🏃┃animation

[nimble vine]

i didnt know i had to select the gameobject my bad lol

[agile solstice]

What I'm seeing here is that Atk1 and Atk3 parameters are set to false before the clip is finished, and I think specifically before reacing the Exit Time threshold
Atk2 on the other hand is set to false after it
When you have a condition and Exit Time enabled together, the transition must occur at the time of the Exit Time in the clip

So I believe what happens is that because the transition misses the Exit Time, it probably invisibly loops the clip time until it comes around to the Exit Time again and only then does the transition

Without Has Exit Time enabled the Exit Time variable will still be used but as a delay from the point when the conditions are met
(Or so I use it, not sure why it's greyed out in that case)

[nimble vine]

im confused because if i double click one for the first atk it also freezes the frame

[mellow goblet]

Hi, is there some easy way of setting 2d animated sprites to the opposite direction? We gotta do quiet a few monsters and thought it would be way easier if we could just somehow mirror jumping and idling automatically into the other direction. Its a simple 2D game. I tried transforming it 180° but that has a weird flip effect for the sprite

[agile solstice]

Sprite Renderer has a "flip X" property for that purpose

[mellow goblet]

Wouldn't that have the same effect if I change that through the animation? I'll try cheers!

[agile solstice]

If by "through the animation" you mean a keyframe that changes the flip X property then yes, it doesn't matter for appearance what it is changed by

But it's useful to be able to change it separately from animations so you don't need different clips for different look directions

[mellow goblet]

So I would need to add a bunch of different sprite renderers to the player basically

At this point can just add normal images, thx for the help thought I missed something 😂

[agile solstice]

Different? Don't you have a sprite renderer to begin with

What do you mean by "normal image" exactly

[mellow goblet]

I do have one but the animation renders the sprite so if I try to set the flip x on the sprite renderer via script or something I assume it has the same effect as with the transform

[agile solstice]

"Animation renders the sprite" meaning?

Flip X is not the same as modifying the transform

[mellow goblet]

Okay nvm i'll try that out later then

May just actually fix the issue

Thanks!

[agile solstice]

Try what? I think I'm officially lost

[mellow goblet]

You said above if I set flip x during the animation on the sprite renderer it does have the same effect as if I set the transform during a key frame so I figured it wouldn't matter which way I change the X value it would have the same effect during the animation but then you said no that's not the case, so I'm kinda confused as well xd

Especially cuz I can't try at the moment just had an issue with it today so I'll just try it out when I'm back

[agile solstice]

Not exactly
I said that changing Flip X property through animation is the same as changing Flip X through other means
Changing the Transform is different from changing Flip X in either case

[mellow goblet]

Oh okay that makes sense then I misunderstood this

[agile solstice]

I don't know how you got from that that you need to "add a bunch of different sprite renderers"
Unless I'm missing important context, you should only have and only need one sprite renderer
Not multiple, nor an "image"

[mellow goblet]

Well that was my conclusion after you said that changing it through key frames has the same effect. Thanks I'll try out the flip stuff later!

[agile solstice]

Still curious how you arrived to that conclusion
Feels like you skipped a few steps in the logic

Reading between the lines it seems your setup is unusual in some way, or you're considering doing something unusual

[mellow goblet]

It's pretty default 😂 it was the only thing I could come up with flipping them without making graphics for the rest of them just adding a bunch of child sprite renderers and exchanging them with the flipping. But that's not needed anyway due to the misunderstanding so all good

[sterile vine]

if you'd like to share work, you can use #🏆┃daily-win or #1180170818983051344

[coarse solar]

GUYS i really need help
i have a blend tree for walking and idle that is working but for any reason the game only play my falling animation non stop

[round garnet]

Presumably your Animator Controller's state switches to Falling, because the parameter controlling grounded is false (?).
(You can open the Animator Controller from your gameobject at Runtime to see it in action)
My very very spontaneous guess here is that your grounded check is failing, maybe because you forgot to tag the ground with whatever tag you're checking for? Or perhaps it's not in the correct layer for your raycast?

[coarse solar]

but i alr tested and it is grounded but the blend tree never starts so even if isgrounded is true the animation doesnt change and keep jumping/falling animation

[uncut salmon]

The only way you can debug this is verifying which properties drive your blend tree and what properties switch to your blend tree state. Then debugging these values in your code to see what's happening.

It's impossible for anyone to give you a solution otherwise.

[west spruce]

Hey, so I have this small issue with a model that I got off of a website, it's got to do with the Auto Key-Frame button, before I press it, my model is in a t-pose and is standing above ground, but when I press auto keyframe, the character goes halfway into the ground, no longer in a t-pose, and I don't know how to fix it, could anyone help me?

[nimble vine]

dude i cant figure this out and idk what keeps happening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHaJUNiItmQ i copied this guy to the dot and ive added my animations but it keeps getting stuck after the last frame of the first atk animation and i have no clue why ive asked chatgpt what could be wrong but it just doesnt help

[pallid grail]

did you add a transition from the end of the attack back to the idl or the walk animation

[foggy niche]

Does anyone who understands how a climbing system works in 3D help me out?

I'm following a tutorial by
Sahani Studio. My character is 2.5 units tall, and everything seems to work except the braced hop up animation, it either glitches me through the ground and ledge/wall, or it just doesn't hop up at all. I believe this to be an offset issue with my animations in correlation to my "Hop up" ray variables. Can someone please help, I have to finish this for a school project.

The script is the same as his from github

[silk cobalt]

My guess would be maybe the rays? Not sure what it is using but it looks like multiple rays to detect that edge? can you offset it manually and see what they are hitting or "Not hitting"

I got a question as well, Never had this issue before but I wanted to see if anyone else had it and found a fix. Is there a way to Increase the amount of bones your avatar (recognizes). I'm running into a issue of my animations not using my hair animation because when setting up the rig its not highlighting or ignoring my child hair bones. Not sure why? I tried a couple of fixes which said increase skin mesh thing to be above 4 bones but that did not work. Video shows the HAIR animation works in blender / preview but not in play mode. Weird! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TAmkURD9qY

[foggy niche]

There are two sets of rays, ones for checking above the player for a platform, and the other for checking the bottom platform.

The hop up height setting is where my player’s hands are, and the gap is the distance between the top and bottom rays.

[pine badge]

Hi all. I'm not sure if my problem is related to the Sprite Resolver
But so i have SpriteRenderer, SpriteResolver, SpriteLibrary component on my chara's graphics object
I use animator. In my anim clip i'm only animating the value of SpriteResolver, and have made sure that there's no animated value for SpriteRenderer.sprite

But it seems no matter what state i'm in, my SpriteRenderer.sprite seems to twitch back to the 1st sprite it was set to, on random frames

If i disable the animator, then manually change SpriteRenderer.sprite to some other sprite, i can no problem. But i turn on animator, then now this newly set sprite on SpriteRenderer is now the sprite that it gets randomly set to

I've tried disabling Write Defaults in all of my animator's state, but still doesn't change anything

I guess i'll post a vid

[nimble vine]

yeah you can see in the video that all my animations have transitions to idle. the "walking" box is a blend tree with back walking, idle and forward walking animation

[agile solstice]

The condition to transition back to Walking is "Atk1 == false" but in the video it always remains true

[agile solstice]

Is there any clip at all in the Animator which touches the sprite renderer sprite field? Should not be

[pale harness]

Hello! I'm having some issues with changing animation rigging values through code.

I'm trying to change two properties of a couple of constraint components like this:

public void OverrideIKRotation()
{
var twoBoneData = GetComponent<TwoBoneIKConstraint>().data;
twoBoneData.targetRotationWeight = 0f;
GetComponent<TwoBoneIKConstraint>().data = twoBoneData;

        GetComponent<MultiRotationConstraint>().weight = 0f;
}

As far as I can tell, this is how you're supposed to do it. Problem is, the values simply don't change in the inspector or scene. Changing these values manually in the inspector at runtime works perfectly, but nothing happens when I do the exact same thing through code.

I have confirmed through debugging, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that:

I am looking at the correct gameObjects and components.

Nothing in my code is overwriting these values (and again, changing in the inspector manually works fine and the values stay where they're supposed to)

The values are actually changing - printing them to the log after changing them shows that they've been changed - but the inspector and scene behaviour doesn't reflect this.

I'm starting to think it's a Unity bug or a problem with my installation. Does anybody have any insight into how you're supposed to change these values through code, and if I'm doing it wrong? Thanks in advance!

[halcyon schooner]

im trying tu make layers for some animations and characters that i made, but when i try to use the avatar, this happend, the character is upside down

[silk cobalt]

Can you do a debug for the rays and try to see what position/ object its hitting? My guess is its hitting the hit point behind the wall which would be the clipping / unable to hop up. Is it only in that spot? Try removing the walls and just the grp points see what happens.

[wanton trellis]

gonna need a lot more context if we are to help you

[halcyon schooner]

I made 2 voxel art characters in voxel magic, I exported them to voxeledit to make the animations, and from there I exported it to unity, now in unity, I want to make layered animations, so that I can put attack or defense animations on the enemies without having They have to stay still, and they can walk while doing something else, so I created an avatar for the character, but when I put it in the animator, and run the game, the characters appear upside down, like the image I sent, I don't know why it happens, but it also seems that the animation of the legs is backwards

[wanton trellis]

yeah not that kind of context

what layers do you have

what are they doing

etc.

[halcyon schooner]

i have the base layer, because i want to fix that first

[silk cobalt]

Import setting, is usually the issue. Try with no animation is the character upside down? Whats the rotation transform, is it 0? Any errors in animation import setting.

[halcyon schooner]

the animation works, the problem is when I add the avatar

[silk cobalt]

Now I'm lost? You creating the avatar on import correct? Configuration or you using a different avatar from another model. Are you talking about the avatar mask.

You say the animation works what does it look like in the preview? There's many things it could be just trying to narrow down the cause.

[halcyon schooner]

i create the avatar from the model of the player

[halcyon schooner]

in the game? or the preview?

before:

playing:

[silk cobalt]

Okay cool no rotational errors can you click that animation tab at the top and look to the bottom there should be a window(preview).q (Click the animation first). Does it look like play mode or oriented correctedly. My guess is the export you used rotation is off as different editors use different orientation.

[halcyon schooner]

here?

[silk cobalt]

Okay cool so the player is in the floor you can correct that by baking the Y into the animation with a offset usually that means something off. That's a pretty big difference usually it's slight.

I would find the root cause and try different exporting setting from your engine OR import it into blender and oriented correctly and export correctly should solve your issue.

[halcyon schooner]

ill try it

[silk cobalt]

Good luck! Also just reposting this as I have a animator waiting and I can't move on till I figure this out ^.^

Never had this issue before but I wanted to see if anyone else had it and found a fix. Is there a way to Increase the amount of bones your avatar (recognizes). I'm running into a issue of my animations not using my hair animation because when setting up the rig its not highlighting or ignoring my child hair bones. Not sure why? I tried a couple of fixes which said increase skin mesh thing to be above 4 bones but that did not work. Video shows the HAIR animation works in blender / preview but not in play mode. Weird!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TAmkURD9qY

[nimble vine]

yeah but the in the guys code it turns it false and i did that on my end too

[nimble vine]

idk what im doing wrong man .-. whats irritating is i just need this to work so i can start working on some gameplay

[silk cobalt]

This sucks, I really don't want to have runtime dynamic hair as I was trying to save on performance.

