dense agate]

maybe because of the varaible punch ?

[fleet glen]

I will be looking into this further tomorrow thank you

[hybrid tinsel]

Might have exit times enabled in the transition?

[hybrid tinsel]

That isn't much to go on.

[hybrid tinsel]

First of all, that is a bool and not a trigger. Second, you didn't post code so it is hard to tell what could be wrong

[small zodiac]

cant see my animations when i click on it, does anyone have a solution to this problem

[agile solstice]

this bar is clickable for revealing the asset preview

[hearty parrot]

Hi, When I press the W and A or D keys at the same time, that is, when I start running towards the left and right diagonally, the jumping animation does not start.

Is this related to the codes or do I need to make another setting in the Animator window?

If you want to understand better, I can make a video

you can see when i jump while holding W and A key** isJumping **parameter the tick mark comes and goes for 0.1 seconds

[agile solstice]

You'd want to confirm the transitions to the jumping state are correct and don't have Exit Time enabled

I would prefer to use blend trees and animation layers for movement rather than trying to have a transition from everything to everything

[hearty parrot]

i was think too i must use blend tree but really complitated

how its work i dont know and all blend tree tutorials is english 😄

i can search in google or youtube blend tree tutorial but if you know really good tutorial can you send me link please ?

[agile solstice]

It's no more complex than having multiple synced animations you can blend between using one or more variables
I haven't watched this but it's probably a decent tutorial: https://youtu.be/m8rGyoStfgQ
I just read the documentation

The main benefit is that you can have many movement animations in it and only need one transition in and one out for another state, like jump

Layers let you blend between whole state machines using a variable

[hearty parrot]

thank you i will watch

[glass cove]

Hey hi! So i imported a couple blender animations i made and while the FBX animation previews looks perfect, the animation solo preview looks a bit constrained (ears and clothes dont bend) and thats how it looks in play time too.
What could that difference be? (First one is the faulty, but they are the same anim file)

[little sluice]

Anyone experiemce this issue with the Timeline where the buttons don't seem to appear? The record, lock, mute buttons on each layer

Using unity 2022

When reinstalling the Timeline package, I get two debug logs stating that Dark.uss was not downloaded

What is that?

[tardy ginkgo]

can someone help please

[uncut salmon]

Someone said to check the animation doc in this channel and you opted to just regurgitate your question.

The animator you're running doesn't have the Attack parameter which is just repeating what your error is saying.

[tardy ginkgo]

what is a parameter

its problably stupid for yall but im honnestly not understanding this error

problem solved thanks Osteel

[clear current]

Hi i have this animation where the player falls to the floor. in the animator it works. i have change the motion to root transform thinking that was the issue but no fix. what happend is the animation just players in the standing postion

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it a humanoid rig or generic?

[glass cove]

I figured it was exactly that, i apreciate that you pointed it out anyway! 😄

[rustic axle]

hi im not much of an animator, i made a walking animation and the first and last keys are the initial position, and there is a pause between each cycle of the walk because of this but idk how to make it so that it doesnt but still looks smooth

[clear current]

any ideas

[clear current]

select all the keyframes

Right click on one of them

Set the option to "Auto" give that ago

you could also play about with linear on the curve tab at the bottom

[brazen shuttle]

Hi all, I have made a 3d model in blender with shape keys and I want to move it to unity but when I just pass (in fbx format), the shape keys disappear.
I don't know if it's because I have to select some option when exporting it.

[small zodiac]

so i uploaded my model and animations and somereason one of my animations proportions are wrong does anyone know how to fix this

[minor field]

How do I start my Timeline animation at the gameobject's current position and end it at the position I want? Is there a way to do this?

or at least start at the current position and smoothly move to the start position of the timeline animation?

I just need to start with the player's position and end at an exact spot using timeline

[pallid thistle]

pretty much a noob to character animation. im making a game that gets a voice over, and i want my characters to move their mouths accordingly. is there a tool that does essentially the same job as VRChat, where the audio clip moves the blendshapes of every sound of the alphabet (that i made for my model) automatically for me?

[tender tusk]

Mecanim animators, what is the correct way to have the Avatar (rig) match the 3rd party animation Avatar I'm using?

If I attached the animation to my character and Play the scene, my character walks "bow-legged" like they're riding a horse. The reason for that is because my character's skeleton legs are wider than the animation rig I'm using. I can correct that by matching my rig to theirs in the Avatar Definition > Configuration area. That fixes my problem, but if I have a variety of skeletons for clothing, I need to fix all of those as well. Or if Im using an animation from a different person that the first, say they decide to have the legs spaced differently, then that animation will be off too.

Is there an easier way to make sure my character's Avatar (rig) matches to whatever animation I'm using without having to edit the avatar?

As you can see from my screenshots, my character's legs are spaced wider when the scene is Playing due to the Avatar setup like in the left image. Maybe there's a way to have my character's legs match the position and rotation of the animation, regardless of how my Avatars legs are positioned?

Or if I have to change all my Avatars (rigs) manually for my characters and clothing, how can I copy and paste all the positions and rotations exactly the same for all my rigs? I can Load/Save the mapping using Mecanim, but not the positioning.

[bleak harness]

I was making a hotline Miami type thing and cannot seem to get my walk animation to play when I walk. Anyone have any suggestions or videos? It says it has to be switched to legacy but when I do that it breaks everything

[pine badge]

Hi all
I can't seem to record/key in value changes in the inspector for some scripts/variable
Right clicking some script shows the "Add Key" option
But for some others, it's not there

[pine badge]

Wait i just realized even tho the "Add Key" option doesn't appear and the variable field doesn't turn red in the inspector, changing its value does add a keyframe on the animation tab..
Weird

[random spoke]

Hi all i have this really awkward animation that i want seamlessly looped but i cant seem to find the timing because there is no point where all the keys line up. Can someone help me find a way to do this?

nvm i got it :0

[stuck sable]

Unity's humanoid animation retargeting still works if you have rigs with different proportions right?

I'm working on avatar stuff, and wanted to know if it was feasible to retarget animations between two rigs like this, with a "generic rig", and then some fancier, distorted one for something like an ogre

[hybrid tinsel]

That is what it is for, yeah. You'll probably want to enable foot IK with suchblarge proportion differencea, to avoid issues.

[stuck sable]

Gotcha! Thank you, I THOUGHT that was what it was for, but I was having trouble finding examples of people using such large proportional differences

My plan is to use one rig to make an animation library scriptable object, then assign animations to the states through code, which makes no sense if they can't be retargeted to ALL the characters in the game

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you just cut it and add new keys to force a loop?

[hybrid tinsel]

Here's an example of the difference in such a situation https://i.imgur.com/JXfpNCm.mp4

Where this guy has really short legs(proportion wise)

[stuck sable]

Interesting!

[spare parcel]

In unity 2022.3.5 the avatar configuration didn't work and It's gray

Also closing and reopening the Inspector it works...but just until I click on Apply, or any bones.. then it gets back to gray 😕

Also I get this error in Inspector, maybe could be usefull

UnityEditor.AvatarSubEditor.ApplyRevertGUI () (at <477bdcb097d4488eae58cbed17286dd8>:0)
UnityEditor.AvatarMappingEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at <477bdcb097d4488eae58cbed17286dd8>:0)
UnityEditor.AvatarEditor.EditingGUI () (at <477bdcb097d4488eae58cbed17286dd8>:0)
UnityEditor.AvatarEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at <477bdcb097d4488eae58cbed17286dd8>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass72_0.<CreateInspectorElementUsingIMGUI>b__0 () (at <477bdcb097d4488eae58cbed17286dd8>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)```

I made a try with unity 2022.3.26 but the issue remain

Also, if I click any node or interface on the Inspector, it gets grayed again... damn 😦

[arctic sentinel]

https://gyazo.com/f7b06fe24895d9b6259a4dc9d4bbe0eb
how do i get my last Animation from timeline off the screen

[stuck sable]

So, enabling foot IK, I'm having some issues with the retargeting, since the IK proportions aren't quite right

Is there a way to adjust this without making multiple animations?

