🏃┃animation

[twin terrace]

Thank you for helping out! I really appreciate it. I will for sure look up CGDive.
We've been working on our project for over a year now so most other part are not too confusing at this point, except for lighting. I don't think that will ever become easy 😉 haha

Animation though, that is one area I have not really explored too much. Most stuff in our project that are animated are not organic.

As you mention, and from my research, it seems like rigging in Blender is the way to go then. This is something I have to research more though and understand better.

[woeful vapor]

Hello,
I have a humanoid model and rig and weapons with their own rig as well
I wanna make animations involving the humanoid model holding and using the weapons, and export those to Unity.
how can I do this while still exporting the human model & rig & weapons separately? as in not having every weapons parented to the human, all in one file.
there has to be some way to do it, cause otherwise I can’t see how even more complicated animations involving multiple objects ie QTEs and interactions with objects in the map in general could be done.

should note that "just attach the weapon to the hand" won't really work for a couple reason :
I'd like for the weapons themselves to be animated (ie pulling a bow string, pumping a shotgun, etc) and also wanna be able to do stuff like switch hands and generally have the weapons move independently from the hands from within the animation

[agile solstice]

Please do not crosspost

[snow skiff]

I was studying about Radical Fish, and I found this image
Somebody knows this animation program?

[hazy pendant]

Hi I am new to Unity Animation. Is there a tutorial that could help me learn? I downloaded a model that has an idle animation made. (Arms sit at the side. No actual movement) Is it possible to create an animation in unity (example have the model raise their hand, nothing fancy) Or does the animation get created outside unity?

Any chance you have something that explains that?

[hazy pendant]

Is this suppose to be 6 seconds? It is animating extremely fast

[charred belfry]

at a glance it looks like 6ms

[pine badge]

How do i set "can transition to self" if it's from Any to a substate group? The option is not there

[azure adder]

Hi everyone, I have a very stupid quetion, I'm just getting started with Unity.. I have a Virtual camera with some properties animated such as Field of View and Focus offset.. I play the animation and it works well. Now I'd like to animate the Target object, which controls where the the virtual camera looks at. How can I achieve this? If I animate the target object on a separate .anim file, how can I play them both at once?

Nevermind, I can simply animate the virtual camera rotation instead. Thanks!

[arctic breach]

All of my 'Sources' for 'Constraints' in my Rig have their transform values stuck. They literally just snap every frame back to what they were when adjusted. Everything was fine when I was animating yesterday, today they're poopy tho.

[crude basin]

hey i made an enemy and add a death animation but when i duplicate the enemy sth odd happens. When i kill the second enemy first the first one plays the death animation. Here is my enemy animation controller.

pls help

[twin musk]

why does the object need animator component to run the animation ?

[agile solstice]

This is likely a problem with how you're killing the enemy / triggering the death animation, rather than the animator

[twin musk]

i am unable to run the animation with only "animation" component

[agile solstice]

Animator is used to choose and control what animation clips are played and how
Animation component used to do that job, but it's old and deprecated

[twin musk]

then what to use now ?

[agile solstice]

Animator

[twin musk]

i cant even add a condition on the animation

do i need to update something or idk

[agile solstice]

The animator needs to be on an object

You need to follow a tutorial

[twin musk]

can you link me a tutorial or something ? this new system is confusing lol

[agile solstice]

https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g this tutorial is a bit of a slow burner but it goes through everything and demonstrates a lot of things

[twin musk]

ok thank you

[arctic breach]

Any idea on how or why all of your animation rigging 'sources' would be locked in place? I don't even know where to begin looking tbh.

[crude basin]

@agile solstice hey could you help me fix it

@agile solstice use a condition

I

[flat root]

I can't figure out why his arm won't do IK toward mouse direction so he looks like he strikes the floor

[crude basin]

hey i made an enemy and add a death animation but when i duplicate the enemy sth odd happens. When i kill the second enemy first the first one plays the death animation. Here is my enemy animation controller.

pls help

@agile solstice

sb help me pls

[agile solstice]

Do not spam pings, I'm busy

[crude basin]

ok sorry

[agile solstice]

I gave you directions before

[crude basin]

yes i didnt understand

cancel that

[pine badge]

My any state to die state already has "CanTransitionToSelf" unchecked yet it still transitions to self
Why is this broken?

[severe cosmos]

Hey guys could someone help me? For some reason I cannot import an animation i made in blender, I setup the original fbx with it's own mesh and avatar, then i was planning on having animation only fbx that use the "copy from other model" avatar setting. But for some reason this doesn't work, even the preview doesn't animate. If I export the animation with it's own mesh and create it's own avatar the preview does animate. What's even weirder is that I have another model setup the exact same way and it does work, i've spent hours today trying to figure it out, hopefully someone here can help me 😄 .

Welp if anyone knows anything please ping me so I dont miss it

[hybrid tinsel]

@severe cosmosTo add the animations from one model into another you need to use the correct naming scheme; check in the manual under importing animations and it explains.

[twin musk]

Can someone help me? I made an animation in Blender, exported it, and the animation clip previews fine outside of animator, but when its brought in, it says the clip has no motion

Nevermind I fixed it

I was linking transitioning from a clip I had deleted

[random swift]

I am wondering if you can combine skinnedmeshrenderers with bones but also joints. So lets say, I have a backpack, I want to attach it to the shoulders but also be a bit physical while running for example

[severe cosmos]

I'm not using humanoid this is a generic rig

[hybrid tinsel]

Your terminology is a bit weird here; but generally speaking you'll want to only apply non-kinematic physics to bones that aren't controlled by animation.

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not talking about retargeting, so humanoid doesn't matter.

This is just an importer thing

[random swift]

Whats wrong with the terminology, did I get something wrong? Let me try make it clear 🙂 I have a bone based character with painted weights. So also the backpack is painted with weights that rely on shoulders or back spines, but I want to use hinge physics for that backpack while still accounting the the shoulders to force the right spot of the straps.

[hybrid tinsel]

@severe cosmosAnother way to import animations is to follow a naming scheme that Unity allows for the animation files. You can create separate model files and name them with the convention [e-mail]. For example, for a model called goober, you could import separate idle, walk, jump and walljump animations using files named [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail] and [e-mail]. When exporting animation like this, it is unnecessary to include the Mesh in these files, but in that case you should enable the Preserve Hierarchy Model import option.

from the manual

@random swiftnot 'wrong' per se but there is no distinction in unity between z axis and point bones but other software does(Usually calling them z-axis and joint bones respectively).

Unity physics objects can get finicky when attached to animated transforms, but it does work. I personally prefer to use more simplified physics like the springbone script from unity-chan or animation toolkit, just because they are made for animated objects, but if you need the full complexity of physics what I said holds; you don't want to apply a non-kinematic rigidbody to any transform that an animator is controlling directly. You also will probably need to tweak the settings to keep it from getting all janky and weird.

Also, not sure if you're using 2d or 3d but I noticed that 2d physics seems much less reliable with animation than 3d physics

'joint' in unity terminology usually refers to the component that attaches two rigidbodies and is completely separate from bones as a system.

[random swift]

Thats why I am asking if its possible to combine somehow. Tried to attach an extra bone to the rig but unities humanoid importer did not like it

[severe cosmos]

While naming doesn't matter I found your comment very useful, turns out ticking preserve hierarchy fixes my issue, now to wonder why my other models don't need it to work

Thanks for the help

[hybrid tinsel]

I figured that was likely, but it never hurts to be thorough- especially with poorly explained features like that

[severe cosmos]

Yep you're right

[swift tide]

Is there a way to check how many animation events you've placed on an animation timeline?

[twin musk]

Hey there
I'm trying to use a simple rigged model but when I change the animation state without the "exit time" thingy checked it slowly keeps shifting the entire model to the left
Any idea?

nvm just discovered the "Bake into pose" button

[hybrid tinsel]

you mean via script?

[agile solstice]

Pretty sure you can't have joint physics on bones
There are plenty of other options though

The traditional way is to have equipment bones animated along with the rig, so they can have authored jostling motion following the character's actions

But also Animation Rigging package lets you parent any object to multiple bones, and add dampened movement into bone chains, so it'll be kind of wiggly and organic

[hybrid tinsel]

https://imgur.com/eHX1a1B

[agile solstice]

So it kinda works

https://youtu.be/9hTnlp9_wX8 these concepts could be used to make bones wiggly

[hybrid tinsel]

The important thing is that any transform with keyframes on it will not use physics.

But yeah, I prefer to not use full physics joints for characters.

Also, you have to select 'animate physics' for the animator. Very important 😛

[agile solstice]

The only issue I see is that the physics joint aren't reaction to velocity
Perhaps it'd be possible to get the bone's velocity from change of position and rotation in script, and apply that as force to the bone
Might be more effort than it's worth, though

[hybrid tinsel]

You could probably just use Addforce with the delta of the parent's movement each frame

[random swift]

You know any way to like add bones to the humanoid bone system. I tried to add a bone just for the backpack, but it just broke the import of humanoid rig in unity

thanks for your thoughts btw 🙂

[agile solstice]

I have no experience of that
My skeletons don't use the avatar/humanoid system

[random swift]

Hm, okay, so you just your custom rig, might be a way too

Well I guess mixamo has died for me then 😄

[clear orbit]

did you try reconfiguring the avatar

[hybrid tinsel]

You can add any extra bones you like, though if you add them in places that break the hierarchy it is expecting for a humanoid it will need to be manually edited. You also need to tell the importer to keep nonhumanoid bones in the rig

For nonhumanoid, then you can just have whatever skeleton you want

[charred flicker]

Any way not to get extra Root Bone in Unity importing from blender?

[fair fern]

what is this "mirror" from the animation state name in animator tab / window refer to

make the animation reverse?