[pine badge]

Nope
And this is fixed. Apparently there was a state in the anim that has a corrupted anim clip file or reference or something. I changed the anim clip to something else, and everything works fine

[swift sundial]

what I created

vs what I got in Unity 😭

I was editing a mixamo animation in blender, but missed a few things I guess

any guide or video on how to edit Mixamo animation on Blender and export for Unity?

[foggy niche]

So I did some debugging, What it looks like is that the 11th ray out of my 13 rays has to hit the ledge in order to properly jump up. I'm going to continue repositioning the ledges to count for that.

Also those errors and warnings aren't related to the climb system, its just an unused state machine.

Gotta love Unity

Edit: The last ray (the top one) must hit the top surface of the ledge while the ray below it hits the front

Thank you btw

[silk cobalt]

Welcome! I believe thats why I use ray spere cast. Bigger hit box.

[swift sundial]

anyone got an addon link for Blender to Unity fbx export?

I tried a few but they did not work

[agile solstice]

Which ones did not?

What are you trying to export

Did the failure occur during exporting, only upon importing?

[swift sundial]

These 2
https://github.com/Am0rphous/Better-FBX-Exporter

https://github.com/A-Ribeiro/CustomBlenderFBXExporter

[swift sundial]

So I downloaded animation clips from mixamo and used them, then took mixamo's Ybot and made custom animations on blender, exported it for unity but I get funky results

Got armature doesn't match error

Left mixamo, right blender with the same model

[agile solstice]

As far as I know importing and exporting an FBX through Blender, especially with armatures is a lossy operation that always changes something about it, regardless of plugin used to export
And because the changes are different for each mesh depending on how it was originally exported/generated and then imported, I don't think plugins can be smart enough to correct for this

[swift sundial]

The second link says it fixes it, but I couldn't install it (I'm a blender regular)

Might be because I'm using an older version or something idk

[agile solstice]

It's your best bet, though I wouldn't fully count on it
It's usually pretty crucial to use the correct version of Blender with addons

I don't know enough about Mixamo or Humanoids to advise beyond that

[swift sundial]

Yeeee

[agile solstice]

Re-exporting rigged meshes through Blender in my experience is a total no-go in any sane workflow
You always want to export form the source file

From what I hear Maya is much better in this regard in not rearranging FBX data

[swift sundial]

Oooof this was gonna be my plan if everything fails 💀

I'll see my options

Thank you very much for your time 🙏 ✨

[vestal iris]

Hey, 2 issues: I want to "pose" some of my npc's intially, I can do it manually manipulating the bones, but only if I have an empty animation controller and rely on ik and animation rigging (I guess I could make a controller or avatar masking the posed bones?) but regardless: in scene view all my np'c (that have animator controllers starting at an idle state) show up in t poses. is there some setting to make them appear at the first frame of the animation in their initial state, so my scenes could closer resemble the game in play state?

[golden inlet]

i wanted to make animtions and they all work but crouching i mean i can crouch just fine but when i stand up is doing the crouch animation here is the movement code https://paste.mod.gg/qzyfrncsvmgq/0

2d btw

[wanton trellis]

and youre positive that the crouching parameter IS changing inside of the animator when you crouch and uncrouch?

[golden inlet]

yes i am its just the animation

[wanton trellis]

screenshot the full transition settings between crouch and idle

[golden inlet]

you know how to fix?

[vestal iris]

what you mean when you standup is doing the crouch animation? continously? Remember the nodes in the graph are animations, so your player crouch is not a state where the player is crouched. the state is the animation going from idle to crouched. for comparison here's my graph:
(where "standingup" is just crouch played in reverse)

(transition into a crouching animation when "crouch" is true, transition to standingup animation if "crouch" is false, the transition from standing up to idle has no conditions, but "has exit time" is ticked.

[golden inlet]

yes i did meant it and i have no standup thing i need to add it?

[vestal iris]

Keep you animator window open next to your game window, and after you hit play, select your character with the animator. then when you play you'll see the states highlight in realtime. When you standup in your game, does the graph move to your idle state? Or does it stay on the crouching state? (you will also see your animator variables ("iscrouching") observe if it's getting deselected like you expect it to?

[golden inlet]

i dont know what happend but now there is no crouching animtion at all

[ionic depot]

hello all, I'm very beginner at unity and I've ran into something that I've been stuck on for more than a full day now, I hope this is the right place for this
so I have a blender model exported to fbx into unity that I want to use for VRC, however I can't get a pose animation to work, the character is supposed to have a halo constantly rotating over its head as part of its idle animation
it's my first time trying anything with animations and I just cannot figure out how to get the animation to work in unity at all
I'm having issues understanding why it's not working, mainly in blender's bake action settings, export settings or whether to bake the action at all
so far I've only been able to reimport the fbx into blender to confirm the bone rotates and the mesh is affected, and the animation clip plays correctly in the controller, but produces no visual changes
I've tried many settings combinations in bake action, exporting fbx, importing the animation in the prefab tab, settings for the animation clip and animation controller, and finally putting the controller in every object it could possibly work on but nothing's worked so far and I'm running out of ideas as to what could be causing it not to work... I'd be happy to provide more info to anyone who could help me, hopefully it's a simple oversight I wouldn't have found on my own, thank you

[ionic depot]

update: I can get the animation to function in unity by setting the rig as generic but not humanoid like I need it to be

[ionic depot]

update: I didn't know about masking the animation in the animation import, it's SOLVED

[empty jasper]

Stuck at trying to configure animations and making it so that the animation sets change after a condition is met.

[light arrow]

Could someone take to a video to help me make a animation with mutiple different object? I want them to all work at the same time but I am unsure if I should use the one that is attached to the player or make another object that would just go into the animation

[lament talon]

HELP
whenever i transition from one state to another in my animator the animation that plays scales UP to 100x instantaneoulsy then it scales down to the right scale
this problem has been bugging me for WEEKS and i'm done , i'm tired of it
is there any way to fix it
i am importing my animations from blender and its having this problem inconsistently

note
the animation when played by themselves in the editor DO NOT PRESENT this behaviour

the scale stay consistent

I WAS RIGHTING DEFAULTS THE WHOLE TIME????
i'm a dumbass

i fixed it

[manic moon]

How can i make it so the animation slowly comes to a stop instead of abruptly ending and then going to what i think was its initial state? video of current beehavior, also im using a layer for each axis since they both have a rotate animation and they are both independent of each other, is this dumb? im very new

and also avoid having to wait till the animation fullfills

[bitter heart]

im pretty new to this but im learning how to dev a game but running into a issue rigging a model so it works (not sure if this is the right discord or not but at this point im trying anything haha) basically I made a model on blender and gave up on rigging it so using mixamo to auto rig and animate. I got it to work in unity with the animations but it messed up my camera so it wasn't 1st person and after some googling i realized its because it changed my pivot points in blender, now the real issue is if i fix the pivot point the mixamo animations in unity think I altered the bones and if i try to put the animations through blender and export thoses it fixes the error but extremely disforms my player character, anyone have any ideas because after watching a million videos and googling everything ive tried fails

[terse gust]

what exactly are you trying to achieve?, if you can tell me that i can tell you how to do it etc, also rotating like this might be possible using just code but anyways

[terse gust]

what do you mean by messed up your camera?, the camera should never be a child of an animation bone directly, it's possible to do it but i prefer keeping the camera somewhere else , and then use something to follow the target with correct offsets,

animation bones for other characters have different pivots which cause this problem, you shouldn't try to change the pivots i think, if the animations work perfectly with the default pivots etc then everythings good, the rest is up to you to do correctly etc, also it would be better to share your setup between the camera and player so i can give relevant answers and recommendations.

[manic moon]

i was trying to make it slowly come to a stop and then start again instead of abrutly stopping, i made it like this cuz i already made it in blender a thought it would be more plug and play than that, but i was able to figure it out using a parameter as the multiplier for the speed of the animation

[bitter heart]

Ill take some screenshots when I get home tonight but what I mean by camera messed up is with the model it makes my camera view in third person pointed at my character but it’s suppose to be in first person, when I disable the model its reverts to 1st person and same as if I change the pivot point in blender to the models feet then the camera goes back to 1st person. My player prefab heiarchy is “player” then camera as a child and then my model separate as a child of the player too but not the camera if that makes sense, ill send screen shots when home tonight, thanks for responding 🙂

[bitter heart]

first pic is with the model enabled, 2nd pic is if i disable it and what im trying to get it to look like

[tough orchid]

I am trying to geta sprite animation to appear in my overlay canvas, but it seems like the sprite animation won't appear on my overlay cavnas. Any solutions to this?

[bitter heart]

omg i figured it out, i didnt realize it was because the mixamo character came with it's own camera, once I got rid of it everything worked

[terse gust]

lol, in your model import settings i think there is an option to import cameras/lights etc, you should disable those

[feral locust]

Hello everyone 👋

by my name is taofeek

actually I'm here to make friends

[shell mauve]

hello i have some mixamo animations but they all reset back to their starting point on completed cycle

how would i happen to make them go on indefenetly

[sterile vine]

that should happen, yes. is your run animation not the run cycle

[shell mauve]

i have it set on loop time

what exactly is the run cycle?

[sterile vine]

you were asking about your run animation right

do you have that as a run cycle

where it can loop seamlessly into the next step of running

[shell mauve]

no i need to do that in the animator?

[sterile vine]

no, you need that in your animations.

[shell mauve]

so i have to open it in blender and tick a box?

[sterile vine]

you can't easily get stuff to loop cleanly if they weren't made to loop

[sterile vine]

no

do you know what a run cycle is

[shell mauve]

i got it from mixamo

so it probably is made to loop

[sterile vine]

or what a looping animation is

[shell mauve]

i know that

[shell mauve]

it repeats runs

[sterile vine]

no

[shell mauve]

what does it do

[sterile vine]

go google "animation run cycle" and look at the images

this is about the content of your animation

[shell mauve]

oh it does have that yes

[sterile vine]

your animation needs to be able to loop back on itself and appear continuous, that's when you get a run cycle

[shell mauve]

yes it can i get it now

[sterile vine]

then it should just work. are you transitioning to any other states for some reason

show your animator setup

[shell mauve]

i will show it but i have to change some things

can i @ you when i do

whenever it is

[sterile vine]

no

[lavish frost]

If you got the animation from mixamo make sure you correctly install it for unity (watch a tutorial video). After that it should just be looping already I got no problems with it. Also is loop time enabled in your animation?

[shell mauve]

does the animator always need an avatar?

yes right?

[sterile vine]

no

maybe there should always be one for 3d stuff? but definitely not as a rule.
i wouldn't know 3d stuff

[agile solstice]

Only needed if you use any Avatar features
Afaik for Generic Avatars that only means transform masks
Never used one myself

[barren mortar]

The avatar is for Unity's "humanoid" retargeting system. So you can reuse animations for different skeletons and the avatar controls how these are mapped.

