🏃┃animation

[frozen hearth]

Hello, Unity !

I wasn't sure where to ask, but I've run into a problem with my 2D Unity Project, which is an example scene. I uploaded my character from the Spine and added some of my design. My animation itself isn't the problem. It's something that's happening in the program, and I'm not sure how to fix it. The player keeps teleporting back to the start, and the animation(from the animator) isn't doing what it is supposed to be doing. The error of Parameter 'grounded', 'vertical', 'speed', 'measuredVelocity', and 'dead' does not exist. This is my first time using Unity, so I've been doing my best and looking around. I don't want to mess with the coding because i'm not much of a coder. This is the only issue I had. I do want to say that when I downloaded this example scene didn't download everything. So I had to register the input and 2D palette. Everything else works just fine

Also, when I pressed play, the game had DoTween.(is that normal?)
Something is wrong with my settings, I'm not sure what it is.
I have a video attached. Thank you. (dm or here is fine)

[low dust]

Setting up avatar for a character and I finally got all the red highlights to go away in the inspector, but I get this error:

EndLayoutGroup: BeginLayoutGroup must be called first.

[kind patrol]

Hi guys, want to share with my bug

I'm really confused

There is a bug, I have a laser that stands between two points, it has a warning animation (sprite and color) and activation animation (sprite and scale change)

But in play mode, my laser is misdirected, and when I walk, laser its starting to moving

I show all in video, pls help, I just dunno whatahell is this

https://youtu.be/peEcTixS7OY?si=jdSEiu7mFCKc2nZt

[terse timber]

Hi, i'm working on a 2.5d game. I used a preset character with animations at the start but made my own now. I tried swapping the model and changing the animation tree to include the animations I made for this model. I copied the scripts off off the orignal character and changed the avatar to be the one included in my model. Anybody know why it doesn't play the animations when actually playing the game? Thanks already

[cyan flower]

I was wondering if I'm missing an easy way to do this

I've got a bool getting turned on, the animator goes into a looping state while this bool is on and when the bool gets turned off it plays an exit animation before returning to idle
(thats all fine)

but if I want to have an entry state, the bool being makes it repeatidly re start the entry state

the only way I know how to do it is keep track of 2 bools (or a trigger)

[agile solstice]

Why would it do that

[agile solstice]

Don't use Any State unless you really mean any state

[cyan flower]

yeah its a jump anim I think any state is ok

[agile solstice]

I would not recommend it

But if you do you'd use a trigger or otherwise ensure the any state condition is true for only for the instant it needs to be true

[cyan flower]

what would you do for a jump then?

[agile solstice]

Because Any State is a highest priority override to the whole state machine
The more you use it, the more you move away from your animator being a "state machine" and you need constantly more conditions to keep it doing what it's supposed to

[agile solstice]

It could be its own animation layer

[cyan flower]

ah

it is

maybe I'm doing the layer thing wrong

but all the layers I have setup are fed in by any state

[agile solstice]

Then do transitions to Jumping takeoff from the states that need to transition to it
And transitions away to on condition "jumping->false"

[agile solstice]

Then you do need a trigger
Or some other strategy for determining how you interrupt a jump to start back at TakeOff when the player actually jumps again

[cyan flower]

with new state being an empty action

argh I need to go AFK, thank you for the help though

[agile solstice]

I don't think the empty state is necessary at all
When jumping is done you set the weight of the jump layer to 0 so it doesn't matter where it lingers
The most important question is when exactly do you want it to be possible for player to start TakeOff, and then building the state machine around that criteria

[cold copper]

I exported my game too android and now half of the animations dont even work or only have 1 frame and on some devices they dont even work

2D sprites by the way

[crimson oasis]

hello, i have a 3d humanoid character that i made 2 characters out of by editing its colors and clothes and stuff, but because both of them share the same avatar only the character above the other one in the hierarchy works and the others animations don't work. i am using the unity starter assets third person controller and put both the character in the geometry part to use the movement animations.

are there any solutions for this ?

they are using the animator in the player armeture that is using the starterassetthirdperson animator controller

i tried duplicating the character in the assets and having 2 avatars but unity still treats them as a single avatar and only the one on top in the hierarchy works

[little ice]

Hey guys, did my first animation and implemented it to unity. But its not very amusing any recommendations?

[wintry blade]

Hey all! I am trying to import a horse from blender, but my issue is the armature is getting offset by 89 degrees rotation or for some bones even greater than that.

can someone PLEASE help me here, i am actually about to go crazy! I cant seem to find anything that is helpful and im honestly about to say fuck blender and go subscribe to a paid 3d modelling software because this is ridiculous that the transforms are THIS HARD to get right

[little fulcrum]

It won't be much easier with other 3d software. 🙂 You just gotta find the correct settings. There are also Blender-to-Unity import tools out there. I use one of them with no probs

[vernal bronze]

Hello! Anyone know what the best practices are for importing a model with animations from blender to unity. i can see the actions in unity but they are split into a couple of different animations that neither do what i want them to.

[dusk folio]

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make a cutscene in my 1v1 fighting game for the ultimate move, how should I do it? should I attatch the timeline with the character prefab or what exactly?

any help would be appreciated

[unreal fiber]

I have a question about UI Animation and how one uses Layers.

I have some text that I'd like to animate scrolling in from offscreen, doing a scale, and during that scale, also change to one of five colors, and activate one of five particlesystems for a duration and then change back and turn off the systems.

I thought what I could do was in my main animator controller, have an animation state that does the translate and sale on the text (since it's the same across all 5), and then make 5 small layer animations that tween to the correct color, and activate and deactive the relevant particle system.
However, it seems like if i use override mode on the color layer, it fights with the translation effect in the main animator (despite not modifying the position in the layer animations), or if i try changing the color layer to additive instead, it does some bizarre scaling effects to objects that are not even part of the layer animaions at all.

Am I fundamentally misunderstanding how layering works for UI, and just need to make 5 different versions of the main animation instead?

[vernal bronze]

hello i dont know much about animation or unity in itself but cant u just use a script for the effect that you want? ( thats the first thing i would look into if i had this issue)

[unreal fiber]

well i'm already doing an animation on it alongside some other things, so the mechanim will just revert the changes next frame unless i stripped it out and used animation events/redid things majorly

[vernal bronze]

so the piece of text coming in the screen needs to be on the exact frames on the animation

because if you ignored it in the animation and coded it in at the right time ig that could work

im also unsure about that maybe im guiding u in the wrong direction

[drifting coral]

I've been looking for months and months now and I still can't find if there's any sort of shortcut to specifically the "Create New Clip" option. Everything else I've tried to add new animation clips to an existing animator have been very clunky to both add and edit. It's going to get very annoying to slowly scroll all the way down to the bottom of a dropdown menu just to add new 2D animations

[drifting coral]

Or even if there's a shortcut or way to go to the bottom of the list immediately

IF YOU PRESS C IN THE MENU IT MAKES A NEW CLIP

discovered completely by accident

Holding S also scrolls the menu very quickly

what a relief

[terse timber]

Anybody mind looking at this?

[agile solstice]

I don't like guessing so you should show the game and animator side by side in play mode, showing both layers and parameters

Usually that reveals the problem to you already

I don't much like to guess

[proper tapir]

I have a technical question, I want to make a "censorship" style shader, do you know any tutorial?

[echo tapir]

so, i'm importing an animated model as a tabletop figurine to Tabletop Sim. i'm trying to figure out how to import animations but the root motion is moving around the figurine base when it should remain in place. the only thing that seemed to work was making the Root Motion node the "Hip" node of the Armature (the node directly parented to Armature) but that ruins all the Hip poses of the animations.

do i need to make the figurine base a separate Skinned Mesh Renderer? how do i remove the figurine base from the Root Motion's influence? or can i remove the Root Motion entirely or something?

any help appreciated!

this is the GameObject breakdown. Base is not actually weighted to anything and doesn't have any changes in poses from animation

[swift swallow]

hi everyone are there any blender to unity experts here? I'd love to ask some questions and get some help on troubleshooting some issues that I have been having. If you have minute, please send me a message 🙂

Might be best if I explain a voicecall and screen share

[normal viper]

Help guys why does this happens 😞

Can someone help me on this

[woeful wyvern]

Hi all,

Can someone please help me figure out what in the dickens is going on here? This seems to be a constant problem I have with IK with Animation Rigging.

From what I can tell I have everything set up correctly. (First Image).

But when I press play the IK is all messed up and I really don't understand why.

[agile solstice]

From what I can tell your limb is completely straight in its starting position, and the hint is overlapping it
Both of those will cause issues with IK

[woeful wyvern]

Nope, it's not that 😕 (Bent all the bones in the constraint a little and moved the hint backwards). Really don't know what's going on, I have this exact same problem every time I try IK. 😕

[agile solstice]

Then it seems likely you're always running into the same mistake at some point of the process
For me those are solved by making a simpler setup to practice until it works, and that usually reveals what's different that time

[woeful wyvern]

I can't do it any simpler tbh. I've followed the exact steps in about 30 tutorials at this point, which are pretty much identical.

[agile solstice]

Then import the package's samples from the package manager for example implementations

Either you are making some misstep in the process, or those samples would start out broken as well

[woeful wyvern]

Okay, so, turns out, you can't move the character using the hip bone(s) without it breaking the IK. That's so daft. 😕

https://streamable.com/q2rtik

About 1 minute 45 in 😕

[terse salmon]

thanks all. I'm gonna change my thing

[woeful wyvern]

I tend to have issues figuring out the animator if honest, especially when using triggers. I was looking around for a solution/tutorial on how to overcome the issues when I found this, and tbh I love the approach. It may help with your issues maybe? (Mileage may vary)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkiSJ5z-hE

[agile solstice]

ChatGPT is a terrible way to learn a new thing because its answers aren't just wrong, but misleading
If your chart is correct it's obvious that the dances can't continue because Any State is trying to start all three equally
You'll probably want the corresponding trigger as a second condition for those transitions
Remember that you can't ensure an Any State transition does not occur by selectively creating transitions, so it skips the whole state machine and should be used sparingly and with care
May be less effort to record a video where you click through all the transitions to show their settings, and show the animator in action side by side with the game window in play mode with the character selected when the issue happens

[agile solstice]

This is not a good tutorial to using the Animator because it's not a tutorial how to use it at all
It instructs you to code your own animator state machine to control the Animator, which is redundant because the Animator is already a state machine
Inventing the wheel again in your own way can have value, but it's a poor crutch when it's used as a substitute to learning how the Animator should be used as it's used here

[woeful wyvern]

Oh yeah, I know it's not a tutorial on how to use the Animator, and it may not be an 'ideal' solution, but tbh, I personally like this approach because I can see what's happening all in one place if that makes sense? And well, it works. I just find the way the animator works to be really confusing and annoying lol.

Like a said in the original message, mileage may vary.

[agile solstice]

Technically it can work, and ultimately up to preference and project's needs
But not the most appropriate suggestion to code an alternative to a system when the issue is not knowing how to use the system

Hard to make a good alternative tool without knowing what you're even replacing exactly

Unity's Animator by all means should be less confusing, it has a way to funnel people into wrong workflows

[woeful wyvern]

Yeah for what I've needed it for it's worked fine. I don't really use many animations in my stuff tbh. And what I do use are pretty simple, most of the time I use Feel to directly manipulate bones/transforms as needed.

[agile solstice]

And coders typically hate it when they're used to solving problems like these with code rather than graphical interfaces

[woeful wyvern]

lol. Yeah I can understand that.

One thing that I'm still completely baffled by is the issue I was having with IK. I've figured out what the problem is, but it absolutely baffles the living p*ss out of me as to why it's an issue.

Based on what I was doing last night, if you set up IK, as soon as you rotate any other bone in the hierarchy (for example to pose a character), it completely breaks the IK targetting. It's so weird.

[agile solstice]

Okay so
IK Rig components work on top of the Animator within its systems
The IK constraints don't have knowledge of any motion that doesn't come from the animator, a Rig Source or a Rig Transform
Moving ordinary Transforms in either hierarchy will be ignored
Normally Animator overrides the armature transform positions so it's not even possible to move the bones manually

[woeful wyvern]

So, to make it work properly I've GOT to have an animation of some description in the animator?

[agile solstice]

No, that usually just prevents people from running into this issue

If you want to move a bone of the armature, you'd create a multi-parent constraint or any other relevant constraint in the Rig hierarchy and move the target / Source transform to make the bone move
And make sure the hierarchy order makes sense as evaluation order, so you won't for example set hip position after you've set feet positions via IK, unless you intend to

If you want to transform Rig constraints by parenting, such as having a common parent for feet IK targets, the parent needs the Rig Transform component
An empty Transform won't do

[woeful wyvern]

Right okay I think I get it. So for example, I just want the guy sitting down in a peddle powered go-kart and use IK to control the legs (pedalling) and Arms (steering wheel). But I need to 'pose' the characters spine so that it looks like he's sitting, so I'd need another constraint (with target etc) on his spine to do that?

