🏃┃animation

[glad gull]

Can you help me to do they animation? @dusk granite ?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can't make it actually infinite, though you could fake it- the usual way would be to just move it with the camera on the x and z axis.

[bold kite]

Oh ok

Thx

[dusk granite]

Yep that’s intended for it haha

[dusk granite]

Honestly animaion is a weak spot for me so maybe not, I can’t even do my own animaions properly lmao

Because yeah as you see in the video, I’m still having issues with that bug and I still haven’t figured out how to solve it

[glad gull]

Oh

Ok

Then I want play your game when you finished it 🙂

[glad gull]

I was thinking if you can tell me how I can do that movement oof the camera

[dusk granite]

Ah i just moved and rotated the player and then made it if I press Q i tilt left and if i press E i tilt right

[wooden granite]

Do you guys use blender for basic animations like walk animation? Or simply do it in unity?

Because my blender doesn't work, I gotta make animation in unity but I never made 3D animations before

[drowsy condor]

hey guys
I have a meele combo attack on my Ogre
but the problem is that the transform pivot is not moved
so when I loop the attack it teleports the Ogre a meter back to the start point
how do I resolve this?

end of animation the second pic

[drowsy condor]

Import > create from this model > root bone > hips
solved it 🙂

@wooden granite as far as I know you can only do basic stuff in unity directly
you need to import from a proper software like blender animations

[brazen mural]

Can someone help me with this?

[grave river]

how can i make my player punch according to the camera direction?

the animation only punches forward

[tidal berry]

My blender animations are not appearing in unity. I'm using unity 2021.2.0f1 and blender 2.93

Nvm, solved it, realised i hadn't exported it, just moved the file

[novel citrus]

i have some specific transitions that need to line up with another piece, and each keyframe is in exactly the right spot to make it match, yet when actually playing, everything gets overshot by a noticeable amount

it doesn't even get close to actually matching the keyframes that i put in

going frame by frame, every single spot matches up, but when played the animation is far too fast.
any idea on how to fix it?

[opaque palm]

Can you send a picture of the Animation in the Animation Tab? (snipping tool works)

[novel citrus]

with only a few, it didn't line up, with all of them there, it doesn't line up either

[opaque palm]

Oof, I'm not sure what the problem could be, I'm not very good with animation myself sooooo

[novel citrus]

yeah, most of what i found said to turn off resample curves, but that doesn't seem like it's an option since this isn't an imported animation, just something i made to shuffle some objects around over time

it's supposed to look like this at this point, with the screen wipe continuing across consistently the whole time to line up with the video

but while playing, on this same frame, it looks a bit more like this

the actual bad apple part is on the exact same frame, yet the keyframe for the transform somehow got missed by a long shot

[opaque palm]

Does anyone know how to make transitions between States in an Animator? I'm trying to find out how but it's just so frustrating

FINALLY I THINK I GOT IT

[novel citrus]

making an attempt at using the curves to fix the transitions

[manic hazel]

hey so I have an animation and it's got a lot of keyframes but it's just a .anim file so it's not included in the FBX so I can't reduce the keyframes using the Animation tab in the FBX. so how can I reduce the keyframes in the animation? it's to reduce the file size of the animation clip

[hybrid tinsel]

I do all my animations directly in unity.

[hybrid tinsel]

What sort of interpolation are you using? And does the sampling rate match the video framerate?

[novel citrus]

I haven't adjusted the interpolation at all, and as far as I'm aware the sampling also matches the fps of the video

[random raptor]

'yep blender is nice to do this

[wild matrix]

Could someone explain how I could fix this root motion over-rotation problem? My rotation transition values is greater than 10 magnitude.

[wooden granite]

Do you animate rotations?

Because if I change the position moved away from the parent body part

[smoky pendant]

hey everyone, hope youre havin a wonderful weekend. Im curious as to what is the standard when it comes to clothes simulation with characters

Currently struggling to make my models and its correspondin clothes work well in a non-static way (clothes physics). I especifically created the models and clothes models in Marvelous Designer, in case anyones experience relates to it.

[past river]

timeline question: what's the right way to blend gameplay root transform with timeline animation transform?
I currently have "transform.eulerAngles = ...;" in my Update(), and the following in my timeline:

what I want to happen is have the value set in Update() take effect when there's no clip, the value in the timeline take effect during the clip, and blend between the two during the ease in / easy out portion... what's currently happening is that the value set in Update() gets ignored

[floral pulsar]

hey. this NormalizedTime is supposed to be there, right ?

image is from https://answers.unity.com/questions/1002400/how-do-i-set-the-time-of-an-animation-playing-in-t.html

well, mine doesnt have it!

Motion TIme is replaced ... wtf!

[hybrid tinsel]

@floral pulsarYeah, as mentioned in that same unity answer, motion time is what they renamed that to

I believe they renamed it because while it remaps the duration of the clip to a 0-1 value, it accepts values outside of 0-1(to represent looping)

So the value itself isn't normalized.

[warm dust]

Hi everyone, new to this channel, very little experience on unity I want to really learn as much as I can.
I'm currently practicing with my own project, and practicing animations, but I'm having some minor issues with blend tree's where, the radio button of the variable is not changing the value of the real variable which modifies the animation, I can steel work with that issue, but it will make my work much easier to have the radio button and variable linked, does anyone now why that might be happening.
Thank you very much in advance!!!

[twin musk]

hi i have a problem, i tried to code the animation of movement for my character idle and walk forward works, but left walk, right walk and backward walk makes a bug (sorry for the wrong english)

im early learning how to make games
i used mixamo for the avatar and the animation

that's the animator controller

normally the VelocityX is set to 0

[opaque anchor]

why the hell does my animation starts again after reenabling its parent in hierarchy?

[twin musk]

check if u enabled exiting time

does it works now?

[opaque anchor]

exiting time?

[opaque anchor]

nope

it is disabled

[twin musk]

i dont know i started early to coding

i had the same problem and i resolved like this

can u check my problem please

[opaque anchor]

that is very common bug with mixamo animations

you need to assign avatar to the animations

check youtube guides

[twin musk]

thanks

another question the codes for the animation i found doesn't work really well do u know a video to make my animation for a third person shooter?

[vapid garden]

Hello, i cant rig a humanoid avatar?

[vapid garden]

Animation rigging is not blending with idle animation 😦

[rare idol]

Hello everyone. I'm currently setting up a top down 4 direction movement/attack animator for a skeletal rig. At the moment I'm a little frustrated with the transitions and blending I'm able to do with the Animator (not sure if it's my lack of knowledge or the lack of feature in the Unity Animator). I'm curious if anyone knows of an asset that handles animation transitions and blending better that then Unity Animator. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

[violet ferry]

My animation plays twice for some reason

It transitions into the default animation, so it shouldn't loop at all

[rough quartz]

hey guys need help, I am importing an asset from blender with animations, I can see the animations in the mesh data in the inspector but after I assign it a animator controller and I see its animations it says that all the bone parts are missing

what gives?

ok I fixed the problem in the non linear animation tab in blender, this is really confusing

nope it just apears out of no were

the parts just get missing out of no were

ok I guess I have to keep the animator component in the parent transform

[hybrid tinsel]

@vapid garden you can only move the humanoid bones with a humanoid animation. You're getting the error because you are using a generic clip on a humanoid.

[latent stirrup]

anyone know why my animations play perfectly fine in the animation and animator tabs but the sprite just slides in play mode?

[hybrid tinsel]

@rough quartz animation clips use the relative path to find the objects; you need to preserve the hierarchy by putting the animator on the parent or it breaks like that.

@latent stirrup are you constantly restarting the animation by transitioning to it every frame?

[latent stirrup]

im not sure im new at this, but it was working before i added new directional animations

i get this error going into play mode

[hybrid tinsel]

Without more info it is hard to specifically debug, but that is what I'd check for.

[latent stirrup]

how do i check for that?

[vapid garden]

it is not a clip but Unity Animation Riging Package

[hybrid tinsel]

@latent stirrup in the animator graph.

[vapid garden]

So Animation Rigging is not blending with Animations Idle

[keen urchin]

I'm probably misunderstanding something about how the animator works, but I have a "pulsing" animation that is meant to play every 0.5 seconds. I am triggering it at the same time as a sound effect which is working correctly, yet the animation triggers only every other time. I've tried making the speed faster/slower and it consistently only ever fires every other time.

[hybrid tinsel]

How if your state machine set up? Is every other trigger coming while the animator is in a state with no transition that responds to it?

[wheat aspen]

Some basic movement animations 🏃‍♂️ . What do you think?

[tacit geyser]

Wanted to update with what I believe is the solution in case anyone else runs into this. I was downloading the FBX files from Mixamo with just the rig. Changing to downloading with the skin made the animation behave. No idea why but something easy to try if anyone else runs into this

[safe marlin]

how do i play an animation from a certain time?

[uncut salmon]

You can set the time through:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Play.html

[safe marlin]

thanks

[mint osprey]

i'm in the process of building a generic kinematic character controller for myself to use in prototyping player & AI characters (i.e. 3rd person). Now I want to add some generic animations to it for all sorts of features (traversal, combat, interactions, ...). This will probably happen with a custom animation player or animancer. What I'd like to know is this: Exactly what should I be looking for in readymade animations(packs) that I need to blend well together without requiring extensive logic just to play the right variation of the same animation (i.e. left/right foot stop). I would also like to to have my animation system be modular (e.g. locomotion separate from lower body, arms separate from body etc.). So far i've only looked at mixamo animations with yet unsatisfactory results (they always seem to be in some way incomplete). The character will not use root motion. Any tips on pitfalls and caveats that are non-obvious to a programmer would be very much appreciated. My goal is productivity with acceptable aesthetics (i.e. fun but not perfect).