The only way I can think to correct it would be to make sure all my rigs are scaled, such that their foot IK is always proportional with the "base model". Are there any issues that could emerge from that?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, it will always be an approximation meant to look good in most cases. You can do some fiddling with limits in the avatar but especially for an extreme case like yours there is only so much it can do.

[stuck sable]

Gotcha

What I'll probably do is just use a variable for whether or not to use foot IK on any given model.

[hybrid tinsel]

You can also try enabling translation DOF

Which probably won't help in this particular case, but it might.

[spare parcel]

Maybe I got the problem but Unity still giving the the gray Inspector anyway....
The problem is that the fingers have all the same name and maybe that's drives Unity crazy? 🤔

[spare parcel]

Thanks to CoPilot I've been able to fix the issue, and now it's working perfectly (in Unity 2021) now I can grab the fbx and the meta file into 2022... in hope a fix will comes out soon 🙄

[random spoke]

Hi all. I am a little stuck. I have i character set up with the new 2D IK and 2D animation package and have animated it using the targets. I now want the character to execute basic foot placement. I have already created a second IK solver for each limb to override the current animation. But i need the animation still playing because otherwise it will look static. Any help?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIcNwka8r8Q&t=24s

here is the video i have based myself off of

[spare parcel]

Ok in the case anyone else got the Grey Avatar Inspector bug, I've made a thread in the forum explaining why and how to fix it: https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-2022-3-25-and-26-avatar-editor-grey-inspector.1587228/

[plucky plover]

Hey guys,
maybe someone would be able to help with syncing 2 animations of 2 different objects? I have 2 different animations (the player that has an animation of opening a door and the door itself, that has an animation of opening) I'm having some trouble making, that those two animations would be synced without any delay 😦 Is that even possible to do? If not, how should I manage to do these kinds of animations/interactions?

[proud tapir]

WHY WONT IT LET ME TICK THE MIRROR OPTION

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it humanoid?

[proud tapir]

Fortnite Jonesy

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd just use a Timeline.

[hybrid tinsel]

I don't speak random zoomer meme. Translate?

[proud tapir]

he jonsey

[plucky plover]

u r a god man

i was searching for a tool like this! tyvm

[robust basalt]

i created a system to play overlay animations, Those overlays have only one layer and I switch avatar masks at runtime depending on the overlay animation being played

video about the problem switching avatar mask parts using SetHumanoidBodyPartActive make the animation reset and jitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZFz1DV94Lo

Script to Replicate the behavior

[SerializeField] private AvatarMask OverrideLayerAvatarMask; // AvatarMask attached to the override layer
private bool isActive = true;
private void Update()
{
    OverrideLayerAvatarMask.SetHumanoidBodyPartActive(AvatarMaskBodyPart.Body, isActive);
    isActive = !isActive;
}

[covert zealot]

hey can somebody tell me how i set up diagonal movement animations in my topdown 2d game? i got the animation and for example my walkUpRight animation should play if my MoveX value is greater than 0 and my MoveY value is greater than 0. but all it does is colmpletely ignoring it and just switching really fast between the walkUp and the walkRight animation.
somebody know how to fix it?

[gray badger]

hi, i've made my animator transition from the idle animation to the run animation when a horizontal input (when grounded) is used, but when i hold down the button, it plays the animation once instead of playing it until a horizontal input isn't detected anymore

any advice here? not sure where i've gone wrong, considering i've got it moving now anyway

[astral echo]

I just realized the animation events system is pretty much useless since there's no guarantee that events actually get triggered. Are there any good alternatives I could use?

or should I just switch to coroutines or something

[normal copper]

That's what I did for my first project but it was a nightmare tbh

[astral echo]

yeah I did that before and it kinda sucked

I'm working on a pretty big project and I'm focusing on making it easy to add new behaviors, including animations... so it seems like it would be really cumbersome

so I might have to make a more robust and efficient custom event system

still a pain though, I wish unity would just fix the existing system

[normal copper]

You might be able to make use of something like a callback to ensure that everything you need to get done actually happens

[astral echo]

hmm I'm not experienced with callbacks but I might look into that

[hybrid tinsel]

Without seeing how you set it up, it is hard to say what could be happening.

[hybrid tinsel]

You are using a trigger instead of a bool.

[gray badger]

yea wasn't the issue, had a piece of code that wasn't right and then the scene transition was wrong

thanks tho

[hybrid tinsel]

They should trigger when that frame is evaluated. So most problems stem from incorrectly set transitions or by manually setting the state time. An alternative would be using state machine behaviors, which are guaranteed to trigger but are not tied to a specific point in the animation.

[astral echo]

the problem is that frames aren't guaranteed to be evaluated, especially if the animation speed is modified. I've now implemented a somewhat functional system with coroutines.

the events that weren't being triggered were on animations with exit time 1 and transition time 0, with the event being close to the middle of the clip.

[twin musk]

Hey there people, question about rigged models, especially in the environment
Say i wanted to use a rigged door model with a complex opening animation
and this door is all over the game's map

From my understanding a skinned mesh is expensive on performance, so what are some good practices for animating the environment?

and the only platform I want my game on is PC

[ionic spear]

Guys im encountering this weird bug with my animation. Whenever I start the sliding animation (GunDown Animation), it works fine, but when the anim starts in this specific time frame towards the end of the shoot animation, it like freezes for a little then goes down.. Does anyone know a fix. The shoot animation is activated by a trigger

[astral echo]

well it depends what kind of animation it is. if it's deforming the mesh, you're probably gonna have to use a skinned mesh. otherwise you could just do it through direct transform animation or object-bone parenting.

[tiny bane]

Hello everyone I need your help please. Firstly I don't understand why my avatar moves from its location when I touch the timeline. Then in the part of the video where the animation is playing I cannot resolve the problem of the can moving even though I have related it to the avatar's hand. Thanks in advance

[hybrid tinsel]

If the animation is rigid(no flexible parts) then you don't need to use a skinned mesh.

That said, unless you plan to use a lot of them uou are probably fine. Though if you are really worried you can use static models and only activate the skinned version when needed.

[devout ember]

is there a way to override animation values in code? like if i want to set the scale of a bone that is being animated in code or something

the staff is part of the characters body, and i want it to disappear when he throws it away

i thought to just make the scale of it 0 but if its being animated by other things then i cant do that can I

[agile solstice]

With a script in LateUpdate, or with Animation Rigging package that works on top of the Animator

[devout ember]

what would i do with the animation rigging package? I have it installed in my game but only for the bone renderer thing

[glossy marsh]

how do i fix that stopping bug thingy

idk what causes it and i am new to animations soo

[charred badger]

Hey there, this is Jayden, your friendly animator! 🎨 If you're in need of some creative assistance or looking to collaborate on a project, feel free to shoot me a DM. I'm here to bring your ideas to life!✨

[hybrid tinsel]

Did you not set the animation to loop?

[glossy marsh]

oh wait

[glossy marsh]

its now doing this weird thhing

[hybrid tinsel]

Looks like an animation meant for root motion but with root motion disabled

You can try baking the root motion curves

[glossy marsh]

how do i do that?

[hybrid tinsel]

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

[somber smelt]

Hello ! I followed that quick tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbIsNAvUpM to animate a quadruped on Blender, but it ends with 4 armatures and when I try to export in Unity I get all the armatures split for the animations clips.. Would you know what to do to get only 1 clip ? ( u can see I've several clips for each armatures bc I tried using the Action Editor ( on blender ) to resolve the issue but still not working for now )

[somber smelt]

about my issue : found out myself after hours on it.. just need to unselect " NLA Strips " and " All actions " in the baking animation option for export !

[livid nimbus]

Hey, I'm trying to make a simple (very basic) climbing system and it works fine but i do not have any idea about how to make a smooth transition between the climbing animation and when the player reached the end (video). Any ideas how to handle this issue?

[agile solstice]

Do you have an animation for going from climbing to standing?

[livid nimbus]

no

[livid nimbus]

but i could implement it my question is how to smoothly "teleport" the player when playing this animation

[agile solstice]

If you're doing the climbing with root motion, you may be able to blend into the standing pose with the animator
Otherwise I expect you'd lerp the player's position from wall to ledge when reaching it

[livid nimbus]

kk thanks

[eternal nova]

how can I add first person animations? like when im standing still I want a idle animation to play,when walking I want a walking animation to play. all the videos I find are hard to understand cause they don't explain things properly and they edit the video and everything is too fast.

