🏃┃animation

[hidden badge]

Okay so use a humanoid model but not as a humanoid rig?

Ah!

Generic works!

[agile solstice]

Make the animations in an external program or use Generic

[hidden badge]

Yeah generic is clean, I'm trying to avoid using animations because it's for a somewhat natural feeling first person view

So looking down should bend each bone of the spine, the neck, and even the eyes

[snow skiff]

Hello
Good morning

I'm get an issue with my animation
If I change the animation many times fast, the animation brokes and get a stance between the 2 animations
I don'y know this happens
Someone knows how to help me?

The issue happens when transition Animation C to B

[wide citrus]

How to set an animation frame to run for a number of frames in the animation window? Let's say I have 2 animation frames and I want first frame to run for 30 frames and then the second frame to run for 30 seconds.
Right now the animation ends at the second frame immediately and I can't expand the total length of the animation.
Do I have to duplicate the second frame and put it on the 60th frame to do this?

[daring relic]

@wide citrus what software are you using for animations?

[wide citrus]

Just Unity editor

it's 2D sprites

No skeletal animations

Just static images

https://youtu.be/Sg_w8hIbp4Y?t=165

Like here

But I have only 2 frames and I'd like each to run for 30 frames. I can put the "3rd" frame which is a duplicate of the second frame to fix it, but it feels hacky

[daring relic]

thats basically how you need to do it

personally I work in 3D, and even there what you do is that you just duplicate the position of everything for multiple frames

[wide citrus]

I see, thanks. That'll do then. Just asking, so I don't start to do many things in a bad and hacky manner.

[daring relic]

can you show us what you are trying to do exactly?

[agile solstice]

Unity animations measure length in time rather than "frames", but that probably has no effect on your result

[daring relic]

maybe theres a better solution but you're asking the wrong question

[daring relic]

it displays both I believe

oh nevermind

I mean it shows the length and fps so you can just calculate it

as an example this would be 50 frames for an animation

[wide citrus]

I switched to frames in my animation window

[daring relic]

oh fuck you can do that yea

[agile solstice]

Animation frames in this case, which are sampled at a certain number of times per second
The user's application FPS will vary wildly in practice, but it has no effect on the length of the animation

[wide citrus]

Well this is what I'm trying to do. Now it's the idle animation, then there's like 25 of other animations that I will import and make work. Then I'll work on implementing inputs to change the state of the character.
I see Unity has the built-in support for the state machine, which is done with Animator component and Animator Controller, from what I understand:

I didn't get to this part yet and haven't found it in the docs

Haven't found working with animations in the unity learn paths

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[dusk vale]

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[daring relic]

I mean, personally I use the animator quite a lot

and you will, too

[rare lava]

it's not as hard as it looks, once you get the hang of it you will be fine

[daring relic]

yeah, most things are pretty simple in the animator

once you use it (no, not watch a tutorial and copy the settings, use it), you realize how straightforward everything is

there are still some weird stuff in it, but its not smth that cant be learned and worked around

(i will never learn how animation state priorities work)

[wide citrus]

Thanks, I'll ask questions as I have them.

[agile solstice]

There's many
https://learn.unity.com/course/introduction-to-3d-animation-systems
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/animator-controllers-2019-3
https://learn.unity.com/project/creative-core-animation

[daring relic]

at some point I even forget how my animations work but it just works

its very convenient if you learn how to make it easy to expand

[void matrix]

does anyone have experience with animator in unity. I'm having trouble figuring out why my man is going into the ground when i run the new animation clip.

[agile solstice]

It's the default pose for a Humanoid character that has none or a Humanoid-incompatible animation playing

[void matrix]

Is there a way to get it to not do this? A standing pose would be fine

Also in animator to make the animations, should I use the animator properties of each limb or the root of each limb?

[agile solstice]

Make the animations in an external program or make it a Generic rig

[void matrix]

I don’t know if I can, since my professor heavily encouraged using key frames to make the animations clip. But do you have any good recommendations for external programs?

[agile solstice]

Why not make it a Generic rig then

[void matrix]

Tbh I dunno. I’m pretty new to Unity Animations. If it can resolve the issue I’m having and create the animations clips/keyframes, then I’ll make generic rigs

[wide citrus]

Thank you, I'll check them out and go through them to get better with the animation system as I work on the game.

[shrewd parcel]

are those transitions good? (2D) if they are do i make em on bools or triggers cuz im so lost in the animator

[hasty drift]

I think this is up to personal preference mainly.
I transition between animation states through code by using stuff like CrossFade or Play

this also lets you control keyframe playback by input or anything else rather than just time

everyone's workflow is different, so if doing the transitions in the animator works for you and gets the job done, its fine imo

[shrewd parcel]

i havent started the animations yet... im just tryna see how it exactly works cuz my first impression was its hard, weird and "laggy" and idrk how to work with it since im new to unity, but i want to work in it

[hasty drift]

if you're confused whether to have the condition between a bool or a trigger, just think about how you want to structure them
for example when transitioning between a grounded state and an airborne state you might have a bool that determines whether or not the character is on the ground
or have a trigger set off when the character leaves the ground and one when he touches it

[agile solstice]

Animator takes some trying to learn, but I recommend it over using the programmed transitions in code
Otherwise you might just end up coding in the same kind of state machine the Animator already is

[shrewd parcel]

the thing is id like to work and mix both but that prolly wont work, and also when i tried to do just running and stop with trigger it didnt rly work, but with bools i feel like theres a delay.

[hasty drift]

the delay would come from the transition not from it being a bool

you can set a transition time in the inspector when selecting it

[agile solstice]

Bools and triggers are the same thing, technically
Triggers are bools that get reset automatically the next frame (unless the related transition is stopped before finishing and they become stuck, requiring the ResetTrigger method, so overall they're basically worse bools)

[shrewd parcel]

well lets say the animation is 0.2 second long, when i send the bool it plays 3 times and on the fourth the actual character starts chaning, might that be an issue with the animation before still playing? how do i change that

[shrewd parcel]

what if theres 2 bools active at the same time

[agile solstice]

There's no issue with that
Transitions from a state will start when the Conditions are met, regardless what they are

[hasty drift]

probably does that because you're transitioning to it either from "any state" and you dont have "transition to self" disabled

so its constantly retransitioning to the same state

[shrewd parcel]

so 2 animations play at the same time or what

or does it choose which one it wants

[hasty drift]

only one state is active at once, transitions based on the conditions met

[agile solstice]

If you want good results with the Animator, avoid Any State when starting out since it's easy to get confused and tangled up with it
It's important to learn all about transitions and parameters, and then how to use animation layers and sub state machines for more powerful Animators

[shrewd parcel]

it was just a normal animation it was sum like entry->idle-> run and reverse, and the animation was playing with 1 second delay, and the second issue with triggers was at the start and the end it mixed the animations, so lets say when i stopped it played idle->first frame of move-> idle

[shrewd parcel]

whats wrong with any state?? i thought its just like when i want to play an animation no matter what like jumping, which can pretty much only be done when im running or idle, and i dont want to make a spider web that im lost in

[stray pewter]

how do i edit the way the mesh actually is? i want to make it look more like this, vertical white lines instead of the horizontal ones

[agile solstice]

The issue is twofold
It acts as an absolute highest level priority override to your state machine, interrupting it, so it can be hard to figure out during gameplay when they're the cause for strange transitions before you know how to look for them, and you may end up creating a lot of parameters and code to prevent them from taking effect too often which is unnecessary work
The other part is that they're tend to mislead you away from making logical state machines, since you could potentially use them in any situation before you know if it makes sense to do so or not

They're overzealous and teach bad habits, in other words

There are other ways to avoid spider webs, like layers and blend trees, and to some extent sub state machines

A good Animator state machine is all about strategy
You want it to be a system that automates as much of the animations as possible, so that parameters point more to intent than to individual states

[shrewd parcel]

what are blend trees? and i kinda have a different use for layers since my animations are divided to legs and arms so my attack animations dont mess with the overall moving

[shrewd parcel]

im so lost already 😭

[agile solstice]

If you have a parameter for every state, and transitions to and from every state, or all transitions out of Any State, then you're not really "using" the Animator and would be better off calling the states directly from code instead

[agile solstice]

Blend trees let you smoothly blend between multiple animations while synchronizing them
Such as smoothly going from idle to walk to run

Transitions won't let you do partial blending
Useful especially for movement that the player can control with analog input

[agile solstice]

Assuming this is the 2D skinning editor, is there not a geometry editing tool

[stray pewter]

yea; that only lets me drag the outer points though, unless im missing a button or feature that lets me connect any 2 points together

[shrewd parcel]

ohh so like when u have raising speed not like 0-5 but 0-1-2-3-4-5 and it blends the walking animation between idle and run??

[valid tree]

Hello
I make an animation and I will repeat the same modification of component in almost every single scenes. But, when I applicate the animator in an other scene, I have the error that it doesn't found the good component, like in the picture. How can I change the component that I missing in each scenes ? Sorry if it's not very understanding, I'm not very good in english ^^'

[fringe robin]

is it possible to rig a pixel art sprite? as Single Sprite mode
How?

[hasty drift]

if you're talking about "bending" the sprite you can do that, though then it won't look right anymore as the pixels wont line up

could use a pixel perfect camera but it wont give you great results i dont think

[fringe robin]

but how do I create more vertex clumps?

it is just a single jumble of vertex

[fringe robin]

I know rain world did it and it looks fine, but how?

it's not a HD sprite with pixel shader also

[fringe robin]

to make so some bone movements don't affect certain parts

[agile solstice]

I think we're on the same page
You can have motion that's anywhere between a walk and a run, for example

[zealous valley]

Hey, I'm using an animator and animator controller where I simply input what State to execute using Animator.Play(""), but it seems like after a white, my character starts getting offset , as if the animations were not properly, how can I fix this ?
-Nevermind, I needed to check the "Bake into pose" settings of my animations and now it works fine

[void matrix]

please help. i have the animation tab open in unity. i have recording and keyframes added. when i try to change the rotation for arms and legs, the changes will never save but when i rotate the entire humanoid, the changes save. Why is this happening?

the first image is the result (arm rotation not saving) and the second image is the attempt (arm rotation)

[void matrix]

the values for the rotation and position is grayed out while the animator values can be changed. why am I being gatekept from manipulating the arms?

