#🏃┃animation

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velvet seal
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Is there any way to export an animation as a video file from an existing Unity project?

gritty forum
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When making animations in unity, how do you add all bones to the hiearchy in it so they always go with the animation

hidden walrus
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does anyone know why when i click anything inside Configure Avatar in one of my projects it just quits the configure avatar thing and returns back to the scene view ?

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I remember I had this issue in the past before also but I dont remember if I figured it out before, i'm guessing it has to be some kind of bug

gritty forum
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For 2d bone animation, how can you change the sorting layer once its done?

hybrid tinsel
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@proud stream mark the clip as legacy.

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@still estuary there has to be either exit time or conditions, or unity gets annoyed.

still estuary
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I solved the problem by handling transitions in code

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With crossfade

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But I had condition

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The problem was during state transition

hybrid tinsel
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@mortal dock your first image doesn't work so hard to see what you mean but the standard approach is to have a black sprite behind both parts.

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@fading kite download it from package manager.

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@gritty forum only bones with weights get gizmos. The transforms should still be present in the hierarchy.

fading kite
hybrid tinsel
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@gritty forum normally you only keyframe items that change themselves.
And you can change the sorting layer from the sprite renderer component on it.

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@fading kite the animation rigging package. You meed that to enable it.

mortal dock
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@hybrid tinsel thanks for replying! here's an image that better illustrates my situation:

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currently i'm able to animate the "Desired" approach by using spritesheet based animations, but i'd like to move to skeletal rigging animations for flexibility and performance reasons

hybrid tinsel
mortal dock
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@hybrid tinsel genius! that's exactly what i want. thank you. will need to find a way to "link" the outline and the body part so they stay in sync like you have

gritty forum
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@hybrid tinsel with the bones It doesnt change the sprite renderer

gray dock
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I have a humanoid model with multiple meshes, and it's animated by Final IK, but I've noticed that the bounds don't move with the meshes.. Could it be because all meshes are parented to the armature rather than to the bone controlling them? And in that case, is there any other way to fix it rather than re-parenting them?

twin musk
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Hello, does anyone have any idea if it is possible to use the same animation clip for multiple clones?

azure dune
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Oh.. man why does this keep happening. I'll be recording keyframes - I'll move an object using the move tool along a single axis.. then when the animation plays during runtime - it animates along the wrong axis. I need to nail down why this keeps happening, it's SO frustrating, and I don't get it.

I animated these object moving one direction fine - then a second animation clip is all messed up!

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Even while using the move Gizmo the object doesn't seem to adjust the values for the axis I'm selecting. I'm so lost.

burnt schooner
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could someone help me set up animations for the player? I have the model and animations ready

burnt schooner
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nobody?

true fractal
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So I wanted to make just a simple blink animation for my character but when I hit a keyframe and change it I'll change all of them anyone know why?

true fractal
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Just need to simply make one keyframe 100 but I'll make the 0's 100 too

hybrid tinsel
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@gritty forum the bones change order in layer, not the layer itself.

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@true fractal make sure you deselect everything and only select the key you want to change?

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@burnt schooner this isn't really the place for that.

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@twin musk you can. If you want them to be in sync, use the same instance of the animator. If you want them independent, give each one its own instance.

true fractal
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Only the key I want to change is purple

static dome
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anyone know how to turn on and off Has Exit time with code (Animation Transition) ?

true fractal
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It still changes everyone of them instead of one at a time and it's kind of frustrating me lol

sterile skiff
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Hey all, I am struggling with a blending problem with my animation. I am trying to make a dodge roll animation which blends between each of the 4 directions, but I'm getting a weird error where in certain directions the character "stutters". This doesn't happen in any of my 4 animations and I'm unsure how to fix it.

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I think it might be a gimbal lock issue, but I have no idea what to do about it? Like I fixed it in each animation, but the blending screws it up!

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Is there a way to force Unity/Blender to use quaternions instead?

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(My animation is created with quats)

unreal vapor
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Blender gives you the option to change rotation angle mode from euler to quaternion under the object's (rig bones') properties tab

sterile skiff
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I'm not sure if there's somewhere else I have to set it?

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Or maybe it's the fact that I'm exporting using fbx???

deft latch
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Hey everyone,
Is there any way to turn off looping of the animation in unity/blender? I would like to make a rolling cube, but every time it rolls it goes back to the place it started on.
Anyone knows how to do that?

stray sentinel
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can someone help me pls
i am trying to make an animation thingy but everything is greyed out
for my among us in 3D
pls i need help

gritty frost
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@stray sentinel Don't cross post.

stray sentinel
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Ok sorry

hybrid tinsel
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@sterile skiff does it happen in the imported animations themselves or only when you blend them?

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@deft latch enable root motion and disable looping in the inspectir for the animation file

placid cosmos
sterile skiff
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@hybrid tinsel If I mess with the animation to align the character during the roll, they also freak out.

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I intentionally "tilted" the character so as to avoid it in the animation import, but when it blends I guess it hits that "gimbal lock" issue

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I'm just unsure what to do, like I'd imagine Unity would be blending with quats, not with euler angles

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So if my animations were good then so should the blended forms?

hybrid tinsel
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@sterile skiff maybe try adding 45 degree animations too to help with the interpolation?

sterile skiff
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I could try that. Not the ideal solution but hopefully that'll help.

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Thanks

tepid cloak
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hi, is the animation rigging 2 bone ik constraint supposed to play ontop of the animation thats playing? how do i make it stop doing that

sterile skiff
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The weirdest thing is that both animations are using quaternion interpolation

true fractal
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How is it to edit a static animation in unity?

limber dagger
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Is it possible to import animations to Blender? if yes, how?

charred sierra
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Question; Is it possible to have an animation start at "any state?"
Example; I have 3 animations that put an object at a specific y coordinate. I was wondering if I can have the animations use the starting transform so it's not jumpy

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I'm using an animator rather than individual animations. I think I have to access the animations though to set the start position

hybrid tinsel
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@true fractal define 'static animation'

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@charred sierra there is an 'any state' state in the animator you can run transitions from.

charred sierra
rapid kiln
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@charred sierra what are the 3 animations? how do they differ?

charred sierra
rapid kiln
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why are there 3 though?

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is it one for each place the object is coming from?

charred sierra
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They're for 3 positions the object can go on the y axis

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In-Ground, Partial In-Ground, Above Ground

rapid kiln
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so something is in one of those 3 states and it animates between them, yeah?

charred sierra
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Yes

rapid kiln
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hmm

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i think you could do it with a blend tree, which might be easier? but then i'm not sure you'd get as precise animation control

charred sierra
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Blend tree?

rapid kiln
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it lets you blend animations together, so rather than having an animation to transition from each state to each other state, you would just have an animation for each 'position' and blend between them based on a value, which would move the object

charred sierra
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Hm, that sounds like it would help

rapid kiln
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i'm not convinced it's good advice

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can i see a screenshot of your animation controller?

charred sierra
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Yes, give me one moment it's on my other computer

rapid kiln
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hmm...it's not really any state, right? does it ever go from AboveGround->InGround without first going through PartialInGround?

charred sierra
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It's possible yes

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Like it's possible to go from any of the states

river sentinel
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please help me how can I check what animation is playing

rapid kiln
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ok, in that case i think i would use a blend tree or just do it in code with DoTween

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@river sentinel you can look at the animation controller while the game is playing and it will show you what's going on

charred sierra
rapid kiln
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an animation takes a thing at point X and moves it to point Y

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so what you are doing now, you kind of need to have an animation for each point it could start at, going to each point it could end at

charred sierra
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thanks! i appreciate the help

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sounds simple enough

rapid kiln
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it balloons quickly though

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instead, you can think of the 3 states 'blend' between them

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each animation is static -- just the thing in the position you want it to end in

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and then you blend between each 'end' position in your blend tree

twin musk
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so basically

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after scaling

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model to 0.1

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animator works rly bad

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it shakes the character

rapid kiln
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if it moves in a straight line, you only need 2 positions: the start and end, and then you blend between them based on where you want the thing to be in between those states (and i think it will let you do that based on a curve so that you can control how it animates)

honestly though, for something like this it might be easier to just do it in code. You have your 3 positions and then an 'animateToPosition' which just moves the thing to where it needs to be from where it is

river sentinel
rapid kiln
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for actually moving stuff, i almost always use code because you need to be able to adjust movement at runtime so frequently -- what if there's a wall in the way? or the player? should the thing just animate through them? etc

river sentinel
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are you talking to me

rapid kiln
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nope

true fractal
river sentinel
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Yeah OK sorry sorry sorry Mr.

charred sierra
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i'm gonna watch a video to learn how to do blend tree cus i'm not fully understanding the docs

rapid kiln
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yeah the one on there is more complex than you need (yours would be the simplest one, a 1d blend)

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@charred sierra if you want to instead keep doing things how you are, you could do that, but like i said you'd need to make sure you have an animation for each possible state transition. So a custom animation from each state to each other state, and then instead of using 'any state' you'd need to actually make each of those links in your state graph and associate the correct animation with them.

charred sierra
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I think I actually got it working, it seems to be doing what it needs to pretty good

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I just need to change my code to trigger the blend tree now rather than the animations

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The video didn't explain how to trigger the animations via code 🙃

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Ohhhh never mind

hybrid tinsel
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Blends usually aren't 'triggered' as such; they just take in a continuous float.

small oxide
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I'm trying to import a posed, rigged model from blender 2.91 to Unity 2020.1.12f1. When imported, my model just becomes a distorted mess. Crevasses and rotations become exaggerated and the mesh generally fills with artifacts. Does anyone have any idea at all what could cause these discrepancies?

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Trying to upload examples but upload just fails

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export from blender

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imported in unity, absolute mess

pearl bay
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How do I turn 3D models of wearable equipment into skinned meshes? Is this done in Unity or in some external 3D software? I made a rigged character using Character Creator 3 and now I want to make a piece of equipment that I did not make myself deform as the character moves around. How can I do this? I couldn't find anything on Google

languid karma
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Hey I have multiple animations that are in blender BUT once exported to unity there is only one animation. Anyone know why this might be?