[shy knoll]

Hey everyone question because I’m looking it up but can’t seem to find one, is it possible to make an animation slowly become bigger? Making an asteroid animation an idk how to slowly make it become bigger in Unity

[devout ember]

I am trying to access an FBX and extract the Animation Clips from it. I am currently doing that like this:

ModelImporter modelImporter = AssetImporter.GetAtPath(assetPath) as ModelImporter;
if (modelImporter == null)
{
    Debug.LogError("Failed to get ModelImporter for the FBX Object!");
    return animationClips;
}

ModelImporterClipAnimation[] clipAnimations = modelImporter.defaultClipAnimations;
I need to convert these clips to AnimationClips. How can i do this? I can’t seem to typecast.

[willow glade]

For a fps game i am moving the gun through script for aiming.But when i play the reload animation it has a offset
i want it to play reload while aiming like cod

[agile solstice]

Aiming could be an animation on another layer, or you could be moving a parent object above the animator

[exotic flicker]

Hey, i need to do animation on unity or blender ?

[wraith river]

How to make sure Animator and Unity script are in sync?
I use this IF check to fire an animation

  if (animator.GetInteger("LType") == 0)

i set this integer to zero at the end of animation with state behaviour

but surprisingly, even though the animation finished, and the if-check passes successfuly, and theres a second attempt to fire the animation again, but it wont fire this time
because Animator is still on cooldown or something. Perhaps its still exitting, i mean maybe its in the "transition" that happens after the animation? im not sure

    // OnStateExit is called when a transition ends and the state machine finishes evaluating this state
    override public void OnStateExit(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)
    {
        animator.SetInteger("LType", 0);
    }

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you not just use a trigger?

[wraith river]

will trigger force the animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

A trigger is just a bool that turns off when any transition uses it.

[wraith river]

i see

i guess not having to turn it off myself gives some advantage. I think my script that was turning the INTEGER off (setting to 0) was breaking stuff

it seems to work better with triggers

[wraith river]

but i still have the issue with tracking if i can fire the animation again

[sour belfry]

Does anyone have a solution to easily animate mixamo characters ? (I want to do my own animations)

[eternal nova]

my character is suppose to walk is there a solution?

[wraith river]

so i tested my options, and animator behaviour (OnStateExit) calls a bit too late, but animator events dont pass enough data in parameters, and would require me to duplicate my anims to make these limited params work.
perhaps ill go with OnStateUpdate, and check each frame for normalized time or something. this has animator.GetLayerName(layerIndex), so i can get the name of layer this way.

[slow wigeon]

Is anyone here familiar with Animancer?

[gleaming oar]

why is it saying this i think it should be fine

[dusky fulcrum]

dont know if this is the right place to ask but do you guys have any feedback for my animations(its supposed to be reload, hands will be added)

[hybrid tinsel]

Seems a bit rigid, but hard to say for sure without hands since that can add a lot of personality.

[devout rock]

How do I use a baked cloth animation on a humanoid avatar? I want the clothing bones to be used as well. Otherwise, the clothes are completely stiff and that's not what I want.

[south obsidian]

yo guys i wanna ask how to make the animation transitions go automatically from one to another , because it seems the way i set it up the transition happens after the first animation finishes its duration

i want once i do an input that triggers an animation to make the animation happen immediately instead of the waiting for the old animation to finish its duration

[dusky fulcrum]

true thanks should probably work on adding arms next

[tiny onyx]

hi guys is it really impossible to animate a slash for this character in unity like chat gpt says like i have the bones seprated but i dont know what should be the prepration phase before the swing

[storm galleon]

My blendtree seems to be configured properly and my script seems to be functioning - but there is an issue with some of the animations. Particular any of the backwards animations are not working (the bottom 3). I have verified that my backwards movement is triggering at 0.5 speed as it should, but i still am hitting the forward animation

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to enable the additional bones in the importer

[hybrid tinsel]

Disable has exit time on the transition

[hybrid tinsel]

What the fuck does chat gpt have to do with it?

You probably should draw additional angles for some of the body parts if you want a slashing animation to look goid, but you could probably get away with what you have.

[hybrid tinsel]

That is a very strange layout... what is the logic behind it?

[storm galleon]

I changed it a bit with backwards having negative speed to be more logical, still issues though

the 0.5 values in movement are for strafing (forward left for example)

[hybrid tinsel]

What issues?

[storm galleon]

Well now my character isn't even leaving the idle animation state

here is my transition info

and I am verifying that the blend tree is getting the right speed values when inputting movement

[hybrid tinsel]

The blend tree settings don't matter if you never leave idle.

[storm galleon]

Right

oh...the conditions are "and" statements

[hybrid tinsel]

That'll do it

I actually couldn't see that, tiny mobile screen =p

[pliant tulip]

what should I add on the paint there to make it look like waterfall?

[hybrid tinsel]

Splashing at the bottom?

[pliant tulip]

almost something like that, and the texture on the paint waterfall to make it look like it's going down

[pliant tulip]

how's this?

[tiny onyx]

man this is hard i spent 4 hours scrollin through every software in the planet and also unity but i cant animate simple slash for this character does this require some type of animation expert or what

[ornate dirge]

How do you draw weapons between the player and arm.

[tiny onyx]

i have a seprate layer of the sword and the arm but im completly noob at animation so i dont know how to even draw it

[ornate dirge]

Are all 2d characters built like thos?

[tiny onyx]

its just one 2d character but yea its buit in layers so i can have some flexebilty in unity

[dense magnet]

Hey! I am having a super hard time understanding blendshapes and bone rigs for facial mocap or mocap in general. I have so many questions and I simply don't know what to google to get the answers.

1. Do I need to rig a face to use blendshapes?
2. Do blendshapes only get used on faces
3. Where can I find a writeup on what blendshapes are and how to create them
4. A workflow on using blendshapes with ARKit
5. WHy use blendshapes over a normal bone rig in the face .

So many questions and I am not even sure if the questions I am asking are correct. I would really appreciate some guidance. I really want to get into full body mocap (I have an Iphone + Mocopi)

[pliant tulip]

is this paint waterfall good?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not too into the scroll; I'd suggest a shine that stays in one spot but wobbles to suggest movement

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd probably rig the point and base of the sword with separate bones so you can change the perspective, at tge very least. Maybe add some vfx slashy lines.

The ideal would be to have a couple torso angles and a couple arm pose drawings, but with clever use of bones you can fake a lot, especially for quick motions.

[hybrid tinsel]

Big list, probably should ask some if those in more appropriate channels.

By 'rig' do you specifically mean with bones? If so, no for 1.
2. No
3. Google.
4. #🤯┃augmented-reality
5. Easier to set up because all you need are correctly named blendshapes which can be unique per model with no predefined structure.

[pliant tulip]

oh? #🏃┃animation message and this?

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean it looks ok and gets the point across but it is more of a stylistic preference

[pliant tulip]

uhh? i don't get the difference

[covert perch]

can anybody help me out on this problem?

I've already properly set up the parameter in the transition conditions, but its still not recognizing it

is it because of my GetComponentInChildren?

[orchid peak]

yeah most likely you are getting the PAttack

But I wonder why you are doing it this way where you are getting a component instead of just having references in the script.

[covert perch]

actually you're right, let me try that out.

[orchid peak]

Ok

[covert perch]

I'm new to this too, so I apologize if I don't know which is more efficient

[orchid peak]

Every expert programmer has their start. It’s also courageous to reach out for help as many don’t and they are the ones who quit. Just keep going.

[pliant tulip]

paint waterfall

[shadow obsidian]

#1180170818983051344

[pliant tulip]

ok, but it's a nice paint waterfal animation?

[agile solstice]

Looks adequate to me, but the way all your pixels are warping with the camera movement is giving me instant motion sickness

[sleek dirge]

I need some advice on how to go about this animation thing.

I am making a character creator, using blend shapes and the lot.

But I also want to incorporate things like, back posture.

I have these poses on a seperate animation layer with an avarat mask just for the spine and made and have been using a blend space to go between the two poses.