[gilded basin]

Trying to import a maximo model/animation for class and having an issue for this one moddel/animation. Not sure why. It's a generic skeleton based on the import.

I have it setup like my other character.

The animator isn't even running.

I can manually hit play on the animation and it runs fine

but for some reason the dang state wont run lol

Im ijit

figured it out

[deft grotto]

Hey anyone who knows a little bit about 2D animation that could help me out with something?

[modest latch]

I'm a 2d animator. What help might you need?

[agile solstice]

Did you make it a Generic rig
The editor will prevent you from animating Humanoid properties

[boreal sparrow]

Good day everybody! heaving a problem in unity 6, not sure if it is a problem with me, the rig or unity, got 3 different animations, mine, mixamo´s and another animator´s animation, all humanoid, using 2 different rigging systems, all have shown so far the same issue, wrist/hand bone and finger´s bones with weird rotations or orientation, looks like the hands are "constrained" or limited in movement, tried out the muscle system and it was not it, trying to figure out if it is my export settings for secondary bones or something, did a ton of test with different specs in fbx, so far nothing fixed the issue, re-set rotation or other parameters for the hand bones also did nothing, eating the guide "Animation in unity" from 2022 ( the definitive guide to animation in Unity), had similar issues before, but, I was able to fix them, this is different some how, anyone has any ideas on how to approach this? or a path to other guide? or similar issues? on the images we have the same animation in the same frame, the gray ones are in blender, working just fine, the other ones are in the engine and, in the FBX visualisation thingy:

[boreal sparrow]

somehow, looks like hierarchy in the bone structure was messing up the avatars in unity, problems fix 🥲

[void matrix]

Please tell me how to do that lol 😂. I feel so stupid

[agile solstice]

you just swap the model type from humanoid to generic in import settings iirc

[steel crater]

Guys, I have a few problems with my running and idle animation. Like when the player moves, the idle animation won't smoothly transition to the running animation. If anyone would help me I'm very much appreciated.

[void matrix]

You are a goddamn genius

[weak sand]

Hello everyone, Is someone available to have a call with me just to quickly help me with root motion? I'm really unsure with the assets that I bought and I'm fairly a beginner in Unity.

[sterile vine]

just ask here please

[weak sand]

Okay, so in the assets I purchased, there's an FBX file named "AA_Basic_Basketball_Movement" that contains all the animations. However, in the Model FBX, when I checked the "Animation" settings in its FBX import settings, it says "No animation data available in this model."

This is confusing because I thought the model itself needed to have animation data to properly apply the animations (especially with root motion) to the model. Or am I misunderstanding something? Can anyone clarify how this works or if I might be missing a step?

[sterile vine]

have you checked the warnings that were apparently triggered by importing?

and checked this?

[weak sand]

its this warning

Do I need to rename a transform?

OHHH How do I edit avatar hierarchy in Unity?

[sterile vine]

🤔 you sure? usually those aren't propagated to the console, in my experience
was the same message logged when you clicked the "Print to console" button?

[weak sand]

It's just directing me to another panel

Oh there it is

[sterile vine]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/mecanim-discarding-inbetween-humanoid-transforms-and-rotation-animation/895786
seems like the rig wasn't intended to be used as humanoid?

[sterile vine]

why's run transitioning to exit?

[pastel chasm]

not gonna lie, i have no idea

im super new to this lmao

sorry

fixed it tho

[sterile vine]

so is it working now

also did you fix the SetFloat("Velocity") in your code?

[pastel chasm]

yeah

[pastel chasm]

no, i meant i fixed the run -> exit transition

sorry i should have clarified

[sterile vine]

what's your run -> idle transition condition

[sterile vine]

well, that seems correct. have you tried checking this tab while playing (move it over the console or something so you can see both) and see if it's transitioning and playing correctly?

[weak sand]

Then how do I fix this?

Cause I have a model from Mixamo. I was able to use the animation of it, but it is just not doing the root motion properly

[sterile vine]

you'd either have to fix the model as the warning mentions, or set it as generic instead of humanoid (as the forum mentions)

[weak sand]

The issue is where the animation is not moving the transform of the object itself

[pastel chasm]

it makes the transition when i press the "a" key or the "d" key, but it doesnt move. Also it's supposed to transition whenever i use WASD, not just A and D

[sterile vine]

the w/s not moving is because you never used them, you typo'd in the vector2 constructor

[pastel chasm]

and heres a screen recording if it helps

[sterile vine]

by "doesn't move", do you mean the bar under the animation state? as in, it's not playing

[pastel chasm]

no, i mean my player isnt moving

[sterile vine]

well the animation is playing so it's probably not set correctly then

make sure run has the right animation set

[pastel chasm]

ah

alright i'll give it a look

[sterile vine]

so is that after setting it to generic, or...what exactly

you aren't really providing much info there

[weak sand]

What does this mean? I've already set the fbxfile with the animations to Humanoid and Copy from other avatar, and this error pops up.

Nope, this after setting the Animations fbx's source to the Model avatar.

[pastel chasm]

where at???

[sterile vine]

new Vector2(moveHorizontal, moveHorizontal)

[pastel chasm]

ohhhhhhh ok

tysm i have no idea how i screwed that up

[sterile vine]

probably hit enter with autocomplete without checking or copied the wrong thing/didn't copy successfully

[pastel chasm]

true true

alright we got that problem solved

now i just need to figure out movement

[sterile vine]

so have you checked that run was set to the right animation

[pastel chasm]

yep

it is

[sterile vine]

can you show how run is set up

[pastel chasm]

wdym?

like the animation itself?

or the tree?

[sterile vine]

the animation state, not the clip

[sterile vine]

the run state specifically

though actually it's playing so probably not that
have you actually verified that the animation clip itself is correct?

[pastel chasm]

atp i'm assuming it's a typo in the script but here you go

[pastel chasm]

yeah

wait wtf

💀

[pastel chasm]

alright up until this point i feel like i've done a pretty good job at understanding things but THIS is beyond me 😭🙏

i swear it was all good a second ago

[sterile vine]

seems like maybe some links got broken

try remaking it, i guess

[pastel chasm]

ok

brb

got the animation working

brb ima try and figure out if theres any typos in my script

[weak sand]

Why is that my root animation is not working? Already enabled the "Apply root motion"

[pastel chasm]

welp i legit cant figure this out for the life of me

[graceful girder]

I'm looking to have a tree with game objects running up from its trunk to its ends, all the objects need to spawn, travel (differenet paths for each one) arrive, ripen and be picked. Travelling is meant to be unique / varied but everything else would work the exact same way.

• I have used synced layers to swap the animation for each variant
• But now I'm not too sure how to first off activate these different layers and if it's at all possible to use this logic simultaneously for multiple objects that are running up different unique paths
  • With or without sharing some of the travel sections, since for now each section is done as a whole but I hope to break it down into smaller chunks, and one branch can lead down to several forks

Any thoughts?

[graceful girder]

I'm looking to have a tree with game

[dusk folio]

I'm currently working on a game for my graduation project and I'm using machine state for it and I have to walk - walking - break walk animation, and I have a exit time on the break animation so it plays fully when the player stops moving, but the problem is, because of the exit time I'm dealing with this problem that doesn't let the player switch to animation needed, I tried to turn off the exit time but the break walk animation is not working at all. how can I fix it?

[ionic scaffold]

ive been trying to figure this out for the last 40 minutes and it looks so simple. what am i missing???

is it a bug or something?

[ionic scaffold]

fixed

[jovial seal]

working with 2D; I have an animator setup for 8D directional movement based on X/Y movement, and it all works. except for one thing; when I execute for the entity to start walking/running via code they'll activate the up walking/running animation for 1-5 seconds before actually starting to move properly and it looks really weird, this is the code I use to trigger it

    // run from the player, triggered when the player gets too close
    private void RunAwayFromPlayer()
    {

        Vector3 runToPosition;

        // if the prey is not a bird, either run to the end of the map or a random nearby spot to disappear before being caught by the player
        if (preyID < 6)
        {
            if (Random.value > 0.5f)
            {
                runToPosition = _playerStats.at.EntryPoint;
            } else 
            {
                runToPosition = _navmeshManager.GetRandomPointInScene(_playerStats.at.Name);
            }
        }
        else 
        {
            transform.parent.gameObject.layer = LayerMask.NameToLayer("UI");
            agent.obstacleAvoidanceType = ObstacleAvoidanceType.NoObstacleAvoidance;
            agent.enabled = false;
            escaping = true;
            _preyAnimator.SetBool("isWalking", false);
            _preyAnimator.SetBool("isRunning", true);
            _sortingGroup.sortingLayerName = "UI";
            float randomChance = Random.value;
            isFlyingWest = randomChance > 0.5f ? true : false;
            speed = Random.Range(100,200);
            return;
        }   

        agent.SetDestination(runToPosition);
        escaping = true;
        agent.speed = 90;
        agent.acceleration = 100;
        agent.angularSpeed = 100;
        _isPathFinding = true;
        _preyAnimator.SetBool("isWalking", false);
        _preyAnimator.SetBool("isRunning", true);

        StartCoroutine(WaitForPathfinding());
    }```

you can see this weird bug in this video

noticable at 0:23

[jovial seal]

ok so apparently the agent just takes a few seconds to calculate so my animals are just idling so i fixed it by waiting until a calculation before moving by using agent.pathpending, BUT still plays the up animation for like 0.1 second before really moving, which is weird

[scarlet umbra]

any idea why the middle 2 are higher numbers despite their next key frame being set to lower than the top and bottom parameter?

i assumed it would do it as a percentage (so they should always be lower) rather than whatever is happening

[robust perch]

I'm not sure if this is right for the animation channel or even if it's realistically solvable but here goes

I have a system where my player grabs the wall to the right if he is near it, grabs left wall if near and grabs floor if neara

(ignore the jank, that's fixable)

I rotate the hand accordingly based on which raycast hits (ray to the right gives an opposite rotation from the ray to the left)

however, if you look at the last grab in the clip, it hits with the down raycast and therefore the hand is rotated downward

however, this is just a slope and realistically it should be rotated to the right (or ideally, diagonally)

I've been trying to compare and measure angles, this and that, but I haven't come up with a solution

is this realistically solvable?

