🏃┃animation

[robust perch]

so I'm using animation rigging and IK targets, right?

my left hand (tip) is supposed to align with the terrain as is my right

but sometimes my right hand is aligned properly and sometimes shifted by 180 degrees backward

it all depends on how I orient the player before I hit play

if I turn him this way and press play, it works. If I turn him the other way and press play, it keeps breaking in the opposite direction, even if I turn around afterwards

I tried everything, different kinds of quaternion as well as euler rotations, different timings, frames etc.

but only now I figured out that my logic is working correctly, because both of my IK targets are oriented correctly, it's just that my right hand is offset from that rotation sometimes

doesn't align with its target which is strange

I checked both hand rigs and they are identical, nothing suggests one should be rotated differently

I don't know what to look for further

[robust perch]

OK I finally managed to fix this in a bizzare way. I don't know why it worked. I don't understand at all but it did work

[final shore]

hey guys how do i make an animation cancel out / take priority over another in the animator panel?
(beginner btw)

[crystal hollow]

Hello everyone, I'm not too sure if anyone would be able to help me, but I am having an issue using the MFPS framework where I need to create some animations for a Generic rigged character where the system usually uses a Humanoid rig to retarget animations..... I'm not too familiar with how animations work, but this is what I've tried:

Using the animation system I just used the original animation and tried to record the movements.... but when playing the game it won't show the animation at all?

So if anyone could help me out to at least point me in the right direction on the steps I would need to take to make this work I would appreciate it.

[dim zodiac]

Hey there, I hope you all are doing great!

Im working on a project that the char has attributes and one of them is speed. So the character can have a low speed or a high speed. I did all the code to increase/decrease movement according to the attribute, the animations are great on normal speed, are acceptable on high speed but artificial on low speed (slow motion like).

Considerating that I have no budget to buy multiple clips and I dont have that much time to learn how to animate and create the multiple clips versions, there is any other solution than have multiple animation clips for each speed ?

[kind aspen]

You can try checking out a website called mixamo and see if it fits your needs

[unreal plank]

Is there a simple way to create a single Sprite out of multiple separate images inside Unity (to use as a spritesheet for animation)?

[dim zodiac]

Im getting it from there, Ill make jog for lower speeds and run for medium/higher speeds, I think it will work

[agile solstice]

Yes
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/VFXToolbox
Generally you don't need to, though
Whether sprites were imported as sprite sheets or as individual images, they work the same

If you need to compile them for performance reasons, Sprite Atlas will do the job

It also compiles sprite sheets, but internally in a way that doesn't affect your workflow of using sprites

[scenic sorrel]

One of my game's animations refuses to end and I'm so confused lol

[kind aspen]

There’s a slider for overdrive I believe it does that

[void sigil]

U mean looping?

[scenic sorrel]

no I turned loop time off

[void sigil]

Can you send screen record here so people here can exactly know what issue u have

[scenic sorrel]

I'm guessing the transition out isn't working but I'm not sure

[brave storm]

Show the transitions

[void sigil]

Prob in your code attack check bool doesnt turn off when player doesnt attacking

[sturdy anvil]

Anyone have issues where triggering one blendshape in edit mode triggers 30 others at max value? my model keeps exploding

it kinda happens in blender too

[weary jacinth]

Hello, I had a question about animated bone scale. I know it's automatically thrown out when you import Humanoid animation, but is there a way to override/allow it? I need the bones to scale for the animations I have to work properly.

[dim zodiac]

Yeah, but if you pass 25% speed up or down, it seems weird, either slow motion cam or too speed up

[lunar bronze]

Do blend trees actually play the animation they blend to? I have a frame that is just straight up never being hit when a blend tree is set to play only 1 animation

literally the only way to get it to play the animation is by going to the animation tab and hitting play

[agile solstice]

Blend trees from the perspective of other states are no different
When transitioned to, they play all their animations in sync
Blend property determines interpolation between the motions in the blend tree

[lunar bronze]

I'm trying to have the animation be responsible for lerping from whatever a sprite's color is currently (arbitrary color) to the animations end target color. This just doesn't really seem possible.

[agile solstice]

Not without the methods I listed previously

Animation's keyframes store predefined values, it can't respond "dynamically"

[lunar bronze]

well like I don't see there being a way really to lerp the color values at all using the animation--it has to be in a coroutine script

[agile solstice]

Not necessarily a coroutine, but a script yes

[lunar bronze]

I want to give flexibility to artists to fine tune the animation

but putting it in a scripted coroutine seems like I'm limiting options

[agile solstice]

Animation clips store values, which can be applied either as overrides or additively
The animation state is entirely ignorant of what the value first was

[agile solstice]

Why so?

Transitions can blend from other states, sure, but they're also predefined
Unless you'll be creating new clips/states via scripting at runtime

But that's just a more convoluted way to do what I first suggested of simply tweening between current color and target color

[lunar bronze]

yeah I'm probably going to do the tween.
It's just that I feel like this could be something that could be added to the animator or animation. The animation can lerp from blue to red--why the hell can't it accept an arbitrary color as the start color?

I understand wanting the control--but it seems like such a common use case to have an arbitrary start value and to interpolate to a target value

[agile solstice]

Unless the arbitrary color is made into a clip in a state, it would have no knowledge of it
Animator is a state machine that plays clips made of stored component properties on gameobject hierarchies
It doesn't do anything outside of that scope

Interpolating between arbitrary values is indeed common, but it's not the right tool for it

[lunar bronze]

well it seems worth the effort to make something that would do this in the animator. The number of animations required just for lerping between 2 values is n(n-1) where n is the number of states you wish to support. So if you wanted to lerp between just 10 colors--that's 90 animations....

[agile solstice]

MoveTowards, Lerp, tweens, etc are the right tool for it and on their own simpler than the Animator

And like I mentioned you can give Animator control over the tweening component by letting it override the target value, or by calling methods via animation events

[plain sentinel]

ok I'm kinda losing my mind here. obviously there are other ways of getting this to work but I'm really curious why this isn't working. So I have a second layer with a blend tree blending between a left and a right state. the right state has the flip X set to true. At runtime it shows the right state is active and being blended to. I even tried to change the blend values to make sure it doesn't round down to 0. the layer is set to additive and the weight is one. The sprite does not flip. What the hell is going on here?

ok i tried override and it worked, but why? none of the other animations have flip set as anything

[stark geyser]

ive got this rigged model, without any current animation, how do i add an animation as this current pose?

[agile solstice]

"Add" animation from an external source or make your own?

[agile solstice]

Additive won't work unless you have an "additive reference pose" defined per clip so it knows what it's adding relative to

Makes sense if you're working with poses, not so much when working with invidiual properties

But technically I think it would work with the correct setup

Probably simpler to have your code control the FlipX directly rather than going through layers and trees, but it makes no meaningful difference

Unless you want specific animation states to take control of FlipX away from the direction layer

[stark geyser]

how do i add animation from an external source?

[agile solstice]

You import it, like the mesh
Then assign the animations or animator within to your arms object
But that only works if the animations are designed for those arms, or if both are Humanoid avatar compatible and set up correctly

Either use animations authored for your specific mesh, or learn Humanoid Avatar workflow and use assets authored for that

If you want to try your hand at animating yourself, then note that unity doesn't allow Humanoid animations to be created from within the editor
From external programs yes, but Humanoid setup is not necessary if you're authoring animations for a specific mesh

[stark geyser]

alright thanks

[covert zealot]

why does my animation (bottom right) look so weird in unity but in mixamo (the site where i got it from) it looks completely normal?

should be a walking cycle

[plain sentinel]

yeah, its mainly like that for structure and abstraction reasons but obviously theres workarounds

thanks for the help

[gaunt berry]

I have this blend tree here. How do I add 90 deg turning animations to it?

For when the character rotates

[magic sleet]

@gaunt berry I am an idiot and am still learning so take this with a glacier sized grain of salt, but I see your params at the top right are for move x/y, maybe you need another blend tree for rotate y?

[gaunt berry]

I dunno how to hook it up is the problem

[molten halo]

I'm trying to create a simple 2D sprite animation but I don't see the Samples speed parameter...

What should I do ?

[gaunt berry]

Why are mixamo rigs so fucked? Am I doing something wrong?
This is the result of me creating a new humanoid avatar from the imported mixamo animation

[ionic ether]

is there a way to cut off an animation early in unity ? the runnings looping fine but like the second half of the animation is stillness so i want to smooth that out

[brittle hedge]

If you’re using an animator you can blend it there.

[ionic ether]

I figured it out, I just deleted all those extra nodes, didnt notice a difference in the animation. TY tho!

but another problem, with Unity's timeline feature, the recording saves the 2 set positions from the start of the timeline animation and the end. How can I apply physics to this so that the Y basically is ignored I guess. I saw this animator component with that animate physics checked but it played out the same anyway. It only drops back to using physics once the animation ends, cuz of the saved transform

[pliant falcon]

why does the character appear standing when the scene isnt playing, then once i enter playmode its postiion moves down and it enters that pose?

thats all the game object has

[sterile vine]

well presumably the animator controls it at runtime

oh wait there's nothing assigned there, i was looking at the avatar

hmm, well maybe try disabling some components to see what is controlling it?

[pliant falcon]

removing the rig builder stops it from doing it

also if i clear the Avatar field

i get that those are whats controlling the position of the character, i just cant work out how to make it not do that

[agile solstice]

That's the default pose for a Humanoid Avatar when there's no motion/animation clip playing (or no valid motion)

If you want the character to stay in its own default pose instead of Humanoid default pose, start in an animation state that has the pose as a clip

[pliant falcon]

how do i get its pose as a clip?

once I have that pose, does it need to go into an animator controller?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[agile solstice]

It must exist as an animation clip somewhere first
If your character has no animations and you only plan to use IK to move it, remove the Avatar entirely

[pliant falcon]

i dont know if im doing this correctly, but i have a rigidbody ragdoll for the characters body, and an IK constraint for the arm. I'm trying to do a character like this https://youtu.be/JmCCNVCxKJI so i can move the IK target around to control the hand position

problem is as the IK isnt a child of the rigidbodies, the IK target doesnt move with the player (ie if the body is moved up 10 units, the target would also move up 10 units), and setting that rig to be a child of the rigidbodies also doesnt have any effect

why does it need a target anyway? surely all i need is for the hand to be the object to move around

[chrome canyon]

how do you go about modifying prefabs/ tools / items to go into your hands, when all the items have different pivot points and you cannot conform to making every item's pivot point to be at an item slot in the hand, because you need the pivot points for rigidbody calculations when not in hand?

i mean for using them in different character animations

[plain sentinel]

IK isn't just moving the hand, its moving the arm so the hand goes in the right place, which isn't trivial. Its done with a target because if you just moved the hand around it would detach from the body

[chrome canyon]

also, animation is known as "forward pass" where each move plays on the last one, starting from the root. IK is "backwards pass" which rotated each part in the list going back to the root so the part you choose is at the right location/rotation.

[mellow ingot]

Hi! I am doing a project on State Machines for class and I'm stuck on the animation part of the assignment. So far I have the idle, walking, and running animations working but I am confused how to go about the other animations?

I am trying to use the watering and hoeing sprites in the animation tab but when I drag the sprites, they come as 4 separate frames, not the same frame. Unlike the idle & walking animation, the other sprites are larger than 16x16 so I think that is my problem but I'm not sure if there is a way to overlay different sprites or combine sprites. I'm quite new to this so I apologize if my terminology is...lacking 💀

Photos for reference

[agile solstice]

Your sprites on the sheet seem to be 48x48, not 16x16
So likely all you need to do is to slice with those bigger dimensions
Not sure why you need to "overlay or combine" different sprites in this case

[mellow ingot]

Oh okay. I have other Sprite sheets from this pack and they are all 16x16 so I assumed this one would be too. Out of curiosity, would there be a way to overlay them? Like if I were actually animating different sprites on the same frame?

[agile solstice]

It may help to show an example
But if I understand correctly the situation, you'll have to have another sprite renderer in the hierarchy that's animated under the same animator

[fast ginkgo]

hey guys, im a beginner and i really need someone to help me. i downloaded a free zombie asset and i just dont know how to animate it using animation component. i want to do it this way because im following a tutorial series and this is how the guy does it but for some reason it wont work for me

if anyone would like to download that asset or take the short time to just explain how do i use the animations in this particular asset

i know its probably super easy and that there is somewhere a tutorial for it, but this is kinda specific i thinkđ

[celest crag]

You need to provide actual details, no-one can read your mind.

Post the tutorial link.

Post model detail, animator, describe steps you've taken

[fast ginkgo]

the tutorial doesnt help me because the asset has been updated since then and for that reason i cant just copy what the guy did, but ill post the link of the asset if that helps

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/characters/humanoids/zombie-30232

also i want to keep following this guys tutorial so it is best if i do it the same way he does, and he doesnt use the ANIMATOR component but the ANIMATION component

and basically this is where im stuck, i tried a lot of different things and then nothing happens

[celest crag]

So find up-to date tutorial and follow that. !learn

[dusk vale]

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[fast ginkgo]

the reason why im asking here is because i believe it asset specific. other assets work fine, but this one i dont how to even though its the most popular

[celest crag]

So if you want the help with this specific tutorial you need to actually post it.