[twin musk]

what is the difference between animation component and animator component

[late canyon]

Flipping animations

Like a reflection of the current animation state you are on

I think

and its only for humanoid models apparently

[fluid sage]

Hey I need some advice, I wanna get my hands on my effect textures and texture sheet animations. And I'm willing to pay aswell but I want some really good ones, cause I personally love them

[true sinew]

an animator is like a controller, where you can make code play different animations at different times. an animation is just, an animation

I need some help

is there a way to layer animations "inside of eachother"

So basically, I have this character and I need to be able to swap out the eyes for other eyes with their own unique animations

and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to

I tried making the eyes their own prefabs but then since the eyes are controlled by bones still, the animations dont work

[hybrid tinsel]

define 'don't work'

[true sinew]

I cannot see the animation

if I look at the animator, it's playing

but I can't see anything

[hybrid tinsel]

Hm. How are you swapping them? turning the different eyes on and off?

[twin musk]

Hi everyone can anyone tell me how can i move my characters legs like this

https://twitter.com/navaneetorigin/status/1423608661067198465?s=20

Navaneet (@navaneetorigin)

Can anyone tell me how can I make my characters legs move like this
#unity3d #gamedevelopment #IndieGameDev https://t.co/vsgN6eSH2t

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Twitter · Aug 6, 2021, 11:35 AM

[hybrid tinsel]

https://i.imgur.com/e9OHCo5.mp4

[swift tide]

Nice

[hybrid tinsel]

https://imgur.com/4AbZiCL

[agile solstice]

all sneaky-peeky-like

[upper summit]

I'm having an issue with importing a Blender character.

The game objects are pointing the right way, but the limbs and mesh act like they have a 180 degree rotation on them, and are 'facing' backwards.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[hybrid tinsel]

I've not tested this but someone previously said they fixed that problem by making sure that primary bone axis was Z and secondary bone axis was set to -X in the blender export settings under armature.

[flat root]

not related but great artstyle!

[astral vine]

How can I make my character move with the animation? I have a walking animation right now but it stays in one place

[flat root]

you move the gameobject that the animation is on

[hybrid tinsel]

Either move the gameobject like Loki said, or if there is animated motion on the root transform, you can use 'enable root motion'

[astral vine]

Ohk I had it originally with the movement on the animation, but whenever it looped it would go back 5 steps

[hybrid tinsel]

That's what Root Motion is for.

It applies any movement on the root bone to the object

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

[brazen mural]

Hi! I'm animating in 2d, and I have my sprites and everything. The sprites are sliced in a way that makes a box around it rather than makes it fit in with the animation. (not sure how to better word that.). When I want to animate, I don't want it to tween the motion and make it smooth, i want it to just let me move the sprites in the correct position without freaking out. How can I do this? I don't know how to mess with the curves in a way to help this. idk. thanks!

ill send a vid.

i don't want her sliding around like that

[random swift]

You should make your curves not bezier, check out some tutorial about animation window and curve editing, so they will stay flat and just swap positions.

[hybrid tinsel]

@brazen muralThe best solution for that is probably to just set the pivot to the same relative position on each frame, rather than trying to move the object around. Twentacle's solution works too, but is a bunch of extra work and also a much less optimized animation.

[agile solstice]

Select the keyframes, right click and change "both tangents" to "constant"

This will remove any interpolation including curves
I wouldn't call it "extra work" or "unoptimized"

[pine badge]

Anyone wanna suggest the general shape of the rig for a flower character? With roots as legs, sooometimes they can walk

Is it still a humanoid rig?

[clear orbit]

I dont have much experience but I'm guessing it would work

[agile solstice]

Does it need to be a humanoid rig? My understanding is that the point of humanoid rigs is that you can retarget animations to work on multiple meshes with different proportions
But do you need to retarget flower animations?

[clear orbit]

It has the potential to look very ridiculous, but it could work.

[pine badge]

Well a flower character, animation wise, would "sit" inside the ground

With the pelvis "inside" the surface of ground instead of on it

[hybrid tinsel]

It is unoptimized in the sense that it requires a transform curve in the animation, whereas just setting the pivots correctly doesn't have that problem. And it is extra work if you then have to adjust for the sprite's transform moving around every frame.

[hybrid tinsel]

In 3d or 2d?

I'd personally just make a custom rig for it that is just, like, flower shaped, unless you need to be able to use premade humanoid animations.

A plant like that is a lot bendier than a human, and you can heavily leverage IK

[pine badge]

3D

Yeah i'm using blender rigify and changing the rig type for the limbs to tentacle

[hybrid tinsel]

Humanoid rigs only have two spine bones, which would limit a flower like that a lot.

So generic is probably better

[pine badge]

It wont be humanoid in unity, gotta be generic

[agile solstice]

Ah, I figured the movement was intentional
But if isn't, I see your point

Or if it's okay that the movement is baked into each frame

[twin musk]

excuse me guys, i have a question , how can i refer to the specific animation i have in the animation component i mean , element 0 and 1

how can i refer to them accordingly in the my script ?

but when you try to run animation with animation component you write something like anim.Play();

but how do i play element 1

[hybrid tinsel]

the parenthesis() are where you add parameters

Though since animation is depreciated I'm not sure of the exact syntax; probably still listed in the script reference for it though

[agile solstice]

@twin musk Why must it be the Animation component?

[twin musk]

i find using animation component easier + i am running one simple animation when two colliders collide so yeah

[agile solstice]

People here might be able to help you if you used up to date features

[twin musk]

is using animation component a bad idea in general and for performance or is it just that animator component has more features ?

bc i do care about performance the most

[agile solstice]

No difference in performance

Both Animator and Animation components let you play an animation using its name with anim.Play("name");

[hybrid tinsel]

In many cases I believe animator might be more performant just because they've not added any of the burst stuff to animation

But I doubt that it will matter in the vast, vast majority of situations

But yeah, the biggest downside to using animation is how hard it is to get help/documentation

[agile solstice]

Right, there's Burst optimizations for that too

[finite stone]

Hello everyone. I have a question about animation. I have animated fps arms, but I want to transfer this animation to the arms of a full body character. Can this be done and how?

[hybrid tinsel]

Depends on whether the arms were made with a humanoid compatible setup. If they were, then yes. If not, then maybe.

And what you'll want to look at is Mecanim Retargeting

[spiral pond]

I need some little help with animation layer blending, I have my base layer with all my character movement. I created another layer setting only the upper body as mask (see screenshot) and my character seems to catch the upper body animation but feels very weird (very static)

I've purchased the Soldier Animations on the asset store (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/soldier-animations-180600) but if you look at it when the character is moving with a weapon, it's always facing forward (the weapon) and I would like to have it aiming down (like in the idle animation).

This is the initial animation (as per the asset)

And this is how it looks after I tried to blend them

Should I use the transform in the Avatar Mask to cherry pick bones I want to move ?

[brazen mural]

this is what i did. thanks!!

worked very well

[serene onyx]

hey..? could somebody help me with something real quick

i am having trouble with simple character movement, whenever i press w or jump.. i have to wait or i spam the button for the animation to play? i think its something small but it would help lots thanks

[uncut salmon]

Are you detecting input inside of Update or FixedUpdate?

[serene onyx]

nevermind thanks alot but i figured out i had exit time on blend tree xD to do with movement

[balmy fern]

Hey guys, I have a problem with a 2D animation on Unity, can someone ping me if can help me? ( Its something so basic, im just new )

[frigid hamlet]

What's the issue?

[balmy fern]

So basically, im trying to add my first animation on my "game" ( tbh its just a project im doing on college), but the img is not showing at all

I want to have a green bouncy slime but instead a have a weird thing lmao

[hybrid tinsel]

@balmy fernYou'll need to give a bit more information, but does selecting it and hitting 'f' find it in the viewport?

[opal skiff]

Im animating a character but the legs stretch like this how can i solve it?

[hybrid tinsel]

@opal skiffYou'll have to give more info. Are you using IK or something?

[opal skiff]

No, i´m just animating the character bones

[hybrid tinsel]

And it is a generic rig?

[opal skiff]

Yap

[hybrid tinsel]

Hm, weird

[opal skiff]

Forget i solved, but thanks!

[hybrid tinsel]

What was the problem?

[neat nimbus]

I need help understanding how the animation tab works

does it works with seconds or frames?

[agile solstice]

You can choose either

The steps are defined with "samples"

[vital blaze]

Hey does someone know how to get a catmull rom interpolation into the animator?

It is in my opinion by far the best for camera animations

[dense leaf]

hello! it's not a bad idea to store sprites of a players' animation as individual sprites instead of a tilemap, right?

[rocky quail]

Hi, I have a situation.

Context: My 2D game utlized skinned and rigged character with swappable parts. This means that 1 part to 1 sprite as I can't swap 1 sprite to multiple sprites.

Problem: I need a palette swap solution. Currently using a color change shader with range and fuzziness but it is hard to control as it will usually blend into other colors.

Is it possible to use masking in this setup to color change certain area of the sprite yet retaining the skinning?

[hybrid tinsel]

Add a secondary texture as a mask?

Or if these parts of the sprite don't have transparency you can use the alpha channel

[snow rune]

hey ive made a ui animation but i cant seem to figure out how to stop it from looping - i have turned off loop time yet its still looping

oh so i restarted unity a few times now it seems to work aha

[rocky quail]

The thing is the sprite editor will auto slice and auto create mesh for the sprite. So if I use a secondary texture all the uvs and position will be wrong?