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twin musk
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any way

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to stop animator from shaking?

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is it just bad animations or the animation component itself

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is there any unity setting to fix that

twin musk
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ok so, character cna be 0.01 scale and animator wont shake near the world centre

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at about 40000 units/meters from world centre he should be 6x scale

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to not shake

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i wonder if procedural animation does better in this case, seems theres no way to fix it other than scale the animator as player travels further from world centre

prime violet
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Hi, I downloaded two character assets and applied an animation to both, one works perfectly and other just t poses, why does that occur?

twin musk
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0.001 : 0 to 15 - 20000
0.01: 15 to 200 - 18500
0.05: 200 to 500 - 6000
0.1: 500 to 1500 - 10000
0.5: 1500 to 7500 - 12000
1: 7500 to 15000 - 7500
2: 15000 to 30000 - 7500
4: 30000 to 40000 - 2500
          = 81000 (vs 62500 without 0.001)
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if we scale character (and world) like that then animator will not shake for about 81000 meters. thats cause goig from unity unit (meter) 0 to 15, on character scale 0.001, considering we also decrease his speed, would otherwise result in moving 20000 meters on scale 1

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81000 meters is huge improvement cause if we normally used character with scale 1,1,1 then the animator would start shaking at 15000,
so your would could be max 15k only

river sentinel
errant shard
stuck trout
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i made an animation that calls another animation, but the animator only plays the second animation.

scarlet bridge
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what conditions do you have in the connection arrows?

stuck trout
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@scarlet bridge here is my code:
class one:

public class levelLoader : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator transition;
    public float transitionTime = 1f;

    
    
    public void SceneChanger(string SceneName)
    {
        StartCoroutine(LoadLevel(SceneName));
    }
    IEnumerator LoadLevel(string SceneName)
    {
        transition.SetTrigger("Start");
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(transitionTime);
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneName);
    }
}

calling it from class two:

anima.GetComponent<levelLoader>().SceneChanger("UnderWater");
limpid vigil
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hey i just wanted to create a rotate animation for my 2d sprite, so the key at 0 second is 0 and key at 1 second is 360 and thats its, i want its to loop forever this Game objects active....but when i tested play its play the animation and have few miliseconds delay to start over....its anything i can do for that delay miliseconds dont exist???

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balmy scarab
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So I can't seem to drag and drop animation files into the Anim field in the Inpsector, and this is the code: cs public Animation anim; private void Start() { anim = GetComponent<Animation>(); }

📎 issuecaptureUnity.JPG
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I'm trying to get this if statement working : if (!anim.IsPlaying("Attack_1"))
My intentions are to have a piece of code only run when a specific animation isn't playing

twin musk
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anyone know how to hide the cursor when you click on linux? it's driving me crazy having the mouse just jitter in the middle of the screen

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I am using ummorpg and they use Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked; it works fine in the editor but not on a standalone build

hybrid tinsel
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@limpid vigil set the start and last frames' interpolation to linear and make sure that loop pose and loop time are checked in the inspector. Alternatively, just rotate it with a script.

twin musk
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cool thanks for the heads up

wraith sierra
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Hi, I'm trying to freeze a specific animation in a specific layer at a specific point, through code, at runtime

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Does anyone happen to know the way to do this?

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(edit: doesn't work)

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I can go to the animator and set the speed to zero, however it should also freeze the other layer

hybrid tinsel
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You can set the speed to zero via code as well fir the entire animator, or you can set the speed of a particular state to a float.

wraith sierra
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I'm assuming you can't set the speed for a single layer to zero, and I can't freeze the whole animator, so how do I set the speed of a state to a float?

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I do see the speed parameter for the state in the inspector, is there a way to access it during runtime?

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But it just resets the animation...

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If anyone is interested, what I'm going to do to solve this is to split the animation into 3 parts, from start until the frame I want, the frame I want, from there to the end

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Unity's animation system is a nightmare tbh

languid karma
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Hey I have a model and animation that I exported from blender into unity. The problem is that the model (when exported to fbx with animation) comes out very distorted and it appears as if the rig it VERY broken. I would blame this on the rig HOWEVER the animation imports just fine if I place the blender file directly into the assets folder (no exporting needed). But I still require it to be FBX because the model only comes with one animation if it was placed into the assets folder rather then being exported (if it is exported it comes with ALL the animations)

wraith sierra
wraith sierra
thin magnet
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hey guys im using the directional lights to day and night cycle with the animator, is it ok?

hybrid tinsel
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In the state's inspector, where you set the speed, you can set it to a float instead of a hardcoded value. Then you just setfloat to change the speed.
@wraith sierra

hybrid tinsel
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@thin magnet no reason why not, though you could probably also use a timeline for that if you don't need the whole state machine

pale kayak
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anyone knows how can i get animation rigging in my project? (Unity 2019.3)

hybrid tinsel
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@pale kayak install it from the package manager

pale kayak
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@hybrid tinsel i cant see it in package manager...

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nvm thx

limpid vigil
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i tried right click on the animation property(no really know whats its called) and i see interpolation...inside there only has euler angles, eulerangles(quaternion), and quaternion

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oo i see on first frame in curves right tangent to linear, last frame left tangent to linear

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@hybrid tinsel anyway i only able to rotate its z axis to left and cannot to right...event i set on last frame to -360 what cause of that?

unreal nova
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anyone have a good template for walking animation

chilly rivet
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Hi all, I`m working on a project and really struggling to animate, is there any experts who could pm me please, im new to unity and trying my best to learn as i go - thanks for everyones time

wraith sierra
honest oasis
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Hey guys, is there a way to mask Image elements in Unity? All tutorials seem to point to sprite renderer and spritemask, but sprites are horribly inconvenient to animate, so wondering if i can achieve the same with normal image component

chilly rivet
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Hi all, ive added in some prefabs that come with the animation built in, I have an elephant which when I play the scene, it walks on the spot, id love to be able to find out how i couod map out a small or big area that it would walk around, any help is appreciated, thank you all

unreal nova
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My animations work perfectly in the editor

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but when i play it

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it stops before looping

boreal crypt
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Critique/comments on this animation? I tried to make it pretty quickly, perhaps 30 mins, so would like to know if there are any major things you've done differently

worldly sluice
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So I was wondering what is the most effective way to animate a bunch of objects, kinda like a transition in a scene but most of the objects are instantiated into the scene. So let me explain
The scene is setup in such a way that a container has a script to instantiate gameobjects under it and all of them are put into place by a grid layout component on the container gameobject. Now all I need is that as soon as they are instantiated they kinda transition into the scene but not all of them at the same time, kinda one after another
One of the ways that I had in my mind was to use a coroutine to control enabling the animators or their states using a delay so that way, they'd be transitioning in one after another
I've done it previously and it works fine, but I was wondering if there was a better or efficient way of doing this, since this seems like a hacky way
Or if anyone has ANY other way or ideas of doing this

worldly sluice
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Please ping me if anyone has any suggestions, thanks

calm cargo
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anyone have any idea why Generic (Left) works fine but Humanoid (right) rolls all the joints crazy?

📎 rotation_issue.mp4
gritty forum
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How do companies do animations for fps games? Redo each animation with each character and gun? IK? just wondering

ionic ingot
fading kite
balmy scarab
fading kite
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a ok

fading kite
fading kite
fading kite
calm cargo
fading kite
calm cargo
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I don't understand why Humanoid is handling transforms significantly different than Generic is.

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How do I get Mecanim to stop breaking the animations? This is just one case, others are so completely broken it's hilarious. Feet are like 2 meters away from their keyed position.

fading kite
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my camera is locked because of an animation. when i activate root motion it works fine, but it doesnt play other animations.

hybrid tinsel
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@boreal crypt I like it. Maybe a bit of motion to the hands/toes? Also at the end maybe a bit more wobbly as it settles. Depending on how cartoony you wanna go, a bit of squash at the very start might be nice.

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@calm cargo because humanoid animations actually are converted into virtual muscles rather than explicit transforms. You have to make sure the bones are properly assigned (and the skeletal structure matches what unity expects) and make sure your avatar definition is correctly set up.

steep kelp
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Anyone knows if Unity can return the time where an event is in an animation clip?

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Some of my animations have events at 1 sec, others at 5 secs, etc...

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I want to get the current clip and look for an event in there and return the time where it is

severe marsh
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Someone knows why is this happening?, If i animated on timeline an object with a child, if this object has on the animator an Avatar, the model goes far away

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But if i i take off the avatar, then it works properly

severe marsh
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its posible to animate in Timeline a humanoid with the its Avatar in the exact place he is when u start the timeline?

calm cargo
calm cargo
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I submitted a Bug Report on it with repro. The rotations are just nonsense and it happens on quite a few bones in various animations.

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I tried many different avatar configurations, imported poses, hierarchy adjustments, etc. Nothing seemed to help in any way, the errors are basically identical through every change.

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I would like to use Humanoid but given that it's so uncontrollable and unreliable I may have to adjust the project requirements to Generic - and that's non-trivial.

woven gyro
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Yeah any time I try convert from generic to humanoid and stuff like that it's so painful

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definitely not worth it

calm cargo
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Yeah I don't understand and everyone else with similar issues ended up just moving the project spec to Generic.

severe marsh
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its posible to use humanoid?

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or its absolutly bugged?

wraith sierra
calm cargo
severe marsh
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i've been for 7 hours searching for a solution, and i cant

calm cargo
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Looks like a terrible Hierarchy setup.

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Unparent all of that mess and decouple things.

severe marsh
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yeah i know all this disabled stuff inside is a big mess, but i've tried in many others scenes, with many other models and animations, with the same result

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the only conclusion i get is that the animator with a humanoid avatar its the problem, cause using animator without avatar works well...

calm cargo
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It does not look like Humanoid is the problem in your case.

severe marsh
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cause its happening all the time, but just with animator with avatars

twin musk
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how do i assign my model

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to some animation pack

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eg mecanim animation pack

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from asset store

wraith sierra
# severe marsh and how can i fix this?