[agile solstice]

Surface normal that you get from the raycast is plenty useful in this exact case

But then it might become an issue that the surface normal doesn't always make sense or tries to bend the arm in a way it cannot or should not
Good IK animation is all about anticipating and hammering out edge cases like these

[robust perch]

hammering out in what way?

[robust perch]

I actually didn't even think about that. It sounds very simple but I do expect I would run into issues

just probably less isues than now

[agile solstice]

Just more code and constraints that can react to unexpected situations

[robust perch]

well that's specifically what I'm looking for here...although I might want to start with your surface normal solution

cause that is one

although maybe not cause I use tessellation displacement

that would probably cause all kinds of problems

[agile solstice]

Usually you end up needing many
Since there often are many unexcted situations

[agile solstice]

The kind of raycasting you're likely using cannot react to tessellation in any way

If surfaces to grab are expected to be very pointy, or have small holes that could cause the raycast to miss, sometimes multiple spread out raycasts are used

[robust perch]

ok

so do you think I should direct my attention to surface normals then

or at least start there

[agile solstice]

That'd be my first idea

One option is to check for surface normal, and if it would bend the arm in a weird way such as when hitting at a very shallow angle, it may be better to fall back to the simple orientation instead
But there's almost limitless options how to go about it

IK can work like magic in uncomplicated situations, but end up requiring all kinds of checks and fallbacks if the environment can change unexpectedly

[robust perch]

that sounds like a good solution

ok thanks, you've been helpful as always

[topaz fractal]

Hello, I start working again on my FPS, and I tried to export some more animation, but I don't know why, but each time I export my animation from blender, my gun just completly broke, and I try like 15 time, and it broke each time. What's really strange is that I'm 100% sure that this bug never append to me before. Do you have any idea of what could cause such a problem ?

[honest surge]

I'm not sure I understand triggers for this footplant/sharp turn animation. like why can it transition from any state but not transition back into default or somehing. how do i setup conditions to make go back to the other states

[candid siren]

Hi, this has been driving me crazy for about a month. When the animator makes a transition from an animation that moves the legs forward or backward, the legs always automatically stay backwards at the time of the transition from idle, when the character is supposed to be just standing. As you can see in the video, when the character crouches, the legs go backwards on their own, and on top of that, when he makes the transition back to the normal position, he gets stuck crouching and the animator recognizes it as idle.

[robust perch]

It works perfectly...in one direction 😄

not that I can't solve this technically, but what is the deal conceptually

[agile solstice]

What direction is that?

[robust perch]

I mean it's either perfect, or it 180 opposite, in the direction of the player

[agile solstice]

Either the normal from the ray is coming out wrong for some reason, or the target is getting flipped after that

Even if you fix it at the source you usually end up needing some check to make sure the arm isn't facing or bending the wrong way

[robust perch]

yea I will need to clamp angles

I understand that

if it helps

when it's perfect in one direction

I turn the player around 180 and it's now the hand is inverted by 180

[candid siren]

i need help with this because i dont fin a solution in any place

[agile solstice]

Is it one issue or several? And is the video showing everything, I don't really understand what's happening in it

[candid siren]

okay i will show and i think is a issue because its transition that didnt work

[agile solstice]

My stab in the dark is that perhaps some of your animations have write defaults on and some don't

[candid siren]

what is write defaults?

[agile solstice]

Determines if an animation clip overrides all properties, even ones that are zero, or if unchecked retains them from a previous state

[robust perch]

OK I solved my problem by first aligning the IK tip with the player, rotating so that the hand is facing down and only down aligning with normal direction

seems to be working

yep, seems to work every time an all raycast directions!

[candid siren]

this is what im talking about psd:sorry for be late i had a few problems before posting this

[agile solstice]

That's how the legs went in the animation preview, so is it not intended?

[candid siren]

yes

and its supossed that when you press c (button for crounching) again the character have to transition into idle but. the problem is that the character keeps crounched like the video shows

the same problem with legs happen with the character when is jumping

i tought that was character mask

but the animator dont use avatars or mask and dont use layer masks

[gray bronze]

Have you set some constraints in Blender for your gun armature that might not be supported in Unity?

[agile solstice]

We're not seeing the transitions, parameters or anything else that could be responsible for that so it's hard to say anyting

It doesn't really look like you're using animator transitions or parameters to begin with

[candid siren]

i used code

but code dosent have the fault because code is using transitions

unity automatically make the transitions like that

its werid because

i check animations a lot of times and nothing see wrong

[weak sand]

Hello
Is there a tip on using Crossfade on Root motion animations?

Is this the right settings for root motion crossfade?

[severe fox]

can anyone help me about this its still related in animation myproblem:
#🤯┃augmented-reality message

[topaz fractal]

yes I have a ChildOf constraint for the mag, and one for the handle/Pistol grip to attach the weapon to the hand. All of the other bones are just parented to the handle/Pistol grip, but whats really strange, is that all the bones are broken, even if I bake my animation and my constraint in blender, before exporting

Do I have to delet my constraint in blender, when I have bake my aniamtion and Constraint and when I want to export my animation ?

[gray bronze]

I don't think so. If the constraint isn't supported in Unity it won't be implemented.

[topaz fractal]

they might not be imported, but maybe they are the reason of why all bone Transform are broken ?

[topaz fractal]

what's really weird is that all the bone are baked with a keyframe on each frame so they don't need constraint anymore, so I really don't understand why the bones are acting like that in unity

[twin musk]

Im not sure what it means exactly but is it normal that unity animations are by default 30 FPS? I mean animation packs, mixamo, etc.
I created an animation thats 60FPS and i wonder if that unneccessarily wastes performance

[topaz fractal]

to be honest, Yes it an unneccessarly wastes of performance, if animation are at 30 FPS, it's because, it's the right speed to get anought detail while keep it light and easy to make/animate. 30FPS doesn't mean that your animation will always run at 30FPS even if your monitor show 60, 100 or even more FPS. Basically if you have a 30FPS animation but your game/screen render 60 FPS, each 2 frame Unity will interpolate the animation to make the animation smoother and make the animation match the number of FPS your game is running at.

[covert hull]

has anyone used Blender 4.3? new Asset Pose Library and just exported a bunch of individual poses for a mesh and then made their own Animation Controller in Unity and used the individual pose assets as blends for layers?

I am trying, its working, but i noticed the pose in blender is 0 frames, so i had to tweak that, not sure if anyones done this before and maybe has a better workflow?

[boreal sparrow]

Good day guys! I got a problem, might be easy to fix but, still heaving issues, trying to "zero-out" a custom bone I added in the hand of my rig in the character, all that I have tried so far has not worked, in unity it still shows information for position, rotation and scale different then zero, this is a bone for items, like guns and cups, idle pose and animations the bone still shows values, not zero in any situation so far, I did the edit of this rig and animations in blender 4.2, what usually you guys do as a solution for "item Bones"

[opal garden]

has anyone used procreate to make characters for unity?

When I select my MC parent , it says scripts not found so I can't edit it. I can only add bones if I select each parts separately but then it doesnt create any bones bc it's just 1 part???

[spark hemlock]

Using the “Animation Rigging” package, is there an option to do stretching when also doing a twist relaxer? My end goal is to have stretchy arms for torso of VR avatar.

[candid siren]

i think is a bug from unity

like this video show

sometimes in preview seems like normally will work

and later no

i get noticed that error happens when a character animation legs

rotation

is more bigger that 90 or -90

[wide citrus]

Is there a separate editor for 2D animations?

Right now I have to have a whole scene with a character in it

And then the icons get in front of the character

Like how am I cupposed to work with animations in this window

When there is a big lightning icon on top of the character whatever that is

How do I remove it?

[agile solstice]

They are called gizmos and can be disabled from this button, or from the arrow down reveal a slider that allows you to resize them

[weak sand]

Hello everyone,
I have a custom animation that I've made for my player here where it just dribbles. So, I added an extra properties from the dribblling motion of the player. So the property was just an empty gameobject called "Dribble Hand Transform".
Now, when testing it in the editor it's working. But in-game, the properties are not moving 😦

I'm so confused now with how Unity Animations works

[gilded marten]

hello, i am trying to make a simple door open/close mechanic, everything is connected, animations and animator are all done and connected, but when i interact, the animation doesnt play

can anyone help>

[limber pike]

Hi, Im relatively new to animations in unity and I've been following a tutorial to figure things out. I tried creating an animation by dragging a spliced sprite onto the scene, and it did create an animation. However, when i click on the animator controller, nothing shows up

[weak sand]

Anyone having issues here?

[crude dragon]

hello, soo, how i can make animation like this, as i know it's imposible to do this with only unity animation and animator controller, do i need to make it as a gif?

[wide citrus]

Thank you, it worked yesterday. It was late.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1014169296672411799.png?size=48

[waxen cove]

guys where can i find the animator? I want to edit the frames for a sprite but idk where to look

like this window

nvm found it

[wintry sonnet]

Is it intended behavior that a playable director set to none wrap mode won’t “let go” of the object once the timeline finishes?

I have a timeline to change an object’s color. Once that’s done I want to update its color by code, but I cannot until I enable/disable the object.

The timeline looks fine without the code, and the code works perfectly without the timeline, so it must be the interaction of these two things that’s the problem.

[wintry sonnet]

It actually looks like a problem with the animator and not the playable director. Even when i completely remove the component disable the component it’s locked into whatever state it was on the last frame until i enable/disable the object. Is there any way to get around this?

[north sandal]

Hi, guys. I want to correct my melee sword animation a little bit making it more sweeping. What constrain should I use?

[wide citrus]

Is there a way to find those deleted articles:
https://unity.com/blog/community/having-fun-with-the-new-mecanim-features
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Finite_State_Machine

They're linked on the forum but it's dead links and wayback machine website doesn't have it.

The second one available: http://web.archive.org/web/20210924044443/http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Finite_State_Machine

[shrewd spoke]

Why does animation rigging feel the need to contort my character's arm in unimaginable ways the more it extends towards the target

Didn't really know what to share to help here so let me know if there's anything I can share

(Completely fine without a hint and when the arm is fully extended btw)

[agile solstice]

A video of what's happening in motion and how does the hint affect it

[agile solstice]

Probably doesn't exist anymore
What mecanim features is the first article purpoted to be showing?

[verbal plover]

I put way too much effort to make this zombie look decent, can someone help me with the animation of it?