[fluid sage]

hey i made a buffer system for my fireworks that have been working all this time

but for some reason its doing thie weird thing

https://gyazo.com/aca6fa3a239a87388020bd6e9d9d37ad

its like on the buffer particle itll be invisible unless i go over to the actual particle and it shows it, even though thats impossible to do ingame. so im trying to figure out why the system is invisible

[opal skiff]

The rotation values z and y of the legs were not at 0

XD

[bright pagoda]

is there a way of getting how many keyframes an animation has in code

?

all the functions only return the length of the whole animation in seconds

[rain vault]

What tools do folks use to create humanoid animations that can be exported to Unity? Blender only? I was looking for something lighter that is really just for animating

paid software included*

[astral vine]

well when i enable it all it does is slide back softly

[astral vine]

mixamo gives you free animations with your own model, theres tons on there

[rain vault]

@astral vine I've been using Mixamo for most things, but I have a few animations that i need, something like a mario "butt ground smash" animation

[random swift]

you can just use Unity to make the animations if you want

[rain vault]

@random swift !?!?

really

[random swift]

Animating a character is basically rotating the bones, you got those in Unity. But you can of course use blender which might support some IK/FK and what not. But in your question, as you want "lightweight", Unity is just, take the bone, rotate it and keyframe in an animation

[rain vault]

ah yeah i was hoping for something with IK/FK

if i use blender, I wonder If there are some existing "Unity" rigs out there with all the bells and whistles for iks

[random swift]

Not that I know of. There are plugins like autorig pro to do that for you so you can setup characters. But that did not work for me. I am currently building my own IK/FK for a character in Unity directly

[charred belfry]

Unity has an animation rigging package (pinned to this channel)

[random swift]

oh yes, I wasn't clear about it. I am using this rig package to use IK/FK @rain vault

[balmy fern]

Need help on my first 2D animation. Dont really know how to do it. I create a new animation and try to drag in the images but cant put them in. Already splitted the sprite sheet

[hybrid tinsel]

@balmy fern what do you mean that you can't put them in?

[balmy fern]

its solved, ty anyways :D

[twin musk]

Need assistance with a 3d idle animation

So this is for a vrchat avatar I've been working on.

The issue is that the animation clips through the ground in game yet appearing normal within unity? Any ideas? I've tried offsetting it but maybe theres something I'm missing or doing wrong.

Feel free to ping me and thanks to all in advance who potentially aid me

[wise vector]

heyho, doing the tutorial and It seems that i cannot change the starting location of from where the smoke effect particle system on my robot starts

starts from the center even though i moved it to the head area

[random swift]

It looks correct on your second screenshot, did you update your prefab properly?

[wise vector]

ctrl - s

and yea thats the thing i moved it to the head but it still starts from the center in game

[wise vector]

here are the settings for the ParticleSystem

here is the relevant part of the character script

    {
        if(amount < 0)
        {
            if (isInvincible)
                return;
            animator.SetTrigger("Hit");
            GameObject hitBurst = Instantiate(burst,Vector2.up , Quaternion.identity);
            ParticleSystem hitParticles = hitBurst.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();
            isInvincible = true;
            invincibleTimer = timeInvincible;
        }
        currentHealth = Mathf.Clamp(currentHealth + amount, 0, maxHealth);
        Debug.Log(currentHealth + "/" + maxHealth);
              }```

i take this GettingHit prefab

and drag&drop it into the public property slot of burst

where am i going wrong?

that is the result. the explosion does appear but in the wrong location (not where the character is located but at a fixed spot i think 0,0,0 on the map)

[agile solstice]

Looks like you're instantiating the explosion at Vector2.up which is always the position (0, 1)

It's a world position it takes
transform.position as a coordinate would spawn it where the object is

[wise vector]

ah

makes sense

[wise vector]

k works now, thank you

[hybrid tinsel]

When you say 'the tutorial' what tutorial do you mean? How are you trying to change the position?

...oh, I was scrolled up, whups

[clear orbit]

How do unity animation tools compare with blenders

[drowsy narwhal]

YEA

[random swift]

So are you using an animator

[drowsy narwhal]

yea

tha anim stops here

[random swift]

What does your inspector of the animation look like in the animator? and what does the inspector of the clip look like?

[drowsy narwhal]

You mean this ?

[random swift]

No in the animator sheet inside, if you select the Walking Clip, what is the inspector inside animator view looking like

[random swift]

And your animator?

[random swift]

And if you run the game it fills up the blue progress bar and sticks to the end then?

[drowsy narwhal]

yea when the blue bar ends the walking style freeze

[random swift]

Can you switch to debug inspector and show your walking animation in inspector?

[drowsy narwhal]

i did

[random swift]

And then just in your project view open the fbx arrow to show the contents and select the animation

[random swift]

You are in hierarchy

I mean project window

the filebrowser of unity

[drowsy narwhal]

yea i know what hierachy mean lol but im still stipid

ok

[random swift]

so, what does the inspector of the selected animation look like?

[drowsy narwhal]

wait lme take a pic

this is the inspector of the animation

[random swift]

Can you select the mixamo.com animation clip 😉

[drowsy narwhal]

yea its empty

[random swift]

this one, select the animation named "mixamo.com" and then show me the Inspector, not the animation view 😄

[drowsy narwhal]

sorry im stupid

[drowsy narwhal]

its this one

[random swift]

You have the walking animation there, inside the walking.fbx is the clip mixamo.com, this is the actual animation. We need to look into thats inspector

[drowsy narwhal]

my Brain is glitched , but yeah 😅

[random swift]

what is under animation clip settings?

Oh wait, wrap mode is default

than its not looping

[drowsy narwhal]

oh

[random swift]

So select your Walking.fbx, go to Animations and check that there is loop set

[drowsy narwhal]

already checked

[random swift]

than why the heck is your wrap mode default and not looping 😄

Can you just copy paste the animation as a single clip and see if you can change the wrapmode there and replace it in your animator, just out of curiosity

[drowsy narwhal]

ok

[random swift]

gotta go now, will check in later

[drowsy narwhal]

ok

have fun

[hybrid tinsel]

I haven't used blender, so hard to compare. Unity's animation tools are basic but solid.

[north valve]

Hi, i created a walking animation for my character in blender, and for now i want it to allways play it, how do i do it?

[clear orbit]

i think you loop it in the animator

[agile solstice]

Animator will play the animation clip that is marked as Default State

[north valve]

where is it?

[north valve]

this i did

How do i loop and what is the avatar thing

I'm new sorry

[agile solstice]

The animation will play and loop if Loop Time is enabled in the animation clip asset's settings

[north valve]

Oh ok, thank you

[agile solstice]

By default, the first clip an animator has will play, and it'll be looping

[agile solstice]

https://youtu.be/sgHicuJAu3g you can learn more from here or the docs

[north valve]

thx

[clear orbit]

@Nerò#2004 maybe in blender you didn't apply rotation settings?

[clear orbit]

@hybrid tinsel i mean like for charachter animation. I always see fancy looking rigs in Blender, and wondering if it had better tools. I'm looking at the upcoming pose library stuff.... but i honestly think maybe the Sequences package is doing the same thing as the Pose Library . i prefer not to use Blender but for making armature and models, so just weoghing up where to invest my time.

[agile solstice]

The difference is that Blender is a fully fledged animation tool while Unity is not
In Unity you can make some basic animations or tweak complex ones a little, but it's practical only for simple things like that

[clear orbit]

ah right. Guess I'll have to explore Blender more to see what it does better.

[woven gyro]

How do y'all deal with objects that aren't a part of an armature, such as in a cutscene I recently made, the player has to pick up a note, so I made it a child of hips. Is this what everyone else does? Because this isn't even considering that this armature isn't my main player and just a dummy for a cutscene

[halcyon wind]

Anyone working on 2D platformers experienced one or more of the animations suddenly interfering with the physics affecting movement? I had the Idle and Walk animations working fine until I introduced a 'Hit' animation and connected it to the rest. Now the movement doesn't work at all, save for the animations being properly triggered.

When moving the character above the scene where they are before running the scene, they snap into a position and don't budge at all.

[woven gyro]

Does your animator have root motion enabled?

[halcyon wind]

"Apply Root Motion"?

No

I enabled it, but the same issue is present

@woven gyro

[woven gyro]

It's meant to be disabled, so that's not the issue

are you sure it's the animation, you didn't change any code around being hit?

[halcyon wind]

If I disable the Animator, the motion works correctly

I had been working collision code between the player and an object, but I deleted it.

[woven gyro]

Does your animation modify position, or just sprites?

[halcyon wind]

Position. I'm using a puppet type rig for my character

[woven gyro]

Changing Position in the animation is liable to mess up any position changes in script

If you are changing the root position

Bones wouldn't have any effect (unless you move those with physics as well)

[halcyon wind]

I'm just confused mostly because, even though I had keyframed position in the idle and walk animations, they had worked some time with the physics before stopping when I introduced a hit animation.

[woven gyro]

Position of what, specifically?

The root, or bones

[halcyon wind]

I don't remember. I'm even more confused though, as I've completely deleted the hit animation along with its component in the animator and it's still not working.

I'm a newbie which probably doesn't help my skills at troubleshooting these things in Unity.

[woven gyro]

It's probably best you remake the animations if you are possible, avoiding keyframing the position or rotation of the root of the player

(The root is probably whatever the rigidbody is on)

[halcyon wind]

@woven gyro Should I start by deleting the animator components for idle and walk?

[woven gyro]

They just store an animation clip

it's the animation clips you must change

[halcyon wind]

So while I shouldn't keyframe the parent storing all of the sprites, I should keyframe the sprites themselves?

[woven gyro]

Yes

The parent is the root, and the sprites are "bones"

[halcyon wind]

Should I also have my animator stored on the parent?

[woven gyro]

That's probably best

[halcyon wind]

Alright

[woven gyro]

but you animator just needs to be on the parent that can access everything it needs to animate

because it relies on hierarchy

[halcyon wind]

I'll do a makeshift walk animation and see how that turns out

[woven gyro]

which is why animations can break from just changing names

I recommend just moving a sprite up and down, and then testing it

rather then even making a basic walk animation

[halcyon wind]

@woven gyro I can't animate the sprite position.

It automatically defaults to wanting to keyframe the parent.

[woven gyro]

click on the sprive

sprite

the one you want to keyframe

right click position

and keyframe

or just hit the record button and move it

[halcyon wind]

Can I screenshare here or in DMs? When I click position with the Torso sprite selected, the character snaps down and the parent is instead picked to be keyframed despite selecting the Torso sprite.

@woven gyro

[woven gyro]

You can send screenshots here

[halcyon wind]

I had the Torso picked on the hierarchy until it snapped to the Compiled Parent

[woven gyro]

I'm not sure why, but can I recommend just "turn it on and off again", in the sense:

First off, shouldn't legs and arms be a child to the torso?

Second: Delete the animation controller that you have currently

Third: Go into Animation on the root and press "Create New" just like you've done before

[halcyon wind]

The arms and legs aren't children purely because I want the head to be able to bob up and down independent of the legs and arms.