Sorry I can't help more, but what I usually do with Unity's animation is a make a fresh new controller, with really simple blend trees in 2 different layers, each with an avatar, and a really simple multi aim constraint (takes about 5 minutes)

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Then I hit play, and go through every single import setting until I find the one that works

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Hasn't let me down

subtle bear
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Anyone know why some animations just make the model moved down 1 unit and lift their arms, instead of playing the animation. They are humanoid animations and other humanoid animations work just fine. For example if I download an animation from Mixamo, it doesn't work with my existing rig.

subtle bear
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Figured it out, have to click on the Model example it comes with an under rigging change it to humanoid

solemn kernel
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using mixamo, the animations clip my avatar through the floor

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I am actually trying to use an uma avatar

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ill check

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oh wait, was that anything to do with me?

last mural
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Hey, I want to export this FBX file from blender into Unity3D, but there are a couple of issues. Does anyone know the best/most optimal/least buggy way of importing a Fbx file from blender into Unity?

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The model that im working with is also rigged and animated as well

last mural
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Yo I'll literally pay someone to help me troubleshoot lmao

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just hmu

bleak lagoon
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hey people, is anyone available to help with a question? Ive imported an asset from the unity store for an enemy in my game but the prefab was huge in ratio. I've reduced the scale to 0.1,0.1,0.1 but as soon as I start the scene the transform is moved above the ground level. It seems this is being done only when animator is enabled, which puts it to being the mecanim controller causing it - I'm thinking possibly something to do with the origional rig size?
Unfortunately Im only taking a guess here as I dont have a clue when it comes to animators yet.
Things I've tried, making the enemy a child of an empty gameobject, adjusting the transform at runtime (mecanim continuously resetting it to being too high as the animations play), freezing/unfreezing y position constraints, adjusting scale in the fbx which just goes weird lol.
Im not sure what else to try

solid cave
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as soon as I start the scene the transform is moved above the ground level

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i had an issue once

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with my own model, my own rig, my own animation, my own everything

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for some reason, a specific animation moved my character to the fucking sky

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if that's your issue, i'd imagine root motion might be the issue?

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although i got fucking annoyed with trying to fix it i just gave up, so..

bleak lagoon
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I did find that with this too if root motion is enabled. he'll just float up

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but in this case, he starts at the level in the pic and stays there, no matter how its set in editor mode

solid cave
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OH WAIT FUCK

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HOLY FUCK I'M BLIND

bleak lagoon
solid cave
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I DIDN'T SEE THE FUCKING SHADOW

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I LEGIT THOUGHT THE IMAGE YOU SENT WAS NORMAL

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I'M SORRY I'M SO STUPID LKJFHDG

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but yea, again, i've had that issue with animations

bleak lagoon
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lol all good. the second pic is editor mode, not runtime. first pic was runtime where it seems to start

solid cave
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i think it might be a rigging issue? or maybe some random checkbox in the middle of nowhere

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yep, that's the issue i've always had

bleak lagoon
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hence asking in here - Im a coder, clueless on animation or where to look

solid cave
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my 2 cents are that i'd recommend you to find an artist for your projects

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as someone who tried for a while to get by with only premade assets and my own code... yea not a good idea

bleak lagoon
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lol if I had 2 cents to give them I'd try 😛

solid cave
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it's quite fun to try learning 3D art

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and blender is free, just downloading it on steam takes barely any time

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so no harm in trying, right?

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at least you could fix the broken assets people make :p

bleak lagoon
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problem is designing without liquid capital to spare. Im attempting to learn with blender, but even importing this fbx to blender its file type not recognised so can't even adjust the model in there

solid cave
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i'm fucking confused now

bleak lagoon
solid cave
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cuz i'm very sure blender supports FBX, so i wanna take a look for myself

bleak lagoon
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its the goblin from that pack

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goblin_01_Mecanim

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at import to the scene it starts huge enough that to put it into aspect i had to scale to 0.1

solid cave
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just gonna ask whether u read this?

bleak lagoon
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lol. well I managed to get it into blender - it seems it did import but was so tiny I hadnt seen it. complete opposite to in game

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yea it mentions youtube videos for the setup

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and is all about the demo scene not actual use

solid cave
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aw, blimey

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i've never seen this filetype before

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i refuse to believe this was animated in unity

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NotLikeThis

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this has got to break some law

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aw fuck, the blender cultist inside me has broken out again

bleak lagoon
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lol I wouldnt have a clue unfortunately, Im just playing with import/export on the thing in blender now to see if I can get some balance. the origional was huge, the blender import, immediate export is tiny.

solid cave
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can you see how this appears in Unity?

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wait no fuck me

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i am stupid and fucked up the export

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could you see how this looks in unity?

bleak lagoon
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lol yeah thats why it was tiny when I tried 🙂 I have height working right now, just testing to see if i can relink anim

solid cave
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ohh, so it looks okay now?

bleak lagoon
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it warped to that as soon as I readded the animator controller and rig

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although i did use the old rig

solid cave
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i'd imagine you're now realising why i've not done a single playermodel/animated asset and am trying to complete map artwork for now :P

bleak lagoon
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lol I dont blame you. and why I stick to coding, at least I know how to fix those screwups

solid cave
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also, i'm pretty sure the model had a fucked up origin (center point)

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in my sizefix.fbx i moved it to the goblin's feet, maybe that could fix something, although the animations might be incompatible

bleak lagoon
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hmmm ok so making a new avatar from the modified import still goes like that pic

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importing yours now to try

solid cave
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i actually have no clue what will happen, so i'm interested.

bleak lagoon
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well that worked even less lol

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importing yours compared to importing mine. using yours in the scene is just... empty

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is this just getting the bones only?
This is the giant thing that the animator warps it to - after shrinking it to the size of the origional one

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tulip peak
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Greetings, have a small question regarding using animation from Mixamo.
Sometimes the animation from Mixamo don't have the option for "stay in place"(jump,etc); when you port them to Unity and you hit play, the animation will run but the character will move and not the GameObject itself, is there a way to make the animation stay in place in Unity?

Thanks in advance☺

gritty forum
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All im doing when i hit record is rotating the gun backwards, so why is it going to the side?

proud stream
raven niche
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I am having a problem with animations when i run the game

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When I press play this will happen

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But it is fine in the preview

proud stream
raven niche
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It is lol

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I found out the issue

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I had forgot to apply transforms when exporting from blender

hybrid tinsel
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@solid cave What's wrong with doing animation inside unity?

solid cave
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@hybrid tinsel i just like blender more, i assume it's fine

calm veldt
raw thicket
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Oh guess this is the channel to be in

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Anyone know of a good YouTube with in depth character design and animations tutorial videos

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I've done poorly thus far lol

hybrid tinsel
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@raw thicket that's a gigantic subject

raw thicket
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Yeah I'm slowly learning this I have a bad habit of taking on too much.

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I've now took it down a notch. Will start with using prefabs and assets. Get a well functioning game then one by one make each aspect myself. Figure over 6-8 months should get a decent basic understanding

spring rover
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how would i do this ? Interpolation setting of AnimationClip should be Quaternion

stray sentinel
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can someone help me i can't find the alpha for my text i want to create a smooth flashing animation

tender coral
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it's gonna be in the color parameter of the text object

fading kite
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how do i make a ui animation, like when i click on a button, a text comes sliding into my screen?

fickle swift
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I messed up my unity animation because I modified the sprite sheet (by re-automating the slicing). WIthout reverting back to my old git commit, how do I restore the animations? I opened the animation, but I don't know how to change the value of the sprites

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How do I change the value of a key?

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it's pretty glitchy, I can't rename my sprite to the old names

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ok so it seems I have to delete and re-add the key

solemn summit
#

figured this would be the best channel to ask, how are third person reload animations done, i figured it was you have multiple magazines, one that stays in the gun and when the hand grasps the mag then that mag un renders and a new seperate one appears in the hand ready to be dropped then the hand goes for another mag to insert then that mag un renders and the original one appears but i cant seem to find any videos on how to third person reload. is my guess correct or do you do it a different way

stray sentinel
hybrid tinsel
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@solemn summit That seems like a reasonable way to do it.

solemn summit
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yea problem is i cant seem to find anything telling me how to do it

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when i try to export it from blender all the magazines are visible

hybrid tinsel
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Well, instead of hiding you can set the scale of the clip to zero.

solemn summit
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huh

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interesting idea

bleak lagoon
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any blender gurus here? I have a very confusing problem of a texture being weighted to an unknown point and I have no idea how to find the cause or correct it

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in the rest pose its not noticable sinces the point staying in place is just inside the chest area, but as soon as you move the transform back from 0 that one piece stays locked there

random swift
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All good @signal comet just conitnue here. So maybe you can show your graph or the animation itself, little clip?

signal comet
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So I'm not quite sure why it pauses for that brief amount of time before looping again...

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Loop Pose was also ticked for a little while, but that didn't seem to change anything

queen cypress
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hey! I´m trying to do gun animations right now. But if I do Animation.Play(), it just gives me the "Default clip could not be found in attached animations list." Did I miss anything?

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honest oasis
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Hi got two UI objects moved in a clip from point A to point B, both have same locations at the same points in time, yet they don't move in sync. Any ideas what could be the issue? one object is being moved, the other resized

queen cypress
proud stream
subtle bear
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There is a weapon pack on the asset store that says the weapons include rigging and bones for animations (IE: Miniguns etc), but it does not include the animations. How would you find animations for something so unusual as a weapon bone structure?