[fast ginkgo]

i have a feeling you violently stink

[pliant falcon]

bit rude

[celest crag]

Just stop for a second and read what you write. All you do is describing steps to a tutorial that you didn't link here. Who do you suppose can answer you about it?

Also

[fast ginkgo]

its not tutorial related

[celest crag]

!warn 349255510123610123 This is your final warning insulting people on the server.

[dusk vale]

dr.fungi. has been warned.

[fast ginkgo]

the tutorial doesnt cover this

thats why im asking this

[celest crag]

i want to keep following this guys tutorial so it is best if i do it the same way he does, and he doesnt use the ANIMATOR component but the ANIMATION component
How is this relevant in any way then?

If you are not proving context

[fast ginkgo]

i provided you the asset

the asset that im using

how do i animate it using animation

what else do i need to specify

i just want to animate it using animation and not animator

[celest crag]

Find proper tutorial then on Unity !learn

[dusk vale]

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[fast ginkgo]

haahha bro youre unbeliveable

its okay

ill find help somewhere else

but youre really spinning me in circles

[celest crag]

Or wait for someone who is intimitely familiar with the asset you provided

[fast ginkgo]

well i was hoping someone could take 5 mins to download the free asset and help me that way

your answer was just to look for help somewhere else

[light tartan]

I have a person question

For people who are animating or wanting animating experience

[ivory star]

Hey, guys! On my game, I have a first person controller but I dont have actually a character in the scene but only the main camera. Is it possible to animate my camera with idle animation clip and walking etc etc?

Or I need strictly to havea humanoid

[celest crag]

If you just want head bob there are a lot of different ways of animating that and a lot of tutorials too. But if you just want to use existing humanoid animation to take head movement from it might be more complicated, as it might need a model with minimum bone parts needed to initialize the rig.

[ivory star]

I dont have a humanoid at all

I just have the camera set up

and want to simulate idle animation when the player will be in idle state and walking when he will be in walking state

Maybe I have to create animation clips for the main camera on my own?

[wispy briar]

hello, what is the best and easiest way to implement inverse kinematics in Unity to animate a human character? I want to do like the regular animation stuff and hand animations (reload animations, item animations)

[thick hinge]

Check out the Animation Rig package - https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.0/manual/index.html

And on that note - I'm a bit stuck with the Animation Rig package and trying to get it to override a keyframed bone.

Background:
I have a character rigged with the Animation Rig package and my goal is to align the feet with the ground via FootIK. I can see the foot reacting to the new position when the player is in Idle mode, but when I move to a walk animation the foot ‘falls’ back to the keyframed positions. If I have the arm positioned to the side (which is not keyframed) it maintains it’s position during the walk animation./

The first image is random idle positioning. The second image is walk cycle. The 3-4th images are my setup.

Any one successfully override a keyframed bone?

[wispy briar]

ok, thank you!

[lone token]

is there a guide for using blend tree?

[celest crag]

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[mellow ingot]

This worked, tysm 💙💙💙

[craggy thistle]

i got a question idk if it's animation or what, but i'm trying to use a handmade terrain chunk and have it loop seamlessly behind itself to give the illusion of a moving terrain. i know how to do that in blender, just not unity

[short inlet]

Hey guys 🙂 I'm trying to activate/deactivate this gameobject, but it doesn't show up in the property window. Anyone got an idea why? The scripts of the object and the other gameobject from the hierarchy shows up?

For some reason it shows up when I put the VFX object into the "RFA_Model" object, but I don't understand why. The animator is sitting on the "Player-URP" object 🤔

[safe solstice]

Hello. Need some help please. I'm having trouble with a particular object, a tail, with about seven bones where bone seven will not move with the rest of the bones and causes a stretching between bones six and seven. If anyone knows how to fix this, would appreciate it. Thanks.

[gaunt berry]

Is it possible to move the skeleton outside of the hierarchy and reference it? I keep getting errors that it doesn't find the bone if I don't

Like what

InvalidOperationException: Transform 'spine_01' is not a child of the Animator hierarchy, and cannot be written to.InvalidOperationException: Transform 'spine_01' is not a child of the Animator hierarchy, and cannot be written to.
Yes it is

I would like to not have a massive list of obejcts in my hierarchy please

[night obsidian]

why isnt it blending between my run animations at the end?

its like it doesnt see em lol

[foggy niche]

Anyone know how to edit the unity 3rd person controller to have a different walking cycle, also does anyone know how to change animations with state machines? like if a player collides with something they have a death animation?

If anyone can help I luv you

[safe solstice]

Its kind of complicated to explain. You have to find the animator that is set in the animation controller that is connected to the player object. In there, there should be a walking animation node that you can change the walking animation for. To do a conditional death animation, you would have to script the condition, have the animation in the same animator and then use the animator.play() method or set the node condition to true so it plays. Its a bit complex. 😛

[night obsidian]

how to fix jittery (constant interpolated low frame-rate) animations?

[oak prawn]

Heya guys, I'm havin' a bit o' trouble. My transitions don't work, and the sprites dont change even despite velocity being greater or less than. Any solutions?

[jolly summit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwOR1_UrGwk
Hey! I'm watching this video to make a player controller, and in the animation section the creator uses a animation from Unity's starter pack with a Unity character. However, I have an avatar that I downloaded from Mixamo (rigged from T-Pose animation). When I try to use my avatar on the starter pack animation, I get this error:

Am I supposed to retarget the animation or something like that?

[clear gorge]

The bone setup for your character and the default unity character is likely different.

Which means it can’t use the same animation

[ionic ether]

do animation parameters have a way to have triggers/booleans switch off/on automatically when transitioning between animations ? Or do i have to via code set some sort of wait timer for each different animation, wait for it to finish, then reset it then ? Cuz that second option seems easily bloatable with a lot of switch statements

[jolly summit]

But they're both Humanoid

And yeah they are obviously different, I'm asking what can I do to rearrange them

[clear gorge]

If they’re both humanoid then they’d be the same

So the implication is that the avatar definition of one of them is missing the hip bone

Or structured incorrectly

[jolly summit]

👋

I have a jump system and I have my jump animation's root transform position (Y) baked into pose. However when I jump, my character collider almost doesn't go above at all. It does, but it's very small. It's not aligned to the jump animation at all. What should I do to fix this case?

Here is a video that explains the situation

https://pastes.dev/qqeukmOmF2

This is my player controller script

[ionic totem]

I need help with this compiler error

[north sapphire]

Hey. I'm just wondering if this is even a thing. I have a locomotion blend tree set up. Feels great. I want to be able to use a bow animation while keeping the bottom half (legs) still using the blend tree. Top half firing an arrow and when I'm not. It uses the blend tree. Hope this makes sense

[formal kite]

should i make my own animation system using ui toolkit?

[wooden relic]

Hi, i have two seperate blender made armatures in unity and both have their own animation, i need them to be in sync but for some reason they dont start at same frame, i have checked to make sure they sync in blender and they do but in unity they dont. Is there a common known fix for this?

[ivory star]

Hey, guys! I want to create head bobbing animation but there is a bug not sure why. Do you know why this occurs?

When my player is moving this circular thing isn't moving with the main camera

Basically its animator

I assume the issue is coming from the fact that my animation rig is humanoid but instead it should be generic

[remote dune]

I hope someone can help. I have exported two animations from Maximo (generated animations). Those two animations both works, but when i go to Blender and imports one of the animations, so i can make it a little more custom animated then when exporting it to unity it isn't compatible with the 3D model despite having the exact same rig. Im wondering, whats the typical workflow for getting two animations to become compatible? Should they be made in the same file?

[light copper]

hello im new to animating

i got 1 question

how do i animate this lever so that it rotates at the bottom thing there not in the middle of the lever?

[celest crag]

You should start with tutorials on Unity !Learn. There are several ways how to move pivot point, like editing in any 3d editing app, ProBuilder or using containers.

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[brave storm]

Make sure your gizmo mode is Pivot, not Center

[light copper]

how do i change that

ok

[outer hazel]

I figured I might ask here as I'm new in animation.
I'm using the synty studio locomotion animations on my own character. They're fantastic.

Now I need to play a hand-made cast animation similar to... say "Flames" from Skyrim? So the player puts their hand forward while casting a spell.

My question is, how can I make it do it while it's walking? So generally I'd need to play the locomotion animation everywhere BUT in the right hand that moves forwards with an open palm. What's the name of this technique?

[ripe skiff]

I have this machine that I need to animate. there is no rig for this but the pivots are almost all correctly. How can i animate this without having to rig this and without using animation keyframes? i'm looking at some IK solutions but most of them require bones

[stuck timber]

You can look into Animation Rigging don't think it requires bones, just lets you set constraints how you want them with transform points, like TwoBone IK etc

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@latest

[wooden relic]

hi, at the very very end, if you concentrate on the gun and hands, you'll notice that for some reason they will kind of teleport or jitter to the idle position. I checked the animation in blender to see if maybe the reload animation doesnt go back to its original position (idle position) but it does so there is something wrong here in unity.

[grave cosmos]

is it possible to use humanoid animations with generic model

[ripe skiff]

Thanks I'll look into it!

[wooden relic]

ight can you help me with this animation problem on unity

[inland kraken]

Hello! I wanted to ask, is there a way to force an animation to play in the Animator class?
By forcing an Animation to play btw, I mean, while a state transition is happening, if another transition is called, The animator stops the current transition and plays the new transition

I've tried looking everywhere and can't seem to find a proper solution to make this happening

[grave cosmos]

I really need some help so i have a charachter like unturned so i cant make it humanoid i guess? but how can animate it so it can walk and stuff with animations really lost here. do I add bones in the model or just use generic animations ?

[hardy reef]

Hello, how do I make it so that all of my animations play simultaneously? It seems like I can only get 1 to play at a time

I've exported my file as an .fbx and imported it into my Unity project

[queen gulch]

I'm no animator, but I'm fairly sure you can only play one animation at a time. Mekanim is a state machine

What would that even look like? All animations trying to play at the same time would just be a jumbled mess. Are you trying to play them sequentially?

[queen gulch]

Sounds like you're getting started with humanoid animations? Google "unity humanoid rigging" for more info, but here's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lRq6-BVcw

[hardy reef]

No, I have all of these clips that I want to play side by side, like the bus moves into frame, the crane picks the box up, etc

Like, here's how it should look

[queen gulch]

Oh, yeah it sounds like you want Timelines

It'll let you sequence these animations and camera views

[hardy reef]

I see, that sounds good

[queen gulch]

Gonna get a bit more complex than mekanim for this kinda thing

[hardy reef]

So far I'm doing this correctly, right?

Ah, looks like it

[twin musk]

Why does exporting an armature ruin the scale settings when importing into unity?

[snow depot]

if you're using blender, you need to tweak the fbx export settings. I think it's scale -> fbx all

[twin musk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWHU8yDpAo
Found this video with the comment pinned that solved the problem
FBX Units Scale works for me

[gray surge]

Hello, Im new to using Unity Animator, I have a simple question. How would I handle this Attack Combo animation? I thought of using triggers, but I dont know how to continue without making Spaghetti with the transitions.

As a backup I thought of checking for an Int which I increment button press or reset with Animation triggers.

[agile solstice]

I don't know what you expect from it precisely, but one idea is that you have Attack boolean
The boolean as true is the condition to go from Movement to Attack_1, Attack_1 to Attack_2, Attack_2 to Attack_3

The boolean as false is the condition for every state to back to Movement

So, as long as it remains true, the combo is performed
If it stops being true, the combo is stopped

[gray surge]

I will try something with booleans then, wish me luck

[agile solstice]

Triggers are booleans which are automatically set to false (except when they're not and have to be manually Reset)
So if anything it should be simpler to deal with

[spring sand]

IMPORTANT: (looking to see how much competition I have)

Do you guys know any other artists creating art like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElmQZAGVgfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJd6G4Vd2g

[agile solstice]

That's totally unrelated to Unity
This place is only for Unity stuff

[stray lark]

Hello everyone, I'm looking to hear different opinions. About unity's mecanim, with my current approach I have a Hierarchical state machine for my characters behaviours, and then in addition I have Mecanim's state machine that uses parameters set from the code HSM. Is this the best way to do it? Would it be best to call animations from inside the HSM, either through crossfade or ditching mecanim altogether? or should I keep doing it like I am? Right now, sometimes there are bugs where both State machines are unsynced and it can be hell to debug

[covert solstice]

Hi, I have a question, how to make a sword animation for top down character, I found a tutorial but here character has only left right sword animation when I need also up and down

https://youtu.be/aC43YIr41I0?si=i826G-YDVBU6wF5n

[novel quarry]

it is German but he use the same sprite and the animation for top and down : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec2_O2Rg3PM&list=PL35XGjy0AQApBt5FjmM6Hl7X2fCuUVxd9&index=3

• he also uses a hit animation for each site

[cursive hollow]

how fix this overlapping legs?

[pliant falcon]

how can I stop a Two Bone IK Constraint from messing up the arm when the target is moved to certain positions?

thats how the component is configured

[agile solstice]

Just a guess but what if you move the target and hint up in depth position a tiny bit?