I'm working on that

[untold rampart]

This should apply the animation all the time, right? My avatar is definitely in the position when I run the game, but it's not actively animating.

[woven gyro]

If all 3 of those conditions pass

[untold rampart]

Oo la la. Why was it like that?

I did change an old animationcontroller

But now nothing and it still doesn't animate?

[woven gyro]

Is the object with the animator active

and there is an animation clip in that

[untold rampart]

The object is intantiated.

And the animation clip is on its animator component

[woven gyro]

And the animation works if you test it in the editor?

[untold rampart]

Yes.

When I test it using the animator window on the prefanb

prefab

[woven gyro]

Wait do you still have a condition on that?

[untold rampart]

No conditions. It shjould go from entry to this, right?

[woven gyro]

Should do, but it doesn't so something is wrong and there is a long list. Have you looked at the animation controller while having an instantiated object selected at runtime

to see what's happening

[halcyon wind]

@woven gyro Thanks for the help with troubleshooting!

Got the movement working again.

[hard brook]

im having a small issue with the silver/whitish color robot in this clip (the one with the green healthbar). after his attack animation finishes it doesnt look as smooth as i was hoping, it kinda snaps to another position as the animation plays again on the next attack. is there anything i can do to make it look smoother/better?

https://streamable.com/83xwg1

[agile solstice]

Does the punching animation have to/from transitions at all?

[hard brook]

it looks something like this atm

exit time is checked

[hard brook]

i ended up doing something like this where it plays the animation, then plays the animation at the same negative speed, so backward...to get the model into the right position and not snap around. not sure if this is a good solution or if there's a better way to accomplish the same thing, but for now it looks right

[tacit onyx]

how do i get rid of that extra little bit after the last keyframe?

@agile solstice sorry to @ but idk if this channel is checked often

[agile solstice]

As far as I know, all time after the last keyframe should be cut automatically, like you can't even put empty time in the end of an animation
So maybe there is a keyframe at 0:05 in some other object in the animation hierarchy

[tacit onyx]

Thing is the extra frame follows wherever the last keyframe is

all im tryna do is alternate between 2 images

but it makes it poopy if the second image has an extra frame over the first

wait

maybe im wrong

i guess this doesn't even matter right?

if it's a loop it'll just go straight to the first frame

so it's the same as having the first frame at the end of the loop

it makes sense in my head

[robust wave]

Would someone be able to suggest some things to help me here

I'm trying to do a top-down shooter

So I've get the animations for the legs and aiming poses

The running animations etc all fine, however when I try to use a mask to override the arm animations (so that they aim the guns), the arms offset at an angle

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/497872424281440267/884927235356786718/unknown.png

So while my character walks forward as expected in this example, the arms shoot off to the side

And if I set the aim animation as the base and add a mask for the legs instead, they also go weird and shoot off into a different direction

But if I'm using just the aiming animation, it works fine on its own - it just doesn't seem to work when used in conjunction with a mask

I've played around with baking and it doesn't appear to do anything

[agile solstice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/uploads/Main/classTransitionAnimatorPreview.jpg

I mean how does it look like in this window

[flat root]

there is a certain sweet spot for Baking, they can produce over 20+ variations

[flat root]

try preserving the Root position in the upper body mask and see if it help with baking

[robust wave]

By preserving, you mean enabling it in the mask?

(thank you for the help by the way)

[flat root]

try that see if helps with baking so it knows where root is

[robust wave]

I mean doing that helps solve the problems with the arms but not the legs, as they end up pointing in a different direction

I think the root is changed slightly in the aim 'animation'

Ah that may be why

not quite sure how to get around this

I apologise, I'm a complete brainlet

[flat root]

i don't know the exact combo but it really is mostly trial and error depending on how the animations were made that's why it's always different for me

but yeah baking settings, along with those dropdowns and Offset can help too

there is few tutorials that go in depth with those and explain how different baking combo give different result i'd suggest familiarizing with those it helped me in long run

[robust wave]

Thanks mate, I'll give it a go and just keep going until I get somehwere

[weak sand]

Hello, is there a way to change efficiently the animation in my animator without removing the transitions? Because our artist are constantly chaning things in the animation and they want to see how it looks like.

[hybrid tinsel]

@weak sandDo you mean changing which clip is used by an animation state? If so you can just drag a different clip into the inspector of that state.

(And if you mean something else we'll need more info =p )

[weak sand]

ahhhh there's a clip setting for that, ok thank you very much

[arctic breach]

Howdy, is the best way for me to get a rotating run (like you have root motion on) using rigging?

Like I turn left while running and the body pulls / rotates instead of just sliding around the Y

or if you know of any free animations for this. xD I'd love that too.

[brittle raft]

I have an additive layer in my animator, but its animations are not playing. It contains 1D blend tree that blends between two single-frame animations, the middle of these is a neutral pose. When I set the layer to "override" it works fine, but additive does not work. I've created this helper to try to set the "additive reference pose" but it's giving me an error:

[MenuItem("Moball/Utility/Set selected animation(s) additive reference pose")]
public static void Command() {
    if (Selection.objects.Length != 2 || !Selection.objects.All(obj => obj is AnimationClip)) {
        Debug.LogError("Must select 2 Animation clips");
        return;
    }
    var clip0 = (AnimationClip) Selection.objects[0];
    var clip1 = (AnimationClip) Selection.objects[1];
    AnimationUtility.SetAdditiveReferencePose(clip0, clip1, 0);
    Debug.Log($"Set {clip0.name} reference pose to frame 0 of {clip1.name}");
}

Any hints as to what I should do?

[mystic flint]

Guys, is there anyway to keyframe on humanoid rig ... i got this error

[north valve]

Where do i disable root motion/rotation for an animtion

[agile solstice]

Animator component has "Apply Root Motion"
Might be what you're looking for

[swift tide]

If I try to do animator.Play(”something”) when it already is in the something animation state, nothing happens

I can only cancel it into other animation. Is there any way I can let it cancel itself into itself?

[frigid leaf]

how do I find the setting to turn off "bake into pose" for my animations in unity 2020.3.14f1 ?

[calm cargo]

In Maya I have a few rigged characters but they're not the right height (scale). I want to rescale at the source in Maya so that they import into Unity at the correct size while at 1.0 scale ratio. How can I go about that safely in Maya with a rigged model?

[opal sky]

I'm trying to make a basic player movement script that includes animation rigging but as soon as you add the Rig Builder to the object, the transform.rotation and the character controller .move stop working. Any clue why this is happening ? (It happens in unity's own essential 3rd person char controller too)

[agile solstice]

I would make sure it's not trying to use root movement

[opal sky]

it's not

it's honestly a simple : playerRootObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0.0f, rotation, 0.0f);

if you disable the Rig Builder, that works fine... with the rig builder, it doesn't

tried even a fresh project with unity's own essential char controller... the second you add rig builder to it's armature, the movement stops working

[opal sky]

O_o it has to use RootMotion apparently..without it nothing works

[arctic breach]

is the animation component unweidly and poopy to use compared to animator? Never used it before. I kinda like the idea of slapping crossfade etc in script instead of clicking around as much.

Also does it matter too much if I stick the Animator / Animation component on the root of prefab, or the empty parent holding the prefab?

[arctic breach]

I see now it's deprecated. xD

[fresh prism]

Is it ok to use free assets from the asset store in a published game?

[lean sage]

https://support.unity.com/hc/en-us/articles/205623589-Can-I-use-assets-from-the-Asset-Store-in-my-commercial-game-

[twin musk]

i am trying to make a shooting animation, and i want it so that when i fire once the whole animation does not play, but only 2 parts of it, how can i do this?

[hazy pendant]

i added a transform - position property and i dont see it

it also isn't letting me pick it again, any idea where it went?

i was trying to copy the right arm to the left arm to have them both move,

[brittle raft]

If you use transitions it's possible to "allow self transition" from any state. Then you can have a trigger parameter. I've never tried direct state control with Play before.

[hybrid tinsel]

@swift tide you can set the time to the state start, you you could use an any state transition with 'can transition into self' set instead of playing the state directly

[slim skiff]

Would it be be heavy for the app if I had sprite animation for each item in a scroll view that plays while loading the images?

[hybrid tinsel]

dunno- depends on your target platform I'd think

[wise vector]

new to unity. I am trying to set up walking animations. the animations themself work but they do not get triggered correctly

here is the code that sends the coordinates to the parameters i specified in the animator
(also ignore the sprites, its the best i can do with my artistic skills 😄 )

void Update()
    {
        movement.x = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        movement.y = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Debug.Log(movement);
        if(movement.x > 0)
        {
            animator.SetFloat("Move Y", 0);
            animator.SetFloat("Move X", movement.x);
        }
        if(movement.y > 0)
        {
            animator.SetFloat("Move X", 0);
            animator.SetFloat("Move Y", movement.y);
        }
        ```

result

[weak sand]

how can I set the rotation of the particle effect in a particle system based on its emission direction from the base?

[late mica]

So before giving my problem, i don't know anything about animation, i just move and rotate stuff each keyframes, i don't touch the curves and other things

So before i "rearranged" my player model, i could select a child of it and move it. Now, if i do that , the animation changes/becomes blank until i select the player again. I can't only change the values cause it would make it harder and to make things worse, i need to enter play mode to see the animations since i use FastIK for the arms.

How can i get the old behavior?

[hybrid tinsel]

@late mica rearranged how?

[hard brook]

is there a way to take an animation, and basically make it so it plays once in the first half, then plays again in reverse in the second half? right now im doing something like the above using negative speed in the ReverseAtk, but itd be a lot easier for me if i could just create the animation to do it all

im not sure what the term im looking for is, i thought maybe mirroring but that seems to be a different thing in unity flipping left/right

[solar warren]

why cant I edit exposed fields of statemachine behaviour in runtime?

they are set as public in the script so what gives?

[hard brook]

i got an asset off the store that came with some animations, but they look different in the inspector when i click on them from what im used to. the top is an example of what they usually look like, the bottom is what these ones look like.

also, when i try to drag them into my animation override controller nothing happens. what's the deal?