[agile solstice]

In essence:
-Rig components only in Rig hierarchy
-Only move character bones via Rig Sources (or by Animation keyframes)
-Use Rig Transforms to allow Rig Sources inherit Transforms hierarchically

[woeful wyvern]

Looks like it's been my rotating bones 'directly' that has been the issue I've been having.

[agile solstice]

You could use constraints to create fully poseable rig
But it seems storing the poses as animation clips would be more appropriate and efficient

You're not allowed to make animation clips for Humanoid rigs in editor, but since you're not using animation clips and you're supplementing your IK I don't see any reason to use Humanoid over Generic avatar

Except maybe retargeting

Though I wonder if retargeting even works properly with a custom IK rig on top

[woeful wyvern]

The idea was to simple parent the targets to the pedals and the steering wheel and let IK deal with it all. And Retargetting isn't an issue. It's a 'standard' mixamo rig, so it works fine as is. It was just me wanting to manipulate certain bones directly that was causing the issue. Was really confusing cause I work with rigging and IK literally every day for work outside of Unity, so just very different 'thinking' if that makes sense.

[agile solstice]

So if retargeting isn't a concern, I'd make it a Generic rig and do the poses as clips

I guess the reasons are technical why it works the way it does as an extension to Animator
If the bone and rig source transforms were interspersed in the same transform hierarchy moved by both systems and by you manually on top of it, it'd be a nightmare of transform inheritance

[woeful wyvern]

Yeah, I guess it would be. Thanks for the explanations though, I actually understand now why I have had so many issues with IK in Unity. lol. It just 'thinks' differently than I'm used to.

[knotty hamlet]

Is there any way to swap between sprite skeletons during runtime in 2D?

[dusk folio]

I have 4 selectable character that are being spawned dynamically in the scene, and I wanna make a timeline for each one of them, how can I do that?

[honest rose]

hi, im aware i can't modify animation propeties in code or i think so, but well anyways

what i wanted to ask was, like in Super Mario Bros franchise games for example, how i can make the player appereance change via a power up?

i know the power up part, but the player appereance part dont.....

[agile solstice]

What kind of "appearance change"

[honest rose]

Just a brand new sprite sheet, wich sprites positions is the same as the others

[agile solstice]

Right, not the way some 2D engines do it by swapping the sprite sheet that's being animated, because Unity's sprite animation works by explicit references to individual sprites

So you could do it by making new animations and manually replacing every sprite of every keyframe

I guess the alternative to speed that up would be to make a component that holds an array of sprites as the "sprite sheet" and assigns the sprite to Sprite Renderer by "index"
Then rather than your animations controlling the Sprite Renderer's sprite reference, they control the custom component's index variable

[honest rose]

o h

[honest rose]

sorry for the question, but how i can copy and paste animation clips, so i can know where is each frame

[agile solstice]

You can duplicate the asset with ctrl+d in project window, if that's what you mean

[honest rose]

oh, interesting

i mean, the clips of an specific actor, cuz i copy and pasted the clips, and the actor didnt read em

[agile solstice]

You can drag and drop animation clips into the animator to make them usable states

The animation window also lets you edit animations that the selected animator has as states

[honest rose]

i didnt knew that, thanks a lot!

hey, now thinking, i think i have an idea

how i can use the SPRITE sheet of the Sprite Renderer of a propety inside animation? i only have the Sprite_Actor child just for calculate size more easily and display sprites actually, it doesnt use the sprite that is set, i think it doesnt have one im not sure

i use the sprite renderer for display any sprite i want, but not the SPRITE from the specific renderer

[agile solstice]

Could you rephrase that or provide an example
"sprite sheet of the sprite renderer of a property" doesn't make sense to me
Or "use sprite renderer to display any sprite but not the sprite from the specific renderer"

[honest rose]

ok

what i normally do for animate is use the sprites inside a sprite sheet to wich the sprite_renderer will display

But, the sprite_Renderer has an option for have an sprite/sprite_sheet set on it, to wich i dont use for the way i animate

what im asking is, if i can use that sprite_sheet that will be set inside Sprite_Renderer, and the animation just decide wich sprite inside of it to use, instead of use a complete new sprite

[agile solstice]

What option is that?

[honest rose]

i would show you but Unity is taking a very long time to load ;-;

here

[agile solstice]

I don't see an option to set a "sprite sheet"

[honest rose]

no i mean, use the selected sprite as a sprite sheet

[agile solstice]

I don't know what that even means

[honest rose]

;-;

an sprite sheet under my understandment is the same as a sprite, just that has a lot of sprite insides, like the images in Sprite Resource

so i would set an image like that inside the Sprite sector of the propety

and my plan was that the animation clip would just decide wich "sprite_piece" inside that would be displayed

[agile solstice]

I see
No, no way to do that
Animator has no way to "decide" which sprite to show other than by override the component properties you see there
Sprite renderer component is the one that does the deciding, and it uses explicit sprite references

[honest rose]

oh.....

well, thanks

[agile solstice]

Like I mentioned the alternative is to add a custom component between them to introduce the concept of a "sprite sheet" via an array

[honest rose]

noted

[agile solstice]

Or the only alternative I can think of anyway

[honest rose]

mmm, interesting

well, i guess i will just go with that or the duplicated animations for now

thanks

[thorn wedge]

this is starting be unreadable.. is there any way to cleanup my nodes?

[agile solstice]

If I could read what the animations are meant to be I could suggest how to ggroup them up logically to not need transitions between all of them

[thorn wedge]

group them up logically?

[agile solstice]

If they are organized into animation layers, blend trees and sub-state machines in a way that makes sense it can cut down the number of transitions a lot and make the animator more effective at following the parameters
Entry and Exit states are also useful
Any State if used sparingly, as it interrupts the whole state machine

[thorn wedge]

wait.. what can I search in yt to learn about that? sorry.. I'm pretty new

[agile solstice]

I don't think there are good tutorials for all those
Individually how to use them maybe, but not really how to plan an efficient Animator

The documentation does tell you what you need to know about how those features work

[thorn wedge]

I'm really bad at studying from documentations... It's really difficult for me to take knowledge from texts

[agile solstice]

But the trick is to use them as tools to solve problems
The problem usually being that all the animation states are in one pile, with one parameter per state and transitions back and forth between all of them

Transition conditions, exit time and interruptions are also useful tools for doing a lot of things

[agile solstice]

Trial and error is one way of course
A lot of tutorials are made by people who don't understand or have misunderstood the animator so they're not totally reliable

If I could see what states you have I could suggest a setup

[thorn wedge]

oooh, hold on where can I find the documentation?

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/AnimationStateMachines.html

[thorn wedge]

Thank you so much brother!

[agile solstice]

https://unity.com/how-to/build-animator-controllers
This guide does have tips on how to design an animator beyond its features

It's not very in-depth but it is also not very sprawling or long

[gleaming topaz]

Quick question, when I animate in Maya do I need to export every animation individually and have like a folder of run cycle/ jump/ dash etc?

[agile solstice]

I'm not familiar enough with Maya to say, but the FBX format can contain multiple separate animation actions
There's also a workflow for programs that export animations end to end as one track, as you can split the track into multiple animation clips inside unity from mesh import settings
So in either case you won't need to export the animations out one at a time

[gleaming topaz]

Thank you, and since I am new to dev, maybe this is a stupid question, but for a jump animation, does my model have to actually jump in Maya or the movement of jumping in one place, that the model doesn’t move from its origin?

[agile solstice]

It depends
The simple way is to not move the character when animating, so the movement scripts in unity will have full control over the jump force and height
But there's also the "root motion" workflow, in which the animation determines the movement of the character relative to its root bone
In that system the engine calculates the vector of movement of the character relative to its root, and translates it into force or velocity

If a character's movement is difficult to represent in code, like very nonlinear, and must be tightly synced with the animation, then root motion workflow is preferred
But it is less flexible to change later as the animations must be changed to alter the speed

[magic venture]

im wondering if the animator run the various available transitions conditions to check if it can transitions on each parameter update ?

even if the changed param didnt changed value

[dull pendant]

I have a dodge roll animation setup for my player that uses root motion.

1. The roll animation does not seem to finish fully when pressing the roll key
2. the player returns to the starting roll position when the dodge roll ends

[solar galleon]

hey guys I have an issue with unity animation

In Unity Animation... Im trying to move from rotation 55 to 360... on X axis... and I'm expecting it to go... 55... 75... 100.. then 200.. 250... up to 360.

But instead it's jumping: 55 to 80, then back down to 50 and then jumps to 380 and drop to 330 and finally to 360

[agile solstice]

Rotation keyframes here are probably evaluated as quaternion rotation
Which means it basically picks the shortest path to rotate between the start and end rotation

Could be as simple as adding more inbetween keyframes

[brave storm]

IIRC you can also change the interpolation mode if you right click the rotation property in that window

[agile solstice]

Typically yes, but if it's a Humanoid animation like it looks to be it's probably not allowed to be modified in that way
And since it's a full rotation motion, interrupting the animation to blend to a different rotation will be very erratic if euler rotation is in use

[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 i have the transitions and parameters setted up but it wont use them and just t poses around like its in titanic i can provide code if u want 😄

[agile solstice]

If you select the object with the Animator component with the Animation window open, it would warn you if the issue is that the path of the clips is wrong

It will would show the list of bone transforms it's trying to animate, and which their expected paths are

Judging from the hierarchy there are no bones to animate at all

[bold dome]

i rigged and animated from mixamo

[agile solstice]

Did you do what I suggested?

[bold dome]

this?

[agile solstice]

Yes

[bold dome]

i cant bc unity decided to put me into this view and i cant figure out how to get otu

[agile solstice]

Right click game window tab and uncheck "maximize"
Or the shortcut shift+space with cursor over the maximized window

[bold dome]

Oh thx

[bold dome]

Where will it warn me?

The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing!

The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing!

The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing!

The referenced script (Unknown) on this Behaviour is missing!

Reduced additional punctual light shadows resolution by 4 to make 30 shadow maps fit in the 2048x2048 shadow atlas. To avoid this, increase shadow atlas size, decrease big shadow resolutions, or reduce the number of shadow maps active in the same frame
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Reduced additional punctual light shadows resolution by 4 to make 30 shadow maps fit in the 2048x2048 shadow atlas. To avoid this, increase shadow atlas size, decrease big shadow resolutions, or reduce the number of shadow maps active in the same frame
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Reduced additional punctual light shadows resolution by 4 to make 24 shadow maps fit in the 2048x2048 shadow atlas. To avoid this, increase shadow atlas size, decrease big shadow resolutions, or reduce the number of shadow maps active in the same frame
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

Reduced additional punctual light shadows resolution by 4 to make 30 shadow maps fit in the 2048x2048 shadow atlas. To avoid this, increase shadow atlas size, decrease big shadow resolutions, or reduce the number of shadow maps active in the same frame
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

console only provides this

[agile solstice]

You'll need the Animation window

[bold dome]

Uh, ignore me being dumb and not knowing the difference between those, Where can i find the animation window? like are u talking about the preview?

[agile solstice]

Window>

[bold dome]

tons of key frames

[agile solstice]

Animation is for animation clips
Animator is for animator state machine made of animation states containing animation clips

[agile solstice]

The missing warnings are the key here
It expects a hierarchy of bone transforms by the names listed
But as I mentioned you have no transforms parented under your gameobject at all

[bold dome]

I have to gtg for a bit

[dull pendant]

            Debug.Log("OnAnimatorMove called");
            Vector3 deltaPosition = animator.deltaPosition;
            deltaPosition.y += ySpeed * Time.deltaTime * rollSpeed; // Optional: gravity blending
            charController.Move(deltaPosition);

For some reason, my delta position returns (0,0,0), does that mean theres something wrong with my dodge roll?

This causes my character controller not to move

[agile solstice]

I'm not very familiar with it but afaik you'll need to have baked root motion for the animator to have any movement delta

[bold dome]

I am back (gonna take a shower in a bit) but I wanted to know to fix this do I have to rig the entire character manually using blender? Since idk what's going on I used meshy to make the model and then rigged it through mixamo and then added the animations maybe somewhere in between It forgot the rig?

[agile solstice]

Maybe
More likely you forgot to add the rig into the scene from the imported mesh

That could happen if you assign components manually rather than using the imported mesh

[bold dome]

Also i found this when i went to the location where the thing was

[agile solstice]

Either it has no bones, or it has them but hierarchy is wrong so it can't find them
Not familiar enough with Humanoid setup to give anything more concrete

[dull pendant]

Why is my root animation animation deformed? but all my other animations fine?

[agile solstice]

I doubt anyone here has the reason for that

[dull pendant]

Lmao

[nimble rivet]

Hi, i got this ballista off the asset store. Anyone got any suggestions how I could start animating it? I imagine thru blender and then brining it to unity?

btw im a complete noob when it comes to animating if anyone got learning reccomendations

[primal jolt]

if u got the bones name right, u can just add prefix of where u store the bones in the gameObject like for example it searching for hips, yet u actualy put all the skeleton under a parentobject called steve, so u need to change the name to steve/hips, u can add these prefix through f2 each of the bones, or just go to vscode open the file and replace all path with steve/*

[primal jolt]

if it came with rig u can just record and animate it by moving the rig, if not u need to rig it first, although if the balista is a 1 whole mesh i dont think the rig will be great

[bold dome]

i rerigged it but now uh it uses the animation but i think my entity is high or sum bc it's walking animation isnt working

it does attack and etc once its near my player model and those animations work okay

[primal jolt]

try to click the missing bone and press f2, then check the other non missing bone and press f2 compare it does it lack some prefix or sum

[bold dome]

another issue once it start attacking it never stops

like i tried to add an end time to the attack animation but '='

[primal jolt]

thats ur animator issue, u should add transition to idle

u need to add the condition in code too

[bold dome]

assuming end time means at what duration the animation will end

[bold dome]

like from attack back to idle?