[barren mortar]

So, no. If your animations are not humanoid, or you don't wish to use retargeting / generic animations (Mixamo, asset store) then you don't need an avatar.

[shell mauve]

hello

i have this problem

it happens whenever PerformChase begins

i think it has to do something with how the walking bool is somehow =0

i have the idle state conditioned so when isWalking is true it does Patrol

[sterile vine]

check the stacktrace, this is probably an internal error

what version of unity are you on

[shell mauve]

the newest i think

6.0

[sterile vine]

that isn't the newest

[sterile vine]

what's the patch number

[shell mauve]

damn

yeah

there is an update

[sterile vine]

that isn't 6.0 lmao

[sterile vine]

that's the hub version, unrelated

[shell mauve]

this i should update

oh

[sterile vine]

yes

you should update that, but it's not related to the current issue

[shell mauve]

it says im on unity 6.2

[sterile vine]

you're 2 patches behind, but i thought that issue was resolved by 6.2.12

can you show the stacktrace

[shell mauve]

how

[sterile vine]

open the console window and click the error log, and see what shows up at the bottom

[shell mauve]

in the project

[sterile vine]

in the editor, yes

[shell mauve]

i need to click on the error

[sterile vine]

that's what i said, yes.

[shell mauve]

the error is no longer appearing but is still happening

[sterile vine]

well, that's self-conflicting

one of those is wrong

[shell mauve]

not there anymore

[sterile vine]

do you have errors hidden

[shell mauve]

when i replicate it

[sterile vine]

right, because it most likely wasn't related to whatever you said before

[shell mauve]

i'm lost

on the screen the error still happens but it does not appear in logs anymore

no errors hidden

[shell mauve]

i have no idea

[sterile vine]

on what screen

[shell mauve]

the scene scren

screen

the game pauses

[sterile vine]

that's not really a separate screen

well, you have error pause enabled.

[shell mauve]

so the error still happens but i cant see it in the console

[sterile vine]

you aren't giving much info to work with here

show what you're seeing here

in any case, it's clearly transient, and that error message alone kinda shows it's not in your code (unless you're doing something really weird)

so you can just ignore it

or i guess update to the latest patch version as well

[shell mauve]

my little guy stops when he sees the playercamera, the big yellow circle is his field of vision

i gues this means there is no error anymore? and its just my problem

[agile solstice]

This is not paused, so there isn't an "invisible" error in this instance

[shell mauve]

there used to be an error when the same thing happened

i reloaded the project

and now its not there anymore but the guy still stops

[sterile vine]

they are unrelated

[shell mauve]

so this was a seperate deal

aha

thanks

[sterile vine]

like i said from the start...

[agile solstice]

Your animation transition uses such a long Exit Time that it might not be possible to see the transition occur even if the parameters were right

But I'd debug the parameters themselves first

From what snippet we see of your code, there is nothing that would necessarily prevent your methods being called in the same frame and conflicting

[shell mauve]

well the animation itself doesnt even happen but i want to get the logic working atleast

i am looking through what the animator is doing rn when i play the game

and it is stuck on chasing it seems

repeats that the whole time and doesnt move

figured it out

[agile solstice]

I would debug.log the points where you set the animator parameters
That confirms if they're being overridden at the same time

[shell mauve]

the ai works as it should and the logic behind animator too. now to fix the animation

[shell mauve]

will try

[agile solstice]

But ultimately with these kinds of systems you want to implement some kind of finite state machine, or a behavior tree, or at least only set the animator's parameters only after your code has figured out what the character AI is actually doing after all the checks

[mint shoal]

How do you handle animating weapons/tools and applying them? Never really done this before. The weapon is not apart of the character model, it's a seperate object

[agile solstice]

Create the animations with item placeholders, then attach the items in-engine separately whenever the gameplay calls for it
By either parenting or with parent-like constraining methods

That means you would animate bones or other attachment points for items, not the items specifically

Blender for example attempts to export separate unnecessary clips for each clip of each object animated together, if they're keyframed separately rather than attached with parenting or constraining likewise

Even if the items have different transforms after exporting, this allows you to re-orient the item transform in its gameobject hierarchy as needed before attaching it to the item bone

[mint shoal]

i see, thanks

[strange atlas]

So I imported a first person viewmodel to Unity and I want to see how it works. However the model animations such as the reloading, idle, shoot, and equiping are all in one animation. How do I make it so only one of those play during a certain input? Or do I take the one animator controller and paste it and make each different parts of the animation?

[agile solstice]

Animation tab in mesh import settings lets you split the source animation into multiple clips which can then be used individually inside an animator controller

[strange atlas]

How do I do that?

Where could I access the mesh import settings?

[agile solstice]

It will show up in the Inspector window when you click on the imported mesh asset through the Project window

[strange atlas]

This?

Yep i got it. Thanks

[agile solstice]

Yes

[feral locust]

Hello 👋

[umbral ocean]

any clue why the playhead on this state isnt moving while in play mode?

[umbral ocean]

Nevermind-resolved

[sterile vine]

this isn't really a place for off-topic

[vivid magnet]

I'm trying to animate a door opening, old school resident evil style, but it seems to drag the mesh and distort it. This doesn't happen when rotating the door in the editor, just when I press play. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[uncut salmon]

Is the object you're rotating uniform (all the same) scale values? If not, it will skew when being rotated.

[agile solstice]

Or any of its parent transforms non-uniform
It seems likely you're not rotating the same transform as the animation is, if the result is different, unless something changes the hierarchy's transform scales during play mode

[deep comet]

Not really game development related

But it is a animation

Wip

[sterile vine]

#🏆┃daily-win

[agile solstice]

The server is only for unity game development, and these channels are not for showcasing

[deep comet]

Oh oki sorry

I wont post these next time

[feral locust]

Hello everyone

I'm an expert vrchat avatar creator if you don't mind I can create any type of avatar you are looking for

[echo badge]

Hiya, I am trying to retarget my animations that I made ages ago onto Unity rig and I am in process of making a Blender addon for that (yes I know that something like that exists but for me it never worked with my proprietary models) and when I searched for some base skeleton that would have fingers and all necessary bones, something Unity universal, I was not able to find anything. I was told that Mixamo rigs with animations work but for me, that was unfortunately not the case and my mixamo animations just dont work so rigging mine to that skeleton is out of the question BUT animations from unity store always work well. So my question is, where can I find some standard Unity skeleton that I can shove into blender and make my animations on it? Before you say "just rig it to your model" then yes that is also an option but I will be making multiple models, some with more bones for specific features that are going to have unique animations and some for tasks that will be universal so having all animations on a universal Unity skeleton is important for me, atleast for the start when making iddle, walk and run animations.

[terse valve]

why i can't move body part

[shrewd pebble]

It seems like you are not "recording" the animation.
Select the game object that contains the animator component and press recording button (red dot icon).

[terse valve]

Do you have a detailed video tutorial?

this zombie is the model I downloaded with animation

[shrewd pebble]

You can check this tutorial out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lRq6-BVcw

[terse valve]

bro how to copy paste animation clip

[shrewd pebble]

What do you mean by copying animation clip?

[sterile vine]

this isn't a place to solicit work

[shell mauve]

hello. anyone willing to help me figure out why my animations are not playing even though the animator is working as intended

its constantly t posing

the animations work while they're seperate

and also should i have my animations generic or humanoid i genuienly cant figure out what both are supposed to be

[shrewd pebble]

Are the animations contained in one model or separated?

[shell mauve]

contained

should they be seperated*

[shrewd pebble]

It depends, but yes.
Have you tried create the humanoid avatar from the model?

[shell mauve]

i'l try that after i seperate the animation. for one more question, what is the difference between generic and humanoid. ive searched for many answers and they vary wildly

some say its minor, major, then some say the humanoid is being phased out

some say you should use humanoid

[shrewd pebble]

For simplicity, the humanoid is used for human-like animations. And the generic is for the others.

[shrewd pebble]

It's a good practice to have a T-pose rigged humanoid model with no animation and each animation is exported with just the "skeleton".

[shell mauve]

this is so complicated to me making an ai was easier then this

[shrewd pebble]

But like I said, It depends on your usage. You don't have to do it though.

[shell mauve]

is it easier if i go the humanoid route?

and it wont cause more problems in the future? the game im making focuses heavily on ai

enemy ai

and for that i'l also need to do alot of human animating

[shrewd pebble]

There will be problems one way or another, you can't run away from it!
What "enemy AI" are you mentioning? Nagivation AI or Model-generated AI?

[shell mauve]

nav ai

sorry

[shell mauve]

i wan't to minimise the probability of them in the future

[shrewd pebble]

It's only related if you are trying to make physics or procedure animations. If it's not, you can ignore the AI related stuffs when working with animation.

[shell mauve]

i am looking ot make procedural and physics animation

[shrewd pebble]

Back to the question, you can try set up the humanoid avatar and the animation should work by now.

[shell mauve]

yes with the rig builder and everything

will do and make a follow up when it works

[shrewd pebble]

It seems like you are expecting to do a lot of things here. Slow down bro.
Making physics and procedure animation will introduce you a lot of works too, and you can't minimize the problems if you are not skillful enough.

[shell mauve]

i have more then enough time to figure it out

i'm just trying to be practical here

[shell mauve]

i've been following a unity tutorial

but nothing so far

ive got something working now

its working !

yay

thanks forsigmaaar

[barren mortar]

Loves creativity so much he needs a bot to write a Discord message

<@&502884371011731486> got a spammer

[silk cobalt]

Holy what did I come back too.

[twin musk]

gonna try the new 6.3 2d animation today

[devout ember]

I think I've misunderstood how the avatar system works, I made a generic avatar from my base character armature, and applied it to my other ones. but for armatures that are a little bit stretched to be taller and stuff, it looks like they get a bit squashed to fit the original avatar's proportions. is there a way to avoid this? i would like for the other armatures to have their proportions remain the same while still using the avatar

[barren mortar]

Every skeleton needs its own avatar. The avatar is what maps the skeleton to the generic "humanoid" animation format.

[devout ember]

Right. what I did is I copied from other avatar in the FBX importer, is that wrong?

[barren mortar]

Yep

[devout ember]

but then what if I want to use agnostic animations from the other base model? won't it look off / not work?

[barren mortar]

No, this is how they work

The avatar is the skeleton's configuration that tells it how the skeleton maps to the common format

[devout ember]

I see, I clearly misunderstood then. Does this mean I'll have to reimport all my animations with a new avatar?

[barren mortar]

Just need to assign the correct avatar to them

Which is whatever skeleton you made the animations for

[devout ember]

I see. basically I have everyone with their own animations. but there are some agnostic ones animated with the base armature

[viral aspen]

I think this is the right place to ask
I have 0 experience with unity and have no idea where to start or look up when it comes to my specific project
I have a project someone made that has all the assets from a game, including the animations. I want to take models of the characters and use the animations to pose them -> export to blender -> 3D print them.

So far I've been able to place down the model and apply the textures to them, but I can't figure out how to apply animation outside of viewing them in the Inspector. If I drag and drop them they don't do anything.

[wanton trellis]

this sounds more like a blender question no?