[hidden peak]

guys, does anybody here knows about Animation Rigging Package? because I am having a problem with it and thanks ❤️

[hidden peak]

well.. I guess not

[wise vector]

Is there a way to make particles that are emitted from the particle system clickable?
so far i can only assign them a sprite via the texture sheet animation module

[strong dome]

Hi! I created a waking up animation but I need to stop first frame for a while (not specific time) Do I need create a pose for waiting time or can I resume animation after end any action?

[woven gyro]

It's better if you straight up ask your question

[strong dome]

I mean this pose include whole waking up animation. What I want is wait for end an action then resume this animation

[woven gyro]

most people don't reply to "can I ask a question", questions

[woven gyro]

You can make the speed of the animation 0, or disable the animator to pause it

[hidden peak]

@woven gyro do you have any problems if we talk about it private?

[woven gyro]

Yea

That is why people don't answer "Can I ask questions"

because then they make a commitment to answering

I don't know anything about the animation rigging package

[strong dome]

Ah i totally forgot there is a animation speed 😳 thank you so much

[hidden peak]

I just wanted to talk because its more complicated

its about the multi parent and multi position constraint

[woven gyro]

You gotta just leave the full question here, and if someone can answer it they will

[jagged ruin]

@strong dome you could also just CTRL+D the animation.. make a duplicate.. and then tick 'loop' on your dupe.. and then you have a looping clip

people (myself included) often use 1 frame loops as placeholder... others take that into production lol

..my answer only works if you know specifically where you want to cut / pause it lol -- i guess

[strong dome]

i'll try both thanks 🌺

[jagged ruin]

there's also Time.timescale lol

or just pausing the game / turning off the animator as suggested -- if you're going down that route -- gl

[strong dome]

ok this is works like a charm thx again

[jagged ruin]

awesome, my pleasure

[strong dome]

umm when i change end or start time it changes character position

Character just teleporting when i start wake up animation

i just duplicated same pose

[wise vector]

Is there a way to make particles that are emitted from the particle system clickable?
so far i can only assign them a sprite via the texture sheet animation module

[jagged ruin]

@strong dome did you keep the rest of the settings consistant? Did you duplicate the animation clip itself, or did you create a new clip in the clip-stack of the FBX and then not tick the appropriate buttons?

-- in the 'new one', i'd guess you want to just make it a 1-frame-loop.. and have it xz-position 'bake into pose' ticked, so it disregards your root offset for the initial first frame into the loop...

[jagged ruin]

But 'this' is expected behaviour, unless you are animating an inplace loop..

[strong dome]

Animations is really hurtful :( i got another problem now

[jagged ruin]

im referring to the animation content btw, not whether you ticked 'loop' -- if your working with an in-place walk cycle, then it wont move if you change start/end time.... but if you're working with a walk cycle with root motion.. changing the start/end time would -obviously- change the start/end position...

[strong dome]

Actually i created new pose in blender for sleeping loop and it works but my other poses gone...

I have 4 poses in blender. When I export as FBX some animations not showing in Unity

[jagged ruin]

have you created a fake user for them? doesnt look like

they're gonna get deleted on closing the file.

[strong dome]

OH THEY DID :(

[jagged ruin]

go through the animation clips, tick the shield.. create a fake user

Yea that's what the 0 means

or the lack of 'F' infront of their name

[strong dome]

all of them?

[jagged ruin]

the ones you dont want to get deleted yea.

unless thats what you want?

lol

[strong dome]

oh ok, i lost my 2 days animation work :( i wish i knew this before

[jagged ruin]

id watch a basic blender tutorial

blender does that with everything... animations, textures... mesh data

so, yea.. you might want to be aware of that.. you also might want to learn the intricacies of how blender discards unsaved image files (seperate issue) before you spend 2 days texturing something.

..if your working with it, again, you might want to be aware of it

so you paint a character's skin/clothing colours... you don't pack it or save the image .. you close blender... all your painting is gone.

i mean its on you, for not saving really.. but... it might warn you these days.

[strong dome]

God... Thank you for information, at least i just lost couple poses. I could lost bigger work. I need to know more about Blender basics

[jagged ruin]

I think it shows you a tiny asterix on a menu header. lol. Which is considered a 'warning'

thing is, you'll probably remember this better than if you got told it via a tutorial/me. So its a hard lesson learned but that's the silver lining

[wise vector]

Is there a way to make particles that are emitted from the particle system clickable?
so far i can only assign them a sprite via the texture sheet animation module

[jagged ruin]

you mean clickable in the editor?

they should be...

try going to the layers in the top right, and make sure the dropdown has the little 'eye' on whatever layer your particle system is on... (and its not locked) I'm pretty sure i can click on my particle systems in the editor window and itll select that GO

how many questions do i have to answer before i can start drawing a pay cheque? - do we get holiday days around here? - BADUM CSHHHHH. is jokes.

[wise vector]

no

[wise vector]

not the particle system the individual particles that get emitted ingame I need them to be clickable

[jagged ruin]

yea

@wise vector i mean, they're interchagable in terms of what i'm saying -- i can click the particles (or at least the billboard representation of the particles position) in the editor -- and it selects the particle system in the inspector

[agile solstice]

Clicking is detected with raycasting against colliders
Particles can have colliders
If this event can't be used to get info about which collider was hit (if that's needed) you could compare the hit location to nearest particle location in the system

[jagged ruin]

took me a while to work out what you were asking 😄 - i do believe the particle system provides 'onCollision' callbacks

[wise vector]

how can I add a collider to the particles?

[wise vector]

was i just blind?

jesus it seems so

[reef barn]

is it possible to start an animation at a random frame?

[wise vector]

looked over those components 3 times

so this isnt just for the particles colliding against each other

also the particles themselves can't have a script i guesss?

k i guess i read the documentation about that

firstr

[fluid sage]

hey i was wondering cause im having a hard time wrapping my head around it

how would i go by making a sword slashing particle

like showing the sword slicing the air or shooting out slices

[agile solstice]

I use this

[wise vector]

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

that seems to be just for particles colliding with world objects.
Can't i have the particles themselfs be gameObjects with properties?

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1505978/how-can-i-click-the-particles-emitted-from-a-parti.html

this answer here sounds nice and easy but how the hell do i make the particle system emitt a "particle" prefab?

[agile solstice]

Particle as a prefab sounds weird to me

Why not test if raycast can hit world collider particles

[wise vector]

what am i looking for there in the raycast?

whats the class it is supposed to hit?

and then it would only be 1 kind of particle i could not have the particles to have different properties

[agile solstice]

I don't see why not

You check a raycast against any and all colliders that are on the same layer

[reef barn]

Thanks! I'll give it a shot!

[wise vector]

like this?

            if(hit)
            {
                Debug.Log(hit.collider.name);```

cause then the particles do not react to that

[reef barn]

i tried adding this script to the game object with the animator, but it looks like it stays paused at the start of the state. Am I missing something?

[agile solstice]

I may have mixed it up with another script but I'm not even sure

does this work any better

[reef barn]

YES! Perfection! Thank you!

[agile solstice]

Apologies, the first one is meant to freeze frame the gameobject's animation at random time!

[median stag]

i have a little problem

ok, i have more than a problem

[stuck elm]

https://i.imgur.com/xWrCbi0.mp4 Looks kinda bad but it works! Mecanim retargeting on a 2d rigged sprite.

[trail tulip]

sup mates

im having an issue with animations

this code does debug falling and landing correctly

but my animations are not playing

and I really dont have any idea why

[hybrid tinsel]

You are restarting the crossfade every frame

[royal sonnet]

What do you guys when a 3d Model is missing some bones and it restricts the model from using animations?

I downloaded an animation from maximo

right now im trying to figure out the avatar set

and the maximo 3d model with its animation works but my own 3d model does not function like the maximo model

maximo model is in idle state but my model still in T-Pose

[cedar willow]

Hey guys, I'm trying animation rigging and I got a question... How do you guys save your poses? Rigging works only in play mode, so I have to copy-paste component's transform, but I can copy only one and, so have to pose it over and over again. What do I miss?..

[old kayak]

are you trying to animate in unity? you should be doing that in another program like blender, the rigging package is really for procedural stuff you need to use scripts for

[cedar willow]

Yep, I have an idle animation and want to make it adjusted, so, I use rigging

[old kayak]

you should be fixing it in blender then

[cedar willow]

Well, it's not the problem here, I guess 🙂
I don't want to populate tons of animations just for slightly different poses, rigging is working perfectly for that purpose.

But I fed up with posing the same character over and over again because I can't save all my targets and hints

[woven gyro]

I'd argue animating in unity is perfectly viable

but a editor-time IK script helps greatly

[old kayak]

you could do that, yes'

[cedar willow]

What's editor-time IK script?..

[woven gyro]

As in, IK that works in the editor

so you can actually animate with it

rather than runtime-only

[cedar willow]

Do we have that script?

Where do I get it?

[woven gyro]

Not sure

I use UMotion-Pro to animate in unity but I don't like to recommend purchasing stuff

[cedar willow]

So, this script is part of this plugin from asset store, right?

[woven gyro]

The plugin is a whole thing, that is one of the features

but you can do this yourself

If the package for IK unity has is open source

you can probably just add [Execute in edit mode]

or something

[old kayak]

i feel like that would break stuff

[cedar willow]

I just can't imagine that everybody who work with animation rigging package just copy-paste values every time

This question is like the most basic and trivial thing you can run across

[old kayak]

they don't use it for animating like that, like i said

its mainly used for procedural stuff

[cedar willow]

Alright, gotcha

Well, I'm going to try UMotion community edition, maybe they have this feature there too

[old kayak]

ok I just looked it up, rigs do evaluate in the timeline and animation window

in editor mode

[cedar willow]

Yes, but they reset after you close it

You can't save it when it's not recording animation

[old kayak]

what are you trying to do with the poses?

