🏃┃animation

[merry moon]

since its gonna be a child of the player rather than a component

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, the way I do it is to have the parent be the player, with any physics etc. Then have the sprite only there for visuals.

[merry moon]

Wait so the animator component would be attatched to the sprite child?

Like the sprite renderer and animator components would only go into the sprite child here right?

[hybrid tinsel]

No.

Put those on the player.

They can then control the child

[merry moon]

wait figured it out nvm thanks

[fresh orchid]

someone can tell me why my audiosources are not played ? (dont work in play mode too)

[elder vault]

Does anyone know how you're supposed to grab AnimationCurves from an AnimationClip? I need to bake it into a struct for something in my game and I'm unsure how to get the values. I tried using AnimationUtility.GetEditorCurve() with AnimationUtility.GetCurveBindings() but it returned a really big array which I think is giving me the curve for the animation motion itself (the bones and stuff) when all I want to get is the 3 named curves in my AnimationClip. Is this even possible?

[rough patrol]

how do i create a 2d curl up and rolling animation

[red rose]

Is there a way to avoid doing this and just match an animation to the rig

[fresh orchid]

someone can help me 🥲

[topaz fractal]

where do you call your void that play the sound ?

[topaz fractal]

why when the bool Aiming is true the Aiming animation work properly but when I uncheck the Aiming bool, the animation don't play ?

[fresh orchid]

On a script attach to my player

[topaz fractal]

c'est le script que t'as envoyé ? parce que dans ce script tu n'appelle jamais ton void qui joue le son

[red rose]

check your transition arrows if they have anything assigned

[fresh orchid]

j'utilise AudioSource.Play (oui c'est celui la)

[topaz fractal]

oui, m'ais t'as rien qui appelle tes void, genre t'as rien du style

Play_Audio_Pop();

[fresh orchid]

si dans l'animator avec la key event (le truc au dessus des autres key)

sur la deuxième image ont le voit

[topaz fractal]

what can be assigned to an arrow ? here is the inspector of my arrow between "IdleAim" and "UnAim"

[fresh orchid]

il faut faire une transition dans les deux sens comme sur la photo

[topaz fractal]

pourquoi ? parce que j'ai envie de faire mon animation que de la position de visée vers la position de base , pas dans l'autre sens

[fresh orchid]

ba tu prend l'aim tu le duplique et tu active le mirror

[topaz fractal]

bah je connaissait pas donc je vais pas trop pouvoir t'aider sry 😅

[topaz fractal]

pourquoi j'ai besoin d'un miror ? ça passe pas si j'ai fait 2 anim de transitions différentes ?

[fresh orchid]

en gros dans ton cas tu veux que quand aim est true alors la transition IdleNoAim se fassent pour aim puis tu met la meme transition qui passe de aim a idleAim et enfin si ton bool aim est false alors tu fais pareil mais dans le sens inverse

[fresh orchid]

si sa passe mais sa sera plus fluid d'inverser ta première animation

[topaz fractal]

genre comme ça ? (parce que la ça marche toujours pas xD)

[uncut salmon]

@fresh orchid @topaz fractal This is an english only server. You can take it to DMs if you wish.

[fresh orchid]

je pense que comme sa sa marche (NoAimIdle devra etre orange)

[fresh orchid]

srryy

[topaz fractal]

sry

[topaz fractal]

that litteraly what I've already done but it's not wotking like it skip the reverseAim animation

[fresh orchid]

can you show me your condition IdleAim --> UnAim

[topaz fractal]

I found what was the problem ! thx 😁

[fresh orchid]

ok

[fresh orchid]

goodluck 🙂

[topaz fractal]

I hope you will find a solution for your problem too 😁

[tranquil quail]

I have two different SkinnedMeshes, both using their own different skeleton, and, Humanoid Avatar. this works and allows rather good re-using. i am trying to find a way to re-target though, so i can then Export the Animation, as attached to my custom character. This will allow me to take the animation into animation software to fix minor details. I understand that i can edit the original animation on the original mesh, but that is not what i am looking for. I specifically want the Animation re-targeted and attached to my custom character mesh, and exportable this way, in FBX form.

I have tried some techniques from the Docs, but in the end, that just ended up exporting the root transform. Not All the bones

[hybrid tinsel]

You can just export the animations and apply them in unity with retargeting

[hybrid tinsel]

What have you tried?

[acoustic fable]

any reason why this isn't working? I've tried deleting th ewhole animotr + clips and making them again and it didn't work

[leaden ferry]

Hello! I am transitioning from an idle animation to another one using a trigger. How can I go back from the other animation to the idle one after it ends?

[hybrid tinsel]

Just have a transition back that uses exit time

[topaz fractal]

hello ! is there a way to call a void when an animation starts? for exemple call a void that handle the shooting sound and the shell ejection of my gun when this animation is played ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes. You can either add animation events to the animation clip, or add a state machine behavior script to the state.

[topaz fractal]

ok thx 😁

[solid girder]

Hey is there any 3d artist here?

[topaz fractal]

yes why ? (not professional but still over 3000h of blender xD )

[merry moon]

Why is it that when he flips to the left one of the frames shifts him out of place?

[shadow obsidian]

Tons. Best to just ask what you need

[topaz fractal]

do you know why I can't play and add animation event to my animation ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Pivot in the wrong place?

[hybrid tinsel]

It is read only; either make a duplicate to edit or add events through the importer.

[topaz fractal]

I duplicate the animation but I can't edit it

[hybrid tinsel]

I don't see 'read only' there, are you sure you can't edit it?

[topaz fractal]

oh you're right, I can add animation event! but why I can't play the aniamtion or click on "Scene" to see the thing that are hide under it ?

[topaz fractal]

why does my animator event look like this and not like on every tutorial on Youtube ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Dunno, that looks normal to me

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have it added to the animator and the object selected?

[topaz fractal]

the UI change for the Animation Event in the inspector ?

[topaz fractal]

thx it worked ! 😁 I can now play the animations !

[topaz fractal]

you make my Animation Event work at the same time ! THX ! 🤩

[hybrid tinsel]

The two versions of the ui do the exact same thing; one requires choosing the function before entering a value.

[topaz fractal]

Ohh Ok I see !

[vernal grotto]

I want to make a 2d video game so bad but animating 2d pixel arts is very hard for me. Should i dive into 3d stuff?

[topaz fractal]

if you're not good at 3d modeling it won't be easier

but in both case you can find a lot of free stuff to make game without having to draw or make 3d model

[cloud spade]

Can someone help me? I have to sync two rig's animations to the point where one rig is always synced to the other. What I mean is that I have weapons I want to have animated with my arms, but I am having issues with keeping them synced. I presume that I just need to have both animation controllers use the exact same transition times and settings, but I want to know if there is a better, simpler solution to my problem.

I keep getting results in my searches that do not help whatsoever, so I thought that I'd ask on a few forums/servers

[brazen plume]

What advice would you guys have for making a horde of zombies feel a bit more natural in how they interact with each other? The way I have it now thet just kinda stand around each other politely idling and walking in a little bundle keeping their social distance and it feels a bit wrong.

[hybrid tinsel]

I suppose it depends on how you're controlling them. You can have their animations change based on proximity in all sorts of ways.

[brazen plume]

They all walk along the same path since its tower defense but there's a bit of randomization in their movement. Only thing I can really think of for proximity is that they can have a chance to be pushed over and ragdoll but that feel a little unnatural in practice.

[red rose]

Is there a way to change the width/height with DOTween?

I'm 9splicing so I don't want to tween via scale

[sonic flower]

guys, how can i fix this? looks weird

[tranquil quail]

Quite a few things I do not really recall. you said "You can just export the animations and apply them in unity with retargeting" can you point me to a doc or something that demonstrates this?

[thick orbit]

@lime socket related to your question here:
#💻┃unity-talk message

Animators can only animate the properties of objects that are children, or attached to the animator component itself.

[lime socket]

Right, so if the model I am animating is a child, I can still target it if the animator is on the parent?

My brain is wired to godot atm where you'd just signal upward

Like the parent has the attack methods and stuff, so I need to have the animator trigger those

[thick orbit]

You cannot do it directly.

HOWEVER, I think that you can move the animator from the model to the parent it will still work

This is your current setup, right?
MyPlayerPrefabNoAnimator
------ThePlayerModelWithAnimator

[lime socket]

yeah, it's just like I want to move the model too without affecting the colliders

so having the model on the parent wouldnt work

it needs to be controller -> visuals

[thick orbit]

I don't remember 100%, but I think the Animator is actually a bit cheeky, and if you move it to the parent, it will actually animate the children as if it was there.

[lime socket]

yeah, let me mess around with it more I guess. I don't usually use animation events and do it all in code, but since I'm adding forces to my attacks it makes it easier to time

[thick orbit]

Try moving the animator from the model to the controller, and see if it works, I think the animator does a search on the child objects to search for the "correct root" if the current object isn't correct

If that does not work, here's what you can do:

Ah.

If you need, do the following

[lime socket]

The fallback I can think of is delegates from child to parent

[thick orbit]

Yeah that's what I was gonna suggest.

Or the child just sends the animation event itself upwards

[lime socket]

hopefully not cause I got a lot of methods lol

[thick orbit]

Are you using "OnAnimationEvent"?

[lime socket]

Uh, was just going to use the property accessor from the timeline

[thick orbit]

Lemme do a quick test here cuz I also don't remember 1 sec

[lime socket]

there's both animation events and property accessing

Seems like the delegates are the idea

or bi-directional references

[thick orbit]

Yeah, so, you can animate the properties directly on the timeline, or you can send events.
You can invoke a set of events based on their signatures.

[lime socket]

there's no actual 'target' property on the animator controller. It seems to only affect the game object it's on.

[thick orbit]

Yeah, it only affects the object it's on

You mentioned you had a lot of methods right?

[lime socket]

Eh, like a addforce, and specific hitbox activations

[thick orbit]

if it helps

You can try to setup the "next" attack data when entering an animator state

But you'd still have to send it up the chain one way or another when the animation event triggers

[lime socket]

yeah I got the info when it starts and when it ends, it's mostly the data of when the animation is at a point is where I need the timeline information

of course I can just manually resolve it per clip

too much of a pain ;)

Was using godot on my previous project and you can pretty much reference anything on the prefab for the events

[thick orbit]

The way I did a simple melee mockup a while back was (going off by memory):

Sword has a trigger colider.
Animation turns on/off the sword colliders etc.
Sword receives "OnTriggerEnter" from physics, and sends it to the controller.
Controller has an information of current "AttackMotionData" which contains the damage multiplier, knockback forces etc etc

AnimatorStates have a "StateAttackMotionData" StateMachineBehaviour, that when it receives OnEnter, it tells the controller it has been entered, and tells it what's the AttackMotionData that it contains.

The StateAttackMotionData is either setup in the AnimationState itself (inspector), or the AnimationAttackMotionData has a string identifier that I type in the inspector that the controller uses to find the correct states and sets the data itself using Animator.GetBehaviours on Awake.

[lime socket]

Yeah, but the take away here is you do need that middle man script to relay that information upwards. I was just seeing if I could do it on the editor but doesn't seem that possible which is odd.

Thing too is that Unity does encourage you to stick visuals as children

[thick orbit]

Yeah. But do try placing the animator on the parent

I think it animates the children properly even if the "root" is different

unless they changed the behaviour, cuz I remember years back adding an animated character as a children of a controller, and just moving the animator up and it just working™

[lime socket]

Ah, maybe you're right. Problem too is I'm not sure of the whole force implementation but maybe I'm overthinking it

It's like I want to move the model locally sometimes, and sometimes I want to move the whole object.