[viral aspen]

The animations are in Unity. At least I think they do. Let me try

[wanton trellis]

if the animations are in unity, then there is nothing stopping you from opening up the project files and just copy pasting the .fbx with the animations

[viral aspen]

That is so much easier. thx

[noble dirge]

Not exactly unity related but it is for unity so im trying to export a readyplayerme avatar through blender to upload to mixamo but it keeps appearing with no colour after various combinations any fixes? I am new to blender and I have been using unity for about 1.5months

[dull flare]

Hi, I need help with setting up 2D character (top down) movement animations, I've watched a couple of tutorials, but some are very very primitive and some are a speedrun that explain almost nothing.

I've got myself a nice big set of animations for my character (left, right, up, down, attack all directions, lunge and more), I can't seem to figure out how to set it up. Would be nice to get a visual showcase on how to do this with some explanations

It seems I have found a way

[silver venture]

I have a problem: I don’t know why the system waits for the animation to finish before switching to the next one.
But I want the animation to change immediately when I press the button.
How can I fix this?

[agile solstice]

Probably you have a delay and/or exit time in your transition

Unclear what the red and blue arrows are meant to convey

If you want a transition from Empty to Exit, you can set up one
But you probably don't need the Empty state there at all

[silver venture]

I have a problem: I don’t know why the animation has to finish before switching to the next one. I want the animation to change immediately when I press a button.
The issue is that a red arrow appears showing the transition time, and that makes the animation take too long (about 5 seconds) to switch the bool. The animation gets stuck for a moment.

What I want is that, for example, when I press a button, the animation changes quickly and cancels the previous animation without waiting.

[sterile vine]

well, have you checked the thing spazi mentioned? exit or delay time in your transitions

[graceful stream]

how do i completely disable an IK setup from affecting a rig?

the component can’t be disabled, and i don’t want to just set the weight to 0

i want to go from fully rigged to complete ragdoll

[terse valve]

what's wrong with my animation

why it does not work consecutively in order

i dont understand this part of animation

I wrote the code so that when the mouse clicks on the zombie, it will have a flip effect, but why does it sometimes work and sometimes not?

[agile solstice]

Select a character with the animator component during play mode so we can see in the animator window what the animator controller is exactly doing
Show the relevant code

[terse valve]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class zombiehealth : MonoBehaviour
{
// Start is called before the first frame update
public int zombieHealth = 5;
private Animator anim;
public float shootTime = 1f;
private bool isShooten;
public bool IsShooten
{
get { return isShooten; }
set {
isShooten = value;
ShootenAnim(isShooten);
UpdateShootenTime();
}
}
private float lastshootenTime = 0f;
void Start()
{
anim=gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
IsShooten = false;

}
void UpdateShootenTime()
{
            lastshootenTime = Time.time;    
}
void ShootenAnim(bool isShooten){
            anim.SetBool("isShooten",isShooten);
}
public void GetHit(int damge) { 
        IsShooten = true;
        zombieHealth -= damge; 
    if (zombieHealth <= 0) {
        Dead(); 
    } 
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Dead() { 
    Destroy(gameObject);
}
void Update()
{
    if (IsShooten && Time.time>=lastshootenTime+shootTime)
    {
        IsShooten = false;
    }
}

}

here is it

[sterile vine]

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[terse valve]

Well

What do you think?

Can you help me to fix this bug

[quiet flower]

Any guys to discuss about override animator?

[sterile vine]

!ask

[hexed cargo]

:thinking: Asking Questions

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[steel mortar]

having a big problem and dont understand if it's the fbx itself, added a waving animation on the pond surface, it does this wierd flickering. I already checked the normal and set them to calculate, removed the shadows and disabled every other component that could create a z-axe interpolation problem. Even leaving only the surface active it still keeping flickering like that only when animated. Materials are set to opaque and not transparent

[agile solstice]

What exactly are we looking at

[steel mortar]

it's a prefab (a space pond we could call it), it has 3 main parts, the space_Pond that has the skinned mesh renderer, the animator with an animator controller of the surface waves and a material. Then there are the rocks around the pond that are static meshes with a material and the bubbles (the white ones without texture) that have the same components of the space_pond (animation works like it should be)

[agile solstice]

So, the surface is a skinned mesh renderer being deformed by various bones?

[steel mortar]

exactly, the joint_GRP that you see in the video contains all the joints to deform the surface

if this can help here the view in blender

[agile solstice]

The ripple effect looks like vertex normals being inverted at those points
That could happen if the bone inverts its transform individually as part of the animation or flips in some way
Or I speculate if the normals for deformed vertices are recalculated wrong, or not recalculated when they should be

Why use bones and skinned deformation for this? Seems like a bit of an unusual solution

[steel mortar]

that's could be a good question I have to ask to the 3d department, they give me an already done work and I tried to make it works

[agile solstice]

When you set normals to "calculate" that only applies at the moment of importing
Afaik no such recalculation happens as a result of the skinned deformation at runtime

[steel mortar]

undestood, so I should reimport the fbx and tick that variable, if it doesnt work I'll ask for an animation that doesnt use skinned mesh then

[agile solstice]

Not exactly
You mentioned ticking that variable already, so I pointed out that it wouldn't affect this
If you don't know the reasons why this has been made the way it is, it's harder to offer ideas

[steel mortar]

unfortunatly I dont know the exact reason, only thing I know is that is for a xr application and that the pond have to collide

[agile solstice]

And if you were to ask for one that doesn't use a skinned mesh renderer, they probably wouldn't know what you want instead

[agile solstice]

That makes more sense

[steel mortar]

the wierd thing is that the bubbles work similar to the pond, they use a skinned mesh renderer but having no problem in the animation

[agile solstice]

The bubbles appear to be only moved and scaled, not much deformed in practice

@steel mortar did you check how the bone transforms actually change during the animation clips

Just checked my assumptions and it seems to be as I described
Normals are never automatically recalculated, just interpolated when deforming same as vertex position and rotation

So a similar ripple appears whenever the bone's scale is inverted or rotation is flipped drastically enough that the normals turn around also

Once that is fixed, you probably also will need a shader to recalculate normals after skinned deformation because it won't look much like fluid otherwise
Even if a bone moves to create a bump or a dent in the surface, the normals will face the same way and shading would be unchanged

[steel mortar]

actually that what I was doing right now, seems like the rotation sometiems goes negative on the x axe, when the value goes very big like -100, the joint becomes black pitched

and thats seems what is happening

[agile solstice]

Indeed

From the wavy motion in the video it doesn't look like they're intended to rotate drastically

[steel mortar]

cool, at least I got at the root of the problem, thanks for your time, I'll give an update if anything else is wrong! Im manually deleting all the rotations of the joints, it will takes some times

[agile solstice]

Could be important to figure out how the rotations got there to prevent it later
It can occur if a clip is exported with different export settings than the rig was

[steel mortar]

Right, I'll have to point this out

[half quiver]

Is it possible to have the framerate of an animation update without changing the animation speed?

I want to import a smoothly interpolated animation from Blender, but be able to choose the rate that it actually updates the animation independantly from everything else.

The same animation could run at 15fps or 30, or 60, but should always take the same amount of time to finish.

[agile solstice]

What do you mean by "framerate" or "actually updates" specifically

[half quiver]

Even if the game is running at 60fps, I'd like to be able to have a model's animation run at 30fps, or 15fps, or any other arbitary number.

Something akin to a stop motion effect. I don't want to slow the animation down. Effectively I want to remove frames from the animation.

When I say "actually update", I mean the visual change from the current frame to the next.

Heres an example. https://youtube.com/shorts/ZH6he7EWDHU

Id like to be able to import an animation that has smooth interpolation like the bottom walk cycle, but have it play at 24, or 12, or 4, whatever I set it to. You can see that whenever you pause it, the animation is still in sync between all versions, so the speed isn't changing, only the playback framerate.

I just want to know if I can do this on a per-object basis basically.

[agile solstice]

There is no one straightforward solution to do this, or not one that I'd have found
I think the options are:

1. Export/import the clips with constant curves, or convert them to constant in Unity
   Downside is the stepping is per-clip so blending and speed control don't respect it
2. Check the Animate Physics box to update them with your physics timestep instead
   Downside is you're restricted to the physics timestep, and if you want to change it it'll affect your physics too (if any)
3. Update manually with Animator.Update
   Downside is it may be complex to do, and may make transitions, events and state behaviours act in odd ways
   Also, it forces the Animator to be single-threaded which reduces performance, but there's a workaround to that in the thread
4. Use the Playables API to play clips exactly as you intend
   Downside is that replacing the Animator with your own system generates a lot of work
5. Use Animancer which has this feature out of the box
   Downside is that it's expensive, and I can't vouch for it as I haven't used it

[winter wharf]

Are there any tips on how to fix an animation rig? I’m trying to change the hint position and rotation, but when I jump and run, the arms look weird.

[terse gust]

just delete the hint so that it auto does

[agile solstice]

That depends on what "looks weird" means

For all we know the issue isn't directly related to hints

Hints shouldn't be in the armature hierarchy, same as all Rig components

[livid crest]

Hello, i have a shool projetc and have a problem that hurt my head since yesterday plz someone help me !

I'm exporting a Blender animation to Unity at 12 fps, constant curves, etc.

It's choppy, and in Unity, it behaves erratically with constant curves.

It's not a problem with the rig/animation because I managed to get it working, but I've forgotten how (like a checkbox to uncheck during export or something in Axis).

For your information, the animation works when the curves aren't constant, but there's interpolation, which means it doesn't look as desired. With constant curves, it's all over the place.

[scarlet breach]

Is anyone very experienced in 2D rigging in Unity? I'm having some issues with a few of my sprites. I use the same bone workflow and only on a few of the sprites does it tell me the bone weights are invalid. But it doesn't say in what way and the unity forums don't seem to have a lot of results for Sprite Skin bone weights invalid.

[green urchin]

I get this error when I ctrl+S to save when focused on my animator controller in the animator window. Any way to fix this?

there doesnt appear to be any missing animation clip references in any states or substates

[green urchin]

the missing id is the m_DstState id of a transition according to the info in the animator controller when i view it in notepad

[true glen]

Hey Im new to IK I was trying to sit a character down but the knees refuse to bend properly. I have a point on the hip which I move into the chair, and then I tried both a point on the knees and one on the feet but it just wont ever work properly. I think Im probably going at this completely wrong

[agile solstice]

You can get constant animation clips if you disable Resample Curves and change the curve type of all keyframes to constant in Unity's animation editor after importing
This requires duplicating the clips so they're not read-only
It actually helps to export the clips as linear because they get converted to constant anyway, and importing constant type keyframes has issues like the rotation wonkiness due to resampling

[livid crest]

Already did all that in the video :/

[agile solstice]

The video doesn't show Unity's animation curve editor for that clip so did you actually?

[livid crest]

Yeah
I crtl D ( idk if its the same shortcut for u, im french ) the animation, put the loop mod
Go on the model and disabled resample curve then double clic the animation, select all put constant then play

I have a vidéo wait

Do u see something bad in what i did ?

I did that dir 12 hour straight so i tried to get help everywhere i can

[agile solstice]

You have to disable resampling and apply changes before you duplicate, as duplicating copies the generated clip the way it exists at that moment
(Or import a linearly interpolated clip so the step would be unnecessary)
And I'd also like to see you open the curves editor and play the clip so we can see both the actual curves and the clip in motion

[livid crest]

Gonna try that after my shower thanks !

