🏃┃animation

[fervent current]

How can i create a sprite sheet? I have the different frames from an animation as seperate images

[brave storm]

You could combine them in an image editing software

[agile solstice]

Why do you need them on a sprite sheet?

[fervent current]

I don't need it but it would be nice to have them organized

[fervent current]

I will try that

[agile solstice]

I recommend folders for organization
You would be adding pointless extra steps by first packing them into a sheet and then slicing them out of it in unity's sprite editor

Separate sprite assets can be multi-edited to change their import settings all at once anyway

[fervent current]

Ok thank you

[tardy oyster]

dotween is exponentially growing over time. that's uh... bad right?

[torpid gust]

does unity support posrotscale animation?

[brave storm]

Yes of course

[torpid gust]

yipee

[brave storm]

Pretty much anything can be keyframed, including transform values

[maiden prairie]

Even tho i have all the actions. Only the left leg moves?

[agile solstice]

I expect you didn't create the meta strip for them correctly, or aren't looking at the specific action imported from the meta strip

[undone rover]

Hey all, I'm making a 2d top down rpg. My artist is hand drawing the animation sprite sheets for the characters, but with every piece of equipable gear he has to re draw the entire animation sprite sheet. is there a better way to do this?

[maiden prairie]

But i was able to transfer just the animation..

I cant find an tutorial on how to make an meta strip with animations only with video editing

[agile solstice]

I think the only "tutorial" might be the step by step post I linked that I had posted earlier

[maiden prairie]

I cant seem to find it i only see the message u talk about it. Do you remember the name?

[agile solstice]

#🏃┃animation message

Those are the steps

[maiden prairie]

This i what i see after phusing down the animation in the Nonlinear Animation tab?

[agile solstice]

You should probably at least be seeing the clips here
I don't recall exactly though, I successfully used the workflow once months ago and the NLA editor extremely cryptic
Ask in blender spaces about it or rather instead use an armature
Armatures have been exported by more than two people on earth on the other hand so those problems have more solutions

[indigo sparrow]

hey guys noob question how i make this sword stay stuck to his hand, when the character does a animation the sword just stays still doesnt move

[limpid shard]

Parent the sword to the actual hand bone not the hand mesh

If you want to keep the sword out of the bone hierarchy, and I do recommend that, you can use https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ParentConstraint.html

[indigo sparrow]

this is a free unity store model i cant seem to find where the bone is

[indigo sparrow]

found it thx

[indigo sparrow]

also what are the benefits of this?

[limpid shard]

Well some animation may involve scaling the bone and that would scale your sword and that would look wrong. But mostly it is organisational. You can have your weapons in one place rather than scattered in the bone hierarchy making them harder to find.

[indigo sparrow]

ive closed his hand in the scene to grab the sword but when hes doing the animation its still open. i just wanna have closed fingers on some animations tough how i do this?

[hybrid tinsel]

If it is a humanoid, scale animation is discarded.

But a generally goid thing to note!

[brave storm]

Could split it into layers. A base layer for the character and separate layers for equipment, rendered on top of each other

[limpid iron]

Hello, I'm a student and curently working on a school project, hdrp and 2022.3.12 version. I 'd like to do the most basic animation by moving the trap on the sides but it's not showing in my timeline or in my render. I did the animation manually, everything is in 24 fps and I animated my cam with a spline. I tried different ways to do it with tutorials on ytb but it's not working for me, that's the reason why there's double in my timeline and muted because of my several attempts

[twin musk]

i do not like how this head target is working, i have to hide the head for the head to not be visible to the player's camera, and i have to change the head target location so its not visible too but that just ends up like a planet orbiting a star, so confusing

||https://youtu.be/6Pfx7lYQiIA?si=mIQbzm-XRWtalNvU&t=97 || is what it looks like normally but when i try to move it backwards it just orbits when i want it like this || https://youtu.be/6Pfx7lYQiIA?si=7faHustb401salW6&t=127 ||

its the same video, two different timestamps

i tried moving the target backwards but then the head target orbits the camera, which is pretty obvious because the child (head target) is in a different position than the parent (camera)

[young grove]

Alright, the unity animator is really starting to piss me off

I'm animating a rotation, but when I play it bnck, it does some wild rotations that make no sense

Its a door, I keyframe record the last keyframe, closed, and the first, open. But when I play it I get this

Anyone know how to fix this?

[agile solstice]

This looks like a gimbal lock issue with euler interpolation which is not specific to unity
It even happens in real life with physical gimbals
Either make sure you keyframe the rotation axis that's required to do that kind of rotation and only that axis
Or switch interpolation type to quaternion from euler

[young grove]

Changing the interpolation to quaternion fixed it. Thanks for the help!

[coarse cypress]

Can anyone tell me why the Animation tool skips the last two tiles? Normally that should be a walk animation created out of 4 tiles but its just shown up two of em in the preview and it bugs visually..

[calm trellis]

im not the expert but check you sprite that it has all the tiles in there

[coarse cypress]

Ive checked it multiple times and rather then draging them all at once, ive tried also to insert em 1 by 1 manuelly. Same outcome.

Thats why im wondering. That are definitly the right tiles.

[calm trellis]

hmm try chat gpt and try to write detailed description of the problem to it more detailed the better it has helped me with a lot of different animation problems

[coarse cypress]

Also tried that before but the 3.5 Vers. kinda suu.... 😄

[calm trellis]

true

hmm your animation seems to be set up correctly. im sorry that i could not be more helpful :(

[coarse cypress]

I might know the problem but im not sure how to fix it. Ive gone manuelly through the frames and the last frame shows the missing image but its instantly swapping to the normal standing tile. Do you know how I can increase the time?

Like when the Animation Ends to add a couple more frames with that sprite?

[calm trellis]

you mean te speed that the animation runs in?

[coarse cypress]

Yes like the animation order is standing>left foot up> standing> right foot up but rather then showing the last (right foot up) its instantly restarting the animation and shows the standing sprite.

[calm trellis]

do you have time for a call?

try adding 1 more key to your animation

[coarse cypress]

sure ill pm you

[hybrid tinsel]

It's bad enough to have people ask that thing for code, please don't suggest it as a source of fucking useful information.

[calm trellis]

It can be a helpful tool

[hybrid tinsel]

It is literally against the server rules to suggest untested answers from it.

And for good reason

[calm trellis]

Oh I was not aware of that. Lemme go read the rules, and thanks letting me know:)

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, that last frame won't play because the animation is too short

[agile solstice]

The last frame should be duplicated to indicate how long it should be held for before the end of the clip

Because the end of the clip is inferred from it

[thin oasis]

I have this issue where objects don't rotate around one axis that i specifically want it to rotate around. When it's animated it wobbles around instead of rotating around one axis. I applied rotation and scale in Blender so that the rotations or positions would not be any weird factor of itself. I am also applying root motion in Unity. I get this issue often and a lot while animating and I never figured out why. It doesn't work in Global nor in Local mode. It doesn't work in center nor in Pivot mode.

[agile solstice]

Objects rotate around their origin
Place the origin at the point you want them to rotate around
If you want multiple nested rotations (like wheel steering while turning) use nested transforms by parenting

[vagrant osprey]

Hey I need help how do I take a animation out of a prefab cuz I want to put it on another character or just like have it any help please?

[thin oasis]

the weirdness in this for me is that the wheels were a parent of a group that looks like this

car_empty_root (scale and transforms set to 1)
--car_model (scale and transforms set to 1)
---car_body (scale and transforms set to 1)
---car_wheels_front (scale and transforms set to 1)
---car_wheel_back (scale and transforms set to 1)

I just made the car wheels a child of car_body but why was I not able to rotate it along one of the axis properly before?

[vagrant osprey]

@thin oasis can you help??

[thin oasis]

I can't help you with that, specifically

[agile solstice]

Don't ping unrelated people

[vagrant osprey]

Oh sorry

[agile solstice]

To rotate as you expect and hope is all about the position of the transform relative to children

So, you can rotate each wheel around its own (centered) sideways axis for moving the car forward/backward
And then give each of them a parent around at where they connect to the car and rotate those around their respective up/down axis for steering rotation

Don't use root motion
Best I can tell that can't do anything good for car parts

[thin oasis]

I think this is the core issue. So maybe in the future I just make sure I parent anything that is rotate along with something else. Though I am still not sure why one axis is completely unable to rotate properly.

I thought the rotational values are independantly able to be changed locally, somehow mine get manipulated by something else.

I am aware that a parent object would change the values of it globally or how the rotational values add up or subtract depending on how the parent is rotated.

But i don't get how the local values go completely off the wall like that while being animated, considering that I am currently only working on the local values.

This wouldn't only be an issue I get on this car, but a lot of other situations too.

[agile solstice]

I don't fully understand why that'd be happening, gimbal lock perhaps, but I can tell the origins aren't right on the meshes

[void oasis]

Making this dumb little game to learn Unity better and while this effect prob isnt suitable for the game format I've attempted to make an after image/ghost effect (a la Metroid/SOTN etc) by using an animator and scripting. But instead of exactly following the player's frames I'd like it to follow diagonally upwards/downwards as the illusion is that the player is flying left to right (it's actually the pipes moving right to left).
Also, I can't seem to make the ghost fade out quicker than what can be seen in the clip via the functions in the Animation window to make this effect less cluttery, if anyone has suggestions as to why?

This is all very new to me so not even sure what I'm asking for here, so feel free to ask for additional info.

[devout rock]

How do I export an fbx with multiple animations, can I only export with 1 animation?

[glossy plank]

is there anyway to play animations in scene view so i dont have to keep going into game mode to check them?

[celest grove]

can someone explain to me why the transforms aren't saved in my animation clip and instead light up brown? Is it because of skinned meshes?

the keyframe resets back to original values when I do pretty much anything after changing them

[stuck sable]

So, one big issue with Animation Retargeting is that even with a humanoid avatar, IK isn't retargeted, leading to certain issues if the proportions of the character are too different. One key example being the hip width.

I had an idea for a potential way to resolve this, that I wanted to spitball here.

Basically, I have this idea for a script that, in the start method, creates two "Adjusted IK" objects at the original TPose locations of the skeleton's IK-targeted feet. From there, it would apply a Copy-Transforms, plus the offset difference between its original position and the position of the IK targets after being given a retargeted animation.

I'm not totally sure this would work, but in theory, it would adjust the "hip width" of the IK to match that of a given target.

Are there any other possible solutions I might be missing, that would prevent situations like this from cropping up:

Or just modify it in Late Update.

[hybrid tinsel]

So enabling foot ik for that state and adjusting the avatar isn't enough? It is a pretty extreme proportion, to be fair.

[stuck sable]

It's enough to get in the ballpark, and it looks fine, but for more precise control, something like a post-update controlled slider would get it that last 20% of the way there.

[hybrid tinsel]

You could also just retarget your animations in another animation software, given how extreme the case is

[pale cliff]

hi,
i like ethan's character controller , it looks smooth enough
is it possible to replace ethan with a different model while using the same animator and controls?

[agile solstice]

If you model or rig a character for the exact same skeleton, you can swap the skinned mesh directly
If your character's rig is different but Humanoid-compatible, you can retarget it to Ethan's animations

[dim zodiac]

Beloved people, good morning!

Umotion Pro is the best tool to make humanoid animations on Unity? Unity Rigging Package does the same? You can animate a humanoid from scratch on Unity Rigging package?

[agile solstice]

No
There's no official way to edit or create Humanoid animations within Unity
"Animation Rigging" package only lets you create IK constraints, which can be animated, but it does not let you rig any character from scratch nor does it expand unity's ability to author animations

[soft zealot]

Odd question but when changing scale from 1 to -1 how to I get I to spin and not squash and strech

[dim zodiac]

With umotion pro you can't make a new animation using an already rigged model?

[agile solstice]

That asset is not an "official" way
It's not bound by Unity's limitations and I don't know what its full capabilities are

[scarlet stone]

Anyone know where to find an arms crossed idle animation?

[shadow obsidian]

Try mixamo

[pallid thistle]

is there a system or 3d party stuff that lets me automatically create blendshape animations from audio clips? ive seen that multiple times in unity games where the mouth moves based on microphone input. does anyone know something about that?

[hybrid tinsel]

I have seen several, but haven't used them enough to suggest one. I'd ask in the #🔊┃audio channel if you want specific recommendations.

[red bramble]

So what you're looking for is a system for phoneme recognition

https://github.com/hecomi/uLipSync

perhaps this

[pallid thistle]

yes, exactly this. thanks

[stuck elm]

I've used ulipsync, and aside from it not playing very well with Timeline is is pretty good.

Nothing that can't be worked around.

[maiden prairie]

Make an strip

[flat badger]

is there a way to make an animation that simply scales down ANY object by 1.25? I can pretty easily make an animation for a specific object, but then any time I put it on another object bigger/smaller than the original object, the animation will just set the scale to the original object's. I would like this animation to be a drag-and-drop type thing, where I can just apply it to any object and it'll scale down the object but 1.25 based off its own scale.

[vocal dew]

Hey everybody, I'm developing an fps game, and I was wondering what the best way to structure animations using unity's animators would be? Currently I have two layers inside my player animator, one for movement, and one for the arms. There are going to be a lot of animation states for the arms, one for each weapon/item the player holds, so I guess my question is, how do I structure this in the most efficient way? I don't want to have to create a new sub-state machine for each arm animation set, as that would clog up the animator pretty quickly.

[hybrid tinsel]

Use a script to do the scaling and just use the animation to trigger it?

[velvet geyser]

• I figured out you can have multiple entry states for an Animator state machine. But how do you determine which entry state it goes to?
• When an animator is re-enabled after being disabled, does it resume the previous state or start from the entry state again?

My FPS enemies can get knocked down and ragdollised from stunning attacks, and I want to set things up so when recovering, they lerp from their ragdoll pose directly to a 'standing up' animation. But currently it jerkily switches to the idle animation, then to the standing up state.

[torn sky]

Hey y'all!
I created this Bow Animation in Unity (very basic for my MVP), however I can only use the "entire" animation in Unity right?
I've tried multiple hours to make it procedural, but I can't get the Blender constraints working.. any suggestions? I'm SUPER new to this so.. please explain in very simple words x)

[hybrid tinsel]

To have it be fully procedural, you'd need to use unity constraints and not blender ones. If you just wanted to procedurally control abaked animation, you could do that too (set the time of the animation based on the draw position for instance)

[ionic olive]

Does anyone know much about FastIK Scripts? Im trying to set everything for a Gorilla Tag Knockoff (I know, so unique) but the model I have doesnt have poles, and when I open it in blender the shapes are all just one shape.