[primal jolt]

yes

and tbh i would refrain from using anystate transition cuz it usually creates loop bugs

[digital current]

Hi lads ! Im a newbie doing this as a hobby. Im using Mixamo animations, but due to my character having cartoony proportions, it doesnt look quite well.

Id like to edit the animation to do some minor tweaks (move the arms a little bit)

Should i do this in Blender ? Any tutorials, tips ? I did play around keyframes. Do i have to do it for each and every keyframe to fix it ? Cheers

[lunar bronze]

interesting bug in unity's mecanim that causes a crash (and crash dump).
mecanim::animation::BlendArray(void):
mecanim::animation::PrepareBlendValues(void):
mecanim::animation::EvaluateCaches(void):
mecanim::animation::SeekClip+0B4h (6E9D2E94h)
What's funny is it consistently takes about 18 hours for it to occur.

[bold dome]

So i rerigged everything(AGAIN) and now everything is there all bones and etc and i added new better annimations now for some stopid reason just refuses to go further than idle:

and my entity is permenantly stuck crawling around

[south wigeon]

Is this bad practice? Do you always want to have your animations linked up?

My door is working but this animator controller looks weird

[spiral relic]

So I purchased a character mesh asset from the Unity Store. When using a Two Bone IK Constraint the shoulder and elbow are waaaaay outta whack. Can someone set me on the right track in fixing this? Is it likely related to weight painting? Or is there some other feature I can use to adjust the awkward angle of the joints?

Edit: Fixed! It was to add an object representing a Hint for the TBIKC

[agile solstice]

!collab

[dusk vale]

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[nimble rivet]

Anyone know why the animation under clips from the important fbx shows correct, but when i select from under the actual fbx to remove, it looks off?

[mystic river]

Is there a trivial way to apply a limit per individual axis in Multi-Aim Constraint (Animation Rigging)? It seems Min and Max Limits are applied uniformly across all constrained axis.

[earnest kestrel]

hello, I have the following sliding animation. How can I fix it so that the character is sliding towards the forward direction and not 90 degrees to the side?

• I've tried changing Root Transform Rotation to body orientation / original to no help

[raw whale]

where can I get my player's current view?

or do I really need to align my cam on the scene and roughly do it?

[ornate dirge]

why my animations stay stuck at 5 speed

[ornate dirge]

i have a parameter speed it stays stuck at 5

so my animation never transitions back

[terse salmon]

How would you create an animator for a scene where user presses a trigger like spacebar to make character in stage perform dances(chooses a random one, and that's in the logic in the script) that last full song length like 2 or 3 minutes. At begin character is in idle animation, after dance it should bo back to dance animation. I asked chatgpt but what it gave me didn't quite work it was1. the idle animations state, then the 3 dance animations states with the dance animation states having transitions to the idle. Has exit time ON, Exit time 1.0 , Conditions none. Transition from ANYSTATE to each DanceState. Has exit time OFF, Transition Duration 0.05, Condition is isDancing == true This is what ChatGPT told me to make as the animator and it doesn't work, it plays about 1 frame of the dance animation after pressing Space bar, then it goes back to the Idle animation. ANy tips of what is wrong with it?

[spiral relic]

I downloaded Kevin Iglesias' Human Animations from the Asset Store, and their character model doesn't have bones unlike other meshes I've seen in the past. Still, all of the animations in the pack work normally on the model. Bone Renderer shows no bones. My intent (and maybe it's impossible) was to apply the animations from this pack on the Asset store to my existing character mesh that has bones. Can someone point me in the direction to know whether this is possible and how to accomplish it? Also, are there fundamentally two different types of character mesh? (Bones and no bones?) This is my first time seeing the difference between the two, and I'm not sure exactly what I'm seeing.

It feels like the Rig portion of the HumanF_Model defines different pieces of the body, but they're all connected to one another. If I rotate the hips, the entire body rotates. And I don't understand why.

Edit: Ok, I'm starting to understand I think - the Rig is actually the independent parts of the body. I need to create a Bone Renderer structure for this object, which I haven't had to do in the past.

[south wigeon]

Animating colors is so satisfying:

[tawdry valley]

Here, my trigger for this animation is let to LMB, the console tells me I'm pressing LMB (you can see in the code it is set to when Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)), I can see the trigger being set off in the animator, yet still no animation plays?

[gusty garnet]

can you show the inspector where you have the animator component please

[gusty garnet]

show players inspector (animator component)

[tawdry valley]

I see the issue now, I haven't assigned the controller to the player animator. I thought it was assigned it automatically when I created an animator controller by right clicking the player then creating it from there.

sorry for my beginnerness lmao

[gusty garnet]

yeah that is why i asked for the component. glad you fixed it.

[tawdry valley]

Nevermind I have a new error now 😭

let me record a video

[gusty garnet]

fine

[tawdry valley]

Ok, I've assigned the player the animator controller (seen in the inspector at the beginning), yet now he does this pose (which I have not created or seen before) and the trigger no longer works?

[gusty garnet]

it is playing the animation with the blue bar moving left right in the state mashine, cant read it from here. you can set another animations as default or set transitions between them. as for the pivot point it seems like the transform of one of your objects is not set corectly or the position is wrong , check the transform component of player and child objects in the hierarchy

make sure to import the player model correctly, pivot point has to be on the feet.

other than that it is really difficult to figure out what the problem could be

[lavish jolt]

holy moly the non-linear animator is awesome

how did i never learn this?!!?!?

[ocean minnow]

oops

[tender pollen]

why does my animation enlarge the model like that

[slate wharf]

Hi there, so idk if this is done with code or not
But i got a issue with a animation
So i got smt where i place down smt a animation starts
But how would i make them sycronised?
Should i ask this in #💻┃code-beginner or is this correct channel?

im new to animations so yeah

[slate wharf]

nvm got it

[sacred temple]

How should I setup my animations so I can have them temporarily control the root position?
Im prototyping so just moving a capsule with a rigidbody, then I want to lunge forward using an animation. When the animation controlled the position and rotation, my rigidbody wouldnt move at all, even if the animator wasn't on that animation state. Infact it never even entered the relevant state. Just the state existing in the animator caused it to stop the rigidbody movement. Im struggling to find relevant tutorials on this

I do see that the animator says "Root position or rotation are controlled by curves" but I also don't have Apply Root Motion on. My goal is to move via rigidbody, then temporarily by animation during attacks, so I was assuming I would temporarily toggle Apply Root Motion during the animation.

[foggy oasis]

hi! I have this two legged creature here and id like to implement foot ik. Is there any way to do this easily? Or does the ik only work for humanoid models still in unity 6?

what would the easiest way to implement foot ik be

[foggy oasis]

I guess I can add phantom bones to make it humanoid?

[foggy oasis]

what

ok I did that and now its doing this?? I reimported with humanoid and its all missing

[pulsar crypt]

Oh this isn't 2d animations

[foggy oasis]

why would you think that

no offense

[pulsar crypt]

Saw animation

[foggy oasis]

oh this channel

I thought u were responding to my thing

this channel can be for 2d animation but I dont think posting ur work is allowed

[pulsar crypt]

Oh thanks

[foggy oasis]

esp if its not unity related

[pulsar crypt]

Ok I'll keep that somewhere else

[foggy oasis]

nvmd I just had to assign the avatar

[sacred temple]

Still wondering for my issue above. How are characters and animations usually set up if I want temporary movement via animation?

[blazing hawk]

are there any good guides on attack animations? ive spent 2 days watching like 15 different videos and followed their steps exactly and cant get it to work. soon as I press the attack button i get no animation and playerobject is stuck in idle 😦

[dusky granite]

After importing my model from blender to unity it seems like the animation that was in the fbx isnt starting at frame 0 or 1. none of the objects are supposed to move until frame 3, what is happening here?

Hold on, the issue is still there even if I remove all animation data, the model doesnt do that if I look at it in a fbx file viewer, only when I import it to unity

I hate this program so much

[blazing hawk]

^ lmao i been fighting with it for days haha

[foggy oasis]

for some reason when I transition from wak to idle my model moves upwards permanently? I have "apply root motion" on because otherwise the walk animation doesn't look right

anybody know how to either make this stop happening (idk why it wouldn't just set the root position to how its animated) or make the animation so that its not using root motion

idk how to move it bop up and down without moving the root bone

and you can't have an extra root bone

using blender btw

both animations individually loop to the same spot

loop match is green

[blazing hawk]

finally got the attack animation to work but using the same attack animation for both attack1 and attack2 D:

got the 2nd animation thank god

[scenic girder]

Howdy! first time working with animations in unity, trying to add a bad guy but

at the end of each animation (looping animation) he kinda glitches out

You can also see it on the raw animation on the bottom right

This is how it's setup

If I disable the 'looping animation' and apply it like this, it doesnt happen so I'm confused

[violet yarrow]

Guys, does anyone know how to solve this problem?
The animation is not working well in some places. I have a character. This happens with all the animations I have, all on the humaniod rig.

[broken quest]

Hey guys, i have an issue about running then jumping animation transition. I tried GPT to solve my issue but it's still same.

Here is an example video my issue and my code:

https://paste.mod.gg/idzqktvuzpkf/0

[gusty garnet]

so what exactly is the issue

you have to be clear

[broken quest]

lemme explain

After jumping while running, the land animation is triggering without touching the ground.

[gusty garnet]

well it is transitioning from running jumping immeditely to landing, what is the transition between these 2 states

[broken quest]

then should I use HasExitTime so that it's not instantaneous?

between 2 states

[gusty garnet]

you need a condition for it

as soon as your player hits the ground you trigger that condition. rn it is just switching directly

i suggest you turn of the ai and learn some unity (animations)

[broken quest]

I'll try my best! Thanks for the answer <3

[gusty garnet]

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

should help you out a little bit

[rare meteor]

Anyone had some performance issue with Unity Spline? When I use SplineAnimate my application drop framerate to 10 fps.
I notice if is already present in scene it works fine but if it's in an object instantiated in runtime it affect performance very bad.

Anyone had same issue?

[junior silo]

So...what do you guys use for rigging? i'm most familiar with rigify, but ive had tons of issues exporting to unity.

[agile solstice]

There's the (outdated) GameRig and (proprietary) Game Rig Tools that give you Rigify armatures that support exporting out of blender
There may be some other plugins to Rigify besides those, but beyond them you'd be looking for a different rigging tool like Auto-Rig Pro I suppose

[compact trench]

I'm trying to change my character's walk animation using a third person controller and in the blend tree of the idle/walk/run blend I've dragged a mixamo animation that I've taken using my character's rig correctly but I don't know why it deforms when I press play.

With the default walk animation of the third person controller, the character moved perfectly

Maybe it has to do with the fact that the default animation of the third person controller is using copy from the model with the armature avatar, but if I use a mixamo animation with my model it should work the same

[sacred rover]

HEY All!
I've got a problematic issue with mecanim that I'd love to hear opinions on.
At the moment, I use Animators to control enemy AI behaviors. I alternate from movement behaviors (here, follow player) to attack behaviors, depending on conditions in the transition (player distance, angle, cooldowns...) (screenshot 1)

The issue comes up when I need to have multiple states that need to be able to go to attack states. (screenshot 2) because instantly I have to duplicate conditions (problematic to maintain).

My first instinct was to use a sub state machine that would then be linked to the other states (screenshot 3), but then the issue becomes that under the hood it still does the same (screenshot 4). If I could connect the any state node of the sub SM to (Up) AI, it would all be fine but it's not letting me do that.

Any thoughts on how I should achieve this?

[agile solstice]

I guess you could use Entry and Exit transitions for all of them
Or just for the attacks and have them on their own animation layer

You also can put multiple alternative animations inside a 1D blend tree even though they don't need to blend, but it's a bit of a hack

In that case you'd snap the weight in code to fractions representing each motion, and re-trigger the attack with a transition from the state back into itself

But probably best to use Entry and Exit

[sacred rover]

that wouldnt work, theres no animations in there its purely swapping between states for AI logic

[sacred rover]

I might be missing something, wouldn't that still mean having X transitions for each attack where X is the number of states in the sub state machine?

[sterile vine]

oh i did not read thoroughly the first time
couldn't you use a more dedicated system like behavior?