[livid crest]

OMG IT WORK THX YOU SO MUCH OMG

I TRY SO MANY THING FOR 11 HOUR STRAIGH

THANKS YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[agile solstice]

great
Earlier in the day there was another question about constant interpolation
The answer may later be useful to you also
#🏃┃animation message

[winter wharf]

ok i will try to move the components

[frosty grotto]

is there, like, a callback for when an animation state started to transit away?

I guess I will have to use it OnEnter on a second state

[swift trench]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/StateMachineBehaviour.OnStateExit.html ?

[frosty grotto]

if I get it right, that's being called after transition happened

either way, dammit, both of them don't work

I can't 100% guarantee that it's not caused by something else, I checked all code related but might have miss something, anyway, here is an oversimplification
first case where blend_tree_param is a parameter of Move state blend tree:

override public void OnStateExit(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)
    {
        animator.SetFloat(blend_tree_param, 0);
    }

same result if I make param setting in OnStateEnter for Move btw

transition time is zero

on the last frame? something weird happening

however when I use

public override void OnStateUpdate(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)
    {
        if (stateInfo.normalizedTime >= 0.9f)
        {
            animator.SetFloat(blend_tree_param, 0);
        }
    }

instead, it's fine, however, this means that for such cases I would have to assign a variable of normalized time somewhere
manually, after transition in a script every time
on second thought just sticking with 0.9 might work all the time
but it still feels like there should be a better way to do this or something

[true glen]

I still havent gotten this to work :(

[swift trench]

Could you just fire an AnimationEvent in your clips?

Can you explain here again, what the main issue is? Like in your short gif, I am not sure, whats running wrong

[frosty grotto]

that's even worse

[frosty grotto]

mob twitches for a frame

[swift trench]

Hm, cant really see it as I dont know, what the expected behaviour would look like.

[frosty grotto]

do you watch first gif?

on second everything is fine and how it meant to be

[swift trench]

Ahhh, missed the first one, my bad

And the transitiontime is 0 from stun to move?

[frosty grotto]

ye

[swift trench]

Thats whats your issue. If you dont give them time to crossfade, it will just start the Move clip from start no matter what the previous clip was.

[frosty grotto]

why does it work flawlessly on a second gif then?

it works flawlessly because that state machine blends idle with walking
and first frame of idle is identical to the last frame of being stunned

[swift trench]

But the only thing you changed was that blend_tree_param part?

[frosty grotto]

the issue is that blandtree don't update it's animation if I change the parameter the frame I go to it

[frosty grotto]

the only thing I changed was I replaced setting it from OnStateExit to OnStateUpdate

[swift trench]

So you are basically redoing the transitiontime by script. As you said, you are doing it with idle, why not go to idle from stun and from there to move? What was the reason to not have the transitiontime from stun to move?

[frosty grotto]

how am I redoing transitiontime by script?

the reason behind no transitiontime is because all animations are synced in a way that first/last frame are identical so I don't need any blending

by all I mean all in the project

there is some blending when it's needed of course but stun>idle is expected to look the same all the time

[swift trench]

That sounds to me, like you are on purpose disabling the purpose of the animator to transition between clips. Because, if you want every last and first frame to be identical, you can never have multiple exit points for one clip or multiple entry points for one clip.

[frosty grotto]

as I said there are some transitions which take time

like stun to move is 0 while move to stun is 0.25

it feels like you don't have a grasp on what exact issue I am facing still

or was facing, anyway

I ve just figured out that since OnStateExit callses at the end rather than on beginning of a transition I can just set blend_tree_param as 0 from inside the blend tree state

and it won't break since it's getting called.... on a frame after the transition

apparently

and my issue stems from me expecting it being called on a frame where transition ends or at least starts

"Invoked on the last update frame when a state machine evaluates this state" haven't tested but feels like it envokes not on the last but on a frame after the last update by this annoying case

that or blend tree only change how animation looks after the frame the parameter of it got changed

[swift trench]

OnStateExit calls when it leaves the state (the animation). but yes, I still dont know, what your CURRENT issue is, as you did change things and said, now its working flawlessly, but still we are here typing. You dont like your current workaround or you think, there is a better way?

[frosty grotto]

so trying to explain more what and why I did what I did including things I did not mention
mob walk
mob getting shot, speed of walking animation is zero now so it's paused
(highlighting what I specifically set speed of walking animation parameter as zero)
it transitions to stun
stun plays

gif 1 with jitter
on stun exit the blend tree parameter goes to zero
it snaps to the walking frame and (then frame later?) the proper blend tree state activates so it looks more like idle
it's a transition with one weird jitter thingie

gif 2 without
or on stun >0.9f normalized time the blend tree parameter goes to zero
so it now in an idle state (because moving is a blend between idle and moving) and stun>move goes flawlessly

[frosty grotto]

seems like I figured out a proper enough solution but it still boggles me a bit that original attempt didn't work and I don't think there is a reason it shouldn'tve

[rustic axle]

Hello, I need some help with an animation. Basically I have a player who does attacks, and I animate hitboxes with it. When the player jumps right, I make x size of the empty Game object that the Hitboxes are in to 1, and when the player jumps left i make the size of it -1. As you can see in the video, the hitboxes are not flipping, even though the hitbox holder is flipping. I would like to make it so when you attack to the left, the hitboxes flip instead of staying in the position they're supposed to be for an attack to the right. Any help is appreciated!

[sudden kestrel]

Hi, so I wanted to test out the Animation transition on a Button component and play around it and something weird is going on with the highlighted trigger, I clicked on the Auto Generate Animation button and all I did is animate the scale of the transform to go from 1 to 1.5 , but I would have expected that once the animation is finished, it kinda stays there and when the button is no longer highligthed, it animates back to scale of 1. I havent done much work on animation myself and wanted to come here to see if anyone knows if there is a way of doing that :]

[wanton trellis]

you need a seperate state to tell it its "enlarged" so it can keep that as the base animation

right now youre just looping your highlight animation

actually you will need 3 clips, one for the highlight, a highlight idle and a reverse of the highlight once you stop hovering over the button

[agile solstice]

Iirc colliders straight up don't allow negative scaling
And if you want to move a collider through animation and get correct collision detection, the collider should be on a kinematic rigidbody, and the animator probably should also be in "animate physics" mode
So generally it's better to explore other options
Such as having just one collider for the attack that you enable during the clip but do not transform in any way, or use a collision check directly from code

[graceful stream]

IK seems to be messing up my animations

notice how his limbs are bent weirdly? that's not supposed to be happening

it seems like all his limbs have a tendency to lean slightly towards 0, 0, 0?

really weird

GameObject setup

rig, rig builder, and animator are all on Armature_Human

two bone IK constraints are on all the things ending with _RIG

[sudden kestrel]

aaaah I see, huh I would have expected Unity to automatically setup all of that when I press the Auto Generate button since I dont have to "care" about this logic when I choose the color tint option for example. But thanks for the help!

[agile solstice]

According to documentation Rig component should be below Rig Builder in hierarchy
So, on "RIG_Human" in your case

[graceful stream]

ok, thank you

the only thing is that i want this rig to be applicable to many different models, so i can reuse certain animations

and it feels like restructuring in that way often causes problems

[agile solstice]

What kind of problems?

[graceful stream]

well, this enemy is very dismemberable. when i destroy / deparent some of the limbs, the rig freaks out. i take EVERY precaution to make the rig behave, and i barely have it under control now, but i would often just run into problems with the rig trying to access things that are no longer involved with the rig

https://hastebin.com/share/cibivoduru.csharp

here's the code that runs when a limb is destroyed

[wanton trellis]

i think theres also better ways of doing this

possibly with tweening

rather than through animations

[agile solstice]

Well with limb destruction that's no wonder
"Phantom limbs" are a challenge with those systems to begin with, so IK adds another layer to the problem

[graceful stream]

yeah...

i mean, my current setup works

[agile solstice]

Every solution tends to look different with those systems too

[graceful stream]

damn

[agile solstice]

Like, if a forearm is lost, how is the upper arm supposed to move? That depends on your intent and design entirely

Having the IK still be there but parts of the limb made invisible could still be helpful if you still can keep moving the limb using the system in place that controls the IK
Or it could be a hindrance, if you instead want the limb to be controlled by physics simulation or some other system entirely in the case of destruction

[rustic axle]

but if i just had one collider for the attack and enabled it without changing its transform, wouldn't it still not flip when you play it to the left?

[agile solstice]

If you flip the whole gameobject hierarchy, then yes
But preferably you would not do that
Instead have the sprites and animations in a child gameobject so you can freely scale and otherwise transform that, with the gameplay and physics related components in the root gameobject, and additional colliders in different child gameobjects

[rustic axle]

ohh ok i get it thank you

[agile solstice]

Isolating visuals into a child gameobject has many other advantages too, such as making it easily swappable

[rustic axle]

yea that makes sense

[agile solstice]

Either while you develop, so you don't need to pick apart the components, or at runtime if you want visual variants of characters without having to change the root gameobject at all

[graceful stream]

i'm assuming this question is rhetorical

[rustic axle]

it worked tysm

[agile solstice]

Yes, unless it's an answer that's needed right now
But I assume you've already thought about it from that angle
Since your limb sections seem to be based on rigidbodies, conflicts with IK seem inevitable, and conflicts with animator components in general

So maybe it makes sense to destroy the IK components of a limb wholly when the associated limb is taken over by physics
Can't spot if you're already doing that

[graceful stream]

hm, what do you mean

the associated limb's upper part should remain animated as if the limb which is being destroyed was still there

only the children of the destroyed limb should be physics

i can't destroy the IK constraint for a destroyed limb, because i want the upper parts of it to still be animated

[agile solstice]

I see!
And you also don't have the "phantom limb" transforms anymore after the process of letting them loose?

[graceful stream]

if you're asking if i get errors, i don't

if you're asking if i completely rid the rig of any transforms associated with the destroyed limb, yes, i do

[agile solstice]

Creating the detached parts as duplicated and hiding the originals while keeping the hierarchy intact could help not to cause conflicts with the IK chains
Not sure if there'd be drawbacks to that

I usually steer away from limb loss questions because it's hard to get the full picture of how the system works and what the goals and requirements are
But it's interesting nonetheless, and hopefully helpful in some way

[graceful stream]

hmm... i'm running a line where i rebuild the RigBuilder, and that causes problems with the alignment of the IK

damnit bruh i had this working

if i get rig of the Build() for the rigbuilder, then it doesn't mess up the rig, but the children of the destroyed object get sent to 0, 0, 0 and still get animated...

is there a way to store all data from the animator, set the animator to the default state, rebuild the rig, then reapply all the stored data?

[graceful stream]

it feels like Animator.Rebind is what i want here, but it gives me the "transform streamhandle cannot be resolved" thing

[hybrid tinsel]

In 6.3, has anyone else seen a problem where blend trees simply don't work in the animator?

That is, it creates the state but don't allow any editing of the blend

No blend inspector, etc.