Not the exact same distance each, though even just a tiny offset might be enough

Sometimes when IK transform coordinates are perfectly planar it can cause some ambiguous math

[pliant falcon]

that fixed it

[agile solstice]

If you want to avoid the rotation of the limb, you can move the hint while you move the target
Doing that might solve the original issue even without offsets

[pliant falcon]

yeah i was about to ask if the way the elbow rotates at 10 seconds looked right

[gray surge]

I managed to handle 4 different jumps using a blend tree. I hape two questions:

1. Is this a better method compared to 4 different states that link to my main Idle?
2. If yes, would it be possible to do the same thing with that 3 attack states, merge them in a blend tree?

Ideally I want to add 2 more attack states (Heavy/Running) so I think this is the right time to ask

[covert solstice]

Thanks a lot!

[honest rose]

hi, i dont know what i did wrong

this is the script i been using in all the code
animator.Play("Base Layer.valeria_walk");

the enemies work fine, why the player doesnt?

as you can see the death anim didnt trigger, wich didnt trigger the death function, wich made her, ta-da, immortal

[agile solstice]

Your scripts are overriding the animator so the problem is somewhere in your scripts

[honest rose]

oh, but has nothing to do with the animator mesh then?

i mean the thing in the right

[agile solstice]

It can show you which state is playing currently, but that's about it
Conventionally you'd use parameters and conditions to let the animator go from state to state
But since your scripts are responsible for that part, the problem's there too

Ideally a character's dead/alive status shouldn't depend on which animation is being played
Rather the animation would be determined by that status

[honest rose]

but i mean, all animations are glitchy, not just the dying one

[honest rose]

i feel like the issue is also the conditions of the state, how do i specificly do so?

i mean, i know how to do it, i dont know how to do it well

[agile solstice]

Your states have no conditions because they have no transitions, so no parameters can be used either

[honest rose]

btw, in 2d animation transitions are necessary?

[agile solstice]

Transition blending is not necessary, but the animator cannot go from one state to another without a transition

You have to decide whether your code is deciding the animation to play, or if you allow the animator to have that responsibility

Different ways to do the same thing

If you have animation sequences or a lot of conditional or contextual variance, the animator has tools for all that and you won't have to code your own

But if you want to play a specific animation when a specific thing happens, no questions asked, then the animator does not give much of an advantage despite being more complex to set up

[honest rose]

oh

but then how do i fix it?

i mean, i think the issue is that animations overlaps, but how do i make them stop overlapping?

[agile solstice]

By fixing your scripts
It's a fair assumption that it's attempting to play multiple animations in the same frame, so you could look for instances of that happening first

The animator is a finite state machine, so it cannot run into that issue
If you play animations from scripts, you have to take care not let any conflicts like that occur

When playing animations from a script, you usually end up having to code some kind of FSM anyway because it just makes sense to do
But Animator has that already via its parameters and transitions

[honest rose]

so in theory i should just add booleans for prevent it to do so?

[honest rose]

no i got lost

im analyzing and yeah this should work, but doesnt, i mean, is like every frame were being used, but the issue is, im checking tutorials, and do almost the same

[agile solstice]

Not just "add", creating animator parameters or transitions or whatever won't change anything when the problem is in your script that's handling the animation switching on behalf of the animator

[honest rose]

i meant in the script

[agile solstice]

Hard to guess when the problem could be anywhere, from our perspective

[honest rose]

technically is supossed to be cuz my ifs aren't too specific

or atleast thats what im trying out right now, wish it works ;-;

yep, it is

[agile solstice]

If you have script problems, post your scripts in #💻┃code-beginner and explain what they're supposed to do and what exactly breaks
We're going in circles here when you haven't posted your scripts and aren't using the animator state machine

[honest rose]

oh right, my bad, well, i guess i will post the script in code-beginner cuz this is more animation focused, but anyways this made me closer to fix it thx

btw in what page do i post codes?

[agile solstice]

#💻┃code-beginner message link should take you to a post with code posting instructions

[honest rose]

Thanks :3

[covert solstice]

I tried to make animation using this video but for some reason even if I tried to fix it, the animation looks like this

Damn, importing video to gif lowered the quality

Could you tell me why doesnt it work? The sword had to make circles from top right to top left

[agile solstice]

The keyframes may be in wrong order and/or the keyframe type is quaternion rather than euler
You should be able to right click the rotation keyframes and change the type
Euler angle keyframes change the rotation on each rotation axis you see in Transform rotation
Quaternions calculate the shortest path to get from one keyframe to the next
Most likely you'll need to parent the sword under another gameobject that would serve as a pivot that handles the rotation to really get a "swing", otherwise it will not do an arcing motion

Use video formats (mp4, webm) for video
Gif is not really a video format but an animated image format

[covert solstice]

I fixed it, thanks for the help!

[opal plover]

Is there a place to find people who love to make animations costfree? Just for a cool pixel art game which im making? I have the default sprites but have a hard time making the animations for it. Since i have 0 experience

[manic harness]

Hello, I need help on how both arms grab the gun
I used mixamo to get the animation and the skeleton
How I make the weapon be like in the position where the gun should be,
Any good tutorial video on that? Cause I'm really lost

[agile solstice]

Is there a place where people love to work for free, and for you in particular?
That'd be very unusual
There's OpenGameArt where people share with an open licence assets they personally want to make
When you find people who would like to collaborate without compensation, it has to be worth it to them in some way if you don't intend to exploit them
If someone had you work for free in their project, you'd probably want something like creative freedom and influence over the design

[inland forge]

anyone here know how uniVRM works??
for some reason when i did a test run of importing my VRM model into an empty unity project and adding an animator controller + simple walking anim to it, it worked just fine, but when i did the same thing but in my actual project, the act of adding an animator controller causes the model to sink into the ground and for the pose to change somehow (and it still happens even if it's literally an empty controller with no anims inside).
and after adding the same anims in both, it turns out the anim only plays in the empty project, while in my actual project the model just stays frozen in the ground

the only difference between the 2 projects is that the latter already had a placeholder character with logic scripts, and i just replaced the model

comparison of before and after adding an animation controller to the model (i have no idea wtf happened to her arms)

i have little to no animation-related logic in my scripts so i cant figure out wtf it is that's interfering with the anim controller and breaking the model

what little i have is pretty much just initializing the animator or placeholder logic that never gets called

so can anyone explain wtf is going wrong here and why it only works in my empty project with no preexisting logic??

[inland forge]

never mind....i think my uniVRM import got completely borked somehow

[agile solstice]

Not generally
UniVRM is a specific Unity application, rather than Unity itself

[sterile vine]

not what this server is for

we don't allow advertisements here

could you remove the advertisement?

[fresh cypress]

good morning guys, i would like to know what kind of methods are there in order to achieve transforming animations for example : a human turning into a giant monster

i tried using shapekeys from blender but they dont show up as an animation fbx prefab

[brittle otter]

Hey guys, I'm trying to rig a robot just for some studies, following the tutorials step by step, but it’s just not working. I rigged it properly in Blender, imported it into Unity, set up the rig, added the "Two Bone IK Constraint," selected the correct bones, and it simply doesn't work ;-; any one can help?

[kind aspen]

<@&502884371011731486> spamming channels with scam ^

[charred belfry]

!ban 1268720740442701902 scam

[dusk vale]

hugo067711 was banned.

[sterile vine]

this isn't a place to advertise

[mellow basin]

Removed it 🫡

[grave cosmos]

Can you add two animators on the same gameobject and let them move different parts one for example entire body and one just the arms for client and server side ? Just by using different avatar ?

[sterile vine]

sounds like you want blend trees or layers

[grave cosmos]

allright so just add them on a different layer

[burnt grove]

How do I prevent my damped rig to split like this when moving on a cinemachine track? https://kappa.lol/0GfBJg

[fossil hill]

What does this even mean? How do I mark that?

[sterile vine]

animationclips can be legacy or not; legacy ones are for Animation, nonlegacy ones are for Animator

iirc you have to set your inspector to debug mode to change that field

[fossil hill]

I was trying to do a normal idle animation and I ended up doing an animator clip by mistake. I don't need a controller. Can I turn it into a Legacy one?

[sterile vine]

yes, try the thing i mentioned
if that doesn't work try googling it, i'd probably have misremembered something

[fossil hill]

Oh, ok, ye, it's on debug, thx u

[agile solstice]

Motion damping has no method to avoid the parts detaching/stretching, as far as I know
It also has no rotation damping relative to attachment point
Both usually what you need when you want a loose chain of bones
But unfortunately it seems that functionality has to be custom

[burnt grove]

dang..

[stable storm]

hello guys im having abit of trouble with the animator, my character stays in iddle animation and wont transition to walk or attack at all , can anyone help please

[honest rose]

Hi, how i can animate different words of an TMPro?

like, i want to have some text in a frame, and other text in another

[graceful charm]

oh sorry, can you help me

[honest rose]

wat

[graceful charm]

make annotation and line rendered

[honest rose]

i dont know, sorry ;-;

[graceful charm]

see

like this

[waxen gull]

a bit more detail?

how do you change the position of a sprite relative to the position it already was in?

[modern sparrow]

https://discordapp.com/channels/489222168727519232/497872424281440267/1364429719390392432 please help

Heres the actual animation, I have it setup with the correct model andd everything, im not what is happening

I even got rid of my transitions, so it would only stay on the first entry animation, and still nothing

I am rotating the entire top half of the gameobject in code by updating its transform.rotation, would that preent it from animating?

nvm, checked for that, and literally nothing is causing it to not work

[waxen gull]

nvm fixxed

[honest rose]

Like

I have a canvas with the text, and as the animation goes the Text changes

[waxen gull]

Why cant you just change the text instead?

[lime patrol]

The problem is the pívot configuration or just need to set better the transf.positions of head

[feral urchin]

i have a prefab with animation on it

and inside the prefab there is an animated model

how do i add an another model

and make it copy the animation of the other model

that is animated

[latent oar]

@feral urchin First, you need to check whether both models have the same skeleton. If they do, you can simply copy the animation from Model A and apply it to Model B. It should work fine.

[feral urchin]

the animation isn't on the model itself

the prefab is like a scene

with an animator on it

and also nvm

i did what i wanted to

thx anyway

[waxen gull]

how are you detecting when the player is jumping

[rough scaffold]

Hey guys, how would you fix this?

My current only solution in mind would be calling crossfade

The problem here is that you can transition from any state to Stunned or FallOver, but problem is that falling over is just a trigger

While Stunned is a bool

I can't find how to tell it that it can't transition from FallOver back to Stunned

[sterile vine]

why not make stunned a trigger then?

do you need variable stun times?

[rough scaffold]

In general if I do that I might as well control it manually using crossfade...

Since I need to manually confirm whether or not you can transition to stun animation (Never happens while prone)

And then send another trigger to unstun the character

[rough scaffold]

Yes the stun time isn't fixed

[sterile vine]

ah rip trigger

[tough trench]

hi soo. What do u need exactly? Cause im new to this

[feral urchin]

is there a way to preview two animations with different animator at the same time?

when i pause the animation on one object and go to animate the seconds object the first object goes in it's default pose

when i want it to keep being animated

[icy mist]

Bump :3

[dim zodiac]

In order to use avatar mask and blend running movements with upper body combat movements, you need to do some sort of tricks? I saw lots of topic on forum and nobody from unity ever has answered and Im not managing make an upper body mask work, anyone knows about it?

this is the configs and results:

original animation that im using to mask and get the upper body:

This is the configs:

and this is the result:

[wooden relic]

hi how to add animation to already existing objet?

[dense magnet]

Hey! I bought a stealth kill pack on the asset store and I was wondering if Anyone can point me in the right direction to get these animations synced..
The old Action and reaction syncup .. I tried googling (probably not using the correct keywords) and I found mainly audio sync links.

[trail remnant]

Hello
I have an issue with an export from Blender to Unity regarding the Scale transform in an animation.
If you know a bit about Blender I suggest you take a peek at my post in "Blender Artists" since it is way better explained there. Hope anyone can check this issue. thanks in advance:
https://blenderartists.org/t/scale-animation-messed-up-in-unity-help-xp/1590528

[topaz jolt]

Hey does anybody know how to make an animation hold the last frame until the condition changes?

I just want it to play once and not loop

Nvm its a box in the inspector when you select the animation that says 'loop time'

[jagged solstice]

Need help with basic RPG Main Player Character

I have a character i downloaded from mixamo.com which i want as the main player of my game. It is called "Erika with bow and arrow".

I also downloaded 3 animations, idle, running, jumping. I tried to setup the animations on the player with a simple script as well. the animations work but have a few wonky things.

What i want to do is have the main player have a sword in her right hand and she be able to attack an enemy using the sword, and perhaps shoot an arrow with her left hand. Simple realistic looking animations only.

Does anyone who's worked on RPG games maybe involving bows, arrows and sword please help me out?

[zenith edge]

Hello, I am pretty new to unity, I need help about 2d unity bone rigging (forgive me if my English is bad I'll try to make it clear here)

I am doing bone rigging to my characters for the game. but the issue here is there is one character(The pink hair) that can't take the bone copy from other character. The issue that I found is maybe that character have additional layers that is hair layers. so it make that character can't take bone copy from other characters

So what I want is to put bone copy to that character or something like that. so I can put same animations on that character like the other without issue.