[torn sky]

Tyvm, sorry for my late reply..
is there any “1 to 1” substitution solution? I’ve tried to create IK and limitDistance modifiers in unity, but I couldn’t make it work..

Could you elaborate on the pseudo baked/procedural solution?

What is the “normal approach” to this problem? I’ve seen some people creating 2 rigs ontop of each other, one with blender constraints and another one just for unity, which “mimics” the blender-rig..

I’m just “figuring stuff out” to get a “as good as possible animation” which doesn’t take TOO much time 🙂

[twin musk]

its still behaving weirdly https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/780501928147943444/1252033680386560070/2024-06-16_18-53-01.mp4?ex=6672103b&is=6670bebb&hm=2f685fe8daf024d683ac280d0e5df31ddf7b70da66f307eecb8b8f71b62e2f84&
i dont know what to do, i tried moving the target backwards but then the head target orbits the camera, which is pretty obvious because the child (head target) is in a different position than the parent (camera)
i want it like this https://youtu.be/6Pfx7lYQiIA?si=7faHustb401salW6&t=127

skip to 0:38

[civic wasp]

How do I make it so highlighted talking finishes before switching to another animation, even when the trigger / bool is disabled?

Highlighted needs to be triggered to go to "Highlighted" and Talking needs to be true to switch to "Highlighted Talking"

[wild pagoda]

Hi there! I have a character with multiple animation states. I have made two animator override controllers. I override the runtime animator controller with the first animator override controller, then i do the same with the second animator override controller. The problem is that the first overrides are lost. I'm trying to override different states. How can I override an animator controller without loosing the previous overrides? Edit: I want to change single animation clips while keeping the rest intact.

[hybrid tinsel]

If that's what you want, don't use 'any state.'

[hybrid tinsel]

Good question!

[twin surge]

hey guys!
why is it that the multi aim constraint i have for looking up and down, starts going the wrong way when the target game object, moves below the constraind game object?

[topaz stag]

hi

i added 1 animation node to my animator controller and now the Enemy is brokne

if i add RockHit it Breaks everything

this is what happends if i add the animation and press play

Both RockHit and HitAnimation Should Play when the trigger Hit Is activated

and it works but only seperatly

[hybrid tinsel]

That is how states work.

[twin surge]

help pls idk why this is happening 😵‍💫

[torn sky]

Hello everyone!
I hope this is the right channel/audience.. I'm pretty new to Unity and Animations, but I wanna do it "right".
I'm trying to create a solid workflow from Blender Modelling -> Rigging -> Unity (procedual-) animations..

In order to understand the scope of things I've modelled some fairly basic stuff and tryed to get some animations working.. while doing that I figured out, that Unitys animation rigging expected a fairly rigid heirachy of bones... Is that heirarchy an "Industry" standard which I should try to get right while rigging?
I've also seen quite some atempts on procedual walk animations would you say implementing that is worth it? I've tinkered with it for some time, I think Its doable, but I'm not sure if thats not wasted time in the end...?

[torn sky]

I'm super enw to this, but have you tinkered with the aim axis and up axis? they seem off to me.. but I'd need to check..

I just used the multi aim constraint for the first time yesterday.. so i'm really no big help.. also why is your target in -y the entire time? ^^'

[agile solstice]

Procedural walk animations have specific strengths like never sliding and adapting to any surface
But they cannot with any reasonable effort look natural for humanoids, so they're not usually used for that
They work well for multi-legged nonhumanoids because keyframe animation is particularly unwieldy for those

IK can be used in conjunction with keyframed animations, to prevent foot sliding and to match surface inclination without altering the look or style of the animation

But then you lose another benefit of procedural which is skipping the need for any keyframes

[torn sky]

Ooooh, that explains why so many tutorials have 8 (orso) legged creatures when explaining procedurally animated characters...
That does make sense, even if it's a little unsatisfying that it doesn't work well without the help of keyframed animations.. 😦

[agile solstice]

Well it does "work" but human movement is too complex to represent by IK algorithms, since we're constantly balancing and against earth's gravity and controlling the momentum of each of our body parts

[torn sky]

I defo need to look into that..
that means tho, I "need" keyframed animations in combination with IKs to get the best result?

Just asking that, since I wanna estimate how much time each model is gonna take... If i could get by without any keyframed animations (by using procedurally animated characters) that would be a consideration

[torn sky]

Yeah gotcha, that does make a lot of sense

[agile solstice]

It is quicker if you have many characters who need animations, and once you have it it'll work for all of them
But prepare for it to look stilted and weird
And that no matter how much time you pour into it you can only reduce the stiltedness fractionally with diminishing returns
But you have the option to embrace that as a style

[torn sky]

Yeah I see... Defo need to look deeper into that, whats the "most common way" people do it?
"Just" create keyframed animations and eventually (if needed) add IK ontop?

Just browsed thru the asset store to get input and found "Motion Matching System" which kinda what I had in mind, but that looks quite difficult and only somewhat robust nvm, I think thats basically just keyframed animations blended in a slightly different way

[agile solstice]

"Most common" way is to make or find animations and play them on the character, either by movement, by input, or to drive movement by root motion of the animations
Unity has various examples of that, such as the third person Starter Assets package
Additionally Humanoid Avatar configuration includes foot IK to prevent sliding and to match surfaces
This motion matching thing indeed is just another workflow for blending keyframe animations

[torn sky]

Aight tyvm, that helped somewhat and clearified a lot of stuff.. ima look into that a little more and see what works from a "time investment" standpoint 🙂
Tyvm! 🙂

[shadow obsidian]

Can you show the base layer

Yeah, you are using any state

So you are just starting the animation over and over

Anystate includes the state you are currently in. Do not use it for something like that

All the places you can transition to it

Sure. Just don't use any state

[vapid spindle]

Hi i just need some help with my animation so basically when I add the rig to my character it becomes deformed with the animation also breaking but in blender it perfectly fine does anyone know why this keeps happening

like i said before in blender it perfectly fine I honostly dont know why this keeps happening

[vapid spindle]

idk if this will help but here it is

[gritty spear]

Hi guys I need some help, I have an animated character from Mixamo. Is there a way to swap out the mesh of the character at runtime and still have all the animations work? Right now everything I try the mesh just disappears.

[brave storm]

Hmm try merging vertices by distance in blender

Looks like you have a triangle that is too thin

[vapid spindle]

Ok thx I'll try that

[torpid birch]

Hi guys, anyone ever experienced similar problem to the following:

• While having an animation controller running and playing an animation in Play mode, all bones rotations are "stuck". This is normal for keyed bones of course.
• I would like to move the unkeyed bones, while the animation is active. For example: I have a turret that has its firing animation playing on its "gun" bones, but I want to control the turret itself to rotate around freely and target the enemies. For that I have a separate parent bone named "rotate" which is unkeyed.
• Is this an FBX export or import problem?

[celest grove]

is it a bad idea to animate a rigidbody using unity's animation system paired with controller?

[brave storm]

Animating a rigidbody is effectively moving it via the transform which is generally a bad idea

[celest grove]

oh true

manual it is

[brave storm]

You could have a hidden animated object and then have the rigidbody follow that with forces

[celest grove]

It's fine, it's not a complex animation

I'll just hard code it

thanks

[topaz stag]

soo what do i do?

[celest grove]

I need to make the transitions let the animation play out for their entire length and keep the trigger set to true while it's playing. For some reason I can't find the right values and it either doesn't let it play out for the full length or it sets the trigger to off, early. Any ideas?

I don't want any interpolation between transitions on top of that

[hybrid tinsel]

That second message tells you that there are issues and where to see those warnings.

[celest grove]

How do I keep animation changes when changing to a different state?

[agile solstice]

How do you mean by "keep them"

[celest grove]

So I have lets say State A and B, I want to play A and persist the changes that occured in A, while B plays out

[agile solstice]

With Write Defaults disabled in a state, it might not overwrite properties that the state does not touch
Fundamentally though a state cannot be additive to another state on the same layer, and no change from keyframed properties can be persistent

[celest grove]

Might as well use the animation component at that point

I guess I'll do that, thanks

[agile solstice]

How do you suppose it aids you in this situation?

[celest grove]

because in that case I'll just have two different animation comps responsible for different animations

and I don't have to worry about the changes getting reset because "a state switched"

[agile solstice]

Comps?

[celest grove]

components

[agile solstice]

Interesting idea

[celest grove]

This is my first time using the controller, every other animation in my project is using the animation comp and they all work fine

[agile solstice]

Animator has override layers that do not reset their state when you change layer weight, and additive layers that apply their property overrides additively over other layers

[celest grove]

well technically they wouldn't be additive because they are responsible for different things

[agile solstice]

I'm curious what the exact use case is

[celest grove]

it's just a sequence of animations I need played out in a specific order

and I like the Trigger functionality of the controller so thought I'd try it out

[agile solstice]

I might place a sequence on another layer, with transitions linking them sequentially

[celest grove]

I don't need any transitions though

they are all responsible for different things at different times

I am very unfamiliar with the animation tools that Unity has, so I am quite clueless on this subject

And yep, as suspected, my idea with animation clips worked perfectly

[agile solstice]

Transitions are a big reason to use the Animator, since you don't need to code any of that logic yourself

[celest grove]

I see

I guess fundamentally then, I shouldn't try it with the controller in this case

[agile solstice]

I don't fully grasp your situation well enough to recommend one or the other, and sounds like you already have some kind of state machine programmed there

Animator should be used because of its features that save you coding work and let you automate things
Contrary to what you might see claimed on youtube

[celest grove]

Every animator resource I found wouldn't talk about my issue so 🤷‍♂️

I don't think it would work in my case

or at least it would be so much extra work

than what I've done so far

at least that's what it seems like

Thanks for the help

[agile solstice]

It's hard to wrap my mind around
Animation sequences that don't actually need to be sequential and also need to be additive with previous states but preserve the pose of the previous state?
I'm glad you found a solution in any case

[celest grove]

I have 3 clips, you play 1, preserve everything that happened in it and then run clip 2, etc.

[agile solstice]

But like, why

[celest grove]

because the transition has to be done through code

because it's procedural

so I need to seperate the animations

[agile solstice]

What kind of motion is it exactly?

[celest grove]

a position delta? Idk what you're asking

the actual positions

that would be in the animation

are procedural

[agile solstice]

What is the character doing in those clips

[celest grove]

it's not for a character

it's a box

that moves from X to Y

also

[agile solstice]

That's pretty big clue for me

[celest grove]

I don't understand what you're asking

besides fundamentally I can't use animations for it

because it does its movement via rigidbody

that's the main reason

it's just a box that the player moves with

[agile solstice]

I'm hoping for an accurate description of what's the ultimate goal is
Because it feels like I've been in the dark of all the relevant details
For avoiding XY problem, for instance

[celest grove]

since the player movement is done via rigidbody

it needs a joint

and the box needs a rigidbody to have a joint

therefore no animation

only code

it's also only attached after player uses it

so there are a lot of moving parts to it

a lot of parts the can vary

[agile solstice]

I would've said that animation clips won't really work for for anything physics driven or most things procedural, and any persistent change is kind of antithetical to the nature of animation clips

But if Animation component works I'm probably missing something
Could've skipped the description and brought me up to speed just by showing what you were working on, I suppose

[celest grove]

what if I happened to have an NDA

[agile solstice]

I guess the description is the next best thing if you don't have some proof of concept greybox version of it to show
But could've started with one of those

[celest grove]

I suppose

[agile solstice]

Working backwards to a problem from solutions with limited information feels unpleasant and makes it hard for me to explore meaningful options in the process

[celest grove]

Yeah I can understand that, I apologise

[agile solstice]

Still in this case if Animation does what you need, it's viable even though it's "legacy"

Animator should be used for larger scale systems, specifically for its many features

[celest grove]

ah no

I only have like 3 animations that won't change by nature

[agile solstice]

Persistent motion probably should be done in scripts instead

And rigidbodies should always move by Rigidbody class methods, not by animation unless Kinematic

[celest grove]

yeah naturally

wonder why animations don't have capability to change at runtime

at the end of the day it's reading hdd

[agile solstice]

"Change" in what way?

[celest grove]

surely injecting some values from memory at runtime is quite easy

like instead of going to a specific point

you pull data from memory and move to point defined by memory

that would allow for procedural animations

[agile solstice]

I believe that's because of the way they're stored and interpreted

Actually thinking of it I think it's perfectly possible to do that, just probably not intended

Since I've seen it happen on accident, an animation starting again before fully reset so you end up with transforms that drift away over time

[celest grove]

interesting, I thought it would've just pulled the transform data for instance and lerp between them

sounds like it's doing something else

[agile solstice]

I guess it's just not a very useful thing for what animation clips are usually used for, which is giving some offset from the default position or other value, for certainty that you know the animation appears the same way each time

For procedural motion you usually don't want to be restricted to keyframes anyway so scripts are more convenient
But I suppose in some cases you might want to leverage them anyway
You probably can read animation clip data from the script and apply that procedurally as needed (or as forces)

[celest grove]

yeah combining them is a bit tricky

but I got there in the end

thanks again

[hybrid tinsel]

Of course you can do that. That is what the IK system does, after all

[willow juniper]

Hey guys, I am workiong on a FPS game and would like to add sway and recoil to the shooting of my guns. I am however struggling to figure out how to do so based on my setup.

Most tutorials let the gun be leading and the hands follow, but in my setup the gun follows a gun bone which is part of the character rigg. So in the game engine I can not add sway directly to the gun as that will result in the hands not following the gun.

What other methods are there to explore, I just need to be pointed in the right direction.

[agile solstice]

It should not matter whether it's the gun or the hands swaying, as long as you're doing the sway in the part that's controlling the other

A sway can be in the animator itself on a layer, on an IK constraint working with the animator, or above the entire animator hierarchy

[willow juniper]

@agile solstice Thank you for your insights, just out of curiosity, don't the FPS animations I made for the fps character override any setup done? I for example used a default pose for holding the weapon when idle. How would I override this? I tried for example to move the hand when the static idle animation is playing but it would not let me.

[agile solstice]

Override what "setup"?

The techniques I describe do not require any kind of overriding

[willow juniper]

I am having trouble visualzing these different approaches as I probably never used them before. With override I mean that the animation that I play cancels out the sway script that I would put on the gameobject that controls the gun (the gunsocket bone).
So In the animation the socket bone does A and thoguh the script I want it to do B. The animations then overrides B and the behaviour stays A.