I have two issues though:

1. Using addative on the animation layer does not impact the posture of the characrer
2. using override make the walk animation look stiffer

how can I go about affectively doing this?

(Things to note. Base animation layer and is also override with no layer mask)

[pliant tulip]

what?

[agile solstice]

Especially in the first video you can see the pixels of all the sprites shifting and warping

[pliant tulip]

uhhh... i don't see anything

[tough zinc]

Has anyone got any tips for animating a humanoid more proficiently?
I can just about make an idle animation but it always looks.. Weird with juttering and odd movements despite a few hours messing with the curves and i'm curious if there are any tips or tricks 😅

[reef sand]

Is it possible to use the animation created in blender by script to use in unity?

[winter sparrow]

Is it possible to amimate inspector values? For example, I want to animate the cameras orthographic lens value

[chrome canyon]

So I fixed the problem that Ears and hat couldnt be parented to the head

New problem, IT DOESNT FIX ANYTHING

when imported into unity, the ears and hat do not follow the head

any help would be appriciated

[hybrid tinsel]

That specific value is one of the few wgich can't be directly animated. Yiy can just control it via script and animate that, though.

No idea why.

[hybrid tinsel]

As long as it can be baked to bones, point cache, or vat then yes.

[nocturne badger]

if you could send the code for what you have on them rn i could problly help

[nocturne badger]

can anyone give me a random idea

[chrome canyon]

i have no code for this, i just want to edit the character so that the hat and ears are childed to the head

[nocturne badger]

ok hold on

hard way:you could have them move the same cords as a hole

[chrome canyon]

i do have the model in blender btw, if thats any use

i can child them right in both blender and unity, but when transported to unity, they follow the main bone, under armature, not the head bone

[nocturne badger]

make a new head bone and see what happens thats weird

[chrome canyon]

if you look at the picture above, the ears / head are under the head bone, and the head bone moves with animations right, but the skin mesh renders dont even go with the bone if you transform the head in any way

or scale, or rotate the head

they ONLY follow the base bone, and no bones under it

[nocturne badger]

have you checked if you have the ears under any thing else

[chrome canyon]

if you look at the picture, the heirachy is on the left, and the ears object is on the right

i delete the ears, the ears go away FULLY

[nocturne badger]

that is really weird i have never had that happen thats REALY weird

[chrome canyon]

is there something you would need from me to help figure out whats happening?

also to be noted, editing the ear transform does NOT influnce the ears in any way

when you move, the animation for the hip bone is applied to the ears and hat

[nocturne badger]

idk honestly ive only had that happen in 2-d not 3-d what i did wont work for this tho

[chrome canyon]

i got sent a fbx for just the ears and hat by my teammate

so that may fix it, but i still want to know what i did wrong so i can do it in this way in the future

[nocturne badger]

check what he has on the ears that might fix it

[chrome canyon]

i want to know how to edit my own models

you mean the object?

he just sent me fbx files

[nocturne badger]

ok ask him to send you a copie of the hole thing

[chrome canyon]

i have a copy of the whole thing

thats what ive been working on

[nocturne badger]

oh then i dont know if you have the full copy then somthing may be messed up with the x and y movement

idk man

[chrome canyon]

i guess the idea for the things he sent me is its a seperate model, with its own import

it does work and follow the head, but i have no clue why this one doesnt

[nocturne badger]

idk ive never heard of movement no moving

[chrome canyon]

it does move the thing which is wierd, but its like its child to main bone and not head

[nocturne badger]

do you have your head bone on a different file?

[chrome canyon]

as you see in the picture i sent, no

[nocturne badger]

ok try p utting on a differnt one

[chrome canyon]

a different ear?

[nocturne badger]

no no no your head bone to your ear make those in a new file not two different ones

[chrome canyon]

but the head has to be part of the armature that had all the other bones, if im not mistaken

im not trying to contridict, im just a bit confused

[nocturne badger]

i am too hang on ill try something rq and ill be back

[nocturne badger]

ok idk i can do it but that weird

you cant

[chrome canyon]

you shouldnt be able to make the head bone its own model because its a bone in another model

if im understanding it

i just wish i knew why this isnt working

[nocturne badger]

maybe it is your head bone is to close to you main

[chrome canyon]

my head is in the right position for a head, its under the right bone for mixamo animations

if i take off the hat/ears, the model does just fine

[nocturne badger]

idk

[chrome canyon]

i feel like it has something to do with an setting of the ears/hat

just let it go for now, maybe someone else knows more. Thank you for trying to help

[chrome canyon]

An update to the question, for clarification for those who want to take a crack. This is the ears and hat being a seperate skin mesh render from the body of the character, they were selected and split in blender then uploaded to unity. They do not follow any transforms of either themselves or the head, only transforms applied to base bone work on them (Main in heirachy) I want them to work with transforms of the head, and follow it like any other child would. What ways are there of doing this, and do i have to seperate them from the character? They share the same texture file(the body and the ears/hat), and there is no direct bone associated with hat and ears

[errant shard]

I don't know anything about skinned meshs but I know my regular meshs.. and the scales look odd to me.. depending on the scales all the way up the chain.. and down.. them being off could throw normal stuff way offcenter when rotating and etc.. might be something helpful there

[chrome canyon]

i used that as a way to show that the transforms do not work at all

the transforms do not work at all, no move, no postion, no scale, and also that is in the current frame of an animation inside the game, so its a little off anyhow

[errant shard]

I'm not skilled in animation and rigs.. if I have problems with an asset I usually take it into mixamo and let it rerig it for me with its little wizard thing

[chrome canyon]

mixamo will rig it, but the problem is that it combines the ears and hat with the base mesh / base armature,

[errant shard]

U tried messing with the rig type in the import settings?

Just spitballing tho

[chrome canyon]

imported as a humanoid, mesh from current model, 4bones

[errant shard]

whats it act like with a generic rig? Did u model this or is it an asset?

[chrome canyon]

Generic and humanoid work the same way, just cant do sword swing with generic, and when i change player model i gotta change all animations i imported from mixamo for it. this way a model done by a teammate in the class, they dont really know how it works either

[errant shard]

I'm not on a PC atm do i can't really help like I normally would try.. just trying to throw out some ideas

[chrome canyon]

no clue if its part of an asset or something

i dont mind the help, i really appriciate it, just trying to give you information on what you ask incase it helps fix

[errant shard]

I think it's a model problem.. you'd have to somehow take it into blender or a 3d software and parent the hat to the headbone.. instead of the root bone.. either that or export the hat separately as a normal fbx model and parent that to the head transform in unity.. so it's just tracking that instead

[chrome canyon]

i have it in blender actually

thats EXACTLY what i did believe it or not

i do not know if i parented it wrong, or if something happens when importing to unity

[faint trellis]

Hey there! Could someone help me with this asset? For context, I downloaded an animated and rigged ghost for the unity store with 12 different animations. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to apply these animations. If anyone could help that would be great

[tiny onyx]

hi guys will there be a 2d mixamo i struggled for days to do simple slash animation for this 2d character i tried everything but cant do it i tried using unity inverse kinamatics but still cant do it

[lucid reef]

Sorry, I don't know how to fix this, but if no one knows how to help you then, i recommend you asking on the unity forum.

[rustic edge]

hi Guys, i got the hand to move towards the gun using inverse kinematics, however its not letting me rotate the armature on the hand to a better position and make it look better, i tried rotating the armature in scene view, the armature of the hand that is attached to the grip via IK does not rotate / move, but the other arm's armature does rotate,

[tiny onyx]

yea i asked there

[twin musk]

hi can someone guide me with this thing

i need to make 2d animations withg a spite sheet

but idk how to do that

ive nevert worked on 2d before

[hybrid tinsel]

You haven't given much to work with in terms of stuff we can offer advice on; you haven't even really described what you're trying to do beyond the vague 'I want a slash'

[chrome canyon]

Hi guys, I'm still having this issue. just a bump. any help is appriciated

[tiny onyx]

yea i cant desribe it more and i learned today that is 2d and specfically animation is not for me after trying every software on the planet including unity

2d animation was the hardest thing i faced in my entire games development

[chrome canyon]

i feel like 2d animation is just a matter of changing pixels to create/emulate movement in the picture, no harm to any 2d animators, getting that right is HARD.