[vapid garden]

@hybrid tinsel
Would you have a time to help me find a cause of my problem? 🙂

[clear orbit]

I think you have to find the animations you are using in the project browser and change thier Animation Type to Humanoid

[high siren]

I have a question, how could I move an animation like this from a .blend file. I can't move it from the file to say a folder for animations nor can I use it for scripts.

[uncut salmon]

Duplicate the asset and use that and move it.

[high siren]

Thanks alot, that worked.

[vapid garden]

I got basic animations here. I dont think i can change it to Humanoid, they seems to be Humanoid, i just sreams my IK animation rigging isnt humanoid.

[twin musk]

hi how i can add a walk stopping animation with a blend tree?

[vapid garden]

I cant even rotate bone manualy in Scene during Play. Animation is just overring it. And i updating animations in Update not Late Update

[gloomy thunder]

is it possible to delay start of animation without any scripting?

(i must do everything without scripts in this project)

[west delta]

What about bolt?

Its unity’s visual scripting thing #763499475641172029

[gloomy thunder]

unfortunately the game im modding doesnt have packages of bolt

modding is done by loading assetbundles, and since you cant put scripts in assetbundles i cant use any scripts

[west delta]

Interesting

[west delta]

Umm probably a bad solution but maybe make a long line of empty states

Maybe someone else could think of a better solution but I don’t really know of a way without scripting

[gloomy thunder]

im ok with every solution, thanks. how much seconds an empty state is? im new to the animation stuff in unity

[west delta]

No clue, it’s just a theory you’ll have to test it out

If there is a delay, it’ll probably be very minimal

Mostly it’s just delaying through lag

Which is a bad way to do it but yeah it’s the only idea I have

[gloomy thunder]

maybe i can make an empty animation instead

[west delta]

Maybe, your situation is definitely unique

[gloomy thunder]

is it possible to change animator controller parameters for every object? i mean like exposed stuff in shaders

otherwise i have to create a new animator controller for every object

[clear orbit]

Are your constrainsts set to 1?

[vapid garden]

Where do you mean<

[hybrid tinsel]

Please don't spam my inbox.

[vapid garden]

What spam? i accidentaly sended u DM and deleted it.

[clear orbit]

on your constraint there is a constraint weight setting

maybe one of them is set to zero

[karmic shale]

Hello. I'm trying to import a rigged model with bone animations and shape key animations from Blender to Unity. The blend shapes and the bone animations work fine, but the shape key animations don't get imported. Tried pushing them down the NLA in Blender before exporting as fbx, but that didn't help either. Anyone knows how to make them work?

[hybrid tinsel]

@karmic shale when you say they don't work, you mean the frames aren't imported, or it doesn't recognize the clips, or what?

[novel citrus]

85 curves on one clip am i committing crimes yet

[tribal creek]

Hi - Does anyone know how to solve the problem of missing transforms in an animation? I imported an animation from Blender to Unity and it works fine in the inspector, but I can't get it to play in the scene (reposting this question in this channel)

[hybrid tinsel]

What about missing transforms, exactly? You mean that the clip can't locate all the transforms, or that the transforms are missing curves, or...?

[brazen mural]

can someone help me with this

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you reframe the question? I'm not really sure what the exact problem is- what should be happening, what actually is happening. Do you want all those sprites to be in the same position?

[tribal creek]

honestly im not sure exactly? (sorry im really new to this stuff) im just trying to get an animation to play when i call it to but i dont know how to set it up when its based off of something ive imported from blender instead of setting up in Unity

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you describe what seems to be going wrong?

[brazen mural]

oh, they slowly start to move up/down/around as the animation loops. the video isn't long enough to show that. I thought about how this is probably what the apply root motion is supposed to do, but I want it to restart at the beginning relative position

does that make sense?

like beginning frame relative position

here's a better video

[hybrid tinsel]

Ah yeah, to prevent that sort of drift you want to apply all root motion.

[karmic shale]

The shape key animations don't appear in Unity at all.

[hybrid tinsel]

So what about a clip with shape keys AND armature animation? Do the blendshapes not show up in those?

[karmic shale]

After pushing down the shape key animations to the NLA, one of them got mixed with one of the armature animations. I'm not sure why. The others don't show up.
I actually need the shape key animations and the armature animations separately.

[floral pulsar]

I totally missed that in the first read. thanks.

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you just make an empty armature clip? From what I understand, that is what unity actually detects as a clip.

[karmic shale]

Yes, I'll give that a try!

[hybrid tinsel]

Lemme know if it works so I'll know next time 😄

[vapid garden]

All were at 1 🙂 i checked tons of stuff

[clear orbit]

so it's not working?

[vapid garden]

Nope. I tried to create WeaponHolding Layer set ti to weight 1 from 0 when iam equpied and set weight of rig too.

Still broken and weird 😦

[clear orbit]

are any rigs working?

[vapid garden]

I jut retargeted them. Left Arm and Right Arm. Now their are semi-working

Weird things is. Rig has weight 0

and it is automaticly on 0.8 after play

[clear orbit]

maybe its recorded on an animation

[vapid garden]

Iam using unity standart asset animations

[vapid garden]

worst thing is i cant rotate any bone in play so i can adjust nothing

[clear orbit]

but... thats the whole point of animation rigging

show your chrachter inspector

this guy

[vapid garden]

oh

[clear orbit]

im guessing you need humanoid clips

[vapid garden]

What clips?

All animations are humanoid clips and animation rigging is what?

[clear orbit]

animation rigging can be both

[clear orbit]

I think that bit is fine. but go into your project folder...on the animation prefab

on the model sorry

[vapid garden]

U mean this?

[clear orbit]

I still havn't really got the hang of it, because its kind of convuluted

yeah, now check the inspector on those items

[clear orbit]

make sure thyere all humanoid or something...im very fuzzy on this, so you might not get a result

[vapid garden]

it is humanoid

[clear orbit]

maybe its on the actual animation you are playing

so click in the annimator

[vapid garden]

Like whe wrist are twisted like this

[clear orbit]

cick the animations... when they hightlight in the project folder, click on them and check the inspector

what does your rig builder look like?

[vapid garden]

I fallowed many vids and documentations. Thould be right

[clear orbit]

i mean the rigbuilder in the inspector

[clear orbit]

what kind of rig is it

[vapid garden]

Rig_Ak47 is a Child of PlayerArmature witch has Animator

RigBuilder is on PlayerArmature

Rig_47 has a just Rig Script

RightHandIK and LelftHandIK has Two Bone IK Contraint

[clear orbit]

can i see the rig 47 inspector

[clear orbit]

can i see the constraints

[vapid garden]

Target is on AK GO Hint is on UperArm

Cant use Hint or someting cause i can rotate anying in PlayMode

Animations just Override all I maked sure they run in Update not LateUpdate

[clear orbit]

ok. so if you press play does the hand mangle up? and then what is the effect of lowering constraint weight.

[vapid garden]

Cant lower value of constraint weight for some reason

hand just move into that position

[clear orbit]

do the other 2 bone iks work?

and are you using a different animation file than the standard assets ones?

cos it maybe related to those warnings in insoector.

[vapid garden]

Iam using same animations. I just took them out from pack by duplicating it

[clear orbit]

I've got the 2Bone Ik constrainst to work on the starte asset.

[vapid garden]

can u show me animations file folder?

that is all in Base layer in Animator?

[clear orbit]

no. just using the standar assets

didn't mess around with animation layers, dont know much about them

I think the animation files folder is just the default one

I suspect you are using different animations which are not set up for this rig

[vapid garden]

Thx for help. I will try to redo animations

[clear orbit]

actually i get those same errors, but the 2Bik is working fine

[vapid garden]

Errors are fine by my searching

[valid birch]

I made an animation in blender that has key frames for rotation only but when I import it to unity and play it the object teleports to (0, 0, 0), which is where it was in the blender space. how do I make it only apply the rotation?

[jagged ruin]

bake Xz position into clip, or unapply root motion.. or delete keys from animation clip

[marsh arch]

Hella, do u have any clue why isnt my charatcher animation working. The animation is from mixamo and character is rigged properlly bc it gets good pose but he dont move.

[vapid garden]

Fixed all Things. THX For help man!

[twin cobalt]

Help pls

Can someone help me with that frickering of that Animation 😅

[loud cobalt]

Can someone decode / explain these numbers. It makes virtually no sense currently

[primal latch]

hi how can i find a text asset that like type some text . not just make it visible but type

2D

does anybody know

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you rephrase that? I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do.

[primal latch]

free

[primal latch]

like text that types out when i click or do smthin

[hybrid tinsel]

https://unitycoder.com/blog/2015/12/03/ui-text-typewriter-effect-script/

You can adapt it pretty easily to textmeshpro for better quality

the actual 'typing' part would be the same

[wintry mauve]

here I can ask questions about DOtween?