[agile solstice]

An animator will always control any keyframed property in its hierarchy
While it's possible to modify the same properties through a script at the same time by running the methods after the animator, I usually avoid it to prevent confusing setups

So I'd instead look into an animation layer that's either override or additive to implement the sway in the animator itself
Or use an IK constraint which is designed to move transforms in the animator's hierarchy in conjuction with the animations
Or have your script move a transform above the animator hierarchy so the movement will be inherited down

[willow juniper]

Awesome, it is more clear for me now. I am familiar with option 2 and 3 as I have set up a 2 bone IK in unity before and I also know that I can rotate the bone above the gun socket bone. With regards to option 1, would I have to make sway animations and add these to the additive animator layer or how would this work 🙂 ?

[agile solstice]

Yes, with option 1 the sway would be keyframed
You can find more about it by looking into animator layers
Both override and additive will work but mix differently with the base layer

[willow juniper]

Awesome, I have some research to do then. I appreciate your time and effort helping to explain all this.

[surreal copper]

does anynone have a code for hand animation for VR

[celest crag]

@surreal copper Not a place for requests. If you need help with something, post the problem you stuck on. Also don't cross-post.

[surreal copper]

oh okey

[untold plank]

does anyone have a visual tween editor they like the most?

i've tried a few and i've found shortcomings with all of them but am too lazy to write my own

[amber onyx]

Hello all!
I have a question.
Is it possible to start an animation from another animation? (or 'change animation' to be more precise)

For example, I have a parent object with couple child objects, that each have their own animations (2D sprites).
I'd like to have a single animator for the parent object, that drives the child object animations. Is that possible somehow?

[agile solstice]

An animation event can call a method in a script to set parameters in the nested animators

[amber onyx]

That seems to be the only way.
I suppose, it's not possible to set those parameters as properties directly within another animation?

[gleaming spade]

Can someone explain what Im doing wrong?
This is from a Reddit post I made a bit ago:
I have been having so many complications with this project that I'm ready to throw in the towel. I am new to using Unity, so I have been using many rigging tutorials. I made my character in Blender with a working rig. It seems all fine until I export it into Unity. Materials won't load (they come out grey ) a bunch of errors, etc. My main issue was that it wasn't recognizing the head, and I don't know why. I don't know if there is a problem with Rigify or something but..

Here is a screen:

[soft laurel]

I don’t think unity will pick up materials made in blender, at least if it does I’ve never been able to make that work, for rigging, I’m not sure if it’s the best way to do things but since it a fairly humanoid model you might be able to upload it to mixamo and have that do you rigging just to get something that registers in unity

[agile solstice]

Afaik you can only call methods from events on components on the same gameobject, which would require all animators to be on the same gameobject which likely prevents them from being nested

[soft agate]

Hey guys I have a question

anyone know why

why doesnt this animation play

like when i press a button

it only presses it like half of the time

[torn sky]

which animation?
It looks like its playin a "selected animation" and a "pressed animation", kinda overlappingeachother

[torn sky]

Hey y'all I got a bunch of "macro" questions regarding animations..
I've tinkered with animations over the last days/weeks and I'm still fairly new to the entire thing, I created some blender models, rigged some, did some keyframe animations (in blender) got them into unity and messed with all sorts of stuff in the animator and scripts.

Question 1:

My idea is, that the character Controller handles "movement" and inputs (via the new system).
Than when say "space" is pressed it sends that to the animationsHandler (would it make sense to use a switch-case in that class?)... so if neccessary I can derive from that class and change some values individually for different AI, or if I need to lerp some animations due to movementspeed?

Do I need multiple animatorController for each individually different enemy? Like one for humanoid/4-legged/insect?
Or even one animatorController for each?

It's really hard for me to outline the structure well enough due to a lack of experience in that regard...

Question 2:

I'm currently doing Keyframed animations inside Blender, is that - generally speaking - a recommended way of going about it?
I feel like Unity is a little wanking for animations HOWEVER it has the big benefit of eventually having working IK's and the likes which I might need anyways to blend over some Aiming animations etc.
Just asking this to reduce my overall required workload

Question 3:

What about Mixamo etc.? I've tried to find an answer to what the license rights are, but I'm pretty lost, it seems to be contradicting?

Additionally: If you have any advice, PLEASE lemme know ❤️

€dit: needed more space for an additional

Question 4:

Initially I thought animations aren't that big of a deal, posing stuff, getting keyframes, import, done..

The deeper I dive however the more complex and especially the more work it becomes.. blending, getting different IK's, adjusting for foot-slide, etc.

So.. is there any way to get multiple animations grouped for a bunch of different "characters" ranging from lots of humanoids to some snakes/4-leg animals?
Ideally I wanna create my animations selfmade, especially due to licensing, but I struggle to find a way to "get that done in a lifetime" without a little grouping and some copy/pasting"

[gleaming spade]

For the materials if that's the case is there a paint mode in unity?

Because that's the only way I know works to import it into VR chat

[soft laurel]

I’m not entirely sure, I’m still pretty new and it’s something I’ve not had to mess with

[soft agate]

That seems to be the issue

Ty

[hybrid tinsel]

Because you're using any state, so you are having trouble controlling your transitions

[agile solstice]

The errors are problems in your mesh on Blender side
Materials can only be imported in a limited way so import textures separately and make new materials for them

The confusing thing to me there is that you have "DEF" bones in the humanoid configuration but not in the hierarchy

Rigify's rigs start out as "metarigs" with no controls of any kind
Only when generated it turns into a complex interspersed hierarchy of deformation (DEF) bones, control bones and helper bones

[agile solstice]

#1 The Animator is a state machine, you don't need another one to control it
Your character controller scripts can use the same or a standardized set of animator parameters, and set them in their own particular way if needed
Animator Override Controllers let you re-use an Animator but swap out the clips for different motion
#2 IK in Blender or any external program ceases to be functional when the animation is baked down for exporting
Runtime IK needs to use another system within Unity, like Animation Rigging package or Humanoid Avatar
#4 Humanoid Avatars can share animations via "retargeting", non-Humanoids can share them if their bone hierarchies match precisely, but without any compensation for different proportions

[torn sky]

Tyvm!
I've watched some lenghty videos on the topic and I am beginning to get a grasp...

#1 Like when I detect [key input "jump"] I fire [play animation "jump"]?
I'm trying to reuse as much code as possible so I'm afraid to end up with a unique script for each and every single character doing this

Animator Override Controllers let you re-use an Animator but swap out the clips for different motion
Oh yeah that makes sense.. i've seen that for "low health animations" which override but I can just use it to differentiate a "little girl walk" from a "big old warrior walk"

#2 Yeah thats what I figured thus resulting in my question if it's "even worth it" to do IK's in Blender (to achieve better keyframe animations) or just cut that from the pipeline and just do a "standard rig in blender" get some keyframed animations and than eventually add IKs in Unity to get procedural animations or IK-multi-aim or something?

#4 So there is no way to get retargeting to work for a "small snake/spider/wolf" and a bigger version or one with a slightly different leg-lenght? Thats harsh... so I need every model to get it's own keyframed animations as soon as its slightly different and non-humanoid?
I've seen there is some "additional bones" setting in the retargeting window, would that work to retarget a horse onto a pegasus or vice-versa (only if its the exact same size)?

[agile solstice]

#1 The "correct" way is not to play animations, but to set animator parameters that as conditions start transitions
A lot of videos you find about this are misleading since many don't really grasp the Animator
Animator Override Controllers are primarily meant for different characters since there's no blending from one to another
Synced animation layers are a more powerful option for alternating between sets of animations within one animator
#2 Up to you
I wouldn't bother authoring animations without proper IK controls
#4 Afaik Generic rigs have no retargeting option at all
It may be possible to handle some quadrupeds with the biped Humanoid Avatar but you will probably face some unintended side effects

[torn sky]

#1 So the "correct way" for walking would be: when I press forward I increase the velocity by adding acceleration and said velocity is the "animations tracked parameter"?

Animator Override Controllers are primarily meant for different characters since there's no blending from one to another
Oh realy? Than I might be thinking about something else, because what I've seen was clearly a weight beeing shifted between two "layers" in the animator
It started as a normal walk and when the weight got shifted the animation looked more and more like a wounded-walk
-> Oh yeah that might have been synced animation layers.. my bad on the naming 🙂

#2 mmh.. either way I can just "not do any IKs (neither blender nor unity) and see how far I get doing that, saving me some work

#4 Gotcha. It would be able to use the animator override tho and just play a different keyframed animation for a "subspecies" right? Or eventually use the synced layer for the horse -> pegasus example from above?

[agile solstice]

A horse and a pegasus in this example could share the same animations and rig wholesale
A horse is a pegasus with "nonexistent" wings if you think about it technically after all
Just using a character script that doesn't set any flying related parameters

[torn sky]

Yeah thats why I picked that example 😄
I'd need to make sure the bones perfectly match eachother tho right?
Otherwise the bone-position will be messed up

[agile solstice]

If the states of your animator are not horse-specific (like "idle, walk, run, etc" rather than "gallop, rear, etc") then a spider could share the animator with an override controller, reusing the states, parameters and conditions but swapping motions for spider clips

[agile solstice]

The two could be the same model
Just one without the wings

Animation clips, if not Humanoid, refer to bones by explicit name and hierarchy position so they must match pretty exactly if you want to reuse them

[torn sky]

Okay so say I create a generic animator with parameters that work for a bunch of different animals, wolves, dogs, cats...

I can just override the animations with "species-tailored" variants..
Can I somehow add "specific" animations (say a "howl at the moon" animation) just for the wolf, without creating a seperate animator?

Sorry for that poorly phrased question..
just wondering if I can get a generic-base and add "tailored" things ontop

[torn sky]

Yeah tyvm, thats what I was expecting, thanks for clearifing 🙂

[agile solstice]

Hmm probably not
But you could create some extra states and parameters in the base animator to be later used for various purposes

I would likely add a few extra idle animation states as well, even if most characters do not need to use them all

Howling could be one of those idle animations
But "idle" as a name wouldn't be descriptive of animations that are used for non-idling purposes, such as a mole that digs underground when threatened

[torn sky]

Hm okay I see.. yeah I think I'll just start it and see what exactly works.. just a little afraid that I'm creating stuff that I don't really use (like blender IKs)

Its really good to know tho, that I basically need the exact same bone structure for non-humanoid characters if I wanna recycle the animations.

[lapis birch]

Someone got 9dir crouch animations or know where i can find them ?

[agile solstice]

What's that exactly
The cardinal directions, diagonals, and... up?

[feral urchin]

how do i fix this

im scared

fingers dont bend like that in real life

[lapis birch]

Like forward and forward right , left back cack-right, left

[reef zealot]

Anyone here has any kind of experience with hair physics on vroid models used in unity? Long hair works HORRIBLY in my game and editing the hair physics parameters is not helping much, only making it way too stiff. The issue is that any minimum movement make the hair float wildly up as if it was REALLY windy, when it would be normal to just move the hair a bit.

Would messing with Unity's physics help with that? Or is there a better way? Considering just removing hair physics altogether at this point =/
Feel free to PM or @ me if you think you can help!

[lean kindle]

I'm attempting to add another gesture to my hand in Unity, however by default it only supports Grip and Trigger. How can I have this Blend Tree also support a third parameter? Ex. "Thumb" and have a certain animation play when that is 1

[lapis birch]

u have them ?

[agile solstice]

I don't
But I was curious if the ninth direction was for some purpose I didn't know of

[agile solstice]

There are no 3D blend trees, but it's possible to have a blend tree of blend trees or blend trees on separate animation layers

[red bramble]

Perhaps you want to use a manual blend tree

err, a direct blend tree

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/BlendTree-DirectBlending.html

This lets you use an arbitrary number of parameters.

However, this isn't going to be like a 3D blend tree, because you can't use multiple parameters to control one motion

I'd go with a nested blend tree as Spazi suggested

[lean kindle]

Yeah I was testing out having a blend tree inside of a blend tree but it didnt seem to work how I needed either, I might have to do some wiki paging about them

[hybrid tinsel]

I thought vroid didn't use unity physics at all

[tidal epoch]

Hey everyone! I may have a simple problem but i cant seem to find the solution. I've set up a blend tree (individual animations work in their own previews) but when i enter game mode the model doesn't apply any of them and is stuck on one pose. What's curious is that the animations in the blend tree preview don't work either. Do you have any ideas what the reason might be? Thank you in advance 🙏 🙏 !!

[ornate gyro]

is there a way to change the position and rotation of an object without having to redo the placements in the animation tab?

[hybrid tinsel]

Are the animations all the same type?

[hybrid tinsel]

By script

[ornate gyro]

so there is no way to? because im using it on an ai and hes walking sideways

[hybrid tinsel]

How did you get 'no way' from that?

[ornate gyro]

well by what you said i thought there wasnt a way

[hybrid tinsel]

If they are humanoid animations you can change the rotation offset in the inspector.

[ornate gyro]

how do i check if they are humanoid?

[tidal epoch]

Yes, they're Action Animations I imported from blender

[ornate gyro]

where do i check if its humanoid

[ornate gyro]

nvm i fixed it

[spring loom]

guys, i made a map in blender and there is doors with animations how should i export it properly? like i tried export whole map, but then only 1 door has animation

[neon vale]

Friends, hello everyone!
I'm working with animations in Unity, and I have a whole bunch of questions.
Our pipeline

1. Rig characters in Blender using AutoRigPro software
2. Upload the rigged model to Fbx
3. We take animations from Mixamo, loading our character creation into Mixamo and uploading the animation as an Fbx object. From the Fbx hierarchy we take the animation itself
4. We are working with the Humanoid type of character animation in Unity
5. The animation in Mixamo, on our rig, plays well, but after export using the method described above, in most cases it breaks down badly when played in Unity on the same characters
6. In Unity we use additional software for customizing/refining/creating animation - UMoution Editor
7. When animating in Blender and importing into Unity, the animations are partially broken, it seems that some of the bones on which the animation is attached are missing, perhaps it’s the Humanoid type; when exporting Fbx from Blender, the Humanoid type is selected
8. While working with masks in the Unity Animator, we encountered the problem of mixing them: the bottom (everything below the waist) works fine, but the top (everything above the waist) does not work adequately, strange twists appear (for example, the body rotates 42 degrees ), and for each character they are different, there is no logic to what is happening. Masks are used in Override mode

Questions

1. Most often, animations that are imported directly from Mixamo to Unity break on our character (rig), what could be the problem? The rig does not change (Mixamo and Unity have the same rig), but the animation does not always break
2. We can’t work with masks, the so-called blending of animations. For example: a character runs and shoots/reloads at the same time - twists of the body appear that should not be there, can this be fixed or are we doing something wrong?

Can anyone tell me what we are doing wrong? Maybe there are some additional tools for the Animator?