[chrome canyon]

but if you ever want to try 2d animation, try explaining the situation to those who want to help, like WHY you want a slash and WHAT is the slash being used for, do you want a slash of a sword affereffect, a slash for like and / or, or something else, the more context you give about the immidiate situation, the more people can help.

[faint trellis]

Can someone help? I am trying to animate a ghost moving forward using the 12 animation provided with the asset I downloaded and while I can get the ghost to move forward, when it gets to the idle position, it teleports back and I don't know how to make it update to the new position

[chrome canyon]

Egg, look at the model base

[chrome canyon]

is the Apply root motion box checked?, i mean wherever the animator is

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon Yes it is

[chrome canyon]

which idle do you mean, idle6?

[faint trellis]

Yes

[chrome canyon]

so its on the tip of my tongue whats wrong. It finishes animation but then resets back to previous position. I just cant figure it out, letme try out something

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon Sure, would it help you at all if I send over the project file?

[chrome canyon]

Try unticking the loop of the animation

also you may uncheck Root transform position - bake into pose in the animation setting, the actual animation

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon I'm not sure how to do that as it doesn't appear in the settings where it should be. I did untick loop animation though

[willow terrace]

outside

in the animator not the animation

[chrome canyon]

The loop in the animator, the root transform position bake is right where that blank spot is

are you sure thats the animation file for the fly_forward egg?

"no animation data means theres no animation in that file

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon Yes, sorry, I was looking at the wrong thing before I think. Thank you for being so patient with me, I really appreciate it since I'm fairly new. The following is the screen I'm supposed to be looking at, correct?

[chrome canyon]

Yes

scroll down the right side a bit

[willow terrace]

Can you ping me when your problem is solved, so I don't post 2 question at same time.

[chrome canyon]

you can post it, ill help if i know what the problem is

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon Here it is scrolled all the way down

[willow terrace]

Well thx. I have a problem of teleportation at the end of a animation (like him?). Is it possible to get the position at the end of the animation so I can move the object to the correct position. When the animation is playing, I don't see any movement in the transform tab.

[chrome canyon]

OH found it! in the file that imports the model itself, go to the rig panel, check if root node is set to NONE instead of the model, then click update in the rig panel of the animation file

[wanton furnace]

anyone knows why the animation works only once and then it doesnt?

[chrome canyon]

is this different animations, or the same animation with a couple of poses?

[wanton furnace]

i disabled this because otherwise the animation would just keep looping after pressing the button, which is not really what i want

[chrome canyon]

Haruko did you create a transition back to idle after performing the animation?

[wanton furnace]

if you mean this, yeah

[willow terrace]

Few any animations linked together. the stand up is the only one that move the armor.

[wanton furnace]

this is my first time working with animations in unity i really just need a quick and dirty way, its just for a course i dont really care about at uni

[chrome canyon]

ok, this is about the same issue as i was helping with the other person, give me a moment Herobrain

[willow terrace]

of course. Pin me when ready

[chrome canyon]

show me a picture of the animator, looks something like Herobrain is showing

[chrome canyon]

Please try the options i just gave last to eggegg

then tell me if bake into pose is checked

[chrome canyon]

ohh are you talking about when he stands up, then is teleported a tiny bit when he brings out the sword

[willow terrace]

yep

[chrome canyon]

so what i think is happening is its a problem with root motion during the standing up, that it teleports him back to start before the sword animation gets played?

[willow terrace]

yes, the animation after stand up doesn't have a offset, so the animator place back the armor.

[faint trellis]

@chrome canyon Ok, I think I did this correctly. After assigning the root node to "ghost", I now have these root position options

[chrome canyon]

it seems like humanoid doesnt have an option for that

[chrome canyon]

if you had it as a humanoid model before, might want to change it back to that, that doesnt seem to be the issue

[chrome canyon]

do you have loop animation true in the standing up one

[willow terrace]

I don't

[faint trellis]

I never had it as humanoid, it was always set to generic

[chrome canyon]

alright, well doesnt matter now, no clue what happened, i dont know how to help you, may want to search "animation sets model back to starting location after playing" I swear i just got told what this was but for the life on me i cant figure out. Its a button somewhere that i dont remember

[chrome canyon]

You seem to know a bit more then i do honestly, i recoomend the same thing as i recommended to egg, im sorry i dont have the time, as both i dont wanna waste your time, and that i have a game dev project i have to work on myself

[willow terrace]

I understand, I will post when I will find the fix.

[willow terrace]

good luck with your project.

[chrome canyon]

thank you! Actually im still needing help here as im totally confused what is going wrong with this, waiting on someone with more knowledge to enlighten me on how silly my mistake is

[chrome canyon]

could i also see the script that runs when you press the button?

[wanton furnace]

i didnt use a script, i just attached the game object with the animator and animation to the button and adjusted the properties

i did more research into it, right now im adding a script onto the game object to control that lol

[silent iron]

does anybody know why the animation aint playing

[willow terrace]

I found a janky fix for my teleportation problem with a c# code. Doesn't look that good but still better than nothing:

[lean kindle]

damn i really could have recorded that better

[willow terrace]

if(_animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("draw2") && !moved)
            {
                transform.position += new Vector3(0, 0, 1);
                moved = true;
            }

this code detect whent the animation end and place at the good position

[lean kindle]

Does anyone understand why it takes so long for this animation to be transitioned? The bool is set the second I click.

(Sorry for the repost, video was trash lol)

[willow terrace]

make the idle smaller in the transisiton

[lean kindle]

Make the idle smaller?

[lean kindle]

I can't manipulate the idle position

Only the walk

[willow terrace]

slide the blue triangle

and move to the start

here

should look like this

left of the image would be 0:00

[lean kindle]

Oh I think I fixed it

[willow terrace]

Video of the c# code that fix the teleportation problem (janky but better than nothing):

[willow terrace]

Good

[lean kindle]

🤔 The animation seems fine but in game it still hasn't changed

[silent iron]

anyone?please?

[lean kindle]

Newest video showing off changes and how its still quite delayted

ah.. Found the issue but no clue how to fix it

It's like these animations have to finish before they change

Ohhh okay I fixed it by disabling "has exit time"

[true zodiac]

very confused about some issues i'm having with the sprite editor

trying to auto geometry the legs

[karmic mountain]

Your video is a MPNG format... Try making it an mp4.

[true zodiac]

if i hit generate for all visible, it works with everything visible

but if i set the head and body to not be visible so only the legs are affected

[karmic mountain]

That looks sick

[true zodiac]

i get this error

no idea why and baffled as to what to do or how to get around it

[true zodiac]

thank you :) sprite drawn by a friend

[true zodiac]

i can find nothing online that answers why this is occuring

[true zodiac]

just tried the same thing with a completely different asset in an otherwise empty project and got this error

they are psb files

[faint trellis]

Would anyone be willing to hop on a discord call where I can share my screen to figure out better what could be wrong? For the past couple of hours I have still been having issues with my root motion and my ghost character who, after moving forwards, teleports back to his previous position

[hybrid tinsel]

Bug report it

[hybrid tinsel]

You have root motion enabled and loop pose disabled?

[faint trellis]

@hybrid tinsel Yep, I do. At this point though since my final is due tomorrow and I'm gonna be on the road all day, I decided not to work on it anymore. Instead, I've moved on to working on an interactable door but I've also run into issues. Currently, I am following this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJ_uq1m-dg) "How to make a door in VR - Unity tutorial" but something is already going wrong at the 2:05 as when I test the collider similar to how th guy in the video does, the cube just goes straight through the door

Additionally, in this video, you can see the gate door moving slightly with nothing touching it which is super confusing

[hybrid tinsel]

if it is using physics and you start it awake and in an unstable position it will attempt to stabilize

[faint trellis]

@hybrid tinsel I'm not sure how it could be in an unstable position, I'll try to figure that out—it looks like it detaching from the hinge somehow. I'm still not sure though why it won't interact with the cube though like in the video

Yeah it's weird, the left is when I run it and the right is it beforehand

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not seeing colliders

But that looks a lot like two slightly penetrating colliders trying to not penetrate

[chrome canyon]

Hello! Still need help, when anyone is able to get to it

[silent iron]

why isn't my animation playing?