[silver nest]

Hello. Why my script properties do not show as available properties to add in an animation using the AnimatorController?

[rotund elm]

Hey there,
I have a zombie that is looking at the player by using Animator.SetLookAtPosition, which is working fine.

Now what I'm trying to do it add some feedback to the zombie when he gets shot in the head, to do this I have made a simple animation for the head bobbing back which is on an additive layer on top of the walking animation, problem here is that if I play this while the IK is controlling the look at position it doesn't give it the full swing and changes it more to a small flinch, however when I set the look at weight to zero it obviously snaps the head back to it's default position.

Is there a way to play this head animation while still using the correct look at rotation/ looking towards the player

The head animation is super simple and only controls the down and up nodding:

[quasi spindle]

hlo epic animators i need ur help

if i animate my hand to reload a gun and animate the gun too hwo to import it to unity

[hybrid tinsel]

You can add a curve for the IK weight to the animation, to have it smoothly lower the IK influence at the peak of the animation's influence.

[rotund elm]

That might actually do the trick thanks, will try that tomorrow!

[hybrid tinsel]

That's how you'd usually let a character lift their feet while walking if they are using IK also

[lyric salmon]

i am having issues with blending two sprites together to be able to walk and fight at the same time. not sure what is going on.

[lyric salmon]

been struggling whit this problem for two days.... i just realised that the animator was animating wrong sprite....

you gots to pick the right one... 🥴

[twin cobalt]

Can anyone help me with this 😅

[jade warren]

How have you got this setup

Using a set trigger?

[twin cobalt]

Update: lol I had ticked the exit time column so that's why it was flickering , Now it's good haha

[twin cobalt]

Yes I am btw

I am using an enum state that is int

[jade warren]

Ah yes that will be why

[twin cobalt]

Yeah but I got one more problem now lol

[twin cobalt]

If you don't mind can I dm u ?

[jade warren]

Sure but I dont know much about enum states that's not how I do things

Probably not the best person to ask

[twin cobalt]

No I got a different problem Wait I'll tell u

[brisk quail]

hey guys, I can't find any info on this... does anyone know what's this red arrow in the animator?

[fluid sage]

Hey, so I was thinking about making a kind of web effect that goes out with some particles in a circle and then they all attach up with ribbon trails but it doesnt seem to wanna do the effect I was lookong for, any ideas on how to makes web like effect with trails and stuff thatll hook up all together?

[grave river]

what is the right way to make it punch at an angle? (lower, higher, depending on the camera angle)

[rotund elm]

This ended up working great, thanks!

[silent sorrel]

is there a way to animate a 2d object forwards rather than just up? i coudnt find an answer from just googling

im just trying to move a simple 2d rectangle quickly forwards, then slowly back, based on where its angle

[clear orbit]

I think maybe edit the animation

[hybrid tinsel]

@grave river use inverse kinematics (IK)

[dry mica]

I get black lines sometimes on sprite animations edges, is there a way to get rid of those?

I think it's the sprite above it in the sprite sheet that's showing

(yup that was it)

[grave river]

i discovered about animation rigging, you know about that?

[hybrid tinsel]

I know it exists but haven't used it

[spark wadi]

Hey guys, my character shows up as in t pose in Avatar Editor, however it shows up as A pose in unity, why? and is it still considered T pose ? I am confused

It is also in A pose in blender, so color me confused

[hybrid tinsel]

@spark wadi the avatar editor has a setting to enforce t-pose, is that checked?

[spark wadi]

@hybrid tinsel yes it should be let me double check

[spark wadi]

Ok I did check it an apply, it did nothing to the model at scene or in game :S

It does the show the model in a T Pose in the Avatar Settings

so I am confused, is it in A or T Pose ?

The blender file is also in A Pose ?

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, in scene is it posed by your animation right?

[manic abyss]

Is it possible to have parallel states going on?

I want Blade Rotate to go on all the time
With the other stuff also running in parallel

[hybrid tinsel]

@manic abyss put the blade animation on a second layer.

[manic abyss]

Thanks, I did it 🙂

[vague elm]

Hi guys, is it possible to modify an animation imported from mixamo? I'm not able to do it. Can you give me some info? thanks

[rose pagoda]

hi I have a problem with my unity project I dont know if I might have accidentally pressed something but I have a scene and in this scene, all characters dont animate. I checked the animator controllers and all of the animations are stuck at the first frame. at first I thought this might be something that I did in my scripts but I dragged a new character on the scene with no scripts just the animator controller and the new character doesnt animate as well. whats weird is this only happens in one of my scenes but doesnt happen on another scene

[hybrid tinsel]

You can make a copy of the imported animation which can be edited.

The actual imported file is read-only

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you have any scripts that stop time in the scene?

[loud cobalt]

Documentation states that myAnim.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime should be a value from 0..1 that shows current animation progress. However for me it's returning 3 and more. How? Why?

A bug?

[rose pagoda]

actually I've just solved this. there is indeed a bit of code that changes the time scale I did not realize that this was happening

thank you so much for all your help 🙂

[mystic siren]

So I just imported my character from blender to Unity. And im concerned about the rig in import settings. Since it needs to hold a Nav Mesh Agent as the player, and that is of type Humanoid, should my Rig of my player character also have Animation Type be Generic ? (please @ me for answer)

[woven birch]

is it possible to run headmoveing animation while it chanes thrue different animations

pls help

[vague elm]

I was already working on a copy, as you can see from the screenshot it's not read-only.
I can actually move the keys but translations don't work, I strongly suspect that this is not allowed.

[mint solar]

I'm having an issue where when I change from a Generic Rig to Humanoid I'm losing rotational animation data. For example, the eyelids on my model don't have bones so they rely on rotational data to blink. They will blink when the animation is viewed in Unity's inspector but then if I want to apply the animation to my Humanoid model I have to change it from Generic to Humanoid and they stop blinking.

[hybrid tinsel]

@loud cobalt the ACTUAL normalized time should be the modulo of that value.

@woven birch yes, by putting the head animation on a separate layer in the animator.

@vague elm transform krys don't work for humanoid muscles.

@mint solar you need to add any additional transforms you want keys for in the importer, or mecanim will strip them out when converting to humanoid

[vague elm]

Basically that means that you can not modify a mixamo animation, right?

[hybrid tinsel]

No? It has nothing to do with it being mixamo. Once it is converted to humanoid, you would need to edit it using the muscle curves instead of transforms.

You could also edit the fbx file externally.

[little path]

How would I go about "Injecting" an animation into another object? Assuming:

1. Both objects have different Animator Controllers and a Humanoid Avatar
2. The "Injector" has both an animation state as well as a direct reference to the animation clip asset it could use
3. Once injected, the recipients animator controller should stop, not processing any transitions to or from that state (A way to automatically return to "Entry" when it's done would be cool)

[hybrid tinsel]

@little path I'm having trouble entirely understanding what you're trying to do. You want to gave an object temporarily mimic the animation of a second object, or...?

[little path]

I have a fighting game, and I have a grapple move that would require the grabbed character to do a specific animation to be held. Rather than having a special state in everyone's animator just in case this one specific move hits them, I want to have the grappler pass the animation to that other character to play.

The animation is confirmed working on all character's rigs

I just want them to play this animation clip, without having their existing animator interfere with anything

[novel citrus]

once again, everything lines up great individually but jitters constantly and overshoots when played

every single frame matches exactly where it is supposed to be to match the main animation, but when you actually play it, it's all out of sync

[hybrid tinsel]

I'd use a Timeline to sync their animators

[little path]

But that'd still require every fighter to have a state pre-built for every possible animation clip, and adding new moves to any character would require every other character be changed

[hybrid tinsel]

No, it wouldn't.

that's why you'd use a timeline.

So you can override the animator briefly.

[little path]

So, like, temporarily give Fighter B the AnimatorController of Fighter A?

[hybrid tinsel]

No. In the timeline, you can just play a animation clip on the character directly.

It will override the animator until the animation track ends.

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

[little path]

I haven't looked much into Timelines, if I have a TimelineAsset that basically says "play this clip", can I tell an unrelated object to play this timeline at runtime?

Without having to set it up in the inspector?

[willow otter]

yo been having a problem with my animations on my model that i havent been able to figure out for like 2 days straight, most of the animation plays correctly in vrchat but the limbs wont pose correctly. Kinda fairly new on this stuff

[twin musk]

Do anyone know how to make smoother animations for a third person game? (3d)

I used mixamo for the animations

[loud cobalt]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/problems-with-animator-state-exit-time.1196773/

Need help with this

Pls

[clear orbit]

Have you looked into animation rigging? You could put constraints on your rig which have a weight of zero, and then set them between 0 and 1 depending on grapple state.

[modest raptor]

Do you have any experience importing characters from Blender @clear orbit?

Somehow only half my animations appear in the import

Perhaps it's a question better suited for the blender discord

My apologies if so

[mystic siren]

I know this might be off topic, but i exported my Blender Character to Unity and now he is floating. I tihnk this have something to do with how he was in blender when i exported him.. Please help :c (picture for reference). Please @ me if you know why :/

The green is the Nav Mesh Agent..

Is there a way to change the navmesh to start at his feet or is it the imported mesh that is messed up?