[opaque flame]

I'm having some trouble with my character

he is upright but as so as game loads he turns sideways

[nova dagger]

I have two animation clips one for object and particle animation, the other for screen FX is there a way for me to see the two clips at once without going into play mode cause that isn't Ideal, I just want to be able to edit the screen fx in realtime

[zenith falcon]

having an issue with a premade model, when I go to use it in other applications or when recording an animation in Unity it sticks to an expression rather than staying in its neutral pose (even when there are no animations tied to the controller)

[zenith falcon]

ignore, fixed it

[amber aurora]

I have a question about a 2D tilemap animation workflow, since it's animation related I'll ask here too. Here's a link to the message: #🔀┃art-asset-workflow message

[austere oyster]

I have a weird doubt. I have NEVER worked on complex animations before and i am planning on starting to learn now. So, let's take a Kar 98 Reload Animation. When they reload the gun, they use some type of catridge that carries the bullets inside. they push the bullets inside and then throw away the catridge. How do the Catridge and Bullets come into existence when you play the animation in Unity? Are they game objects or are they part of the animation? And do you have control over them?

[snow kayak]

i dont really animate things but i made this spear in blender and like im thinking i should add a particle to each chink in the top half with sound effects but im just wondering if theres anything else i can do to make it cooler besides SFX

[hybrid tinsel]

Generally you would just have them as part of the animation and hide them when not in use.

[austere oyster]

Oh oh I see

[twilit scarab]

how to do a realistic hit animation , what is the process ragdoll , procedural ?
i have a dinosaur that runs ,eat, roam, using baked animations scripted by State Machines .
i want that the dinosaur should behave like it really got hit at that body part and animate accordingly .

[mint oak]

I am using script based movement for my character and my walking/running animations aren't sync'd up with the movement speed. Can anyone link me to some up-to-date resources for this?

Also, my blend trees are kinda wonky and feel clunky. Can anyone link me quality tutorials for this?

[dull pendant]

How can I remap the sword and shield onto my mixamo character, ive already remapped the player's body, just not sure how to add a sword and shield to the mixamo character

[hybrid tinsel]

If they are separate meshes, you can just copy them to the other model and parent them to the appropriate body parts. If they are not... then you need to separate em.

[dull pendant]

I got it thx

[jagged patio]

so im trying to make something spin but it slows down at the end of the animation but i want it to just keep spinning

i could click loop but its just gonna make it spin slow down and repeat

[hybrid tinsel]

Set the key tangents to linear

[cloud zealot]

Is there a reason unity deprecated Vector as a property for the animator?

because I cannot think of one and it seems like an EXTREMELY stupid decision

[agile solstice]

Vector in what context? When was it deprecated?

[cloud zealot]

That is both easily findable information

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.SetVector.html

In what world is having to make 3 separate float parameters better than making a single vector property?

[agile solstice]

Ah, parameter

According to docs the method has been "obsolete" since Unity 5.2 at least

I can't really find any info about it, but I don't think vector parameters were ever supported

If I had to speculate I guess the reason is that you'd need a different system to use them as conditions

Since condition predicates for floats are less or greater, you have to wonder what that'd look like for vectors

Either the UI would split them into floats at that time, or do something else entirely
It doesn't make much sense to do a greater or lesser comparison with a vector

And I can't think many situations off the top of my head where it'd be useful

If you need the magnitude of a vector, that can simply be passed as a float

Or a dot product, similarly

[sour sedge]

I'm try to set it up so that an NPC pauses the player in place the approaches them like the old Pokemon games. What's the simplest way to go about doing this?

[lucid geyser]

I am having problems with animations with a wolf asset I downloaded (already rigged and animated) and just copied most of the components from the character from the third person controller series.
The problem is that it seems to be stuck
The animation doesn't seem to be playing because the blend tree just causes it to change between the start of each individual animation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CLuitZqQNqP03R6un2nHqJdk3RYE7Rno/view?usp=sharing

[hybrid tinsel]

A whole minute and you don't show the animator

I do wonder why you're using freeform directional for a 1d blend

But I'm guessing the cause of this problem is an incorrectly set up transition

[lucid geyser]

I tried to but the windows screen recorder was in way

[hybrid tinsel]

Just a screenshot should be fine

There are other vague possibilities, but most likely you are using an anystate transition with can transition to self or are using code to directly play that state.

[hybrid tinsel]

A world where the ui for using vectors would inevitably involve decomposing them to their constituents over and over?

[bleak token]

Im using animation blend

and my character dissapears in the diagonal up left and down left directions

how can I fix this

[agile solstice]

Does it also disappear when previewing the diagonal blends from the blend tree outside of play mode
If not, it could be a code issue
What happens to the sprite references and transform properties of the body parts if you inspect them when they've disappeared? That could rule out the character being entirely out of sight at those interpolations

Test both

[rose garnet]

Hi, does anyone know how to fix this?

[faint ore]

seems pretty straightforward, assign them as children as it says.

I made an animation that moves the characters 2 units to the right. How can I play that animation repeatedly without the position being looped back to 0? Many thanks.

[hybrid tinsel]

Enable root motion.

[sour perch]

I can't seem to get timeline to play an animation clip on a different animator layer... I could have sworn I saw this somewhere in the past but it's been some time since I was last in timeline. I can work around it via code but thought maybe there was a native workflow for it?

[thorny oak]

Hey everyone, how can I make an animation play in reverse in a blend tree?

[faint ore]

Thanks it works, but I am having an issue with the root motion.

I have a setup of a trolley going forward. It uses root motion animations made within unity. Everytime it hits a forward trigger, it repeats the forward animation. Now I set up a go right trigger, which triggers an animation where the trolley should move rightward and rotate, and continue. It does neither, but it executes the forward part of the animation.

Anybody know where I am going wrong?

[thorny oak]

check the exit time

you can also try using Animator.PlayInFixedTime and play it from 0

[upbeat bloom]

how to not see the body whole animation??

I'm making an FPS game and I always see my body when there are animations

[tranquil quail]

@zenith solar make sure you understand this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpH5ZfonExo

[zenith solar]

That might help. I haven't seen that video yet. I've tried a lot of different search arguments.

[faint ore]

wdym?

[thorny oak]

your animations have a certain amount of time they will play for, in your animation controller you can check the transitions, they have an exit time assigned to them.

[faint ore]

How could that becausing my issues?

[hybrid tinsel]

In that case are you sure that the correct animation is playing?

[thorny oak]

it stops the turning animation from playing.

gimmie a sec

If you have Has Exit Time enabled, and the time that the animation is playing is lesser than the Exit time, it will stop your animation from playing.

[tiny pivot]

Is there any way to be able to set the tpose of a humanoid rig yourself, cuz the left side is what happens on import

[void pelican]

hi there, is there a hotkey to enable me to move curves in the curve editor for example, up and down only? in Maya I am able to hold down the shift key while moving the curves around to move in only one direction

[agile solstice]

This doesn't look like something that could be fixed by tweaking the t-pose (since that's not really a thing)
Rather the issue seems more likely to be incorrect bone transforms, bone axes (on export) or bone rolls

[stuck sable]

I know this is a weird question, but are there any animation packs for humanoid "Meme Dances"? I need some placeholder animations for testing purposes, and I figured I might as well use the classics.

[true valve]

Hey,
I have a walking cycle animation, but when I throw it on a model. its feet slip left and right. as you can see, the red arrow indicating the direction of the model is changing, which is causing the feet to move weirdly in game. how do I keep that red arrow straight ahead? I've already tried messing with the animation's import settings, as you can see above the first video, and nothing I did helped. does anyone know a workaround? thanks.

[neon vale]

Hello! Are there any additional tools for an animator? If I'm working with a humanoid. I’m just curious what other tools/plugins exist. Maybe there are some that help to eradicate/facilitate the process itself

[hybrid tinsel]

In the clip settings, you can bake root rotation. Enabling foot IK in the animator state might help as well, assuming it is a humanoid rig.

[true valve]

i've tried that but nothing seems to work. Is there an issue with the animation itself?

this is what it looks like on the website

[dry salmon]

I need to create a lot of new animations. Is there a way to do it without having to scroll down and click on "Create Animation Clip" every single time? I would like to create a new animation for my animator layer quickly.

The more animations you have the longer you have to scroll. Create new clip is all the way at the bottom.

[hybrid tinsel]

Create in the inspector, drag clips into animator, they'll be in the list.

[dry salmon]

So a fast workflow would be...

• Create an empty animation
• Duplicate the animation
• Rename the duplicate to the desired animation name
• Drag and drop the .anim file into the animator
• Select the animation to record

Is there a faster workflow or a way to organize animations better?

[hybrid tinsel]

Right

Organize in what way?

[dry salmon]

I am hoping for a better way to manage animations. Is there a different view for animations instead of the dropdown view? Additionally, is there a tool to check if an animation is being used? Like to highlight them if they aren't even being used by the animator.

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, you can look in the animator

But no, not really.

[potent pawn]

I am trying to use Unity's root motion with an animation from Blender, but after importing, the animation displaces the character further forward than it should be. It looks like the 'ctrl_master' that I use as the root makes the character moves faster than it should...

in blender, the root is between the feet, in unity, I see this, it is way behind the place it should be

any ideas on a fix for this? I'm struggling with this problem for weeks

I set the root node as ctrl master and the root motion settings of the animations seem to be correct. The animation is using the character's avatar

[quaint wolf]

Hey dudes, Do you think it is OK? please share your perspective
I want to define some tracks/ layers for my 2d characters in my 2d project.
I use spine with built-in skeleton animation system without animator.
So far, I have defined some tracks like below.

// Base Movement Animations
// Blend
Idle
Walk
Run

//Full-Body Specific Animations
FullBody
//Upper Body Specific Animations
UpperBody
//Maybe
LowerBody

[exotic tartan]

my animation is not looping even though it is default state i took animation from sketch fab and when isjumping bool is true when i jump it get ticked in the animator tab it dont transisition to the jumping animation??

[spare parcel]

Any advice to fix this NavMesh without flatting the floor?

Humanoid have a Step Height of 0.2

Damn.. the NavMesh see it as heigh but it would be more or less 0.01 or 0.02 😒

[red bramble]

#🤖┃ai-navigation

[spare parcel]

sorry, I even look for it 😅

[exotic tartan]

well my animation get stuck after transiting to jumping

[lapis ruin]

Hi guys, I'm trying to understand a weird behaviour that causes temporary stuck on transition interruption.

Here's a simple shotgun reload setup, and these 2 are the transitions I'm having trouble with. The basic idea is, once the first round is inserted from the ejector, check for user interruption and transit to Close state to quit reloading or Insert state to continue.

However, if interruption occurs after Close transition exit time past, the animation stucks for a while before actually transit to somewhere, as the video shows. Is there any way I can get rid of this issue?

https://streamable.com/n1dls1

[fallen crypt]

Hi guys, i'm trying to make my own animation using Animation Rigging package. I've already setup Two Bone IK for legs and arms, but i don't how to make the spine animated, can you help me ?

[lusty shadow]

Can i ask about Dotween here?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, though you might not get anyone able to answer

[lusty shadow]

I don't know why my object jump back to original position after DOMove Complete when i use sequence whether I SetLoops or not, anyone know what happen?

[celest grove]

I'm trying to play two animations at once using the animator controller. For example, running and attacking animations. I've heard people saying to use animation layers and I've followed anything I could find but to no avail. Any ideas?

[hybrid tinsel]

What, specifically, is going wrong? Did you set the mask and weight of each layer?

[celest grove]

yes the masks are set and the base layer isn't working at all

the arm layer (second layer) is working fine

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd try removing the mask from the base layer

[celest grove]

after removing, the base layer acts fine until I call the second layer animation

after that, the entire first layer is just dead

they also never merge

[warm radish]

I’m looking for an animator for my game

[shadow obsidian]

!collab

[dusk vale]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

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Please use the forums:
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[daring stratus]

I'm making a rotating gear but the loop isn't seamless I know I have to do somethign with the curves but I can't get the menu open. I'm using the newest version

apparently there's a bug with the current version

is there a way how I can fix this?

[fallen crypt]

Hi guys, i'm using animation rigging package to make my own animations, on a mixamo character. I've already setup up two bones ik for hands and foots, but i don't know how to fix hips position/rotation to follow legs and arms movement (i want to make a crawl animation). Can you help me ?

[tall crane]

why is my elbo turning the wrong way

[spring sand]

I'm working on a dancing game where the player can dance by using their keyboard. Im currently learning how to create dance animations. Here are 3 dances I made last week: Billy Bounce, Popping arm, and armwave. What do you guys think? How would you improve them?

[safe heron]

if this game is similar to ddr I would like to inform you that i am making a similar game and need some help as well, if you were to show me what you had so far it would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[thin swan]

Too bad more people didn't just work together....

[spring sand]

i dm'd you!

[idle horizon]

I'm wanting to modify one of my VRChat avatars to have tentacle-y doctor octopus like legs, and my plan was to animate them via this method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVEI36F-bj8
However, it requires that the legs be only 4 bones, and the legs I'm trying to rig have about 8, not inlcuding the toes. Someone in the comments of this video asked about how to solve this kind of issue, and the response was "You would need to simplify the legs to 4, or have invisible legs with 4 bones each and use those are guides for your 7 bone legs. You can then use CCDIK or FABRIK on the 7 bone legs and target the foot of the 4 bone legs that are using VRIK."

If I go with this method, how would I go about setting up the invisible legs mentioned in that reply?

[pale lynx]

Is there a way to copy the current values of an animated object during edit mode and paste them later? Like, I pressed play on an animation, and I then want to copy what it looks like now and paste it permanently

Currently I'm working on a VRC avatar and I accidentally broke my avatar's pose and I can get it back to T-pose but only during edit mode so I just wanna copy the previewed edit mode values to be permanent

I could even write an editor mode script for it if I knew how to read the current post-animation values, maybe that's what gets returned anyways? But im not sure I might look into that in a bit if I dont get an answer

[pale lynx]

Ok, the editor script did in fact work. All I did was instantiate the armature while it was t-posing in edit mode, and then copy the transforms to the existing armature

here is the script if anyone else ever runs into this problem, put this script on the broken armature, run an animation to T-pose your avatar, click on copy, set source_armature to the newly copied armature, and then press pull from source to copy the working armature to your existing armature

[cursive tartan]

I'm having some issues with exporting fbx files into Unity, I keep getting this error. To make sure it's not the animations themselves, I created a test file with a simple animation and still got the error.

[hybrid tinsel]

That's not an error, it is a warning. Are your actual animations importing along with the empty one?

[rustic dust]

hello
When the player character moves, I want to use the animator's root motion. For example, if I have an animation that rotates 180 degrees, it will not rotate 180 degrees, but less than that. Do you know how to accurately rotate a game object using root motion?