[wide citrus]

Using the animator state machine for other purposes:
For sound and even UI states.
Here's one of the quotes on the forums that's supposed to be from the article:

StateMachines everywhere
A nice thing with StateMachineBehaviours is that you can use StateMachines without animations. So anything in your game that requires some kind of StateMachine-esque logic can use our nice visual editor live feedback.

For example, a music StateMachine…

[agile solstice]

Seems like it would've been a useful resource
Here's one that might be about the same idea
https://medium.com/the-unity-developers-handbook/dont-re-invent-finite-state-machines-how-to-repurpose-unity-s-animator-7c6c421e5785

[gray bronze]

What zombie? What animation?

[soft zealot]

i have a 3d model with several clothing peices to choose from do i have to animate and rig each single variation of cloth and person or can i just animate the clth seperately and attach it to the player

[honest rose]

Hi, what do you do for transitions when you have a lot of animations?

i mean, i have to set every transtion time delay to zero and turn off it exit time, when are a few animations its easy...but what i do when are a lot?

and also when i have a lot of bools, ;-;

[unborn zephyr]

When I make an animation that’s 4 key frames long that equal to one second

When I play it it plays then goes on for another 13 seconds

How do I trim it so it loops

[honest surge]

why is add property greyed out for my animation

im trying to add a curve and nothing gives

[royal cloak]

Hello, I need some help here because Im at a dead end

I have an animation exported with this model that should allow the cube around the center to rotate continously, but it's saying that in order for the animation to play I first need to mark it as Legacy. The thing is, I can't mark it as Legacy because for some reason my debug window is greyed out?

Is there another way that I can go about getting this animation to play while my scene runs, or can someone point out what the issue may be?

All I am being told is that I need to "Mark it as Legacy"

[gilded basin]

How can you offset an animation? My animation is working butttt player legs are in wall lol

[inner quiver]

How do you put a fla fille into unity and make it work?

[robust perch]

so if I have an IK chain where the tip is the hand, I still need to do more IK constraints for fingers, even if they are not affected by said IK chain?

do I then need 5 (10) more IK chains for each finger?

it's a pity you can't animate fingers as long as a parent bone is affected by IK constraints

[red bramble]

This is a read-only animation. Notice the label here, and how all of the properties are grayed out.

Animations that are produced by an importer cannot be directly edited.

this one is coming from an FBX you imported. it'll be a sub-asset of the model asset

What are you trying to do here?

[red bramble]

a flash player project file?

that sounds double-plus impossible

[red bramble]

What are you using for IK here? Animation Rigging?

I don't know much about that package. I really need to learn it..

[robust perch]

Yes

[mystic river]

Is there a conventional way of keeping a LookAt IK (Multi-Aim Constraint) target stay in line with a character head upon entering a crouch/prone pose?

[honest surge]

I thought i was setting up a curve to control the weight of the foot ik... for example 1 and you have complete movement towards the ground 0 and he returns to normal foot motion

i was able to duplicate it to where i could add properties and edit curves but it gets confusing after that

[paper cedar]

hey, quick question, in animation transitions, in that time line on the right, what are the units of the numbers bc i thought it would be seconds but the go: 0:10 - 0:20 - 1:00

[wide citrus]

Is there a way to subscribe to animation clip finished playing event in C#?

[honest surge]

transitions are usually a part of a factor or percentage with exit time enabled .75 or 75 percent of the animation plays before blending the other animation in

[red bramble]

Show us a screenshot of exactly what you're asking about

[honest rose]

Hey, what's the best way to call an animation?

I been taught to use Booleans, but honestly, it made some glitches and its pretty unorganized and weird in my opinion, i wanted to use Ints for acomplish a more eficient way, each number for each states, like if i were plain calling them

But now im wondering, is there a way to plain call an animation?

or i just use the ints idea?

[red bramble]

You can directly tell an animator controller to move into a given state.

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animator.Play.html

This is useful if you just have a bunch of states and can reasonably transition between any of them

You're skipping most of the animator controller here, since you aren't using transitions

[honest rose]

this is gold

thank you so much

[honest rose]

hi, i did it and it works! halfway...the states change and thats cool...but why the animation doesnt play?

i mean, its just frame 1

this is the code

[red bramble]

You set a time offset of 2. It's going to try to start 200% through the target state's animation

If it has a looping motion, then that should still be ok

[honest rose]

it not...

then what i should have to do?

wait, how do i set looping? it needs looping

[red bramble]

Where is the animation clip from? If it's from an FBX, click on the model asset and set Loop Time

If it's an asset by itself (not part of a model asset), click on it and check Loop Time

[honest rose]

its a sequence of sprites
Also i think i fix it but now i have another issue

the animations "overlaps" each other

i mean, when it runs, the animation is playing running and idle and walking all at once

how i can fix this?

        {
            transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, objetivo.position, runSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            animator.Play("Base Layer.tuetue_run");
        }

   if (esDerecha == true && debePerseguir == false)
   {
       transform.position += Vector3.right * speed * Time.deltaTime;
       transform.localScale = new Vector3(-1,1,1);
       animator.Play("Base Layer.tuetue_walk");

   }

   if (esDerecha == false && debePerseguir == false)
   {
       transform.position += Vector3.left * speed * Time.deltaTime;
       transform.localScale = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
       animator.Play("Base Layer.tuetue_walk");
   }```

[sour talon]

can someone help explain to me why my character starts off like this first screen shot and stays like that instead of the idle animation in the second screen shot?

its causing them to be stuck in the floor

[red bramble]

what are you transitioning into?

you mentioned there was a transition involved in your post in #💻┃code-beginner

The first pose is the default pose of a humanoid avatar

[red bramble]

that means that there is currently nothing controlling any of the humanoid bones

[sour talon]

Going from idle into a sub machine that goes back to idle

It says that the transition is the same as screenshot 1 but I don’t know how to fix it

[clever glen]

Pls can someone help me with how to make my a animation rigging without animation rigging package am using unity version 5

I mean procedural animation without any package

[robust perch]

I mean you cpuld make one with code

Rotations and calculations and stuff

But why? Using animation rigging is just easier

[red bramble]

What?

[dim cloak]

hi guys

[primal acorn]

hey, is there a way to "return" to an idle state somehow? I imported for templating a 2D controller with a charakter.
It has the animation "attack()". Additionally, it has 2 functions:

attack() and attackOff()
Both functions simply set a bool (Attacking true or false).

If I press space, I want the animation to only play once and then return to idle.
The only solution I found was to check how long the animation lasts, wait this time in ms and then set another state, but that doesn't seem smart

[red bramble]

if you want the animator to move from one state to another, you need to add transitions between your states

[rocky mason]

hello, i want create a procedural animation, but, i've little probleme (i don't know how explain this)...

my bones are not good, and my rig don't function

[magic basin]

your hierarchy doesn't look correct, I suggest naming your parts as foot/shin/leg/hip etc to make it clear what's what, then it might become apparent where your issue is

[rocky mason]

(i don't know where's the problem 😅 🫠 )

i think, the bones are not good

[rocky mason]

no, it's not apprent 😕

[magic basin]

leg should be set up like this:

you have it like this

[rocky mason]

mmmh ok

[rocky mason]

and after ? (hip has a box collider ?)

[magic basin]

kinda looks like you have two hierarchies here, disable the 'rig' one if you're just testing on boxes

[rocky mason]

i thik i've understand where's a problem

[magic basin]

looking a lot better

[rocky mason]

yes but how to do now ?

[magic basin]

Do you have a rig and the ik component?

[rocky mason]

no

[rocky mason]

rig yes

[magic basin]

These are the parts you need

here is the configuration of the ik setup

the target is just a transform called target

[magic basin]

then select the target in play mode and move it around

[magic basin]

the target is where you want the foot to be, the hint you can use later, just make sure the knee is bent a little the way you want it to go

[rocky mason]

the knee isn't way

[rocky mason]

look

[magic basin]

you have the rig builder somewhere with your rig referenced, yes?

[magic basin]

can you confirm the rig builder is set up?

[rocky mason]

yeh

[rocky mason]

it's good

(no resolve, but i just confirm)

[spiral gust]

When im animating in blender and have a number of shapes that i want to turn on and off and i want that to carry over to unity how do others do that?

I'd like to be able to animate values that make their way over to unity that i could have turn on and off bones/objects.

in blender i attach custom properties to the bones that i use to drive visibility just as something for me in blender but i'd like something like that to carry over into the engine

[honest surge]

ayyy i got foot ik working... none of the 4 or so videos on youtube actually explained you have to setup a rig

[errant shard]

ive never seen a rig disappear a model tho..

[snow gorge]

hey so i got a project file which converts 3d model/animtion into pixel art sprite sheet
here is the link:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kALXAWSDYEo&t=5s

but i need to use legacy rig for this to work and when i convert my fbx into legacy rig it becomes invisble like shown in the images but is visible in any other rig mode
how can i fix this please?

[errant shard]

most times it just sinks it into the ground

[errant shard]

im not really an animation guy and deal mostly with static/ hard-surface modelling.. but lots of guys around here are.. just give it some time.. best of luck 🍀

[snow gorge]

thanks brother
i have been trying to find the reason/fix for this from around 18 hours and none of the server respond to the message 😄

[errant shard]

ya, its possible just no one really knows..

are these warnings relevant?

[snow gorge]

yeah understandable its a really old feature from unity

[snow gorge]

nope i tested it the warnings exists for other rig type too but those work fine

[errant shard]

if you can't find an answer here on the discord i would suggest typing out a well, explained question w/ ur examples and images and post to
https://discussions.unity.com/

double up ur chances of getting an answer

[snow gorge]

is that web even active? i never use it before

[errant shard]

its very active.. its Unity's official forums

[snow gorge]

okay i will try to post there once

thanks!

[errant shard]

plus lots of Unity Employee's lurk it

more-so than here i believe

[snow gorge]

hmm yeah makes sense tbh

[small sentinel]

Im trying to record an animation clip, Seems to be working fine for shoulder, but when i try to change the child of shoulder, the shoulder moves back to original position

[unborn zephyr]

How do I use the animation window I hit record position it and then add keyframe and then type in 1 into the window that says 0 and then position it and hit keyframe then when I play it does nothing is my Unity broken?

[wide citrus]

Is there a way to open and work with animations and prefabs in their own scene?
Similar to how we double click on the text files in Visual Studio, they open in their own separate editor for that file. Or in Unreal Engine when I double click on an asset, it's opened into their own separate tab.
Usually in all the programs when we go on and edit an asset, they're opened in their own asset-editing scene.