[hard stone]

I'm following a tutorial but i am stuck, his animation window looks like this, whilst mine looks like the screenshot below. And i can't figure out how to do the settings he does, since mine is so different

Anyone know how to change my animation to look like his, or atleast do the same settings as he does

[clear orbit]

click on the cameraWobbleAnimation button

[hard stone]

i did

[clear orbit]

You need to add an animation track first

[hard stone]

i can only create a new clip

[clear orbit]

What ar eyou trying to do?

you have no properties that are being animated

[hard stone]

making the camera wobble

[clear orbit]

Your animation has nothing on it

[hard stone]

i have never animated before, i just tried following a tutorial, this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6L5WJOsWg

hmm weird, i just tried following his steps

[clear orbit]

what do you want to animate?

[hard stone]

the main camera

so when you walk, it wobbles

[clear orbit]

Ok. the reason you dont see what he sees is that your animation has no anmation data on it. Maybe you missed a step

[hard stone]

okay, thanks. I will rewatch the video very closely again

if it doesn't work i'll come back here in like 5 minutes

[clear orbit]

ok

But as a sidenote, I think I would use cinemachine for the camera wobble

That tutorial is from 2013

[hard stone]

i, never heard of that

[clear orbit]

You dont want to follow it

[hard stone]

yeah i know but i couldn't find any good tutorials on camera wobble online

[clear orbit]

search for cinemachine

[hard stone]

oh theres a brackeys video, i'll go watch that

this is gonna sound dumb, but i can't find it in the asset store when i type in cinemachine

[clear orbit]

its in the package manager

[hard stone]

is it build in?

[clear orbit]

yes

[hard stone]

and uhmm, where is package manager?

got it

i can't install it it says

And i can't find the file where it's pointing to

[clear orbit]

Wow

Never seen that before

[hard stone]

...

oh boy

is it the correct one?

[clear orbit]

what version of unity do you have?

[hard stone]

how do i check

[clear orbit]

should be at the top of the screen

The white Bar

[hard stone]

2019.4.17f1

[clear orbit]

Should be fine.

[hard stone]

Maybe if we ping Everyone someone will come and help

[clear orbit]

Did you make a new project yourself, or is this an imported project?

[hard stone]

myself

[clear orbit]

Its weird. I would start a new project with nothing in it and use cinemachine.

Fixing stuff is not recommended

for starter projects

[hard stone]

Fixing stuff is not recommended?

what do you mean?

[clear orbit]

I mean I couldn't fix it ofr you as i've never seen it. Its really unusual, and I would tyr to see what functionality Cinemachine has in a fresh project

obviously you can come back and integrate

if you find a fix

[hard stone]

so, i can't use cinemachine, or atleast we don't know the problem

i'll start a new project and see if it works there

[clear orbit]

Yeah

[hard stone]

oh ffs, it works there just fine

welp, now i just gotta copy all the code and script and objects i had to that new project i guess

i wasn't far in so it's not much trouble

[clear orbit]

Yeah. Good plan

[hard stone]

do you know a way to copy all the objects into the new project?

instead of doing it manually

cuz i made a amazing character model, and i don't wanna recreate it again

[clear orbit]

oh...just export them as a package

Asset>Export Package

Then import package from new project

or...i think you can drag and drop...

if you have both open

[hard stone]

well, the good news is all the scripts got exported, but the objects didn't

[clear orbit]

Yeah. I guess try again

[hard stone]

The problem is that my hierarchy isn't in a folder or anything, so if i export everything it exports all the folders

and i tried looking it up and trying myself but i can't get my hierarchy in a folder

[clear orbit]

ARe they all gameObjects?

[hard stone]

If a camera is a game object then yes

[clear orbit]

You want to take a camera?

[hard stone]

I want to put the entire hierarchy in a folder so i can export it

[clear orbit]

Anyway. You could make an empty GO at 0,0,0...call it Stuff to export.

[hard stone]

i don't understand

[clear orbit]

make sure its at 0,0,0, then drag everything into that Object.

[hard stone]

make an empty GO?

[clear orbit]

Then drag it in to your project folder.

then export that

[hard stone]

what is a GO

[clear orbit]

GameObject

[hard stone]

oh haha

[clear orbit]

Yeah, its a long word

Have you tried drag and drop though?

[hard stone]

yes

it doesn't work

[clear orbit]

oh the other thing is to just copy the asset folder from 1 to the other through windows

export the scene

[hard stone]

the asset folder is in explorer right?

[clear orbit]

export scene is probaly what you want

[clear orbit]

YEah

[hard stone]

I can't find the assets in the folder

i only have the scripts

[clear orbit]

through windows?

[hard stone]

yes

these are all the folder i have

[clear orbit]

The assets folder

[hard stone]

and none of them contain anything that's named like my hierarchy items

[clear orbit]

go into Assets

[hard stone]

that last one is in assets

everything below that is all scripts

[clear orbit]

Yeah, so these must be all your Assets in your old project

[hard stone]

i think this explains it all

[clear orbit]

Yeah, so I would make that into a prfab

prefab

and then export it

or....export the scene actually

go to your scene...and export that

[hard stone]

...

i will try

how do i go to my scene?

[clear orbit]

Why those cameras dont work??

[hard stone]

no no camera's work

i think you understood it wrong

if a camera is a game object, then yes

[clear orbit]

No i emant to say WHy Cinemachien don't work...

[hard stone]

ooh

[clear orbit]

Maybe worth asking

[hard stone]

idk it's odd

or maybe, forget it happened and have it never occur again :D

imma just rebuild it then, thx for the help

[clear orbit]

OK.

[hard stone]

@clear orbit this... this is unbelievable

i spend the last 1 and a half hours rebuilding the scene and getting everything right, then i noticed cinemachine went missing

and i have this AGAIN

I cannot begin to describe how mad i am

[hasty ermine]

hey all I have some animations for door open and have it applying root motion however it does not end where it should, it should end on -0.9 but it ends at -0.8998194 - and ideas why it is not exact?

(y position that is)

[dim oak]

I'm stuck and starting to get discouraged using Unity. I bought a prefab of a spaceship. A huge hierarchy of meshes. Following a tutorial online, I opened the animation window and clicked create. This added an Animator to the Spaceship. I created two clips "Open Bridge Doors" and "Close Bridge Doors". Using the Add Property button I navigated to the GameObjects for the left and right door and add their position to the animation window. Updating the values like the video failed to animate. After trial and error I determined the reason was that every door in the ship had the same name, so I edited the prefab and renamed every game object to given them all unique names. Now I am able to animate in the scene window. I tried diving straight into scripting to have collision triggers play sound and animation, and the sound plays but no animation. Rolling back to basics, I made sure both animation were not looping then I created the following graph in the Animator window, which according to other videos should make my doors open and close continuously in game mode, but I get nothing (this is on 2020.3.22f1)

[dim oak]

I went even simpler and just left Open Bridge Door as looping and nothing. I've tried turning Batch Static off like one post said. Right clicking the Animator I see that "Optimize Transform Hierarchy" is disabled, so I can't click that. Everything on the internet is 1 - 4 years old. I've tried reading the user manual. I got nothing left.

[noble fog]

So, if I have a transition from Any State to my animation, where the condition is a bool, how, when i set the bool to true, the animation plays completely once

[noble fog]

huh?

what, i dont understand

are the doors not opening?

like what do you want?

[dim oak]

They open and close in the scene window when played from the Animation window. When I run the game, nothing is animated

[noble fog]

so, when you play the animation, in the "Animation" tab, it keeps looping, and plays successfully?

but it does not work in-game

[dim oak]

exactly

[noble fog]

so, what happens now?

does it only open once and then nothing happens or what?

[dim oak]

nope, not even once, I've got the main camera point at the door

[noble fog]

hmmm

can you see anything happen in the "Animator" window?

like, maybe the blue lines?

[dim oak]

let met check

[noble fog]

ok

[dim oak]

blue line fills bottom then disappears and fills bottom again over and over, but the doors in the game view do not move. Could it have something to do with the camera? I had a first person controller prefab from Character Movement Fundamentals in there that had said to remove the main camera. I tried removing the controller and adding a camera but same deal, animation plays in Animator but nothing moves in game

[noble fog]

are you sure that your animation controller is actually attatched to the object?

[dim oak]

How would I verify that?

[noble fog]

go to your object(either the spaceship or the door)

then see if it has an Animator component attatched to it

[noble fog]

hmm

i dont know srry

[dim oak]

Thanks for trying

[clear orbit]

Maybe the Open Door animation is not the one in the Animator

[daring stratus]

I'm trying to make my player break into pieces when he dies how should I make the model of the player

[hybrid tinsel]

In chunks I suppose.

@dim oak show us your transition settings in the animator?

[dim oak]

Super simple, I have one animation with looping checked.

[hybrid tinsel]

I meant the inspector for it but

hm.

With such a simple setup...

If you import an animated character or something to the scene does that animate normally?

Do you have any scripts that adjust the scene's time scale?

[dim oak]

Is there a free animated character you know of in the asset store I could test with?

[dim oak]

I have verified there are no scripts attached to any GameObjects in the scene

For completeness, I have two directional lights, the prefab (the prefab has lights, particle systems, meshes, materials and colliders, but no scripts), and a camera

When I play the animation clip in the scene, everything works as expected

When I run the game, the animation is running according to the Animator, but nothing is happening

[modest raptor]

Select the animation state and show us the inspector for it

[dim oak]

There is nothing called animation state (that I know of), The animation clip inspector looks like this

The inspector for the node in the animator looks like this

[modest raptor]

The node in the animator is called a state but you showed it regardless

And you added the animator to the object?