(This article was written using a translator. Sorry for my poor English.)

[cursive tartan]

Yeah but for some reason Unity wasn't letting me adjust the key frames of each animation, I figured it out, thanks for your help.

[ivory star]

Hello, guys! I am making a first-person horror game and I think you have seen in horror games, where character has a waking up animation at the beginning of the game. I really don't know how to make it. Any help?

[hybrid tinsel]

Account for transitions, they will tend to reduce the total motion range.

[zinc blade]

I've got a button with an animator/animations on it. Inside the button, I have some objects that are created dynamically, and I can't be sure how many there will be. I want to animate those child objects as part of the root animation. The only thing I can think to do is to have nested animators, and then fire events from the root animation that I listen to in c# and then tell the children which animation to play, but I feel like there might be a more elegant way? Anyone have a solution for this?

[high spire]

ive been having some trouble with animation and blend trees and haven't been able to find the solution online.

i have an enemy that follows a path and it changes the animation to which direction its facing, but on death i send it to a second blend tree and it doesn't face the correct direction. instead it only faces up.

[velvet shuttle]

okay so I got a weird issue
i want to attach 2 meshes together
one is a cloth
the other is just a cube
and in blender it works perfectly
but in unity, the top of the cape wont stick to the back of the cube

[hybrid tinsel]

By cloth you mean a skinnedmeshrenderer using unity cloth? Have you set constraints?

[hybrid tinsel]

How are you setting the orientation?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you animate hidden placeholder objects and use those to drive the children?

[hallow pilot]

hejo, im animation a scrolling texture on an opbject and i want it to loop constandly, when i make the curves linair the animation stops working

[high spire]

i have a variable to hold the direction which works fine in changing when they walk but it doesn't work after i change to the ondead blend tree

the onmousedown is simulating the projectile hitting the enemy which i haven't coded in yet.

[hybrid tinsel]

Define 'stops working'

[hallow pilot]

it stops scrolling

with the curves not linar it scrolls but stops in the middle than goes back i want it to scroll continous

[hybrid tinsel]

So does the death blend have direction parameters that match the locomotion one?

[high spire]

yes, its the same exact setup

[high spire]

nevermind, i just figured it out when i was examining every aspect of the blend trees. the 2d simple directional was set to x-x instead of x-y. but this leads me to a second question when you have the time

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, that'll do it

[high spire]

i want to destroy the enemy when it dies, but the animation attempts to play again for half a second before destroying. I want it to destroy as soon as the animation finishes but it just feels off

[hybrid tinsel]

Disable looping for that clip?

[high spire]

i had no idea that was an option, i'll try. thank you

[high spire]

didn't work but setting the animation event to one frame earlier worked

[hallow pilot]

it stops scrolling when i play the scene

[rustic dust]

thank you Your help was very helpful. I was able to get more spins by trying that method. But it still rotates about 10 degrees less. Do you know how to find the remaining rotations?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, you could check the angle and subtract it from the angle you wanted?

[rustic dust]

sorry. I think I said something wrong. What I'm saying is that it rotates close to the target rotation value, but still doesn't rotate completely.
Do you know of any additional methods?

It's okay if you don't know. Your answer has already helped me a lot. Thank you so much.

[hybrid tinsel]

You could look into using https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TargetMatching.html

[fresh furnace]

i need some help when ever my animator is enabled the jump isnt high enough but when my animator is disabled the player is able to jump as it was scripted (im using playmaker to make the player jump )why is that is there any issue with my animation (im using mixamo animation)

[neon vale]

Friends, hello!
Why is it that when I use a mask in animator (humanoid animation), my top part rotates 45 degrees to the side?

[near fox]

Question regarding blend trees and jumping animations with AnimatorControllers.

Assuming that if the character is idle and jumping, they bend both knees and jump with both legs at the same time.

But if the character is running, it looks janky even with the AnimatorController doing the blending for them to kind of plant both feet and then both legs push off and raise at the same time. So I'm assuming we'd need a "running jump" animation.

But how do people handle which foot they took off with? are people scripting and using events to track which foot is planted and then play a different animation depending on that? or are people kind of cheating it with quick blends and maybe trimming part of the animation of jumping off at the front in hopes to get it to look "ok"?

[agile solstice]

Usually cheating
If jump velocity change is instant, then the animation blend should look fine as instant as well, and then you might not notice if it's the right or wrong foot

You can have a mirrored jump to alternate with depending on which leg is frontmost, but that might not be necessary
Depends on how accurate you need it

[fringe nova]

Multi-Parent Constraint does not work well
Hello friends and thank you for your help! I have done all the steps correctly as far as I think, which is clear in the photos, but as you can see in the video, it works very badly and I don’t know the reason.

[agile solstice]

I can't spot any issue immediately, but in my experience these tend to be a result of constraint order
Iirc the rigs are evaluated top-down in hieararchy order, so something may be affecting the arm position after the gun has been moved to them

[fringe nova]

Exactly, I guess the same thing. But I changed the order and it didn't solve again!

[velvet shuttle]

I added a cape to my model, and for some reason the physics makes it go through the rest of the body

lemme send the inspector

nvm i fixed it

[twin surge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3173062409

Hello guys.
Is there a way to achive something like this?
I want to have my ragdolls somehow have an animation, and interact with the environment at the same time.

Like imagin there is an animation that if played, will make the charachter either go through world geometry, or make the character float when on slopes or stairs, now i want to apply physics to it to get rid of those issues.

[agile solstice]

The same techniques used there should work in unity just as well

[twin surge]

So ig what you are telling me is to decompile their lua code right?

[agile solstice]

Lua is not compiled so I believe you can just look at it

[twin surge]

I meant the gma addon file

You get the idea

[agile solstice]

I'm not familiar with gmod addon files

[twin surge]

Im not sure ill be able to understand the code since i havent written mod addons but ill give it a shot

[agile solstice]

I expect the technique here is first to swap the animated character to a ragdoll and transfer the animated limb velocity to ragdoll limb velocity, then continue to apply the animation's movements as torque to ragdoll's joints

[twin surge]

I already have something like that, but i want the animation and physics to be applied at the same time

[agile solstice]

That's what the torque part does

The animation keyframes that turn the limbs must be interpreted and applied as torque
Animation and physics are conflicting systems because on their own they override transform values

[red bramble]

Is there any way I can bake just XZ rotation into a humanoid animation?

I'm currently ignoring the rotation entirely (it's not baked in, and I ignore it in my root motion handler)

I realized that this is making my animations look really weird, because the character's hips are rotating incorrectly

I want to be able to apply the Y-axis rotation so that the character turns from side to side

But I don't want XZ root rotation. I'd like that to be baked into the animation.

[hybrid scroll]

I need help wihthsome basic animation. I have a free asset that has idle walk attack jump that’s kinda stuff but it’s a png with multiple pictures in the png. I have tried to find tutorials and ask ChatGPT but I haven’t had any luck. I have tried to drag it into the animation controller but it won’t let me. It does have the like type as 2d an ui. I can put it into the hierarchy but it shows all pictures of the animation. Can anyone help me or tell me a good YouTube video. Pretty please 🙏

[agile solstice]

Dragging a sprite asset into the animation timeline is a shortcut to overriding the gameobject's sprite renderer's sprite reference
But for that you do need a sprite renderer on the gameobject you're animating

[ripe shore]

is it OnStateMachineExit or OnStateExit if you want a trigger on exiting the current state?

[agile solstice]

Just off the top of my head I would expect that OnStateExit is for exiting the state, OnStateMachineExit is for exiting the state machine

[agile hull]

hey guys, is there a way to control the progress of an animation through script?

say I want the animation to be at the start when the script value is -1, at the end when the script value is 1, and in the middle when the script value is 0

and scrub through it depending on the script value

[agile hull]

got it ! https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState-normalizedTime.html

[honest sapphire]

So am I right in saying that unity provides really nice to use muscle groups and set up stuff if you want to configure/preview a rig, but you have no access to any of that for recording an animation?

[jovial seal]

how do I make an animation belong to a certain gameobject?

I have many, many animations on this gameobject and all of its children, so scrolling down slowly to create a new clip when I need to create multiple is going to be mind numbing

I created some clips in the file view, but I can't drag any sprites into it obviously because it doesn't belong to any gameobject

[gritty temple]

Hi all how's it going? Complete unity noob here looking how to learn to rig and animate in unity. Have some experience doing the same in blender already I just wanna see what it's like in Unity. What are some good resources/tutorials to get started?

[ripe shore]

lol yeah that's a head scratcher

mecanim is a state machine so maybe that gets triggered when leaving a blender

[hybrid tinsel]

Correct.

[hybrid tinsel]

Onstatemachineexit is for when evaluating an exit node of a substate machine.

[ripe shore]

I see, I've never gone this deep. thx

[lean kindle]

I've got a blend tree here for a few hand animations, I have only two parameters. "Grip" and "Trigger" which can make me pull my hand open, pinch, put out a finger gun, or a fist. For example, I would like to add a thumbs up. Where their fist is closed, and the "APressure" is set to 1. How would I go about doing that, adding antoher parameter and animation like that?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

In the end game it would look like

If all values 0 then open hand
If grip and everything else is 0 we'd be doing a finger gun
If grip and trigger is 1 and apressure is 0 we'd be doing a thumbs up
If grip, trigger, apressure are all 1 we'd do a fist

stuff like that

I wish there was a 3d cartesian so you could have infinite parameters

[jovial seal]

nvm i found out how just drag it in the animator controller

is all my animations supposed to exist as a state in there though? because i really dont need them to, i just need them to exist so i can override it via code at runtime to replace certain animations with others

[peak jasper]

Hello, I would like to try and experiment a bit with locomotion animations. I am interested in trying out running animations with quick turns but i am not sure how you would handle the logic properly.
For example the character runs forward and the player changes the move direction to almost 180° in the opposite direction it would play a quick turn animation. I just don't know how to make sure the direction is properly linked up

[trail iron]

Hey, im trying to work with the sprite resolver. I have it set up like this with the animation set to "broken" and both tangets set to "constant". However the little orange thing I want to animate seems to be changing every frame instead of over the time of the animation. You can see this in the video. I want it too move at the same speed as the little guy. I have the animation speed set to 1. Why is this happening and do you have any ideas how to fix it?

How I set up the resolver is at the end of the video

[vague crane]

Hey everyone, I am trying to make my first animation mod for a game based on Unity 2020.3 and have imported a model of a mech with a few animations and got them working using a blendtree but am currently trying to figure out if it is possible to separate out the mech into a top and bottom with a player controlled pitch and bearing (basically a turret to rotate the torso above it) joint in the middle of the hierarchy at the torso but also retain the animation for the torso. Currently I have got the joint working fine but at the cost of everything beyond that point reverting to its rest position and losing any animated movement. (The gif below is the entire animation before the joint is added and I lose the torso animation.)

[hybrid tinsel]

Not knowing anything about the game, hard to say what would be supported.

[zealous elm]

This looks good to me tho

[vague crane]

Ah, not really knowing anything on the subject I assumed it would be a mostly universal system of yes you can or no you can't. The game in question is Ravenfield though.

[agile solstice]

This is not a server for modding because mod related challenges are different from game development ones

[vague crane]

That is fair, so far the only issues I have run into for it being a game mod and not just a random unity editor playground project that I am throwing together is CS scripting which makes sense and so I would avoid asking for scripting help here because of it. As for this animation, 95% of it is just running on an animator, rigidbody and generic gameobject components so I was hoping that if I could get some generic unity editor knowledge that it could still be applicable in this case and that I would just have to pick and choose what implementations are viable for me to use.

[agile solstice]

Could be, might not be

[tough zinc]

Has anyone got any tips for animating something of this shape? He's almost impossible to work with and it doesn't help that I've got no idea what I'm doing lol. The way I've got him set up just doesn't look "natural"

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, it is a giant robot with a drill for a todger, how natural were you hoping for?

If it is meant to be supported by the arms, then you probably want to shift the center of mass more tiwards whichever one us supporting it (basically treating the arms like hips)

Generally speaking, you'll want to give motions anticipation and follow through.

[tough zinc]

LOL, I know saying natural doesn't make sense but I can't get it to move like a robot would, it's going to be supported by a magic gravity well which I haven't set up yet.

[hybrid tinsel]

Maybe reference marionettes

Is that vr? Maybe you can try controlling it directly and recording yourself.

[hybrid scroll]

Is there a good video on how to use sprite sheets and use the animation

[stuck sable]

I have a weird question. If all you want is for one rig to imitate the animation of another, without that rig having animation components itself, is there a good way to handle that, or will you have to essentially make a duplicate object with complete rig and animations, and do it that way?

[hybrid tinsel]

Without an animator? You can just use a script to directly copy the transforms each frame after the animator updates.

[twin musk]

probably asked a billion times, is there any software for mocap that doesn't require a bodysuit?

Probably not hahaha.

Anyways, what's a good paid version of mixamo for gamedevs (that definitely doesnt require royalties)?

[agile solstice]

I hear modern iphones have some such apps, enabled by the particular camera technology they use

[twin musk]

What “particular camera technology”?

Man you making this conversation sound like I’m trying to buy drugs on the street corner 💀

🤣🤣🤣

[agile solstice]

I don't know precisely, and I don't care for Apple products, but from what I've been told that's the reason why there are considerably more and better of those options there compared to competitors

[tough zinc]

It is, but I wouldn't really know how to do something like that 😅

[whole bone]

Is there any possibility to make humanoid "root motion" move actually based on root instead of hips, spine or whatever it's moving with?

Cuz as it is now the root is moving in a line in blender but in unity it's swaying left and right cuz character's weight needs to shift from one leg to another as it lifts the other one
And it's infuriating as my root is perfectly straight but unity's root motion keeps pushing it from side to side and over time it sways to left site cuz there is prolly microscopic difference between right and left weight shift

[hybrid tinsel]

Clip settings, change root transform position 'based on'

It defaults to the calculated center of mass(that us usually the hips)

[whole bone]

Nah, I always got it set to "original"
That and other settings too usually

What's funny is that when character jumps or however else transposes in Y axis the root is on the ground when set to Original
However X and Z axis would rather use hips as reference

[whole bone]

When same settings are applied to a generic rig with the "Root node" set to the root in the Rig panel the animation plays as intended

[trail iron]

I just wanted to ask this again, It seems as though only the the frames with the resolver are playing really fast.

[somber smelt]

Hello ! can someone explain me why when I try to change the pose of new bones every changements I made get reseted ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it a humanoid rig?