[sacred rover]

I'm currently reading up on behaviour, have never used it. I'm struggling to understand how it applies to my use case

(I understand that said use case might be a bit scuffed to be honest)

[agile solstice]

I don't mean to use it with a sub-state machine
Exit basically just goes to Entry to pick a new transition, so it skips having to make transitions between adjacent states

I'm probably misunderstanding your use case though

[sterile vine]

it's a statemachine like mecanim, it's just not designed directly for animations like mecanim - you can write your own nodes and stuff to be executed

[sacred rover]

oh wait OK no I thought you mean mecanim state behaviours, the custom scripts you attach to mecanim states. This is a whole different thing! I need to look into it, although I'm a bit wary of changing the way i'm working with those cause I've already got 10hrs worth of game built using this system and it would mean a lot of refactoring/ redoing

[sterile vine]

yeah it definitely would be a lot of work..

[sterile vine]

why wouldn't it work? inside the blendtrees are still the same kind of animationclip nodes

how exactly are you doing the state-specific behavior anyways?

[compact trench]

I can't find the problem, I don't know why it's deformed, the problem doesn't have to be the rig of my model, right?

It's most likely an adaptation issue, that it's not well adapted to the third person controller.

My rig and skinning its good I think

[sacred rover]

To my understanding spazi was referring to this
It's not compatible with my system cause I don't use animation clips in this animator, it's purely logic based, my code follows what state is currently selected for AI logic

[sterile vine]

oh wait i misremembered how blendtrees work, mb

[sacred rover]

I have Headers that I can implement before functions on a script linked to the animator that go [StateEnterMethod("NameOfTheState")] as well as StateUpdate and StateExit.
That lets me link any number of code fragments to my animator

anyway thanks for the tips ill look up unity behavior

[scenic girder]

https://streamable.com/e7w6uv (horror warning)

Howdy! Looking for a little bit of help with this. The model i'm using has walking animations and such but it didn't come with the thing that lets it move in world space (I cant remember the wording sorry)

I'm however, tweening it to move but obviously it's very hard to time that with the footsteps animation so it has this kind of 'moonwalking' vibe, I'm wondering if there is any simple solutions to this.

Thanks!

I think 'root motion' was the word I was looking for

[scenic girder]

I was thinking there miught be a way to jerry rig this by attaching a cube to the lifted foot, and when it touches the floor, 'move' forward

It's got a mesh collider on it now, So in theory couldn't I apply some form of friction to it steps forward?

[scenic girder]

Anybody got any ideas? Been stuck on this for a while now.

[tawdry valley]

Is there a way to have a humanoid animation type rig that uses a weapon? Since my sword socket bone (used to animate the sword) is not part of the base humanoid rig set, it does not move. Switching to generic fixed this however I plan to use things like avatar masks, foot IK and animation layers.

[blazing hawk]

cant frickin get a basic combat system working smh

[devout crater]

is it possible to attach separate parts of 3D objects in unity it triggers animation? Example i made a script of attaching parts for a robot. I just need to make it trigger a custom animation when all parts are attached. But my parts are mix and match basically variations of different parts can trigger the animation

[agile solstice]

Do the parts have different bone structures?

I may not understand what it means for a "part to trigger an animation"

[devout crater]

Not sure what you mean by that but its just 3d objects scattered around and all i do is pickup and attached in a highlighted area

once formed it does an animation preferably just move front and just fall. spwaning another empty model

[agile solstice]

Okay I really don't understand
Animations override component properties, like transform positions and rotations to move them
The animation does not care about what's parented or otherwise attached to the animated gameobjects

So I guess you could have a skeleton of empties with whatever animations you need
Then parent the objects to whichever bone when you attach them
Then play the animation so it does whatever motion needed
I may be off track though

[devout crater]

I mean Is it possible to trigger a custom animation when all robot parts are attached, even if the parts are mix-and-match variations?"
And How can I make the animation work with different part combinations? Like if someone attach LeftArm_Variant1 + RightArm_Variant2 + Head_Variant3?

[devout crater]

How do I set up the animation skeleton you mentioned to work with interchangeable parts? Do I need different bone setups for different part variants?

[agile solstice]

That really depends if your different parts also have motion or bone structure that's specific to those parts

[grand yew]

Not sure if this belongs here, but would love some insight as I have hit a wall

In short - i want to use a state machine to control the cinematics of my game (I have a row of sequences strung together, some needs to loop until the player reacts etc., others need to autoplay into the next loopable bit etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjeBIqryMCM
This video also briefly discusses it

However, when using the timeline, I am unable to progress in the animator states using signals when auto-advancing to the next state when the current timeline / state has run its course

only if i stop() the timeline itself I get control and can jump to the next bit, but then we lose the transitions for animations that the animator states provides

It is a big issue, especially because doing the stop() there is like 1 frame where everything jumps and it is jarring for the eyes

The player can manually press the 'continue button' in order to advance, but trying to do it via code just doesn't hold up, since the timeline is in full control of everything when it runs it seems

If anybody have any experience with timelines and state machines playing together I'd love to hear your insights - kind regards

[sturdy flicker]

Hello guys! So I think anybody who made a TPS character before is aware that we have to use animation rigging to get the player's upper body and it's gun to point where the aim transform is, but I ran into one problem where setting the aim forward and aim up and down in the aim constraints part, thing is it seems my player's bone body parts are not straight forward on any axis, it is like weird like -60 or 40 or something and never 90 so idk how can I fix this issue?

So I cannot put z or -z or anything on the aim axis or up axis , since the local rotation of the bones are just all over the place

[red walrus]

Does anyone know what should I do? cus in this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJKCl-GVrU&t=403s
On how to make sword slash system in 2d top down He makes so Some random New state is Main/deafult state and I have already animations and idle thing for my character, when I do that what he says it makes my animations not work.

[stray steppe]

hey everyone! I recently just finished animation but one of my animation has a weird bug(I think its a bug), for some reason even though I drew the art greatly, it just goes and teleports randomly as shown here

this is how my sprite is setup

id appreciate any help!

[void sigil]

im not sure whats the problem here im not into 2d project but can you be more specific maybe i can help

[stray steppe]

See look, when my character swings his sword
Couple of his frames go off position as shown on the video, i don't want it to randomly change positions if you get what I mean

[void sigil]

oh you mean character y position gets changed during animation right

[stray steppe]

Yes correct

[void sigil]

i guess its cuz of collider offset change

[stray steppe]

Let me set it back to 0 0 0 and see if that fixes it

[stray steppe]

no setting it to 0 0 0 only takes him back to position 0 0 0, the animation is still the same

[void sigil]

can you try to delete collider offset key from animation

[stray steppe]

still same thing even after deleting it

[void sigil]

5th frame sprite looks like bit above than others im not sure if its cause of that

[stray steppe]

you are correct but I don't know why is the 5th frame so much higher than the rest even though the sprite map is all the same

on aseprite it animates fine, but on unity it doesn't

[runic isle]

i think the avatar is this but it won't let me drag/select it for the animator. i made the model with ai and it had different prefabs for different animations but i can't find how to play the animation

[sterile vine]

you need to make sure the pivot stays consistent. it seems like your spritesheet is already on a grid, in which case you should slice by something other than the autoslice

[sterile vine]

oh aseprite? you don't need to export at all with that, unity can import .ase files

[stray steppe]

Its not auto slice, I manually places the boxes

[stray steppe]

Oh really? Can I know how

[sturdy flicker]

Anyone got any idea

[sterile vine]

you just put the ase files in the unity project

[sterile vine]

you would use the grid options instead (if you weren't using .ase)

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.aseprite@2.0/manual/index.html

[stray steppe]

Okay thanks, ill give it a shot later on the day

[stray steppe]

Thanks!

[red walrus]

Hi there, I need help with my animation, so I have animations for walking and idle state, whenever I walk up and stop it makes character look in down dirrection. Could any1 help?

But only for like walking UP

It works fine for going down,left,right.

This is idle tree

This is walk tree

I have no idea what is problem...

[halcyon bloom]

that sounds like the avatar and the animation are not playing nice with eachother
try disabling the head and neck in the avatar and give it a check

[red walrus]

So like, I dont have uewd or neck I have one sprite and I have animation to all directions walking and idle

[halcyon bloom]

ohhhh could it be the animation itself?

send us some pic or vid

[sharp knot]

Is there a way to get the animation curve of an animation clip at runtime?

[red walrus]

I will when I Come back from school

[halcyon bloom]

cool looking forward to it

[red walrus]

Thank you so much for help tho

[amber bane]

hello guys

so im trying to play an animation on a bool

(transition into a walking from an idle)

but even when i just insert my idle, the whole model disappears ingame

[amber bane]

in scene view the model is there but when i click play its gone

if i remove the idle animation from the controller the model spawns

[cedar ruin]

Did you try pausing during play and looking in the scene view?

[amber bane]

ok so i just did that and the model is all the way over in a random area

above the void

[cedar ruin]

What does it's transform say?

[amber bane]

the models?

wym what it says

[cedar ruin]

The whatever moved

What numbers does it show for position

[amber bane]

Vector3(-1.78999996,-0.139776722,-0.156873941)

these

[cedar ruin]

Take screenshots of your scene if you're not sure what could be relevant

[amber bane]

well

any other model works fie

[cedar ruin]

Take a screenshot of your whole editor window.

[amber bane]

i think the animation itself has a transform issue

[cedar ruin]

Change this to pivot and take a screenshot again

[amber bane]

same thing on pivot just a lil off

like by 2 units

u can barely tell

[cedar ruin]

What position does it have before being moved there?

[amber bane]

monsters position before going there is this

or somewhere around that

[cedar ruin]

You're selecting the main monster though. Are you sure that log is about the selected object?

Exit the playmode and take a screenshot of the whole editor again with the object selected.

[uncut salmon]

If your idle animation has a position property, it's going to override where your object is going to be in the world, of course.

[amber bane]

sorry power went out

[amber bane]

i figured that out but when i edit the animation in the animation tab its read only (the position transform for the anim)

omg bro i lost it all

the whole ai i just made got deleted cuz of my power

🥀

my god bro

[shell pilot]

hey im having issues exporting my blender rigged model with animations into unity

the character seems to work fine but the sword i have attached to the player is not

any ideas why that is ?

these are the export properties if that helps

[red walrus]

@halcyon bloom Alright I am home.

How do I show you things?

I have this and Idk what is it

[red walrus]

Fixed it but still wont work

[tawdry valley]

download obs and set it to record in mp4 format. I've seen you ask a few questions that could be better understood with a video.

[red walrus]

Alr, Ill do that

[halcyon bloom]

Assuming you fixed the missing Parameters and it still not working, then high chance it's either the Avatar or the Animation itself is influencing the bone

which kinda loopped us back to the Avatar

try disablling the neck and head in the Avatar first and see if anything change

this one

not this cuz it's a avatar mask, but disable the head and neck in that one too if you hav any, just in case

[red walrus]

@halcyon bloom @tawdry valley OH MY.....
Do you know what was problem?
I have just opened Unity and randomly checked animations because why not and you know what I saw?
In Idle UP there was nothing, which was reason for player to always look down....

😭 I feel so stupid, but also so happy that found what was it...

[halcyon bloom]

very nice congrats my dude

[brave wave]

Does anyone know of an asset / project that can do procedural humanoid animations? Walking, talking, bumping into things, stuff like that. Does that exist?

[fresh cypress]

Good Day everyone!
i have a character in unity complete with a rig and an animation clip made using RIGIFY IN BLENDER, i would like to know how do one make the head and the upper body of the character to follow the movement of the camera.

i tried to target the bones of the rigify but there were only DEF, ORG and MCH bones which are not CTRL bones used to control the character in blender, thus resulting in weird deformations.

if anyone can propose an idea please dont hesitate to reply to my message
thanks in advance:

[jagged ruin]

DEF bones are the bones that deform the character.. these are the skinned bones themselves.
...You dont export (or you dont need to) CTRL bones to unity to use it...

If you are using a rig setup which uses the humanoid system, you tick on ik-pass on the mecanim / controller layer and then you put a script alongside the animator.. which hooks into the ik pass.

Animator.SetLookAtPosition

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

(if you're not using humanoid, do the same thing with the ik-rigging package)

[fresh cypress]

Im guessing by tweaking the SetLookWeight we can also make the body move along with the head?

[jagged ruin]

well it can take more than one parameter. I believe the default 'weight' parameter is the overall 'strength' of the effect...
There are different ways to call it that have more complicated options.

• you can call it so it only moves the eyes... or alternatively, you can call it so it moves the eyes, body, head and 'weight' it to a ratio of your desire.

Try making a script that does it.. and tie it to a bunch of sliders in the inspector, and you will be able to preview the result 'live'

[fresh cypress]

I see so the method of targetting singular bones which what i was trying to do before, is the wrong method

[jagged ruin]

wat?

[jagged ruin]

could you rephrase this into a more specific question as im having trouble understanding what you're asking

each eye is a seperate bone...

as is the head, typically.. on rigify rigs.

...but you can write all the bespoke code you want, i wouldn't though.. if the functionality already exists.

[fresh cypress]

Alright so, using this method we dont need to type the name of our characters bones or we can just use the function as is

[jagged ruin]

this method uses the bones defined in the avatar setup.. as the head and eye bones.