[icy mist]

Bump

[regal stone]

hey @jagged drum

[jagged drum]

yes

the settings look fine

[regal stone]

do i not want to have these checked

[jagged drum]

but i would just do this since you already use bools

just make the lines come from "any state"

[regal stone]

oh ok

[jagged drum]

that would be the easiest way, idk how those double transitions work

[regal stone]

idk either

that's what some tutorial said

[jagged drum]

for walk jumping and sprint jumping just do a double check and a not check on normal

[jagged drum]

oh if its a tutorial then prob something else is wrong

[regal stone]

it works a bit better

tho now there's something else thats the problem

wait do you mind me adding you rq so that i can show you?

@jagged drum

[jagged drum]

they say u cant dm people

[regal stone]

wdym

[wispy sable]

Can anyone help me with this animation issue? I imported a model I made some animations for in blender. In the editor, my model is placed right but as soon as the animation starts it teleports upwards so the feet are in the exact center of the sphere collider

I managed to get it to align right by changing the import settings so Y position is baked based on root node AND applying root motion in the animator. But when I do that the ball wont move anymore its like its trying to move through syrup and its jumpy

The model is basically sonic and the animation I am trying to play is him rolling into a ball

[lunar forum]

is there a way to record animations at runtime?

[wide citrus]

Unity's Animator overwrites properties on each frame in animations where this property isn't animated.

For example:
Animation 1. Animation doen't touch the collider here.
Animation 2. Inside the animation on frame 1 collider gets disabled. And that's it.

Even while inside the Animation 1, Unity won't allow me to change collider's enabled state. It gets set to enabled on each frame.

Even when I disable it inside the inspector, it gets immediately re-enabled.

Once I remove the property from getting animated from all animations in the animator, I can finally control the state of the collider from inside the inspector and the code.

Crazy stuff.

[icy mist]

Bump :3 i was suggested to post here from general since someone might know here

[compact trench]

Hi, I have modeled a character with Autodesk Maya and I am using Mixamo to do the automatic rigging, but when I do the auto rig the character comes out deformed, is that because I am missing the skinning, right?

[radiant ravine]

hey ppl, big question about humanoid rigs, there is no way make use of blendr drivers for animation with corrective shapekeys?

[hard brook]

is there some trick to finding the animation in this window if its not showing? for the life of me cant find it 😆 i have the game object with the animator selected

edit: relaunching unity its working again, maybe just a bug i guess

[zenith edge]

can someone help me with this?
the character is not stop doing dash animation + won't do the animation while doing dash and i don't know why

[zenith edge]

ok uh.... I still waiting for help

[agile solstice]

You can have the animator and game windows side by side so we can see from the video what's happening when the character is being controlled
You can also click through all the transitions so we can pause the video and see their conditions
It also helps to see the code, which would be simple to show in the video or be posted separately

Based on this my best guess is that your code isn't setting the animation conditions correctly or at the right time, or that the Any State is overriding whatever animation you have playing

[vague bay]

Hello there!
I have a bit of a strange question.
I tried animating in blender a character holding something, but when I export it in Unity, the animation of him holding it is incorrect.
So, I thought of just attaching the object to his hand in Unity, but it still does not follow the hand correctly. Why is that?

PS: What screenshots can I provide + info to help me out with this thing?

[alpine dew]

so, I revised my player model and added some armature and embedded animations through Blender, problem is my player object is not the model at the root. Here's the embedded animation clips (first pic), second pic shows the player structure. "ship_seade" is the model itself.

So the problem I'm facing is that I've got the animator on the root object, and the state machine does some additional layer animations to rotate the ship (tilt, barrel roll), while the embedded clips handle armature deforms (wings rotating to brake, the arms fold in for cutscenes). But with this structure it's saying the clip data for the armature is missing (see last photo)

how do i keep that structure intact but access animation clips targetting a child object?

[brave storm]

Pretty sure that the animation's hierarchy just has to match the object hierarchy

[alpine dew]

so if i add an empty parent and re-export?

(in blender)

[brave storm]

So you'd either need to rework the anims, the FBX or keep the animator on the child

[brave storm]

Maaybe

Make sure you have a backup/version control because that might break things

[alpine dew]

yea i got git

luckily i'm not that deep into things yet

[brave storm]

Another option is to use a separate animator for the root

And keep the children as you had them before i guess

[alpine dew]

new weirdness... the armature is flipping the model around with nothing in the animation

ah i think i have keyframes on the root bone nvm

[trail remnant]

Hello!
I have a problem when importing a Blender file to Unity.
Scale animations behave strangely.
I explain in more detail my issue in the link below. Hope someone can help me (source file available in link as well). Thanks
https://blenderartists.org/t/scale-animation-messed-up-in-unity-help-xp/1590528

[sage thistle]

Hello I'm having an issue when importing fbx files for camera animation to unity

1. Camera FOV is not preservered
2. We're using stepped animation curves but unity is like messing that up with added interpolation and or moving keyframe positions (we animate on 4's sometimes a pose is 3 frames later instead of 4 and then the actual pose we wanted is a frame after that) do we know why? How to fix this?

[slim lava]

Im pretty new to animations in unity.

Ignore the transitions, is this the best way to "structure" out animations?
I think I'm going to have an "idle" state for each type of item you can hold.
Then a "Use State" for each type of item.

Swords, Shovels, Pickaxes, Axes, etc. will all share the same attack.
If/when I add 2 handed weapons, it would be as simple as adding an extra Idle + Attack pattern.

Or is it more complicated than this?

I'm also shifting the weights with code. Blends between 0 - 80%. Might blend the idle animations more/less

[alpine dew]

Happen to know if there’s a way to set the scene default animation? It’s preferring a pose with the wings up (braking) and I’m not sure if it’s because it’s alphabetically sorted or I can dictate that

Even though the state machine has the idle animation as its default

[brave storm]

I think it's the first one alphabetically in the anim file/3D file

But you can google around if it's not that

I remember naming an animation "0TPose" or something for this reason

[dim zodiac]

When I use multi-rotation constraint (rigging package) on a bone, my character no longer moves and the car is placed on 0,0,0, anyone had this issue before?

The constraint works perfectly tho

[half horizon]

not sure if this is the right place to ask but I created a new animation via blender and exported the model with the new anim to unity by replacing the existing model file. However I don't see the new anim i made. Am I doing something wrong?

[brave storm]

Unity auto-adds the animations to the list only the first time you import the file (or reimport it, I think).
Animations added afterwards need to be added to the list manually

You should see a + button next to the list of the animations when you select the file in unity

This workflow and the anim importer always felt really janky to me :/

[compact flint]

Does anyone know how to take the IK positions if I wanted to record a humanoid pose in unity

[lilac stone]

Why does animator freezes on a state with one single transition when it finishes and its conditions are met? I have Exit time enabled and set to 1.5, transition duration is in seconds - 0.25, and one condition. The weirdest thing is that it unfreezes randomly - when i pause the game, when i change transition settings or just because i selected the animation clip in project browser.

[snow depot]

you can define the logic (states, params, transitions) with a single set of animations in one animator, then use animator overrides for each item

[past cargo]

can someone help teach me how to do stuff in unity 2d? I'm starting a game, but idk how to do like actually players in 2d

[mint oar]

im trying to learn to use blend tree for a smoother movement transition, currently working on a freecam animation which i think only uses walk and idle. and theres jump, dodge, attack animation for these tree do i put them out side of the blendtree? and use bool?

or is there a better way to implement this 3 animation?

[sterile vine]

!learn 👇

[dusk vale]

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[random echo]

Hello

If I have root motion off, is there a way to do target matching?

[devout ember]

Some bones in my animations use constant interpolation (IE face plate bones) is there a way to keep this constant interpolation when transitioning between positions?

so it just teleports to the first position

[astral sleet]

Hello! I'm fairly new to Unity and am having trouble with my animation transitions! The transition is taking the frames from the beginning of the first animation and making a weird dip in the animation. I'd like to use the frames at the end of that animation- does anyone know of a way to do this or to fix the dip?

[sharp oriole]

Is there any way to have an animation block in the animation tree be “Play an animation specified by a script”?

[wide citrus]

How to do sprite swaps now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SD9iFN4B8U

Unity doesn't have Tools, Animation, reskin:

[agile solstice]

It never had, that tutorial is for a (discontinued) third party asset

The official sprite swapping is in the 2D Animation package
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@10.2/manual/SpriteSwapIntro.html

[wide citrus]

Thanks. Yeah I found this, it should work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPHqEEa-V0

[sharp oriole]

Can anybody help me with this?

[agile solstice]

What is this exactly
A mind map rather than your actual animator, I'd assume?

[sharp oriole]

Something in between. I did my best to replicate what the animator tree would look like when finished.

But what I'm focusing on is the "Arbitrary Animations" block.

[agile solstice]

There is no such thing

[sharp oriole]

Well, the idea behind it is that that that particular block would play an animation specified by a script, rather than having an animation firmly assigned to it.

The goal being to have various "skills" that can be installed or removed in a modular manner.

[agile solstice]

Blend tree is the closest to that, but blend trees have a specific function
All animations in a blend tree are played in sync, weight just determines the blending between (and length, if they differ)
So JumpStart and JumpLand don't make sense in the same blend tree

[agile solstice]

For this I'd consider the Animator Override Controller component

It does not change the state machine, but you can swap out the animation clips in the states out for different ones

[tidal lance]

But on that note, you'd have to have the Animator component swap the runtime animator to that override controller and switch back to the one it was in the heat of the action

[agile solstice]

Can't have blending when swapping between override controllers, but besides that I think the switch is seamless

[agile solstice]

Either the blending ends after the first animation ends, so the tail end of the blend tries to blend the start of the first animation where the character is under ground
Or the two animations have been exported with different transform axes so from the animator's perspective there's a 90° rotation difference between them
Both likely would be fixed by making the transition instant with no blending and matching the start and end of the two states in the transition timing

[random echo]

!code

[dusk vale]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://scriptbin.xyz/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[random echo]

Hello im trying to implement Target Matching in unity using Playable API that unity provides, but i cant figure out what am i doing wrong. some help please..
https://paste.ofcode.org/6qbsMLzR9vJzHnQ8yX8kyP

Yes I have root motion enabled, and the clips I'm trying to apply target matching on are in the layer that's at 0th index

[wide citrus]

Just did some hacking to not have to choose 250 sprites in the Unity sprite library editor.
I am working with sprite swap and to quickly create many sprite libraries you can edit .meta files manually: it's just yaml files.

All of my different sprites that I'd like to swap follow the same pattern and are in the same places inside images

So I just copied the meta file from the original sprite asset that I setup in editor to those other .png files.

Then I duplicated .spriteLib file and changed the guid in it from the original sprite asset to the new one and that it, no need to manually choose 50 different sprites in the sprite library editor!

Now I have 10 different sprite libraries without having to manually choose 250 sprites in the editor.

It works because Unity uses guid for the asset files and then internalID for individual sprites inside the sprite asset. And since internal IDs are the same, all you have to change is the guid.
Just thought it would be useful for someone.

[rough scaffold]

Hey guys, I'd like to confirm something- Is Animator.StringToHash's output always consistent?

Would it be safe to save that, or should I only save the string representation and hash it on game launch?

[sterile vine]

hashing is deterministic

according to the reference, it uses crc32
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Modules/Animation/ScriptBindings/Animator.bindings.cs#L1083-L1084

[rough scaffold]

Okay thanks!

[buoyant thistle]

hi guys

[echo dragon]

Hello! Im trying to get this instantiated prefab to play an animation then destroy the parent object when it is harvested (growing some fruit :) ), but neither line is working since I added the animation, even though destroying that parent object worked before for over a month. Any ideas?

[proven panther]

Sorry, does this mean the plant is destroyed before the harvest animation is played?

[echo dragon]

Ah, I could of been more descriptive - the animation is not playing nor is the parent being deleted anymore, I even tried commenting out each line but they won't work independtly now. I probably did something silly

[proven panther]

have you debugged pickable.isHeld and fruitParent?

just wanna make sure the condition fires correctly first

because the animation code shouldn't affect the Destroy code if there's something wrong with it, it should fire anyways

[echo dragon]

OK Debug.Log(fruitParent); isn't printing anything 🫠

[proven panther]

might wanna check the hierarchy first, then check how your fruitParent is set lol

[echo dragon]

yeah I'll have to get back to this tomorrow, getting late for me, thanks for helping tho!

[proven panther]

np 👍

If anyone can help, I have this animation right here with a sub-state machine, and I was wondering if there's a way to transition from any state within the substate machine through a shared transition? (I'm trying to avoid making every transition for every state inside the substate because it might get messier with more states later on)

I tried using the substate's Any State node, but it didn't work

[true glen]

Hey guys I have a sprite sheet animation and that is supposed to run at 40fps, upon importing it sets itself to 12fps, how can I change that? Like I have the .anim file in which I can see it change the sprite as a keyframe once every 1/12th of a second. How do I fix this?

Found it out, it didnt show the sample rate in the animation window which is what got me confused

[echo dragon]

I have so many issues. Apparently, they weren't parent/child at all even though I could of sworn they were. I have no idea how this script was deleting the correct object in the first place at all. Programming remains baffling. I know what I gotta do to fix it at least

[sharp ridge]

OK so i know this is a long shot, but I used a rigify rig in blender to animate (im extremely new to animation) and wanted to port it over to unity but the animations arent looking correct at all
(animation in blender vs unity)
(incorrect head scaling, teleporting hand) https://i.imgur.com/UI3xVLq.gif https://i.imgur.com/6n9NmdJ.gif

my export settings

and here is what happens if i make it a humanoid avatar! the head bone doesnt move at all, but its children do https://i.imgur.com/HvJb5RR.gif

i can send pics of the rig/ whatever is helpful, im just hoping theres a way to fix that with redoing a minimal amount of animation

[pastel viper]

hi guys
i have a problem which must be easy to fix but i dont know which way to choose
i use two-bone IK for my player holding a gun, but when i transform my gun to aim down sight position hands dont follow grip objects which are child's of gun object
but when i use script to restart rig builer component they snap to those position and stop moving again
so do i need to use different IK constraints type or force update of those i have?