[lime socket]

but it does seem like I can just target the child object and move that alone

[sonic flower]

how to solve this problem

the player's body takes a strange turn.

[lime socket]

you need to add some 2D blend strafing to your animator
Ah, actually just calculate angles from your forward direction, and anything beyond 90 or -90 you'd rotate your character towards

[thick orbit]

Are you using root motion?

Cuz if you are you can manually animate the child with the root motion the parent receives in the uh... onanimatormove callback?

[lime socket]

you can probably just calculate angles and use lookat if you don't care about stiffness

[thick orbit]

anyway, chores, best of luck~

[cloud zealot]

Using animation rigging package for IK stuff and for some unknown reason it has decided to set the default position of my bones?

I have this ball robot that extends it's legs like so.

I achieve this without manually animating the bones in Unity by animating the weight of the rig, but it's now set the default position of the bones to the open position so setting the weight of the rig component doesn't work

does anyone know what caused this? It's basically impossible to manually get the bones back into their original position so I have to redo everything and I don't want to redo everything just for this to happen again

is it because of write defaults or something? The only thing that was animated was the weight of the rig component.

[tranquil quail]

I have a bone that i want to scale based on another bones rotation from Rest. I am currently using a simple script, but i was wondering if there is a more 'built-in' way to do this. perhaps within the animator

[tepid pollen]

It has some swag not gonna lie

[quartz warren]

Seems like you want to mask the top half of your model

So the legs aren't affected

[tepid pollen]

How could I attain it?

It worked out of the box on a deprecated project

[quartz warren]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationLayers.html
You can create the Avatar Mask to only affect the chest/hands/arms

[tepid pollen]

yep

worked

thank you so much!!

genius

[quartz warren]

Glad to help

[tepid pollen]

Hmm, I just realised that only it's hands move

Rest of the body is static, kinda looks like an airbaloon man lmao

But I'll head to bed now I guess

[quartz warren]

Blend the layer weights to make it feel more natural

[twin musk]

hahaha I love being stuck on this.. I'm trying to make some poses for my hands with blend trees. I've got my hand fully extended out in an animation named "Idle" should this only be frame 0? Should the other ones besides "Idle" consist of 2 frames, 1 being idle and 1 being the animation I'm trying to pose it in? Or will it all just be 0 frames.. I setup all my animations and tried it out and the blend tree refused to actually move any of the joints.

[agile solstice]

I wonder what you mean by "will it be 0 frames" in this context
The blend tree's function is to blend animation clips together, it doesn't alter the keyframes within in any way
Your poses/animations will have just as many keyframes as you author them to have

If the animation clips won't work when played solo in their own state, they won't work in a blend tree either

[twin musk]

Oh well yeah nevermind I'd need 2 frames?
It's built to be a hand in vr, meaning I only really have to make a position. So like

1. Idle Animation (hand is flat)
2. Fist Animation (hand is clenched)
3. Finger point Animation (hand is clenched with pointer finger extended)

So on so forth. The animations I think should only have one frame, because the blend tree would just motion through it based on how much pressure is put on the triggers or grips or if the a button is pressed. Do I have to end up making certain animation changes? Like fist to thumbs up or can it all just be frame 1 being open hand and frame 2 being the position. Does that cause issues if I'm already having my hand clenched and I try to put my thumb up?

Or would it just be 1 frame?

[agile solstice]

In this situation you would have a one-frame animation for each pose

[twin musk]

I know the thumb looks janky I was just trying to get an example but is this how I'd do it? Or do I need to like create a new keyframe for all the bones er?

[agile solstice]

Looks like the correct process

[twin musk]

Okay so right now I have it set to be

If left clicking & right clicking = 1/1 we do a thumbs up
If both are at 0 = 0/0 we do idle which is open hand

I want to make it so if you are doing a fist, and "J" is pressed it will put your thumb down and cause a fist. How could I do that, there is no "3D Cartesian graph" do I have to do something with more blendtrees?

I'll be converting it to use the oculus grip and trigger and j button later just making sure I can do it this way so I don't have to deal with putting the headset on and off over and over

[agile solstice]

Well, you can have a more than 4 motions in a 2D blend tree to blend between, but you start running into the issue that there's no direct blend between each pair of motions that would not cross over a third motion, or cross over the center first
The workarounds are to have blend trees of blend trees, or blend trees on separate animation layers but you would need some extra code to micromanage the weights to make sure you aren't partially blending to a previous motion by accident

[twin musk]

Yeah the issue isn't the lack of motion it's the lack of parameters

Okay I'll look into doing a blend tree ontop of it

[agile solstice]

Perhaps a simpler option at that point would be to make them separate animation states that you blend between using animation transitions, rather than a blend tree

Since hand gestures can change rapidly, you'll want to make sure you understand transition interruptions and have them set up correctly in that scenario
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/unlocking-unity-animator-s-interruption-full-power

[raw token]

im beginning with pixelart could someone pls just give tips on how to improve YT creepy7677 thats where I got all the vids

[agile solstice]

If you want guidance, you'll need to ask about a specific issue you are facing rather than just advertising your channel

[raw token]

I wanted help on the gradient on things how I could make it look better

[agile solstice]

You still need to explain the issue

[raw token]

that the overall picture does not look like it belongs all together

its like some things are not mixing in

the backwalls and stuff

[agile solstice]

That does not sound like an animation issue, or one for any of the channels
The server is meant for issues related to Unity, not art in general

[raw token]

oh sorry

I thought this was art related

[neat nimbus]

I'm importing some animation made from blender into unity, most of them are ported from mixamo, and some are then edited using animation layer.
I've noticed that somehow in few animations ported when ported on unity they dont work, tending to go fully or partially in T pose

Any idea on how can I solve this? I've found nothing similar

[wary sundial]

could anyone help me figure out why im getting weird deformations when i try and change the root node for a model import from blender

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, most third party tools give you a lot more... well, tools to use. But doing it in unity can be good if you have specific needs and especially if you are good at writing your own tools.

[arctic sparrow]

Why Configure Avatar button not showing up? Is this because the error? How you fix this error?

There is a bone for 'LeftLowerLeg' but unity says it missing..

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, but it isn't named what the avatar is expecting. You'd have to open up the avatar and put the right bone there

[arctic sparrow]

Yes, but there is no Configure Avatar button.

[hybrid tinsel]

...yeah there is

It's right in the screenshot you shared

[arctic sparrow]

This image. after click configure, there is no button here to show the bones in Editor

This is my editor when I click Configure button from Rig inspector

This is from different FBX, as you can see there is Configure Button there that when I click, it will show the configuration screen

Like this right? But this is not the case for my other FBX that I ask earlier. The thing is, both FBX have same rig.

[waxen siren]

Okay

[twin musk]

Not sure if this falls under this channel. Is there a way to seemlessly transition videos in Unity with the VideoPlayer? I am trying to sequence 2D animations with it, but it always has a stutter before the next video starts.

[topaz fractal]

Hello, I've made this shooting animation , but as you can see the firerate is not really fast, so I wonder how can I make FullAutoShooting ?(the gun I'm using shoot 10rounds/s in full auto)

[agile solstice]

You can make a transition from a state back to itself for rapidly replaying it

[topaz fractal]

oh thx! I tried and it work ! 🤩

[muted stream]

Guys is there a way to use animations made in Adobe animate in unity?

[vast sigil]

Is there other websites to get free animations than Mixamo? Anims there doesn't seem to work with my character

[hybrid tinsel]

If mixamo animations don't work, you might have trouble with any generic animation files... might be worth looking into what the issue is, to at least know what you need.

[hybrid tinsel]

Convert them to a video file or a sprite sheet, usually.

[lapis gull]

Heya! I'm not sure where to ask this but I'm running into a hiccup.
Im importing a cod model+animation in a unity game but I noticed there's A LOT of these weird jittering issues, in blender it looks fine!
I've tried disabling animation compression, I've tried disabling all animation optimization in blender, I tried all the tricks I can find but no avail sadly, and with me being EXTREMELY new to unity, I dont even know where to begin.

What I have noticed is when the right hand has animations that moves further out, thats when the jittering gets worse, I'm sure its due to the fact that the gun's root bone is parented to the right hand (Both gun and hand is the same bones actually, just how it works for cod animations)

[twin musk]

Ah yes... Average hand animation system or just me

[solemn burrow]

Hi everyone,

I'm facing an issue with the scale of a character in my Unity project. When I adjust the Scale Factor in the import settings, the character's arms, legs, and neck get stretched and look weird. I want to keep the scale in the scene at 1, so adjusting it there isn't a solution for me. I've also checked the rig and animation settings, but the problem persists.

Has anyone experienced a similar issue or can provide any guidance on how to fix this?

Thank you in advance for your help!!!

[topaz fractal]

how did you exported your caracter from blender to unity ?

[rotund hollow]

Hey, I've been trying to figure out 2d rigging using Animation2D and all of the examples I've seen are using a sprite that's rigged for 1 direction. In the case of having a character who moves up, down, left, right would I need to have a separate rig for each one of these? and also how is this typically handled in Animator?

[agile solstice]

There's sprite swapping to swap the appearance of the character while keeping the skeleton
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@10.0/manual/SpriteSwapLanding.html

The technique is often used for faking 3D rotations of body parts of a 2D rigged character

But if your character seems entirely different when facing up/down vs horizontally, it may be simpler to just make a different rig to swap to altogether

Animator has animation layers, including synced layers, and the Animator Override Controller component to swap animation clips of an animator while keeping the state machine

For example if you want the animator to keep swapping states according to input, but swap the motions based on turn direction, either with the synced layers or override controllers

[topaz fractal]

did you export the gun and the arm in one file ?

try to put Simplify at 0 instead of 1

[frank holly]

no i export gun and arms separately

[frank holly]

i wont work :/

[topaz fractal]

ok , I got a question, because I am making a fps to, but I didn't manage to export both separatly due to the constraint I put in blender and also do you have 2 different animator in unity ?

[frank holly]

probably unity cant detect child of constraint in blender

[topaz fractal]

Yes if you put constraint in blender, they disapear in Unity

[topaz fractal]

try to bake your animation in blender

[frank holly]

i tried but nothing changed :/

[topaz fractal]

I've got the same type of problem so I exported my gun and my arms in one file, I know it's not the best way and the most professional one , but now at least it work .

[tranquil quail]

Is there any way to get finer grained control of the Muscle Slider on the Humanoid Rigs?

I understand i can adjust the limits, but i mean, for example, the Arm Down-Up the slightest movement of the mouse makes it move too far

I thought there are saveable settings?

[hard glacier]

Does anyone know of any tutorials on how I can create an animation in Procreate Dreams and use the animation inside Unity 2D?

[strong mantle]

Hey guys! I am a beginner developer and am currently trying to add animations to my 3D character, I have already created an animator, assigned it to the character and before the scene starts everything looks cool, but after the start all the animations for some reason seem to fly up a little, although the collider is on that same place. I've been trying to solve the problem for an hour now. Has anyone encountered this?
Below are screenshots before and after the launch of the scene, and animation in the inspector (animation separately from the animator and animation in the animator)

[strong mantle]

I fixed it, nvm

[vernal grotto]

Is 3d animation easier if i can t draw to save my life?

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on why you can't draw. If you have, like, issues with fine motor control then animation may be easier physically.