[dense magnet]

I for the life of me can not figure this out. I download a character from cgTrader and uploaded it to Mixamo. I imported it into Unity and I also created a unique avatar.

Now, when attempting to download a mixamo animations, I get this error

    Transform 'pelvis' for human bone 'Hips' not found

UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)```

I am really trying to avoid having an avatar per downloaded animation

[storm galleon]

Hey guys I have a full body "Shoot animation" when for stationary, and then I have a full body "move animation" and then an upper body "shoot animation". I am trying to combine the upper body shoot with full body run for a shoot while running animation.

I've messed around with an upper body layer that gets weight 1 when moving + shooting, but it looks really choppy when transitioning from idle shoot -> movement, or movement shoot -> idle. Is there a better way to go about this?

[agile solstice]

Where's your choppiness coming from?

Are you smoothing the layer weight change in any way?

[storm galleon]

Well in layer (fuill body) I have:
Idle Animation
Movement
Full body shoot

Upper body layer with mask I have:
Idle
Movement
Upper body shoot

Say I am in base layer (not moving), and I initiate the shoot animation. If I start moving before it finishes it swaps me to layer 2 and cuts the animation off. I don't have any sort of weight smoothing, maybe that would do the trick?

[agile solstice]

You're always "in" all layers, and their state machines will be running
Layer weight will determine how much of the layer is blended over lower priority layers
If the cause of the choppiness is that you're snapping weight from 0 to 1 in one choppy instant, then smoothing it will help that specific issue

In this case you probably want to use a Synced layer

Since you effectively want Full Body Shoot and Upper Body Shoot to play simultaneously whenever the character is shooting, and blend between them with layer weight based on whether the character is moving or not

[storm galleon]

Gotcha. Never really understood how syncing worked - but I would just sync the Upper Body shoot layer to the full body one? Or create a new one below both of those?

[agile solstice]

Layer state machines are always running
So, synced layers run synchronously with another so it also must have the same states

[sullen bear]

The animation sinks into the ground, how can I fix this?

[chrome canyon]

Hello! this still confuses me

[inland stirrup]

Hi can i get some help its about anystate in animator?

[shadow obsidian]

You should just ask. If someone can help they will. What's up?

[inland stirrup]

once the attack animator is triggered its not going back to the pervious state it was at so for example Idlle -> Attack, Attack -> Idle

[shadow obsidian]

Do you have a transition from HeroKnight_Attack1 to Idle?
It doesn't look like it

[inland stirrup]

this is how i set it up

[shadow obsidian]

So no. You do not

So once it goes to HeroKnight_Attack1 it can never go to any other state

[inland stirrup]

i tried to make transation back to anystate but it won't let me connect

[shadow obsidian]

Anystate cannot be transitioned TO

You really should not use it like this at all, really

[inland stirrup]

figured that out the hard way

[shadow obsidian]

It is more for things that you never leave. Like a death state, where the game ends and you reload the scene

[inland stirrup]

oh ight

how should i got about it?

[shadow obsidian]

Stop using anystate. Transition from idle and wherever else you need to that attack (and back)

[inland stirrup]

because adding it to he monstrosity i created is just a headache to process

[shadow obsidian]

If you think THAT is a monstrosity, then buckle in lol

But look into blendtrees and animation layers

[inland stirrup]

i love my life decision 🥲

[shadow obsidian]

I will say! I am not the best with animation. Someone else may have a better idea. That is just my understanding.

[inland stirrup]

ight till then the monstrosity it is

[inland stirrup]

in sprite editor when i go to custom physics shape and create a squad i am unable to select the vertices of the sqaure to move it the only way i can is by holding control but the moves the whole line and not the vertice

[chrome canyon]

Turns out! im just jumping way into the air when i do any animation! i have no clue on how to fix this.

Its making the object above untitled, mesh, change positions

[mellow zealot]

so, using the animation rigging package, i'm getting this sort of lagging-behind thing with some bones when moving their effectors in LateUpdate

is there a way to mitigate this?

[arctic crypt]

Hello Fellow developers!
Can someone help me with a problem. I got a character and animations for my game from mixamo (Online character and animation platform). In all the running animations the player moves from it's position but I want it to animate on a single place so I can control movement through my script. Can any one help me in this regard?

[crimson wing]

Hey. I have a player and i have two animations made. One for Idle and one for Walking. How can i make it so when you start the game its the idle thats playing and not the walk? its connected correctly on the Animator. And i wanted to ask how can i make it so you move and play the correct animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

If you move the effectors after the animation rig has run for that feame, you just won't see results till the next frame.

[hybrid tinsel]

You say it is connected correctly, but if it was connected correctly then it would be working.

[hybrid tinsel]

You need to use 'bake into pose' for tbose motions.

[crimson wing]

bro did not responded to my question 😭

[shadow obsidian]

You should show the animator that you showed in the code channel.
But yeah, what pinball said is accurate. IF it was connected correctly, it would be working. Since it goes to run immediately, it is not connected correctly. Something with the transition is wrong. I don't think you showed that earlier?

[hybrid tinsel]

'Bro' didn't really post a question with enough information that there could be an answer.

If you are asking how the entire process of setting up an animator and movement script, that is more something suited to a tutorial since that's way more than one question.

If you are asking 'what did I connect incorrectly,' you'd need to show us how it is connected.

[jagged trellis]

Hello anyone

Please I need someone to tell me what could happen to an animation done in blender ,but when export to unreal engine ,the animation is moving backward ,what could have caused that , is it blender or unreal engine stuffs?

This is the video of the unreal moving backward , but in blender it moves in the right position

[proud ember]

This is the Unity Discord server. If you want help with Unreal Engine questions, it's better to ask on the Unreal Source Discord server. Anyway, this seems to be a root motion issue. The movement from the root bone is repeated on top of the motion from the character controller. Also, it seems that the animation scales the model down. The first issue should be fixed on the engine side, but the second is better fixed on the animation side.

[jagged trellis]

Thanks

[vivid portal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/727482839674912768/1237451178174845058/ParachuteAnimation0050-0250.mp4?ex=663bb1b7&is=663a6037&hm=e4da64e301989d6f7697543c3d3c0f50b9bf5db4f417377ebbd8280e7131d771&

I animated this in blender

is it possible to export to unity and have the same animations?

It uses shape keys for the three states of the parachute, and then a displacement modifier to mimic how it sways in the wind

[fossil hill]

this is more like an import stuff thing, but if my animation doesn't reach the expected frame rate on the animation external tool (blender in this case). It is gonna cause even more performance issues when running it in game right?

[vivid portal]

not if you bake it

you can export as alembic and unity has a plugin in the package manager to import it

when you export as alembic it automatically bakes the animation

[fossil hill]

alembic? What is that?

[vivid portal]

works perfectly with my parachute

just install the alembic package from the package manager

[fossil hill]

But what is that? I am importing the whole scene or what?

[vivid portal]

you can select which objects to export

also, what are you animating?

If it's a single part or something like a piece of cloth, this works great

[fossil hill]

It's just a simple mesh with a fast moving tail

It's supposed to be an enemy with like a bunch of different animation clips

[vivid portal]

I'd say for that you should just export it with the rig

although I haven't used rigs before

I'm just in the same situation with my parachute animation and alembic solved my issue

[hybrid tinsel]

The only way to tell how it will perform in unity is to test it; there are too many things that will affect framerate in blender.

[fossil hill]

I mean, the tail is pretty demanding on blender, since it is recalculating each frame the position of each frame due to the constraints, which I am not sure they work in unity

Just exported some rigging and animated it on unity it self

[ashen mesa]

Guys, did anybody here had to deal with changing Animator's controller in runtime? So I have base weapon-less player animations and two controller overrides: dagger and rifle. On weapon selection I reassign animator.runtimeAnimatorController accordingly.

When I pick riffle from bare hand, all is good. Similarly, taking dagger first is also fine. But when I switch to rifle first and then pick dagger, then the transform is off as seen on the bottom image. In editor if I do any interaction with Animator component, e.g. turn enabled on & off, the weapon goes to its normal state. Like I said, when dagger is picked first all is good, so the animation itself is fine. It seems I'm doing something wrong with switching the animator controllers.