Also, im not sure about the method you were using previously, so i cant say what you did 'wrong'
--but this is a misconception you made:

" ```

like i said before, you would not typically desire to export the control rig.. you would only want to export the deform bone heirarchy to unity... as this is the only pertinent bones to the rigging mechanism... (the only bones weighted to deform the meshes)

...Therefore moving and rotating these bones, is the correct method (that is all the ctrl bones do inside blender)
So, that would not produce 'weird deformations'

example: If you have exported your character correctly for unity, from blender... and in unity you rotate the 'DEF-head' bone... it should rotate the characters head mesh.... without any weird effects / deformations...
(because that's whats actually happening 'under the hood' inside blender, when you animate and key the 'head' bone... it moves around that DEF bone)

[fresh cypress]

I see then could it be a weight painting issue that caused it

Since when i moved the ctrl bones in blender it works fine, until i move the DEf bones

[jagged ruin]

in blender, the control bones move the def bones - you would not move 'both'

[fresh cypress]

I see

[jagged ruin]

That's my point... you are doing, in unity.. what the control bones do in blender...
So it should act the same.

[fresh cypress]

Yea im aware that its controlled by the CTRL bones, hence why i thought i shoudlnt touch it in unity

[jagged ruin]

But you wouldn't typically export all the MCH / ORG / CTRL bones because then you'd have hundreds of unneeded bones complicating the rig...
and none of the bone constraints (which affect how the rig works in blender) transfer out into unity..

[fresh cypress]

Then it might be a weight painting issue, the character just deforms weirdly whenever the individual def bones are moved

[fresh cypress]

Yep

[jagged ruin]

Could be weight painting... it could also be that stuff is weirdly scaled, you should not scale bones (or the rig/meshes really) either...

[jagged ruin]

idk, your description could use some work, like pictures might help...
DEF bones aren't really moved 'individually' in practice...
If you are moving the 'def hand' the arms will be moving too.. since the hand is connected to the arms.

[fresh cypress]

now i have another issue

i tried to reexport my animation from blender to unity using NLA strip but it exported 90% of the strip i did not want and the strip that are invisible in the nonlineareditor, do you happen to know what might caused it

[jagged ruin]

when exporting -dont solo or mute any tracks in NLA.. don't be tabbed into the strip ( it shouldn't be green on the track display)
clips with invalid keys, like you have keyed a bone and then deleted it.. wont export
-oh and the global/scene timeline should be at least as long as the clip.

-also blender has, in the most recent version, redone parts of the NLA editor and how action clips are handled.. if you are on the latest build, you'd be better asking in the blender discord to check to see if its a known issue.

[agile solstice]

Rigify is not meant for exporting
The relationship between the parallel control and deform rigs no longer makes sense when the armature is exported and the blender constraints that link them together are lost

[fresh cypress]

Hmm, it might be because my timeline isnt as long as the clips, as all the other things you mentioned is not present

[fresh cypress]

I see

[agile solstice]

There are some plugins for rigify for making it game ready
But the ones I know are either not updated to modern blender versions, or they're proprietary (Arminando's GameRig, and CGDive's Game Rig Tools, respectively)

[fresh cypress]

Im using AlexLemminG, Rigify to unity

I tried that and the import looks better than before but all the animation clips did not get imported

[agile solstice]

As far as I can tell that removes extra deform bones so the rig is not Humanoid Avatar -incompatible out of the box, but it doesn't change the rig structure meaningfully otherwise

But I haven't confirmed if that method helps with the bone hierarchy issues or not

[lime pebble]

{
    canMove = false;
    _horizontalMove = 0f;
    if (rb != null)
    {
        rb.linearVelocity = Vector2.zero;
        rb.isKinematic = true;
    }
    if (controller != null)
    {
        controller.Move(0, false, false);
    }

    if (animator != null)
    {
        Debug.Log($"Animator is valid for {gameObject.name}. Setting 'IsDead' to true.");
        animator.SetBool("IsDead", true);
        Debug.Log($"'IsDead' parameter set. Current 'IsDead' value: {animator.GetBool("IsDead")}");


        animator.SetFloat("Speed", 0f);
        animator.SetBool("IsJumping", false);