[terse gust]

just double click on the state node it should open it up

[halcyon storm]

I have this mapping and it all seems to be working fine, and all of it runs correctly with the script, but the "BossJump" animation never actually does anything for some reason

Boss:

idk why it wouldnt be working

is it because I don't have an actual idle animation and it is just an empty state

[wanton trellis]

are you sure the "jump" parameter is being called properly?

is it that the animation isnt playing or that the boss never jumps

[halcyon storm]

the boss doesnt actually move, the animation (in the animation map thing) shows that it is playing just fine

the entire map is moving properly

it just... isnt doing anything

[wanton trellis]

what does your animation clip for the bossjump look like

[halcyon storm]

First one is y position 3, then 9.4, 9.4, then 3 again

[wanton trellis]

and when you preview the animation it works fine?

also is the scale here in seconds or minutes?

[halcyon storm]

whenever I click onto the boss the animation goes away

thats frames

I think

idk actually

its short though

[wanton trellis]

when you click on the clip

[wanton trellis]

in the inspector you can see a little preview box in the bottom right

when you click on the clip inside of the project folders

[halcyon storm]

oh yeah the preview works fine

[wanton trellis]

wait you said you didnt have an idle clip?

[halcyon storm]

I didnt know how to see that mb

yeah its just an empty state

idk if that does anything

[wanton trellis]

im pretty sure it cant transition between idle to jump if it has nothing to transition from

[halcyon storm]

oh ok

[wanton trellis]

try any state -> jump

see if that works

[halcyon storm]

like this? or dif

I dont want it as my default right>

tbf even if it is the default it still does nothing

so Idk what is happening

[wanton trellis]

youre just doing it to test if the bossjump state is playing when it jumps

you can even have entry go into bossjump as the default state

[halcyon storm]

the actual bossjump state is playing

it is just an issue with the model

[wanton trellis]

try creating a basic idle clip, litterally just 1 frame of nothing

set it to loop and see if i transitions then

[halcyon storm]

ok I made the idle clip and for some reason it does an animation, but its just a very small wiggle thing

is it because it is a navmesh agent

that is all I can think of

that was why

now I just need to figure out how to make it not move to 0, 0

because it does that when jumping

because idk how to make it only change on the y

fixed it

[lean hearth]

IK system for tentacles

[wanton trellis]

do you have a question?

this is a help channel, if you wanna show off achievements you have #🏆┃daily-win

[lean hearth]

Well it mostly works, but it slides across the wall surface, instead of like taking full steps, how would you go about fixing that?

[wanton trellis]

gonna need a lot more context

some code and how you have it all set up

[lean hearth]

alr alr gimme a sec

oops lmao i fixed it, just didnt call the step function

[wanton trellis]

show it off in #🏆┃daily-win i wanna see how it looks in a video

[lean hearth]

alr gimme a sec

[queen yoke]

so my character wont play the sprinting animation, everything from the console to the animator says that im sprinting but it wont let go of the dash, dash itself has a transition event, so i dont know what im missing

[royal notch]

It looks like it is playing for one time, but then not looping. Did you remember to turn on looping?

[queen yoke]

do you mean sprinting? yes its set to loop

[trail wedge]

i spent 3 hours making this

[agile solstice]

This channel is not for showcasing, and this server is for Unity development only

[wanton trellis]

so is the dash just a transitional clip between walking and sprinting?

how are you transitioning from the dash to a sprint

[gloomy trench]

@wanton trellis

[wanton trellis]

i think tweening is your best option here

[gloomy trench]

what is that....

[wanton trellis]

tweening in unity is the process of smoothly interpolating values like position, rotation, scale or color over time and can be done directly through code

youre going to need to use some kind of tween library for it

imo leantween is the best option rn

[gloomy trench]

💔

[wanton trellis]

this is a good thing...

it means you can handle it all procedurally through code and dont have to deal with the animator

[gloomy trench]

nah it just im new to animating

[wanton trellis]

well i mean youre going to have to animate it in some capacity lol

you cant magically have it do what you want

thankfully tweening is going to make it easier

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/leantween-3595?srsltid=AfmBOoqaIAmFwT3KdmJ6sPxXR6WU7nyg1mAdp95w0SwDb8A2i6jfpJBL

[gloomy trench]

@wanton trellis I made it, but how do I make sure it doesnt expand back n forth

[wanton trellis]

You need multiple clips

One for the start, a loop and an end

[queen yoke]

-# i just gave up and copied the scene from the tutorial repo, i appreciate your help though

[sterile vine]

hi, this is an primarily english server, sorry

[terse valve]

Nah you can use gg translate bro

I’m too lazy to think in English and write it correctly

My grammar is not good

[sterile vine]

or you could do that

it's your job to make it easy for us to help you

• Provide an English translation if you choose to post in another language. This is a primarily English-speaking community.
#📖┃code-of-conduct

[terse valve]

Ok

[mighty lake]

Hi is there a way to change the interpolation on the keyframes of imported animations, I had it set to different version of interpolation in my 3d modeling software and unity wont allow me to set it to its correct version

[mighty lake]

nvm i just duplicated the animation clip lol

[lean cairn]

is it possible to make the lower arms do the same action as the upper arms?

[sterile vine]

like you were informed before, do not solicit work here.

oh to hell with it, you've already been warned

<@&502884371011731486> soliciting work, already told off: #💻┃code-beginner message

[silk cobalt]

Hello again, I am back I finally figured out why my hair was not animating in game even though it was animated in preview mode. When you go to animation tab on your model, you have to go to the mask, Scroll though your model rig and have to select the bones that will be included into the animation. I have many animation so doing this is time consuming, might see if there's a way to apply it to EVERY animation or might have to create a unity editor script. Maybe other option I can try as I see "Only human curves will be selected" maybe there's a way to apply them in blender. Well see.

[graceful stream]

how do i prevent the animator from automatically updating at the beginning of a frame? it seems to be running something before Update, because it starts yelling about a transformstreamhandle when i modify the rig

[silk cobalt]

Not sure what you mean? What do you mean modify rig you mean avatar selecting your bones? Or in play mode the Animator running your animation?

[agile solstice]

Modifying it at runtime I presume, as that's what we discussed earlier
#🏃┃animation message

[agile solstice]

That's likely happening due to the Playables API which animator uses which updates them separately from the main thread
This may be a long shot but it's apparently possible to more or less manage the Playables part of the animators to control their order of operations, or so is talked about here:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/prevent-animator-from-auto-updating/633734/6

[graceful stream]

this is the code i'm running now, which isn't working

[graceful stream]

i feel like this should work, no? set everything to the position and rotation it's at when originally bound, rebind the rig, then reset to where it was before rebinding

this is running in LateUpdate, is that the issue?

[graceful stream]

this solution is evil

thank you, i really do appreciate it, it's just evil

[agile solstice]

My knowledge is fuzzy on multi-threading but if you modify the bone setup on one thread when it's worked on by another thread, there will be errors if it doesn't happen in exactly the right way

Maybe due to memory management if nothing else

I'd look for instructions what that correct kind of runtime rig hierarchy modification is
Or more preferably avoid permanently modifying the rig or the transform hierarchy at all
Instead utilizing hiding and more constraints to create the desired functionality

For example multi-parent constraint to force the IK targets to conform to the motion of some upper joint of the limb

[graceful stream]

i guess... does an animator still freak out if i replace the bones with new gameobjects with the same name?

will it need the hierarchy to be EXACTLY the same, or could i deparent the limbs and just add blank objects where it's expecting bones to be?

[agile solstice]

How is a "blank object" different from an empty transform?

[graceful stream]

same thing

[agile solstice]

I'd assume the efficiency of Playables relies on references to specific transform hierarchies so you can't really swap them
But I'm not sure why you would

You can add or remove components to make a gameobject form anything into anything

And maybe just disable the IK constraints that are in the way?
Or as mentioned override them with another constraint like multi-parent

[graceful stream]

if i shoot the enemy's foot off, i still want the rest of their leg to be able to move...

disabling the constraint would prevent that

[graceful stream]

ok i'm not even modifying anything anymore: the limbs just slowly get offset from their targets more and more

notice how his right foot is practically in the center? no clue why it's doing that

all that's happened is moving around and a walking animation

[graceful stream]

i have multiple other animation layers which are all additive, but none of them are running

[graceful stream]

this is driving me fucking insane

i'm not modifying anything, this is supposed to just be normal animation

it just leans slightly

[graceful stream]

i don't fucking know what to do

[warm basalt]

trying to make an 8-directional animation, is there a better way to do this?

1. create prefabs of each .psd sprite, one for each direction.
2. have a list of directions that map to each aforementioned prefab
3. for each of those prefabs, check if the current direction is equal to its designated direction
4. if not, instantiate a new prefab that matches, and destroy itself

TestMoveAnim script:

    PlayerMovement playerMovement;
    Animator animator;

    public Direction direction;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        playerMovement = GetComponentInParent<PlayerMovement>();
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        // idle/walk animation transition
        animator.SetBool("IsMoving", playerMovement.isMoving);
        
        // check direction
        Direction newDirection = CATools.vectorToDir(playerMovement.directionVector);

        if (newDirection != direction)
        {   
            GameObject newSprite = Instantiate(PlayerAnimationsData.instance.directionalSpritesRenko[(int)newDirection], transform.parent.transform, false);
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }```

i wanted to reuse a lot more of the original sprites, because all of them share the same layers, bone structure and the "TestMoveAnim" script

also this uses GetComponent every time the player changes direction, so I wonder if that could potentially be an issue

[sterile vine]

mmmm that doesn't look very good

a lot of instantiation/initialization/destruction

[warm basalt]

yeah

[sterile vine]

without getting into the animator, you could just change the animator controller instead of creating new objects

but you can much more easily just use a blend tree within the animator

did you research the topic?

[warm basalt]

i tried looking up things like 'how to change prefabs at runtime' and '8 directional animation' but none of them gave me an answer

[sterile vine]

i googled "unity 8 direction animation" and over half the results were blend trees

[warm basalt]

oh hm

[sterile vine]

"how to change prefabs at runtime" is not what you should be looking up
https://xyproblem.info

i don't mean this as an insult to you, but having separate prefabs that you continuously instantiate is probably the worst way to implement this that ive seen lmao

[warm basalt]

yeah i can tell

[sterile vine]

there's a lot of choices there where if you chose differently it'd be better

but eh, you'll get better with experience

hopefully this helps inform your future choices:

• you have a set of known states, you could have them all extant and just enable/disable (or active/inactive) as necessary, rather than instantiating and destroying
• only one part of the prefabs are different (presumably), the animator controller - you could just replace that instead of the entire object
• in this case with animations, you could have separate animation states (maybe with submachine states) instead of entirely separate controllers
• in this case specifically of choosing between animations, you can use a blend tree rather than transitioning between separate states

i realize that this exchange does inevitably come across as insulting, but i hope the takeaway is that there's a lot of space to improve 🫠

[burnt garnet]

Hello can anyone help me with this issue regarding bones and reparenting in unity/blender I have no idea what i am doing or if what i am doing is right or wrong
I am very new to blender and unity so I dont have any idea of what to do now ive already tried googling the problem but it didnt bring up any promising solutions

[warm basalt]

no worries, but regarding the first option, would it affect performance due to the multiple invisible sprites and bones in the scene, or is that negligible?