[clear gorge]

getting no errors with import and my rig seems fine (used rigify) but entering the "muscles and settings" tab does this to my character. What's the deal?

unless rigify just doesn't export properly for this humanoid system, which is probably the case

[agile solstice]

Rigify rigs are not intended for realtime use (or any export), as far as I know
There's a lot of issues even trying to export generic rigs

[clear gorge]

wtf is rigify for then

damn

in that case, how can I keep all the hours of weight painting that I did while ditching the rigify part?

[agile solstice]

for animating inside blender

[clear gorge]

gross

I mean I plan to animate in blender

I just need it to work as a unity humanoid for stuff like inverse kinematics

[sonic flower]

How can I solve this back breaking problem?

[agile solstice]

You have some options
Data Transfer modifier can move weight painting data from the DEF bones to a different armature that has matching vertex groups
There's the GameRig tool that can has anologuous Rigify rigs with a correct hierarchy so they can be exported, but this one has not been maintained and only works in a bit of an older version of Blender
There's also Game Rig Tools which is proprietary but should support the newest Blender, also right now as part of a charity bundle
Either of them might have some utility to convert an existing Rigidy rig to a Game Rig but I don't recall that with certainty

[agile solstice]

Depends how you vision it to be solved

[sonic flower]

I have no idea how to solve it so I need help 😿

Do you have any ideas on how I can solve it? @agile solstice

[agile solstice]

First you'd have to decide if you want to rotate the lower body to match the aiming direction, or even out the twist of the upper body to face the aiming direction without changing lower body orientation

[sonic flower]

I want the lower body to rotate, but I also want the character's head and upper body to follow the weapon, can I do that?

[agile solstice]

I don't see why not

[bleak scroll]

Hey all, I'm currently making a "multi-item" (can swap weapons) equipment system using 2D sprites imported from Aseprite, currently I am using animator override controllers which override base animator controller logic (for example: a "Magic Sword" would be an override controller of "Sword" and replace all the respective animation clips inside to that of the equivalent "Magic Sword" animations). However, in my current logic I am using/planning on using animation events to tell my player's Statemachine that the attack is over, and to change states back to idle. However, my issue now is that since the override controller cannot seem to persist the animation events on the override controller (since they are a component of the animation clip themselves), I would need to then add animation events to every single item's animation clips which would be very tedious, and I am just wondering if anyone knows of a way I could circumvent this and either have animation events be linked directly to the base animator controller, or if there would be a clean way of alerting the player script, when an animation is over without events at all. Any tips or help would be appreciated, I'm still quite new to Unity's animator and would love to hear what you all would recommend, thanks!

As a concept would this work efficiently?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can use StateMachineBehaviour scripts instead of animation events, perhaps?

[bleak scroll]

Yes maybe, I'll have a look into those. Thanks!

[vernal grotto]

All my pixel art animations look bad

My mind can t deal with the different colors and positions

[lunar whale]

hello im running into an issue with the split bone tool, no matter what i press it just doesn't want to work

all im trying to do is familiarise myself with the usage of these tools, by trying to split the lower arm bone to create a bone for the hands, however it doesnt do anything when using the tool

i should be able to move the bones with the preview pose tool, but that doesnt work, im confused on what im missing thats causing the issue

[lunar whale]

none of the bone tools work apart from just creating a bone and im completely lost

[clear gorge]

I just ditched rigify and restarted entirely but ty

This is personal preference kind of question, but which hand do you guys parent weapons to? Left or right?

[hybrid tinsel]

What version?

[lunar whale]

@hybrid tinsel 2022.3.5f1

[topaz fractal]

do you know why sometime my reload animation is playing twice, and how can I fix it ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Sorry, I meant 2d package version. That package seems to get buggy updates a lot

I stopped updating it a while back

[lunar whale]

the psb and 2d animator packages?

ill check them now

the PSD importer is 8.0.2

2D animation is 9.0.3

@hybrid tinsel are those the 2 you were talking about

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not at home right now to check which versions have known issues

Though you could check the forum I guess

[lunar whale]

if you end up finding something out could you let me know pls? i suck wth forums and the like, id appreciate it a lot!

[hybrid tinsel]

...ah yeah, the forums moved

[bleak scroll]

Does a transition wait for the animation to finish playing if a transition condition is met?

I am getting a strange issue where my animation is looping through around a hundred times a second, and I suspect it may because I have a StateMachineBehaviour script which sets "active" to false every time it enters which may be cutting the animation off and looping it.

[devout lantern]

Hi. Is there a way to get the instance of Avatar that the AnimationClip was imported with? Editor only way is okay.

I'm trying to make a tool to assign animations to component properties quicker.

[lunar whale]

do you know how to manually change the packages versions?

[tranquil quail]

probably ask #archived-code-general

[devout lantern]

Thanks, I started there and was sent here, but I found the solution now

[shadow obsidian]

I sent them here because it is related to animation. Code related to animation is fine here

[tranquil quail]

I actually thought i was in the General Chat. forgot i deposited myself here to ask a question! 🙂

[shadow obsidian]

I keep doing that too haha

[tough orchid]

In a blender model, I have an animation that changes the rotation. location, and scaling of the model. When I export this as an FBX to unity, the animation includes rotation and location of the original animation, but not the scaling. How do I include the scaling in the animation.

Here are the export settings:

And here is the animation settings:

[crimson delta]

If animations I build in Unity make my character slide around a bit, like the feet, do i need to be enabling Bake Into Pose , or changing the Based Upon setting for the animation in Unity?

like I export them to another program and the character kind of slides the feet around a bit, they're not really grounded as they do the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on if an exit time is set

[hybrid tinsel]

You can choose the installed version in package manager

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it set to humanoid?

[tough orchid]

Yes

[hybrid tinsel]

Then scale is ignored

For a Humanoid all keys are converted to muscles.

[bleak scroll]

I figured out the issue, my exit time wasn't set however my script was setting the active parameter to true which instantly would call false and cause it to loop through my idle and attack states, appreciate the help though!

[lunar whale]

Where do i go from here?

im really new to unity so im not sure

im honestly still completely confused on why these tools just wont work for me

the only thing that works out of all of these is create bone

noithing else works, it just randomly brings up this blue box that highlights my whole screen whenever i left click with the tool selected

i have split bone selected here, yet left clicking the bone just brings up this blue box

when in every tutorial ive ever watched, it just splits the bone like its supposed to

[crimson delta]

anyone able to answer mine?

[hybrid tinsel]

Need to unlock, and I am not sure which version is best for your unity version

[clear gorge]

What's the standard for attaching weapons to a character's hand? Should I parent the weapon to the hand in blender with constraints, or do it in Unity? No matter which way I do it, I'm going to have offset issues when I export to Unity.

like I can make an empty in Unity on the hand and parent the weapon to it, but then I can't have any sort of offset in blender while animating

[young raptor]

Can't you just do a weapon/prop bone under the hand, have the weapon weighted to that bone, and then animate that?

[clear gorge]

I could, but the weapon model is entirely separate

in blender I'd use a child of constraint, but then that creates issues when exporting to Unity because it has offset from the origin

[hybrid tinsel]

Can't you animate with s placeholder in blender, then replace it with your weapon in unity?

[sand holly]

hello, i need some help, the state doesn t switch, just mannualy, and i dont now why

https://paste.ofcode.org/i3EDmXXffmBvhNMakH9xYJ

this is the code

[topaz fractal]

Hello, for my multiplayer Fps, how can I tell the other customers which animation to play? I was thinking of sending the other customers the animation I'm playing, but if I do that the transition between the animations won't be smooth, since they'll go straight from animation A to animation B. How can I do this?

[hybrid tinsel]

You canjust send the same animator commands to them, right?

[topaz fractal]

yes, I had thought about it, but I hadn't found a way to do it, but I think I finally have a way to do it. Thanks for your help !

[grand ruin]

is rigging every hair strand like this going to have a big perforamcne impact if I am playing animations on every hair strand at once

[clear gorge]

I have my weapon imported in blender, but it has moving parts so it needs to animate along with with the player rig. I can use a 'child of' constraint in blender to make the gun follow the hand, but then when I export the weapon rig to unity it has a huge offset when I parent it to the hand bone.

I know how to animate and all, the issue is just the exporting and various constraints that are messing me up

the object origin seems fine to me. But it seems like when I export the gun, it just puts the object origin at 0,0,0 even though it's clearly not there in blender. And the result is that my player isn't holding the gun correctly in unity.

[hybrid tinsel]

It probably will be fine, but you can also just not rig every strand if you wanted to optimize it. https://i.imgur.com/8zSjTX7.mp4

Like here, you can see I used barely any bones

[grand ruin]

is it different for 3d?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not really, though 2d is of course usually less expensive, and a lot depends on how you're animating/rendering it.

[grand ruin]

i take it the performance of a bone depends a lot on how many verticies its weight painting affects?

like would using less bones even matter that much if you are still affectiing the same amount of verticies?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, dynamics are expensive.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/592905850281132055/728711845439078460/unknown.png?ex=66a6acca&is=66a55b4a&hm=c0bffe2d54a573b363ff653834e097f8d2db064039d3819216eebad2b091f5c6&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=388&height=498

You can of course go overboard

For 3d, a lot depends on the type of hair

[grand ruin]

dynamics as in physics calculations?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah. Or faking them

[grand ruin]

I gotcha, I was planning on faking them as simply as possible, if that is possible lol

im looking into if you can access bones by script rn

[hybrid tinsel]

In some cases you can skip bones entirely and do cloth sim or something

[grand ruin]

yeah id prefer to keep it as simple as possible in terms of calculations because this a model for a multiplayer game and there will prob be like 5-10 people in hd range where the hair will be animated at a single time

[strange wedge]

why is my animation laggy in unity? I exported as fbx and baked animation

[maiden prairie]

Has any body knowledge on active ragdolls. Because im setting a target for each joint and that works fine. but when i rotate the Target model it just start crumbeling?

[agile solstice]

Just from the look of it it appears that the rotation is happening twice, once for the mesh and again for the ragdoll targets, but compounded if the targets inherit the mesh rotation as well

[maiden prairie]

Oh

should i just rotate the other way on the mesh?

[agile solstice]

If my guess is right, you'd only rotate mesh and move the ragdoll targets only in local space when needed

Or separate them from the hierarchy and move them independently

[maiden prairie]

i have seperated the BodyParts from the parent but the bodypart still twist u have any other idea?

This is probaly the Easiest way to do target rotation and probaly the worts

[clear gorge]

for face animations, is the standard bone animations or blendshapes? Or a mix of both?

Assuming I'm doing it by hand, without mocap.

[rustic widget]

so my animation blending or transitions or whatever worked fine when i was using the Character Controller GetAxis, but I changed it to GetAxisRaw to make it more snappy but the now the animations dont transition, its very obvious when crouch walking. how do I fix this?

[arctic pilot]

does anyone know why my animations looks like this

its like double stacking the frames

[arctic pilot]

well i fixed that

but now my image is anti aliased, even though i have it disabled

[shadow obsidian]

Show the sprite import settings

[shadow obsidian]

Ok, filter mode is good. Thought that was the likely issue

[grand ruin]

can I map this generic animation to these bones?

just like should it be possible?

im going to create a script that can take generic animation clips and create a new animation clip with certain bone names. If this sounds like im overcomplicatiing things lmk thanks

[agile solstice]

Point filtered sprites will appear like this if they are not rendered at a very specific relative size, such as with the pixel perfect camera component
To eliminate the issue you will have to use the component, or use bilinear rendering with mip maps to render them in a smoother way, additionally with some AA that works with sprites such as a high Render Scale or a custom sprite AA shader

#🖼️┃2d-tools would be the correct channel

[unkempt plover]

Hi,
can anyone please tell me how to access a animation (animator) in the canvas from script, that have been placed in the player Game Object?
If i create a Animator variable in the script and attach the canvas, the game runs into an error

[agile solstice]

The same way you access any other animator, or a component, from a script

[unkempt plover]

ok, but i havent access any animator from a script yet, just one that is inside the same game object. If i disable the Animator, to not start from beginning, there is no access possible as far as i know

[agile solstice]

You should be able to get a refence and call methods to a disabled component just fine

[empty pulsar]

Guys, how do I change the image source (Image Component) in Animation? Whenever I try to change it, it sets all the other keys with that new pick image.