[cedar willow]

I have an location with some NPC, they all have the same animation - idle. But I don't want them to be totally identical, want some of them sit, look somewhere, just, differ

[old kayak]

hmm I see, i would have done something like add a few extra animations and blend between them, maybe throw in a script to procedurally rotate some joints

[cedar willow]

Yes, but it's easier to achieve with rigging. isn't it?

[strong dome]

hi, is there any issue? I can't understand what is 0.5 at right boxes

[twin musk]

Hey guys I use Blender to animate, is there a way to make it so if your character does something like lay their hand on a surface, ir doesnt clip through? Or would I have to keep going back and changing the keyframes until I get it not to clip?

[royal sonnet]

I copied the bones from a maximo 3d model and pasted it to my avatar set to the left

however this red text appear could someone help me out?

[hybrid tinsel]

That is something you can use IK for.

[wicked hull]

Hey, I have two characters that have the exact same hierarchy and bone names, above is a picture of them running the same animation in blender. I defined an avatar based on the girl model[humanoid] and made a mask specifically for the extra face bones. The animations reference this Avatar only. I imported the guy and had him reference the girl Avatar(note - he has the same bone naming and hierarchy but the bones are slightly differently placed) and it seems that his bones try to "snap" to the girl avatar bone positions[not keyframed, but the actual positions of the bone in the rig] ingame, causing this demonic smile in the bottom pic. What am I doing wrong? is there no way to have shared animations for custom bones?

[hybrid tinsel]

@wicked hullRetargeting is only for humanoid bones, but you could probably use additive animations that are gender specific, using the female bone positions as a reference pose.

[wicked hull]

So if im not misunderstanding then there's no other way other than to recreate the face animation for each character? Persumably therell be about 30 more characters with different face proportions, so it wontbe just these two

[hybrid tinsel]

You could use blendshapes

[wicked hull]

Id still need to recreate it individually per character, which is what im trying to avoid haha

[hybrid tinsel]

I suppose you could write some code to adjust things

[tired basin]

is there a clean way to apply root motion to some animation clips for a particular animation controller, but not others?

[agile solstice]

I don't have advice but I want to note that that is beyond terrifying

[wicked hull]

It sure is lol

Imagine me trying to figure this out as theyre staring right at me without blinking

[viscid gorge]

Can someone remove one of the pinned Urls? The last one about Kinematica @ Unite took me to a private Youtube section stating that the video is private.

[strong dome]

I have created 2 poses in Blender and they are literally same. Only difference is deleted some keyframes. There is no problem in Blender. But when I export to Unity as FBX "sleeping" pose not same

This is the sleeping pose in Unity

Position, rotation, bones everything is wrong

and this is wake up pose. There is no issue with this pose

[winter topaz]

https://gyazo.com/60c58097969f20549f15970c206471af

Any idea how to fix the legs going way too far side to side?

https://gyazo.com/23e62f71064c3505f6230aea1c97834c

This is the original animation

The feet don't move anything like that.

https://gyazo.com/e65a5e31d3613c0418aeb7d6fa74a446

Any of these settings the culprit?

Okay, the issue was the 'Bake Into Pose' on Root Transform Rotation, Enabling that fixed the issue.

[digital hull]

hey guys

simple question how can i auto arrange animations in animator ?

like this

[woven gyro]

You don't

[maiden oxide]

Hi everyone, I'm using unity 2d animation package and I'm trying to make a variant of my current character(Who is a little girl), the base skeleton will be the same, but I would love to have a seperate skeleton for her hair and dress. Right now I'm thinking to make a naked character and attach the hair and dress to her body under the right bone. I wonder if that's the right direction or if there's a easier way to do this? Thank you!

[woven gyro]

If both characters are humanoid you will be able to transfer animations

[maiden oxide]

Yeah, the characters are humanoid, but since their hair style will be different, I don't know what's the best way to do the hair animation. Should I make hair a seperate prefab or something?

[thick radish]

I would say make the hair separate so it doesn't mess with the skin, if that's what you mean.

[maiden oxide]

Yeah, I guess so. I want to have hair animation too. So the rigging of each hair style would be different. I guess the only way is to make them a seperate prefab with their own skeleton and then attach them back to the body...?

like this?

[cyan oar]

guys

is there anyone here to help me ?

i want to open a screen share

i can't explain the problem please answer fast

[celest crag]

@cyan oar #854851968446365696 How to ask questions properly. Illustrate your question. And don't spam across the server.

[cyan oar]

k <3

[hybrid tinsel]

https://i.imgur.com/7Ma4txk.mp4

[hybrid tinsel]

If you find a way PLEASE let me know

[hybrid tinsel]

humanoid is for 3d animation 😦

[hybrid tinsel]

If you're using a layered file, you can just add the extra hair types as more layers and share the skeleton; just have the bones only affect the pieces you want

You can even use a sprite library to automatically switch between variants

[pine swallow]

Hi all! Little question for someone more experienced with Unity than me:
I have a mesh, with a bunch of animations and blend shapes. They work fine separately, but as soon as I try to adjust the blend shape sliders on a model with an animator component attached, I am not able to drag them:

Now, I figure, I could have the blend shapes as their own separate animations, I would really rather not though because this will make my animation state machines much harder to work with.
It is possible to combine shape keys with bone animations right? If so, does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[hybrid tinsel]

@pine swallowYou should be able to add blend curves to the animation

[pine swallow]

So I should be able to use blend shapes and a mesh animator component without doing anything different?
Ok, thanks. Good to know I'm doing something wrong rather than Unity not allowing this workflow. I'll try again with an empty project and an animated cube

[hybrid tinsel]

I THINK you should be able to- I've not done much with combining them

So I might be missing some subtlety.

[pine swallow]

Not really much subtlety, blend shapes aren't working whenever I animate a model. Thanks for the advice

[reef barn]

Not sure if this is the right channel, but I'm having an issue with Unity's Animation Rigging.
I had this working for me before in a previous project, but I no longer have that project for reference.

It is a VR Project I'm working on.

I have Multi-Aim constraint to rotate the 'hips' of my rig. The 'hips' are the highest point in the rig hierarchy. But, I thought if I rotated the hips, the whole rig should rotate, but instead, I'm finding the 'feet' stuck to the ground as the hips rotate, and the 'legs' twist ridiculously.

I even tried disabling my two-bone IK constraints on my legs, but weirdly, it still seems to use them when disabled.
I also tried quitting and re-opening the project, and same thing.

[reef barn]

I think i figured out something that may be impacting it. My rig builder component didn't have anything set on rig layer. But, weirdly, when I added my animation rig to the layer, it breaks everything except the hip rotation.

[north valve]

Why does my object's rotation change when i apply animations? Can I disable this somehow?

[uncut salmon]

Does your animation have a rotation property?

[north valve]

What is a ratation prperty?

its from blender

[uncut salmon]

Check the animation file in Unity and see what it's changing. It might be animating the rotation of the object, hence the behaviour you're seeing.

[north valve]

I rotated it in blender and now it works, i already did this, i don't know what I did differently this time but it works, so thanks anyway

[maiden oxide]

Thank you for your suggestions! I'm using a psb file and swapping sprite library work for most of the pieces except for her hair and her skirts. I was thinking the same thing but I'm a bit worried of all the bones overlapping each other . Now I'm trying to use Spine to do this, hope it works!

[fresh prism]

what would be the best way to make semi decent looking water/animation for my mobile game? shader graph?

[fervent wave]

Question: if I have a door prefab with animations for opening the door and closing the door, if I want a single door and a state enum for a door.open and door.close...

What would be the best way to set the initial state of the doors animation? So, for example...Some door prefabs would be set to open as the default state while others would be closed.

I don't want to play the entire open or close animation on start. Is that the only way to set the initial animation state at runtime?

[fringe lynx]

so i'm making a game with 2D sprite characters, and i plan to have swappable parts so the player can customize their characters to some degree. so like, hair, eyes, mouth, maybe some other facial features like freckles, scars, etc. and then swappable outfit parts so that their outfit will reflect the type of armor they have equipped. is this a good approach?

i want to be able to animate it just like a skeleton

[finite salmon]

Im really new to animating and im trying to fix this problem so when i walk right the animation works but when i walk left it just plays the idle animation

[fringe lynx]

with no code or anything how do you expect us to know what's causing your issue

[finite salmon]

https://pastebin.com/sppx5p66

[fringe lynx]

_moveInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");        
if (_moveInput >= 0.01f)
        {
            _playerAnim.SetTrigger("IsWalking");
            _playerAnim.ResetTrigger("NotWalking");
        } else if (_moveInput <= 0)
        {
            _playerAnim.SetTrigger("NotWalking");
            _playerAnim.ResetTrigger("IsWalking");
        }

if you press left, the value of _moveInput would be less than 0, and thus your walking animation doesn't play

[finite salmon]

Alright Thank you

still wont play

[fringe lynx]

did you make any changes?

[finite salmon]

Wait nvm i figured it out i need another else if statement for when your not moving

[fringe lynx]

no...you should take the absolute value of _moveInput instead of just _moveInput

[finite salmon]

but if i just make another else if stattement would it work?

[fringe lynx]

so:

if (Mathf.Abs(_moveInput) >= 0.01f)
{
    // walking
} 
else
{
    // not walking
}

[finite salmon]

so this? csharp if (Mathf.Abs(_moveInput) >= 0.01f) { _playerAnim.SetTrigger("IsWalking"); _playerAnim.ResetTrigger(("NotWalking")); } else if (Mathf.Abs(_moveInput) <= 0) { _playerAnim.SetTrigger("NotWalking"); _playerAnim.ResetTrigger("NotMoving"); }

[fringe lynx]

you have a case that's unaccounted for when Mathf.Abs(_moveInput) is greater than 0 but also less than 0.01f

you don't need an else if (), you just need else

[finite salmon]

alright

[finite salmon]

thats okay

[hybrid tinsel]

How I do it is to have four states; one for open, one for closed, and one each for opening and closing.

[hybrid tinsel]

That is a perfectly good approach.

[fringe lynx]

alright, thanks, ill give it a try

do you have any tips for making the workflow easier for myself/my artist?