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@proud stream In your transition, un-check has exit time, it will exit the previous animation immediatly

proud stream
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thanks. the animation is much better now

subtle bear
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Where do you specify the root transform of the bone sturcture in the Animator Component?

hybrid tinsel
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@subtle bear you'd animate them yourself, eithervwith an animator or procedurally.

edgy patio
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I need some help with how I should approach turning animation in first person,
I have a parameter in my animator which controls my turning blend tree (going from -1 for turning left and 1 to turn right). But now how do is this value based on the rotation of my character?

subtle bear
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@hybrid tinsel Oh, I think I will just stick to basic non-rigged motion then

hybrid tinsel
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@edgy patio easiest way is to base it on the player input.

small imp
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shrewd lantern
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hello all, so im using rigify and when I generate the rig, it always generates the controls way bigger than the mesh

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my char is like 30% of that , its always so much bigger. I've checked the scaling of the mesh and ran 'All Transform' to reset the scaling to '1' but no effect

raw thicket
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I'm slowly starting to enjoy animation and seeing alot more then coding lmao.

bleak lagoon
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anyone here to help with an issue on animation importing from blender to unity? I have a model in blender with a basic animation to go from the starting pose into a combat stance. it works perfectly in blender but when I export the animation to use on the same model in unity the character transform suddenly scales up, shifts on the Z axis, then shrinks back and tries to run to the destination again :/

bleak lagoon
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the scaling is happening on all 3 axis, XY&Z

bleak lagoon
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still looking for help if anyone is able 😦

deep hazel
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I have two different animation sets, when i go from one to the other, there is a disparity between joint positions, eg the head will dip/rise and the shoulders will lower/raise. When I make an animation transition, this is particularly noticeable. I'm trying to adjust the rig pose configuration to adjust the bone positions. Has anyone got any tips on how to do this more effectively please?

subtle bear
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@bleak lagoon Not sure about Blender, but I have the same problems with any animations I import. They just cause the model to shift and do strange things until I go to the PFX file, select Rig, change it to Humanoid, re-set the model (since it gets cleared if not part of the FBX package) and then click apply

deep hazel
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I'm mixing some kubold animations with mixamo animations. I've already set them to humanoid

azure dune
#

Gaaaah! This happens to me all the time and I desperately need someone to explain what's going on.

I record an animation, two key frames, very simple, object moves along the X axis over 10 seconds.

When I press the button to play the animation at run time - the object animates along the Z axis. Please, someone give me some insight into what's going on. I animate by literally dragging the gizmo. How the hell is it just shooting off in another direction?

valid iris
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so i got a jumping animation, but how do i disable it, that it goes to that same rotation allways

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lets say im walking right, im playing the jump animation and it goes into 0° rotation again, or do i need a blendtree for that aswell?

warped kraken
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hi

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who helps me create animations?

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:'c

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plsss

gritty frost
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We don't do collab posting here. If you need help with some specific part of the animation creation process, then you can ask here.

subtle bear
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@valid iris Uncheck Apply Root Motion, this tells the animation not to mess with your transform, only work the bones

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Sorry that is in the Animator State within the Animator, not the animation object itself

dull flower
#

Has anyone else experienced an issue like this?
Randomly, my layers I've created will disappear and I'll have to recreate the animation controller.

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proud merlin
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it might be a bug but im not sure

waxen prairie
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Trying to animate a 2d character with bones, i tried the automatic weights thing but its not working

honest oasis
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Could someone advise if its possible to use relative position in % for animations? I got multiple collapsible menus, the general logic of the animation, same object with same names, the only difference is each menu is of different size(different content). Would there be a way to use a single animation for all menus instead of making individual clips for each menu?

restive apex
hybrid tinsel
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@waxen prairie auto weights kinda suck; I mostly avoid them. If you do use them, make sure you have your bones and the right layer of your mesh selected. I've found that having a vertice close to the root of the bone seems to help the auto weight algorithm for unknown reasons.

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@honest oasis write a script that places the objects using relative percentages and then keyframe the script in your animation. You can keyframe any serialized parameter in a script.

honest oasis
dull flower
# proud merlin yes i get the same thing once in a while

Is there any way around it that you know of? It's unfortunately halting my progress. 😦
I tried updating Unity to the latest version but the issue seems to still persist. I'm creating the animations through code if that helps at all.
Edit: Found the issue. I wasn't using AssetDatabase.AddObjectToAsset correctly! Needed to add my transitions as well as root state machine, and motions.

brave sparrow
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I'm trying to set up a animation rigging in a prefab. This prefab has many objects inside it and one character. When I activate a Multi-Aim Constraint object to the head for example, it moves my character far away from its original position, even with the weight = zero. Any clues?

foggy wigeon
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There's no channel for modelling?

celest crag
foggy wigeon
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ooh

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thanks:]

raw thicket
#

Hey having trouble with the jump animation staying engaged untill the movement buttons (w / a ) are released or the charecter goes opposite direction

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Nvm i figured it out was an issue with coniditons

twin musk
#

I pressed "Auto generate animation" for button, and controller now contains animations. But how it's possible?

rose spire
#

any idea why my door looks like this

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when i open it, i didnt transform it, it just gets super wide

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all i did was rotate it.

twin musk
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Maybe it already scaled?

hybrid tinsel
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Yeah, most likely.

twin musk
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Write defaults option: does it writes values from "object in editor state" before playing animation?

bleak lagoon
#

Hi guys, anyone online that can help with a question? I have an enemy character with a capsule collider attached and animations for death. Im finding that after the animation has played and the rig is prone on the ground that the capsule collider is no longer recognising being clicked on to bring up the loot. This does not happen every time, but intermittent making it hard to work out the cause.
Im not sure if its the death animation not returning logic to the code, or if I need to somehow modify the collider to being an X axis rather than Y with the correct rotation to match the way the body is laying.
Can anyone please advise on how to work out which is at fault or what I need to change?

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I dont think its the animation personally, as disabling the animator does not resume the mousedown being recognised - so Im suspecting more a collider issue.

maiden trellis
#

alright king simp talk here

twin musk
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i need help. my falling animation wont go back to the idle animation

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i can send more screenshots if necessary

maiden trellis
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^^^

twin musk
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but yeah i need help as soon as possible

maiden trellis
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@here

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oh wait

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i frogot

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oops

twin musk
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oops XD thats a lot of pings XD

twin musk
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Well I needed it last night technocally

brave sparrow
opaque skiff
#

so iv got this pushing animation, but it seems not to work whenever my player is moving, only showing the first frame. anyone know why?

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a similar thing seems to work with the run animation, but iv no idea why that works and the other does not?

vivid nexus
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how could I use a script to influence the duration of the animation (but so that the animation is extended evenly)

opaque skiff
valid iris
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Im trying to play an animation with play("string"), but it gives me Invalid layer index '-1' and animator gotostate could not be found, but im 100% sure that the state has the exact same name as i wrote it in my script ._. edit: my unity has been bugging out i guess, i restarted it a few times and it was all fine!

hybrid tinsel
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@opaque skiff are you using a transition tgat yiu keep triggering every frame?

opaque skiff
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Iv got a trigger stay yeah

hybrid tinsel
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@opaque skiff then it will restart every frame, because each frame it thinks you want it to go to that transition again.

opaque skiff
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Makes sence

uneven lark
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I dont suppose there is a easy/straight forward way to handle animation vectors so that they use HDRPs Camera Relative rendering space, to avoid floating point precision issues?

pure crater
#

is anybody here free to help me rig my character, i've spent hours and my character's arms still move like shit

hybrid tinsel
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@uneven lark not YET, I don't think. If you find a way, pretty please let me know!

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@pure crater 2d or 3d rigging?

bleak lagoon
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hey sorry for this people, but im just starting to learn with IK and animation rigging. Im trying to work with a two-handed object but getting something really confusing happening. one hand is holding the item with no problem, and shifting as I move the effector. The other hand though, rather than moving towards the item (which is in front of the avatar, with the associated effector in front) is twisting around BEHIND the character. I can't work out what is causing it though

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top one shows the effector (rig at weight 0), bottom one is showing the rig (at weight 1)

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does anyone know where Ive gone wrong? unsure what info to provide, so just let me know if you need to see inspector settings for more detail

bleak lagoon
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I think I figured out why its happening - just not sure how to adjust it to correct. if the effector is a child of the hand, its not causing a problem, but it also won't move with the tool being held. if the effector is set as a child of the other hand it does the problem shown above. what way is there around this?

uneven lark
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@hybrid tinsel bummer, I am seeing some animation funkiness at any distance greater than 4500m from origin 😐

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I was hoping to get at least 7-8k from origin, I am pondering just living with a bit of funkiness and keeping max distance at 5000

hybrid tinsel
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@uneven lark can you not just recenter things?

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That's the usual solution

uneven lark
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I am working on an open world multiplayer game, so origin shifting isnt really an option.

burnt pulsar
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all I want for christmas is answers to my unity questions. How do I do IK with kinematica? I just need some small direction. a function name to look up or a sample or something. I'm having trouble finding this on google. Do I just use OnAnimateIK()? does kinematica use the IK weights and stuff on the animator if I do this?

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I see HumanoidAnimationRetargeter in the package source which appears to do IK but I"m not sure how to use it...

wary remnant
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quick question, is there a way to quickly put down the rotation and position tabs in the animation timeline?
Its really annoying to move or add them one by one

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nvm i figured out a way

burnt pulsar
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still looking for help with IK in kinematica if anyone knows :S

hybrid tinsel
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@wary remnant I usually right click on those in the inspector and add starter keyframes that way. Very fast.

twin musk
calm basin
#

Guys, how do i animate spriteshape spline point ?

bleak lagoon
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still struggling with IK in regards to my earlier post. is there anyone here who can lend some advice as to where Im going wrong?

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Im trying to position the hands on a two handed item by setting the IK effector to the handpos target position on the object, but for some reason rather than reaching forward to where the effector is, the arm is twisting behind the back instead, when the effector is in front. Im really confused as to why 😦

magic trail
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Hey guys, I'm working on an FPS game with Unity and I was wondering how I would go about animating a first person arms model if my game has multiple weapons

hybrid tinsel
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@Syn7ax#453 you can use animation overrides to create variants of any given state with the suitable animation for that weapon.

tame valve
magic trail
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I'm not animating it directly in Unity, I'm using Blender for the animation if this has anything to do with my situation

hybrid tinsel
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@magic trail I'm not sure, using blender animations, but unity generally is fine with animations including anything lower in the hierarchy than the object with the animator.