[sterile vine]

they use memory, but they wouldn't be doing anything if they're inactive/disabled

[warm basalt]

alright, thanks!

[sterile vine]

also to be clear, those aren't separate options, but rather a list of suggestions

[warm basalt]

for the second point though, i don't know how i could map all the layer orders, sprites and bone positions between states

[sterile vine]

the overall solution would probably just be a single object with a single animator controller with a blend tree (and this could be a prefab as well if you plan to reuse it)
you could check out some tutorials for more in-depth/step-by-step explanations

[warm basalt]

yeah, i'll probably look into that later

[sterile vine]

oh is it animated by position? im more used to a workflow with separate sprites for each frame so that didn't occur to me

[warm basalt]

yeah

[sterile vine]

i'm not too familiar with that, sorry. points 2 to 4 still apply in general but maybe not in this case. 1 should still apply fully though

[warm basalt]

hmm, alright

thanks for the help!

[warm basalt]

So apparently the transitions don't properly work; the idle animation inherits certain unwanted traits from the walk animation, for some reason
(Write Defaults are on)

apparently the issue is that deactivating and reactivating an animated GameObject rewrites the 'default values' of the object

(demonstration image)

left is default, right is bugged; the left leg is extruded

is there a simple enough workaround for this (other than manually setting all the defaults), or should i just switch to sprite animations

[agile solstice]

How are you doing it right now?

Is there one or more animators

[warm basalt]

you have a set of known states, you could have them all extant and just enable/disable (or active/inactive) as necessary, rather than instantiating and destroying

trying this,

so each object (corresponding to each direction) has its own animator

[agile solstice]

I would disable/enable their visibility, not the entire gameobject

And worry about performance if you have a hundred of them

[warm basalt]

isn't the only way to do that through the Renderers?

i think that would be a problem since i'd have to iterate through each object, and then through each of their children as well

(or i could also have the checks on the objects themselves, but i still have to interate through each of their children and then disable those renderers)

[agile solstice]

Right, skinned sprites had a whole bunch of them
Disabling a gameobject that contains them would be fine but rather not disable the animator to keep it running

[warm basalt]

so, essentially put the entire sprite in an empty game object, and then disable/enable that one?

[agile solstice]

That's what you'd normally do but I don't recall if the skinned sprite hierarchy really allows that

[latent oar]

anyone knows why my collider is not synced to my avatar

[terse gust]

your collider is on your player, the animation is probably moving the hip bone a little which causes this mismatch

[latent oar]

how can i resolve this issue

im new to unity and animations

[fiery dagger]

I’m new completely

[graceful stream]

my IK rig has maintain target offset enabled, but the tip transform just starts slowly drifting away from the target transform as the root rotates

[warm jetty]

would yall recommend any resources to learn the animation system?

[celest crag]

!learn has courses and tutorials on animation

[hexed cargo]

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

[warm jetty]

sure ok

I have a bit of ui stuttering happening as you can see here. The scene is infinitely going, reusing the same backgrounds over and over again. The speed of the bike is the rate at which it cycles through the background patches and its variable based on inputs to the scene

[celest crag]

That's not UI stuttering, that's the entire app. Make sure you are not running out of memory and use Profiler to find the bottleneck

[warm jetty]

how can you telll?

the rest of the app is just static pages and i don't see the same behavior there

[celest crag]

Unless it's just the recording that is stuttering

anyway, if there's performance issues - profile it

[warm jetty]

ok so i was on the wrong branch

i'll send another one

i have just profiled it but i'll send it again just in case

[untold nova]

know any companies hiring Viewmodel Animators?

[still grove]

How do I link a animation that is already made to a differnet game object, I am gonna redo my player character and if I replace it, then I won't be able to edit the animation again because it will just say "click here to create an animation"

[still grove]

And how do I add back properties if I rename something in the structure?

[twin musk]

if its the same model for the animation, you could make it a prefab

[wanton trellis]

i dont think any major game development studio has a specific "viewmodel animator" position

i think most studios are just looking for 3d animators in general

[still grove]

Also how do I rename the structure of bones without breaking animation and having to remake it?

[bright oxide]

hey guys, hope you can help me. basically i want to create an animation where the action menu that are in the pic rotate on its bottom-left angle, basically like a car that brake sharply (the action menu should come from left). i can make the second animation but i dont know hot to make the first, since every time i try to rotate the menu its center its, of course, in the center. im not so good in in animation but basically, if the ogbject rotates on a circonferenze, what i want to do its letting its "center" the bottom left corner. any tips on how to do it?

[warm basalt]

I have a simple fade animation setup
for some reason, using Unscaled Time completely cuts out the fade out animation, which works as intended when using the Normal update mode

What causes this and how can I fix it?

Note: there is no time scale manipulation occurring during the animation

it also seems to work on certain scenes but not others even with unscaled time

[thorny hamlet]

I keep running into annoying issues like this

It reaches normalizedTime of 1, and iBase IS 2.... why no transition???

Is Animator graph just buggy?

Looking at just managing my states in code instead cos I am hitting too many instances where transitions don't work as they should.

Is there just something I'm doing wrong?

It actually does transition if i wait 3 or 4 seconds

which is not ideal

[sterile vine]

well, seems like that's the length of that state's animation clip?

that's what the exit time is im pretty sure

if you want it to transition immediately, set exit time to 0, or just disable exit time altogether

[thorny hamlet]

@sterile vine

No it cant be zero. That would allow it to exit at the start of the clip.

It has to wait until the clip has finished playing, hence the exit time

Doesnt it make sense that exit time should be 1 in order to exit at the end of the clip (if the condition is met)

[sterile vine]

isn't it doing what you want it to then? it waits til it reaches the end to transition

[thorny hamlet]

But the 3 or 4 seconds i mentioned is additional to the clip itself

[sterile vine]

oh, like the clip has stopped and you have to wait some more time before it actually transitions?

[thorny hamlet]

No, currently its playing the 3 sec clip, then waiting another 3 sec

[thorny hamlet]

Yeah

[sterile vine]

gotcha, i misunderstood

[thorny hamlet]

Its like it is playing it invisibly again in the background or something

Its coming across to me as a bug

[sterile vine]

hmm, the documentation is kinda weird.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animations.AnimatorStateTransition-exitTime.html
it doesn't say what happens when the exit time is exactly 1.

what about if you set it to like, 0.99?

[thorny hamlet]

I cant unfortunately. The client frame-by-frames the demo vid i send to them, they're very particular

(I already tried that)

I ended up coding the statemachine myself

Stopped using animator graph altogether lol

Works perfectly now

Still... id like to know if the issue is avoidable

[sterile vine]

did it work?

[thorny hamlet]

No, they noticed the slight difference

But my custom state machine works

[sterile vine]

so it did work, it's just not satisfactory

[thorny hamlet]

Oh yeah

Sorry, didnt realize that's what ya meant.

[sterile vine]

might be that 1 is considered as the latter case then (in the docs)

[thorny hamlet]

Im guessing we just cant use 0 or 1 as exit times

Its not totally true, ive seen 0 work, ive also seen 1 work, i guess just not reliably

[sterile vine]

seems so, that's unfortunate

[thorny hamlet]

Heck, ive seen 5 work

[sterile vine]

oh yeah actually, would 0 work

[thorny hamlet]

In that case it loops 5 times then exits

[sterile vine]

yeah, that's what the docs say

[thorny hamlet]

I just dont get the "sometimes" aspect of it

[sterile vine]

what if the transition condition is met before it completes its first loop with exitTime 1

if that works, maybe that could explain that it's the latter case as i suspect

[thorny hamlet]

Well, yeah, its meant to animate, then stop, and then a user interaction can make it proceed whenever the user wants, provided that clip has reached its end

So another way 8s to provide an additional hold state after that state

[sterile vine]

oh that state isn't looping?

[thorny hamlet]

Correct

[sterile vine]

ah, that explains a lot, i was getting confused myself because i thought it was lol

[thorny hamlet]

But it just seems like using hammers and glue where the system should be able to handle this

[sterile vine]

i guess 0 just wouldn't work then

[thorny hamlet]

Yeh, s'ok. I mean animator graph is ok for me most of the time, just code workarounds when its not... i feel like unity almost never update this thing?

[agile solstice]

They do update any features when new bugs appear, but Animator wholly will be replaced by a new animation system in near future

Animator's features haven't changed for a very long time

[thorny hamlet]

oh, wasn't aware of upcoming system, I'll look into that

[queen yoke]

anyone have an idea why my character shoots off while stopping instead of stopping on the spot? (animations from mixamo)

[wanton trellis]

looks like a root motion issue

[agile solstice]

Or the particular clip has a wrong pivot offset

[queen yoke]

i just saw in the preview, the root is miles off, what fixes can i undertake?

[queen yoke]

nvm i found it out

[lusty remnant]

has anyone experienced an issue where a humanoid limb does a full rotation on transition? i never had this issue when this rig was generic but ever since i changed my rig to humanoid, these rotation issues started popping up. i tried searching up this issue but i haven't had luck with the results i get from google or even AI

i thought it would be a quaternion issue or something and flipping it would fix stuff but this still occurs. i'm wondering if it's an issue with the way i'm animating or something more fundamental?

the screenshot is the curves showing the right hand IK if that helps and i'm using Blender, Rigify and Game Rig Tools to create a deform rig

[agile solstice]

This would be related to whether the keyframes represent rotations as euler angles or quaternions
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/AnimationEulerCurveImport.html

And if the importer resamples them to be the other type

It's also possible that the two clips don't have a matching rotation interpolation, but maybe not likely

The difference between eulers and quaternions is that quaternion interpolation goes through the least necessary motion, while eulers intepolate the angle numerically

With quaternion interpolation the shortest path from 10° to 350° goes through 0°
With euler the only path between them goes through 180°

[lusty remnant]

ohh okay. thank you for the info. i copied the pose from the idle into the other animation so that they would have the same angle but it doesn't seem to make a difference?

[agile solstice]

Because the arm at the shoulder turns almost a full circle and then interpolates back the same way, that indicates there is euler interpolation

I think this most typically happens if "resample curves" is disabled on import, and the animation was stored as eulers on export

The screenshot from blender shows the animated properties of the IK target, so it doesn't tell us anything about the shoulder rotation
Which will be keyframed only at the time of exporting when the constraints are baked into keyframes of the bones themselves

[lusty remnant]

ohh okay. thank you so much for the info! i'll look into it

i'll check what's up with the shoulder rotation

[agile solstice]

I think blender typically stores and bakes keyframes as quaternion, and Unity by default resamples them into quaternions anyway
So not sure where the swap occurs, especially if you have not disabled keyframe resampling
But it's not a situation I know inside out
Usually it's relevant when making clips within Unity, in which case you need to manually pick between the two interpolations in the Animation editor per the type of animation you're making
It's also possible to duplicate the imported clips to make it editable and manually swap keyframe interpolation to quaternion
But that shouldn't be necessary to do, and has a change of causing mismatches between clips or between the original and imported clips

[lusty remnant]

ahh okay. thanks!