[agile solstice]

What other keys?

[empty pulsar]

frame 1 is set to image 1 and frame 15 is set to image 2.

[uncut salmon]

Are you actually recording the animation?

[empty pulsar]

Yes

I can literally see two different images in the timeline but whenever I play it. It doesn't change.

Wait, is this possible in Unity?

Why has this happened to me 😢😭

[empty pulsar]

Great. Now nobody talk about this.

[agile solstice]

I'm trying to help you ask the right questions even if I have to do other stuff too
I don't see any clear cause for that problem, and doing the same thing on my end works fine

I'd try restarting the editor for starters, or re-making the animation and controller

[wintry sonnet]

wtf are these things on my timeline and how do I remove them? I can't undo adding them, I have 0 clue what I pressed to make them appear (to my knowledge I never pressed anything), and when I try to preview the timeline it can only play in-between these markers.

[night geyser]

Hello, I just started making games with Unity and I need to make animations but I can't use it here. In the video I watched, when the man opens this place, he directly says create, but he doesn't.

[agile solstice]

Yours says "no animatable object selected" which is the issue you have currently

[night geyser]

How exactly can I fix it?

I started unity 3 hours ago

When I look at YouTube, it pops up immediately when people open it.

[agile solstice]

because the animatable object is selected from the Hierarchy

[night geyser]

Thank you, I've been trying for about 40 minutes

[wind hatch]

Not sure what to drag into the preview box. Tried sprite, spritesheet, animation controller, nothing works

"Model" sounds like it's for 3D, but I'm using this for 2D

[grand ruin]

can I retarget the bones of this generic animation?

[wind hatch]

I set my samples for an animation to 60, but it's visibly not moving at 60fps

Much slower

looks more like 12

Oh nevermind, I see the problem

The sprites were spaced out in the timeline

[hybrid tinsel]

Not using the built-in retargeting, which is part of the humanoid system. You could write your own system to retarget if you wanted to, depending on your needs.

[grand ruin]

I already tried writing a script but I found out that unity's api doesnt really support it for mecanim

i'm trying to see if its maybe possible to rename bones in unity and trick it into working, but so far changing the name doesnt seem to matter

is there anyway to retarget generics?

[gray rune]

So, I'm trying to have my player character thrust a sword forward at a target using animation rigging, the actual thrusting motion is an animation I did in blender and imported. The sword is parented to the hand only, it doesn't have any bones.
So I have two questions:

1. The hand's rotation doesn't seem to visually deviate from the original pre-made animation but the sword, which is a child of the hand, DOES point to the source object via the constraint. - So what would I need to do to get the hand (and even better the arm) to also follow the constraint like the sword does.
2. Although the sword very obviously is responding to the constrain component, it doesn't actually "stab." Towards the end of the animation, it kinda curves around the target, almost like trying to push two magnets together that are facing the wrong way. - Is there a better of setting all this up?

[wind hatch]

I have a blend tree, but it's not blending the animations - is that only available for 3d rigged modes or animations with high frame rates or something?

[agile solstice]

It will blend properties, but not all properties can be blended
For example there's no possible blend between two different sprite references

[wind hatch]

What do you mean by properties?

Like... size?

So, if I have one animation stretching the character horizontally, and another vertically, the blend tree with blend them and do both?

[hybrid tinsel]

You'll have to be more specific about what you want. The mecanim retargeting is only for humanoids, and since it involves conversion to a humanoid muscle model and back it doesn't really apply to non humanoids. Do you just want to remap transforms, or do you actually want to remap motions from one hierarchy to a different one, or what? What are you trying to do?

[agile solstice]

Components have properties, being the values and references you can change
Basically the only thing the Animator does is override those properties with data from your animation clips, and optionally blending the data from the clips before overriding
If your horizontal stretch animation sets scale to 2,1,1 and vertical stretch to 1,2,1, at halfway blend the scale would be 1.5,1.5,1

The sprite of a sprite renderer are a references to specific assets, there's no logical halfway point between two sprite assets, so blending is ignored and it simply snaps to the other sprite at halfway blend

[wind hatch]

That makes sense

I wondered if it'd be frame splicing

So if you had L left walk animation and U up walk animation, it'd blend to

LLLULLLULLLU

But that might look a little janky

[hybrid tinsel]

It could be done using motion vector blending(and in fact unity has a system for that, used in particle sprite blending) but that isn't usually used for characters.

[grand ruin]

two same structure hierarchy with different names; i found a $30 asset that would prob work if i cant figure anything else out.

[vast sigil]

What programme would be the easiest to learn to animate ? Lets say i wanted to learn myself to make a quick animation such as drawing a bow or waving, what is the most user friendly ? Muse Animations havent helped me in any way

[agile solstice]

For 3D Blender probably since there's resources for it
But it's unlikely to be easy

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity animations are based on hierarchy and names. If you just rename the transforms to match, and the hierarchy already matches, it should just work.

[grand ruin]

does the hierarchy have to be the exact same? Like can it be the last three children of a 10 bone hierarchy vs just a 3 bone hierarchy?

[hybrid tinsel]

The hierarchy relative to the gameobject with the animator.

It really is as simple as that.

[grand ruin]

ah, your right, for some reason its working now when earlier it wasnt

[fathom finch]

I have noticed a bug with the animation clip preview window in previous versions of Unity 6 and it persists in the current version (12.f1) When I press "others.." to search for models to test, sometimes the search popup does not open, it only works once, and to get it working again, you have to press Auto or UnityModel.

and about Muse Animation, it is not yet compatible with unity 6. It tells me something about 2023.2, but Unity 6 is not 2023?

[rustic widget]

I went to bed, i didnt see any answers so ill just reply :)
pls go check this out i need help lmao

nevermind i chatgpted it, tinkered a lil and got it working :)

[wind hatch]

Could you do this with animation speed? E.g. pass in a character's movement speed, and the faster they're moving, the faster the animation plays

[agile solstice]

Yes, but it's not related to properties
If you select an animation state, you can see an option for setting an animation parameter to control the state's speed
Parameters can be set from code in turn

[wind hatch]

i see

[rustic widget]

im having a problem where if the player crouches while idle, they stay in crouch even if they let go of control, and the only way to uncrouch is to walk and press control. Attached is a screenshot of my animator, and a pastebin with my movement state manager, my movementbasestate, and my idle and crouch state scripts. https://pastebin.com/78VHaC2z
lmk if theres anything else i can show, thx

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't actually show the conditions for the transitions out of crouching

[rustic widget]

oh sry i fixed it a lil bit ago

i forgot how but i did

im having new problems now LMAO

[short night]

im having a small problem getting this wheelchair to tilt back and just balance there
is there a different way to do it? should it be an animation?

just rotating the frame makes it drop down again since gravity
rotating the entire mesh moves it under the ground

im really not used to animating inside unity

[red rose]

When to use animation vs using timeline?

[open cedar]

Hey, I'm having an issue with my 3D character rig in Unity. I've tried to fix it, but the problem persists. It gets into a weird pose whenever I go into play mode. (I´m using Animation rigging for the ik solution)

[red rose]

Also is there a way to smoothly transition everthing in the scene into a Timeline playing?

[merry tulip]

my running animation doesnt work

[cunning magnet]

say i have like 5 or 6 switches (like light switches) on an object that can move independently. should they be separate game objects?

if they're all part of the same object, i'm not sure if i can animate them in such a way that they can move independently

[tranquil quail]

Is there such thing as a 'Driver' in Unity. In Blender, i can set up a driver that causes one bone to do something, based on the rotation of another bone. anything like that built in to Unity? I have a script to accomplish it, but it is not 'inside' the other tools, such as editable like animation. but i would prefer a built in tool

[hybrid tinsel]

That's the usual method.

[hybrid tinsel]

What do you mean by 'inside?'

[tranquil quail]

it is not inline with other tools. it is not a thing that i can manipulate from within an animation editor, etc. i should probably just delete that part from the question, as it deters from it, and it not really relevant

[cunning magnet]

thanks!

[hybrid tinsel]

You can control scripts from the animation editor... though have you looked into the built in constraint scripts? There are a few and they might be able to do what you need.

[tranquil quail]

Oh, nice! No, i was not aware of the Constraint scripts.. I do not know how i missed them. Look into it now, thank you

[rustic widget]

ok i slept so im gonna try to be more specific with my problem. I put in rigs so that the player's head and body looks towards where they are aiming, but this broke the crouching animation. now the player doesnt go down. i showed all the components of the relavant stuff in the video. im not sure what else i could show to help but if anyone could help me that would be great :)

[wind hatch]

In the Unity Learn tutorial, walking animations are done with a blend tree that takes x and y direction.
Since none of the properties are actually blended, wouldn't it be better to just script in up/down/left/right states and pick an animation based on that state variable?

[agile solstice]

Even if blend trees don't do any blending, they still have the benefit of syncing animations and sharing animation transitions

And once the state is playing you can use just one or two parameters to switch between many animations

[wind hatch]

i see i see, ty

[glass flare]

i’m trying to animate a prefab using a sprite sheet i cut with unity. however, when i create a new animation, i cannot drag in the sprites i created to the animation window. is there a way or better way to do this?

[agile solstice]

Dragging sprites into the animation timeline is merely a shortcut for replacing the sprite reference of the animated object's sprite renderer

Doing it that way doesn't force you to verify that you have the correct object with the sprite renderer component for overriding its sprite reference, so it's more prone to user error

[glass flare]

so what’s the better way to animate prefabs?

[agile solstice]

Enable recording mode and change the sprite reference directly

[glass flare]

thank you

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd have said it is a feature they added because it looks cool when showing off your features even if it is impractical =p

[crimson flax]

my bsse character looks like this

and im trying to make it so when the walk anim plays his arm stays out so i applied a Avatar mask that looks like this ... then i applied the mask here ... but when the animation plays it looks like this. Can someone help me out

[swift tide]

Is there a way to ragdoll only certain limbs of an animated character?

[rugged seal]

why is my animation different at the looping point?

[agile solstice]

• it uses more bone weights than your graphics settings allow for
• keyframes have been simplified too much on import
• it's a Rigify rig which doesn't support exporting because it relies on bone constraints

[spring sand]

Do you guys have any advice on how to make sure that animations and other effects stay in sync with the music for the entire demo? (demoscene)
I'm currently making a demo in Unity, and I'm creating some dance animations for it in Blender

[hybrid tinsel]

Use Timeline?

[crimson flax]

the warming icon is there if i do what you said

damn

[cunning magnet]

i have an animation that simply moves an object down a little bit
it's supposed to move down relative to wherever it already is, but the animation overwrites the object's transform

what am i doing wrong?

[cunning magnet]

oh... i fixed it by clicking the "apply root motion" option in the animator component...

but i didn't need that option for other objects...