[sharp ridge]

`fixed using the game rig tools blender addon!!

[scenic girder]

Howdy! I bought this 'monster' from asset store and I'm figuring out how to set up animations. I need it to do a few things.

It needs to be in it's default walk animation which it comes with, I have dragged it's walk avatar into the avatar box on animator but it still isn't walking on the spot in the game.

And I need it to move across the floor (which I assume i'll have to have my own animation made for it to move across my scene)

First question really is, Where exactly do I have to place it's walk animation for it to be active?

[echo dragon]

First you are going to need to create an animation controller for your zombie, and put it in that animator controller slot shown there in your first image. Using this animation controller, you should create a state machine, since I assume you will be adding more than walking. Im not going to explain state machines super well, so I highly advise you look into those, but basically you're going to want to set triggers within the animation controller, and then set them off in your program. What I have pictured is a state machine I am working on for my slimes in my game. They have an idle animation state, that then transitions into or from a jump state, with a trigger bool checking for jumping on that transition line

[honest rose]

Hi, is possible to add sound to a clip? I mean cuz almost all my scripts have animations working like bridges, using the function key for the animation etc. But when i want a sound to play i have to play the animation and the sound at the same time, or when the sound is supossed to occur MID animation, i made the animation have a function key in that part wich calls the script for play a sound.
So i was wondering, is there a way i can just add a sound to the animation clip and done?

[minor vector]

Hello! I was wondering if I could find anyone who has any experience importing blender rigs with accessories from blender into Unity. I'm trying to get a full body FPS rig working with the Animation Rigging package. I've managed to get a bendable spine working, but I'm having a really hard time getting the animations for attaching things to the object in the players hand to line up. I feel like this either has to do with how the rig is set up in blender or with how I'm doing things in Unity, so if anyone has any experience with this I'll provide all the info needed.

[cerulean acorn]

Dear community, if you ever made a 2d game -no pixel art- what standard ppu did you use? For a sprite of your player, say 2 tiles by 1 standing up, with what resolution did you import the asset? 512x256 ? (my camera settings are default)

[coral prism]

Good evening, I have a problem while animating my main character. For some reson only a single bone/body part isnt recognized right for some reasonm and i am at my wits end. Does anyone have some advice? I used Blockbench for the model.

[vestal cipher]

Hi! How extract the animations of the model, which have these animations?

[coral prism]

I think you can just Ctrl+D to duplicate them. that puts them outside the prefab

[vestal cipher]

What?

[sterile vine]

you can use those animation clips directly, not sure what exactly you're asking

[coral prism]

You want to move the animations outside of the package/prefab, right? Then I think the easiest way is to select them one at a time and just duplicating them

Afterwards you can even delete the original to complete the "extraction" if needed

[vestal cipher]

Like this?

[sterile vine]

why do you want to extract them though?

[vestal cipher]

Duplicate the animations the model duplicated

[coral prism]

Yes, like this they are extracted. If that isnt the result u wanted I either misunderstood or u meant something different from extracted

[plain thistle]

Hey everyone, i'm kinda new to blend trees, I'm trying to get the turning animation when I suddenly change directions go smoothly but it does this weird spinning, would you guys have any working example of something like that, I haven't found anything quite like this ? Here's a screen of the blend tree if anyone feels like they can help me directly

[vestal cipher]

Yeah, btw thanks

[primal tree]

Hi there!

I have a small question. I'm not at all familiar with Unity, which is why I need help.

When I export the model with its animations (in FBX binary format) and import it into Blender, it looks completely smashed (to put it back in position I have to select the armature and clear user transforms in pose mode).

I'm looking for a way to have my mesh and my skelet, and to have each animation on a separate file (or whatever), because currently everything gets mixed up in one file, which gives this result.

[agile solstice]

The normal answer is "don't do that"
You should be working from the source file only
Exporting into fbx for unity is a lossy process
Exporting it out also is, so it gets even more mixed up
Because axis systems are different, the bones are rotated in the wrong way, and the whole mesh is too
Scale is likely to be off by a factor of 100
Constraints used to animate it are lost, but control bones that were left behind were exported so your deform bones are mixed in somewhere among them
It's technically possible to solve all those, but just not worth the effort probably ever

Is the point of this just to separate the animation clips from the imported mesh? If so, you can do that within unity, no exporting required

[primal tree]

Thanks for your reply! Actually, the aim is to import the mesh and its animations on blender to export them in another format for import on another engine. I need the animations to be separate files for compiling the model on the game engine in question.

As far as props / characters are concerned, I have no problem. It's just the animations that give me problems :/

[agile solstice]

There's no need to export in that case either
Meshes in a Unity project are already fbx files

[primal tree]

I just realized, I was a bit slow on the uptake. Thanks for the help 😉

[loud cove]

how do i make this line thing trigger when the player touches a trigger collider? I tried creating a trigger parameter but i don't know what to do with it once it's created

[vestal cipher]

What u think guys?

[agile solstice]

You need to learn what transitions are
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Transition.html
Video guide with an example: https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g?t=1104

[void pelican]

is there a euler filter function like in Maya for Unity's Timeline graph editor?

[agile solstice]

What exactly is the euler filter function?

[void pelican]

its to fix a gimbal issue for rotation

[agile solstice]

There might be an option to right click on rotation keyframes on the timeline and swap rotation type from euler to quaternion, at least in Animation there is

[ornate pier]

I made this spider rig with IK using limb solvers, with yellow diamonds marking the limb solver targets and green circles for the effectors. How do I keep the legs locked in place when I move the body?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/493511037421879316/1370037561850073179/2dPlatformPrototype_-_testLevel_-_Windows_Mac_Linux_-_Unity_6_6000.0.30f1___DX11__2025-05-08_16-56-24.mp4?ex=681e0a68&is=681cb8e8&hm=e0e25945b65440dfe8666cfcba76d84715e0e954fd7c46c66c968ffa8fc9fd9e&

[scenic girder]

Howdy! Following a tutorial on setting up animations, This is gonna be triggerable when something happens but apparently I should have an 'animator' file with this? But it doesnt seem to create one

I have the animation clip I made but it didnt seem to create an 'animator' file

Okay so I got it to create the animator file, Thats the same as .controller right?

[sharp ridge]

what would be the correct hierarchy for a character who happens to have 4 arms
also is it even possible to do such a thing with a humanoid rig? Ty in advance :P

[lilac stone]

Hi everyone
Tell me please how can i fix that animation controller ignores transition even though all conditions are met? It happens randomly with a few states, with Any state the most, even if transition Has Exit Time ☑. Sometimes removing it and creating it helps but then it breaks again.

[scenic girder]

Trying to figure out why the 'walkingtoyou' transition isnt working

Its looping the shout transition correctly but walking to you just doesn't seem to fire

Okay, So instead of doing this I now have 2 animation layers, But it only plays whichever one is at the top of the order, not both

Tried setting both to additive but still only plays whichever is first in the list

[scenic girder]

Ah seems ordering should both be the same for them to play at the same time my fault

[scenic girder]

Hilarious attempt at trying to get the guy to walk past in a creepy way but clearly it didn't work out.

So this, monster I have bought comes with his 'walking animation' which looks normal when he is standing still, But i paired it with my own animation 'moving across the bathroom' and it looks goofy, Is this just because blending animations like this doesn't really work? obviously i can't ideally time his foot to hit the floor doing it this way. I'm new and just trying to get some spooks similar to this in my game before releasing it and moving onto learning more. Anybody have any suggestions?

[dense magnet]

I need help please . Extremely frustrated. Animation preview looks incredible and perfect, where as in game is looks like doo doo

1. I have enabled IK pass on the layers (does jack sh### Pretty sure I am missing a step or something )
2. My character avatar + the animations are exactly square and in T-Pose (images attached)

I would really appreciate any and all help. This is pretty much the case for ALL animations. If it's in a blend tree then IK just does not work.

I also notice that when I turn the IK off in the preview the characters feet look the same as in-game

soooo the fix here is to get IK working but with blend trees I guess?

because if you have the animation in the animator pretty much standalone you can do the whole FootIK tick box, but in a blend tree that option is not available

[fossil cloud]

guys how do you do that thing in the mario games where when Mario runs to the left or right he starts to lean in that direction?

[lime estuary]

Hello everyone. I ran into this problem: in my game, a character can pick up a weapon, and when it's in his hands, objects with TwoBoneIKConstraint turn on and his hands seem to hold the weapon. But the problem is that when the camera rotates or the player moves, the hands are late for the object of the weapon and sometimes turn chaotically. I've attached a video below

[lilac stone]

anyone?

[agile solstice]

With Any State it's usually a conflict between multiple Any State transitions, or Any State transitions that are restarting every frame
Rule of thumb don't use Any State unless you know you have to

[lilac stone]

so what should i do instead? manually connect every state with each other? but as i wrote it happens with normal states as well

[agile solstice]

In that case I'd try to isolate the issue more into a specific situation where it seems to occur reliably
Animator rarely does anything unprompted so worth examining the transitions, parameters and code in action
The best way to demonstrate it is to record a video from play mode of the problem occurring with the animator visible and selected so we see it in action, and click through all the layers, transitions and their setting and relevant code

Viewing the animator in action helps track these issues even when not recording it

[lilac stone]

can i show you my screen in voice chat? even if we won't talk? i think this way would be easier

[agile solstice]

A recording that shows everything is better because it can be paused and replayed, and it can be seen by others too

[lilac stone]

so ok, i'll try to record a moment when animator refuses to go into some states with it and game view and then i'll send a script (and also select the transition to show it's conditions)
will it be enough?

[lilac stone]

ok, it might be weird but right now it behaves as it should, as i said it happens randomly
the only option for me is to wait until it will happen again

because yesterday a death animation didn't play, i simply remade a transition with the same conditions and settings and this magically fixed it, conditions conflict is not a reason because every transition of Any State checks for parameter "died" to be false except the one that goes to Death state

sorry for that and thank you for trying to help me

[ornate pier]

I created a walking animation for my IK spider, but I have a few issues: Shouldn't the animation be the same in both directions? And sometimes on the right legs, they get stretched for a split second

[ornate pier]

Fixed by adjusting values of animation

[wide citrus]

Animatinos are zero-indexed, right?

So when I want animation that's 30 frames long, I want to go 0-29, right?

And also when I want to have event run on 8th frame of animation, it should be on frame #7, right?

[vagrant peak]

Why I get knocked trigger but current animation wouldn't stop?

[agile solstice]

You'd put it wherever the 8th frame begins
Animator doesn't exactly measure animations in frames
It has keyframes over time (seconds divided by sample rate)

[mystic dew]

I'm currently using timelines for some cutscenes, is there any way to move keyframes around? they're greyed out right now for some reason

I found I can move the curves and press shift to keep them in their same respective heights, this seems a bit hacky

[mystic dew]

yeah I'm currently stuck on tryina copy a keyframe

[gaunt berry]

I've run into an issue with animation-rigging

I have this setup here. It blends between aiming and resting by manipulating the weight. Those two rigs position the gun with their respective multi-parent constraints

The issue started once I tried to add recoil to the gun. I made an intermediate handle right above the transform of the gun so I can freely manipulate it, but now the hands no longer follow the grips parented under the gun's transform

See:

Is this an execution order issue or what?

[candid hearth]

hey i was wondering how i go about importing mixamo animations and characters into my project and making them work with my fps controller

[compact trench]

Does anyone know anything about Maya to help me with a problem making animations with Mixamo?

[fossil cloud]

import with skin, using .fbx for Unity

[fossil cloud]

wdym "making animations with Mixamo"?

[compact trench]

Making rigging with mixamo

But my problem is solved now, I think

[noble cradle]

why does my dude look normal in blender but the bones are fucked in unity I can't work it out

[compact trench]

Idk how solve this

What is this error

This is a fbx file with animation

In root transform position

[mystic dew]

turns out you can double click on timeline things to open them in the animation window, that gives me all the functionality I need

[agile solstice]

You have exported non-deforming bones, which is not usually what you're supposed to do
Then you've given the non-deforming bones bone renderers so you see their connections to whatever they're parented under
That it looks that way is not an issue, but that your bone hierarchy is full of extra bones that should be excluded from export may be an issue
If it's a Rigify rig, those are not intended for exporting into game engines
There's addons for it that try to change that

[noble cradle]

Its the Rigify human with some of the face bones deleted

So yes likely that

[mystic dew]

ok so

do animation events not play in cutscenes?

oh my script doesn't work like at all in the cutscene

I just have a script to switch the main texture of my mesh at a point in the cutscene, and I have the start function just make an instance of the material but not even that part of the script works

nvm I got the property name wrong my bad

[molten otter]

Im a total bum when it comes to animations and I wanted to just have an idle anim for this tentacle, can I get feedback? I had to use a mix of linear and bezier interpolation to make the loop not choppy on both ends

[woeful wyvern]

Mornin' all. I having a pig of a time trying to figure what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to set up a tentacle with IK, but it's coming out all screwy. It looks like the 'root' end of the tentacle isn't bending at all, which is weird cause in my head it should sort of bend upwards so that the tentacle shape is 'smooth'. Would anyone have any ideas/pointers please as this is driving me nuts. (It'll be procedurally animated eventually if I can get this sorted out and working. 😕

This is the result I'm getting.