If that doesn't work, you could indeed just animate rhe weapons independently and sync them.

magic trail
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If I were to use multiple animators that I switch in and out for the first person arms, instead of overrides, would that be viable?

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Because I think if my game grew to have lots of weapons, it would be difficult to navigate the animator panel or is it an invalid concern?

clear spire
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i'm using mixamo to prototype some gameplay and i have a question about when i import an animation (eg Idle) it contains avatar, mesh, texture etc... then if i want a run animation i have to reimport everything again, isn't there a way to detach the animation from the model so to reuse the same model with multiple animations? eg: https://ibb.co/SR0Gsgn

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limber dagger
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Hi looking for a tutorials/series where I could learn in depth how to create proper Animations. I am creating MMORPG/MOBA (sort of) style game I know basics of animations. But down the road of game creation I have faced various issues.

  • One of the issues is with Humanoid style animations. Sometimes after changin animation type from generic to humanoid (in example Mixamo) animations looks weird.
  • Another issue is while animating avatars who have weapons. Seems like Unity has laking number of bones for weapons. How to animate humanoid type of objects?
  • Smooth animations. I want to see right set of animations combo set up, where there are multiple blend trees and layers included. It would contain walking, casting or attacking, casting/attacking while walking, jumping, falling...

All the tutorials I am finding on internet is just a pieces of what I am looking for. I want a full indepth with examples or assets tutorials...

hybrid tinsel
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@magic trail if all the weapons had the same animation logic but different animations(for instance, each has a sheathe/unsheathe/fire/idle/special/reload) then I'd use overrides because then you only need to design the animator flowchart once. If weapons actually use different logic, then I'd just separate them.

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@clear spire yes. Check the unity manual undel fbx import, there is a maming convention that will tell unity to load a fbx file as animation clips for an existing model only.

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@limber dagger weapons generally aren't humanoid in structure, so they should usually use generic rigs. Really, even for characters you only need humanoid rigs if you need humanoid ik or animation retargeting.

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And I doubt any single tutorial will match your needs exactly but if you need something incredibly comprehensive then sharpaccent has a few series that go very in depth on animation controllers.

limber dagger
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@hybrid tinsel but does that mean, let's say if I want to have archer in my game all animations should be generic? Generic doesnt work with blend trees, nor animation layers...

hybrid tinsel
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First of all, generic works with both blend trees and layers. My game has no humanoids at all, being rigged sprites.

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You can even use ik on generics with the new animation package. Which is separate from the mecanim humanoid ik.

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Humanoids still are super useful and you can certainly do an archer with it.

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Though depending on how fancy you wanted the bow to animate it might need its own animation(though I'd tend to use procedural animation for that, letting the arms do most of that)

limber dagger
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Whats the procedural animation?

hybrid tinsel
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There is no single type of procedural animation, it just refers to any animation done through code rather than keyframes.

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For instance, for a bow you could just attach the object to the hand bone of the archer. Then use a animation event to trigger attaching and detaching the bow string to the character's other hand.

wary remnant
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hey quick question, can you save clip animations that are made in timeline?

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like is possible to save that clip in the track as an .anim file?

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nvm

opaque skiff
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can anyone help

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

public class MinecaftPressurePlate : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator Player_animator;
    public CapsuleCollider2D Player;
    public float Move;
    void Start()
    {
        GetComponent<MoveDamPlayer>().horizontalMove = Move;
    }
    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            Player.enabled = false;
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            Player.enabled = false;
            Player_animator.SetBool("Pushing", true);
            Debug.Log("ENTER");
        }
    }
    void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            Player.enabled = true;
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            Player.enabled = true;
            Player_animator.SetBool("Pushing", false);
            Debug.Log("EXIT");
        }
    }
    void OnTriggerStay2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Player")
        {
            if (Move > .5f)
            {
                Player_animator.SetBool("Pushing", true);
                Debug.Log("STAYING");
            }
        }
    }
}```
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code to

bleak lagoon
#

I have a question regarding IK here. Is it possible to shift the weight between two IK positions? For example, if I have a target_IK to position the arm from rest position to above the head first, is it possible to shift the weight to a second IK target at a point to strike using delta.time to set the shift speed?

bleak lagoon
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I was thinking something along these lines, but it froze unity in what I assume to be an endless loop. (sorry got blocked even trying to post a single line of code)
https://hatebin.com/atumkhcsji

hybrid tinsel
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@opaque skiff are the trigger and the regular colliders on the same object?

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I usually separate them onto separate child objects

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To avoid that sorta problem

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@bleak lagoon you could just lerp between the position?

bleak lagoon
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possibly.... hadn't thought of that. will give it a go now

hybrid tinsel
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When in doubt, lerp!

bleak lagoon
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lol never really used lerp yet, so just trying to work it out 😛

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@hybrid tinsel doesn't appear to be working - its not crashing but its also getting no movement
Lerp time. Starting pos: (-19.8, 1.4, -2.4) Ending Pos: (-19.8, 0.6, -2.9)
Thats the debug after 999+ messages.
Should be lowering the IK shown here at the hammer to the ingot on the anvil

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Target_IK.transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(Target_IK.transform.position, Ingot.transform.position, .1f);

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thats the code line I've tried, not sure if its the right way though?

hybrid tinsel
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It will stay at .1f forever with that. The third parameter of lerp is a 0-1 value of how much to blend the first two values.

bleak lagoon
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hmm so the .1f should be 1f? or should it be a 1f*time.deltatime?

hybrid tinsel
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With your code I believe you'd use vector3.MoveTowards

bleak lagoon
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instead of lerp?

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Target_IK.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Target_IK.transform.position, Ingot.transform.position, .1f);

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like that?

hybrid tinsel
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Yeah

bleak lagoon
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hmm still not moving

hybrid tinsel
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I'm totally going off memory here mind you

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On mobile

bleak lagoon
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no worries, I admit Im a newbie when it comes to anything with animation, so I'm still a bit lost on what does what lol

hybrid tinsel
bleak lagoon
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cool, thanks will take a look at that

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right, kind of working. now I just need to get the character at the right distance to reach him. havent worked out the rigging to lean in yet lol

magic trail
hybrid tinsel
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No prob!

tardy idol
#

Hey everyone 🙂 I had a quick question. I'm trying to record the movement of my RigidBodies over time in LateUpdate. Then, I want to be able to play these recordings back. I know that LateUpdate doesn't fire every frame so I guess I want to interpolate the movement and rotation between when the frames are recorded. Is there a straightforward way to do that? I've been playing around with it for most of the day but can't get it to where I want it

hybrid tinsel
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@tardy idol in editor or in game?

tardy idol
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in game @hybrid tinsel

tardy idol
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is this the right channel for that? or should i be somewhere else

hybrid tinsel
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Depending on just what your needs are, and just how much detail you need.

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If you need to interpolate between frames I'm guessing you plan to play back at a different speed?

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You could record on fixedupdate, but that could get expensive

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You could also record velocity when you record position and use that instead of just lerping between frames I guess?

grave badger
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Any way to link triggers across multiple controllers without scripts? So if one gets triggered, the other one gets also triggered?

hybrid tinsel
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@grave badger How are you triggering initially if not with a script?

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And why don't you want to use a script? What is your actual goal?

opaque skiff
hybrid tinsel
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@opaque skiff unity combines colliders on the same object in several situations for optimization, and that can get a bit wacky sometimes.

opaque skiff
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ooofff right yeah that makes sense

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yeah im woken on the separate gameobject now

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@hybrid tinsel works perfect, thank you my guy wouldn't of known that without you👍

bleak lagoon
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@hybrid tinsel thanks for your help earlier, managed to get the movements working with the tutorial you mentioned.
I have encountered another issue now, not sure if maybe you can assist still?

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I'm needing to assign the bones in the twoboneikconstraint in code at runtime due to race changes ingame. I have encountered a problem though that after assigning the bones in code, and alinging the transforms with the appropiate bones that the weights are not having any effect at all?

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The IK's are positioning correctly, so the code is working fine there, but even using the sliders from 0-1 have absolutely no effect.
as you can see, its all set here though

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the block cube is the IK_Target. but nothing happening with weight of 1 at all, or shifting the target around

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hybrid tinsel
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I've done relatively little with that system, and am not at a computer to test, sorry!

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I've found the rigging system to be all kinds of inconsistent so I hesitate to guess =p

void silo
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I have a laser beam that I would like to animate. I want it to start at full length, but with 0 set as the x axis scale so that it is infinitely thin. Then I widen and shrink the width over time to grow it and then fade it away. I have created this animation and it works well. However, this animation controls the scale on all axes. So I can not lengthen the beam using scale. I have deleted the keyframes for all axes except the x axis. I still can not set the Y axis scale independently. Any ideas?

hybrid tinsel
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@void silo use lateupdate for any transforms that need to happen after the animator, see if that helps?

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Alternatively, parent the beam to a null and use the null to animate the width

void silo
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@hybrid tinsel Thanks for the information! I think I'm going to abandon the animator for this use case and do it programatically. I will keep this in mind for future uses.

twin musk
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Hello, any cinemachine experts? My cinemachine path does a 360 spin at each connection and I cant figure out why.

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twin musk
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Found the issue, gotta add random -1's to make stuff work

jolly cargo
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What's the best way to go about creating a couple base animations for humanoid characters that can be applied to all of them instead of individually animating each character mesh? I am trying to do this by creating a base armature in blender, animating, then importing. It seems to work okay... but the animation I see in blender doesn't exactly match the animation I am seeing in Unity when I apply it to my characters. Anyone know why?

jolly cargo
last saddle
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I made a tank..

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And then I animated it's track

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it took me a while to figure out

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But now it has 39 animations to a single object

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after I import it into unity ;-;

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I actually tried to play them...

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but it didn't work

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It ended up playing only one from the top

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but I can't see any movement..