[fresh prism]

I've created a water animation in blender using a plane, displacement and a bezier circle. I can't just export this as an fbx. I've been searching for a way to get this working properly in my Unity project, but no dice. Anyone know how to do this or if it is even possible? This is the tutorial I followed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grdhD3PPkKs&t=3s&ab_channel=GrantAbbitt

[hybrid tinsel]

Make elements use the same bones as much as possible!

[hybrid tinsel]

Render the displacement to a texture and apply it as vertex displacement on the shader in unity

Or remake it in unity

A basic noise texture displacement is very easy to do in shadergraph so I'd not bother trying to export the blender version unless you had some fancy simulation going on.

[weak sand]

Hello, I'm trying to create different animations for my barricade's health over time. The problem is that the barricade will not show the movement even if I set the loop for the animations to true or false.

In here, the main door's health is below 80 and I should expect to see the barricade on the top to swing but the animation is not showing

here's what the "80%" animation looks like

but it still shows the 100% animation even though the barricade health is set to 0%

Mb, the objects should be set to non-static

[golden ruin]

Can someone explain to me what a Root Transform is?

[bright pagoda]

Im trying to import animation from blender but some of them are missing

does anyone know how to solve it

[hybrid tinsel]

@golden ruin the root transform is the transform(usually either the hips or an empty between the feet at ground level) that contains the motion you want appled to the object in world space when using root motion.

[golden ruin]

Like a Vector3 for every frame?

[bright pagoda]

just solved it
the animations weren't importing because i had animation data from a deleted bone in those animations

[hybrid tinsel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RootMotion.html @golden ruin

[golden ruin]

There is no a clear definition for Root Transform for me

[hybrid tinsel]

You understand what root motion is?

[golden ruin]

It's like changing avatar's position and rotation during clips

[hybrid tinsel]

Basically, it applies the movement of the root to the object instead of keeping it in local space

[golden ruin]

I do not understand. What is the root? keeping in local space?

[hybrid tinsel]

Ok. Normally, if you have a character walk in an animation it will be in local space- relative to the object origin. So at the end of the animation the character will snap back to where it started.

With root motion, the character will keep walking instead of snapping back IF the animation was made properly for root motion.

[golden ruin]

Like it changes character's position (root) with every frame?

Oh

Root transform is character's origin in motion?

And it snaps back after animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

It snaps back without root motion

[clever gazelle]

how can i make an animation that will never transition to a different stat without the animation finishes playing ? i checked has exit time but it broke everything and i need someone to tell me about it a little 💙
thanks for your time

[heavy olive]

so if i wanted to fill this orb with liquid as a charging animation, what would be the best way around that? think diablo.

Should I just have the liquid be another png asset and have that grow from the bottom?

[hybrid tinsel]

Has exit time is the correct way to do it

[clever gazelle]

fixed duration works for me

thanks anyway 💙

[hybrid tinsel]

can have a sequence of textures, or just make a shader that clips it at a specified level

Like, if you set the shader to 'alpha clip' and use a vertical gradient for the alpha channel, you can just adjust the clipping level to change the fluid height

[heavy olive]

cool! do you have a handy tutorial video on that method by any chance ? 🙂

[twin musk]

hey guys, in blender, how do you copy the rig from one bone to another in a diffewrent armature?
without having to give the other the same name as original

@ me if you know

[random saffron]

yo I have a issue with my bounce pad in unity anyone know how to fix it?

when i bounce on it the second part of the animation flies away

and then comes back to the position

nvm i checked "apply root motion" and it fixed it

[fallen escarp]

Can anyone help me with blendshapes?

I'm not sure why there's nothing to edit.

[low gorge]

U fixed ur issue?

[heavy olive]

well i started creating the spritesheet first. we have it now, so the goal is to create a filling effect.

we could just have it charge up during the battle, find the X amount of time, and make it slowly fill up according to the length

but if you have a tip, article or video we are all ears

[low gorge]

Was gonna say u could use sprite mask and move the fill bar upwards through code.

That way u could have an animated image/sprite that looks like a liquid effect

[heavy olive]

ooh its a bit orby unfortunately hehe

but i guess a sprite mask that just goes up vertically would do that then, right?

[mystic idol]

do xbot and ybot have the same dimensions?

[hybrid tinsel]

https://i.imgur.com/QXCPFbP.mp4

That's just a sprite with a gradient in the alpha

For a filling effect you'd use a vertical gradient instead of a circular one

[keen cloud]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/744965726938595389/887153506073604126/Spritepop-0001.gif

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/522573952086704128/887111835302625280/BiscGrunt.gif

[bleak lily]

the character moves only when I delete idle animation keyframe

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywFbK9czQu6GW1b9wR_UjWhlMqs2WFBh/view?usp=sharing

Do anyone know solution to this ?

[mighty iron]

I wonder if an animated movie will ever be made with Unity

[old kayak]

does this count https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qjp7i7zjSY

[mighty iron]

wow I guess so

[void panther]

I guess this is more a question about importing, but I'm wondering what the easiest way to update an existing character's model/armature is.

We do all our modelling/animating in blender, export as fbx, and drag it into the unity project. Whenever we make changes to the armature or model, though, we re-import everything, drag it into the scene as a new prefab, and then re-add all the components to the new prefab because we don't know how to update the existing prefab properly. Does anyone have any suggestions/advice?

[hybrid tinsel]

@void panther can't you just replace the existing model directly?

[void panther]

probably but i have no idea how to do that

[hybrid tinsel]

Replace the file outside of unity without removing the .meta file

[void panther]

so, hypothetically, even if that works, is it not a bad idea to replace things outside of the editor?

or is that normal practice

[hybrid tinsel]

Also, I usually don't add components to the prefab directly if I can avoid it; I try to add them to empty parent 9bjects when possible.

[void panther]

ah, interesting

[hybrid tinsel]

It is normal for me at least.

It partly depends on hust what you are changing too

If you want to be cautious you can duplicate the object inside unity and thrn replace the duplicate outside of unity to maje sure it works

[void panther]

we use version control so there's no risk there

[hybrid tinsel]

I also use that trick to make variations so it is still useful

[void panther]

a bit confused on how to replace the model 🤔

i've been unpacking the FBX in unity

so I guess unpack it in unity and then that will unpack the fbx in the files here

but how do I replace the player's model with my new model?

if i need to provide screenshots/etc. I can

[hybrid tinsel]

Then take the updated model and drag it onto the version in the asset folder

And choose replace

You can also just save directly onto it in your 3d software

Then go back to unity and it usually automatically re imports the changes but if it doesn't you can tell it to

It handles some changes better than others; renaming or removing bones can confuse it, for instance.

[void panther]

ah

see that's kind of the idea, we're updating the model and armature with new bones, different weight painting etc.

[void panther]

still foncused

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, weight painting shouldn't break anything

Changing the bones will probably lose components you added to removed bones

Though since you unpacked it, it might just leave empty transforms, you'll have to test it.

[keen cloud]

i have a two questions 1. why is it that in unity the sprite flickers and 2. why do the legs not stay in place and it kinda scrunches up in unity

its not the sprite sheet

[low gorge]

I have 1 dissolve material attached to several gameobjects but I want when I change the value it affects only the selected gameobject

[fluid sage]

Hey how do i make it so that the particles doing follow around with the camera but stay big like billboard? cause the particles seem to want to follow the camera instead of staying in place https://gyazo.com/29702027f2c455d787b77970c0e39c25

[low gorge]

Turn off billboard

[wild matrix]

If I want to make enemies for a Light Gun / On-Rails shooter, and I got "animations" from Mixamo or from Unity Assets, what is the best way to turn that into scripted enemies? I tried to use a Simple Animation Controller and string a few animations together but it was awkward and didn't seem right and I couldn't get all the animations to loop properly. Any ideas what topics I should google and learn to make this better?

[outer kettle]

Hi guys, i've dll a 3d character and animations on mixamo. When I check their rig names, i see that the model starts with mixamorig1:..... and the animation with mixamorig:.........

So I want to set them as generic but I doesn't work because of the differents name. So I changed their name through blender, but it still doesn't work and my character remains in T Pose. Did I miss something ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure; this is what humanoid rigs are for 😛 You can always edit the animations to have the correct names.

[fickle sphinx]

remove the comression on the sprite and set a pivot(blue circle in the sprite centre) by legs(you can do it in sprite editor)

[outer kettle]

I wanted to avoid using humanoid but I think I have no choice lol. (I already changed their names)

[keen cloud]

Thank you I got it

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/876612268132036629/887507877420474418/Desktop_2021.09.14_-_21.18.50.04.mp4

[tawny tangle]

how can i have this effect with 2 different states? 1 for red ball and 1 for green? wont 2 different states instantly change the color?
https://streamable.com/c5ao24

[uncut salmon]

What do you mean different states, and how does it relate to your video?

[tawny tangle]

i could use this animation shown in the video, but then ill have other problem in scripting, since i want to reset this animation but without playing it. people told me to use 2 different states. 1 for red ball and other for green ball. so the animation wont play by itself when i dont want to. but i dont see how i could have this color changing smoothly with 2 different states with 2 different colors

[uncut salmon]

Yes, you use an Idle animation where it's just a solid colour and another animation for it bouncing between red and green as you have it.

Add a transition between them and use a bool parameter to switch between the two.

[autumn ridge]

Hey guys I want to use Animator.Play(); for weapon fire animation, problem is it only works once! When I call Animator.Play() again, it does nothing. There is no default state, or idle animations in the pack I bought. What to do?

Pls ping me, in case this message gets lost

[autumn ridge]

Hey guys, no worries I found a solution I pass -1 instead of 0 for layer

Final code goes like Animator.Play("name", -1, 0);

[true yacht]

Hi, does anyone know how to let a character be animated by a script like 100% pull arm there, 20% pull other Arm down, ...?
I only find ways to let the character do a whole animation without the abillity to change anything dynamically (except the execution time)
I have 8 changing floats (which correlate to music) and I want to let my character dance accordingly

[fluid sage]

Hey how do i make it so that the particles doing follow around with the camera but stay big like billboard? cause the particles seem to want to follow the camera instead of staying in place. if i turn off billboard it just goes flat instead of staying round and cloud like https://gyazo.com/29702027f2c455d787b77970c0e39c25

[static brook]

hola! im new here, i have a very irritating problem with the animator, i have a transition thru a animation with 0 transition time and exit time, and the animation still plays for a frame inbetween the transitions.