[crimson flax]

no its a humainoid so i cant even make one in the editor so i just positioned the hand how i wanted it with the bones

[hybrid tinsel]

Or use the unity exporter and save an fbx of the pose

Then import as humanoid

[cunning magnet]

now i have the problem that if it starts in the "down" state, since i have it skip the animation, it doesn't appear at the right location

i have transition offset = 1... this should skip to the end of the "moving down" animation

but it doesn't

maybe i'm going about this wrong

[crimson flax]

i keep getting this error

nvm i got it to import into blender

[charred torrent]

Good

Im good at blendee

If u need help feel free to dm me

[crimson flax]

its like importing weird

[crimson flax]

nvm it was my settings ig

[glass flare]

i imported a sprite but it doesnt match the hitbox, any way to edit the sprite so its a bit to the left and operations like that? should be relatively easy

[crimson flax]

how did u make the arm out like that im having so much trouble

[cunning magnet]

okay that wasn't really the right fix, i needed to make it part of a parent object so that the motion of the animation was relative to the parent

[hybrid tinsel]

@cunning magnet all animations are relative to their parent, and reset to their original position on loop unless root motion is enabled.

[cunning magnet]

what if it's not looping?

it's a switch so it should just move and then stay in the new position

[cunning magnet]

oh my god it works!

[tiny orbit]

can anyone help me with my unity animation. im having a bug

[shadow obsidian]

https://dontasktoask.com/

Best to just describe what you need and ask the question.
Good luck

[hybrid tinsel]

Then turn off looping

[cunning magnet]

oh i didn't see that setting but i'm working on something else atm

i may need that setting later

[lucid geyser]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/cartoon-rigged-fox-2457464863604b7187ab87f6571d5131
I recently purchased this model but when i try animate it in blender it does this:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17OZNDa0erUUIYB1FWAjKwl7OjM21keHD?usp=drive_link
When i move one bone the movement is mirrored on the other. I dont know how to get past this. I hope there are some blender experts out there who might now whats going on.

[dim patrol]

I have a script I downloaded that has a custom editor that controls how all the values are set to the script. However this custom editor doesnt support Unity Animator keyframe capture, how can I edit the script to support it?
The problem im having is that when I edit stuff in Animation preview record mode, nothing is captured to keyframes to then playback

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/modeling/splinemesh-104989
This is the script I am working with, it has no keyframe support as far as I can tell

[hybrid tinsel]

The vast majority of scripts support keyframes by default' you should be able to key most serialized values

[lament talon]

hello
question
i need ( want) to use inverse Kinematics to animate a mech leg that is triple jointed, howerver i cannot have some of the joints to rotate around ... non desired axis
is there a way to limit the rotation angle / axis of a bone and still have it somewhat responsive while using the animation rigging package ? or are other solutions like FinalIK the only way to do something like this ?

[open cedar]

Hey! I'm using a two-bone ik constraint for the left foot, and I'm using a multi-parent for the hips. How do I move the target of the L.Foot because it's just now stuck?

[viral tangle]

Animation rigging package should be fine

[lament talon]

then is there a way to limit bone rotation ? i know rotation constraint exists but it doesnt get me the results i want

and it doesnt work properly with chain IK constraint

[viral tangle]

Twist chain I think?

[lament talon]

that does not do what i need it to do

as it only works in rotations
and i need both position and rotation
and it doesnt limit bone rotations

it is not the right tool for this

[viral tangle]

Well, you can see the options here 🤷‍♂️https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.1/manual/ConstraintComponents.html

[lament talon]

i'll attempt the multi rotation constraint
but for now this is not looking good

[languid turtle]

bit of an animation noob, I'm messing about with my jump/fall blend tree and I have 6 frames in the whole jump (3 up, 3 down), and the 1st and last animations are playing fine but the middle 4 frames are playing too fast, do I need to fiddle with their thresholds or anim speed in the Blend Tree or have I just completely overlooked something obvious? I've tried setting the thresholds from between 1 to -1, these were my current values, just not sure what I did

Works fine otherwise, I just need the animation of the middle sprites to be longer, I guess?

[languid turtle]

nvm I give up

[hybrid tinsel]

All animation clips in a blend should be the same length, ideally

[tranquil quail]

I purchased UMotionPro to try to be able to get some Humanoid Animation editing done in Unity. Now i see an asset called Very Animation. can UMotionPro do what VA does, or do i need to get VA?

[potent egret]

So I am a noob to animation in Unity, i am trying to learn it a bit by using a free asset off the store. The thing that confuses me, and I dont know if its the asset itself or I am doing something wrong, is that the asset has all of it is animations in individual animation controllers. This seems wrong from what I understand but maybe its just a different workflow?

[hybrid tinsel]

Most likely for ease of showing off the asset content more than for use in a game directly.

[candid siren]

hey i need a bit of help in this dumb problem:

why i cant select the bones of my character :(

i used to move it whit any problem

but when i come back to make a crounch animation the bones get unselected

[tawdry spindle]

how long does a Trigger parameter stays on ?

i thought it was for precise control of a transition, so i made state a and b transitioning to each other using the same trigger

but if im in A and trigger the Trigger it can go back to A after B

[dawn flint]

Anyone know how i can make my own version of AnimationUtility.SetKeyLeftTangentMode that works at runtime?

Or how i could check what the code in "SetKeyLeftTangentMode_Injected" is doing

[fallen crypt]

Hi guys, how u doing ?
I'm using Synty Characters for my game. As i use mixamo animations, i need to use avatar to make my animations work. Nevertheless, i'm also using animation rigging package to make my own animations. But, now, as i use an avatar on my animator, i can't reference my rig anymore. Does anyone have a solution?

[hybrid tinsel]

Ome frame, generally.

[merry tulip]

hwy is my monster tsnadn gstraight?

even when the animation is on

[tranquil quail]

I am thinking about my character creation system. I want to be able to Scale a bone without scaling it's children. My go-to guy (CGPT) says the way to do this is with scripts. In Unreal, i could set these things graphically in an AnimGraph, similar concept though. scale one up, while scaling the other down. at this point, i am considering a Singleton and event driven inverse scale application to child bones. in this idea though, i would have to add a script to each bone that i would make available for player controlled scaling. thinking back to how i did it in UE, it is probably right about the same, except it gave the illusion that i was making one script and magic was happening. i am still working on getting used to having to put a script, of the same type, on 40 different bones. In the end though, it would have just been the same thing with nodes in UE, so purely psychological. Well, that is, unless this is just a backwards concept and i am missing something

[merry tulip]

i have mp option to set up a grass texture

[jovial pagoda]

Guys, I have this script here ( https://hastebin.com/share/igeyiyutej.csharp) and 2 animations for a window that opens with the scene and close when the player close it, but the animations are not working, I just want to the animationIn open the window and when the player close it the animationOut plays, I tested all methods from internet but none of them worked, can someone help me?

[wind hatch]

my character's moving animation start is delayed, and when it finishes, they briefly look up

the animation transition is a boolean (_direction != Vector2.zero)

also the walking direction is a blendtree

[hybrid tinsel]

So you need to make sure the blend direction only changes when it should.

[west orchid]

Sorry not exactly sure if this is the correct channel, but I have a 3D model blender Armature problem. The armatures work fine in Blender, but when interacted with in Unity it doesn't work as expected.

[fast swan]

Why are you using armature btw? Instead of skinned mesh, one composed of multiple objects seems more suitable to me. If you wanted to rotate the bar (and the wheel and stuff) along the local Y axis, you should have a parent object that has the same rotation as the bar and the bar should then have (0, 0, 0) rotation relative to the parent. When you rotate the children then along the Y axis, it should rotate in the right way. There might be an easier way too but that's what I think should work atleast

[west orchid]

I asked what method I should use in the Blender discord and I was recommended armatures. 🤷 I wanted to just set the wheel bars and the wheel as a child of the handlebars and just rotate the parent, but the handlebars and the wheel bars are connected to the bike frame on a weird angle so I'd have to rotate them in the y, x AND z in a specifc manner so they don't just "fly" off the frame

And I have never heard of skinned mesh, no clue how that would work

[wind hatch]

Oh ok, so it runs the blendtree a frame after the switch trigger

[fast swan]

skinned mesh in unity = armature in blender

[fast swan]

As I said, I think you would want to use empty parent for the bars and rotate that to correct angle so that you only need to rotate the handlebars along one axis

@west orchid also because you use armature, you will get these weird rotations to begin with which are quite suboptimal for use in unity . you can change the rotation in blender too but I don't see a reason to use armatures to begin with. Afaik armatures should only be used for objects such as characters that need to be bend and not just translated

In blender context what they suggested in the blender discord is totally fine but I wouldn't do that for models that you export to unity

[west orchid]

Rotating along the Y axis and the Z axis have the same problems. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, or if the result I want is even possible with my bike

[fast swan]

I'd suggest using the Local mode (top left corner of the scene view) to see the axes properly

[fast swan]

I think you should have another empty object under the GameObject (with 0 rotation) that holds all the individual parts

[fast swan]

this is my bike set up where BarParent is rotated and FrontPart is not. When I rotate FrontPart along the Y axis (Z in your case), it rotates correctly. The second image shows the FrontPart is selected and you can see that the Local axes are also aligned with the correct axis. In your case I recommend making the FrontPart object an invisible parent as well instead of some of the parts because likely their origins doesn't align with the correct axis unlike in my case

[wind hatch]

this is damn bugging me, why does the blendtree run before transitios

[fast swan]

Again, you cannot rotate the already rotated parent itself, you need to rotate the unrotated child which then can contain all the individual parts

[west orchid]

But to rotate the handlebar and the other parts correctly, I need to rotate not only the Z axis, but the Y and X axis precisely. I just don't understand why the Blender to Unity armature/bones is so trash, at least in my case.

[fast swan]

Do this: 1. Rotate GameObject to (-22, 0, 0) 2. Create an empty object that's child of GameObject and make it's position and rotation 0 in the inspector (no rotation relative to the parent), lets call that GameObject2 3. put all the parts you need to rotate under GameObject2 and rotate GameObject2 along the Y axis, that's all you should need to do

The reason this is bit hard and different from blender is because the rotation you see in the inspector is relative to the parent so rotating them won't rotate along the local axes of the object but instead rotates along the local axes of the parent. You could rotate along the local axes via code but if you want to have any control over the rotations in the editor, this parenting trick might be useful

[west orchid]

gasp
That actually worked. There's still a slight deviation ( when the gameobject2 is rotated you can sort of see the handlebar move off center as it rotates) but it's not THAT bad.
Thank you so much XD
I'm so sorry for being annoying/misunderstanding your messages, I've just been dealing with this problem for over a day. I should have slept and started fresh in the morning, but I decided to pull an all nighter and I'm crabby lol

[fast swan]

All good. Just recently had to figure this out myself and got confused many times myself on the way

[west orchid]

Yeah, I wish it didn't have to be so complicated lmao. You'd think importing armatures from blender would work seamlessly XD

[fast swan]

By moving GameObject2 slightly you might be able to fix the off center issue (assuming I understood correctly what you meant by that)

the position of GameObject2 shouldn't affect the rotations so changing it should be fine although the objects under it will move too so you may want to unparent them, move GameObject2 and parent them again

[west orchid]

Yeah I'm just going to have to figure out by how much. If I care that much about it.
I'll figure something out in code, when it comes to scripting I can handle things, for the past hour I've been debating on whether I should just find the ratio at which the X and Y rotations rotate with the Z for all the objects, and changing the rotations and positions using those ratios via script, but thank god you found this solution lol

[fast swan]

It also looks like the rotation of -22 might not be exactly the right one. What I did was to do the parenting stuff in blender so I got everything centered and in the right angles

[wind hatch]

This fixed them flicking up, but they still wait a bit before starting the animation after moving

Exit time is off

[wind hatch]

This happens before and after actually

[hybrid tinsel]

Blendtree isn't triggered, it is always evaluated.