[tough orchid]

The animator keeps on being on the transition between the Idle State and Any State, without fully reaching the idle state. How do I make it fully reach the idle state?

[somber smelt]

hello, yes it is

[hybrid tinsel]

Then you can't directly set keyframes for the humanoid avatar's transforms due to a stupid arbitrary restriction.

[smoky dirge]

How does one cycle animations on a single input press so for instance. If i press left click it does attack1 but I want it do attack1, than press left click again attack2, and etc. It would reset after a certain time has passed?

[hybrid tinsel]

The way I do it is just to have an int that increments every time, and then reset it after a bit. Then use that int in your transition conditions to determine which transition to use.

[hybrid tinsel]

By not using anystate, or by disabling transition to self.

[past pond]

BGRO

SOMEBODY HELP ME PLSSSS

IM LOSING MY MIND

animations are so hard for me

[hybrid tinsel]

Losing your mind is an important step of learning animation.

[past pond]

[tranquil quail]

How on earth do i 'fix' humanoid animations in timeline? My character is set to humanoid rig, created from itself., I make an animation and go to keyframe on the timeline, just a blink blendshape currently, and my character is in that broken position of muscle madness. How do i override this, or deal with it, or find a better way, or not throw Unity out the window?

i assume there must be a guide that i am just not aware of

i own FinalIK, Puppet3D and Bones Assistant. looking into those now. a little shocked at the state of this. i hope it is just my lack of understanding.

[tranquil quail]

A Unity made video about how to work with humanoid animations in Unity. It is a quick overview, but.. This has a free PDF guide book in the description, by Unity and Pete Jepson. just posted a couple weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lRq6-BVcw

[hybrid tinsel]

So many workarounds because they just refuse to let you edit humanoid animations directly.

[hybrid tinsel]

Nothing broken there, and the video you linked actually shows two ways to fix it; layered animations and editing a duplicated animation to add blendshape tracks. The 'broken position' is just the humanoid default pose for when there is no animation.

I personally prefer to use a custom timeline track to directly control blend shapes though, unless they are actually part of an animation.

[tranquil quail]

i am about 10 minutes into my Unity Animation journey, so it will take me a bit to catch up 🙂 Thanks for the info

[tough orchid]

What should I use instead of anystate? I still want the transition to occur from any state

[glad grail]

are playables better than the animator?

[hybrid tinsel]

That's like asking if ammo is better than a gun

[idle horizon]

I'm using this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVEI36F-bj8) to try and put Guardian (BoTW) legs onto my VRChat avatar and animate them with Final IK, but the front and back pairs of legs are giving me a ton of isssues.

They seem to be stretching out way too far, and the front right and back right legs keep trying to swap places. I would ask in the Final IK discord but that seems extremely inactive, and I asked in the discord of the guy who made the script for this tutorial and he doesn't know what's wrong.

[vapid spindle]

Hi i just need some help with smth. So every time when I try to import my character file from blender to unity it is fine but once I apply the rig to it in unity is suddenly gets a problem called Error (bone name) is not an ancestor of (bone name) I've searched for forums that may know the answer but not a lot of them where very helpful

how would I fix this

[fleet flume]

it seems to want to tell you to make upper_arm 003 a parent of upper_arm 004 (I see it's not parented in the hierarchy). Or if it's already parented, use the "connected" property of the bone.

idk that would be my guess

Hi!, I have a specific problem that I can't find the answer to online. My model is set up so that the green detection box is in front of him. However, when I enter play mode, the animation origin point seems to push him forward and into the ground, messing up the detection box placement. Any ideas on how to fix this?

• the animations aren't mine and exporting from Unity to Blender messes them up
• tried baking the XZ into the pose on the anim, but it didn't seem to do anything

[orchid forge]

have you tried separating your dog gameobject into multiple objects - one responsible for the model and animation, and the other holding the detection box?
for example this is my Player prefab with clearly separated visuals, so that animation doesn't mess up anything else about the object

[fleet flume]

The visuals in the asset seem to be separated nicely, so I haven't considered that might be an issue. I managed to solve it by uniformly moving the animation curves back on the Z axis. Seems to work fine, I'll see if anything breaks, but ty for the answer

[orchid forge]

Is there a way to avoid using Animation Events, in order to sync up the animation with the rest of the game?
For example, I have a "cast spell" animation and I want the spell to appear exactly on the right frame. I want to avoid using Animation Events because they break easily (as soon as a method name is changed during refactor).

How is everyone else solving this and syncing their animations? Is everyone really using Animation Events for that or is there a better way?

[vapid spindle]

Thx

Man

[dim patrol]

How do I detect when an animation has ended in a Unity Animator?

The net has lots of suggestions, none seem to work.
The biggest one is putting Animation Events at the end of animation clips, but there's 100s of posts about some unity hiccup fuckaround causing Animation Events to be skipped an ignored. I cannot have that.
I need 100% uptime 100% reliable 'Hey my animation clip is done.'

'OnStateExit' doesnt work because it doesnt exit the state when the animation is done.
I am surprised there is no OnAnimationClipComplete type callback

=
the best worst idea I have is running getting the length of the clip its about to play and then on update running time += time.deltatime cocurrent with the animation

but this is a hideous hack, what I really want is just 'on animation end' subscribe event method, except that doesnt appear to exist.

How does anyone run code when an animation finishes?

[uncut salmon]

People do exactly that, or use a coroutine and wait the duration of the animation.

Or you can use WaitUntil within the coroutine to track the actual state of the animation:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WaitUntil.html

(Scroll down the comments to see the example)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/t7ykam/how_do_i_wait_for_my_animation_to_finish_to_call/

[twin musk]

I have a question about the video player (especially regarding 2D animation). How good is it for many animated scenes? I have concerns regarding how it manages memory compared to something like being able to preload and unload audio or even sprite animation.

[agile solstice]

Video player is not really at all like sprite animation
Are you animating a character or playing a video?

[twin musk]

so the game operates like a visual novel so it has many short videos that make it up

[agile solstice]

Since you know the size of each video you would need, you can predict very accurately in advance how much data you need

Whether memory is a problem will depend how big your videos are and what your target device can handle
But I don't know of many devices that can't store and play quite a bit of video in their native resolution

[twin musk]

my main question is how do the videoplayers handle the memory? I originally assumed it would operate like the audio system where you can choose to load and unload the files but it doesnt seem like I have that much control

if im switching different videos on a single player I want to make sure its not going to just persist in memory

[agile solstice]

There's the video profiler that should help verifying what's happening
According to this Stop() method will clear the video player's allocated resource
Additionally this tutorial suggests Addressables and their methods to control resource allocation
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/loading-and-unloading-a-360-video#
I haven't used Addressables but from what I hear they're the most convenient way to handle resource persistence

[twin musk]

ok thats good news. thanks for the help!

[vapid spindle]

hi guys I need help for this error. So every time I import my model into unity and apply the rig this animation keep poping up every time how to fix this thanks

[nova dagger]

I don't know where to put this but why is scene tilted

[tranquil quail]

Can i select a Keyframe at 1 and a Keyframe at some distance from that, say 10 and have Unity add Interpolation Keyframes automatically, so i can edit them?

It is a simple animation. i am just controlling the Rotation of a GameObject at this point

[nova dagger]

you just want to smoothly rotate something is what I'm guessing

[tranquil quail]

No, it had to do with refresh of realtime lighting. i was rotating the sun, and the realtime calcs did not keep up. i had to Bake realtime textures, and that issue was fixed. I basically ended up doing something completely different, and got it working, but i am still curious if there is a one click way to add interpolated keyframes, at each keyframe, instead of having to manually click where i want them, for all of them

[nova dagger]

you said realtime lighting like a day/night cycle

[tranquil quail]

yes., but the question is about adding the keyframes, in general, that are already interpolated by unity. basically, just adding them to make them editable, and doing this with a single click. instead of manually having to enter a keyframe at every point i want it

[nova dagger]

Not sure if you can do that I do all of my rotations with auto rotate

I place a key with rotation 0 on which ever axis I want then make the end frame increasingly larger numbers in sets of 360 degrees depending on how fast I want it and also the longer the animation the larger the number needs to be to hold that speed

[tranquil quail]

I understand, thank you. What i am looking for is more a utility thing for reference than something to solve an issue i am having at the moment. for example, in Cascadeur, it is a single click, then every keyframe is populated by data that was already interpolated, just not shown as keyframes that are editable. I thank you for the information though! it is after 3 am here, so i am done for the night. Be well!

[nova dagger]

you as well good night

[granite raft]

yo... so i imported a .fbx model (with an animation) from blender to unity, but i cannot for the life of me get the animation to play. the animation plays just fine in the animation preview, the animator seems to be playing it fine while the game is running, but still no animation

[acoustic hollow]

Why doesn't add property appear in the animation section?

[granite raft]

pretty sure my problem was because i was unpacking my model after adding it to the scene because after trying a fresh version it worked (until i tried to unpack it)

[hybrid tinsel]

Could write s script to do it, but would probably not be faster if you only need it once =p

[hexed marsh]

Hey there, I was wondering if there is any way to animate the cell size of a grid component on a gameobject? I wanted to make a cool little animation where a scroll unrolls itself by increasing the y cell size but it doesn't seem like I can edit that in an animation, so I was wondering if I'm missing something or if I should use a script to do that.

[hexed marsh]

Also I was looking through the docs and it seems like I can't even change the grid cell size through code, so I'm a bit stumped with what I should do.

[heady forum]

Okay some I'm trying to animate for 2D and this is what it looks like, I know it's kinda stiff but that's what my artist is providing rn, what I wanna fix or know how to do, is whenever I face another direction that isn't down, I want it to idle that way, but wherever it move it always faces down, and I tried adding the other idle animations and putting them in the right place for the blend tree, but it still not working so, idk if it's my coding or something else

[agile solstice]

The blend tree plays whichever animation the parameters dictate it to
If your code does not store the direction the character last moved in, it will have to reset to default at 0 speed

[heady forum]

how would i write that coding to store the direction the character last moved ?

[agile solstice]

#💻┃code-beginner

[tranquil quail]

Is there a way to do this from Blender, or is this a Maya/expensive software thing only? Import constraints, i mean

[tranquil quail]

Well, that was almost a heart-attack. I took the character model i have been working on for a Very long time. Put it in this project i am doing the Animation Tutorial with. (downloaded from Unity Learn) We get to the point where the course says, 'and we left you three slots to play with! load in your own animation if you want' So, i dug through some animations i had and got a dance one. put it on my character and watched it deform terribly. I mean, clavicle to shoulder was like separate things. no effect over multiple bones. I thought for sure i had really screwed up my weight painting and was going to have to redo everything. Or that it was incompatible with Unity Humanoid. Or that my tricky partial subdivisions around curves were an issue, or who knows!. Well, it turns out, for some unknown reason (maybe they mention it later in the course) they had this project set to 2 bone influence only :/ I set it to unlimited (4 was probably fine) and everything started working. Heart attack narrowly avoided!

[vast sigil]

Where is the problem? As you can see the characters transform position is changing if I keep quick blending through the walk animations. All of them are set to Baked Upon (Original)

[gray talon]

Yes. Idk why unity does 2 by default when it's standard for games to use 4

[devout wraith]

I'm thinking about setting the camera as a child of the head bone, do you guys think that's good practice or should I go for a simulated headbob?

[steady delta]

howdy yall
im trying to animate a 3d model and dread animating in blender itself
would unity or a similar software be a better option for a beginner animator ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Maya, unless you write an exporter

[tranquil quail]

Shoot. i figured. Ok, thanks

[topaz fractal]

If I want my character to be able to aim, should I make an aiming animation or should I make some type of interpolation between the 2 pose in unity ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Generally bad practice, just because animated heads tend to flail a lot =p

[hybrid tinsel]

Animating in unity is viable but I'd not call it the beginner's option.

[steady delta]

any recommendations? @hybrid tinsel

[hybrid tinsel]

Nope. I'm a masochist who uses unity =p

[lucid geyser]

I am having this problem with one arm that keeps flicking weirdly.

I dont know what happening.

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you using ik?

[lucid geyser]

Yes

I am making a fishing game and this character is just for prototyping the later versions

[hybrid tinsel]

It looks like the pole position for the ik is flipping.

[lucid geyser]

This just apeared

its from the rig effect overlay scripts

That must be something right?

[hybrid tinsel]

Could be. Might not be relevant. Hard to tell.

[torpid delta]

I'm thinking about to learn to create 2D Top Down and Side view/Platformer/Metoridvania games to understand more of Unity, UI and practicing my drawing skills. But i have a question... For the animations i know there is Puppet rigs and Frame by Frame animations but i would like to hear your opinions and your experiences with these animation methods for your 2D Hand Drawn games?

[round storm]

is there a way to save cutscenes made with timelines?

like it doesnt reset when i reload the scene

[compact pecan]

you need to add a flag when the cutscene is played to ensure that it plays only once

[round storm]

how?

[round storm]

what even are flags lol

[compact pecan]

boolean

[round storm]

and how do i add these flags to the timeline?

[compact pecan]

Go take a Unity/C# course. You can't make anything with this level of skills. Learn the basics first. Games aren't made by asking people around

[round storm]

just answer my question

[uncut salmon]

You don't

You use code to track these things. Then act on it logically.

Such as checking if your isCinematicComplete bool is true or false before deciding whether to play the cinematic.

[round storm]

but wouldnt isCinematicComplete reset when reloading the scene?

[uncut salmon]

Yes, which is why you would save that data in whatever save data structure you have for your game.

[round storm]

oh okay, thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Even when using puppets, I often use flipbooks for bodyparts that need to actually change, usually eyes/mouth.

[crimson delta]

Does anyone know where to find a simple animation of holding a sword, having it rest on your shoulder?

[tranquil quail]

This is a snippet from the new Animation book by Unity. Either i am not awake yet, or this is confusing at best.

Seems like they are crossing Generic with Humanoid. Here, it sounds like they are saying the in Generic, the curves are mapped to Muscle space., while AFAIK, that is describing Humanoid

"... normalized muscle space -> ,in Humanoid" would make more sense to me

but, i am most likely just not awake yet, so grain of salt.

[hybrid tinsel]

Seems right to me. The sentences are separate.