[fossil hill]

Maybe just straigh up change the whole player object from frame to frame

[ashen mesa]

Sorry, didn't get it.

[fossil hill]

Have several objects stored, each for every set of anumations you want, and swap between them when needed

[ashen mesa]

Basically rifle-character and dagger-character? That surely would have many side effects, in addition to needing to sync their data like hp etc.

[fossil hill]

That should probably be stored somewhere else, like the UI or the parent of the whole player

And don't really need to sync much, just make sure that the end and enter frame are close enough that they seem odd

[ashen mesa]

Hmm. I see. I didn't even consider that, thank you, I'll keep that as an option.

One thing I've noticed is that if I change to weapon-less between these two then all the animations are good. So, perhaps I should put this intermediate state for a frame.

[gilded briar]

yo how do i import mesh from blender with animations and camera shake that i made in blender ?

[storm galleon]

Is it possible to have a blend tree assigned as a motion animation

like importing a blend tree to that section

[agile solstice]

You can have blend trees of blend trees, if that's what you mean: https://youtu.be/HeHvlEYpRbM?t=106

[storm galleon]

I don't think so - but I have two layers that are synced. And the only difference is I have different animations in the motion section

But it doesn't seem like there is a way to have a blend tree in that spot

[agile solstice]

You don't think what? Did you watch the video?
You choose between a motion field and a blend tree, it doesn't seem like a necessary option to be able to set a blend tree in the motion field

[storm galleon]

I don't think so as in that's not what I am looking for

Trying to think how to explain it

[agile solstice]

Hmm so you already have a motion field that you want to override with a blend tree in the synced layer?

[storm galleon]

Since I have layer 1 and 2 synced, I can't have different states in each. Instead I have the same state in each layer but a different animation in the motion field to override it

Layer 1

Layer 2

[storm galleon]

ya exactly

I want to be able to put a blend tree in the motion input on layer 2

[agile solstice]

I don't know if that kind of override is possible
I would guess that the simplest workaround is to start with a blend tree but have only one type of motion in it in the base layer

A blend tree with no more than one type of motion is not different from a non-blend tree motion after all, I think

[storm galleon]

Well it technically already is a blend tree in layer 1

which is fine

I just want it to be a different blend tree in layer 2

[agile solstice]

You can't override the motions within the nested blend trees?

[storm galleon]

I figured it out, you can actually just right click it and click "Create new blend tree in state"

[storm galleon]

except now i have the issue where my two layers (lower body running <-> upper body shooting) syncing is messing with my gameplay because I want to be able to increase my shoot rate but it increases my leg speed XD

[hybrid tinsel]

That's what syncing means...

[fossil reef]

I know this is a pretty broad question but what are some creatures that are easy to animate?
I m making a 3d low poly game and I want some enemies that are easy/easier to animate

[agile solstice]

Preferably fantastical ones with less limbs and joints than would be realistic

Besides that it comes down to artistic familiarity with the subject

[fossil reef]

what would examples of those be? Slimes snakes lovecraftian octopuses jellyfish worms fish?

[agile solstice]

snake bodies and tentacles require a lot of joints
Something with a low number of stubby limbs is better
Behold the ideal form:

[fossil reef]

I see, thanks a lot!

[earnest kestrel]

Hello, i am using synchronization layers for different weapons (unarmed, bow, 1h, 2h). for all my weapons i have a single long animation clip that does a full combo, but for unarmed i have 3 sepparate ones. since all others use a single clip, the unarmed one should also be a single clip. is there a way to merge 3 animation clips into 1?

[dapper rune]

My animation plays but his arm is inside of him?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can't get easier than humanoids, as long as you can use mecanim humanoid animations :D

So skeletons, goblins, etc

[storm galleon]

Can anyone provide to me a good scenario to use root motion?

[rustic axle]

hi, i have a sword animation that i added to the enemy but it the properites are markeed in yellow and says missing. Is there a way to assign the properties to a different object? in other words, in both the player and the enemy they have a rightr hand, so for the enemy i want to assign its right hand to the properties.

[sweet berry]

I have a super simplistcic animation. It's literally just a slime jumping. I'd like the slime to tilt forward whilst in the air, but the animation also seems to override his Y rotation. Is it possible to only animation rotation on a single axis? Or perhaps even just have the differences be relative?

(I immediately found 'Root Motion' after sending this. Disregard.)

[hybrid tinsel]

"You have an animation designed for root motion and want to use it."

[hybrid tinsel]

More generally, for times when you want the animation to drive motion. Especially useful when the animation doesn't have a constant linear speed for the root node.

[fossil reef]

are we supposed to animate the transform of the empty parent object or the actual mesh? cause I animated the parent object to move up and down and now it spawns at a fixed transform location somewhere else on the map

[agile solstice]

Animator overrides component properties, which in the case of transforms set the position relative to parent transform, or the scene if no parent
So often it's better to animate only the visual gameobjects as children of the gameobject that handles movement or physics

@sweet berry same to you

Root motion is an alternative to that where animation-driven movement is suitable

[fossil reef]

got it thank you!

[silver tusk]

im having an issue in my prototype

where animations for my player stay stuck in idle when looking at a large crowd of enemies
sorry if this is not the appropriate channel as the issue is not code related, but in the footage you can see stutters in the animation that happens when you look towards a large crowd of enemies (there are many more enemies hidden behind the wall)

the player's animations

if i look at them the animation gets stuck to idle

[quasi fable]

Kinda looks more like an issue with how you turn and walk than the enemies being there?

[silver tusk]

no when theres 5 enemies the animations work fine

when i look at the animator window

it says that that everything is working properly

wth

btw this is an android build

[storm galleon]

ill let u finish up ur thought doll 😛

[silver tusk]

and i had weird issues with the player's animator not working when building the game that i somehow fixed

[silver tusk]

thanks brother

[storm galleon]

I have a blend tree for shooting a bow and arrow upward, downdward, forward (blending based on fps camera pitch). I instantiate my arrow at a certain point in the bow animation, so I have each animation in the blend tree having a key frame. I think there might be an issue where multiple instantiates are happening because of this (I get two arrows, one that flows normally and one that goes straight into the ground strangely). Any thoughts?

[hybrid tinsel]

Either have a cooldown on arrows firing, or maybe if all the events happen on the same frame collect all firing events from a single frame and then instantiate a single arrow at the end of the frame no matter how many events were triggered?

[spare kayak]

What is the best way to make walking backwards look better?

[silver tusk]

specific backwards animations

and lower the speed when walking backwards

[spare kayak]

and what should the parameters be to make that transition to the backwards animation?

[silver tusk]

do you have a blend tree?

[spare kayak]

I dont think so?

Like this?

(i'm very new to animation)

[silver tusk]

i recommend you to make one

also check if the y input is negative, if it is, play the walk backwards anim

[silver tusk]

thats a non modular way of doing it

[spare kayak]

is there like a video you reccomend watching about this?

im down to learn i didnt know there was a different way than just this

[silver tusk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=m8rGyoStfgQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title

try this

@spare kayak will your character implement strafing

[spare kayak]

Thanks!

[dapper rune]

anyone know how to hide specific animation packs instead of having to search through hundreds of animations through every animation pack for the exact animation i want (the search is hard cuz alot of them have close to the same name)

[hybrid tinsel]

Playing a walk forward animation backwards just looks weird because the character is putting their center of gravity forward. So backwards walks should have the opposite.

[dapper rune]

Hm, i placed a camera on a models head. then procedeed to animate, it worked perfectly giving me an fov then it just shit itself. and now clips far off left of his head

[hybrid tinsel]

Any additional details?

[dapper rune]

not really i mean, i have several cinemachine cameras. im animating on timeline, seems every time i replay the animation it gets further and further

[hybrid tinsel]

Ah, see, that is a a lot more detail.

[dapper rune]

oop

[hybrid tinsel]

You are using cinemachine; what kind of vcam are you using?

[dapper rune]

just a plain virtual camera

[hybrid tinsel]

Try disabling the noise?

[dapper rune]

alright

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have other vcams in the same brain?