        StartCoroutine(WaitForDeathAnimationAndHandleGameOver());
    }
}```


```private IEnumerator WaitForDeathAnimationAndHandleGameOver()
{
    // Get the length of the death animation clip.
    float deathAnimationLength = 0f;
    if (animator != null)
    {
        foreach (AnimationClip clip in animator.runtimeAnimatorController.animationClips)
        {
            if (clip.name == "Player_Death") 
            {
                deathAnimationLength = clip.length;
                Debug.Log($"Found 'Player_Death' animation clip length: {deathAnimationLength}s.");
                break;
            }
        }
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(deathAnimationLength);
    }
}`````

A problem I am facing: My Player_Death animation doesnt really trigger correctly, it gets stuck at the first few ms of playing the animation...
Thats my code, I dont see an issue, I let gemini look over the code, it says its fine... And it tells me theres a problem in the animator, but I couldnt spot where.

The transition condition is fine, I honestly dont know what the issue is

[sterile vine]

is "can transition to self" disabled in the "any state" -> "Player_Death" transition?

[lime pebble]

I hate my life, thanks

[lime pebble]

Just curious but what do you do for a living?

[sterile vine]

nothing currently

[lime pebble]

did you study? Or what was ur last job?

[sterile vine]

i graduated high school a few months ago

[lime pebble]

oh i see, are you european?

[sterile vine]

are you trying to hire me or smth lol

not really the space to discuss this

[lime pebble]

nah just curious

[compact trench]

I don't know if anyone here knows about Maya, but I have a problem when doing skinning and I don't know why it happens

I don't know why the left leg doesn't animate properly, I've tried doing the skinning in all the ways, I've tried everything but it doesn't work properly at all, when I put the animation in unity my foot gets deformed, I don't know how I could do the skinning on the leg and foot so that it works properly

The leg and foot make a strange turn that it shouldn't, it should go straight

[jagged ruin]

yea, it needs to be.

[robust perch]

Alright so I am using animation rigging for hand grabbing terrain.

Terrain is uneven. Hand samples a raycast hit and orients itself to the surface normal. That's all great.

However, fingers can be off. if the terrain just a bit ahead isn't the same orientation, fingers can either clip or levitate

the natural solution would be to add an ik constraint to each of the fingers, raycast down and place the fingertips on the new normals

but I am afraid to do that as I'm sure the optimizers here would shake their head

any alternatives? The only one I can think if is place an empty object at, say, the middle finger, raycast down from that position and then rotate the hand ik target enough that the fingers roughly hit the ground and hope the hand part doesn't clip through anything

it would likely look better than what I have now but potentially also problematic and certainly worse than the individual finger IK

what do?

[lavish marsh]

I have exported animations from blender, but somehow i have this error and i don't know ow to fix as I don't know how to animate on blender, and the animations for this model is already done

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

[ivory valve]

hey guys, hope all is good for you. I'm a beginner here, i'm trying to make a FPS, but i have big problems with animations. I need help please.

[sterile vine]

!ask

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[sterile vine]

you gotta actually say what the issue is

i don't do 3d, i was lost after the first sentence lmao

[honest rose]

hey, a good idea for implement the code of the animations, is to basically redo the If requeriments in the Animator?

like, if the block is
(pseudocode) if x distance = low
the animator parameters must be the same of this

i mean cuz i been just using animator.plays until now

[agile solstice]

If you only need to determine playback of one animation by that variable, it would make no difference
But beyond that the difference in strategy is that if Animator gets the raw variable, it can be used in more than one way within it

The advantage an Animator controller can provide is that code doesn't really need to know what the controller is doing, as long as the code informs the controller what the character is doing

The controller in turn can transition between more than one animation state contextually in a natural way without the need to play each animation state from code

For example a character may have a jumping animation, mid-air upward animation, mid-air downward animation and a landing animation
The transition from jumping to mid-air could happen automatically, while a velocity parameter could decide whether to transition from upward to downard
Additionally then it can be used to choose whether to skip landing animation at very low velocities, or to choose between multiple upward/downward animations in a blend tree based on velocity

And if the parameters from the code are generic enough, you can use the generic animation code for a different character variant that has different animation states and transitions

[worldly sand]

is it better to change the sample rate or keys length?
how different are these two

[green urchin]

anyone know why i cant set the avatar mask like this?

[honest rose]

ou, but what if i want something simple

i mean

my atleast current issue is that they overlap

idk if im explaining myself well...

[agile solstice]

What overlaps?

[honest rose]

the clips

all of my objects currently only use the animator.play, But i been told thats an awfull idea

if they are complex, and they are

so i need to turn it into the normal way people do animations for prevent the overlapping

i mean, the actor doesnt know what animation to do, cuz two Ifs are being played at the same time, wich in the logic is fine, in the animation isnt

[honest rose]

or i should just fix my logic and keep using animator.plays?

[uncut vortex]

You can't do this with Mecanim

[green urchin]

that's unfortunate

[old bronze]

Hey, im not seeing a clear way to sequence material parameters via timeline? Is this not a thing?

[hasty loom]

I'm trying to set up a look at IK with rigging package. I have a multi aim constraint that constrains a proxy head, and then I have a damped transform constraint that should dampen the actual head to the proxy. I've tried switching hierarchy order, multiple rigs - but it seems that whenever I add the damped transform the angle limitations of the multi aim constraint stops working. Anyone know what quirk I'm missing?

[robust perch]

My finger IK is not working. The code is not relevant for now as the important thing is that the tips are not following the targets

I don't understand why as my other IK chains works without problems. Weights are all 1, offsets are good, I think everything is set up as it should be.

In the photo, highlighted sphere is the tip and the transform gizmo is the target.

Doesn't matter if it's within reach or not for now, the important thing is it's not following the target

[buoyant veldt]

help, I'm using a animation event to trigger a method on my script but I'm getting this error

which is something I'm familiar with, except this time I set it up perfectly, the animator is in the same GO as the script, and method is public and the method even appears as an option when i setup the animation event, so idk what am i doing wrong

nvm I figured out

[vital aspen]

can somone explain how does animator and animation basically works

[vital aspen]

like when i see this image of animation connected to each other

how it basically works

u write a code to trigger these animation

what does that flow chart indicaties

or how u setup

is there any guid i can see or somone explaoin me in simple words

[lime pebble]

Text me dms

[sterile vine]

please don't

just discuss here
private discussion negates the point of having a community server

[sterile vine]

have you tried looking up online guides?

[vital aspen]

no

[sterile vine]

you should start there

[robust perch]

Lol

[hasty loom]

What is the correct way to retrieve pre-constrainted bones when using rigging package with generic rigs? I'm trying to set up some foot IK but I can't find a callback post animation, pre rig constraints - like "OnAnimatorIK".

[polar gust]

I haven't been able to figure out how to word what I'm trying to do in google/chatgpt so maybe someone in here can help. The clip is what I'm trying to do by having the character blink, but the animation of blinking is supposed to be quicker. And here's the sprites.

Do I need to split and layer this some how or what?

This is the current animation

[sterile vine]

increase the sample rate or move the keyframes closer together, or i guess having them as a separate layer would also work

[agile solstice]

Can't speed up the blink without speeding up the idle when they're on the same sprites

I'd make the eyes into a separate sprite that tracks the head
Or get creative with shaders

[honest rose]

hey, correct me if im wrong but, i have an idea cuz i need to make a lot of actors change apperance like the mario fire power up and stuff

what if i use the layers, i mean, i make all normal animations in a layer, and copy and paste those clips in another one but modified them for the special state, and on code put a string where the layer should be, and a boolean would determinate if that string is default or the other

this is factible or is a bad idea?

[chilly pelican]

Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Player idle and run animation not fit to block actually

[buoyant veldt]

needs more details, how did you set it up?
also its not a specific issue, theres many way to make that mistake and many ways to prevent it

the pngs probably dont have the same size or theres something wrong with your setup

[random zenith]

Is there any purpose of making a transition from a substate machine? Wanted to see if I could use it but it just never runs even if the condition is met and the current animation is inside, as well as its a different color. So why can we even make it?

[agile solstice]

Not the wrong idea, and you don't need to copy paste any clips
A "synced" animation layer automatically replicates the states of another layer, letting you replace the motions in the states
An animator override controller component also does that for the whole animator, but doesn't allow blending

[hasty loom]

If anyone search for this layer. I figured out that I could do a parent constraint before in hierarchy that stores the animated bone transform, it will be one frame/tick off, but should be fine. Happy to hear if anyone got any better alternatives.

[agile solstice]

Don't use automatic slicing, and make sure your sprites on the sprite sheet are aligned in a grid

[agile solstice]

It's grey because it's an Entry transition and cannot be previewed
Transition from a sub state machine will be evaluated when you've transitioned to Exit from within the substate
If no external transitions meet the conditions, Entry transitions will be evaluated instead

If your "Main Transition" state has no motion and is only used to funnel transitions, it seems like you want to use Exit and Entry instead

They would do the same thing but skipping the middleman and not interrupting blending

[scarlet umbra]

could someone help me out with my animations here - something has gone terribly amiss and I've been struggling to make sense of it 😭

to clarify - when "Jobs" is pressed, it triggers MenuOpen. When the X is pressed, it triggers MenuClose

it is also not playing the MenuClose animation for some reason

[agile solstice]

Since you're taking a video you could have shown the Parameters tab also, and settings of all transitions involved

Now it's not visible if there's any reason MenuClose should play at all

Still, if you expect a transition from MenuOpen to MenuClosed I expect you want a transition there

[scarlet umbra]

sorry forgot to update - i managed to fix it

turns out i had to trigger twice due to how i set it up, and that was causing issues

trigger -> empty -> trigger -> other state

[agile solstice]

Why not directly between them

[scarlet umbra]

honestly could not tell you, but i had it like that before

probably just a byproduct of trying to fix it

[agile solstice]

The point of transitions between states is so that you can transition between states

[mellow zealot]

using an animator override controller, there seems to be a freeze, almost, when I update the animations in it, meaning my two animated objects desync every time I switch animations

[mellow zealot]

even if I call Play, Update, anything
I cannot find a solution to this issue

[chilly pelican]

I guess, is not possible to do proper slice by grid

[chilly pelican]

I just put the png into assets folder then changed single to multiple sliced by automatic thats it

also its in one png

[chilly pelican]

fixed by chaning pivot center to bottom center

[honest rose]

i mean, this is 2D sprite btw, but cool :3

but also, in script, do i can put the layer name to be a string?

cuz that way i could just make a boolean that if boolean is true changes the layer from default to another

[buoyant veldt]

glad it worked, usually ppl will adjust the animation in the png itself, making each frame's pivot have the exact same distance from eachother, then in the sprite editor slice by grid size

[clear mortar]

yoo i really have this annoying problem. I'm rigging a sword to hand, i create empty sword holder under hand, transform is 0 0 0 attached to hand cleanly. drag my sword under holder, and the whole shoulder and upper arm pivots now attached to the sword. anybody know what to do?

[clear mortar]

ah yess I havefound the answer. U have to create all your own rigs, and animations outside of unity, and never plan to use any Unity free or paid assets for quality rigged animations unless they have the source files. 👍

[young mulch]

Hi team - dumb question from a dumb person. I have animations - idle, aim, walk, shoot etc, all with holding a rifle in mind. I need to adjust the animation to properly hold my own rifle asset - adjust the hand spacing, etc. What's the best practice to adjust the animation? Am I editing the animation directly, hooking up IK? Just need direction before I go down a path that's... wrong

[limpid snow]

Does anyone know how much of a performance hit is it to use animations with 'baked' frames vs animations with keyframes+curves?

I understand that of course 'baked frames' option is less performant because there is still interpolation between those frames, there is more data saved in the animation, hence it will be 'heavier' to play, but I wanna know how much?

Like if you had 100 units active with baked animation vs 100 unites with unbaked animation (only keyframes) - how much of a difference would that cause?

[reef finch]

Hi. How do I fix the animations in runtime being not the same as in preview?

I'm completely lost

Never mind. I figured it out. It was the exit time

[vital aspen]

is anyone online right now ?

[sterile vine]

!ask

[dusk vale]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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[sterile vine]

especially that last point

[vital aspen]

mb

ok so i was trying to make player animations

according to movemen

and i add jump to the animation

but after triggernig jump

it dont go back to normal

i cant understand what mistake i am making

i will send code one sec

idk what mistake i am doing

and force is also not applied on character so no jump is shown

nvm found the issue

[obsidian solstice]

hi, i have an animator controller, and when i select the animations on the controller none of the keyframes or properties show, but when i select the same animation under "allparts" it's fine? but ofc i can't animate under this menu because the animation isn't attatched to the object here (record and add property greyed out)

[agile solstice]

Layers can't be "changed", rather they are always active and you only change the layer weight

[agile solstice]

It might affect file size, but I doubt it affects performance
I don't know if it's possible to export blender fbx animations at least without baking every frame's keyframes, though

[limpid snow]

I can't say for certain but I think I saw the difference between baked and unbaked animations in Unity. The unbaked ones were more affected by the 'recalculate curves' options. May be wrong tho

[agile solstice]

In my experience if you disable "bake keyframes" on export it's synonymous with "don't export any animation"

[limpid snow]

OH lol!

[agile solstice]

Not sure if there's some technical reason it has to be that way or if I was missing something but I didn't find a way to only export discrete keyframes

[floral hill]

Guys There is a button animation which is at a button and whenever the player hover the button an animation plays but when the player clicks to the button before the buttonhover animation is finished stays the button big cuz the anim couldnt finish itself. What should i do?

[gusty garnet]

what you are describing sound like a Has Exit time issue.

[floral hill]

i play my anims from scripts

[gusty garnet]

yeah but you still have that thing on your animation right

[honest rose]

o h

but how i would do so for the "change appereance by bool" thing?

[floral hill]

no

i dont

[gusty garnet]

so no transitions in short

[agile solstice]

You set layer weight to 1 or 0 to have it visible or not
In your case you won't need fractional weights

If that's what you mean

[honest rose]

o h, makes sense, thanks

buuut, how i change the layer's weight?

[void sigil]

why dont u use button animator

its easier

[floral hill]

it becomes so messy

from the script its way way better

i searched it on yt

[agile solstice]

If it's better why are you having this issue?

[floral hill]

well it has nothing to do with animator or script

the problem is that it doesnt go to the normal size which it supposed to be

[void sigil]

i suspect of keyframes

like changing size in highlights animation but no size changes in normal animation

[vital aspen]

how do u make jump in a top down game can somone explain me
how can i implement in my game
i couldnt find a good enough tutorial on it

my character gets stuck in jump animation

and his jump are way bad for some reason

using System.Collections;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("Movement Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rb;
    [SerializeField] private float moveSpeed = 5f;
    private Vector2 moveDirection;

    [Header("Time Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private float timeDrainPerSecond = 2f;

    [Header("Animation")]
    [SerializeField] private Animator animator;

    [Header("Jump Settings")]
    [SerializeField] private float jumpHeight = 0.5f;
    [SerializeField] private float jumpSpeed = 4f;
    private bool isJumping = false;
    private float baseY;

    private void Start()
    {
        baseY = transform.position.y;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (!isJumping)
        {
            float inputX = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            float inputY = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
            moveDirection = new Vector2(inputX, inputY).normalized;

            animator.SetFloat("moveX", inputX);
            animator.SetFloat("moveY", inputY);
            animator.SetBool("moving", moveDirection != Vector2.zero);

            // Handle time drain
            if (moveDirection.magnitude > 0.1f)
            {
                GameManager.Instance.ReduceTime(timeDrainPerSecond * Time.deltaTime);
            }

            // Trigger jump on space
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
            {
                StartCoroutine(JumpRoutine());
            }
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if (!isJumping)
        {
            // Apply continuous movement only if not jumping
            rb.linearVelocity = moveDirection * moveSpeed;
        }
    }```

    private IEnumerator JumpRoutine()
    {
        isJumping = true;
        animator.SetTrigger("jump");

        Vector2 savedVelocity = rb.linearVelocity;
        rb.linearVelocity = Vector2.zero;
        rb.isKinematic = true; // Turn off physics temporarily

        float t = 0f;
        while (t < 1f)
        {
            t += Time.deltaTime * jumpSpeed;
            float yOffset = Mathf.Sin(t * Mathf.PI) * jumpHeight;
            transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, baseY + yOffset, transform.position.z);
            yield return null;
        }

        transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, baseY, transform.position.z);
        rb.isKinematic = false;
        rb.linearVelocity = savedVelocity;

        isJumping = false;
    }

}```
code i am using

can anyone check and help me

[floral hill]

ur code looks so messy

[vital aspen]

uh what parts look messy

like my apprach is wrong

or what

like i made like when jump is happening stop all other things and do the jump animation

[floral hill]

Update and fixedUpdate

[vital aspen]

update is basically normal movement and made coroutine for for jump animation

and stoped the normal movement

i thought doing both together might bug it

[floral hill]

u know u could do CheckIfJumping()

or something like that

[vital aspen]

let me show u video how my jump looks right now

[floral hill]

ok send it

[vital aspen]

can u explain in detail a bit

[vital aspen]

wait i cant send huge video on discord

it should be very less mb

can u come vc

[floral hill]

What does the func in Update

[floral hill]

i can

btw im not a pro programmer but maybe i can help

[vital aspen]

it alright i also just started game dev

i am just all the things ik

when i cant get it right

[keen trail]

hello can you guys help me how to move the character so that it can go around the map because my character is still walking in place like the screenshot video above

and this is the animator

I need help fix my animation in my Game

[agile solstice]

This video doesn't show where the issue could be, and the image is too small to even tell what the state names are
You will want to select your object with Animator while the game is in Play mode with the game window and Animator window visible at the same time
This will show you what the Animator is doing for that character
Then you'll want to record a video of that, with the Parameters tab visible, and also with the Inspector visible click through all the animation transitions with their Settings visible

[oak ether]

hey guys i have a weird issue with my animation when im trying to set the object as a child of a empty so i can move the object around the scene to have it animate everywhere, no matter what i do the animation plays not where the parent is and is offset

i have reset both transforms and it still glitches out

never mind it was the keyframs

[honest rose]

hi, is there other way for syncronize animations with scripts, or just event animation?

[agile solstice]

"Synchronize" in what way?

[honest rose]

like, when it visually shoots, it fires a proyectile, for example

[agile solstice]

Well, both animation events and state machine behaviours can do it
But for something like that there's rarely a justification why your code won't fire the projectile when it also signals the animator to play the shooting animation

Why not do it the straightforward way like that?

[honest rose]

cuz it fires the animation, but the proyectile arent syncronized, i mean

the animation is a chaingun or rifle for example, yet when the sprite muzzle is shining, the proyectiles arent strictly shoot

is not too big of a deal, yet it would be good to know how to do so

i know the animation event method but it needs strictly a function

also, if my enemy uses statemachines, how this would be done?

[agile solstice]

Sounds like a job for events in that case, since you can control the timing perfectly

[honest rose]

oh well, thanks

[agile solstice]

Oh well?

[honest rose]

the issue is now realized..how i can do it if it has enum states... i mean, if i try to access to the other functions, i would get glitched or smt?

idk

or has no issue?

[agile solstice]

State machine behaviours as mentioned also have useful methods like callback for exiting the state, but usually the code is aware of when the shooting should stop and signals the animator that

[honest rose]

oh

[agile solstice]

What would this mean in practice?

You can pass all kinds of data via animation events if needed

Enums also can be cast to int if needed

[honest rose]

holup, animations can control ints?

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

to call a function at a specific point in time. This function can be in any script attached to the GameObject
but must only accept a single parameter of type float, int, string, an object reference, or an AnimationEvent object.```
```...you can use an AnimationEvent object to pass many parameters at the same time. An AnimationEvent object accepts a float, an int, a string, and an object reference as member values. The AnimationEvent object also provides information about the Animation Event that calls the function.```

An "object" can have any data that you define, I suppose

[honest rose]

awesome

thanks

[pale dock]

how to make animator not revert changes on animation end

[gusty garnet]

what do you mean with not revert changes on animation end.

[twin musk]

When I set up my two bone ik constraint like this it doesn't work and I get loads of errors

[unreal oyster]

in scene view (before entering play mode) my character is supposed to be in t pose but its messed up any idea why

[minor prism]

does anybody now how to make simillar aiming animations like in kill the crows? I just cant seem to figure out how to do it.

[keen trail]

okay

[gusty garnet]

really weird question, what are we suposed to answer

[minor prism]

the solution?

[gusty garnet]

you will have to learn how to animate

and if you have a specific question feel free to ask

[minor prism]

that was not the question... but nevermind

[gusty garnet]

well i´m sorry but you will have to provide more infos

[tawdry valley]

I have this basic project with a character model with animations. And in Blender I am making additional animations (with the same mesh). How can I add the animations onto the existing skinned mesh in Unity or do you have to re-export into Unity? If the second option; does all of the logic in the animator controller etc still work assuming you've changed the import settings to be appropriate?

[agile solstice]

If you are replacing the file, you will need to add the new clips into the animation list in mesh import settings

That means adding a new entry to the list, choosing motion for it and optionally setting the start and end frames

The animations are in the file, but unity won't import them automatically except the first time around

[weary wolf]

Hi, how are you all? (sorry for my bad english), i have a problem with the animator tool. Can someone help me with this? (i think i make a mess in my project, and yes, im new with this stuff)

In Spanish for translate:
Hola, como estan? (disculpen mi mal ingles), tengo un problema con la herramienta animator.
Puede alguien ayudarme con esto? (creo que hice un desastre en mi proyecto, y si, soy nuevo en estas cosas)

I have no idea how to create a animation with animator, if anyone read this, please share your smart tips with me. 🙏

In Spanish for translate:
No tengo la menor idea de como crear una animación con animator, si alguien lee esto, porfavor comparte tus conocimientos conmigo. 🙏

I think i should say from the start that this project is in 2D, sorry about that

[peak lantern]

Hello, I'm still trying to learn Unity Animation Events. My current situation is, I have a cup moving on a conveyor belt through animations.

On the end of an animation ("Station 2") I want to trigger an animation on a separate object (which is a rotating arm). I put an animation event on the frame I want the second animation to start. I attached a script to the cup prefab to attach the animator, then I set the trigger parameters. But I can't seem to make it work. Any Ideas?