For example, even in Unity when we edit Sprites in the Sprite Editor, it's a separate tab for that.
I want to see something like that for the Animation and editing Prefab assets.

Can I do that?

[magic basin]

Double clicking a prefab will open it in it's own scene for editing but it shows in the scene view. If you want to see the prefab and the current scene you can do that by pressing the little > 'open prefab in context' button.

What are you trying to achieve?

[wide citrus]

Just a more fluid workflow. For example, to create and edit the animations in the Animation tab I have to:

1. Open a scene.
2. Put a character in it.
3. Click on the character.
4. Have an Animator component on the character.
5. Have an Animator Controller class on the Animator component.

Only then it allows me to create and edit animations in the Animation tab and then I have to have that Animation tab in the same view as the Scene tab to adequately work with it.

[magic basin]

If you have a character prefab already you can double click that character prefab and open them in the prefab editing scene, where you can make animations without having to create a temporary scene.

[wide citrus]

Thanks, that works.

[late cairn]

Anyone know where to learn step by step how to do procedural animation? Like form the very start of making a model then adding the bones correctly so they work in unity with inverse kinematics and then setting up the code in unity. Everything I seem to find assumes I already have a correctly rigged character imported to Unity

[robust perch]

so I set up some custom render passes to render my character over the terrain. He needs to grab the terrain and rotate and all that, so I wanted to make sure his fingers and hand don't clip through the terrain

but there are some issues with that setup

namely, the hands rendered after everything. If he is grabbing something a little bit behind a wall, the hand will be shown through the wall. Also, it's rendered after all other objects that I'm grabbing so I would need to dynamically turn the custom passes on and off

should I do something different? Is it worth it to raycast everything to mechanically make sure the hand isn't penetrating where it shouldn't be

but I'm concerned about the performance costs of all that

[clever glen]

Please where can I find a tutorial on how to learn procedural animation without animation rigging package

[twin musk]

i made animations in blender and imported them to unity but they started moving in unwanted axis how do i fix it??

it should slash and return back to original position everytime but it isnt and keeps going in circles

[red bramble]

you should record an mp4 so that it embeds in discord

[twin musk]

oh

idk

wait

here

[ruby citrus]

Hi guys, I had a question. Is there an easy way or a tool that can fix animations breaking when their hierarchy is moved?

[lunar bronze]

why is unity's animation API just absolute garbage?

[uncut vortex]

Can you elaborate a bit please?

[woven spire]

hey guys
sometimes, my character will hold a weapon with both hands

do I have to recreate all animations for it to hold it with both hands?
or I can make something that only influences where the arms are

[lunar bronze]

Oh man where to start.
No support really for animation start or finished callbacks.
You wanna do something after an animation is done? Gotta do a coroutine. How long does the coroutine run for?
Who f'n knows because to find how long an animation takes you have to dig waay tf into the Animator class and iterate every single animation to find by STRING NAME the f'ing animation--which could differ from the state it's in!
You could try adding an animation event but that only works with scripts that are children of the animator--which the solution for that is...don't use Animator at all! Use Timeline! How creative a solution Unity!!

Oh and you can't really do shit with the gameobject while the animator is controlling it, and animation events aren't even guaranteed to be hit if they're near the end of an animation.

Oh also the obvious animation memory leak which Unity has known about for YEARS and they have yet to patch it.

[woven spire]

so I'm messed up?

[lunar bronze]

No I'm just ranting.
You might be able to do some kinda IK system to target where the hands will go

[woven spire]

oh

like a new ik system inside of unity

okay, sounds good to me and something that should work, do you have any good video about it?

[lunar bronze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB0P0C_3sPU

[woven spire]

lovely! thanks a bunch

[woven spire]

hmm okay, I'll watch the whole video

so far I'm kinda confused with

how I will make different animations for multiple weapons and how to make them work

fe~ a Katana, a short sword and a giant one, I want them to have different attack animations

[twin musk]

Instead of having every single armor constantly stored as a deactivated object under character mesh, Can i remove it, and add it on equip?
I tried doing it, But after adding the item, It wasnt "connected" to the animation/rig

For example:

1. I removed a skirt
2. player equips skirt.
3. Skirt spawns parented to player
4. I select hips root bone in skinnedmeshrenderer
5. Skirt still doesnt move like it originally would. Its not attached to the rig/animation.

Any way i can do this?

[woven spire]

that is kinda complex but

https://github.com/masterprompt/ModelStitching

can't really help you much, but model stitching is the way

[woven spire]

... man... xDDDDDDDDD

[mellow zealot]

My animation window is reporting that the entire hierachy is invalid, like this, while clicking those """missing bones""" selects the correct bone in the hierarchy window.
The animations no longer play, and github isn't telling me that I've modified the character model, the animator, the avatar or even anything on this prefab.
This is in Unity 6000.0.24f1
The animations in the animation source file ALSO no longer play on the character's model.
Since it worked, I have imported a couple of unrelated models, and made some changes to scripts.
Has anyone come across this before?

I understand this might either be a beginner question and therefore might not need help, or that this ISNT a beginner question, and therefore might be ignored, but its kind of halted development and is kind of urgent

okay so, it only happens when there's an animator present in the hierarchy

or, it happens when there's another animator present in the prefab at all

or not?

Okay, figured it out
Two animators existing in the same prefab causes them to not work

It should fix itself once i've figued out my loadout stuff

[green urchin]

Why is this child object (the gun) moving so much more than the parent (small sphere)? It's not being animated, just the sphere is

[tired gulch]

i have this one little problem for some reason my animation does not transfer to what it should when the condition is met in unity if someon can help me fix ?

[sonic flower]

There is a bomb attached to my character's left hand, but I want this bomb to be attached to both hands of the character. When it is attached to a single hand, it can cause problems in character movements and animations. How can I solve this problem?

[woven spire]

hello chat

I'm using two bone constraint

but my elbow isn't working properly, it goes through my character

I thought "hint" would do the work

that little cube, is the hint "ElbowIKTarget_L"

the elbowtarget reference is positioned properly, however how do I apply that weight to my rig for it to bend right

[red bramble]

If you want to react to an animation state entering or exiting, use a StateMachineBehaviour

The animator does not play animation clips. It plays animation states.

An animation state contains a Motion, which could be an animation clip, or could be an entire blend tree.

[light swan]

Any ideas why as to my player stops being able to move etc while the PlayerDeath is in the controller?

even if there are no transitions player doesnt work with the PlayerDeath in it

[viral tangle]

So the animation just freezes when you reach the death animation? It likely is just looping back and forth so that is stuck at the first frame.

Honestly, you should probably just ditch the unity animation tree.

[small sentinel]

anyone?

[graceful girder]

Animancer question... Given plain clips without FSM integration, can a single animancer component play multiple clips at once or would I need a dedicated component for each clip I'd like to play / control in parallel?

[pure haven]

Could anybody help me with this animation? Inside Blender, picture the armature climbing on top of a cube, and it looks as you'd expect. Here, it seemas as if the armature can't move at all. Even when I use root node animation, it kinda bugs out. The animation drops way down

Here's what it looks like altogether. (Yes I know i have some code work to do, only making sure the climbing bool gets set RIGHT when we're about to climb, for example)

[graceful girder]

I know this is no help and I have no idea what I expected but I busted out laughing. I hope you get it sorted 🤞🙏

[pure haven]

😂 I appreciate it

Elevator down to hell or something lol

[graceful girder]

Yeah I was on the brink there, when he slotted himself in though, couldn't hold on 🙌

[pure haven]

I'm closer...Any ideas how to import an anim so he won't fall back down after this

[green urchin]

Anyone know why my animation rigging rig isnt being updated? If I disable and enable the rig builder it updates but just for a frame. I'm just using a rig with 2 two bone IK constraints for my FPS arms.

[green urchin]

use root motion and mess around with the "root transform position (y)" settings in the import settings of the source file

[pure haven]

I think if you set a root node the position y menu goes away, no?

Also when I set root motion in code, you get what you see. When I set a root node in import settings he falls to througu the floor at the start of the anim

[bold gate]

hi ppl,I had a problem which is strange to me ._. I import some stripped animation with root motion and configure them as humanoid, and the problem is that the preview window shows the 180° rotation ones are actually giving like ~145° . How could I debug this or fix it? I don't even know how to google this.... But I checked the raw animation files in maya and their root rotations looks fine tho

[rose crown]

Can someone tell me why the transition between any state and jump is getting triggered once more even though its only condition (isJumping) is already to set to false when it triggers the transition for no reason

as you can see this in this screenshot the condition is off, but the transition is getting triggered

[gusty garnet]

right now you should have transition from run to jump and back, no idea why you have connected to the any

also it seems like something is triggering the transition because you dont have a transition that goes back to it. do you have code to share

[rose crown]

i tried using a trigger instead of bool
It seems to have fixed it for now
but do you know how i can make it respond instantly to the jump button and trigger the animation, without turning "has exit time" off. Because whenever i turn that off the animations just break or loop

[gusty garnet]

hasExitTime simply means play until end of animation.

can you show how your are triggering the jump animation

but we would see how you are triggering

also i am not sure if the checkbox you showd above really shows the state if changed by code.

would not rely on it too much

also keep in mind you could simply use animator.Play() if you want to brutfoce the animation to play. i would not recommend it tbh, never had a situtation where i had to use it.

hope that helped you.

[viscid patrol]

unity peoples i have hte most weirdestest of a bug and i need the assist

does DOTween only work on objects with a rigidbody

or is this a weird interaction between DOTween and probuilder objs

nvm fixed

[small sentinel]

ah yes, the yeet function

lmao

"thing"

[red bramble]

You can construct a blend or use multiple layers

I haven't done the former "by hand" before

[brittle storm]

hey guys

basically i made this animation of a gun shooting and now i wanna export the animation to use it in blender. what do i do?

is it possible?

[wide citrus]

Is there a way to get notified in C# when animation clip ends? As in I'm OK to subscribing to Animator or AnimatorController event from the component as long as I get an animation clip ended event no matter what animation clip finished.