[compact trench]

I don't understand

[mystic dew]

oh no that was just me solving my own problem sorry

[compact trench]

Idk what is this

how can I solve it

[compact trench]

This is solved now, I think

[compact trench]

I dont understand this

why it doesn't walk well, it gets stuck

[upper bridge]

heya, i'm trying out procedural animation with this walker model using the animation rigging package, and the IK is being... weird

anyone know what might be going on here?

the bone/mesh structure for reference

[agile solstice]

I'd try offsetting the target and hint a minuscule amount in the Z axis to see if that helps
Generally it causes problems if the transforms of the limbs are perfectly aligned as well, with knee and elbow -like joints you want them to start with a tiny bend

[upper bridge]

hmm, it helped, but only above?

gave them a tiny Z offset but it seems to move on the Z axis very slightly while animating

[agile solstice]

It could be related to the hint's relative position
Usually you move the hint along with the target to make sure it doesn't end up too close to the limb or on the wrong side of the joint

[upper bridge]

ah that was it!!

thanks so much :3

[little path]

https://screenshot.help/

[compact trench]

Yea sorry

The photo has low quality

Sorry

[ornate pier]

How do I fix this issue with the IK limb solver, where the target (yellow dot) overlaps with the skeleton of the leg, causing the leg to not bend?

[slender aspen]

i've just got basic movement states setup, but im having trouble switching between them. If I interrupt Walking by setting my bool to false, Idle starts to loop, but the character is still frozen midway through the Walking animation

[whole scaffold]

hi everyone making my first 2d game i thought things were going well till i tried to build the game and none of my animations are working.Im pretty sure its not the code cause i disabled my scripts to check if my idle animatio atleast plays which it didnt.I can control my character but no animation plays which is very confusing cause it works in the preview

[cedar ruin]

So it does work in the editor? In play mode.

[whole scaffold]

yes

but not in the build

[cedar ruin]

What exactly were you debugging/printing. Share the code.

Oh, you didn't do any debugging?

[whole scaffold]

i use chat gpt and it checked if the animations were working and my parametres were okay and they were.these were the logs 🖼️ SpriteRenderer found. Current Sprite: 0001
SpriteRenderer enabled: True
Sprite color alpha: 1
✅ Animator parameter 'run' found
✅ Animator parameter 'grounded' found
✅ Animator parameter 'isJumping' found
✅ Animator parameter 'isFalling' found
✅ Animator parameter 'kick' found
Animator enabled: True
RenderGraph is now enabled.
SpriteRenderer enabled: True
Sprite color alpha: 1
Animator enabled: True

[cedar ruin]

Is that printed in the console/log? During the build?

[whole scaffold]

player log

[cedar ruin]

While playing in the build?

[whole scaffold]

yes

[cedar ruin]

Do you see it render if you replace the object with the animator with a simple sprite renderer rendering your character sprite?

[whole scaffold]

yes it does

when i press build it looks like the idle animation is playing behind her and behind the background

[cedar ruin]

So it is playing?

[whole scaffold]

yeah i just saw it

[cedar ruin]

Make sure your background has lower priority rendering order than your character.

[whole scaffold]

have it on -10

[cedar ruin]

Take a screenshot

[knotty hamlet]

Hi all, hopefully I'm in the right channel. I'm working on a 2D action game with one other person, an artist. For the player character, he drew a bunch of body sprites in SAI (I think) and exported them as .psb files so he could animate them via skeleton. This is my first time working with files like this.

My issue is that each of the animations he's making for the player character use a different set of body sprites, and I'm not clear on how to switch between animations in any clean way (if one exists).

Currently, each animation is attached to an object with its own set of body sprites and its own animator controller that simply runs the attached animation. Right now, that's 9 sets of objects, with 9 separate anim files and 9 separate controllers.

I'm currently just making each sprite visible/invisible via script depending on states and inputs, but it would be nice if I could simplify this and possibly use just one Animator Controller to go into each animation. But each animation is linked to a specific skeleton, and I can't figure out a way of showing an animation without also bringing in that whole skeleton for each of the player's possible movements.

I'm thinking it should at least be possible for animations using the same skeleton to somehow share a controller, but I'm not really sure how to make that work, either. I wasn't able to find much information about skeleton animations on Google, in terms of one character using multiple skeletons.

[velvet isle]

check layers? Check to see if the animation clips have loop pose enabled -

[agile solstice]

If they share the skeleton you can use Sprite Swap
Ideally you'd design the animations to use the same skeleton as much as possible, so for example it if the spine bones don't change but arm bones do, the character could have extra arms that remain invisible until needed
Then the same animator controls all of them
Even totally parallel skeletons can be under the same animator, and one clip can animate multiple skeletons at once if a motion requires swapping between them

[crisp oak]

My blend machine works in the preview window but not in the actual game?? When the blend tree is 0, its supposed to be playing the idle pose, but during playtest, even when the blend tree value shows 0, it doesnt play the idle animation. all screenshots are taken during playtest btw

the other two blends (walk and run) work, but not the idle

[outer ginkgo]

How am I supposed to make the last sprite last 5 frames instead of 1 only?

I want both sprites to last an even amount of time

If I dupe the 1st sprite and set it after 6 frames of the 2nd one (so that both sprites have 6 frames of playtime), the 1st sprite renders for like 85% of the time

whereas if I dupe the 2nd sprite, the 2nd sprite renders 100% of the time of the anim

[agile solstice]

It looks like your animation holds the sprite first frame for 0:05 seconds, and the second one for 0:01 seconds
Unless it doesn't loop, then it gets stuck there
Seems awfully quick for a clip

Animation clips don't really deal with "frames", rather keyframes spaced over time

The sample rate determines the shortest spacing keyframes can have, and the final keyframe will be held for a duration of one sample, as far as I know
Normally one sample is 1/60th of a second so it's not practically possible to see, you'd just duplicate the last frame and space them out for however long the final sprite frame needs to be there

(Minus one sample, I suppose)

[outer ginkgo]

Okay so for instance, now, I changed my animation clips so that framerate is 4FPS and that makes the animation speed alright

However, I am now stuck with the issue that my states play only the first frame and stay stuck on the first frame using any state (NFA approach)

Like this

I realized that I had to disable CanTransitionToSelf. Now, my states play the anim clip once but then do not loop the anim clip. Any clue?

Oh shoot, just me being very rusty

I just had to find the anim clips in my Assets/ folder and set loop time to true

Thanks for your time though @agile solstice, much appreciated !

[tawdry valley]

If im animating my character swinging a weapon type in blender, and my game will feature multiple weapons for said animations, what is the best way to set this up within unity?

[robust perch]

How would I go about animating the camera when someone is pulling himself forward with his hands while struggling?

I got the other camera animations down but I don't really know WHAT I would do in such a situation

in real situations, people will usually rotate their head completely down or to the side. Maybe that's not stupid. Maybe it is.

[gaunt berry]

bomp

[knotty hamlet]

It's a top-down game rather than a platformer, so the character needs to be able to face 4 directions.

One clip can animate multiple skeletons at once?

[gray talon]

back to my old project, broke down the animation system... but one issue still persists

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54516445385_8314a14c8b_o.gif

the eyes are bugged out... tho in fact what's bugged out is most likely the rig

I have no idea why these two import separately and their relationship is not retained

nvm, it's the rig... the bake turns out broken possibly because of a constraint somewhere, as pre-bake everything looks good

[gray talon]

nevermind, it's a blender bake limitation... wow... I have finally reached the limits of blender

[gray talon]

you can clearly see the difference in stretching, how do I combat this?

[gray talon]

🤔

[gray talon]

so I fixed the issue I had, it was a completely different issue. The eye bones were parented to the IK head control, not the actual deformation bone, now when animation is baked, they stay in place

the head still stretches a bit and that's annoying, I should edit all bones to have average scale inheritance

albeit with stretching, it looks stylized, like a smear frame

so I might keep it

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54516551603_406f5d1468_o.gif

[robust perch]

Is there any way to override the rotation of a bone that's not the tip of an ik chain constraint? I.e. the elbow in a shoulder-hand chain?

Using the animation rigging package

[indigo helm]

can someone help me with animations in the 2D animator

[agile solstice]

IK constraints are evaluated in hierarchy order, so you can constrain the bones with another constraint whichever way either before or after your ik chain

[agile solstice]

Yes, there's no limit to how many bones a rig can have even if you keep them invisible in the clip
Because directional animations will have all the same states, you could use animator override controller to swap all the clips of the animator at once

[agile solstice]

Usually what works is to do a similar motion that a person would do with their real head, but toned down in intensity a lot
In first person view it's not nice to have your view's rotation especially taken over, but having some is important to not make it feel static

[agile solstice]

Likely, considering it's a non-IK script which is not moving a Rig Transform but a gameobject transform directly
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.animation.rigging@1.0/manual/RiggingWorkflow.html#rig-transform
The official workflow is to have your rig constraints in their own hierarchy, since they don't need to intermingle with the skeleton, and their evaluation order would be apparent

[robust perch]

I tried adding a position constraint and a multi position constraint and they did nothing

[robust perch]

Yeah, I pretty much did just that

[gaunt berry]

That worked, thank you

[robust perch]

No seriously, I tried reducing the weight of the ik chain to 0 and I still didn't see the elbow (with the position constraint move)

And when I moved tge target around or reduced and increased its weight, nothing happened

[gilded bough]

Is this a Yay or nay for top down pixel 2D Game?

Or in other words, is there a better way of doing this

[twin horizon]

heyy could anyone help me to set up animations for my character? the animations already exist but i forgot how to set them up on my 2d pixel character :`)

[agile solstice]

Can't get the position constraint to override the IK constraint in any situation, even if you swap their hierarchy order?

[agile solstice]

A blend tree seems like a much better fit
No blending is necessary so you can snap the blend tree's parameters in code to prevent it from trying to blend at all, but the main advantage is that you can have multiple clips in one state

No transitions necessary

[twin horizon]

hey, im trying since hours now to set up my animations for my character, i tried to ask chatgpt and watched tutorials but NOTHING WORKS, i am so mad can someone please help me

this makes no sense, i cant even jump anymore now

[loud dove]

First sketch of my first character I want to make. Wish I was better at art lmao

Was going to mess around with blender and see what I can come up with after doing some more sketches

[agile solstice]

This is strictly a Unity server

[agile solstice]

It looks that way, but you need to provide actionable information

[loud dove]

Well I mean I’m gonna use it to make a game character in Unity so figured it was ok

My bad tho

[agile solstice]

Once it is in Unity you can showcase in #1180170818983051344

[loud dove]

Alrighty then thank you

[spiral relic]

Something's wrong with my bones. They imported this way, and now the finger joints are all sorts of whack. Do I need to fix this in Blender? Or should/can I fix it in Unity?

This is what the joints look like in Mixamo:

Know what - I think I must have done something along the way that caused them to get out of whack. I just reimported from Mixamo and they're completely normal, so I'm gonna go back, re-export and import them into Unity.

[spiral relic]

What's causing my arms to disappear like this? My hunch is that the camera is entering through them. Is that a common cause for something like this?

[robust perch]

I didn't try that but I tried reducing the weight of the ik chain to 0 which should work

[agile solstice]

I expect it should but it seems we're again at a stage to verify any assumptions

[robust perch]

If it does nothing, what could that mean?

[agile solstice]

Either the IK constraint is overriding everything else, or it's something outside of it
I'd try disabling/removing the IK constraint entirely temporarily to see if the other constraint manages to take over then

Clues seem to indicate that the other constraint doesn't do anything, not only that the IK one is taking priority
Should test to confirm that

[dull verge]

I'm having some issues where the animator keeps going into states even when it doesn't meet the conditions set

The highlight/blue arrow is the condition

I've checked that the horizontalValue is not below 0.01. But it still goes through

[agile solstice]

It only has to below that value for an instant, while your transition has a delay and takes some time to blend, so you won't see the response instantly
And it will stay there if other conditions are not met
It seems likely that your horizontalVelocity is changing very rapidly and dipping below the thershold at unexpected times

How did you verify it does not go below 0.01?

[compact trench]

I want to put a sword in my hand so I can attack with it using a mixamo animation but I don't know if I'm doing it right, my idea is to put it inside my right hand, making sure it's inside my hand and then use a mixamo animation to be able to do the attack animation with the sword, but I don't know how exactly I should place the sword

[dull verge]

By doing this
public float NormalizeMovementSpeed => rb.linearVelocity.Horizontal(0).magnitude;
But I've just discovered it is in fact sometimes going 0.01. It's bouncing between a tiny value and a larger value rapidly.

[agile solstice]

How's that supposed to do it, or even relevant here?

[dull verge]

            playerFiniteStateMachine.RPCAnimatorSetFloat(Player.AnimationParameters.horizontalVelocity.ToStringCached(), playerFiniteStateMachine.NormalizeMovementSpeed);

Oh yes pardon I've missed the other chunk

Anyway the issue is caused by my code, I guess i have more to debug to figure why the variable is bouncing back and forth when the character is clearly moving smoothly.