[trail smelt]

my mirror option is grayed out in unity animation can anyone help me out please?

and yes my avatar is a humanoid type

my model is also stuck like this

[dim oak]

OK, I started from scratch and built a simplified prefab and animated it and that is all working. Now to isolate the differences.

[hybrid tinsel]

Your character being stuck like that would mean that you haven't correctly set up the avatar.

[dim oak]

It's working!

The secret is a little checkbox in the corner of the inspector. It seems obvious now, but when you are staring at 254 GameObjects it is hard to see.

[outer hedge]

alright so i was following unity's tutorial on makig a screen transition

its slightly outdated i think

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/HOWTO-UIScreenTransition.html

im 99% sure there is something im doing wrong here

[hard marlin]

Help please

Can't add event to timeline

[hybrid tinsel]

Aha! Yeah, that would do it.

@hard marlinThat looks like an imported animation... so you'd need to add events in the importer.

[hard marlin]

Hm

Can you send link to description "importer"

Idk what is it :3

[hybrid tinsel]

@hard marlinthe import settings for the file.

@outer hedgeYou don't seem to actually have a transition from the entry to either open or closed.

But yeah, that tutorial doesn't seem broken, though it is a bit silly.

[hard marlin]

Okay

Thanks

[hard marlin]

How to make animation not read only

[hard marlin]

Sorry for stupid question. But where is it?

[twin musk]

Anyone can help me how do I save my animation for in game?

im new to unity btw

[celest crag]

@twin musk Links with resources are pinned here. There are also tutorials on Unity Learn site.

[twin musk]

there isnt a link with how to export it in game

[formal dock]

hello, does any one know a solution: i tried this tutorial for legs in blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbIsNAvUpM&t=144s now i want to export this to unity... but then the charakter is complete stretched and not correctly... i tried to bake the animation in blender but there is a similar result

[novel citrus]

okay so the animations i have been making are still desyncing and missing keyframes no matter what i do. everything will perfectly align on every individual frame but as soon as it's played it's a mess that doesn't match at all.

every single animation i have made has done this.

[fair storm]

Hey so Im using the Starter Asset's 3rd Person Controller and Im trying to figure out how to add a single very simple character animation and Ive just been absolutely stumped for hours - Ive looked through loads of tutorials and docs and such but none of them seem to work with the Starter Assets setup - I don't even know what Im supposed to be making the animations in. I tried importing the model into Blender which seems to include like a default animation which I could try and animate but there doesnt seem to be any way to export to these .anim files that it seems to use. I created an animation in Unity but I cant find anyway to actually make an animation other than manually inserting keyframes for dozens and dozens of joints which seems impractical. Not to mention that making that animation doesnt seem to have created the same thing as all the already built one has with the model/rig/animation/materials options and such.

Havent done animation before, really struggling to find somewhere to start that works with the existing PlayerArmature (for reference for those that havent used it, PlayerArmature is a game object with an Animator component linked to a controller that has one of those animation flow chart things (which I also dont understand))

Not expecting anyone to come here and tell me exactly how to do something, Im just struggling to figure out how to get my foot on the ladder, what tool do I need to make things in, what do I actually need to do?

For further details, Im trying to extend the Starter Assets playground with a ziplining mechanic, just to get the hang of unity in a broad sense, so Im trying to make an animation to let the character reach up and grab the "zipline" rather than just wooshing down the line in a walking animation as it currently does.

Should be fairly simple, just need to move the arms up and keep them there

[opal kettle]

try searching for animation rigging in unity if u want to do this in unity, animating character movements is slightly easier in blender.

[fair storm]

Im happy to do it in Blender, but I have no idea how to export animations so that Unity recognises them

I cant find anythign about the .anim format Unity uses

[opal kettle]

animations from blender import via fbx to unity.

[fair storm]

Alright, so I import the FBX, make animations there, then export the FBX, then Unity will recognise those animations and import them like the others for me to use?

Thanks for you help, Its good to know where to start 🙂

[outer hedge]

ok

im still really onfused

can someone walk me through creating a ui button with 4 states

disabled, hovered, inactive, pressed

when you start up the game for the first time itll greet you with a menu asking you about some configuration things

the play button will be disabled

once you get past that itll enable the play button

hovering over changes to a texture

clicking changes to a 4th texture

[hybrid tinsel]

@novel citrusAs has been mentioned, unity animations aren't based on frames. They are based on time.

[coral juniper]

Hi, I am making a game and I have a problem with looping animations. I have all the options that should make an animation loop correct, however it just refuses to loop. Does anyone have a solition for this?

[lime hull]

I have a problem with my animator, when I try to play the game one of the animtions plays automatically at the start without the trigger for it being triggered

[queen plank]

if you look at your animator tree is there an arrow coming off of the Entry node

[lime hull]

yes

[queen plank]

that'll play at the start then

[lime hull]

AAAh

that makes much more sense

thanks mate

[queen plank]

you can create an empty state and set that as default if you don't want it

[lime hull]

ok thanks

[slender zealot]

dont understand the whole exit time concept, i want the animation to play on click but it's playing at an interval that changes when i change the exit time value

[coral juniper]

Hi, I am making a game and I have a problem with looping animations. I have all the options that should make an animation loop correct, however it just refuses to loop. Does anyone have a solition for this?

[outer hedge]

help

[outer hedge]

im so confused

[broken turret]

Hi guys

I've been having trouble importing a mixamo animation to blender, then exporting to unity

Mixamo --> Unity works fine

Mixamo --> Blender --> Unity doesn't work, even if I don't modify the animation

This is my FBX export settings

I think this is the problem, "AttackPose" Is the one imported from blender, "Punching" Is directly from Mixamo

Blender adds an empty Armature to the hierarchy....

I can preview the animation correctly in Unity, just not use it with an Animator, if anyone can give me some guidance I'd appreciate it, thanks!!

[hybrid tinsel]

@slender zealot only use exit time if you want it to wait until the specufied time to transition- you'd turn it off if you want to transition immediately when conditions are met

@broken turret if it is a humanoid rig, create an avatar from the blrnder model and retarget to yhe mixamo one.

If it is a generic rig, just change the hierarchy to remove the extra object OR change the animation file to include that extra object in a text editor.

[broken turret]

What do you mean by avatar?, It's a generic rig, but it could be humanoid?

And how would you remove that object in the hierarchy? I can't without unpacking the prefab, I tried opening the fbx in notepad++ with no avail haha

[hybrid tinsel]

@broken turret for generic rigs, the hierarchy needs to match precisely. Fir humanoids there is a bit more flexibility since the avatar definitions will handle remapping for you.

To edit the hierarchy you'd either edit it in blender or unpack the prefab in unity.

[broken turret]

Ooh I see, blender slips in that armature there

[hybrid tinsel]

To edit an fbx in notepad it has to be a ascii formatted fbx rather than binary.

[broken turret]

Ooh makes sense

[hybrid tinsel]

For mixamo animations, converting to humanoid is usually the easiest solution.

[broken turret]

I'm not home right now, but I'd have to convert the one I want to apply the animation to humanoid right?

[hybrid tinsel]

Both would need to be humanoid. The object you are animating AND the animation you are applying.

That is how unity can figure out which bone goes where even with the hierarchy not matching 1:1

[broken turret]

Yeah, how could I switch the one I want to animate to humanoid?

I have an active ragdoll setup so it's quite complex

[slender zealot]

So if I want it to be active on trigger "Has exit time" should be unchecked right?

[hybrid tinsel]

Correct.

[ivory osprey]

hello! I just bought the rpg mecanim pack and Im having trouble baking the run forward animation

the original animation goes forward

when I tried to bake the xz pose, it bops from left to right

it went out of the center

[normal prawn]

hello guys

i need some help

how can i loop this animation from frame 2nd to 6th

[young salmon]

Hello! Where can i find a default bone structure to work with in unity for the basic humanoid?

[hybrid tinsel]

mixamo.com has a basic unity humanoid skeleton to download I believe

[hybrid tinsel]

remove the first frame?

Have it as a separate animation

[wintry sonnet]

Why aren't my animations playing?

I made a sprite sheet, and have a game object with the a single sprite from the sprite sheet. I then clicked on it, pressed new animation in the animation window, and dragged the other sprites into the animation. However, when I try to play the animation on the gameobject, the sprite never changes. Is this not how 2D animations work?

this is the sprite sheet. the gameobject's sprite is that first one there, and the animation should be that circle thing falling into it.

[hybrid tinsel]

Er, all the frames in the animation window look the same to me

[coarse cypress]

Hi why is my animation playing with delay?

[outer hedge]

alright so

ive got my animation set up for a button

im going to be doing a number of things however, so i needed an actual animation

problem is i dont know how to change the texture of the button from here

how can I do that

right now I just need this button to change texure depending on its state

i already have the textures

but how do I make it switch

so how do i do this

reply or ping me if you can tell me

[outer hedge]

anyone

[outer hedge]

at all

[hybrid tinsel]

@twin musk you'd need to give more info(like which ik system you're using) but that sirt of thing is often caused by the ik target being too far out of reach.