[wind hatch]

my main worry was why it was transitions was done after the frame animation but i managed to fix it

now they just hover on their last state for a frame or two before changing

i've tried switching to transitioning from any state

it still does it

this is aggravating

everything online is about "has exit time"

that was the first thing i checked

haha it got MORE confusing and annoying!
parameters don't update on the animator view!
but the animation still changes

they're behaving as if they still have exit time

is possibly because they're finishing their current frame before moving to the next animation

how do i fix that?

do i upscale to 60fps with 15 frame intervals

or is there a better way

[wind hatch]

nope, it's already at 100fps with 25 frame intervals

[hybrid tinsel]

Does the transition have duration?

[wind hatch]

i havent checked

is there one by default

[hybrid tinsel]

There is

[wind hatch]

this fixed it tysm

[modest delta]

Hey, is there a way to suppress events from state A the one being transitioning to B?

I have a situation when using crossfade that if i time it properly i can fire event AnimationEnd at state A, and skill B will use this event as its own

[agile solstice]

The event could include a check for what parameters or states are set/active before running other methods in it

[modest delta]

Im using script like animator listener for the events

hmm so i should check in it if the event is valid

[agile solstice]

As far as I know the event of a state fires if it has >0% blend or it does not, but there isn't a way to suppress it in any particular way
So you'd rather check for the current animation state or other variables
You could also have another event at the beginning of the next state that sets a variable informing that the previous state's event should be ignored

State machine behaviours https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/StateMachineBehaviour.html are also useful for adding more complex rules to individual animation states

[modest delta]

Yeah exactly what i did expected

thanks for helping!

i didn't know about SMB

[spiral palm]

got a question about the particle effects system

i want to create a particle that follows the player and bases itself off the player's current sprite while its being animated

basically a sprite trail like this

how would i best be able to achieve this using the particle system, or would i need to write my own system for it

[agile solstice]

You could make a script that reads the character's sprite renderer's sprite reference at the frequency of the trail and stores them in an array that's the length of the trail
Then you'd have equally as many sprite renderers, or particles using the Texture Sheet Animation module for rendering them

Then at the same frequency have the sprite renderers or particles trail the player character

[spiral palm]

i found a package on itch

https://rudaloo.itch.io/unity-sprite-trail-renderer

[wind hatch]

Can you animate a 2D Tile in the same way you'd animate a 2D GameObject? With a controller and stuff?

[agile solstice]

Not quite
Look at the Tilemap Extras package for an animated tile sample

[wind hatch]

Yeah, it seems to just be a simple animation loop

Well I can make it a GameObject, no biggie

[boreal radish]

Anyone have any concept or ideas how they would do pack animations? for tcgs? Just looking to get some ideas or concepts.

[fleet salmon]

I have an animation clip that is 12 frames long (looping). When I preview it on the GO using the "Animation" tab, it looks great. When I put an Animation Controller on the same GO and play it, it loops but freezes for 12 frames every cycle.. I'm new to animations, anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[night obsidian]

animation jitters for some reason when imported

[agile solstice]

"loop time" is not enabled on the clip

[fleet salmon]

Hm.. OK, I just enabled that but .. no effect?

Should I be using a move -> move transition?

[agile solstice]

Are you sure you have only one "Move" animation clip?

You can double click a state inside the animator to select the exact asset

[fleet salmon]

yeah - I think I have it working but.. it's not what I expected it to be? I unchecked loop on the move animation clip, but then set all the exit times to the length of the clips with no transition times

I have a "move in" clip

I wasn't really understanding the transition pane but I think I do now.. the top bar is the "from" clip and the bottom is the "to" clip (this clip)

[agile solstice]

This is only necessary if you want to restart an animation before it's complete

[fleet salmon]

I dunno if I'm doing this right, but I was thinking I'd control this all from code via triggers - so MoveStart plays the "move in" clip which immediately transitions to "move" which loops to itself

"MoveEnd" trigger immediately plays "move in" (speed -1) and then goes to idle

I'm not sure if that's... the usual way?

[agile solstice]

Looks like you have some dead space in the move clip which is you end up having to restart it with a transition

Rather than letting it loop naturally

Otherwise that sounds okay

[fleet salmon]

It's a little hard to see in the video capture but the "move in" transitions from the idle stance (legs apart) to the running stance

it looks ok on my side.. I could probably slow it way down using the speed parameter to double check? but for now this is just prototypey sort of work, just .. finding my way around living life in 3d

I'm a 2d nerd

[fervent kettle]

Is there a way to set a UI horizontal layout 200 pixels away from the scene/camera border at this resolution?

[hybrid tinsel]

#📲┃ui-ux

[pulsar solstice]

I have uploaded my model on mixamo and then exported an animation with it. Now when I use the animation on my enemy prefab's root animation controller, it shows that components are missing

[agile solstice]

The animator expects to be above the Root because it's looking for a transform named "Root" under it

[pulsar solstice]

but i have added animator to the root, so what do i do now

[agile solstice]

Remove them and and add them again to the one above
You can right click to "copy component" and then click the three dots to "paste as new component"

[pulsar solstice]

i actually want it to be in root only

because my other animations depend upon being on Root, only 1 animation which I imported from mixamo is causing issue

[agile solstice]

You can rename animated properties to change the path, should be able to double click the string highlighted in yellow

[pulsar solstice]

nothing happens when i double click

on the property

[agile solstice]

Alternatively you should be able to click it and hit F2

[pulsar solstice]

didnt work

[agile solstice]

It's a bit finicky, you can only rename property paths that are not on the root of the animator
(which your Root : whatever property paths are not)

Anyway, since there's so many property paths it may be better to just use an external editor like notepad++ that has operations to change all the relevant lines at once on the asset directly

[pulsar solstice]

how to change the property paths

Do i have to change something here?

[agile solstice]

No

What you're doing now has nothing to do with root motion
The animation clip is just looking for animated properties under a gameobject by the name of "Root"

In my example here the gameobject is "Cylinder"

[pulsar solstice]

okay that i understand

but im unable to rename

I see read-only in brackets next to my animation names

[agile solstice]

That means they cannot be edited because they exist inside your imported mesh asset
You can duplicate the animation asset with ctrl + D in project window to create an editable copy

[pulsar solstice]

yeah i did ctrl + D still cant rename the properties

[agile solstice]

Probably because you didn't assign the newly duplicated animation into the character's animator to replace the read-only one

[pulsar solstice]

no no, i did that. Its not read only anymore. And I have replaced in the animator as well

But still cant change property name

[agile solstice]

Not sure why not
You could try to edit the asset manually

The process looks like this

[pulsar solstice]

how to access these

[agile solstice]

You'd have to open the animation asset in an external editor

[pulsar solstice]

the .anim file or the original imported file

.anim or the .fbx

[agile solstice]

.anim

[pulsar solstice]

it kinda looks like this

so i need to find path

then manually set the names as they are named on the gameobject

in my notepad paths are empty lol

but how would I know which gameObject name to write in which specific path?

[jovial pagoda]

Hi guys, I have this orange window and this to animations (in and out) the idea is that when the screen is loaded the entry animation happens and the window remains until the player taps the close button so that the exit animation happens. I can't get these animations to work in any way, the more I try to fix the worse it gets, can anyone help? I've already checked the scripts and parameters, but nothing works.

[rain obsidian]

i want my model to hold a sword but the sword wont be in the model file, only the animation

(since the character can also use different weapons, having sword on the model file would be bad)

how can i do that?

i am thinking of adding a bone without weights to my player rig

i will use it as the optional bone, for weapons

but i am kinda lost, and don't have much experience with animations

my rig is generic and the animations are seperate files by the way

so adding another bone without weight (probably) wouldnt cause a problem

[agile solstice]

This is a good common solution

[rain obsidian]

thanks, i wasnt sure if it was a terrible or a good idea. ill do that

[agile solstice]

In my experience the only drawback is that if you don't clearly know how many item bones you need and what the animations will be using them for, it can become tedious to make changes later

[rain obsidian]

probably 1 or 2 would be enough

but i think i'll make 4 to make sure

since there is only a single player character

and the bones are probably just transform components

without a weight

i think it would be fine

[agile solstice]

Also, some of them you might want to parent to the character's hand, some to some other body part like hip, or maybe just the root
Constraints can be used to change parent at runtime, but that can increase the complexity a bunch if you're juggling a lot of items

[rain obsidian]

are constraints blender features?

do they just key the bone to match the characters hand movement

without actually needing to parent them

if so that would be great

[agile solstice]

Blender has its own constraints, but they are different because they are baked into the animation
Unity's constraints take effect at runtime

[rain obsidian]

do you mean animation rigging?

i should look into blenders constraints

baking would probably be helpful too

[agile solstice]

That package has the best selection and works great with animators, but there are vanilla variety constraints too

Blender constraints are great for animating
But when dealing with item slot bones you may find you need runtime constraints to keep them stable

Or might not need, depends

If you have a bone at the root, and then attaching it to a bone with a blender constraint keeps it it stable in blender, but after exporting there will be drift between the bone and the hand due to inaccuracy

[rain obsidian]

thanks for the help

i use runtime constraints for more interactive animations

i'll use baked for the non-interactive ones

[maiden prairie]

Has anybody used Confiurable jointss an know why this happens? it looks like its not attached even tho it is

@rain obsidian sorry for ping. did you mean like this?

[rain obsidian]

the rig seems nice

weird

collider positions were looking fine

on this

ill try checking my old project

[maiden prairie]

2 YEARS

[maiden prairie]

Ill try to make a new model to see if there is a problem in the Weight painting

[rain obsidian]

sorry i have no idea what is going on with the arm

[maiden prairie]

Me neither lol there is no tutorials on Mesh Ragdolls. mby i need to make one?

[rain obsidian]

if you made one that would be great

there are only like 10 minute videos

that all say the same thing

at least thats how it was when i was trying to make one

[maiden prairie]

Ye i noticed that when i started

[maiden prairie]

There is still only like one that acctually works

[rain obsidian]

trying to make the bones have correct min-max rotation limits was the worst part for me

i wonder how the devs of fall guys do it

i wanted to make a physics-based walk

like making the character walk from the friction between feet and the ground

but gameplay-wise it was terrible

[maiden prairie]

Its soo hard to learn if you dont know what to do.

Im currently making a Phyiscs game thats a mix of MonsterHunter and GangBeast

But im 2month in an barely know what target lerp do

[rain obsidian]

whoa that would be

a great game

nice idea

[maiden prairie]

YE, i have a full fletched plan and i thougth the Character bit would only take 1 WEEEk lol

[rain obsidian]

i think i worked on it for a month just to make it walk too

there are no resources

[maiden prairie]

i used the first month trying to find out how to do it with Target model

But then This happend

so im only using script now to make the animation

[viral nebula]

for some reason I cant place sprites into the animation window. when I drag the sprites to scene, it does create an animator and animation with the sprites in it, but the animation UI is unplayable and does not play in the game. Anyone know what is going on. I am sure its something stupid

[rain obsidian]

maybe you can try rotating the root bone

but than it wouldnt be entirely physics based

[maiden prairie]

Ye

i tried it

but i think the mesh is offseted

or smth

so it rotates the other way

[maiden prairie]

Do You have a screen shot?

because you shouldnt drag a Sprite into the animator

only ainmation

[rain obsidian]

i think this was what i made

i have no idea what is going on but i can send u project files

if it is going to be helpful

[maiden prairie]

Yes please everything helps

[rain obsidian]

uploading it rn

might include terrible coding

[maiden prairie]

Couldnt be worse than mine

[rain obsidian]

when i opened the project and pressed w

the cameras z position became infinite for some reason

[maiden prairie]

Lol

[rain obsidian]

https://file.io/fAmma39NlLy4

[maiden prairie]

Thanks

[stuck pivot]

I'm looking for a "best practice" when it comes to melee movesets.
I'm making a yakuza/bully-like game and want to achieve two things.