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I can send the blender file..

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anyone?

thorn shale
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@last saddle tank treads are usually bone based animations, so each tread piece is controlled by a bone, and a single object is the whole track with many treads, the animation being the bones looping around the path of the track

last saddle
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I didn't make any animations

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bones*

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;-;

thorn shale
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It would greatly simplify your situation, rather than animating 100 separate objects

last saddle
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I made the animation using an array and a curve

thorn shale
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yep

last saddle
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and there are no bones..

thorn shale
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So it's my suggestion anyway

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Not an easy/beginner project

last saddle
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I just want it done...

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so..

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I should make bones?

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a lot of bones ;-;

thorn shale
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Yeah you need a better workflow but good luck

last saddle
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I have no idea how to even start..

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making this using a curve was much easier to imagine

thorn shale
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Well if you don't know where to start with bones, thats an easy google search (blender?)

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You animated the treads on a path, you can animate the bones instead

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Then when you save, it's just an object with 1 animation

last saddle
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I just found a tutorial on the internet

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Idk why I didn't search for a tutorial instead.

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I wanted to do this myself

thorn shale
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Yeah I bet tank treads is a common topic

last saddle
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I guess

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tank you for the effort 😛

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sans level joke..

hybrid tinsel
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I'd not even use bones. I'd probably use a shader

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Or blendshapes

thorn shale
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repeated blendshape maybe, but then never going to deform for terrain

raw thicket
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Hey can I get some advise on ppu?

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I have my sprites made in 64x64 for tiles and 128x128 for character both set at ppu of 16.

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Thus my stuff is pretty big on screen lol is this the only way to get crisp lines and designs?

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Oh btw I'm trying to design for 1980 x 1020 p

raw thicket
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Anyone lol?

thorn shale
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@raw thicket it just depends on your sprite vs canvas settings, whatever you like

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some people prefer 1, some prefer 100, i personally wouldnt use powers of 2 because its hard to calculate in my head, how big is a 512 sprite, oh my canvas is 64, lets see thats 4 units in unity transforms? no wait its 8

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or if canvas is 512 then 512 sprite is 1 unit

spring iron
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hey having some trouble understanding the animation transition properties

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ive tried read the documentation but it is just confusing

spring iron
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turns out it was the batching static option

last saddle
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Well

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I ended up watching some tutorials

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and none of them used bones

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they used the same method as me

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so I will try to do this myself..

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So you recommend me to add bones to that?

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and then animate the bones along the curve?

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do I have to connect those bones toghether?

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or is it fine as long as every segment has a bone?

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here's a screenshot

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and one more from unity T-T

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is there a way to make an array of bones that will connect to eachother?

last saddle
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well

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f that

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I will make it simulated

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in unity

radiant rune
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hmmm i have a problem with animations instead of the gun going up like its supposed to its going down its the same animation but opposite

hybrid tinsel
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@last saddle if all the tread pieces are identical, just make a blendshape of each piece moved to the position of the next piece on the tread. Then animate that over and over.

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No bones, no simulations, no million animations

prisma sky
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how do i make my "animation " longer? rn for me it .5 seconds and i wnat it longer

hybrid tinsel
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@prisma sky you can make a copy of the clip and edit the keyframes, or in the animatir you can set the speed for that state.

twin musk
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@hybrid tinsel do u know how to animate/script 2d sprites?

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im a beginner :c

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@ me if u reply to me pls

hybrid tinsel
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@twin musk that's a really big topic

twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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Not really. I dislike video tutorials and most of them seem to be hideously out if date.

turbid stratus
twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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@turbid stratus great drawing, lots of character. Sadly the video won't play on my phone =(

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@twin musk are you sure you have the right animator window open? You should be able to drag and drop animations into it from the inspector if needed also.

twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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Try selecting the object with the animator and reopening the animator window?

twin musk
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what does the square and triangle mean?

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on the right there's a square with its insides missing and triangles, what do they mean

hybrid tinsel
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Animator and animation files.

twin musk
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dont know what im supposed to do with these boxes now in the animator window

hybrid tinsel
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You connect them together with transitions thst are triggered by conditions.

prisma sky
twin musk
raw thicket
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man i cant get these animations down lol

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everything worked fine till i made a tile map now i cant go to run animation only jump when going left to right and idle

raw thicket
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anyone know how to get my player to stop falling thru corners lol

hybrid tinsel
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@twin musk usually you'd either create a flipped version or scale the game object to negative x.

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You can also flip using the sprite renderer, but I prefer not to

gleaming flare
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Q: All the animations in my game run at the proper speed in the editor. However, some of my animations use a camera attached to the character being animated - only in builds, these animations run slower, like half speed. Any ideas what might be causing this?

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Every other animation is running at the right speed and I can't figure out why these ones are running a lot slower.

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Never mind, think I might have found a solution. Disabling my normal camera while using the special camera seems to fix it. Just surprised this was occurring in the build and not in-editor.

hybrid tinsel
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@gleaming flare that is weird! Is the slowdown maybe related to the size of the game window?

gleaming flare
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I'm not really sure, even running with the editor game view at full size I didn't experience any of the slowdown.

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Pretty sure I'm running it with the same quality settings in-editor and in the build too so I'm just totally at a loss haha. I guess as long as I've got a solution I'm not going to complain, just gotta remember an extra line or two to disable my other cameras whenever I'm using the player cams.

hybrid tinsel
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Very curious. That might actually be worth submitting as a bug report- either unity knows what the cause is and can tell you, or you'll let them know

twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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Google unity bug report?

twin musk
twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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@twin musk oh sorry, I mixed you and Tyadran up.

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If they are humanoid animations you can just mirror them from the inspector for the animation.

twin musk
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i havent coded him yet to actually move when i make him do the run animation, how do i make him stop teleporting forward lol

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can you @ me when u reply ❤️

twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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Looks like the sprite isn't centered, so when you flip it it flips around the pivot point.

twin musk
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been stuck on this part for like 2 hours now

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😦

hybrid tinsel
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How would I know? You set the pivot point in the Sprite editor, not the inspector.

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Wherever you set the pivot is where it will rotate and flip around

twin musk
hybrid tinsel
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Have you read the docs for importing sprites? I mean, you set up animations somehow so...

twin musk
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im following a video guide

hybrid tinsel
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Pardon my French, but screw video guides and read the darn manual.

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Because it answers most of the obvious questions.

twin musk
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i need to find what to read then read it which could take ages, when this seems like a simple fix lol

hybrid tinsel
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It is simple, but then the next simple thing you'll @hybrid tinsel and then the next and the next... when you could preemptively answer most of your questions by reading the manual so when I tell you to open the sprite editor you don't ask what that is.

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I really don't mind answering questions, even typing on my phone, but you could make this all much easier for both of us.

twin musk
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and the green square outside, scale that down to go around my character?

hybrid tinsel
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That is generally a good idea

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Though not strictly required

twin musk
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do i need to save it somehow

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or just X

dreamy dune
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click apply

twin musk
dreamy dune
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i have a question if anyone stumbles upon my message here
i have a blend tree set up for 2D (top down 4 way) animation for attacking, works great, but the issue is when using the animation to enable the collider, since theyre all "blended" all the animations trigger, causing all the colliders to show up

i thought i might be able to set the appropriate values used for the blend tree if i knew what the "primary" animation is but that doesnt seem to be a possibility in the API

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lot of text but if someone has some more ideas about this it would help a lot

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this is an example where the "right sword attack" animation is played, but the other 3 are triggered due to using a blend tree

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twin musk
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https://i.imgur.com/OqFjkMB.gif
when i press right arrow, he does run animation, when i press left arrow key, he teleports and then runs to the left. why? i dont want him to teleport lol
@dreamy dune do u know? sorry

Imgur
dreamy dune
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your sprite needs to be pretty much exactly as big as the character

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if you look at this image you have, you can see the character is on the left side of the center, and when flipped hes moving to the right side (due to it flipping)

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so id scale down the box so it basically just encompass the character and ensure pivot point is right in the middle as well

twin musk
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like that

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?

dreamy dune
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move the blue box not just the green one

twin musk
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@dreamy dune ye im trying but its not moving

dreamy dune
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oh i thought it was sliced, my bad

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how are you doing animation? you clearly have multiple frames, are they all their own individual sprites?

twin musk
dreamy dune
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tbh best thing to do, jump into photoshop or something and cut them all down to size

twin musk
dreamy dune
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you see how you have that green box? make the image that size

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crop it

twin musk
dreamy dune
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yeah

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its kind of complicated to explain i guess

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but yes

twin musk
gleaming flare
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Is there a way to make Unity preload (I guess?) all the animations for an object when my scene starts? I've been running into annoying times where it'll hang a little the first time I need to play an animation, but every time after that it'll work fine. I'm pretty sure at this point that it has to be the animation itself causing the issue and I'm not sure why it's happening exactly or how to fix it.

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They're all just generic rig animations being called with Animator.CrossFadeInFixedTime

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About to call it a night so if anyone does have an answer and I don't respond, please @ me

thorn shale
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@gleaming flare startup will always take a sec at least no matter what, you probably have no loading screen of any kind? if you just display a logo for a sec or make whole scene wait to start it will be enough for a simple project

If you mean the scene is loaded and then some seconds or minutes later you start it for the first time, it could depend on a lot of things depending on your exact scene / code setup

ionic tulip
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Noob question:

I have been getting the following error trying to import a humanoid animation in Unity 2020:

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And is working with other animations

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Any thoughts what I could do to address this?

gleaming flare
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@thorn shale it's not when the scene is loading, that's basically what I want is a way to lump it all with everything else I load at the start. For context I'm working on a fighting game, but pretty much every move sometimes lags/freezes up momentarily the first time it's used. I eliminated the slowdown from hitsparks and gfx by finally implementing object pooling so right now I'm not aware of anything else I could strip down from the animations that could be causing the hiccups.