[agile solstice]

It's getting the magnitude of the horizontal velocity
That doesn't do anything about values between 0 and 0.01, nor reveal anything about the variable
It's not "normalization" either which may add to the confusion

To your confusion I mean
I'm confused what Horizontal(0) could be after the linearVelocity vector which does not have a method by that name
You have errors in your console so something else might be breaking your scripts too

[dull verge]

Yes I commented out that piece, here's the full "normalization"

[dull verge]

Oh It's simply a Vector3 extension:

public static class Vector3Extensions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Returns a Vector3 with a modified yAxis
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="vector3"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static Vector3 Horizontal(this Vector3 vector3, float yAxis)
    {
        vector3.y = yAxis;
        return vector3;
    }
}

I'm simply only taking the magnitude of the horizontal velocity with the y axis/value left at 0

Oh and those 3 errors are simply 3rd party SDK Debug.LogErrors which are ignorable

this sort of error which has no breaking issues or relevance to the features i'm working on

[dull verge]

Anyway even with the "/MovementSpeed" commented out, it's still sporadically increasing and decreasing in velocity.. I'm trying to figure that out now

[compact trench]

What would be the best way to do that?

[agile solstice]

Ah, that clears my confusion
But ultimately the error is not in the animator, nor just in the parts of the code I've seen

[agile solstice]

The best way is the one that works in your situation
Objects held in a hand can be parented to the hand bone
Unless you have a reason to do something else

Like utilizing item bones in the rig, or item bones outside of the rig attached by constraints to the character however required

[compact trench]

Perfect ty

then I'll try to do it the way I was doing it

[deep solar]

i want to get into animation and i want to know if it’s better/easier to do the animation in blender or unity ?

[dull verge]

if you mean the debug errors, it's irrelevant to the issue i'm trying to resolve and should be ignored 👍

I'm basically trying to figure out why my character's rb's velocity is constantly going from 0.001 to a higher value and then back to 0.001 as if the character is jittery while walking, though on screen it seems smooth.

[nimble apex]

Hey All, i'm a bit confused on the animation window
I have seven animation clips and it only shows five
How do i select others?
i only see five here, but i have a few others, where would i find these?

[agile solstice]

If they don't show, the animation clips are not in the selected object's animator controller

[nimble apex]

Got it, thank you!

[bold dome]

i kinda need some help my entity is moving around and etc like shown in this video: but for some reason its not using the animations i gave it from mixamo theres an animator set up also speaking of which theres a seprate animator but for some unknown reason it only lets me select the model of the entity as its animator not the actual animator:

[void sigil]

Can you show animator parameters and transitions of animations

[bold dome]

Currently don't have my PC on since I am facing power outages but I will do so when I can and also can you elaborate on the transitions of animations if you mean the animation controller and if the animations are all linked up and stuff it's shown in the video if not please lemme know 😄

[void sigil]

Yes im talking about animations linked up stuff https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-Transition.html im bad at explaining stuffs but if you could send those stuffs people here will understand your issue better🙃

[bold dome]

If you look into the video I have shown the animation window if that's what you mean by that ;-;

[void sigil]

no i mean transition window

lemme open unity real quick

[bold dome]

Oh this

[stark geyser]

how the hell does this work?? I need it to exit as soon as it goes false, how do i do that?

i figured it out

[whole scaffold]

anyone know why my kick animations works on preview but on build it looks like that?

[dense mist]

any of you know how to loop an alembic imported with the alembic package? I see a way to do it through code, but sadly the variables are all privated :/

[bold dome]

here u go

[void sigil]

you shouldnt use has exit time for transitions with conditions and you didnt even add conditions to run animation by the code you made

[bold dome]

i added the conditions like i think they should be testing now

[bold dome]

nope its still t posing

[void sigil]

is your parameters work in animator window?

like in here

[bold dome]

(here are some of the transiations with the conditions added) also yes there is

[void sigil]

Idle -> crawl should has Crawl condition not idle

because if crawl gets true

transition will go to crawl animation

from idle

and turn off has exit time

[bold dome]

i cant change the transition between entry and idle so i i thought i would have to make it idle mb

[bold dome]

i fixed the changes but its still moving around t posing like he in the park or sum

[void sigil]

are you sure your code works well for animator and is it use correct animator?

https://youtu.be/2_Hn5ZsUIXM?si=DclKMPkKm4N6OqUK

here is example video

[bold dome]

ai wrote my script so no idea

[void sigil]

better to learn coding then you can understand whats the code doing lol you can learn coding in #💻┃code-beginner in pinned messages

[bold dome]

i know how to code

just not unity stuff

i am a web developer soo yuh

[void sigil]

you used ai and you said you have no idea about script 🤔

[bold dome]

i used ai to help me code in unity bc C# is mostly new to me since i come from react and next js, laravel and etc soo yuh

and ai looks like it knows whats it doing better than meh-

[void sigil]

if you want to learn C# as i said check pinned messages in #💻┃code-beginner and if you want to know how animator parameters work watch the youtube video i sent i cant help more sorry

[bold dome]

Alright i will watch the video

thx for all of the help you have provided until now

[weary gulch]

Hello,

I'm trying to achieve skeletal animation for my player charachter. To do so, I have followed many youtube tutorials however I cannot achieve what I want. Let me tell you where it goes wrong, following this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd8TXelVnJ4&t=239s

At the 3:48 mark, after the sprite sheet (with layers) is opened with the sprite editor, and we switch to skinning editor, magically the sprite "rearranges" to form the body. When I tried this, in many many different configurations (e.g. as sprite sheet, as layered, as separately drawn sprites, ...), I could not get it to work.

So, the question I could not solve after 3h of trying: how can I correctly import an asesprite player formed out of body/arms/legs (diff sprites) into Unity and then open the skinning editor to start animating it?

[jolly escarp]

so you know how you can have a blendtree state with a parameter set for motion time? is there a possible way to have that on the blendtree inside of another blendtree?

[clear current]

i downloaded an animation from mixamo like i have done in the past with no issues. but now for some reason when i try to play it, the animation doesnt play and the player falls half way through the floor. i tried adding motion to root motion node <root tranform>. i also tried download it with and with out skin, if i click the animation in my projects and click play it works fine. its just when i add it to the animation field.

this is me playing it from the folder with no isssue

[digital monolith]

not sure why but trying to use a mixamo running animation and my concept character is just a running t-pose zombie

https://i.gyazo.com/7f008ea8798f7da0315b69b883d6c608.gif

it SHOULD work like this though no?

[little wedge]

does anybody know a good tutorial for procedural animation ?

[lavish marsh]

ok so do i ave to set end frame to the current animation for every animation or can that be automated?

I have Export Helper but it still does this error in Unity

[fickle pivot]

I'm trying to make an idle animation for my book item that will be a collectible in my 2d platformer game, here is already an animation that I tried to make and there is an animator that I have added, but I'm confused when I want to test this idle animation, the animator on my game object does not work. Does anyone have any answer to this problem

[cyan mauve]

anybody noticed trying to import blender .fbx into unity multiplies all animations because of the new blender animation slot thing?

I have like 14 objects with animations but it gives me 196 animations inside unity

[merry rock]

Sometimes it separates each thing as its own animation

Idk why does that but that’s just what it does for some reason but sometimes it randomly just doesn’t happen

Try to make sure the packaging isn’t off

Make sure it’s all packaged correctly when importing

[true glen]

Im having an animation where it changes with a condition. Is there a way to have it change randomly to one of multiple animations with the same state change? Like I have 2 melee animations, I switch state from Idle to melee, and then it just randomly picks one. Or do I need to make a separate state for each and handle it in code?

[south shoal]

Hello unity guys !
Simple question i've made a rig for a character but when i try to import it in unity i've the slide at feet level. In forum no one fix the problem, people patch it with "ik foot".
But for my project i can't use it.
So there is my question : Where can find a perfect rig hierarchy for unity. I dont know why unity dont read my rig and i dont know what is the "conform rigging" for unity.
Someone can tell me how can i made a perfect rig for it ? (i dont want facial expression, just simple rig)

Thank you

[agile solstice]

What's the reason you can't use foot IK?

[agile solstice]

I wish there was that but you basically would have to use either multiple states, optionally with the sub-state machine, or a blend tree with snapped weight
In any case the logic to randomize or otherwise choose the animation will have to be done in code via an animator parameter

[south shoal]

For several reasons:
-Because the project is an online game, it's expensive for the CPU (multiple characters)
-The project has stylized animations; when it moves very quickly, the system applies broken fixes
-In some cases, our animations are "broken"

but for now i just want to "fix" the slide of the feet on the floor :/

i've try to match anim the rig and animation of mixamo on my characters. With mixamo rig i've no issue, work perfectly. So i've conclued the prb is the rig

[untold pike]

Hi everyone, I'm totally discovering animations and I need some experience here, I have a bowl with a mesh representing the content of the bowl, and my issue is I can't choose between blendshapes or a full animation, if I use Blendshapes it will result in five different blendshapes that will do a part of the fill (I had to do it in multiple shape keys in order to follow the curvature of the bowl) that I can pilot via a script, maybe I'm wrong but playing an animation created in blender looks easier to achieve, the issue is that I don't know if I'll have enough control on the animation to say "fill this to 80%" (the fillratio is a float calculated by a script) but then if the player removes 20% of the content I must be able to pilot the animation to go from 80% to 60%, which approch would you choose ?

[agile solstice]

Foot IK is pretty much the only thing can "just fix" it because it's an involved issue
Probably either the foot IK of humanoid avatars or another variety of foot IK
Mixamo rigs are fully designed for the humanoid avatar so they can natively implement foot IK with no issue

Or at least with a kind of a guarantee there's no errors in between

Foot sliding at its core occurs because the feet bones are multiple bones down in the hierarchy away from root bone, so any motion is subject to compression inaccuracy that multiplies at each level

It can in theory also be caused by other things, like root motion or other kind of motion that's incorrectly exported

[south shoal]

so ... how the devs can fixe the problem before the ik foot feature ?

[agile solstice]

In your case I'd assume there's some issue with your rig, if it's Humanoid the same as your mixamo rigs but doesn't work the same
Hard to speculate what that may be

[agile solstice]

You can have a clip where the thing goes from empty to full (or vice versa) and then set the time of the animation state to match the normalized (0 to 1) fill rate in code

[hybrid barn]

Hi All,

I have full rigged character and it has lots of animations like walk, run, idle, shoot etc.

I want to move both Arms up and down that depends on mouse position like below video.

I have classic IK setup.

How can I move both arms that sticks to the weapon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9OqNkW1e8s

[agile solstice]

I don't know what "classic IK" means exactly but if you have IK for your arms you can simply move those arm targets
In your video the gun seems to be moving in a regular circle and the arms' ik targets are attached to it

Not the only way to do it obviously

[hybrid barn]

@agile solstice basically what i want is, lookat mouse position while keeping current ArmR/ArmL Target

[agile solstice]

So, what's the issue?

[hybrid barn]

If I move both Arms Together, Left Arm doesn't follow as it is

So I need to create a parent Target that both arm can follow it and also looks attached to the weapon. However don't know how to do it.

[agile solstice]

Your arm targets can be attached to the gun by parenting (or constraint components), and then you can move the gun via scripting

The arm targets and also the gun can be parented/constrained to an empty transform that you move instead, if that seems convenient

Or the gun's attached to an empty and the arm targets are attached to the gun, so it makes it convenient to animate the gun for things like recoil without having to move the aim-controlled transform

No just one right way about it

[hybrid barn]

I did it in this order now it moves with the gun but arms going further

I think this is common for all 2d games but couldn't find anything on web

I wish there would be a lookat/aim constaint to follow spesific target for 2d

couldn't find any tools also in unityassetstore

I would buy it

[agile solstice]

Which one of the suggested ways did you do here? If you're using constraints the component properties are not visible to me, nor is the issue visible very clearly, and I don't know how you're moving the gun or tool transform
A video would be better

[agile solstice]

Constraints work the same in 2D as they do in 3D, just have to restrict rotation to Z axis

The constraint should have the relevant settings to do that
If not, the LookAt method does the job just as well

[calm trellis]

hi, im doing a schoolproject in unity and i have a player model made in blender and the playermodel has a rig and animations made in blender

now in unity i want to move the players hands up or down depending on the cameras angle (to achieve aiming)

but im unable to move the hands trough script because the rig and animations cntrol the hand movements . how can i move the hands trough script without braking the animations

[agile solstice]

You can
LateUpdate takes effect after the animator in execution order

Maybe not within the scope of your school project but it's typical to achieve aiming by working with the animator rather than overriding it, or using constraints or IK to influence it
Could have poses for aiming in a few main directions, and then blend them in a blend tree to easily and smoothly map the variables in code to poses
Or if using the Animation Rigging package, utilize IK constraints so limbs and parts of the body can aim or move in any direction in world space regardless of the animation

[south shoal]

Answering myself here, in case someone else runs into the same issue:
After 7 intense days of testing and searching, I finally found the source of the sliding problem.

Most of the time, when you don't use IK, characters tend to float or slide across the ground. This usually comes from velocity values not matching the root motion, and needs to be tweaked accordingly.