[tranquil quail]

Timeline animation influence does not go away when deleted. closing and reloading project is required. this is a major bug to me, that i cannot yet even formulate how to explain properly. (It could also be me missing a 'save scene' somewhere in the chain

[ornate gyro]

how long is this because im getting confused

[violet rampart]

Is there a way to hide some of these properties

When I want to animate the hand I want to animate the hand, I shouldn't be forced to look at keyframes from every single body part at the same time lol

[tranquil quail]

I seem to be able to break Multi-Aim Constraint by setting the Min and Max limits less than 90, and putting the aim target behind the 'player'

Correction - i seem to be able to break it without much effort at all :/

It is a quirk. IDK if they will consider it a bug. I do. In this scenario, i have a timeline that runs when i press play. During the time this Timeline is running, the MAC works fine., i can move the target around in Scene viewport, and the players head looks at it, and stops at set limits when the Target goes behind Player. When the Timeline finishes, the MAC loses its limit settings, or ignores them, and the players head starts flopping around in any direction that is the easiest for it.

no.. that was an illusion. it works if it feels like it, and doesn't if it doesn't. I feel like i am back in Unreal :/

[tranquil quail]

It kinda sorta almost functions as expected. I am going to keep going, and figure once it is all together, it will work properly

[tranquil quail]

You cannot use more than one MAC on an object. there is no way to control a difference between look Up and Down limits. I am going to go as far as to say, i do not think this is ready for production use. I will have to try with 'old fashioned' IK techniques (Once i figure out how) 😁

[agile solstice]

Are you certain you can't use multiple? Afaik you can have as many rig constraints as you want, and hierarchy order of the rig gameobjects dictates their order of evaluation
Usually that's not necessary, since multi-aim constraint already allows you to configure as many aim targets as you want

[tranquil quail]

well, the goal here is to limit the head Up, vs head Down. I have very limited control over the angles limits, and it applies to All axis at once, it seems. so i figured i'd put three MACs controlling the Head, and have each control a different limit, but it told me that i can only have one on the gameobject. Now that you say that though, i will create a couple more gameobjects an give it a try 🙂 Thanks

Lol! Ok! well, that stops it from 'wigging out'. now i have some robotic jumps that i need to figure out, but that is better. to be honest, i find the need to do that a bit silly. all of those individual control/limits should have been designed into a single Multi-Aim-Constraint Component, in my opinion., and plea. Thank you, that is a step better 🙂

[stray pewter]

hi, ive seen one answer online for this question that i cant figure out why it wont also work for me, or rather even just how i can make it work for this method..

i have a puppet rig that i imported into my project as a psb file. i am trying to change the order of the pieces mid-animation, and a solution that i thought would work was using the z layer. however i tried and it didnt work, due to the pieces already having a number set for "order in layer" that i cant change because they are all greyed out, and they increment by one over each other. is there another obvious solution im missing?

to be clearer, normally the arms of my character's body are placed behind it, but for some animations i want the arms to move in front of the body, yet setting the Z to something else doesnt change it at all due to the order in layer set presumably by unity upon import

[stray pewter]

OH I GOT IT my issue was that you cant change the order in layer from the asset itself, it has to be in the animation, oopsies am a lil dumb and still learning how to use the animator

[rough seal]

hi, i'm trying to make my player set it's frame depending on it's direction and speed. but i want that a spin animation to be prioritized

i did it like this and tried messing around with the interruptions and whatever

but it's very

bad

the spin animation plays successfully only like half the time

[agile solstice]

Any State transitions are treated as highest priority overrides
It's not recommended to use them in excess, or at all if you can avoid it
Since you have directional animations, it might be most convenient to lay them out into a blend tree

[rough seal]

aren't blend trees for 3d animations?

[agile solstice]

They are for blending animation clips of any kind by one or two variables

[rough seal]

ah

[agile solstice]

I expect you would only need one variable in this case, since a blend tree allows you to specify multiple animations between the expected minimum and maximum of the parameter

[rough seal]

that's really useful i've just been using conditions this entire time

i dunno why i thought they were only for 3d

[agile solstice]

If I understand your use case correctly, your vertical speed parameter could go from -1 to 1, with positives for up and negatives for down, with the second down/up clips at -0.5 and 0.5

Direction would be implied

[rough seal]

ok thanks

[woven valley]

hello everyone! sry if this is the wrong channel.
so im making a sidescroller in 2d. i found some awsome assets in the assets store and they came in with animation (like each character came with like 6 assets for walking, 6 for death animations, etc). i NEVER touched 2d games in unity and im relativly a beginner so i dont know too much. i really need help to connect these sprites into full animations and then trigger those animations thourgh a script. can anyone please help?

[tranquil quail]

best bet is to go through the stuff on !learn first. then you can ask specific questions if something goes wrong

[dusk vale]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[woven valley]

ill check it out

is there a name for what im trying to do? or should i just search "animations" and scroll until i find something

nvm i found just what i was looking for. thanks!

so in the tutorial when the instructor opens the animator he has a "base layer" but when i open it i see "list is empty"

and i cant seem to create a new layer...

btw this is the guide i was following. i skipped to step 7 cuz the assets i downloaded already had up to step 6. step 8 is where the the problom is.
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-sprite-animations#5fa66921edbc2a0020bcaae2

[woven valley]

found the problom! i had no animator controller

i didnt find a guide explaining the animator controller or how to start animations via scripts

[agile solstice]

https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g?t=1076 from timelink to chapter starting at 21:11

[elfin summit]

Literally one accomplishment i made for my first coding experience :,)

[clear citrus]

Hey Guys! I want to export a 2D animation to GIF file, how can I do this? I want to put this animation into my portifolio

[uncut salmon]

Unity has a Recorder package that can output various animation types, including gifs

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.recorder@2.0/manual/RecorderGif.html

[clear citrus]

but it includes the transparent background?

[uncut salmon]

I haven't tried it with gifs, so I don't know

[tranquil quail]

Am i doing this correctly? I have a Character. I have separate clothing, rigged to the same Skeleton, but separate FBXs. I have them all assigned to use the Character Avatar, and the Character Anim Controller. This all works fine, but i had to create an Animator on each Clothing mesh/prefab/gameobject thing. Is this how it is done? I am not going the monolithic FBX/Prefab where you hide and show things as needed. they will be a bit more separate than that. In Unreal, i just used a Master Pose Component, and all the children clothing would follow the Character Body.

[spring rover]

Hi! I need to reparent some animations, but other animations need to keep targeting the now-children. Is there a straightforward way to do this? I don't see an option to replace one rotator by another for example?

Or should I just split it up. Keep the swing in "Paddle" and put the flip on "PaddleHolder"? Can two animators communicate with each other?

(the holder is there such that I'm able to "mirror" the paddle along the pivot point and keep it mirrored while keeping the other animations on paddle the same. Is there a better way to do this?)

[modest delta]

Hey, i was wondering how games handle the attacks that are directing the movement to the enemies, are they using root motion for those forward attacks or just via script? Or maybe neither?

• current stage: character uses 2 forward slashes and auto target does have the transform of the enemy, how do i synchronize animations / positions?

Do i just do some kind of rigidbody interpolation or just make it RM, im lost

Video of the current stage of the goblin

I do have in place anim and RM anim for that attack animation

[agile solstice]

Animators are kinda expensive (but also performant in what they do), and since you already have one doing the heavy lifting of interpolating keyframes to transform values, I'd look into a script to pass the transform values from the main armature to clothing armatures
Or one that parents each clothing bone under a corresponding body bone, if interspersing the hierarchy like that is allowed
Parenting should be very cheap, and I expect copying transforms should be cheaper than having multiple animators
But you'd have to test it
I don't know if there's a straightforward correct way of doing rigged clothing

[agile solstice]

To keep an animator as reusable as possible you'd only animate generic transforms that can hold other more specific gameobjects
Since you can't make local overrides to animation clips, only to gameobjects

Animators don't need to communicate with each other, as long as whatever you use to control the animator controls both of them

[agile solstice]

Root motion is one such method to allow movement to match the animation

Not using root motion usually has you match animation to movement, instead

Both have their own advantages

[modest delta]

So if i aim more at the arpg aspect of combat which one you think will suit better?

I ve read a lot about them, but when it comes to production (real games) usage I couldn't find a lot

[agile solstice]

They're not tied to any genre

It looks like you already have animations that are intended to be used with root motion

[modest delta]

The animations i have does have Both options

They have one for in place, so i can do the enemy snapping via code and the rm

[agile solstice]

If the enemy position and motion needs to be strictly controlled from code, then root motion animations can be detrimental

[modest delta]

After our discussion, i think i will try to recreate the rm behaviour with just movement

I think i don't need that precise animation

[spring rover]

Ah that makes sense. So when I make the animations, I just place them on an empty object (or one that contains a placeholder sprite just to get an idea) to get the transforms etc. right. Then, when I want to use it, how do I assign (an instance of?) this animation to my e.g. sword swing?

[agile solstice]

Hmm could you rephrase the question or explain more about the setup in question

[spring rover]

So one animation in question is the sword swing: simply rotating a 2D sprite by 45 degrees but also along other planes such that it looks skewed a bit. Furthermore, it should move around the collider a bit (physics must be animated). This can be generic, i.e. ideally I'd be able to apply the same swing to a short sword and a long sword etc.

Another animation is "flipping the sword" from a right handed to a left handed position, essentially just mirrorring it. From that point on the swing animation ofc should also be mirrored

Here's a reference of the swinging

[keen hazel]

I have some issues with setting up animation rigging on my humanoid character. This is the current setup: On the root character object I have an animator that uses a 2D blend tree to transition between two animations (idle and sneaking), the animator is setup to use an avatar, which I've gotten from the synty polygon city asset pack. I now want to utilize some IK, in order for the character to be able to aim a gun and look a certain direction. This is where animation rigging comes in. So I simply tried slapping the rig builder and multi-aim constraint onto this character in hopes it would just work, but unfurtunately it didn't.

Anyone got a clue as to why this is? All help is much appreciated 😄

[keen hazel]

Ah, I managed to fix the issue. In the source objects on the multi-aim contraint, the target slider was 0, changing this to 1 fixed the issue

[agile solstice]

With these types of animations you usually only animate the transforms, and parent the sprite or any visual gameobjects under them

That way the visuals can be swapped without the animator caring about it at all

Though if the animator also needs to swap the sprite or change its properties that's trickier and there's no direct way to make that modular

[spring rover]

That's acceptable

[agile solstice]

It's probably not too difficult to make a component that can swap sprites (or other properties) of the sprite renderers from predefined arrays, and animate that component instead of the sprite renderer directly

[spring rover]

So I pretty much animate the transforms of an Empty object which just has a transform. And then if I want my sword object to be animated by that I just put it as a child of that Empty object, right?

[agile solstice]

Or alternatively make an edited copy of the animation clip for each weapon, and utilize the animator controller override component to keep the state machine while swapping the clips within

[agile solstice]

Yes, that's most convenient

[spring rover]

I won't have enough weapons that need a unique animation I think

at most it'll be like, unique particles or something

[spring rover]

And then for the particles I'd use something like this

I think the path is clear in my mind thanks for the help

[agile solstice]

Note that the animator looks for gameobjects, the components and their properties by explicit name
Which means you can swap the instances within, and it'll still work if the properties animated are generic enough to be useful with separate components

[spring rover]

Yeah but it won't work if you i.e. shift things one parent down

[agile solstice]

For example even if the particle effects were different, but had the same name and location in hierarchy, and you only had to control the emission property you could reuse the animator while swapping the component

[spring rover]

ah yes!

[agile solstice]

Animation events are also useful, they can call public methods on any component on the same gameobject as the animator (which does restrict their use a bit without a script to pass the info around the hierarchy)

With particle systems I think you could call Play() and Stop() from events
But if you have a script between you can have any kind of method at all

[agile solstice]

Good luck, ask away if there's more uncertainty

[spring rover]

Yep I've used those before, they're nice

[runic frigate]

Hello everyone !

I'm trying to do something that I think is very simplewith the animator but I somehow can't find a solution online, and blendtrees don't work quite as expected and are harder to control, plus don't fit my use case

• Say I have animation A (slow walk) and animation B (normal walk), both similar but of different lengths, both can transition into each other
• I want that when one transitions to the other, it stays at the same percentage of the animation
• So if A is 60% complete when transitioning, I want B to start at 60% of its animation timeline
• But right now, no matter what I try, either they always start all over again after each transition, or I can set a transition offset and duration that don't quite work since they are of different length

[tranquil quail]

Ok, thank you. I will start the adventure then 🙂 honestly, i am glad (still sad though) to hear you say that it is not a straightforward thing. i thought i was missing something obvious.

[tranquil quail]

@agile solstice I did the Bone Follower script route. it has a strange jump at the first frame, as the clothing realizes it's supposed to be doing something, but then works perfectly. Thank you 🙂

[agile solstice]

Since it should act after the animator, you may want to run the method in LateUpdate (or set it after it in script execution order)

[agile solstice]

It's possible I've missed something obvious, certainly

[tranquil quail]

I think you are fine, it is just my implementation, and the fact i am running a quick test after start. we'll have to see how it acts in actual gameplay, instead of a delay by start introduced. that will take a while though

For what it is worth, CGPT, without prompting, came to the same conclusion. Use a bone follower script 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

That is literally the point of blendtrees, though the ideal would be to have both with the same duration and modulate the animation speed.

[tranquil quail]

Is there a reason that Duplicate is not an option in the Context menu of the Animation in the Project, but ctrl-d works?

[uncut salmon]

@grand cobalt We don't allow discussions of asset ripping/pirating here, including the tools used.

[jagged patio]

how do i make an animation go in stages? like i want and entire part to move and then a smaller part that was apart of the entire to move a little later

[grand cobalt]

Well where do you talk about this stuff?

[uncut salmon]

Why is the immediate question whenever we tell people it doesn't belong here? I don't know where, but it's not on this server.

[stray pewter]

when a (skeletal/puppet rig) character goes into an animation, lets say i wanted particle effects tied to the character’s position. do those effects have to be in the sprite sheet?

[cinder crown]

Hey guys, workin on a plant game and I cant find anything about animation for things like plants. It seems like I can manipulate game objects and animate them in blender, but even then i cant ADD mesh during an animation. I dont know how id make a seed grow into a full blown plant. Is there somethin im not seeing?