[gray surge]

Why is it importing my blender fbx like this? Yes, it is screwing with the "forward-up" orientation. Golem is right orientation, clockwork is the f'ed one

[agile solstice]

Reasons and manual solutions explained here: https://polynook.com/learn/how-to-export-models-from-blender-to-unity
I recommend an automated tool for exporting like this https://github.com/EdyJ/blender-to-unity-fbx-exporter/tree/master
Or if you want to pay you can get a better one like this
https://blender-addons.org/blender-to-unity/

[silver ingot]

Hi, I have a prefab like

Player (with CharacterController)
- Model (with animator)

I have an animation on the Model with root motion I exported from blender, and I'd like the animation to check for collision. Whats a good way to transfer the root motion from the animation to the CharacterController?

Would it be a good idea to get the animator.deltaPosition in OnAnimatorMove and call the charactercontroller move method with it?

[silver ingot]

I've been trying to do this, but for some reason it kind of gets applied "twice": The parent empty (Player) does move forward (which shifts my camera), but the Model also visually moves forward but its transform position remains as 0. It also snaps back to its rest position after the animation finishes

I don't know why this is the case since tutorials don't have this issue, anyone have an iidea as to why this happens?

Nevermind, sorry
There were keyframes on the rig too on blender which is why it was happening

Ok wait no, I'm still facing the same problem except now its that the characterController is moving and the root bone is moving, causing the doubled motion

Is it naive to just reset the root bones position to 0 after moving the character controller?

[silver ingot]

I explained it kinda bad so I hope this vid helps

The camera is a child of the Player (clone), so the fact its moving means that the root motion is being applied to the CharacterController
However the root bone is being moved to so I'm not sure what to do

Should I separate the root bone as a motion bone in blender that isn't a root and export that?

[nimble apex]

Can anyone explain how you can animate a child game object through aparents animation window?

I click add sprite in the property section and it disappears form the property options

but it isin't ont he animation timeline

If i select the animation in the explorer it shows it

But if i select the parent game object where i want to tdo the animation it doesn't hsow up

I don't see nay clear tutorials on how this works

I have found unity's timeline and animation window to not be super clear for me

Any help would be appreciated in understanding this

[cunning linden]

Hi when i go from mapping to muscles it moves the rig down past the floor

Any idea why its doing this/how to fix? I cant find anything online

Ive already tried moving the object origin in blender and doing like anything and everything possible with applying armature and fiddling with settings

[silver ingot]

It does the opposite now where my player prefab (character controller) is stationary but my player model moves forward

[marsh pelican]

What's the best way to trigger "generic" animations across multiple different types of weapons, such as "weaponAttack", "weaponReload", but using weapon-specific animation clips?

I think what I've gathered, I should somehow use a "master" animation controller which plays the correct animation with StringToHash(),

But how should I attach the animation clips to my weapons?

Does every weapon need to have it's own Animator component? Don't quite understand how this works yet.

[marsh pelican]

Okay I have come up with something

 animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
 animatorOverride = new AnimatorOverrideController(animator.runtimeAnimatorController);

 animatorOverride["genericShoot"] = currentConfig.testAnimation;

 animator.runtimeAnimatorController = animatorOverride;

The config is a scriptable object where I can store the animation clips

Then I can override the dummy animation clips and play them wherever

This is called in a virtual function that I use to initialize all types of weapons

[analog holly]

Is this a Unity issue?
The audio sources won't play when too far at the front in an animation clip.

[tough holly]

heya, sorry for the animator spaghetti i'm sure you guys are all too familiar with

I have a bit of a conundrum

all the states on the left & etc. that lead back to walk are spell states, so when I cast a spell it returns me to my walking blendtree. not too complicated there

but I'd like to add flight, which works fine on its own- but as soon as you cast a spell, it ends

is there an easy way to put walk inside a sub state without changing the transitions? or alternatively a smarter way I can set this up

[marsh pelican]

Holy shit

This is why I'm building my own controller with code only

[stray burrow]

why is my m1 animation only animating the hand root and the first finger bones, but not the rest? i added keyframes for all of them.

[tough holly]

yep haha, works well enough to add onto but absolutely atrocious for extensibility

[grave drift]

Ok, does anyone know why the axe does not move smoothly with the hand? I've got it set as a child of the hand bone.

Animator is set to a fixed update mode if that means anything.

[twin musk]

How could I make my procedural walking animation adapt to higher speeds? Currently it works well but when there's big sudden differences it starts to break

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd put all the spell states into a substate, and then that substate can transition to whatever?

[loud dawn]

THE PTSD IS CRAZZY!!! Ngl, mine looks way worse 💀

[agile solstice]

Not familiar
If it looks like this it suggests you're not taking advantage of Animator's features or designing the state machine with much strategy

E.g. Layers, Override Controllers, Entry and Exit, Sub-state machines

[tough holly]

christ bro I meant cause people post pics of their animator spaghetti all the time

[agile solstice]

And I tell them each time it's not a necessary outcome

The "smarter way" for flight would likely be an animation layer
They can be synced so it copies all states but lets you replace motions within

Which means you can blend between multiple modes of movement blend trees

With no changes to transitions

[tough holly]

yeah I ended up just replacing the walk blend tree with a sub state machine that contains the logic for blending to walk or flying

my frustration with the sub state machines is that it’s more annoying to add transitions to them because of the additional clicks

but I realize that’s the price of despaghettifying it

[agile solstice]

Sub-state machines are mostly a visual grouping method
Their advantage is that transition out of a sub-state without specifying entry state can transition from any state that is transitioning to Exit within the substate
Iirc works the other way too with Entry

There's rarely any one feature that solves spaghettification in any particular case
The only reliable way is to understand the features and use them in an efficient way to prevent it altogether

[agile solstice]

Spaghettification/spiderwebs are a symptom of not understanding the tool
Making your own tool to perform the same task, but it's an inefficient solution if the problem is lack of understanding, rather than limitations of the tool itself

[tough holly]

yeah, in this case I was mainly wondering if there was a way to switch transition destinations without recreating the transition entirely to save me some time switching to sub state machines, but I figured out you can switch to debug mode to do that last night

[agile solstice]

There is a lot you can do, but the problem is the UI or docs don't make the possibilities or best practices obvious at all

Like copy paste transition settings
Although as a rule of thumb the less explicit transitions it seems you "have to" create, the more likely you're using the features to cut down the need

[twin musk]

How do I get my procedural walking animation to work under higher moving speeds?

[agile solstice]

Depends on how they do not "work" in that situation

[twin musk]

I can't explain it but this keeps happening

the "target" of the ik constraint just falls back

and when its too forward the leg does this

Like it bends the knee inward

Im using the chain ik constraint

[agile solstice]

It seems the code you use to move the targets (and hints) isn't properly speed-independent
It can happen if for example you use time to pace the steps rather than distance

Or if it is based on distance, the something about the high speed makes the distance check fail

Sometimes that can happen if the movement within just one time step, be it Update or FixedUpdate is long enough that some kind of check or detection is missed

Or if you're doing checks in Update and also with physics, you will get inaccurate or conflicting data

[plush furnace]

I'd like to make camera animation from weapon animation I have. There's camera_bone. This code is just locking camera and rotate it full, but I'd like that it only "affect" to main camera and player can control his camera

private void HandleCameraAnimation()
    {
        if (_holder is ICameraHolder cameraHolder)
        {
            Quaternion currentBaseRotation = cameraHolder.GetBaseCameraRotation();
            Quaternion animRotation = _cameraBoneTransform.rotation;
        
            Vector3 animEuler = Quaternion.Inverse(animRotation).eulerAngles;
        
            animEuler = new Vector3(
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.x),
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.y),
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.z)
            );
        
            Quaternion effectRotation = Quaternion.Euler(animEuler);
        
            _playerCameraTransform.rotation = currentBaseRotation * effectRotation;
        }
    }

[twin musk]

Ok I was able to fix it by increasing the speed variable I have and there was some issue where I was comparing distance squared (idek why), while adding hints fixed the knees bending

[peak lantern]

Hello, I need a bit of guidance for this. I have a spawner which instantiate cups, which is mobilized by a conveyor belt. Each operations done within the conveyor belt has its own animation. Everything works before the red line in the picture.

The next is dependent on a button in the canvas which would decide where the cup would be bought.

At first, I tried making a timer for the "decision state" where the button should be pressed to make the cup do the pass animation. I tried an animation event (when the button is pressed, a motor arm would actuate where I pinpoint the specific frame to trigger the cup's "pass" animation). If the timer ends without pressing the button, the fail animation is called. It partially works but the pass animation always gets overshadowed by the fail animation.

Second, I tried a boolean parameter which toggle which state each clone will follow. But I haven't had any luck

Which of the two (or if there's an easier route) would you recommend more?

[wind silo]

is it possible to make animation rigging constraints not override any rotation from animations? like for example a character bobbing their head to some music. now I use a multi rotation constraint to make their head turn towards some object. this completely kills all head bobbing as its overridden by the constraint instead of it being an additional adjustment.

it can be done manually by just adding the desired rotation to each bone in LateUpdate but that requires much more work than using whats already built

[little path]

Getting some weird bone-itis in this mesh with a Mixamo animation. I go to Mixamo, upload this FBX as the character, pick the animation, and it looks fine (first picture).

I download the animation without skin, extract humanoid rig from it, and use the animation clip on the player. Player has humanoid rig generated from the FBX I uploaded to Mixamo (it was rigged by mixamo, and all the bones are set as expected in the avatar), and I get broken angles and wrists and the spine bending all weird (second picture). There isn't a frame in the animation that looks like this. Did I miss a step somewhere or misconfigure something in the animator?

Better picture of the completely borked bone positions. The front foot is completely upside-down. The Mixamo player I downloaded from had no qualms with this animation playing perfectly normally on the exact same FBX

[charred belfry]

I can only presume that your fbx doesn't follow the convention that mixamo uses to animate, and it generated a revised mesh rigged with leg bones that point in the opposite direction

[little path]

I guess I'll try downloading it with skin and see if I can use that model instead of the existing FBX?

[charred belfry]

Sounds like where I'd start

[peak lantern]

Hello again, I wanna ask if my process is skewed or if it's ok. Initially, I just made a script with 2 triggers: one for pass, and another for fail. But no matter how I tried it, it doesn't work (the fail would always play to overshadow the other branch)

What I did next (currently) is made a script that would play the animation on when the button is triggered. It only works for the original cup gameobject though. For the clones, I made a third state which would just erase it. With timing it (seen in the screen recording), it kinda blends in.

What I plan to do next is to separate the Pass and Fail State from the animator. Script another spawner to instantiate where the cup pauses before the pass and fail state, to carry over whatever button is pressed. I feel i'm missing something or making it complicated than it should be though

[jagged briar]

ok probably a dumb question, but how to you go past the 1 second / 60 frames mark in the Animation tab?

[peak lantern]

use your scroller wheel to zoom out or

[jagged briar]

ty!

[marsh pelican]

Is it possible to use the same animation clip for multiple prefabs?

I want just a simple set transform scale to 0 over 2 seconds, do I really need to make 10 identical clips for that?

[royal olive]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any good mixamo tutorials for unity 6?

Also is it true that with mixamo you don't have to make the characters there are already some available to grab like an asset store thing?

Pretty much for my game, I just need NPCs that at least look somewhat human, and as far as animations go, just basic idle animations like blinking or looking around and if possible lip syncing?

Also I assume I could play these animations separately on unity timeline to a timeline I have already sorted for dialogue?

I was gonna have them separately for now as Idk about putting in lip syncing yet, just making a game for my dissertation project at uni.

[terse gust]

Hello, is it possible to stop and start the animator? like i want to stop the animator through code from working and re start it

[agile solstice]

No
Animation clips work for anything, as long as the gameobject and component hierarchy name paths match
Genericly named empty parents can be utilized to make hierarchical animation more re-usable
If you're just animating the root object's Transform, there's no need for any workarounds

[royal olive]

I'm pretty sure you can do this, you just need to reference the animator itself or timeline in your script. The latter you can do with TimelineAsset, then refer to track asset.

[terse gust]

reference? ofc but then what?

how do i stop it?

[royal olive]

Are you doing the animation on timeline?

[terse gust]

no

it's a loading screen's icon

[royal olive]

Oh sorry my b then man I don't have much experience with the animation stuff, soz.

In fact learning it today haha

[terse gust]

Lool

anwyays i think disabling it and enabling it seems to do what iwant

thanks btw

i know a lot about the animator XD

[terse gust]

🆗

[royal olive]

Dissertations are a bitch man, at least the project's cool

Making a game to teach about neurodiversity init

[terse gust]

oh alr

[little path]

Following up on this - I got the skinned mesh from mixamo for this running animation that looks fine in Mixamo, but in-game the legs are backwards

[covert zealot]

how can i change the animatorController an animator uses through code?