I have my own state machine running in C# and what I did so far is on each animation clip I create a custom animation event and I call a function AnimationTriggerEvent on my Character component:

Then in my Character component I call one on the current state in the state machine:

    [UsedImplicitly]
    public virtual void AnimationTriggerEvent(AnimationEvent AnimationEvent) {
        StateMachine.CurrentState.AnimationTriggerEvent(AnimationEvent);
    }

This works, but the problem is that I have to create a custom animation event on each animation clip.

[desert ermine]

How can I make the character stand upright? There seems to be something on their back that is making them look strange.

[gray bronze]

Install the FBX Exporter package in Unity. Then you can export your animation to FBX which can be imported into blender

[potent copper]

hello, for some reason my animation has a little bit of a delay, when i stop moving the walking animation plays for a little bit after not moving. and when moving left to right, for a split second the animation goes to idle state then back to running. Has Exit Time is disabled for both transitions. How can i fix this?

[wide citrus]

Show how the transitions look like

[potent copper]

I fixed it, I didn't see a drop down menu underneath Exit Time.

[untold coyote]

https://paste.ofcode.org/3atBPhfPbKJV36Mv9UgTy3J

don t know how i can fix the animations doesn t seem to get triggered has the single attack for charcters with one and 4 for charcters who have all (tower defense)

[soft zealot]

I have a 3d model with interchangeable clothes. I wanto animate the player but want the clothes tk folow the player. It easy for small accessories like hat and glasses because j can jest make them a child of the bones but if I want to add a t shirt that spans across several bones I can't do that. Any ideas kn how to do that

[empty lynx]

Animations process through mixamo, try to run them in unity nothing happens

[empty lynx]

nvm fixed

[marsh kindle]

can someone help me to understand why cloth doesn't move with bones

i set its root bone to base model, but it still seem to be bound with their own bone

[vernal maple]

might be annoying but would someone mind breifly explaining to me how I can add colliders to an animation thats already setup in unity? I am unsure if I can just add the mesh collider and have its transform position set to the same during each animation or if there is a way I can do this in blender by exporting the fbx? I have 0 animation experience and google hasnt been helpful with any explenations of what I am specifically trying to do

[tranquil quail]

I Think the colliders would be bound to the skeleton/mesh, so they would move with it. it would most likely be a series of small Capsule colliders, and a mix of other shapes, but will not be a Mesh Collider, as they do not function with Skinned Meshes properly, AFAIK. This covers a lot about Animation: https://unity.com/resources/definitive-guide-animation-unity-2022-lts-ebook

also, probably a good idea to check out the Pathways on the !learning site, as these concepts are covered, mostly, but i forget exactly what chapters and where.

[dusk vale]

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[rare latch]

I assume you want colliders for attacking/detecting damage?

[vernal maple]

yes

[rare latch]

use box colliders

like around the wrist, around the leg and foot

[vernal maple]

will they move with the animation though?

[rare latch]

every part can have different colliders, and keep them turned off and only enable them when they are attacking

[rare latch]

they must be child of things you're animating

like the arm bone

or fist bone

you downloaded the animations from mixamo or something right?

[vernal maple]

is this something I would do in blender then? cause the animation and model is from the asset store

[rare latch]

you did not make them

[vernal maple]

correct

[rare latch]

then just open the animation, it will tell you what parts are getting animated

wait

[rare latch]

💀

[vernal maple]

that might be difficult for me

[rare latch]

it would be, but there's no other choice

though there is

most of the humanoid models have a pretty standard structure

expand the zombie's gameobject in heirarchy and send ss

[vernal maple]

its not a prefab yet as i wanted it to be correct based on what i wanted first

I did have code setting the colliders to each component but that didnt work as it just made like 20 boxes around the model all in same position

[rare latch]

click on, say Z_R_ArmPalm

and then play the aniamtion

look if your moving tools (the xyz arrows) are moving with the animation

[rare latch]

that might be just buggy code, although it would be easier to just manually add them

colliders and their sizes are a headache if you're trying to predict them

[vernal maple]

they dont appear to move with the animation in the transform

[rare latch]

i see

then they are the mesh renderer

click on root bone in skinned mesh renderer component

and it'll lead you to what's moving

[vernal maple]

it brings me to base HumanRArmForearm

[rare latch]

yep

thats your target

add a box collider to it and it'll move

[vernal maple]

cant be a mesh renderer becuase of the skinned mesh renderer right?

[rare latch]

mesh collider*?

[vernal maple]

yes

collider

[rare latch]

you can add mesh collider to it as well then reference the arm palm mesh

bt

that's gonna be very unoptimized for not much gain

[vernal maple]

ahhh okay

[rare latch]

and as you go on, you'll realise every little performance matters

[vernal maple]

fair

[rare latch]

because it gets out of hand REALL quickly

[vernal maple]

so if that will help me with the animation then what can I do about seperating the Z_R_Arm parent prefab from the animation and creating a copy of it in its place as a detatched object with a rigidbody, simulating an arm being blown off? it works with the mesh collider you can see in another vid I posted that i can repost, except with the skinned mesh being disabled it kinda removes the texture any way around this?

[rare latch]

yeah that's going to be they way I think

it can work with capsule colliders too fairly similarly I think

[rare latch]

open the skinned mesh renderer

and copy the material

use a normal mesh renderer

[vernal maple]

trying to add a box collider messes it up a bit 😅

[rare latch]

tf lmao

dont know

[vernal maple]

shite

[rare latch]

need more info to make an assumption

[vernal maple]

ooh i was adjusting it using the cursor not the inspector so I was adjusting the transform not the box collider

[rare latch]

ah oka

there is an edit collider button in colliders

[vernal maple]

man this is going to kill me, the UpperArm both left and right are using the Ribcage transform will that still work or should I just set the Forearm L and R as one big box collider for the entire arm?

[rare latch]

yeah you can

[vernal maple]

okay that will make it easier

[rare latch]

it doesn't need to be highly accurate because even players like some wiggle room when they SLIGHTLY miss shooting the arm or whatever

[vernal maple]

okay ill do this for the next 30 minutes then be back to figure out removing the skinned for regular mesh

[rare latch]

good luck lol

[vernal maple]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I LOVE YOU so much my god jesus 6 hours of struggling to fix this god dam with so many google searches youtube videos and chatgpt requests

well now to test if they work with my bullet / zombie script

okay so it doesnt work with the script but thats probably a coding issue so back to chatgpt for a bit

[empty lynx]

I h ave some unique issues

I put a rigid body on y ahand so it has hit collisions

but then it just flies away magically for now reason???

[kind aspen]

Are there any other physics components/scripts acting upon your rigidbody?

[empty lynx]

no this is all the code for thsi speicifc rigid body

originally it was just collision boxes

but in order to make body based damage work i had to add rigid bodies to each part

[kind aspen]

So your code is affecting it?

[empty lynx]

sneidng screenshots

thats it

they work as decting if they were hit by a speicfic projectile

but they and they send the proepr value over but they just fly away

[kind aspen]

What exactly is ‘’hitcheck’’? And take this to #💻┃code-beginner / #archived-code-general ..

[empty lynx]

alrighty

[empty lynx]

OH MY IT WORKS

SUprisignly wasnt the work to impleement just one recursive function was needed

[peak pebble]

suppose I have an entity that only ever has one animation state, cycling through maybe a handful of frames for the complete animation and never displaying any other behaviour or animation - should I be setting up a whole animation tree for that anyways or is there a simpler solution for a one state loop like that? is there merit to just writing code that cycles through the sprite frames or should I be using a function already built into the engine?

[pulsar tundra]

Animated Spline Mesh does not regenerate

[next siren]

Hey everyone! I'm a solo dev and I'm really struggling to get my blender hand/feet constraints to work in Unity. I read somewhere that creating a humanoid avatar in Unity for my rig fixes this, but I can't seem to get the armature right. Does anyone have a humanoid unity-ready armature that I can use to animate my character in Blender?

I made a post about this here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/s/eItM5jJT2y

Any help would really be appreciated. I've been spending entire weeks on this problem.
Thank you!!

[vernal maple]

trying to use mixamo to create a basic animation and idk why but its not working correctly or im being dumb and not doing something right, I gave my FBX to mixamo and downloaded the animation I wanted but it doesnt work

cant preview the animation and it doesnt work as intended on play

[ember hull]

Yo, anyone here knows how to use the Avatar system?
I'm trying to set up avatar swapping, something is not working
My rigs/avatars both have the same rigging, same bone names
they have both a humanoid avatar set to the force T pose mode
I swap out the avatars in the animator, still no animations sync

maybe my hierarchy setup is incorrect?

[red bramble]

What errors are you getting?

[ember hull]

none, it just wont perform any of the animations

[red bramble]

It says there were errors when importing the models.

[ember hull]

once I swap avatars ofc

[ember hull]

oh, its just since the rig is not 100% humanoid

[red bramble]

Okay, but that might mean that it's getting a completely bogus humanoid avatar

[red bramble]

which would prevent it from retargeting animations

[ember hull]

true

how do I fix it?

[red bramble]

You could throw in some empty bones

[ember hull]

use a legacy Avatar?

[red bramble]

If the models have identical bones, just use Generic

[ember hull]

oh, alr

[red bramble]

Import one normally

[ember hull]

they do, both models are designed AROUND the same rig

[red bramble]

Then have the other one copy the avatar definition

[ember hull]

ohhh wait

I got a VisualPlayer and a feraMonster, ill make the MONSTER create from the Visual

[red bramble]

"Generic" has no real rules. It just doesn't support animation retargeting from one avatar to another

[ember hull]

hm wait

so, I CANT retarget animations?

like at all

[red bramble]

"Retargeting" meaning between differently-shaped armatures

[ember hull]

oh

nvm then

[red bramble]

If two models use the same Generic avatar, then you can play animations on both

[ember hull]

they are the same

alr

one sec

[red bramble]

(I'm not sure what'd happen if you just created both avatars from the models)

they WOULD match

I guess you'd just get a redundant avatar definition

[ember hull]

alr did it

lemme try again

well it is already stuck in a T pose

hold on

[grave pollen]

Hey ! Sorry for bothering but im not sure where to ask this but could someone give me a hand with one of my projects ? Nothing big but just something animation related i cant seem to figure out

[viral tangle]

!ask

[dusk vale]

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[viral tangle]

oh wait that what the wrong one

Don’t ask to ask. Just ask.