But in my case, that wasn’t the issue.
Even when baking animations before export, Unity sometimes reinterprets animation key tangents however it wants during import.

Here’s how to fix it:
1.Set the animation to "No Compression"
2.Duplicate the animation file to make it editable
3.Open the Animation window, go to the "Curves" tab
4.Select all the keys and apply "Auto Clamp"

And that’s it!
This way, you can avoid overusing IK (which can hurt performance), changing animations or their artistic style, or breaking a stylized animation full of squash and stretch.

[calm trellis]

So little nore information the player has 2 guns as "hands" the player rotates to face the same direction as the camera so this is the horizontal aiming, i have a separate script rotating the hands up and down depending on camera angle (looking upwards or downwards ) this script does not work anymore because the graphic guy made the animations and imported them to unity so now only horizontal aim worjs since the player can still rotate (look left and right) i kinda missed your point on how to implement the up down movement for hands which should match the camera view angle, do you have a video or some example how to implement this pls?

[tidal crow]

Hi! I'm learning Unity animation rigging package and i've encountered an issue that may be due to my lack of knowledge of how this works. I'm not even sure how I should research this

Essentially I have a model that I have imported from blender which assumes the rig as generic (I did not choose humanoid because I can't create animation clips with that. I would like to keyframe my animations into Unity directly) with a rig constraint (Two bone IK constraint for the arms and legs) that is keyframed into my animation clip as such

And this is my scene hierarchy where the IK constraint lives in a parent object called Rigs which contains the Rig component

I am playing with avatar masks and would like for a mask to only target the upper body. I've then assigned this mask to my base layer within my animator. However upon playing the scene I noticed that my IK constraints are back to the original position and rotation from the T-Pose

All the bones not affected by the IK constraints move just fine through out the animation clip. My question is: do Avatar masks not affect/consider rigging constraints? If not then should I assume that the workflow that I must follow is by programmatically changing the weights of the IK constraints to achieve a similar affect (that being animating only the upper body bones and constraints)?

I think thats what I need do by avoiding animation layering and stick to manipulating rigging weights. However, im hoping someone can confirm this and that im going down the right path with this assumption

[tidal crow]

So I found a solution but not sure if this is correct:

• Removed animation masking
• Create two animation clips
  - Hands move
  - Legs move
• Created a new layer in my animator
  • Assigned the hands moving animation to the base layer and as the default state
  • Assigned the legs moving animation to the new layer and as the default state
• Set the new layer weight to 1
• Now both IK constraints are animation as its supposed to
  Does this solution make sense? I'm not sure if this was the correct way of going about it

[agile solstice]

Afaik avatar masks only affect animation clips, whereas rigging/IK constraints take priority over anything the animator does
With a generic avatar you'd use transform masks rather than avatar masks
IK rigging constraints probably can be used with the humanoid avatar but I don't know if there's any special steps to know

[tidal crow]

Sorry im a bit confused cause I dont see an option to create transform masks. The only thing I know is the transform section in the avatar masks here:

which that didnt work

[agile solstice]

Should work with generic avatars

Humanoid avatar mask should not work with generic avatars

I don't expect you to need two layers for hands and legs unless you get change in pose by changing the layer weight

[tidal crow]

the intention was so that I could have the upper layer control animations for idling and attacking. Then the lower layer controls walking direction via a blend tree

[agile solstice]

That's correct, though the layers won't have any effect on rig constraints

Animator layers anyway, rig layers are something different

[tidal crow]

I might be misunderstanding the workflow here but is it more correct to create the animations in blender, using animation layering to separate the bones, and use rigging constraints for in-game animation correct (eg holding a weapon, or placing feet on level ground via IK)?

as opposed to relying on rigging constraints to create animations clips

[agile solstice]

Generally yes
That can be done but it's not very convenient

[tidal crow]

aahh okay

[agile solstice]

Best to use "real" animation tools and their IK to create clips
Then Unity's IK for what that has to be dynamic at runtime

[tidal crow]

right that makes sense. Great! I now know how to approach this better

thanks so much 🙂

[hybrid barn]

thank you @agile solstice Just enabling Rotation constraint for the Arms Target solved the problem. its that simple 🙂

[mystic kraken]

Anyone likes working with the timeline?
Why? and how to make it less painful?
I guess the workflow is technically fine except there's something annoying me, I can't quite point my finger at.. any tips welcome

[dusk folio]

Hi, I'm working a 1v1 game and I wanna create a cutscene for each character's animation, currently I have 4 characters, so my idea is to play a timeline when the character presses his ultimate, do I need to create 4 timelines for each character one for him and the 1st characer one for him and the 2nd character etc.? and should I put a separate sprite renderer in the timeline or should i put the player objet i'm using in the game?

[spice ibex]

Hey i have downloaded some assets from kenney.nl especially the mini characters pack. I remodelled them a little bit (changing colors of the texture or adding a hat...). Now what i have been struggling is getting the animation to work in Unity itself. It works fine in Blender all animation works as intended but when importing to Unity as a fbx it doesnt work. My workflow is following: 1. Export as a fbx with the settings shown in the image. 2. Import it in Unity and set Rig to Generic because its has to few bones and create a avatar from this model. 3. Set a new animation controller on the Object with the set Avatar. Then i pull the idle animation in the animator as default state. In the end nothing works and i really have no idea why. Would appreciate if someone could help on this matter because i am probably doing something stupidly wrong here. Thank in advance

[dim zodiac]

Any genius made it to solve crossing legs and in between animation work properly on anination blend trees?

[honest rose]

Hi, how Animator Override controller works?

i was investigating how i can change the appereance of my player under a PowerUp and i found the Override Controller. But what specificly this thing does?

i just need to be able to change the Sprite-Sheet used in the animations with still being the same animation

[uncut salmon]

When you create an animator override asset, you will assign an existing animator to it. It will then list all the animation states of that animator for you to override with new animations.

You then put that override controller into the animator component on an object.

I imagine in your case, you'd have a powerup version of all the animations (walking, jumping, attacking, etc.) in a PlayerAnimator_PowerpOverrideController asset and at runtime you'd swap out the animator controller on the player to that one.

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

[plain sentinel]

You can't just swap out the sprite sheet like that. You'd need to make those alternate animations yourself, making copies of the file and replacing the sprites with different ones.

if you want a system that can do that, you would need to make it yourself. It's not really simply either since "sprite sheets" are not really a thing in unity, theres textures and theres sprites. One texture might have totally different sprites than another. You would be going outside of the idea of "sprites" in unity and rendering predefined coordinates on a texture

[honest rose]

Oh, yeah, i was thinking that may be plausible...

But how i can copy the animations? I tried to do so but Unity didnt readed them

[plain sentinel]

didn't read them?

[honest rose]

i mean, when i wanted to modify them, the clips weren't there, like it didnt existed

and i think i copy and pasted them in the same folder

[frigid valve]

a few animations when i use humanoid rig either runs really weirdly or sinks into the ground, any solution? i kinda need humanoid rig

would like instantiating a new model with generic rig and the animation during that animation work

[bright patio]

hello there!
i got a question: let's say i have a sailing boat. by default, the sail is folded. i now have an animation that goes from folded (0%) to fully unfolded (100%). is it possible for me to somehow only play the unfolding animation to only 50% and/or change to any % based on the input i give it? aswell as folding it again (with it's own folding animation or by just reverse playing the unfolding animation)?

[agile solstice]

You can set the speed to 0 and then control the normalized time of the animation via code to whatever wanted
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationState.html
This class was the way to do it iirc

[bright patio]

i will look into it, thank you very much, appreciate it!

[agile solstice]

You can also use a blend tree to freely blend between two animations, if you have "furled state", "unfurled state" and optionally any partially furled states in between
Controlling the time of the furling animation will instead let you have any keyframes you want in-between furled and unfurled, but if you also want to add some repeating motion like wind on top then you'll need layers

[bright patio]

if i did any sort of wind motion over a shader that wouldn't be a problem, i suppose?

[agile solstice]

Just fine

[bright patio]

again, many thanks! 🙂

[agile solstice]

Let me know if the effect you want seems tricky
I had an example of pretty much exactly it somewhere

[bright patio]

thanks for the offer, i will! 🙂
the rig/animation itself is really simple, so i'm optimistic the only thing that will get in my way is my lack of skill regarding programming and nothing else

[austere ether]

hello guys, i am using navmeshagent.setdestination for the enemy ai.. in the pictures, the enemy is coming towards me, but its pointing the wrong way due to the animation.. how can i fix this issue?

(this pic for reference)

[bright patio]

well, blend trees are the way to go!
the only thing that i need to sort out now is why the blend tree dislocates and rotates that small cylindric object that goes up/down along the inner rope

[agile solstice]

for more complex motion you also have blend shapes and IK constraints as options

The dislocation is not because of the blend tree but because of the animation itself, likely because there's so many bones with not totally linear motion so there's inherited compression inaccuracy

Blend shapes would eliminate that as well as the need for bones (although normals can be a bit tedious to get right), while IK rigging constraints could stabilize the motion of the bones

[bright patio]

i'll have to dig into unity animation rigging package anyways for when the player character has to interact with stations on the ship, so if this isn't the perfect time to learn it, what is?
thanks for the input, i really appreciate it!

[agile solstice]

Sounds like it ^^

[mystic badge]

Editor animation curve smoothing using a CCMA filter.

[mystic badge]

If anyone wants this lemme know and I'll see if I can send it over.

[severe sierra]

Does anybody know how to stop an animation from actually moving the object, i got animations from mixamo, turned off root motion, tried like 3 other solutions online and none of them work, it feels like the motion is like baked into the mixamo animation somehow. Even turned on the in place ticker on the website. Any help would be great thanks

also tried messing with these settings to no avail

[mystic badge]

I mean, you've ticked bake into pose for everything

[severe sierra]

i tried messing with it it doesnt change it (unticking / ticking / the dropdowns)

nvm i figured it out it was a code issue i feel silly

[brave kettle]

Is there a way to export anything similar to an animation event from Blender? tl;dr I want to trigger a sound at a certain point in an animation, but that animation is being read in through an FBX importer at runtime (i.e. not part of an asset bundle or configurable through the editor).

Yes this is totally not a scam

edit: he posted a link about an "open a ticket discord" and deleted it lmao

[agile solstice]

You can ping mods so spammers get deleted quicker

[agile solstice]

You can add animation events manually per clip in the mesh import settings in animation tab
At least with FBX files, maybe not with blend files

It's technically possible to implement a feature to convert blender markers into unity events if that's what you're looking for https://undertheweathersoftware.com/importing-blender-pose-markers-to-unity-animation-events/

[celest crag]

Not the first time as well. Yeeted them.

[austere ether]

any help please

[agile solstice]

Are you using Mixamo?

[austere ether]

yeah

[agile solstice]

I'm not familiar with it so I can't really help, but from what I've seen it's some export/import issue with Mixamo settings and root motion, nothing related to navmesh agents
Also causes the legs to "flop" during walking

[austere ether]

aw man... anything i can do in unity?

[agile solstice]

Potentially something to tweak in the avatar configuration and root motion settings

[austere ether]

alright let me try and mess with the settings.. thanks a lot!

[brave kettle]

Ah this might be a good lead, I'll check t his out

Wait this is exactly what I needed I think, thanks

Should stop modders/me from having to configure events per frame lmfao

cheers

[agile solstice]

Still have to do it at some point, difference is whether it's done in blender when animating or in unity later

[frigid valve]

Bake rotation into pose and have it facing original not orientation

And if that doesn’t work you can manually offset the rotation

[brave kettle]

Easier to do when you can see the animation :p instead of just typing "<frame>24</frame>" or some shit lmao

[agile solstice]

I usually use the preview window of the import settings inspector to see the animation while scrubbing the clip timeline to add the event

[brave kettle]

game i'm working on has mod support so i'd rather they not have to make unity projects

that animation is being read in through an FBX importer at runtime

otherwise i'd just use that yeah

[agile solstice]

Yeah in that situation having a fully fledged exporter/importer would be perfect

[mystic badge]

You could write a script that exports it to json within blender, then re-imports it within unity to the animation.

[brave kettle]

The article that got linked earlier (https://undertheweathersoftware.com/importing-blender-pose-markers-to-unity-animation-events/) seems to have exactly that, I'll have to try it out when I finish the code for animation states

[feral spire]

Hi, I am looking for any kind of tutorial or documentation on third person movement similar to once human. Like when a user try to go left the character play trun left animation then move forward to left.

[cyan mauve]

does anyone know a simple method to connect multiple objects' with an animation each to one trigger?

[jagged ruin]

Is it possible to make my 'Timeline' (which is referenced on an object using PlayableDirector) not reset to the start, when i select another gameobject? Right now as soon as i select another gameObject, the 'time' / playhead goes back to the start... (but only in the viewports, when i reselect it, the time is still where i left it, and the visual effect in the scene/game window returns) and i was wondering if i was missing something

[mystic badge]

I think what they're trying to do is have the animation events follow through on import.

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/AnimationEvent.html

[mystic badge]

There's the scripting angle, but, given blender imports are a thing maybe there's a way to have a custom assetpostprocessor that can just import them from the blender files.

[brave kettle]

I'm the person who asked the question :p

assetpostprocessor is unfortunately an editor class

Honestly wish Unity had more of a pipeline for (arbitrary) runtime asset loading but that's more of a general thing than an animation thing