First of all, how do I make a combo seamless?
For example, if I take two different punches from mixamo and play them one after another, there's this weird "recovery" animation after the first punch (going back to fightting stance/guard).
What's the best way to solve this? Should I just make the second animation to start at the same pose the first one ends (when fist makes contact with an enemy)?

Or should I blend them via the animation controller?

And also (and I apologize beforehand if this is not the correct place to ask this) what's the usual way studios create these replacable movesets?
For example, Yakuza series is know for asset reusing and they always reuse whole movesets.
Does anyone know how these replacable movesets work in Yakuza?
I would like to create an entity moveset, which could be switched out easily. Are scriptable objects the way to go?

I'm just looking for general best practices/tips although functioning code which I could study would be cool.
Thanks in advance.

[night obsidian]

my animations are jittery when i import them and i dont know how to fix that

[night obsidian]

usually id just animate them all together, split them and then make the seperate ones hold their pose for a sec before going to idle

[agile solstice]

I have not seen this before but it looks like there was an effort to change the animation's frame rate to a slower one by duplicating its keyframes, which after being baked, compressed and simplified on export/import now exhibit a wobbly effect when the animation tries to hold a pose over multiple inaccurate frames

[night obsidian]

yea i have lerp off in blender and i have it at a higher framerate just so making higher fps animations in the future isnt annoying

[night obsidian]

well it looks better but is there a way to still get the choppy motion i want?

[rain obsidian]

probably because of the low framerate of the animation

i think unity lerps the bones between frames instead of playing them frame by frame for some reason

there has to be a way to disable it, but i dont know how

[night obsidian]

crap.

[agile solstice]

I never found a good way
If you export with no inbetweens at all and then change interpolation to constant in Unity, that may work
But you'd have to do it manually a whole bunch and it won't work good with blending
Animator also has the "animate physics" setting which only updates the animator in each physics timestep
If you don't happen to rely on physics much you can increase the physics timestep for a choppy feel

But rather than that it'd be sweet to set it to use a custom timestep instead and keep physics as they are

[night obsidian]

how do i change interpolation to constant in unity?

[agile solstice]

By editing each clip's keyframes in the animation window

[night obsidian]

its read only for me

[rotund hollow]

If I have states idle, walking, attacking, defending, etc. and for each of these states I have different spritesheets for up down left right should I use sub-state machine? or blend-trees?

I have blend-tree working nicely but it seems it wasn't originally intended to simply choose an animation based on a parameter. So wondering if sub state is more ideal for this.

[nova dagger]

don't know where to put this but

am animating but not sure why I am getting this

[marsh pewter]

Idk much about animation in unity, but have you put some event outside of animation threshold?

[versed vigil]

I am having issues with trying to avoid my character from walking at slow speed (as seen in the video). My transition is based on the agent velocity, with a threshold to 0.1. When increasing the transition threshold (to like 0.5), the character stops earlier, but then it slides when beginning to move. Is there an elegant way to fix that?

[agile solstice]

That's because the animation exists inside the mesh asset
You can duplicate the animation asset to make it not so

[cosmic oyster]

how can i make it so that when the shoot and empty clips are played the transform is controlled but only then and when the idle clip is playing i dont want the animator to controll the transform at all, if the idle clip is palying i want the transform to be controlled be a different script i have. I tried removing all the keyframes in the idle clip but that still stops the script I have from changing the objects transform

[agile solstice]

You should be able to override the animator's overrides to transforms with a method in LateUpdate, or with constraints

[cosmic oyster]

thank you, late update works but now its constantly overriding the animator. I basically have a configurable joint to allow the top thing to slide back and forth but it sometimes has autism so Im using a script to copy the position oif the actuall slider while clamping the position so the visible part of the slider doesnt dance arround and that happens every frame, can I check what clip is being played by the animator and only do it in the late update when the idle animation clip is playing ?

[agile solstice]

I think you can

[hybrid tinsel]

You can add a statemachine behaviour script to the idle state

[cosmic oyster]

oh man thats how you make a statemachine ai, I might have to rewrite all my enemie logic after this

[tidal epoch]

Hey everyone! I wanted to animate the Glassbody and the Veins with the same animator (they are seperate game objects) but in game mode only one of them reacts to the blend tree. Do you have any ideas what the problem might be? 🙏 Thank you in advance!!

[agile solstice]

They both have the same animator controller and your scripts are setting both their parameters at the same time?

They won't necessary need both an animator, you could alternatively have a script that loops through all the bones of the secondary skinned mesh and matches the transform with that of corresponding primary mesh bones

[tidal epoch]

I'm new to programming so i hoped i could avoid it but i'll try that out :)! Thank you for the quick reply 🙏

[ashen vale]

How is this animation looking so far? Still very early blocking out stages, but feedback would be great.

[hybrid tinsel]

Kinda hard to tell what is happening there... is the plane sinking the buildings in the bg, or tilting the foreground floor towards the camera?

[ashen vale]

The plane is going to be shot down ive just not added the projectile. When the character lands on the switch after the leap, the buildings are going to sink and trees will sprout switching the scene from scifi to fantasy

[hybrid tinsel]

I feel like all the motions are good, though the timing of the crash and the jump make them feel a bit more connected than maybe you meant them to?

[vast kernel]

Changing the color of the background or character might make it easier to tell what’s going on during development, even if the final textures are nothing like it

Love the animation though

[shadow obsidian]

Don't forget 2 and 3 of what I said.
#💻┃unity-talk message
Edit:
Ah, by words I meant written words, not spoken in the video

[twin musk]

Oké so if if i load in the game on my vr i don’t see the lower arms and the hand and i see the sphere controllers but i want to see the hand and the lower arms too does anyone know how to fix that

Here is what i mean

[tiny pivot]

So im getting a character controller up and for some reason only the left and idle animations are playing?

Anyone know why that may be the case?

[wise wave]

dm me

[tiny pivot]

ighty

[ashen vale]

A little progress. I decided against shooting the ship down. Thoughts and/or feedback?

[agile solstice]

Your else statement only considers the if above it, none else

[tiny pivot]

Wait really?

I thoughts it was like a whole sitch

That explains why only the right works

im assuming using a switch would work out?

[agile solstice]

You could fix it with else ifs
A switch would probably be more practical

Both of them have the drawback that simultaneous keypresses are ignored by the higher priority keypresses

[tiny pivot]

lemme try out a switch and I'll gets back to ya

[agile solstice]

If you want movement, rather than reading individual keys it would be much better to read vertical and horizontal input movement axes and set the parameters directly to those

Works better with less work

[tiny pivot]

how would you track for changes within those positions?

[agile solstice]

What do you mean by "track changes" precisely
They are directional values that get updated by the input manager automatically according to keybinds
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetAxis.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetAxisRaw.html

GetAxis is smoothed for your convenience (or inconvenience), GetAxisRaw snaps to the destination value of -1, 0 or 1

[tiny pivot]

I sees I sees

thanks for the help, I'll see what I can do with this

[final pasture]

Question about Unity Timeline : Any idea why the character jump to the initial position between to animations? (for other animations, I just disable Remove Start Offset)

[quick adder]

Hey folks, probably an old question but google was not very helpful.

Having issues when importing a blender model/animation into unity. I can basically do it as a baked animation, but Unity doesn't seem to actually recognize the armature or bones themselves.

So if I try to add any new animation (even if its from a copy of the exact same model) it doesn't work.

I've heard Unity wants there to be specific hierarchy/name requirements. Is there a reference online anywhere for that? It's a non-human humanoid model (think like a mermaid or a werewolf)

[agile solstice]

Animations can disappear if the preview framerate is below 60 in blender at the moment of export
They can also disappear if they are purely bone animations with no mesh included

They can also disappear if the animations are not "pushed down" correctly or whatever it is that NLA editor expects you to do, if you're using NLA editor

If you're using the Action editor the animations must be marked as fake user

But despite that they can disappear if they are too short
or for no reason at all

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity doesn't care about naming ir hierarchy unless you are using it for a humanoid type rig. That said, to import new animations, you need the names and hierarchy to match between tge objects, and in this case you should probably be using the @ naming to add the animations to the original model.

[quick adder]

Thank you both! Do you have a link to some resources for the @ naming? I actually haven't tried that before, btu that sounds very helpful

[agile solstice]

I never got it to work or to the bottom of why

Importing animations without a mesh alwyas caused the vertex groups or the whole animations to be excluded

[twin musk]

Can someone help with this?

[quick adder]

That's odd, because Im almost certain the animation had a mesh.

I'll definitely try out some of these things though and try and get it figured out

[hybrid tinsel]

Easy solution; just export with a mesh. It won't show up in your build so stressing over making it work is probably pointless

[agile solstice]

That's what I usually do, but did I understand correctly that the point of the @ naming should've been to let you import animations without the meshes

Or does it still add the animations to the primary asset even if the mesh is included with the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

It should add the animations to the primary asset either way

[safe dagger]

Is it possible to animate an object in a tile map?

[median raft]

So I reimported my fbx into unity and I added a new animation. For some reason though, the animation I added "3i_Light" shows up in the import setting but not in the project file viewer. When I try to click on what is supposed to be "3i_Light" it ends up highlighting two of the same animation "3i_land"

Its like my light attack animation got overwritten by the land animation or something. Honestly I was going to search through the internet to figure this out but idek what I would search.

[agile solstice]

What does it look like if you put Project to list view instead of icons

[median raft]

When clicking on it, they both get selected.

[agile solstice]

I'd try to rearrange them in the import list, maybe change the durations around a bit and apply

Just in case that'd jolt it out of its bugged state

[median raft]

I did try to rearrange them a little, and the two animations are from separate sources. I can try it again and mess with the durations tho.

[agile solstice]

If all else fails I guess you can duplicate them out into their own assets with ctrl + D

[median raft]

only seems to dupe the land animation lol

[agile solstice]

Even if doing so from the "separate source"?

[median raft]

I hope I didnt screw up the import, putting all that frame data into the import settings is such a chore

????????? okay duping it worked

I misunderstood, thought u meant duplicate it from the file viewer

Thanks!

[median raft]

Btw is there an easier way to import fbx files into unity? Putting the animation durations and stuff into the import setting manually is the only way I know how atm.

or is that what the reimport option is for?

[tame basin]

Is there a simpler or more optimized way to apply an animation to mesh without the need to build animators and animation controllers? I have a procedurally generated enemy that has a segmented body, and each segment has a couple of legs. I need to play one single animation on each of those segments and all control I want is the speed of the animation. Putting a whole animator on each segment sounds wasteful and inefficient, but one animator on the parent of the segments doesn't animates them either.