[wintry junco]

can somebody help me here?
when my animator component is active, my character rotates and "lay down". i have no idea why is this happening
any clues?

[mystic idol]

Also make sure Bilinear filtering is set to Point (No filtering) and compression is set to none

if your sprites start tearing, you can apply the pixelperfect component to your camera object

That's a really sick sprite btw did you make it? I'm building a platformer too and I have a bunch of art styles I'm trying to decide between. I like the Dead Ahead game art which yours feels like

[mystic idol]

I took a model into blender (complete noob btw) and just wanted to fix an asset that was wrong. Part of the barrel is attached to the slide. So I grabbed just the portion and grouped it to the same group as the barrel, however I think it messed something up with the mesh or uv or something because now the ejection port is see through and the other side of the slide is not

[keen cloud]

is there a property to allow me to manage offsets of the sprite

[mystic idol]

what do you mean by offset?

like a transform offset?

[keen cloud]

i meant this i found it

[calm rose]

Hi guys, I am trying to add an Animation Event but for some reason I can't get any functions to show in the inspector. I have a script attached to the animated object with a public method, but still it's not showing... Any ideas? I am using the Animator, not the Animation component. Don't know if that makes any difference

[celest crag]

Should illustrate the problem to exclude guessing as well.

[celest crag]

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

[calm rose]

I already checked this, I think it's outdated or something? I only see the 'function' field in the inspector

Am I missing something?

[celest crag]

Did you follow the example though?

[calm rose]

So you still need the Animation component? I thought the Animator replaces that

Ah okay yeah I see now

[calm rose]

How would I apply this to a prefab? I am getting the error AnimationEvent 'PrintFloat' on animation 'Reload' has no receiver! Are you missing a component? Although I have the Object field in the AnimationEvent set to the prefab. Is this not supported? Is there a way to assign it during runtime?

I'm certain there is a PrintFloat method in a script attached to the object of the AnimationEvent

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it the same object that has the animator on it, or a child?

[calm rose]

It's actually calling a function on a parent object(the player root object) which instantiates the weapon(animator) object when the weapon is first equipped. Does the instantiation process "de-reference" the assigned prefab values? If that makes any sense

[calm rose]

To be clear, the AnimationEvent is trying to call a script attached to the root player gameobject, but the actual weapon object which has the anims/AnimationEvents attached is instantiated once picked up

And the root player gameobject is NOT currently instantiated, it's just pre-placed in the scene

So there are low-poly (world view) models that are on the ground, then once you walk over them, you pick them up and it instantiates the high poly model onto the local player object, now I need to trigger the assigned AnimationEvents on the high-poly models for reloading and such to play certain sound clips

[hybrid tinsel]

An animation event can only call functions on the game object that has the animator on it, not parents or children

You'd need to add a script to the object with the animator and have that script call functions on the parent

[calm rose]

Ahh okay, I did not know that... Thank you!

Makes sense, thanks a ton... I didn't realize this

Yup that works now, thanks again!

[hybrid tinsel]

Glad it worked!

[misty elm]

How do you turn a particle system on and off in an animation?

[spiral pond]

Anyone knows his/her stuff about animations rigging ? I have a small issue with mine.

I have setup two RigLayer and I am alternatively switching between the two when an event happen (in my case right click). For that I am setting the weight of each rig layer (Rig component) to 0 or 1 and that seems to work okay.
The issue is that I have a Multi-Parent Constraint under one of my RigLayer and even when its weight is at 0(the Multi-Parent Constraint), the Constrained Rotation (on all axis) are somehow kept.

If I disable or enable all of the Constrained Rotation it only works for one RigLayer or the other.

I tried to dynamically in my script enabling or disabling them alongside where I change the weight of the RigLayer but I still have the same issue

This is how it looks when the rotation is constrained. You can see the Multi-Parent Constraint weight being switched to 0 and 1 and vice versa

And this one is when the constrained rotation are disabled

What I wanted to achieve was when the player is not aiming, the weapon would go back into its "rest" position, but it doesn't, it stays pointed toward the aiming spot

[spiral pond]

I think I "fixed" it but it feel like a hack. I hardcoded the rotation of the aiming down of the weapon in the code and I apply it every time the player aim down 🤔
It does work but... it feels dirty, not sure if there is a cleaner solution

[signal moat]

can someone help me with this question?: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1861294/humanoid-fingers-not-deforming-properly.html in summary fingers in a humanoid rig are not deforming correctly even though they look fine in blender

[twin musk]

this animation slows down near thee end

i saw many people (even in google) say something about making the curve linear but i have no idea what that actually means

found thsi from reddit

still don't get what they mean

[hybrid tinsel]

@twin muskRight click on the key and

You can also switch between keyframe view and curve view

which lets you visually see why it's slowing down

[twin musk]

ah thx

[daring stratus]

I need feedback on this run animation how does it look

[orchid venture]

someone can help me for an animation pls

i have one but i don't know how to set it

[late mist]

Hello guys so i was following a tutorial on youtube and it lead to animation rigging and using of multi parent constraint for weapon pose and aiming . But when i used multi parent constraint movement of my object was restricted but its animation continued to play . When i apply root motion in animator the object moves but when i press it slowly floats down untill its reaches ground . Here is a video for your understanding . Tnx in advance 🙂

[late mist]

your one hand isnt moving ig

[orchid venture]

pls

[hard brook]

is there a relatively easy way to use multiple animations for the same action? like with a sound effect, you would just have an array of sounds and generate some random number to play a different auto attack sound everytime you swing. but im not very good with the animation system yet and not sure how to do something similar with variation animations of the same action

[orchid venture]

someone knows how to make a button animation with just 2 frames?

[dreamy jewel]

I'm not sure it's the "best" way, but I remember doing something like this via making multiple triggers in the Animator. Name them all the same name and increment a value at the end, so like, having multiple triggers called "anim1", "anim2", "anim3". Then in your code, instead of setting one of them to be true, you'd have a random value generated from 1 to 3, and do something like anim.SetTrigger("anim" + random.range()). Each one would be correlated with a different animation
This is assuming of course that you have the animation events be the same in each animation.

[serene onyx]

hey, would somebody be able to help me :), im trying to make a simple 2d movement script, i had made animations but idk how to flip my character / [Mirror]

well flip my animations i mean

[celest rivet]

Anyone here ever used the AnimationInstancing unity package?

[raw hull]

is there a way to flip the dinosaur without scaling it?

its making my animation all glichy

what I am trying to do is make an animation where all the object does is flip

its 3D btw

[celest crag]

Why not just rotate it?

If you want some things to remain always in front, just shift their z axis to the other side when flipping

[raw hull]

okay

I'll try

this is basically what I'm doing for the animation to flip it

but it makes it all jittery

[celest crag]

You need to be more descriptive and video would help.

[raw hull]

yeah, I tried to send a video

but it said max file size is 8 mb

and i dont have nitro

[celest crag]

Use ShareX to capture small part of the screen.

or host it somewhere

[late mist]

Someone?

[winter topaz]

https://gyazo.com/8ddedca89b7888cf863222885415677a

Anyone know why enabling blendshapes to modify a mesh causes the vertices to become smooth? Gameplay stats doesn't say any new verts or tri's are added when it happens.

It doesn't become smooth in blender.

All of the edges are 'Marked Sharp' as well, didn't think this could happen.

[celest crag]

@winter topaz Don't cross-post, please.

[winter topaz]

There's no 'model' channel, so took a shot in the dark.

or mesh.

[celest crag]

Pick one channel

[winter topaz]

Alright, sorry. Any idea which channel this would be best for?

[celest crag]

This one is fine

If animation changes the mesh in a way that merges vertices, it would make the mesh smooth in Unity.

This is how smoothing in Unity works

[winter topaz]

K, found a solution, enabling 'Legacy Blendshapes' in the model Geometry settings seems to have removed the smoothening.

[fluid sage]

https://gyazo.com/218ee518897549ccb9e8cfcceae91356

hey im trying to make an infinite image behind this but it clips like this

is there i way to make this panosphere infinite and clean

[normal flare]

Hello everyone! I am working on a basic movement for a 3rd Person Game. I am currently working on the movement and animation. Though I don't understand some things, when it comes to the sideways animation. It's kinda weird. I'd be happy If someone could help me in a screen share

[last acorn]

why is this happening

I'm trying to use some animations i made in blender for the model but it completley breaks the model

[keen cloud]

so im using 2d and a have a couple death animations that dont loop they just stay there all the other animations work fine and the other npcs can walk over the corpse but with one of my animations the npcs go under it

is there a way to change the layer on an animation

[next salmon]

guys

i can't hit the record button in the timeline

anyone knows why?

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you give more context? Is it grayed out? Is it just not responding? Do you have a timeline object selected?

[hybrid sparrow]

How to isolate HeadBone from specific animations? (using uvs-'bolt')
I want my head to rotate and look at gameobjets when body is playing walkin animation
How to create avatar and mask for that ? Can i do this without avatars?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can create a mask for that but not sure whether you can make non avatar masks without code

I dunno about bolt but with normal scripts you can also just override animation by running your transforms in LateUpdate

[clear orbit]

Animation Rigging with look at constraint

[clear orbit]

Just guessing. But maybe you are trying to record the Timeline asset rather than the timeline in the scene?

[twin musk]

I just posted a question regarding Inverse Kinematics on the forum if anyone is able to help:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/changing-collider-offset-due-to-ik.1171880/

[hybrid sparrow]

what is this? i need to google it?

[clear orbit]

@hybrid sparrow yeah

[placid jacinth]

All other animations of this asset are not rotated

only this one is

i want to set its rotation to 0

I mean basically i want to sets the main animation's Rotation to Zero

how can i do that?

By default other animations look like this...With 0 rotation