@outer hedge just set the transition type of your button to sprite swap and plug in your images

@twin musk you mean the mecanim ik, or the 2d ik, or the rigging package ik, or what?

[outer hedge]

I need the button to move as well

I want another menu to pop in and scale on two axes as well

[hybrid tinsel]

Then you'd need to make actual animations that do that stuff

[solid oriole]

Hey all, trying to make a looping animation. I think since I start and end on the same keyframe, there's like a half a second of it stopping - what's the solution to this?

I am not an animator by any means, so I know there's a fix, i just can't figure it out

Figured it out, had to change curves to be linear

[outer hedge]

ok how do i do that can you link a walkthrough or something

[hybrid tinsel]

You can google it just as well as I can

[sage summit]

I've been fiddling with the animator and my character does some strange things when going back into its idle animation like very slow sliding around in the direction its looking at, and before I made it look in a dir using lookat it also rotated back and forth ever so slightly. I fix these issues by disabling Apply Root Motion in the animator and thought everything was going great. However the character wont rotate at all now even if hardcoding its rotation does not help.
I've had this problem for some time now and not sure what to do? Anyone familiar with this kind of issue and know what else I should look at here that could potentially could fix it?
(I also have a navmeshagent component that makes it move)

[agile solstice]

@sage summit Do you know if your animation is meant to use root motion or not?

[sage summit]

@agile solstice well it is fixed in place if thats what you mean

otherwise how can I tell?

Downloaded from mixamo.com

Im not sure if its animation related but Im trying to have the characters transform rotation to lookat its navmeshagent.steeringTarget. theroetically it changes its transform.forward values but the character still is locked looking at the direction it starts out with.

Since it unlocks and is rotatable when I disable the animator component I still think it has something to do with the animations I just don't know what it can be.

[sage summit]

Actually , looked through the animations and looks like they are not fixed in place as the floor moves. I guess I just assumed that since I couldn't select 'in place' when I downloaded them. That could be the issue then?

but then again I can just "bake into pose" and looks like this so im not sure anymore lol

[hybrid tinsel]

@sage summitAny transforms that have keyframes will override scripted movement and rotation. You need to either use LateUpdate to apply it after the animation each frame, or apply it to a parent object.

[sage summit]

This helps, thank you!

[hybrid tinsel]

I mostly do my scripted stuff on a parent object with the animation under it, except for stuff that moves individual bones.

[sage summit]

That's usually how I do it as well, but for some reason I decided to have the animator there now too

[steady nest]

Any advice for creating an animator controller that can handle large numbers of animations?

Specifically if many of those animations can be accessed as part of the same states? (for example "Overhead Smash" and "Horizontal Cleave" are both Attacks)

[peak jasper]

Hello i was wondering if there is news somewhere on how far the development on kinematica is? it looks very interesting to use

[glad lava]

how do I stop an animation looping and playing on awake in unity?

[dim blade]

Does somebody know how i can get a worm chain with the animation package? - I set up the bone and created a rig but somehow it wont work. Did i miss something?

[solid oriole]

I can’t help just want you to know this gif made me choke lmfao

[dim blade]

okay? 😄

[outer hedge]

I did and they were all unhelpful

Do you have one that you found useful at all

[celest crag]

There are animation resources pinned right here. Manual explains how to use them.

[wintry sonnet]

how do these numbers make sense? I have it set to "seconds"

[hybrid tinsel]

Is it set to 15 fps?

[wintry sonnet]

@hybrid tinsel yes

so is it says 1/15, 2/15, 3/15, etc?

[hybrid tinsel]

yes

If you set it to 60 it will probably be closer to what you're expecting.

[scarlet roost]

Hi, anyone familiar with using GameObjectRecorder? i'm recording an animation for the timeline, but the objects' x and y positions arent being recorded

[earnest dune]

hey everyone, if I have multiple characters who all share the same type of animation, example (run, walk, jump etc.) Do I need to create an animator for each character, or is it possible to use a generic animator attached to all characters and dynamically change which clip is played through scripting.

Idk if that makes sense, let me know so I can further explain 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you recording the correct object?

[scarlet roost]

yes, everything else gets recorded, the z position, xyz rotation, but not the xy position

[hybrid tinsel]

Hrm, interesting. How is it being moved? Script? Animation?

[scarlet roost]

the objects i'm moving are dice. i'm using a script to apply forces and torques to their rigidbody

[hybrid tinsel]

Hrm, interesting.

Did you try increasing the fps of the recorder?

I've noticed that the recorder can be... weird about physics

Did you try different compression settings?

And did you check the recorded animation to see whether the xy position curves are not present or if they are just zeroed out?

[scarlet roost]

oh i think we're on the wrong page, i'm using this:

https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Animations.GameObjectRecorder.html
based on this tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdF4h2sUmwE&ab_channel=JasonWeimann

[hybrid tinsel]

Ooh.

I was talking about using the unity recorder, which includes a game object recorder

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.recorder@2.0/manual/index.html

[scarlet roost]

ohh okay, thank you for your time, though

[livid edge]

Hi everyone, sorry for the beginner question but it's my first time trying to import an animated object into unity and I'm struggling to troubleshoot. Could use a second opinion if someone has a minute!

Essentially, I added the animator component to the top-level object with the following settings:

The animation controller is set up as such:

[dim blade]

can somebody help the animation rigging bone render setup dont work

[livid edge]

sorry don't mind me 🤦‍♂️ found the Loop Time option lol

[dim blade]

needed to do it manually

but it dont bend

are the bones reverse?

somehow it is like a stick

wanted to do it like here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSmp0zW8pY

[broken turret]

Thanks! I got it working the next day, forgot to tell you

[broken turret]

Yeah it seems reversed

[broken turret]

I feel like the Tip should be a "child" of the Root

[broken turret]

Yeah but its weird cuz you can't control it from the animator

[hybrid tinsel]

Ah, glad it worked 😄

[proper bay]

Hello! Kinda new to animations in unity. I have a rigged 3d model, and I wanna make few poses, not animated poses, just some saved poses that the character will change to on a press of some key

for example switching from standing pose to sitting pose on the same model without animating in-between the transition

I have no clue how to achieve that

I do know how to animate, but is there no such thing as saved bone locations? something that i apply to my character and it changes bones by the preset

another solution i thought is to just make multiple models with different poses and change between them, but that wouldnt be so practical..

i just need to know atleast how its called so ill know what im looking for

[hybrid tinsel]

Select one of the yellow marked transforms and hit 'f2'

Or you can mass edit them with search/replace in a text editor

[coral herald]

How to make when the animation finish it goes back to its idle? So I have bool(lobby) and if it was true, I would like to call an animation for once then return to the Idle? (Animator)

[hybrid tinsel]

You can just add a transition from the second animation back to the idle state with 'has exit time' set to the end of the animation

[toxic wind]

Very straightforward question: In order to play the top animation clip at the same time than the clips below... Do I need to use blend trees?

[fallen sphinx]

Does this channel include animation rigging?

[fallen sphinx]

Oh great! I've been super curious about final ik and animation rigging. I understand there's a difference and final ik probably comes with some more features (or presets idk) but is it better?

It's a lot of money for someone who just hobbies a bit for fun and I don't know if it's worth it.

[mint loom]

I made a jump animation in Blender but I need to remove the Z axis component of it so that the character basically looks like they're jumping but they don't actually go up (so I can make them go up in Unity instead). Does anyone know how to do that?

[hybrid tinsel]

Dedicated dual wielding animations would probably work best, or some sort of procedural approach. Your real problem is that you're playing two motions that want to bend the body in opposite directions and the game has no idea what to do with that.

I suppose you could limit the swings to the arms themselves and procedurally twist the spine based on the target and taking both animations into account.

But hand designing a two weapon attack is almost certainly easier

[lone prism]

I just rigged a 3d model and made the animation in blender and exported it all in a fbx file. Is that a good workflow? im a noob so i have no idea. Everything works fine tho!

[hybrid tinsel]

That is the typical workflow

[lone prism]

Nice! Would have been a pain to discover some problems after rigging and importing a lot of characters

[hybrid tinsel]

Unity animation is based on time, not frames, so at best you can get an approximation.

You can use animationState.normalizedTime

And then multiply that by the length of the clip to get the actual time in seconds

[coral herald]

When it goes back to Idle state, it loops back to the second animation because of the condition. How can I stop the loop?

[toxic wind]

I want a StateX from layer2 to start when a StateY from layer1 is finished.... is this possible without relying on code? I want to use the parameters to tell when the state has finished but i dont see how can i do that if its not with code

[hybrid tinsel]

by having the condition not be set the second time

Either disable it from the script that called it in the first place, or use a trigger instead of a bool

[hybrid tinsel]

You'd need some code but not very much. You could put a short 'behavior' type script directly on the transition out of the stateY that triggers the stateX

[toxic wind]

hmmmm are we talking abut behaviour trees?

or maybe using events inside the clip?

[hybrid tinsel]

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

[toxic wind]

thanks

ohhh ok so you add it like that

👍

[hybrid tinsel]

Yup.

It is just like adding a script to a game object, except you get stuff like OnStateExit()

[toxic wind]

I was actually adding clip events to a script yep

but this allows me to delegate the task of creating the animation to the designer 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

Yup.