[grave pollen]

So my character does this when i load the game

Idk why tho

Like the animation "plays" but doesnt really play

and it sticks him halfway through the ground

[red bramble]

That's the default pose for a Humanoid avatar

nothing is animating the body

It looks like your animator contains Generic animation clips.

[grave pollen]

So if i change it it should work ?

[red bramble]

If you have two model assets:

• The model, with no animations
• Another model, with animations

then both need to imported as Humanoid

You'll probably then need to re-assign the animation clips in the animator controller

[grave pollen]

IT WORKS

THANK YOU

Now i just gotta prevent it from floating and acting weird

Thank you

[red bramble]

no prob!

Humanoid animations require a human-shaped body, but they let you play animations designed for any human body

even if the proportions aren't the same

Generic animations have no real rules, but they require an exact armature match

[grave pollen]

Okok

Is it fine if i ask some more questions ?

Cause some other issues came up

My guy is now running in front of the camera

Like its supposed to be first person but now he just dashes in front /

[red bramble]

Uncheck “use root motion” on your animator

Root motion makes the animator’s object move around

It’s useful to get accurate movement from your animation, but you probably don’t want it here

[grave pollen]

Its not checked tho

Also is there a way to loop animations if they are in a prefab ?

[red bramble]

Loop Time is a property of the animation clip itself

Not the animator controller’s animation states

[grave pollen]

Yeah but its locked since its in the prefab

I have no access to i

[red bramble]

Oh, you mean it’s a sub asset of the model

[grave pollen]

Nevermind

[red bramble]

Select the model asset and go to the Animation tab

You can configure it in there

[grave pollen]

I figured out😭

But i still have the running in front of the cam problem

[red bramble]

Pause the game while this is happening

See where the different objects are located in the scene

[grave pollen]

This is what i see

I guess its like the skeleton that goes halfway though Narnia ?

Could it be a script problem ?

[red bramble]

Hit Z to switch from "Center" mode to "Pivot" mode (image 1). This will cause the handles (image 2) to appear at the actual position of the object

you'll want to look at the position of "mixamorig:Hips"

[gleaming laurel]

in a animation layer, is there a way to set the blending mode by code? i've achieved exactly what i like by setting the weight on layer one to 1 and setting the base layers blending mode to additive in the editor but i'm not seeing anything to do it codewise

have searched and so far nothing but will keep searching

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animations.AnimatorControllerLayer.html

appears to be set here

now to figure out how to get that

oh ffs, its a editor class

should've spotted that before

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/AnimationBlendMode.html thats a runtime one tho

[gleaming laurel]

hm, don't quite have it but i think its good enough. first layer is additive with a mask on the bones i want to move for this animation while second is override with a mask having everything

both animations are looping

the bits outside are still rotating enough and the whole thing rocks back and forth, the blue thingy at the end is meant to rotate as well but don't think it'll be noticed enough

will need to write a coroutine for setting the weight but i saw that so should be easy

[pulsar torrent]

IDK if Unity is monitoring this place or not, if yes: https://discussions.unity.com/t/animation-status-update-q4-2024/1571106
I prefer experimental, using the things as soon as possible, giving feedback Unity can happily ignore. but maybe this time it will be different. No need to support it in prod. You can support and look for stability after beta.
I also prefer if you are hell-bent on waste your time on AI "features", then please make them optional. There are people out here who has zero inclination using any kind of generative AI solutions. I am one of them. I also pledged not to use any assets made with AI. Even if the publisher failed to disclose it and did it only after I can't get refund for those. So, do whatever you want, you will do it anyway, but please, for the love of all Viking gods, make those "features" optional and allow us to avoid them.

[lean wind]

So I'm genuinely losing my mind, I have this set of animations (idle_release_closed and idle_release_open) and they just REFUSE to work with the additive mode. They work fine only in override. All of my other animations (including the presented rotator_engage) work perfectly fine on both the first and second additive layers

The animations were imported from the same model, they have the exact same settings, I don't know why they're not working

[lean wind]

I figured it out. Apparently additive animations don't like being static. Jesus

[snow skiff]

My character have a SpriteSkin and an animation
When I run the animation fast, the bones not back to the original position
Someone can help me?

[limber rivet]

Is the animator built into the editor? I can't create a fork of it?

[eager dirge]

I've imported an FBX model with a rig and animations into Unity, then created a new animation in Blender and exported just the armature as an FBX. How can I retarget or add this new animation to the existing rig in Unity? I want to add the 'ARMS_Inspect' animation to the 'PSX_First_Person_Arms' rig. They have the same armature.

Or is there another way to create FPS animations where only the weapons and animations change, and the rig remains the same, keeping everything organized? I can't think of another way besides using IK or making each weapon have its own arm model, spawning and destroying it depending on which weapon is being used. This method seems very inefficient to me, as I want a large number of weapons in my game, or even a modular approach, with attachments, etc. Therefore, a procedural approach with IK seems to make the most sense to me, but I have no idea how to implement it. Are there any good FPS focused tutorials on the subject?

[eager dirge]

Or if my first approach is viable, how can I add/organize the animations to work with a variety of weapons? Currently, my idea is to export the arms and the gun separately and then synchronize them in the engine. This would result in the arms having hundreds of animations, but it seems like the best approach I've found so far.

[mystic river]

Would it be possible to replace a number of Override Transform Constraints from Animation Rigging package with a single Job that uses AnimationHumanStream? I need to create a bi-directional bind between bones and rigidbodies for a ragdoll, but maintaining a double set of constraints is a nightmare.

[red bramble]

Import them both as "Generic" animations

you can have one copy the other's Avatar definition

[red bramble]

as in, an animation that only has one keyframe?

I remember having a lot of fun with this

(the un-fun kind of fun)

[lean wind]

That and the fact that additive animations use their first frame as their base

Such a headache

[red bramble]

Yeah.

[verbal estuary]

I'm struggling to import some animations from blender as an fbx and to have them appear correctly in unity.

so there is the gif of this recoil animation looking wrong in unity. it looks like the foregrip hand's ik target got baked on the ground. it is supposed to stay glued to the grip. I'm assuming this is because the gun (which has the bone that his foregrip constraint targets) and the guy are in two separate blender collections, and i am trying to export them as two separate fbx files. should i just cave in and export them both together or have any of yall done this before and could clue me in on the arcane knowledge to fix it.

the fix is probably more of a blender thing than a unity one, but i figured this is still the best place to ask.

[mellow zealot]

If I have two transitions for an animation at the same time - one with a transition parameter and one without - will either take priority, or should I offset the first one slightly?

[mellow zealot]

you'll likely have to bake the keyframes for this in blender
sometimes, the bake on export doesn't do things in the right order, for example it might be baking the front hand before it does anything else

Im actually doing a lot with exporting weapons and their animations separetely, too

[verbal estuary]

i'm not sure if i understand the question. which one do you want to play in that scenario? i'd say you should add another condition to explicitly disallow one transition if the higher priority transition condition is met.

im just answering based on how the situation smells ngl. i dont use the built in animation state machine with its GUI and stuff. i just replace it entirely with c#.

[verbal estuary]

Thanks. I will look into that.

I guess I can just go in and keyframe the positions of the hand manually.

[robust perch]

I will never understand unity's animation system

if I have a bone that starts at a position, then I add a keyframe that moves the position down, why the hell does it move up, then down in the animation

why would that happen

[red bramble]

because the animation told it to move up, then down

the animator does exactly what you tell it to

You can switch to the "Curves" view to see if there's anything funny going on

[devout ember]

I have an IK rig, and the animations work fine, but the transitions look really ugly because the hands and feet are not parented to the forearms so they don't transition well are theyre just going linearly to the transition. how can i fix this?

[eager dirge]

i kind of solved it, the issue was i put the animator on the prefab instead of the armature/rig so it didnt work when i tried to use the armature motion from the other fbx

[red bramble]

ah, yeah, animation clips store a path to the target object (plus a property name)

[eager dirge]

so is this good practice? i think i can override the (arms) animations so it matches the gun i have at the moment, and then i just synchronize the gun and arms animation, right?

and also, I can have everything organized as every arm + gun animation "pack" will be grouped on a single light fbx with just the animation data

correct me if im wrong im kind of slow lol

[mystic river]

Is it possible to override a position of a bone from IWeightedAnimationJob? For some reason SetGlobalTR applies only rotation.

[mystic river]

For some reason it works with pelvis, but not with any other bone. As if Animation Rigging applies implicit constraints on the distance between bones.

[red bramble]

I've never done this kind of animation, so I don't really know!

I need to figure that out eventually

[eager dirge]

yeah i guess thats what ill use for now

also dumb error but i dont know how to google it

i've tried with bool, trigger, int but none of them work, it keeps updating before ending the loop

[red bramble]

You have "Can Transition To Self" set on the transition from Any State

Unfold the Settings in the transition's inspector

(or whatever the text is; i forget the exact wording)

[eager dirge]

damn it was that easy

tysm!

[small sentinel]

any ideas why my avatar mask isn't working? I have the bones selected, want to animate only the right arm, but the all the other bones go into t pose

[shy rock]

Hey there! I am trying to do something in unity but I am having a hard time achieving it. I am trying to play an animation when a UI button is clicked(Without any scripts), can someone help me? thanks

What I am trying to do is when the Left UI button is clicked it plays the animation

[devout ember]

anyone know a solution to this?

[outer hazel]

I've got this character imported from mixamo where I would like to separate the head from the rest so that I can stop rendering it while keeping the shadow. How can I do this while keeping the same bone structure?

[near rivet]

you trying to add a first person camera to it?

[outer hazel]

yes

It's almost working actually, but I don't get how to hide the head

[near rivet]

I'm not really sure either but in project settings i belive yoou caann adjust the nnear plane clipping or something like that

let me see if i can find the setting

[outer hazel]

You can do that in the camera

[near rivet]

inn camera settings of you camera adjust the clippinng

[outer hazel]

good idea

let me see

worked like a charm, went from 0.1 to 0.2 and it's perfect

[near rivet]

oh sweet

i thinnk that is a much simpiler solution than adjusting the bone structure

[outer hazel]

Definitely

Is there any good guide to turn feet motion to IK?

For beginners

[near rivet]

oh boy

i actually was gonna try the same thing with my characters

very new to ik myself

but based on what i have learned you nneed to have a linnecast from the feet to the floor annd use a constraint

let me try to remember exactly which one

[outer hazel]

But do I need to blend it with the animation?