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And as I said, after the first time it plays it's basically fine until next time I change scenes

hybrid tinsel
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@gleaming flare can you spawn a version of the object that plays each animation once, really quickly, then despawns? Stick it underground?

thorn shale
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@gleaming flare so it's a fighting game, do you not spawn the fighters until the fight starts? I bet other fighting games spawn the fighters with their animations after character select and during a loading screen as well as the fight start countdown, does yours have some kind of structure like that?

gleaming flare
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Right now I just load most of the stuff for the characters during scene start while having a loading screen up; the characters are already present but in their starting positions, not underground.

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I haven't 100% settled on how I'll be spawning characters in the end since currently it's just going to a scene that already has the characters in place and the character select only really affects color and some other options.

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I'm going to try the method of playing all the animations during the loading time to see if that works. Since the screen is totally covered while I'm doing some other loading I should be able to just do that as they are and reset their position/state before it fades in.

gleaming flare
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Hmm, turns out there's some issues with that solution unless there's a way I don't know about to efficiently loop through all of the states in an animator without feeding it all the names directly. It's kind of inconvenient to make individual lists of state names for each character since the number and name of states is all going to vary.

gleaming vector
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what would be the easiest way of cloning an animation? i have a skinned mesh and a seperate skinned mesh with a different rig (which has the same pone structure as the first one) that should do the exact same action as the first skinned when pressing space for example

gleaming flare
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If it has the same bone structure with the same names I believe you could play the exact same animation

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If your bones have different names it gets more complicated

gleaming vector
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they have the same name

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he already does the same animation to the point where i change a parameter. then they aren't synched anymore since the ghost Animator doesn't get the changed input by default

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technically i could write something like:
anim.SetFloat("verticalSpeed", 2); ghostAnim.SetFloat("verticalSpeed", 2);

gleaming flare
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Yeah, if you're changing parameters in the animator then you would need to change it in both

gleaming vector
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but i am an idiot so i will probably forget it at some point so i was wondering if there was something like a "sync" feature in the animator

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which kinda "shares" the parameters

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yeah technically i wanna sync animations^^

gleaming flare
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You could just make in an Update where you do like ghostAnim.SetFloat("verticalSpeed", anim.GetFloat("verticalSpeed"))?

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So just every Update it syncs the ghost to your main anim

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But I don't believe there's any kind of default way to do that

gleaming vector
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yeah i first thought of that as well but then realized that this will a) be called each frame even if nothing happens and more importantly b) would fire triggers each update if not mistaken

gleaming flare
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It would but it shouldn't be an insane amount of overhead. I think your best alternative is just setting them both at the same time.

noble fiber
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Ive got this rock that I'm importing from blender. Its my first animated object without a rig. The rock is supposed to break up into chunks when destroyed. It looks fine in blender and some of the chunks already have the animated rotation applied to them.

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Ive applied all transforms in blender

gleaming vector
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so. what is your question revy?^^

noble fiber
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Why are the rock pieces not in the same position as in the blender model?

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I re-did all the animations and now after exporting everything looks fine now. I dont know what was wrong but its fixed now and I'm not sure what I did wrong.

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ok, but after importing the new model each rock has its own animation (because theyre different objects?). Is there a way to combine all those animations into one during export so I dont have to play them all in the animator?

gleaming vector
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i can just guess but to me that sounds like a problem that may occure due to certain export settings... which i sadly don't know enough about to give you a proper advice 😦

noble fiber
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I wanted be lazy and just move objects to where i wanted them in the naimation but that created mutiple animations. I attached an armature to everything and was able to get everything into one animation

gleaming flare
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Oh, yeah. For things to be part of the same animation they have to share a common parent that actually has the animator/animation

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That's just a general thing

hybrid tinsel
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@gleaming flare you can just put all the states into the animator with each having a transition to the next state. Set the transition times really low, it'll load each state then jump to the next.

At the end, add a transition your normal state machine.

gleaming flare
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My animator is a mess haha, honestly it was easier to just type out the names of all the states than to try and do that for 70 states with more on the way.

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I just have a coroutine now that runs each animation for 0.01f during my loading time

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Probably better/more efficient ways to do it still but since I cut my loading time to like 25% or less than what it was originally recently, I can spare the extra couple seconds to do it this way.

noble fiber
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How do I fix?

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animation not to scale and not centered on parent. Imported from blender.

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fixed. I had the parent scaled to 1 but the object scaled down to size

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i changed everything to 1 but scaled the parent

faint orbit
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hey, so i coded a walking animation when "A" is pressed and i copy pasted the same code under it for "D" but, the animation is only working when i press "D"

but if i put the "A" code under the "D" the "A" starts working and "D" stops

gleaming vector
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@faint orbit you have probably set the parameters wrong.

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but its hard to tell without seeing the code piece that is called when a / d is pressed

faint orbit
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oh actually nvm i fixed

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i just added the "or" operator

gleaming vector
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😄

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yes that can be an issue as well ^^

faint orbit
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yeah i forgot about it

wooden sequoia
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hey idk if this is where to post this but i need help

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so I am working on making a game(duh) and tis 2d

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and i spent hours animating a main menu background

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and i have each individual frame, and a .gif fromat

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idk how to get any of them to work in unity

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can anyone help?

long sphinx
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hi, i have this orb (sphere) object as collectibles for my game. it has an animation where it just floats up and down on the y axis, and i animated this in blender. i've imported the model and the animation to unity, but playing this animation in game causes the orb to go to the origin point of the scene (0, 0, 0), even when i move the orb elsewhere in the scene. i've seen a solution where you'd have to parent the object to a gameobject and you can control it that way.

unfortunately this seems to only work if you're parenting a single object, as parenting multiple objects to a single gameobject just causes the same issue where all objects move to the origin point relative to the parent. i could parent each orb to a gameobject of its own, but i find it extremely tedious as this is a common collectible throughout the game (think coins in a Mario game). i just want to drag and drop the orb onto the scene without having to deal with issues like this. whats the best possible solution for this?

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i'm also new to unity and animation in general, so sorry if this sounds like a rookie question

boreal totem
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SO I'm trying to animate my character. It's 2d. I have the animator set up on my player. Player has a script called PlayerMovement that sets update to 'anim.SetInteger("animation", 4); which should make my character run to the right. Instaed my player wont chaneg off of the default run animation which is running up

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why is my player ignoring my script telling it to change to state 4 which shuold be running right

boreal totem
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Anyone know?

hybrid tinsel
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@boreal totem did you use the right name for the parameter? Is the parameter not changing in the animator? Is that part of your code even running?

bleak lagoon
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morning people. Im just wondering on what Im missing as a component on my model here, currently I have a avatar model in my scene, with rigidbody (kinematic), animator, and capsule collider. this is working good when it comes to general movement etc - but when holding items as a child object, or even just the general idle animation, the meshes are going through each other as shown in the pic

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and items are doing this. is there any way to prevent it from a component etc or is using a collider hit the only way?
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hybrid tinsel
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@bleak lagoon you can use joint limits or IK, but that would be more limiting the issue than solving it.

bleak lagoon
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@hybrid tinsel yeah its currently got IK active with the item mounting, but that holds it in place which as the body moves goes through as shown - so that option isn't really effective for the purpose. I was hoping there might have been something I wasnt aware of that would act as a solid mesh for anything that hits it. I take it there isnt anything like that?

hybrid tinsel
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@bleak lagoon well, not built into unity. There are all sorts of potential methods various games use.

bleak lagoon
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no worries. was worth checking if anything existed first before trying to add anything unnecessarily. thanks for clarifying

long sphinx
hybrid tinsel
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@long sphinx make a prefab of the object parented to an empty object?

long sphinx
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why didn't i think of that, i feel so dumb lol
thank you

faint orbit
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how to make an animation override the other one

tame canyon
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yo

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i have an issue where his feet go through the ground

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does anyone know how to fix this?

digital quail
#

Brand new to unity and trying to follow this tutorial by Brackey to make a powerup and getting this error message when I add an effect to a normal sphere I'm using as a powerup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLSiRf_OrBk&ab_channel=Brackeys

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placid citrus
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Hey guys, I’m looking to start using Unity as my 2D animation system. Is there a way to export the animation as a clip?

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As in video...

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Nevermind, I found the Unity Recorder...

kindred cargo
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Quick question about the IK Constraints with the animation rigging package. While I was messing with it I noticed that the constraint on the bones only seems to affect their local rotation, so when moving the parent bone, the foot ends up moving relative to it.

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In IK rigs I've worked with in maya, the bones seem to lock in worldspace, so you can do things like this. Is there a good way to get this same type of behavior with Animation Rigging?

hybrid tinsel
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@kindred cargo is that happening in play mode?

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@lofty canopy it could be any ok f those, for different reasons. Is root motion enabled on it?

hybrid tinsel
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Could be. What happens if you trigger state changes manually rather than via that script? And are you directly crossfading to states or using state machine transitions?

kindred cargo
placid citrus
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Anyone have a good tutorial on 2D rigging of characters with separate body parts?

hybrid tinsel
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@placid citrus unity has a few okay ones, especially look up the japanese unite talks if you don't mind subtitles.

elder yoke
#

Why my animation clip, that should move only the bone legs, resets the position of the arm bones to the default one? I'm using animator, but with no transitions, since i'm playing the animation through code...I want to move the arm bones with script in LateUpdate, but the animations keeps overriding the arms position to the one set in the prefab...
There are no properties of the arm bones in the animation clips that move the legs
It's like every animation, uses the default rotation values of every bone that has not a property in the clip.
I want the animation clip to move only the animated bones, while leaving the other bones free to move using script...

kindred spade
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hi guys , i have a question
i am making an fps with arm aimations: i already made the animations for when the player is not holding any weapon.
i also added a grabbing system , that makes the weapon child of your camera when you use it.
the thing is that the arms still play the standard animations , and i dont know how to make the ones holding the weapons , because they are child of the camera only when you are playing , and you grab them...
how can i make the animations?

kindred spade
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in synthesis , how do i synchronize hands with weapons

clear spire
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Hey guys, how do i set a velocity curve for an animation? I'd rather avoid having to set animation speed at runtime via code for each animation as it feels clunky

stuck minnow
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Hey guys I have a question, I am trying to make my player jump with an animation using an charactercontroller and I have seen multiple videos and read on sites about it and they often separate their jump animation but I don’t exactly the benefit of doing so because I just used a singel animation and it works fine wit an exit time to go back to the idle state?

hybrid tinsel
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@stuck minnow separating it is useful for if you need it to adapt to different situations. Like for my game it can go from 'jumping' directly to crouch, stand, running, or hitting a wall.

dusky anchor
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Hey, so im using the animator and I was wondering how to stop an animation immediately when a transition is called. My problem is that when the character is idle and the Fall transition is called, it have to wait about 2 seconds for the idle animation to finish, and then the character falls back. So does anyone know how I can make the idle animation stop at any time?

gloomy harness
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I've created some Animation following a tutorial from the internet by using NLA editor in blender, but when I exporting these Animations to unity the first frame of all Animations the position of the arm and the weapon missed up and then back to the normal position in the second frame

full compass
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Hey.. I just make my animation of archer, and when i import it in unity it just messed up my shape keys animations. Any help ?

blazing hill
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i can't edit the properties for some reason it's greyed out, how do i fix this?