[hazy arch]

uhh. one sec I have this somewhere

animator.runtimeAnimatorController = m.roleAnims[0];

the right side is just an array of animator controlelrs

[covert zealot]

thank you for searching that for me haha

[covert zealot]

hey does someone know how i can play an animation just once for example when hitting someone with a sword

[hazy arch]

give it an exit time and a transition back to idle

[covert zealot]

what would the exit time be equal?

[hazy arch]

this is saying it plays 95% of the animation, then blends the last 5% with the new animation

if fixed duration were checked, it would be the last 0.5 seconds instead of %

[covert zealot]

ah okay ty

[hazy arch]

er

.05 seoncds*

[proper ether]

hey, so i have a question regarding animations and ik rigging.. if any one could help me i would appreciate it.

currently i have a system set up with dual cameras , one isometric.. and the other is a third person shooter perspective for combat

i have set it up so that the cross-hair is what the player ik rigged charcter looks at, while the legs are not affect.. but the whole body (upper body).. and the hands has IK rigging so they are attached to the weapon

my question here is, how do i make an attack animation, that would look good? because currently the ik rigging makes the animations look weird

and.. bad

[livid harness]

hi, I'm pretty new to unity and I don't seem to get how animator transition works
right here, I'm trying to make it change into attack animation, and it does. But although I allocated it plenty of frames without exit time, it just goes off instantly
Is there something I'm mising?

[grand marsh]

im still pretty new, so dont be to upset at me. I have been searching and searching to no end and cant find anything to help me.... i found a garage door in sketchfab, fixed textures in blender, and put it over in to unity but i can get all my door sections to move as one with the animations any help would be appreciated!!!

[mystic willow]

What data is in an .anim file that increases the size? And how to optimise it to a smaller file size?

I've got an asset with a 20MB idle animation, and I've not touched animations before to know where to start to keep a basic idle anim and lower the file size down to like 1MB or something

[grand spindle]

Hey y'all, just curious if there are many good sources and(or) tools for the animating of non-humanoid characters in Blender for use in Unity? I'm thinking triped, quadruped, up to 8+ legs
My background is far more in environment art, shaders, VFX work, etc... I've never explored animation overly heavily other than some fairly basic IK

[hasty lintel]

You can open them up in a text editor of your choice if you want to take a look

Not that I personally know of a great solution to this but the biggest thing that bloats them overall is just the amount of transforms being messed with

since it's a fairly big sum of values being saved per, regardless of the actual difference they are experiencing

[mystic willow]

There are loads ... I duplicated the file and tried deleting stuff... the file size increased

So I've given up

The build size has only increased by ~5MB

[hasty lintel]

I don't know enough about things to really say if it should be better but the anim files just do not attempt to re-use values whatsoever which inflates them like crazy

eg.

m_Curve:
- serializedVersion: 3
time: 0
value: 0
inSlope: 0
outSlope: 0
tangentMode: 136
weightedMode: 0
inWeight: 0.33333334
outWeight: 0.33333334
- serializedVersion: 3
time: 0.6666667
value: 0
inSlope: 0
outSlope: 0
tangentMode: 136
weightedMode: 0
inWeight: 0.33333334
outWeight: 0.33333334
- serializedVersion: 3
time: 1
value: 0
inSlope: 0
outSlope: 0
tangentMode: 136
weightedMode: 0
inWeight: 0.33333334
outWeight: 0.33333334

ok discord

but yeah really the only difference here is 0.00,0.66 and 1.00 (6 chars changed) yet it goes ahead and decides its fine doing 476 of them

[royal olive]

does anyone have experience with Mixamo here?

Pretty much I just want my NPCs in game to have idle animations like blinking or looking away occasionally.

[agile solstice]

Yes but they never stick around to help each other

[royal olive]

Awww ew, I only heard about it through my dissertation supervisor so might as well ask init.

Pretty much I just need to figure out how to incorporate these basic animations and then just need to put the game together, and we're done!

[limber raven]

bro ı need help

My walking animation won't play

[slate peak]

Hi,
I'm new to making games and I've just make my first ever character model in Blender. Now I'm thinking about the animations my model will have, but I've never animated a second in my life. I've heard both Blender and Unity have animation systems, but I don't know which one i should go for to make my first game.
Any thoughts?

[twin musk]

How do I make realistic human walking if I have a system to control foot movement? Like how should I lock the hip and limit movement until the feet move?

[random urchin]

When exporting animations in Blender, it says "no path for f-curves".
Does anyone have any idea about this?
Some animations are missing when I import them into Unity.
In the Dope Sheet editor, animations that have a red underline below them don’t work.

[gusty garnet]

have you ever heard of mixamo, might save you alot of time

[twin musk]

I meant procedurally, didn't specify

[covert zealot]

does someone know what can cause my animation which should only play once to not play even when the conditions are met?

[grand marsh]

so im kinda new and stuck. its kinda hard for me to explain but im not sure how to transfer constraints from blender to unity... im not sure what to do...

[agile solstice]

You don't
Only parent relationships can be exported, and only armature hierarchies can be exported as a single actions despite containing multiple transforms

[agile solstice]

Not without more information

[covert zealot]

i dont know what information is important could you tell me what exactly you need? code, animator, transition screenshots?

[agile solstice]

Everything
The best thing is to make a video that shows the animator window during play mode with the animated object selected, so we can see the character and the controller in action at the same time
And then click through every transition, revealing settings
Also reveal parameters, animation layers if any, and go through the code finally

Video can be paused so it's a good way to show everything

Viewing the Animator and game in play mode side by side is so helpful it may lead you to the problem by itself

[covert zealot]

my discord sadly aint letting me upload more than a micron

[agile solstice]

Youtube and streamable are good alternatives

[covert zealot]

also my animation logic is completely fucked up probably i use an animation controller for every item with different animations but the same structure in every one, and i switch through them depending which item im holding

it would probably be better to completely start over again but i dont know how to do it differently

[agile solstice]

Seeing everything there is and the animator in action may allow us to provide some feedback

[covert zealot]

i think ill start over again if i have the same problem afterwards ill text again

[agile solstice]

Just by that description I'd suggest animator override controllers, or synced animation layers

[graceful horizon]

is anyone able to offer some help with getting anims to work in unity? tryna use ones from mixamo on a model ive made, first time doing this stuff

[gusty garnet]

how about asking your question

[covert zealot]

hey how would you guys approach an animation system in 2d with multiple animation variants depending on which item you hold in your hand? i just cant figure out how to swap out the idle, walk etc animations when holding a sword for example

[uncut salmon]

Assuming you're using an AnimatorController, then you can look into AnimatorOverrideController, which is specifically used to keep the animator as is, but allows you to swap the animations for those states with other ones.

Then you'd have an override controller for each of your variants.

[covert zealot]

oh thats cool ill look into it ty!

[swift sundial]

what YouTube character control/animation tutorial is would be best to start with?

[covert zealot]

would i just swap the override controllers through code depending on which item im holding?

[uncut salmon]

Basically, yeah

[royal olive]

Quick question but with Mixamo, is it possible to edit the models in any way. For example, I was searching for how to have blinking animations on mixamo models and this came up.

Pretty much, how would you make the eyes a separate object anyway, would you have to model them yourself?

Having the models blink is not a big deal anyway, just would add a little bit of polish init

[pure nexus]

so i have a hair asset on my avatar its attached and uploaded but when i run around its idle and has no movement

[north sphinx]

probably want something like "Dynamic Bone" or "Magica Cloth 2"
or this free one:
https://github.com/SPARK-inc/SPCRJointDynamics

[worldly sand]

how can i remove animation delay when looping ?

i think it just auto damp itself at the start and end?
how can i turn that off

[raven totem]

switch to the curves tab in the animation window and edit keyframe tangents

[worldly sand]

sweet, thanks

[peak bear]

If I have a navmesh agent that jumps using root motion, how can I make it so that the distance jumped is consistent and not affected by framerate changes?

[royal olive]

Just to ask, what's up with these errors, this happened after importing animations and a character model from mixamo?

[final violet]

yall i got this problem where the animation goes but it stops at around 0.3 seconds in (its a 0.5 second animations) and it goes back to idling

turns out it doesnt just stop at 0.3 seconds even if i shorten the animation the animations just goes back to idle around half way no matter how long the animation clip is

[austere ether]

why is my unity animation wayy worse and disfigured than the preview shown in mixamo?

(red is unity)

(white is mixamo)

[limber isle]

Hey guys anyone here who could help me with some animation blend tree? In vc

[sterile vine]

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[sterile vine]

we don't do VC's here

just ask your question

[limber isle]

So this is a game it's a basic game so I just need to you know want to add jump animation where I press space bar and it jumps

[sterile vine]

https://screenshot.help

[limber isle]

Without scripting a single code btw

good?

just need a jump anim when i press spacebar and continues running

is it possible with only visual scripting and blend tree

[sterile vine]

yeah, visual scripting is just a different representation of code

you probably don't want to put everything into a single blend tree though

break it into steps
detect the spacebar press, make it jump, set the animation for jumping and falling, make it go back to the normal walk/idle animation appropriately

[limber isle]

thats why i am here (a total beginner)

i didnt get any yt vids too so i came here

[sterile vine]

which part are you stuck on specifically?

half of it isn't even related to animations

[nova turret]

Hi everyone, recently I started learning how to animate characters and put them to use in Unity. When creating animations I worked on a rig from Mixamo. I downloaded some model that was compatible with this rig (used same bones hierarchy) and everything looks great - my character moves!

Friend recommended me a tool called Character Creator for creating characters, I created a character, imported it into Unity and my animation works as well, - however it does not match original animation 1:1, I think it's because of the differences in bones - new character has different proportions. Character Creator uses different rig setup then Mixamo but I don't think this really matters since I'm using Humanoid avatar.

I'm attaching video where you can see two characters playing same animation but their position is not totally in sync.
Now my question is - what is the proper workflow for this situation? Do I need to ensure all bones have exactly the same length? How would I even do that, import both models to 3d software and try to match them as close as possible?
Thank you

[plush cypress]

Hi guys! I'm looking to test some models with TTS voice rigging. Does anyone have any suggestions? Preferably a 3D model. Any to start and then probably going to look into some custom ones shortly after

[barren moth]

Hi, does anyone know why it creates a selection square for me instead of moving my bones?

[agile solstice]

You may need to update the editor to newest of 2022.3.
I vaguely remember related issues introduced in one of the earlier patches

[barren moth]

Ok thx

[agile badge]

Hi. I have a problem with my animations for my character. I have an fbx file with my rigged character, no animations on this file. And then I have other fbx files with the exact same rig and character that have animations. I am simply trying to load my animations from those files onto my main rig. I have my rig type set to Generic and it sort of works, but the hand doesn't animate at all. I have tried many things but cant get it right. I am using the same avatar as my main rig (the first fbx file).

TLDR; I am trying to apply animations from separate rigs (exact same bone structure) to an avatar, but it doesn't animate hands. Generic rig.

It's not animated at all. Almost like it's skipping the hands entirely. I can even move the bones while the animation is playing. I can't move the arm bones, that have the same animation.

[agile badge]

I found the cause of the problem, but still haven't solved it fully yet. It seems like Unity is just removing animation data that isn't moving in the animation. In this animation the fingers are just posed and keyframed like that, but they are static and don't move. If I make them move, even the slightest bit. They show up in Unity. Any solutions to this?

FIXED: Apparently I had to enable this setting when exporting the FBX from blender.

[fervent timber]

Could use some help... Why does the weight painting looks so different in Unity compared to Blender?

[agile solstice]

Likely bone influence limit
Unity's default is limited for performance purposes

[fervent timber]

Do you mean the Bone Weights aren't normalized?

[agile solstice]

No
Means the maximum number of bones a vertex can be influenced by is a configurable quality setting

[fervent timber]

Ok... I'll have a look... 🙂

[tepid laurel]

Hello ! I'm new to unity and i just tried the timeline, so i created a simple stretch animation for a sprite, but it seems that because I also edited the position, the sprite just teleport to the coordinates.
So i would like to know how to edit the relative sprite position and not its parent game objects transform... Thanks !

[pale dock]

can you play 2 animations at once within one layer

[agile solstice]

No, except when animations are being blended by blend trees or transitions
Only one state can be active per layer

[pale dock]

and running animations from different layers requires scripting already

[agile solstice]

Typically all animated transforms are relative, either to their parent transform or to the scene if there is no parent
Or that's how it is with Animation
Timeline works mostly the same but it may be different with it

[tepid laurel]

So I should put my sprite object in parent game object

[agile solstice]

That's what I'd try

[tepid laurel]

Ok thanks

[dusky inlet]

Why does the jump animation behave like that? Also, the fall animation is supposed to play when I fall, but it's not happening

[twilit cradle]

hey im trying to make a top down pixel art game and im making a walk animation using the unity animation tool but for some reason everytime it plays the walking animation the character teleports a bit down is there a fix for this?

[agile solstice]

Looks to be trying to play multiple animations at the same time
Show the state machine and all the transitions and their settings
You can record animator window and game window side by side in Play mode to show the character's state machine in action

Hopefully bigger resolution than two pixels

[ivory star]

Hey, guys! Why some animation clips are (Read-Only)?

I have got some animation assets externally from Unity Asset Store and it says Read-Only

I cant somehow change it to both write and read only?