[near rivet]

two bonne constraint

im not sure

i would try applying it at a certain point inn the annimation

so if the charactrer is doinng a walking animation, i would keyframe the point inn the animation where the foot should be on the ground and use that to set a bool that would determine when the ik should kick in

im not sure about that though

does anybody have any fimiliarity with active ragdolls. I set this one up with my character but he ends up twisting himself like crazy. i used configurable joints:

[mystic river]

Do you copy each bone transform on a separate armature or apply it directly over animation rigging?

[near rivet]

i made a configurable joint for all the limbs and spine objects (excluding the hips) and assigned all the game objects connected body to the object they are parented to. Then i made a really basic script for each limb with a config joint that will set the target rotation of the joint to the same as the animated one.

[near rivet]

I made it so that it no longer twists itself up, but every movement of the main character is seriously amplified to the point that just barely moving the animated character causes the active ragdoll one to bend that limb extremely far.

[mystic river]

• Try use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/class-CharacterJoint.html. For what I know, an animation-driven ragdoll doesn't need a complexity of configurable joints.
• Check in which space a rotation occurs. When I tried to bolt animated bones on rigidbodies, I learned that rotation should be relative to parents or something.
• One framework I came across uses .Sleep() on rigid-bodies to tone down physics at earlier stage of ragdoll animation.

[soft zealot]

im using configurable joints for my rope but when and object collides with it above snail speed it freaks out and starts clipping and flying any idea on how to fix this?

either that or it ignore collsion

[mystic river]

Maybe this is due to the mass difference between collided rigidbodies and a collision method or the rope rigidbodies?

[soft zealot]

i realized that teh capsule colliders in the rope get stuck inside the box collider casuing them to extend beyond their range to try to no be within the collider

but i dont know how to fix it

[soft zealot]

also if i were to have both sides of the ropes not attached to anything how would i do that

specifically the usual anchor point. what rb should i connect it to if the rope iosnt attached

[mystic river]

You could flag the first segment as kinematic to lock it in place.

[soft zealot]

i mean like have the rope not attched

so both are free

i figured it out now

[terse salmon]

Hi, anybody know if there are any like kneeling, crouching, squatting animations somewhere to buy for Females but that are nothing related to Females that are combat or parkour type of females but just civilians. I don't see any of them. If they are, they always seem like they are for athletes or combat characters. I'm trying to make game of real life interacting with people in town and not all of them will be enemies attacking or battling. They unity assetstore doesnt seem to have anything like this

[wide citrus]

How to disable interpolation for animated values between key frames?

[red bramble]

If you do want to do this, you'll need to edit the actual model

You'd just split the head off from the rest of the mesh in Blender or whatever

this would give you two skinned mesh renderers that use the same armature

(you could also just shrink the head bone)

[near rivet]

ok thanks ill check it out. alsoo, Is this a good direction to go to create more realistic deaths for enemy npc in a fps game?

[wide citrus]

Found how to do it: RMB on the keyframe, left tangent, constant.

[mystic river]

Depends on the definition of 'realistic'. Ever since I've discovered few days ago that Animation Rigging doesn't allow arbitrary movement of bones, I'm trying to convince myself that a blend from a death animation into "passive" ragdoll is more realistic. For example, https://youtu.be/pPXkqJ0zOps.

[near rivet]

yeah that is much more the look I am going for. I think I will incoporate that. the reasonn I want to use the active ragdoll is because I want to simulate uhh... suffering on the ground. so i only need the active ragdoll to turn on after the enemy has competely ragdolled and fallen to the floor.

Oh and thanks so much for the idea of using character joints. I have the active ragdoll working much better. I told chatgpt to write the code tho cause I wanst about to deal with quaternions

[mystic river]

Do you plan to blend the character back into standing up animation?

[near rivet]

I have considered this. I'm not sure honestly bc I have heard about the difficulties incorporating this. Although, now that I have an active ragdoll it would be much easier. I will have to see how things pan out with transitioning between animtions, ragdoll, and the active ragdoll.

[mystic river]

I tried this with one armatures, and binding animated bones to rigidbodies isn't trivial. Based on your experience it should be easier with two armatures.

[near rivet]

yeah i just made a quick script to binnd the animated character to the physical oone to test it out

[vague zinc]

hi, i have an animation in an instantiated prefab that's not playing for some reason. the debug.log statement after i set the anim trigger IS actually debugging something though.

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/cacutewuxe.csharp

[near rivet]

any errorrs in the console?

[near rivet]

do you know any good tutorials for how to do this? I get a big jerk from my character when the ragdoll is enabled.

[red bramble]

Select the object and look in the Animator window

You'll be able to see what's going on inside the animator

[agile solstice]

Big jerks often show up when there's overlapping colliders or over-extended joints which the physics engine automatically corrects with forces
That's more likely to occur when the ragdoll is instantiated in a pose

[pearl hedge]

Pls someone help, how do i set up this animation so i can go from any state to another without making a 6 node complete orientated graph out of my animations and transitions 😭 🙏🏻

[near rivet]

should i try disabling the coliders foor a couple frames and then turn them back on?

[agile solstice]

I would not count on it but I guess it doesn't hurt to try

[agile solstice]

I'd put all those in one blend tree

[pearl hedge]

what is a blend tree

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/class-BlendTree.html

[wanton siren]

You guys know when you import a sprite from Aesprite, and its a 64x64 frame with like empty space surrounding the sprite, but when you import it in, all of the empty space on the right gets deleted and now your sprite is at an offset? how do you prevent that

[upper dove]

does anyone know if theres a good video on getting animations from blender into unity, id like to make some somewhat cinematic things and I dont understand how id lock the player into a cutscene animation and stuff. or like if anyone knows a good video on how to do that kind of stuff without blender id like to check it out. because animations being imported seems weird to me and I hate going back and forth with my animations just for one little thing to be off, and I just dont have good workflow yet

[upper dove]

somebody suggested this and im wondering have any of yall done this? is this efficient?

[viral tangle]

Export the blender file as a fbx for the animations. Timeline is a good tool for cutscenes, unless you mean’t prerendered cutscenes.

[sterile vine]

no i don't know about that, can you show what issue you're having exactly?
if you're importing aseprite it should give you separate sprites for each frame and also an animationclip

[pseudo seal]

i have an animation in unity, i need to assign it to a specific gameobject without recording a new animation
(i need to copy it multiple times)

any methods?

[sterile vine]

what exactly is the issue you're having? what are you trying to do?
why would assigning an animation to a gameobject necessitate recording a new one?

[pseudo seal]

mainly with assigning the gameObject for animation to take affect on it

my plans were to make an animation preesets and just copy paste them for UI elements and assign what button calls what animation

it looks very nicely but i cant duplicate it and assign it

[sterile vine]

ah i'd guess those take references

perhaps make those gameobjects inherit from a prefab?

and then set the animation on the prefab

[pseudo seal]

idk, i have theese, my first time working with animations

all of the animations i did were procedural very complex trigonometry in 3d but this is simple 2d

[sterile vine]

i mean, internally they probably work on references, so you can't really duplicate them

but you could use a prefab to do so

[pseudo seal]

so i cant change the object marked here in red?

[sterile vine]

not automatically probably not

[upper dove]

Do I export the mesh separately then the animations? Because the animations are read only when I import everything together and it just doesn't seem to be working

I mean I can't effectively add new animations without reimporting

[burnt bay]

can someone here help me with an issue on animation layers and anim masks?

[sterile vine]

https://dontasktoask.com

[burnt bay]

it's a bit complex. I have an issue where I play the same animation on different layers, but it looks different than when I play the same animation in a full body layer, and when I pause and look at the animator window they're desyncronized with their time, even with me starting them from 0 on the same frame

I've started them on the same frame

[upper dove]

I tried to export animations and meshes seperately from blender to unity to try and assemble them in unity but it wont work does anyone have any suggestions or a good workflow they use to add animations. the issue is, if I export it together I cant easily add new animations I make without deleting old imports

[burnt bay]

... I think i've fixed my own issue by marking "Timing" on animation layer 🙂

[gray bronze]

What kind of objects are you animating?

[upper dove]

this creature

Im not familiar with avatars or animations too much, I know how to import them and code them in and stuff but I cant add more later without redoing everything

someone suggested saving the blender file in the unity game asset folder but I was trying to figure out different ways

[gray bronze]

You should be able to import additional animations for an existing armature

Just remember that Unity/Unreal can only import basic rig constraints.

[upper dove]

well what do you mean by constraints because right now my rig is just weight painted, its not really "rigged" its just the skeleton thats it. I did import animations in seperately but I really have no idea where to add them since its all a mess. when I did add them the model just dissapears when the animations play

[gray bronze]

Like Blender IK, copy location/rotation, squash/stretch type stuff

Sounds like you’re fine if you don’t know what constraints are

[upper dove]

just loc, rot, scale

I dont worry about constraints but I just cant import the animations and get them to attach

[gray bronze]

Ok, so have you managed to make any of your animations you imported into Unity work?

[upper dove]

yeah but the problem is, is I can get new animations in and connect them to a model I imported with animations previously

like this works. but I cant add more to this import later

[gray bronze]

just bring it in as a new import

[upper dove]

the whole thing?

[gray bronze]

just the new animations

[upper dove]

with armature selected in the export?

[gray bronze]

not even needed

in the Import window for this new FBX with just animations in it, go to Rig, select Generic and Copy From Other Avatar. Then pick your existing avatar

[upper dove]

so I pick the old avatar on the new imported animations or other way around?

[gray bronze]

existing avatar on the new animations

[mystic badge]

Does anyone have a good idea of when the experimental version for this actually going to come out? Every day longer it takes is another day I can't learn how this actually works.
https://discussions.unity.com/t/animation-status-update-q4-2024/1571106

[gray bronze]

Based on what they've written, maybe official release 1st half of 2026? I think it's gonna be a while as it's an ambitious overhaul.

[upper dove]

so could I just drag the animation from the import onto the animator tree thing?

[gray bronze]

Yep

[upper dove]

ight

[gray bronze]

I just tested the process myself again using a non-humanoid I have just to be sure.

[upper dove]

no way it worked

your a life saver bro

[gray bronze]

Hey no problem.

[wanton siren]

i fixed it. i exported the sprite anim as a PNG instead of an aesprite file