[dapper rune]

not sure how to seperate brains... haha

im new to the cinemachine stuff

from the few tutorials i watched

they all use the same ones

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you even need cinemachine for a single camera with no parameters?

[dapper rune]

as you can see its far off his actual head

[dapper rune]

wait.

i may be stupid

thanks 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

Believe me, it happens to everyone =p

[dapper rune]

im mostly using cinemachine to animate the camera movement n stuff

but considering its locked to the head

i dont think it matters yeah

seems like some weird shite is going on when i use it anyway

[hybrid tinsel]

Cinemachine vcams often have difficulty sticking to parents when you just parent the transforms rather than using the constraints. Remember that the vcam is essentially just an offset being sent to the actual camera, so there can be delays and desync from animated objects. You can often fix that by adjusting when in the frame cinemachine evaluates... but often for something simple like this it is easier to just use a plain old camera.

[dapper rune]

gotcha 😄

[loud mountain]

Not sure if this is the proper channel, but I'm looking for the best way to do animation for 2d pixel art if I want to have swappable items in the hands, like different guns for example. I'd like to animate using spritesheets and not separate the character into multiple parts and animate them individually using keyframe animation (as I assume that would be hard to get to look right with lower res pixel art), but is there an easier way to do this besides creating duplicate spritesheets for the character animations for each weapon in the game? If I were breaking the character up into multiple sprites, I imagine this would be easy to do by just drawing the weapon sprite as a child of the hand object

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, you will at least need to draw each frame for the weapons themselves.

In some cases, combining sprites is enough

[tidal lance]

Hey, using Timeline, how do I throw a physics object with an animation, and immediately let physics take over?

[brazen shuttle]

Do you know if there is a way to mix animations of a 3d model with a lypsinc script using shape keys of the same 3d model?
Is that as I try to run both at the same time I always get stuck in one of the two. Thanks you.

[true glen]

Hey Im pretty new to animations, is there a better way to do this?
Im basically setting IsRowing to true, and thereby enabling Row, when the player moves forward, and vice versa for Row Reverse

My main questions are:

1. Can I somehow get rid of that new state? I dont have an Idle state, my Idle is just simply no animation
2. Can I somehow make it to have both forward and backward in one? I tried setting the animator speed to -1 by code, but that just stopped the animation completely

[lapis ruin]

1. I believe there must be a default state for every state machine and sub state machine. But default state is only chosen when conditions checks for all other states fail, so you can manage it with conditions.
2. Try check the Parameter after the Mirror option and select your bool?

[true glen]

Mirror didnt work, BUT I didnt even know the parameters button was used in this way, so I could set a Speed multiplier, multiply by -1, and that does the trick

[spare parcel]

anybody here?
I have an issue with rigging 😅

The body should work just on spine but it rotate everything... looks like

Ahh nevermind, nothing to do with rigging was about my script 😅😅😅

[agile solstice]

Looks like Spine_01 is the parent of all the other bones, as it usually is

Unless you have a separate bone for the hip

[spare parcel]

Nope I'm using an aim system and I've removed " aimWorldPosition.y = transform.position.y; // Maintain the character on his Y"
So I was rotating on Y the entire character by following the cursor.

[spare parcel]

Did the Rig is working also on runtime created gameObject?

Something like

{
    bwSystemInputs = GetComponent<BWSystemInputs>();  
    thirdPersonController = GetComponent<ThirdPersonController>(); 
    animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
   
    target = new GameObject();
    target.name = gameObject.name + "'s Target";
    target.transform.position = defaultTargetPosition;

    AssignTargetToIK(target.transform);
}```

and AssignTargetToIK do this

private void AssignTargetToIK(Transform target)
{
WeightedTransformArray bodySourceObject = bodyAim.data.sourceObjects;
WeightedTransformArray handSourceObject = rightAndAim.data.sourceObjects;
bodySourceObject.Add(new WeightedTransform(target, 1));
handSourceObject.Add(new WeightedTransform(target, 1));
bodyAim.data.sourceObjects = bodySourceObject;
rightAndAim.data.sourceObjects = handSourceObject;

}

Which looks fine on Inspector, and the target is assigned, but IK won't works at all 🤦‍♂️

Ok, I found the bug in the code 😁

[void zealot]

so I have an asset with an animation controller that I dont understand. It worked in a previous proect and I brought it into a new one All of the assets are there, but for soe reason they animations are not updating the mesh. I have no idea how to go about troubleshotting this. The animations work to preview in the animation window when you select the obect with the animator, and I can see the states of the animator getting switched in the editor, but this isnt updating the models animations at runtime for some reason, and Im not really sure how to go about figuring out why

moving the bones around in the editor works, Ive duplicated out the animation controller and taken off the script which interfaces with it to control things, and am pulling values around within the animation controller, but I'm not seeing anythig update there

[hybrid tinsel]

Is there a type mismatch between the object you are animating and the controller? (generic vs humanoid for example)

I'd also make sure you haven't left out any scripts or the like.

[tidal lance]

Hey. Could someone help me out with this?

Like, imagine that I want a character in a cutscene to throw a ball, and once it's out of his hand, it retains the speed the animation gave it after switching to rigidbody physics.

[spare quarry]

(I don't know anything about animations so Im lost here...)
So I imported and idle animation and I added the animator to the character, but its not working... Maybe I added it in the wrong place or something?

[rugged galleon]

How do i stop the animation such that it resets to time 0? I have to do it using the Animation component

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, that's a complicated question even before considering Timeline.
Easiest it to treat it like any projectiles, though. (Unless you really desperately need to have it be physically accurate to the animation.)

[cosmic jetty]

how do i invert curves/bone position or whatever when making animations in unity? i want the tail to be exactly flipped to the other side

[agile solstice]

Could try scaling Tail_Start -1 on X

[cosmic jetty]

where do i input that?

[sturdy anvil]

I am stuck with my animation

when the state variable is selected, it's supposed to go to that specific path, run one animation once, then loop the next animation until a variable change

however, it continues to loop the animation that's supposed to run once

figured it out

transition to self was enabled

ok now it loops between the two

okay so it transitions to itself with a transition with 100% delay

[sturdy anvil]

😭

this animator isn't doing what I want

DAMMIT THAT'S SO DUMB

I can't reuse variable states

so I had to use -1

[serene jasper]

has anyone managed to import adobe animate sprites relatively easily? i'm kinda struggling to do so

i have sprites made in adobe animate and i'm trying to export them and get them in my game

[hybrid tinsel]

What is the difficulty?

[serene jasper]

elaborate, bit confused on what you mean by that

[agile solstice]

You didn't specify what part you're having trouble with or how

[serene jasper]

ah

i'm trying to export and import my sprites but they're all misaligned which makes them look jittery

i'm wondering how i could fix that and if there's a way to use something like a spritesheet xml file

[agile solstice]

are you per chance using automatic slicing?

Or are they misaligned before export

Or do they become misaligned at some later point

[serene jasper]

i believe they're all misaligned since the whole thing gets squished together as a sprite sheet

[agile solstice]

When does that happen in your process?

[serene jasper]

after adobe animate creates a sprite sheet when i click "generate spritesheet"

[agile solstice]

Does the generate option offer relevant settings? How did you confirm the misalignment happens at that point?

[lofty tree]

Where can i decrease the samples

of my animation

its running fast as fuck

[uncut salmon]

At the top right of the animation window, there's a drop down that lets you show the sample rate.

[lofty tree]

where

[lofty tree]

It just brings me to this

[uncut salmon]

Wrong dotted dropdown. Look at that's circled in Spazis screemshot.

[lofty tree]

im so confused

why is it still going fast

[uncut salmon]

What did you change the sample to?

[lofty tree]

24

Oh i can

manually change it

[agile solstice]

If you want to change the speed of animation you should space out the keyframes by selecting them and stretching out the selection

Sample rate is not the speed of an animation but the "resolution" of keyframes

[lofty tree]

Alright thanks

[elder vault]

there's a weird discrepancy in my animation (obviously you can't tell from the image but I'll explain it)
For some reason, I can see the hair being animated in Blender, and I can even see it being animated in the Unity animation preview window for the model, but for some reason, during runtime and in the Animator Controller, the hair isn't animated at all