[agile solstice]

Simpler or a bit more optimized: Animation component or moving the legs from the same script that manages the segments
Likely a lot more optimized but less simple: Playables API, vertex animation textures, Burst, Jobs

[noble cradle]

Wee wee woo woo I am shit at animating

I can't make my run cycle look normal

[buoyant beacon]

Hey guys I got some questions if anyone can help about animations and blender / importing to unity

[buoyant beacon]

Same:(

[noble cradle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1026842011376037920/1271154754164363435/Demo.gif?ex=66b64e9e&is=66b4fd1e&hm=fa4829dc9367c8ffc01417e1012f2bdba41e126ba1e6499a702fe9d71fa8173b&

[buoyant beacon]

At least ya got ur anim in unity

[noble cradle]

nah thats blender

[buoyant beacon]

When I try to export from blender unity has an anorysm

Nvm

[noble cradle]

mine just looks weird

I need to start again

At least my rig and model work

I made him myself

[buoyant beacon]

Have you tried doing it with a picture next to your character

Ohh nice

[noble cradle]

no but thats a good idea

[buoyant beacon]

Lmao

So get a frame by frame pic

And I think that's it make the poses move the key frames etc

[noble cradle]

@buoyant beacon

i just did the first 5 keyframes

[buoyant beacon]

Its getting there

Here is one anim that didn't expload when exported to unity

[cursive ledge]

Any idea that when i flip the character, it flips at normal position but when i flip the weapon, its flipped at the further position?

[hybrid tinsel]

My usual suggestion is to start with the hips

[hybrid tinsel]

Because it is flipping around its center?

[cursive ledge]

ive made it center but still not working

[bleak scroll]

Does anyone happen to know a way in a "StateMachineBehaviour" script to run a function every new animationframe not updateframe, like when a sprite changes run a function?

[quick adder]

Happy update re: my animations not importing! Turns out to have been an issue with my root note, which for some reason was imported differently, despite being the same model. I imagine I must have exported the second model incorrectly from Blender. When I re-pathed my root on my other file to match my original, it works great now.

So if anyone else is having a similar issue, just make sure that the "root node" property of both files is identical. Feel kind of embarrassed I didn't figure this out sooner, but I'm glad it didn't require a more complex fix!

[wise yarrow]

I need help with getting animator to work so pretty much I downloaded a asset from unity store I know how to make a fully move able character but issue is I don't know where to start when it comes to animations at all and I humbly request any suggestions as I'm a student trying to learn unity

I followed all of unity essentials tutorial but I don't know what to do next

I'm interested in 3D modeling mostly

[buoyant beacon]

its fixed now they transition almost perfectly

[buoyant beacon]

I would suggest do the Scene in Blender since its free and import it as a blend file to Unity

there are plenty of tutorials on youtube and Udemy , sorry Im dont know much but maybe thats a start of search

[wise yarrow]

You deserve the world for the kind advice

[bleak scroll]

Hey! Just wondering if anyone has any sort of explanation as to how anim clips are actually handled? as you can see this animclip has keyframes for 5 sprites, and I am trying to in a "StateMachineBehaviour" call a function whenever a new sprite or keyframe is reached. Unfortunately my animclip has 34 "frames"? From beginning to end which doesn't seem to have any correlation to the amound of sprites actually being rendered at all. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated as I've been stuck on this for a little while now.

[viral tangle]

You can use animation events for this, but it may not be the best way depending on what you are doing.

[bleak scroll]

Oh, sorry I forgot to mention I cannot use animation events. I must use a "StateMachineBehaviour"!

If I can't directly determine when a sprite is changed through the animclip I understand, but if I could just understand why my animclip's sprite changes are so spaced out by default and fix that automatically in some way to accurately match my total frame count to sprite changes then I can determine using framerate what sprite I am on accurately.

Also by default, I've noticed it forces an extra frame if that is possible to remove that would be very helpful!

[viral tangle]

Why don’t you just get the sprite directly?

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, I could do that but it feels a little hacky I'm worried things could break or slow down if I am passing in realtime sprite changes to my StateMachineBehaviour, and running functions based on that data. Essentially my StateMachineBehaviour loopsthrough the player's current held weapon's "AttackComponents" and checks if on that current frame there is an AttackComponent to "invoke", these attack components will play sounds, move the player, create projectiles, etc.

[viral tangle]

Oh, if you’re doing an attack on X frame I wouldn’t advise using animation. I have a similar thing in my project, but I have the script determine progress the animation rather than having the script read data amount the current animation.

[fierce jewel]

How can I arrange these animations?

1. Start walk left
2. Start walk right
3. Walk forward
4. Stop walk left
5. Stop walk right

Left - right represents the foot of the character

[buoyant beacon]

I would say blend tree

[bleak scroll]

Not necessarily doing an attack on "X" frame, essentially my player is using a statemachine which calls from whatever state is set for example "left-mouse-attack" would call for the left hand's animator which is set when the item is equipped, then it would play "attack-left-1" as an animclip. Obviously this was simplified but that's the general idea.

[viral tangle]

By state machine do you mean the design pattern or the unity animation thing?

[bleak scroll]

design pattern, not an actual Unity "StateMachine"

Then the weapon type stores a base "animator controller" which is overridden by a specific type of that weapon, and the base animator controller has the "StateMachineBehaviour" that I am working with now.

[viral tangle]

Ah. Then defiantly track and increment the current frame based on the script and force set the animator to comply with it.

[bleak scroll]

And this (since it's on all weapons) will loop through the current weapon's data to determine if a projectile should fire based on the frame of animation

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, that seems like a good plan. I'm not exactly too sure how that would be done necessarily.

[fierce jewel]

Which one? 2D? 1D? How should I blend them?

[buoyant beacon]

I would say 2D

and from 2D simple directional

[bleak scroll]

But yeah, this is how weapon data is laid out in my weapon scriptableobjects, essentially it has a slot for an animatorcontroller and will dynamically populate attacks and frame data which you then can add "Attack Components" to which are played on that frame.

[buoyant beacon]

Freeform directional has a better blend

[bleak scroll]

This is an example, but this would play a "MovementData" on Attack 1->Frame 1

when using this specific weapon

[viral tangle]

I have a int representing the current frame in the state class, and whenever the state logic updates, increment the current frame. Then you can go in your dictionary or list or whatever to check the events on the current frame.

[fierce jewel]

But it's for something where we have directional animations like strafe left and right

[fierce jewel]

This is only one walking animation

[bleak scroll]

which "state" class is this stored, the StateBehaviour? Or like player state

Like "idle" or whatever.

[viral tangle]

The player state

[fierce jewel]

Left and right means animations starting from left foot or right foot

[buoyant beacon]

so , is it only left, right , forwards or do you want to go like left + forward

[viral tangle]

If you made that an interface you may have to change it to an abstract class

[bleak scroll]

The issue with not using an animator controller is I would need to hardcode every single weapon type, with an animator controller I can override it dynamically and only use what I need. I don't think that'd work in this case.

[buoyant beacon]

so it goes diagonally

[bleak scroll]

But I could be not understanding perfectly.

[viral tangle]

Eh? Why would you need to hardcode it?

You can make states check the players’ current weapon.

[buoyant beacon]

you can have one animators for all guns and only just layers I think ?

[bleak scroll]

True, I'm sorry just trying to visualize it atm. Give me a sec

[fierce jewel]

No, I'm not achieving that. Ik you're talking about putting animations on x axis -1 to 1 and on y axis also. But no it's not that.
I'm trying to make a smooth blend of animation, so I break down the walking forward animation into idle to walk and walk to idle.

[buoyant beacon]

Ah i see

then 1D would be just enough

[bleak scroll]

Okay so I think I've got an idea, I could just move the logic for my "frame update" to my state and leave all the animation incrementing to the animation and just check for sprite changes in the state and invoke anything I need to from there.

[viral tangle]

Here is some pseudo code:

class AttackState : PlayerState
{
int currentFrame = 0;

private override void UpdatePlayer(PlayerHandler player)
{
player.CurrentWeapon.StateEventDictionary[currentFrame].CallEvent();
currentFrame++;
}
}```

Sorry for no tabs. On phone

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, I think that works. I'll look into it appreciate the suggestion and tips!

[viral tangle]

Yeah. Have animation handled separately so it doesn’t depend on the animator.

[viral tangle]

NP!

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, the issue with not using an animator is if I have like a hundred swords it's a lot easier to dynamically override animclips using an animator override controller and have all the logic stay the same, but I guess if the logic is handled in the state anyway I don't see why not!

[viral tangle]

I have a similar setup in my game. All moves are scriptable objects with <int, IFrameEvent> dictionaries so I can dynamically invoke logic.

[bleak scroll]

Looking back I actually don't remember at all why I even started using a "StateMachineBehaviour". I probably had a reason, but I'd like to think I was just tired and not thinking properly haha.

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, I like to keep all my custom logic to an inspector visualization, I'm creating an easy-to-use engine for non-programmers to still implement items visually so it makes adding new unique items as fast as possible.

[viral tangle]

I put it in the inspector too I just use odin lol

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, I really tend to avoid packages/assets since I enjoy the learning curve of figuring out how to do it.

plus it allows me to have full control over the project and tweak anything I'd like to without worrying about dependencies or anything that might just dissolve my project somehow.

[buoyant beacon]

so Im making an the FPS animation and im only using the arms and gun and Unity automatically assigned them to the legs :/

[hybrid tinsel]

So if a frame gets skipped what happens?

[bleak scroll]

the idea is a frame doesn't get skipped. But in that case the attack's ability on that frame likely wouldn't fire.

But I'll likely ensure it can't be skipped in the future either way, just trying to get a proof of concept done atm.

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity animations actually have no concept of frames when it comes to the actual data. It is all based on time. The length of a frame is based on the animation's sample rate.

That 'extra frame' you mention is not an extra frame but actually the duration of one frame of that keyframe. Without it, the animation would cut that frame off.

The system wasn't designed with sprites in mind.

[bleak scroll]

Ah, I see! Thank you for the explanation, I knew that animations didn't actually have any concept of the sprites inside but I suppose that makes sense having the duration required for the final keyframe to actually play through.

[bleak scroll]

Yeah, that totally makes sense. My entire game's animation/design pipeline is currently being designed to be extremely efficient in terms of cutting down on manual animation tweaking and imports directly from our pixel animation programs, which pretty much have the ability to export whatever I'd like them to, so if I can get a system going where to create an entirely new item I can simply import it's animclips from my design program and have a working playable item that'd be ideal. I definitely need to look further into how everything is actually being handled to determine whether relying on animatorControllers/overrideControllers to "sort" my imported animclips is actually going to be the best path going forward, but I like how clean everything is in the inspector atm.

[bleak scroll]

Hey! Just as an update it worked beautifully. Honestly better than I even hoped, since now I have a direct route to my player gameObject which I can pass directly into my "AttackComponents" so I don't need to worry about any hacky ".Find" solution or anything. Appreciate the help once again, I also discovered the reason for initially using a "StateMachineBehaviour" was so I could call a function disabling the animator after use to save resources, so I guess I got side-tracked and just started to invoke everything from it haha. But yeah, I appreciate the help even indirectly getting me back on track, haha. Have a good one!

public override void LogicUpdate()
    {
        base.LogicUpdate();

        string currentSpriteFrame = player.primaryHand.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite.name;
        if (currentSpriteFrame != oldSpriteFrame)
        {
            oldSpriteFrame = currentSpriteFrame;
            Debug.Log(currentFrame + " This is the current frame!");

            // LOOP THROUGH AND INVOKE ATTACK COMPONENTS ONLY ON SPRITE CHANGE !

            foreach (AttackComponent attackComponent in player.primaryItem.attacks[player.currentAttackCount].frames[currentFrame].attackComponents)
            {
                attackComponent.Invoke(player);
                Debug.Log("Invoking: " + attackComponent.ToString());
            }
            currentFrame++;
        }
    }

It's super cool to see my conceptualized solution actually work in-game!