I went as far as L-systems coded in unity, geo nodes to get the flow in blender, and then Meshsync to get a pseudo-look alike to what id like to see. But now its down to the brass tacks and things need to start looking nice and flow between animations

[agile solstice]

There's usually very limited benefit to using keyframe animation for procedurally changing meshes like growing plants, rather you'd program their motion with code or use physics for it

Usually growing plant systems use individual repeated segments for simplicity and optimization
But it's also possible to create any mesh fully procedurally directly from code, which is how the geometry nodes ultimately work

[hot thorn]

Hello Guys does anyone know how I keep the position of a Gameobject after the animation so when I for example swipe down the current playbutton goes down and another play button comes from the top when I now click on this button und after playing go back to the menue the original button still remains there and I have to swipe down again. I tried several things with "apply root motion" and PlayerPrefs till scriptable objects but I did not found a good solution

[agile solstice]

Are you asking how to make the animation transition to a resting state, or how to keep persistent data between scenes, or something else?
Those two are different problems, and your three solutions don't really have much to do with either nor each other

[hot thorn]

I actually don't know I play the animation by swiping down and the button comes down this state should be persistent after the scene change so when I come back to the Menue I do not have to swipe down again

[agile solstice]

To keep an object in its new position after an animation moves it there, the animation should transition to a state where the object idles at the new position
That's step 1
Then to store this state between scenes you need to write that to something that persists between scenes, perhaps an object marked as Don't Destroy On Load (such as the singleton pattern), or an object in an additional scene that remains loaded while you unload scenes besides it, or in a public variable in a static class

Then when the button is loaded in a script will read that variable and set the button's state to match

To store the button state between game sessions that's a different challenge, but from your description it doesn't seem necessary

[hot thorn]

Oh I see I will try that thanks so much

[small token]

guys why there ıs no model material

what can ı do for fıx

fırst tıme ı tryıng to ımport a model ın there

[agile solstice]

If the textures are embedded in the mesh, you will have to extract textures using the "extract textures" button in mesh import settings
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[hot thorn]

its working now thanks alot

[small token]

thank you <3

[eager sorrel]

Is there any sort of "gold standard" for character facial shape keys / blend shapes? I'm seeing wildly different practices in reference material. E.g. some have a snapshot of the whole face in each shape key (e.g. there will be a sad shape key, angry, afraid, etc). Some are more granular, like lip right up, nose right sneer, and eyelid left squint, combining the various shape keys to animate specific emotions. Or some control eyeball pointing with with shape keys instead of bones. I have placeholder characters right now, and I want to make sure that when I make temporary facial expressions I don't do it in a "bad" way that is wholly incompatible with the final characters later. Or, in lack of a gold standard, what are the pros/cons of each option? E.g. I plan to have multiple face variants for characters (there is a character creator with various options). Maybe one is easier to replicate across a larger number of faces?

[agile solstice]

Advantage of shape key expressions are precise control, disadvantage is lack of modularity and the limited ability to combine different expressions, or expressions and speech or eye-related motion
An alternative to that would be to rig parts of the face to many bones, which has the advantage of being very modular and scriptable, but disadvantage of requiring a lot of complex rigging work to get there

[jagged patio]

i dont want 2 to move until 1 finishes moving but it does, how do i make it 1 go and then 2 goes

[stray pewter]

how many bones is too many to expect good performance for the skeletal rigs? im pushing 50+ for just one character in 2d and there are plans to have several characters at once on the screen

[stray pewter]

if theyre two separate objects, the keyframes need to not be on the same frame for the two parts (ie two keyframes for part 1 to start and finish moving, and a keyframe for part 2 to start on the same frame part 1 finishes, as well as a final keyframe for 2 to stop moving)

[vale ridge]

is it possible to colorize animation event icons based on the methods they call to? natively or with an editor script?
currently having more than 10 becomes hard to edit
especially for enemy animations where there's lots of audio and logic events scattered around

[cursive ledge]

So i have 3 layers:
Character (base Layer)
Weapon
Shadow

So when weapon and shadow layer weights are 1, the character becomes invisible. And if i put no weight, I cant see weapon. And if i try to reduce the weight of weapon, weapon is not visible and character is visible but its not performing any animations, its only sliding. And character animation only shows when im moving, and when im not moving it should be in idle position but character goes invisible.

I am also using Animator Override Controller.

Im not able to blend layers

[pallid mortar]

can anyone help me on making animations of coins?

i want to make them shine & rotate

but I am kinda struggling

[celest crag]

Looking up animation tutorials would be a good starting point. This channel is for questions about Unity animation systems.

[pallid mortar]

ok thanks 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

As long as you're using burst, 50 or so is entirely reasonable.

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure what your logic is; if you want them all playing, you should have all full weight with a mask.

I don't understand why they are separate animations at all, though.

[topaz fractal]

because I have 2 separate rigs, how i am supposed to do? I just have to export everything in fbx ? or should I export the gun and the arms in 2 separates .fbx? and in unity, will I have 2 different Animator ?

[topaz fractal]

I tried to export all at one but it didn't work really well, because all animation don't export

[formal sparrow]

I found a free model i downloaded fbx and went to mixamo for animating but there is no texture in that so i manually added textures in scene window but i cannot manage the animations texture how can i handle it can anyone help me bout it

[pallid mortar]

I made it but is this good enough?

[shadow obsidian]

The blue one is quite jerky, which is more noticeable next to the gold one which is much smoother

[graceful stream]

Is there a way for a blend tree to only affect certain p artsof an animation? ie. a parameter increasing will only play the animation for the hand instead of the whole arm or something like that

[gray talon]

Eyeball tracking with blend shapes instead of bones is a bit wild and I wouldn't recommend it. I've recently used shape keys to create very simple but effective cartoony facial rig with 22 blendshapes (mostly scattered to left and right sides), it isn't super accurate but it can achieve a lot, and it's fun to use since it's driven by bones.

On the other side you can use a mix of bone transform with addition of blend shapes for correction, these are very useful with mouth movements for example. But as said before, not easy to set up.

[pallid mortar]

they are the same GIF. except for the colour

I made the yellow one first and just changed the colour and made the blue one

[velvet geyser]

Any of you guys use StateMachineBehaviours often? I'm making one, but I can't get OnStateIK() to run. There's only one animation layer, and it has 'IK Pass' enabled.

[fresh orchid]

hello i have made my first animation but i dont understand why my anim start a long time after i move 😦 someone can help me

[pallid mortar]

so how should I improve it?

[topaz fractal]

why all my animations doesn't export, in blender I have a lot of animation but when I export in .fbx in unity I only get few of them

[fierce ravine]

Hey ! could anyone help.. I have created a fade clip of 2 seconds in which initally its set to 1 then at 1 sec. sets to 0 then againn after 1 sec sets to 1 again... I added a trigger too like i want if player score then this clip animates .. but right now its sets on loop ig exit time and all in that there is issue can anyone help.. in default state its nothing ..

[agile solstice]

walk is set to happen only at the end of idle because the walk is so far to the right, and because Has Exit Time is enabled

[fierce ravine]

could u help me with mine one?

[agile solstice]

I am confused about what you are asking, or trying to do in the first place

The wording is very unclear to me and seems to be missing key information

[chilly viper]

are you trying to stop the loop?

[fresh orchid]

Hello its me again my animation work for horizontal movement but dont work for vertival movement why ?

[fierce ravine]

Just think like in a pong game either of players score so it should come on screen as player x scores... thats it So i tried Animation on my TextMeshPro and apply fade effect onto it ..my Animation Clip is properly working I m stucked with this Animation Controller one..

[fierce ravine]

well practically it should only shows just for 2 seconds so it means i have to stop it ig

[fierce ravine]

Just think like in a pong game either of players score so it should come on screen as player x scores... thats it So i tried Animation on my TextMeshPro and apply fade effect onto it ..my Animation Clip is properly working I m stucked with this Animation Controller one.. Hope u get it

[chilly viper]

i get what youre trying to do but i dont get what the problem is

[fierce ravine]

yeah so can u cross check my animation controller inspector ig onto it like some options exit time and transition durations and all can you check cuz what right now am getting is that animation clip in loop throughtout the game

i only want when a player scores so in script where player score is adding up i have add this animation part too..shall i show it too?

[chilly viper]

your transition duration is longer than the animation

btw this would be much simpler to do with code

[agile solstice]

Your second if statement of horizontal input overrides whatever the result of the first input of vertical input is

[chilly viper]

maybe dont add a transition time

[fierce ravine]

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class ScoreManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public TextMeshProUGUI scoreTextPlayer1;
public TextMeshProUGUI scoreTextPlayer2;
public GameObject scorePopupPrefab; // Prefab for score pop-up animation
public Transform canvasTransform; // Reference to the Canvas transform

private int scorePlayer1 = 0;
private int scorePlayer2 = 0;

public void Player1Scores()
{
    scorePlayer1++;
    scoreTextPlayer1.text = scorePlayer1.ToString();

    // Show a score pop-up animation
    ShowScorePopup("Player 1 Scores!", new Vector3(0, 100, 0)); // Adjust position as needed
}

public void Player2Scores()
{
    scorePlayer2++;
    scoreTextPlayer2.text = scorePlayer2.ToString();

    // Show a score pop-up animation
    ShowScorePopup("Player 2 Scores!", new Vector3(0, 100, 0)); // Adjust position as needed
}

void ShowScorePopup(string message, Vector3 position)
{
    GameObject popup = Instantiate(scorePopupPrefab, canvasTransform);
    TextMeshProUGUI popupText = popup.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    popupText.text = message;
    popup.transform.localPosition = position;

    // Trigger the animation
    Animator animator = popup.GetComponent<Animator>();
    if (animator != null)
    {
        animator.Play("ScorePopupAnimation");
    }

    Destroy(popup, 1.5f); // Destroy the pop-up after 1.5 seconds
}

} thats the script

[agile solstice]

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[agile solstice]

There might be a lot of conversations going on at once so we should make a thread for each

[chilly viper]

when i said code i meant this would be easier to do with coroutine

try removing the transition time and let the animation control the fade

[fierce ravine]

ohh yup that would be too i guess so but for now say for this .. and yeah thanks for the suggestion of that too..I havent tried much animation controller so thought of this as first

[chilly viper]

btw it looks you have a trigger in the second pic

[fierce ravine]

yeahh i have added a trigger

[chilly viper]

you dont need a trigger to go back to default state

[fierce ravine]

like only when it trigger then only it comes thinking like that

[agile solstice]

Please, a thread

[fierce ravine]

ohh okey btw one thing we cant use any animation like without default state ? even though my default state has nothing..

[fierce ravine]

sure

Animation Controller issue

[fresh orchid]

thank you 🙂

[agile solstice]

Also a pro tip
When showing animation issues through video, you have the opportunity to show a lot of useful information
You can have the Animator window open next to Game window with the character selected, so it displays exactly how parameters are changing and when transitions are running
It's additionally super useful to once click through all the transitions so we can see the Settings and Conditions, as the problem can often hide in any one of them

[hybrid tinsel]

Exit time will cause that kind of delay.

[fresh orchid]

ty

[agile solstice]

Correct me if I'm mistaken but isn't the delay in the transition in the form of offset between the blue bars
Exit Time would specify the transition to that specific time, rather than using it as a delay?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, a 'delay' in the sense of the original question.

[still geyser]

Hello, I have bought pose animation but is not made compatible with avatar I use, when testing the issue is coming on the feet. The avatar I try to use is more taller than the original was made this animation. They said it can be edit but probably I need to buy very animation? I was looking video tutorial how to edit and don’t find anything, I’m new on this. Appreciate any help please or if there any other option I can edit it?

[lapis ruin]

How do I properly copy keyframes from one animation clip into another? Whenever I do this for my generic rig the rotations mess up completely

[lethal violet]

anyone knows what to do? the animation from maxime i use in my project makes my chars hands and feet look all messed up as it theyre were broken and backwards

[lapis ruin]

so the original clip rotation looks like this, when entering preview the value changes but the result is the same

if I copy this keyframe into a new clip it turns into this

and the value does not change when entering preview

help plz?

[formal dirge]

can someone help m

my shooting animation inst always working

even tho it's conditino is met

[formal dirge]

oh i think i fixed it

made the solo thing correct

dk what that is but it worked

[drifting heron]

Question for anyone who has implemented an interaction animations (such as grappling or execution) system in Unity. I'm brainstorming a system/workflow for assigning and syncing ability caster and target animations, for a turn-based fantasy RPG. I have some ideas, but don't have all the answers yet, because I think the variety of target skeletons (small humanoids, big humanoids, dragons, spiders, etc) is going to make this considerably more complicated than if all casters and targets were humanoids of roughly the same shape, size, and limb count (where I could more easily use Unity's Timeline to choreograph every interaction. I haven't had a good experience getting good results with Animator Controller states and transitions in the past.)
For example, an ability animation that has the caster swinging their sword from the left, then swinging their sword from the right, and then swinging their sword from the center in an uppercut motion. The target, regardless of whether it's a ninja, or a spider, or a dragon, etc, will need to play its own hit-reaction-from-left animation, then a hit-reaction-from-right animation, then a hit-reaction-from-below animation.
In your own projects, how have you implemented synching ability/attack animations with a target's reaction animations? Of particular interest to me is if you have done this with an abstract system that accounts for animations of different types of character skeletons.

[nova dagger]

no but seriously how can I preview two separate animation clips at once without using play mode

like why can't I have one window above the other

[hybrid tinsel]

Timeline package?

[hybrid tinsel]

While nothing will beat having bespoke interactions for each creature, you can do a lot with IK targets and the like to adapt to different body shapes and types. For instance, having named empty transforms attached to the enemies, so you can use a script to search for those transforms and use them as IK targets during an animation.

[drifting heron]

That's an interesting suggestion, thank you 👍🏽

[nova dagger]

I don't have a clue how that works like why can't I do this

but I can only preview one

I need to be able to key frame as well

I can't hear audio when I preview a second clip also epilepsy warning

I figured out why that is

[merry moon]

Not sure where to put this but is there a way to move the sprite position in the animator?

The only position options i see are to move the entire player

[fresh orchid]

hello i have a question i have 2 audio mp3 . can i put them in the animator or do i need to script ?

[nova dagger]

Okay figured out how to get timeline working but it's still not quite what I need

[nova dagger]

did you make audio sources for them

[fresh orchid]

i will try

[nova dagger]

after you make audio sources you can then key them or any of the settings in them to toggle them on or off even make them gradually get louder as the time passes

you can change spread and distance as well all keyable

[fresh orchid]

i cant place

[nova dagger]

hit record key red circle

[fresh orchid]

i will try

[nova dagger]

also lock animation timeline

that way you can select other objects with out mistakenly clicking off of them

[fresh orchid]

dont work 😦

[nova dagger]

you want to toggle it on there right

[fresh orchid]

ye

i want play the song at the keyframe where is my mouse

[hybrid tinsel]

If you want to move the Sprite separately from the object it would need to be in its own child transform.

[merry moon]

Okay, so how would i go about doing that?

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd suggest playing it from a script and just triggering the script with an animation event

[nova dagger]

then record it being off at start

[fresh orchid]

ty

[hybrid tinsel]

You have the animator on a parent object and the sprite on a child.

Animator controls all child transforms that don't have their own animator.

[merry moon]

Oh okay, so would i take out the animator as a component for my player then?