[dark hull]

howdy! Short question! Have an Animator, thats being fed data (Debuged -> correctly). Got a riged guy, animations set in blend trees, all seems good... BUT... The model doesnt move. I can see the rig itself moving (on the picture) but the model doesnt follow. You have an idea, where the problem may lay? Avatar?

thanks alot!

Its driving me NUTS

Seems like trouble between AVATAR and model, Avatar -> Animator seems ok

[hybrid tinsel]

Is the model actually skinned?

[dark hull]

Skinned? I'm not sure i follow

[slim summit]

Whats some good websites for animations?

[magic vapor]

mixamo

[bold kite]

How do I render the inside of a sphere, as in the camera is inside of the sphere

help

[uncut salmon]

Make a sphere in Blender, invert the faces, and then put the camera inside.

Not sure what this has to do with animations though.

[bold kite]

i didnt know where else to ask

[hybrid tinsel]

Skinning is what actually connects the vertices of the object(the 'skin') to the bones. Without skinning weights the object will just sit there as the bones move.

[dark hull]

Oh... And that happens in 3D software, or is there a way to do it in unity?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can probably do it in unity but that is something you'd probably want to do in 3d software

[jovial maple]

Why does my AnimationState return null when I assign an Animation with a clip name (that exists) to it? The method is:

public void SetClip(string clip, Animation anim) { this.Animate = anim[clip]; }

For some reason, the name of the clip is not returning an value to the animation despite matching my clip name.

[hybrid tinsel]

What exactly are you trying to do there?

[jovial maple]

Create an animation update system that uses the Sample method to capture clips at a frame by frame basis. I think I resolved my current issue by setting the animation clip files to Legacy in Debug mode.

No change in my sprite animation though upon using Sample() though, so I wonder how "sampling" works exactly.

[past plover]

Im having some difficulty with a simple animation trigger that Im trying to have occur

Im trying to have a simple gun idle animation transition into a firing animation when the trigger is activated ("Image(Animator)" shown below)

(my "PlayerMovement" Code)

(Unity UI to show the Animator is hooked up to my Player Movement script)

What Im trying to have happen is for once the player clicks mouse button 0 down, set the trigger for the Idle animation to transition into the Shoot animation

I can tell the inputs are being detected because the sound effect that plays before the animation in my player movement script does play when mouse button 0 is pressed

but the shoot animation is not being triggered unfortuneately

not sure why tho

any ideas?

Feel free to reply if any other information is needed!

[hybrid tinsel]

@past ploverwhile the game is running, keep the animator window open and see if the trigger is being activated?

Also, what are the conditions for exiting the firing state?

You might be triggering it and immediately exiting it

[past plover]

no conditions rn

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/817406992645226546.gif?v=1

lemme post the transitions as well

[hybrid tinsel]

And what happens if you disable the transition out of the shoot state

[past plover]

Tried deleting the exit transition from the shoot state

nothing happens lol

so could it be that its not entering the idle state?

[hybrid tinsel]

You're sure that's the correct animator?

and wait, why do you have an any state transition?

[past plover]

tried searching for solutions and thought an any state transition might work too

obviously now it doesnt lol

also yeah its the correct animator

[strong dome]

i need to make Blend greater than 0.3 or less than -0.3, is there any way to do this?

[past plover]

I changed my code to grab the animator by itself to maybe try that

it does grab the animator

but it still doesnt work

its really weird, considering scrapping it and trying from scratch to see where I messed up

[rough quartz]

guys I got animation problems, I set up my model to be humanoid to use bake pose, now after making the model humannoid and seting up the rig in the animator, the player mesh and bones get in wrong location

in that spot its the rig, and the mesh simply sisapears

disapears

all animations make the mesh move out of place

I corrected copying the avatar source from other copy of an old avatar

dont know why it worked

but now have this

on all my animations

I corrected the problem again copaying the avatar from a previus mesh

dont know what was the problem or why it got fixed

nop not fixed

[rough quartz]

ok I think the root might have problems, its the hierarchy object of the bones that is not setup on the avatar I think

well but even so does not make sence because the rest of the avatar should not be flying up in the air

[hybrid tinsel]

@strong domeJust add a second transition with the less than

And it will trigger for either

(NOT an additional condition on the same transition)

@rough quartzI suggest setting up the avatar correctly based on that model instead of another model. You can set the correct mapping of transforms that way. As for the broken animation curves, you can select those, hit 'f2,' and rename them to the correct name if needed.

[vestal coral]

hey y'all, i really need help. I animated a door opening for a refrigerator and then imported it into unity from Blender. In the FBX file itself, the animation looks fine, but when i add it to my animation controller, it just straight up stops working.

[jovial eagle]

Hi, can anyone tell me or refer me to how to export the character with the animation from the Unity in fbx, so that I can open it in Motionbuilder?
I did try GameObject - Export to FBX but animation is not correctly transferred.

[rough quartz]

@hybrid tinselthanks for the help, I redid the character and the problem disapear, probably some badly setup script

now I would need some help, I am not working out the root animations, this for the character ends in the end of the animation place

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you rephrase the question?

[rough quartz]

Making the character final Animation position INTO the world position

ok fixed, I had to get the root trnasform position (xz) not ticked in the animation import

[rough quartz]

ok I found out my original problem, animation rigging is having conflict with the avatar animation rig, they are not working together

if I aply a constraint it buggs

[strong dome]

thank you for reply. After I post here I created a boolean and checking it from script

[rough quartz]

ok so if I rurn on a multi-aim constraint it creates an huge offset, I dont know how to fix this, dont know if it is bug or I am doing anything wrong, If I have my character generic it works great, if humanoid this happens

[rough quartz]

I really need help some one that know how to setup humanoid avatar with animations using bone rigging

[rough quartz]

Ok fixed with exporta defenitions in blender

[vestal coral]

hey y'all, i really need help. I animated a door opening for a refrigerator and then imported it into unity from Blender. In the FBX file itself, the animation looks fine, but when i add it to my animation controller, it just straight up stops working.

[fair storm]

Hey so Im really struggling to get a super basic rig animation working - havent done anything 3d animation before so this is a new area for me.

I have imported the Starter Assets FBX 3rd Person Controller armature into unity, and added a new action called "Zipline" with two keyframes, the standard pose at the start, and a keyframe with five modified bones so as to make the model reach upwards [image attached].

I then export that as an FBX, and import it into unity. When I look at the animation in Unity however, it seems to have loads of extra keyframes all over the body [image attached], and indeed when I attach it to the animation controller, put it into the animation flowchart with some transitions, and activate it in code, the character goes into a really weird sitting position which is not at all the animation I made in unity.

Does anyone have any input into what I am doing wrong, or even a direction I should look in to figure out whats going on - Ive been really struggling with this seemingly super basic thing for like a week now 😢

When I play the animation in Blender it looks fine (I mean its a shit animation, but, like, it looks like I expected it to), but moving it over the Unity curses it somehow

I imagine I am doing someone really obvious and dumb, Im pretty new to both Unity and Blender, and extra new to any kind of Animation

Okay I have done some more experimenting, and discovered that when Previewing animations attached to the Armature Gameobject the existing animations look different to mine

Here being an existing animation

And here being mine

They are clearly structured differently, and unity is failing to map the bones to the armature, but I have no idea why this is the case or how to modify my animation so that it is compatible with this existing armature

[hallow ledge]

How does one create an animation for animating the sprite value of a SpriteRenderer during runtime outside of the Unity Editor.

[keen cloud]

how do i get it to change start position at instantiated position

currently when its spawned in it plays the animation where i set it up

[hybrid tinsel]

@fair stormYou need to properly set the humanoid avatar for your new animations.

@keen cloudAdd an empty parent object and use that to place it.

[hybrid tinsel]

By script.

[keen cloud]

Ah so you can’t really add animation to separate game objects with a different animator and sync it up it all has to be done on the parent/ host animator

gotcha

That makes more sense

[hybrid tinsel]

You could if they were generic rigs with identical hierarchies. But for humanoids, they both need a properly set up avatar to retarget the animation.

[livid edge]

Hi everyone, I've imported an animated blender model into unity, but the animation doesn't play during runtime, and I could really use some help figuring out why. Its transitions are set up correctly, I can see the animation correctly when I open it in the inspector, I've assigned the correct animation controller...so I'm a bit stumped. Any help would be much appreciated!

I should have mentioned - the 3D model is attached to a prefab. I added the animator component to the parent object. Also I've tried ticking and unticking 'static' as that was the first thing that came up on stackexchange but that didn't seem to do anything

[hallow plover]

I wanna animate a slime ball thats the main character of my game. I'm thinking I would animate it with a lattice in Maya. Would that work? If not, how could I animate it otherwise?

[inland cove]

In the Animation Timeline, how do I move the PlayHead Arrow to a certain keyframe's exact position without having to drag it manually?

[peak silo]

How can I flip my sprite while using skeletal animation?

[peak silo]

Have you tried clicking the top diamond right under the timestamp?

Zooming in should also bring you to the exact position

[hybrid tinsel]

@peak silo scale the parent to negative on the x axis.

@hallow plover lattice deformations aren't imported by default but you could do it with a VAT(vertex animation texture) material or a point cache.

@twin musk blend trees don't work that way; all substates use the same normalized time. You can just transition out of the blend tree like you could a normal state though.