[crystal rose]

Hi! I'm having a persistent rotation issue with a layered animation setup.
I'm using an Avatar Mask to layer a weapon pose (upper body) over a walk/run animation (lower body). The upper body is twisted to the left.
All animations are set to Humanoid.
I enabled 'Bake into Pose' for Rotation and used 'Body Orientation'.
I excluded the Hips in the Avatar Mask (Transform tab).
I tried a Multi-Rotation Constraint via Animation Rigging to straighten the spine, but it's ignored.
Who's have the solution please

[wanton trellis]

whats the issue?

the upper body is rotated to the left?

[crystal rose]

Yes my upper body is rotated to the left and he dont want to turn

[crystal rose]

Basically, it's supposed to be straight

[wanton trellis]

and is it straight in your weapon pose clip?

sounds like a root rotation issue

if your upperbody layer doesnt affect the root and the lower body rotates the root

[crystal rose]

That help you to see the problem ? or no ?

[wanton trellis]

cant you just change the body rotation offset in the clip tab?

set it to like -30 or something

[crystal rose]

That's exactly what I've already done; it leaves the same rotation in my scene, but it does change the rotation in the file itself

[terse gust]

use animation rigging's rotation constraint to force the rotation as you need it

otherwise you could try changing the spine hierarchy bones rotation in the clip using the muscle values, although i wouldn't recommend that

it looks like you are trying to get full body fps, so a rotation constraint fits

[true terrace]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/unable-to-build-animationclip-at-runtime/614725/32 ...I can't believe it

[terse gust]

lol

[true terrace]

What's worse: the API has existed at least as far back as Unity 2019, I didn't look further

I've been waiting for this feature to be added since like 2016...

[wanton trellis]

you could probably make an asset out of this

🤔

[true terrace]

Possibly

[night obsidian]

How do i do proper 8 way animations without them looking awful? do i need to open up unitys procedural animation?

https://streamable.com/55ts6i

[sterile vine]

do you even need 8-way animations in 3d

[night obsidian]

? Doesn't every shooter do that

[sterile vine]

definitely not every shooter

shooter is.. a very broad term

fps or even in third person, a lot of 3d games don't use 8-way afaik

it's just a single animation that you rotate, so you get full coverage instead of only 8 directions

[night obsidian]

How can you rotate a walking animations? Our bodys are not on a 180 degree swivel like a robot

[sterile vine]

you rotate the entire animation, not part of the body

imagine walking in a circle, you turn your entire body as you walk, right

[night obsidian]

well the main issue is walking backward

[sterile vine]

do you need to walk backwards while facing forwards?

[night obsidian]

Yes

[sterile vine]

ah, gotcha, i misunderstood what this was for

[wanton trellis]

couldnt you just have a seperate clip for walking backwards

[night obsidian]

The problem is swapping between them

[wanton trellis]

it shouldnt be a problem if you match the phase at 0% for all of them

that way any clip becomes compatible with each other

[night obsidian]

What?

Players need to be able to walk at all angles not snap between poses

[wanton trellis]

im sorry but what do you think animation is except snapping between poses

just with a bit more of a transition

[sterile vine]

isn't that what blend trees are for

[night obsidian]

Blending?

[wanton trellis]

yes snapping between poses with a transition

[night obsidian]

The blending isn't working tho as you can see

[night obsidian]

What

[sterile vine]

i mean, that's not really snapping if there's a transition

[wanton trellis]

i honestly have no clue what your clip is even showing, its hard to tell, what exactly isnt working

between the forward walk and the backwards walk

[night obsidian]

Its walking right and then walking back right, and the hip swivel doesn't look very good

Wonder if i need procedural animations or more part based

[wanton trellis]

you will need seperate clips for each and then you can use a blend tree to blend between them

you need a clip just walking back, a clip for strafing left back , for strafing right back

you also need to match their phase to be 0% so they properly transition between them

i had to do something similliar in my project recently and at the end of the day all it is, is ensuring you have enough clips to represent all possible locomotive states to enable good transitions between poses

[night obsidian]

How do you match phases without onion skin or something

[wanton trellis]

youre basically ensuring that all animation clips always start and end when the left foot makes contact with the ground

basically when the foot is flat against the ground and the right foot is in the air thats 0%

so lets say you have a start animation, where the character is idle and they start moving, when that animation clip ends you need it to end just when the left foot phase is at 0% so when your loop animation starts which is also going to be at 0% phase at the start, they match up

[night obsidian]

But like, each animation is more complex than that

its a range of motion

Due to ease in and out

Maybe ill use interpolation and avoid hard keyframing as much as possible

[wanton trellis]

well are you animating like directly on ones or using pose to pose?

[night obsidian]

I don't often use breakdowns or extremes, i have some poses like the start but i don't pose stuff like the middle.

so yea basically on ones

[wanton trellis]

well then it should be easy to ensure your first pose and last pose always start with the phase at 0%

[night obsidian]

i guess

[warm basalt]

assume i have two animations, one where the scale goes from 0 to 1, and another where it goes from 1 to 0
if i hold down Shift, the first one plays, and if i release it, the second one plays

now, how should i make it so that when i release Shift before the first animation has finished (let's say, when the scale is 0.5 for example), the second animation instead goes from 0.5 to 0 and not 1 to 0?

[agile solstice]

It's not about interpolation, but about where in time the corresponding poses are
With locomotion blend trees each step should occur at the same time relative to the length of the clip

But your strafe issue is not exactly a technical one, because there is no type of blending that would create a valid mix between those to types of motion

If you try to do the same change in motion in real life, it becomes apparent

There are many types of strafing motion, some more susceptible to this issue that others, but for each one it's at least partially unavoidable

One solution is to have more than one type of strafing animation, like "walk right with hips to the right" and "walk right with hips to the left" so you can rotate the hips separately, as you would to eliminate the need for a 180° hip turn with only a <45° change in movement as is the issue there

[ivory star]

Hey, guys! I have one problem. I have many doors on my project and I want to animate all of them differently, so the first one to open, close and be idle and the other ones to have different animation. I know I have to use Animator Override Controller but the issue is that I dont know how exactly to use it properly?

First of all, I have to add animator components to all of my doors right

and I will have one base door that will have the base door animator asset

and the other doors will have the animator override controller if I am not mistaken?

Just got confused with it

[terse gust]

Create a prefab for the doors, this prefab should be the door base, it should have everything that every door must have, then you create prefab variants and simply set the animator components controller to the override controller, should work

[night obsidian]

Hmm, but wouldn't blending between the two still be weird?

It could possibly work tho

[ivory star]

Can I do it without prefabs because I dont need the same animations for all of the doors

[sterile vine]

that doesn't mean you can't use prefabs

[ivory star]

There will be the same logic, like Idle, Open and Close

I cannot understand how to use the Animator Override basically

I have the base animator which is the DoorAnimator

This works fine for the first doo, like the door opens, closes and stays on Idle when I am interacting with it

but if I want to interact with other doors and they have to have different animation clips because they will be animating differently I have to use the Animator Override Controller probably but its confusing

help me understand how it works and how to use it

[sterile vine]

i mean you could also just have different animators

[ivory star]

Yes I know

[sterile vine]

(idk how overrides work myself)

just saying that being a prefab isn't really an issue

[ivory star]

Its not the best practice though to use many animators

lets say I have 8 doors

its horrible

https://youtu.be/wip2kzaF728?si=69idMYbzNOWfQoph

I am watching right now this tutorial maybe I can figure it out

[agile solstice]

The point is to avoid having to blend between poorly blendable motions, hence the alternatives
You'd rather choose whether to rotate hips, or to blend to backwards walking given the hip rotation

[deep comet]

holla

can i ask

[sterile vine]

just ask, don't pester random people

!ask

[hexed cargo]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
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:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

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[sterile vine]

https://dontasktoask.com

[deep comet]

!ask how to export a animation as a fbx

[hexed cargo]

:thinking: Asking Questions

:mag: Search the internet for your question!
:book: Use the API Scripting Reference and User Manual and this troubleshooting site for commonly posted issues.
:wrench: Attempt to debug your issue.
:thought_balloon: Find an appropriate channel by reading the name and description in #🔎┃find-a-channel
:grey_question: And don't ask to ask, ask a full question illustrating with screenshots if needed.

-# For more posting guidelines, go to #🌱┃start-here

[sterile vine]

again, do not crosspost, you have already asked in the right place

and this is, again, something you can google

[deep comet]

i thought it was a bot who answers questions my bad

[wanton trellis]

why not read the bot message next time and come to a correct conclusion

[atomic ore]

hello, why am I getting weird replacements with timeline? each time I'm animating a GameObject and moving it at a certain position, when I go to another seconds timeline, the GameObject isn't at the same position anymore, and it's really annoying and almost impossible to edit with that.

[sterile vine]

is that second timeline also controlling the object's position?

[atomic ore]

yes, let's say I'm trying to make the Gameobject's position from 10 to 15 x, between 2 and 3 seconds, I'll set the 10 x at 2 seconds then when I go to the 3 seconds timeline, the position will be another one than 10

it's my fourth time using timeline and that's the first time I'm having this and it's really annoying, even the y of the GameObject changes

[devout wraith]

does anyone know what can cause the model to be slightly offset downwards on Y axis when no animation is playing, but offset upwards when animation is playing? location in blender set to 0 across the entire mesh so im really unsure

bruh it fixed itself after reimport

[atomic ore]

I’m not sure if you answered my message but anyway

[uncut salmon]

Make sure that no other animation is also controlling that object. Otherwise, check if there's a future key frame on the timeline that isn't moving it elsewhere and causing it to tween between the two points.

If you want it to stay in one spot before another key frame, then you need to add a key frame before the movement that keeps it in the same position.

[atomic ore]

There are no other animations, It’s timeline itself who added the animator on it. And there were no other keyframes in the future too . I’m sure about that by the way

[atomic ore]

Yes otherwise it lerps between the frames

[lean obsidian]

So I made some basic animation for my game, and I wanna know how to I would activate it if the player does somethin.

[atomic ore]

If you made an animation clip, make an animator controller and use triggers or bool depending on the animation by code using the animator component

What animation did you make and how and when do you want to activate it?

[lean obsidian]

I just made an object appear and dissapear if a certain action is made. In my case pressing a button

[lean obsidian]

but u told me everything i need!

[lean obsidian]

so thxs

[atomic ore]

No need an animation for that, just make a reference to the game object u want to make appear or disappear and use the gameObject.SetActive(); function, just call it when the player presses the button

[lean obsidian]

I know thats easier, but I added some easing, squash and stretch and the other stuff to it.

[atomic ore]

But if you wanted to use animations, make 3 states, empty state which would be the initial state and 2 others for active inactive and use 2 triggers

To active or inactive

[lean obsidian]

oh

[lean obsidian]

i gotta go

[lean obsidian]

thxs

[modern oak]

what necessary steps do u take to animate a weapon in blender and have it be exactly the same in unity

[terse gust]

export the entire model with it's animations as fbx, unity imports it and will detect the animations as well, if you exported those

[agile solstice]

Parent the weapon to a bone, then it will behave the exact same way when parented to the bone in unity with the same transforms
Or Join it into the mesh and weight the weapon to the bone
But don't export animations for a separate object, as that creates a separate clip