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limber dagger
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how can I animate my 3D character myself (Generic). And yes, I know Mixamo, but I want to learn animating characters myself

celest crag
hybrid tinsel
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@dusky anchor uncheck 'has exit time' to make a transition start immediately.

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@blazing hill make a copy of the animation if you want to edit; that one is read only.

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@limber dagger that is a huge topic; I suggest googling basic animation tutorials for whatever software you use for the tech sode, and fundamentals of animation in general so yiu know what you're doing.

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@gloomy harness by 'messed up' do you nean they're in t-pose, or something else?

dusky anchor
pastel gull
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Hallo, total newb here, I have broken a model by changing the motion from blend tree, and now I can't set it back 👀 Anyone know how to reset the motion field for one?

blazing hill
blazing hill
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i get what you mean now

gloomy harness
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@hybrid tinsel I figured out it was a noob mistake, because I'm half noob

hybrid tinsel
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@gloomy harness everyone starts there! The only way to get experience is to start without experience and kerp trying.

kindred spade
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Hey guys , i have a question : i made a sword animation , that plays when you attack with the sword.
the thing is , that in the editor i made the arm swing from top to bottom , but when it plays it the arm doesn't do the full movement that it is supposed to , the swings starts from a different point and it ends earlier.
basically the animation looks different than the one played in the edirtor

kindred spade
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i fixed it

vale geyser
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Im using a humanoid character for animations, and im trying to have custom bones in that same rig to work

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how would I do that?

glass wyvern
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Hello 🙂
Quick question here.
Is is possible to use Animator with "manually" created Avatar Mask based on transforms to mask-off transforms (no bones and no avatar) with use of standard animation clips created in Unity?

shy vortex
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For doing lower body and upper body animations, like interacting while walking, is it generally better to have a full body layer for walking and override the upper body for interact?
Or have the full body be interact and override the lower body for walking?

sudden salmon
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Not sure if this is the correct place to post. I am trying to have a game object become interact-able within a certain frame window. Currently I have an Animation Event assigned to one of the key frames towards the end of the Animation Clip. It seems like this variable would need to be defined as a boolean value because it is either true or false. Maybe there is a better way to approach this?

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full compass
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Hey.. I just make my animation of archer, and when i import it in unity it just messed up my shape keys animations. That object just disappear. Any help ?

hybrid tinsel
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@vale geyser under the importer you need to tell it to import additional bones.

vale geyser
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@hybrid tinsel thanks a lot!

hybrid tinsel
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@glass wyvern I believe you might still need to define an avatar, but it doesn't need to be humanoid type or anything.

glass wyvern
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Thanks @hybrid tinsel
Well, I've made a simple, separate project just for testing and it's working for me without the avatar.

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But at the same time, I'm facing another issue. Masked transforms cannot be moved by physics or anything else - Animator defaults it's position/rotation (every parameter that is referenced by animations) to the state that it has been masked-off...

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Trying to rotate the masked-off cube is not working. I'm only able to move it, as it's position is not being updated by the animator.

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Any ideas? :v
One workaround would be to rename masked-off transforms (so the animation looses the reference) and restart the Animator... But... It's hacky.

static verge
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When im using my flipbook for the VFX graph, it keeps "stepping up"

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I been at it for hours and I have no clue how to fix it

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Any ideas what I did wrong?

indigo vigil
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Can anyone pls teach me how to do animations in unity?

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Just got all animations for a character done

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in blender

stable jackal
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is there a way to set an animation to go from point A to B, where A can be any given point depending on when the animation starts

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rather than a pre determined baked in point

indigo vigil
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Can anyone help me with importing animations from Blender to unity
please :/

static verge
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I was using the wrong flipbook size lol

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My b

static verge
indigo vigil
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Thanks

indigo vigil
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Hmm

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Something is wrong but I can't tell what

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When I press play... I... I have no idea

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Something is wrong with my idle animation

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Why do they do this

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:(

burnt frigate
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Can anyone help me on this? The animations are embedded in fbx files as you can see but I am not able to locate them as fbx, it only shows the T pose file as fbx(I can't drag them in hierarchy as those are not separate fbx's). Not sure how can I extract those animations. Any directions/suggestions would be great help. Thanks!

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hybrid tinsel
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@burnt frigate why do you need them as fbx? By default Unity only reads anim files, which are created from the imported clips.

burnt frigate
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@hybrid tinsel I need to edit them accordingly fit to my needs.

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I think I found a solution...need to import them in MOBU and then take it from there as different clips....Not sure this is the only way...but this is only I found so far

hybrid tinsel
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@burnt frigate if you need to edit them, you can just make a duplicate. The anims you have now are read only because they are just references to the fbx file.

burnt frigate
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Yes I tried that as well but that creates a anim file..which can only be edited in unity...but I want them in 3D program

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anyway @hybrid tinsel thanks for the reply🙂 👍🏼

hybrid tinsel
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@burnt frigate unity doesn't actually create fbx files for the clips, so yeah you'd need to do that externally (or write a script to do it)

burnt frigate
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yup yup

lunar cosmos
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can someone explain to me the difference between an Animator and Animation object in csharp?

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is an Animation object the actual sequence of keyframes, or is that AnimationClip?

dusty delta
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Does anyone have any tips on walk animations

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i made one and its scary

thorn scroll
vagrant osprey
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Can someone help me figure out why my animations look like this]

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They arent humanoid and are set to loop

deep frigate
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how can i slow down an animation and keep it in place ? The asset i got both moves too fast and moves away from the object's proper position place?

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vagrant osprey
deep frigate
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it says that it's read only so i couldn't changed the animation manually

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anyway tho, sorry for not updating. I just found out about Mixamo, so i am going to try that one.

hybrid tinsel
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@deep frigate You need to bake xy root motion in the animation import to make it stay in place, and you can adjust the speed in the animator.

slim zinc
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Why does my character only play the final frame of my animation?

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nevermind

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I figured it out

fair ore
subtle bear
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@deep frigate There is a root motion checkbox in the animator component, unchecking this prevents the animation from moving your transform around and it only moves the bones

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All imported animations are usually read only, you have to duplicate them and work with the duplicate. Also you should switch them all from generic to humanoid or they just don't seem to work

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Mixamo is awesome, just duplicate them and rename them so they are not all called mixamo

sand parcel
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how would I take an existing rig/bone setup and put it on to a new mesh?

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would i use a skinned mesh renderer?

fickle swift
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I have a character (player), he walks, he runs, he stands, but he can also use his sword.

My approach is:

  • Have two Sprite Renderers. One sprite renderer would be the character's head + legs, the other would be his belly.
  • One animator component per sprite renderer, one for walking, the other for attacking. One animator for only moving, the other for attacks (maybe they should override the same animator for simplicity?)

Is this a good approach? What other approaches could be better?

hybrid tinsel
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@fickle swift You can have multiple layers in the same animator.

full compass
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Hey.. i have animation of mage and im using events for shooting. That animation in preview is good but when i run it with animator controller my book hands and wand just rotate by -180 deg. Any idea why it is doing ?

fickle swift
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cause in Unity I right click on multiple sprites -> create animation, but yeah I think you are right, it's better to have multiple layers in the same animator

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maybe more cleaner that way

unique reef
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Is there any way to stop this frame thing happening? I want it to properly snap.
If I picked the keyframe it means I want to do changes in that keyframe's values.
Unity's dopesheet is the worst, it wastes so much of my time

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I pick the frame icon, I change things there but Unity creates a new keyframe anyway based on where the playhead is

hybrid tinsel
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@fickle swift An animation will affect any objects parented to the object with the animator.

fickle swift
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Oh I think I understand, i.e. an animation can affect any objects parented to the object with the animator

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yea so i would do that approach above

abstract marlin
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hi, for some reason my player idle animation isn't playing (even though all of the conditions are met)

fickle swift
abstract marlin
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can someone please help me? I've been working for 2 days and I can't figure it out

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can someone please help me? I've been working for 2 days and I can't figure it out

fickle swift
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otherwise, maybe another animation Layer is overriding your animation

abstract marlin
fickle swift
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yeah

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maybe your animation is actually playing, preview your animation clip

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by clicking on your player game object and clicking play

abstract marlin
fickle swift
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click on the GameObject with the animator controller

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then click Play in the Animation tab

abstract marlin
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ohhh

fickle swift
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you can select the animation clip

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after clicking on it

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so you can see if the issue is due to the animation clip or the controller

abstract marlin
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I can see nothing is playing

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but the animation started

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in the controller

fickle swift
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then probably something wrong with your animation clip

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cause on mine, I can see the animation working without Playing the game

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i see it in the editor window

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and game window as well

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E.g. maybe you only have 1 frame, or your animation is composed of frames all with the same sprite

abstract marlin
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no

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it's 4 different frames