[vestal coral]

Can someone help me figure out why the animation is working in the fbx preview but not the animator preview https://gyazo.com/14aee60f69720a66634d5cf38f27450e

[fringe berry]

hi. im reading on unity about humanoid rigging for humanoid avatar. it provides this as the necessary bone hierarchy to be able to set a rig as humanoid.

HIPS - spine - chest - shoulders - arm - forearm - hand
HIPS - spine - chest - neck - head
HIPS - UpLeg - Leg - foot - toe - toe_end

However in the picture right below that structure it shows an image with hips_L and hips_R. I KNOW this doesnt work because ive tried it before. whats up with that?

[fringe berry]

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

[rustic pier]

Good morning or evening, where ever you might be!
I have a question regarding bone constraints:
For example, i have a hierarchy like this: a main bone and two sub-bones under the main one. I constrain one sub-bone's position to the other using the position constraint and put the constraint setting to be -1 (to go opposite direction of the other sub-bone). That part works well, but now when i move the main bone, the bone with position constraint on it, moves its own way. How can I make the constrained bone to still move with the main bone but keep the negative constraint to the other subbone?

[slim summit]

https://medal.tv/games/requested/clips/72666557/d1337TP3Ybuj?invite=cr-MSxReGgsMTM0ODY5Njks i dont understand at all where im going wrong

[slim summit]

so, i worked it out. It turned out the synty avatar was affecting my ability to animate

[dense bear]

Can images do a spritesheet animation? Or does the game object have to have use the sprite renderer?

[hybrid tinsel]

Is the animator on the right object?

[hybrid tinsel]

Are you sure that the 'bones' in that picture aren't just gizmos being drawn between the single hips transform and the two upper leg transforms?

This is the entire set of bones that a humanoid avatar looks at.

[fringe berry]

could be

maybe i am being mislead by the picture

[hybrid tinsel]

You can have more bones but they will either be ignored or, if included in the avatar definition, simply will be treated as extra and not used for retargeting.

Unity's bone renderer is a bit misleading in that respect.

[fringe berry]

yeah thats what happened last time months ago, i did animations that the hips were necessary for (climbing a wall) and it ignored the hip L/R and the animation looked weird

[hybrid tinsel]

Since it is meant to show the hierarchy more than the actual transforms

[fringe berry]

it even ignores it on the original model not just on retargetted

well ill just go with it being a visual connection even though its misleading, thanks for the insight

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, first you'd need to manually include them in the import, and they won't affect the humanoid motion. Extra bones are typically used for adding stuff like tails, wings, attachment points for equipment, etc.

The actual humanoid portion of the skeleton is actually controlled by the virtual muscles it derives from the imported animation, so extra bone motions in the hips or spine get lost and, as you put it, look weird.

And no problem 😄

And if you need the l and r hip movement, you can probably handle that with the upper leg bones?

[fringe berry]

yeah you are right it is totally possible to do that animation without the hip bones. the only problem was creating a bunch of other animations that use the hip bones (since they were in the armature in blender that i created)

so to remove them meant redoing like 15 hours of animations!

and im not good at animating so it was quite offputting

and i didnt continue with it. ill simply avoid hip L/R this time when i rig!

I do have another question. using mixamo it exports an FBX. is there anyway to avoid having an FBX per 1 animation? its not a functional issue more of a clean assets folder issue

was hoping to separate out these animations from the FBX. im guessing its set to the armature hierarchy that it was created with so not possible. but when you make all your animatinos in blender you only need 1 FBX that contains all the animations which is cleaner

[upbeat rivet]

guys need help

when animator goes to Fall or InAir, it always back in frame to the Idle

the "code"

[west delta]

#763499475641172029

[upbeat rivet]

problem with animation

not vs only

[west delta]

Click the arrow that from fall to idle and add parameters

[upbeat rivet]

already have

[west delta]

dunno

Play it and watch the animator toggle between states

[velvet pivot]

Hi, I have been trying to use the skeletal animations and I got into a slight problem- how do I put the character together

nevermind

[upbeat rivet]

@west delta problem solved - i had repetitive animation playing
thanks for any help

[peak jasper]

Are there tutorials about animations that possibly include the leg rotation when facing the camera standing still

so like for example the character turns 180° and then the legs kinda follow via an animation. I would like to try this to not make it just rotate without doing anything
1 example of a game that does the thing i want to try is Hitman, when you aim the character rotates towards the camera and does like a little turn animation with it's leg.
I would like to do something similar to not make my character just turn when standing still cause that is not natural, i think i saw a tutorial about this before but can't remember much

[granite olive]

I imported a blender animation into unity. The animation works fine in blender it consists of two models and an armature. The character model the armature is a parent of works fine in unity but the gun he is holding is static in unity. any solutions?

[fickle zephyr]

i watch a tutorial on curves and have this shooting looking for feedback, dont mind the missing hammer i forgot to select it when exporting to fbx

[quartz brook]

Is there a way to make an empty state for an animator (skeletal mesh) that does nothing? More akin to disabling the Animator component as opposed to the usual behavior of reverting to T-Pose on empty state.

Basically, I'm trying to make a ragdolling state for the animator without having to disable the Animator component for some fancy animation stuff

[fluid sage]

hey im trying to make a system projectile similar to this one

https://twitter.com/lateasusual_/status/1462131017200906241?s=20

Late as usual (@lateasusual_)

boss fight gimmick idea https://t.co/v2q1FZp1iF

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but how i have it wont worklike sticking into the ground

https://gyazo.com/2cb117d98b7b7a8d38a7a7856fd2785f

how do i make it so that when it hits the ground it stops moving but also sticks to the ground like the swords, cause my plan is to do that animation with the canes after they land

[hybrid tinsel]

Your options would be to either combine all the FBX animations into separate tracks in your 3d software, or use @ naming in unity to append the animations from the extra models without importing the meshes.

[fringe berry]

sweet thanks a lot 🙂

[hybrid tinsel]

@fluid sageI'd not use an animation for that; you'd probably want to use a script and/or a particle system.

Especially since you'll probably want to be tracking the impacts of each sword

[dapper barn]

Hi there, Im not sure if this is the correct place to ask. I was playing this game with a base human character "evolving" into a completely different character. I was wondering how would the structure of this sort of animation be dealt with? How do I switch between two completely different sprite and have their animation working? Do I need two animator? Thanks in advance!!

[uncut salmon]

You could use seperate animators, or even seperate character objects with their own animators. Its really up to you how you want to organize it.

Or even pack it all into a single one.

[dapper barn]

interesting, I was wondering what would be the more efficient way of doing it?

so that adding new character would not be a headache, I assume packing everything into single one would be hard to manage

[uncut salmon]

Its not really a matter of efficiency, more than it is your own way of organizing. If you're using parameters, then yeah it would be a hassle to use one. If you're calling animations directly with unique names "warrior_attack", "mage_attack", then that would be a different case.

[dapper barn]

Actually, using skeletal animation would be one of the better ways right? Sth like, having different animators for different weapons, i.e. fist, sword, spear, then switching the weapon as external objects attached to the skeleton

[uncut salmon]

That solely depends on your art style

[dapper barn]

oh yea true!!! I normally use code to manage my animation, so no linking between animation state

[uncut salmon]

If you want a fluid pixel animation, you kind of have to make it unique, if the different versions are different body types.

[dapper barn]

ahh make sense, thanks!!

[uncut salmon]

If you want to have different characters use a weapon differently based on body shape and style. You couldn't reuse a sword animation you simply child to then sprite.

You would have to make it a unique animation for every character for every weapon. This is why really nice looking pixel art takes forever. Lol

[dapper barn]

the game I showed has different classes, which would be relatively easier to animate

[dapper barn]

do people really animate all those one by one? As in games with many characters/enemies and different weapons

I always just thought it's not feasible

[uncut salmon]

Yeah, some do. You really have no choice.

Unless your style allows you to have the exact same animation, then you could reuse. But it all depends on your art style in the end.

[dapper barn]

unless it's like stick ranger (one of my fav game), using ragdoll animations

then it should be relatively much more easy right?

[uncut salmon]

Easier in the sense of animations, possibly yeah. If animating ragdolls is more your strength.

[dapper barn]

I see, thanks!

[cinder wren]

I have 2D pixelart character with Body, Arms and Head spritesheets

I have different variants of Heads, Body and Arm spritesheets

What's the recommended to combine these spritesheets in my game?

I have an AnimatorController (to switch between Idle & Walking) and I was trying to use the Animator Layers

Unfortunately the "additive" property doesn't seem to work in my case :/

anyone have any hints on how to do this?

[hybrid tinsel]

@cinder wren what do you mean by not working?

[cinder wren]

It's used for adding together rigging

not for swapping out pixel art frames/sprites like I expected

[hybrid tinsel]

For swapping sprites you'd use a sprite library usually.

Though you could also use synced layers, which are probably closer to what you thought additive ones were

That's what you'd use if you had a set of animations for each version of the character

[inland cove]

I'm sorry, I just saw your reply now. I only see one diamond that represents the keyframe, I tried clicking and double clicking it but the playhead doesn't move to its position...

[twin musk]

Hi I'm trying to climb on a ledge, therefor I need to have root animation.
but my collider is on 2 parents higher, so when I use root motion, it climbs without moving the capsulecollider.
Tried to work with OnAnimatorMove but nothing helps (transform.root.position += anim.deltaPosition) <- doesnt move the collider
any suggestions?
It's a 3d world and using humanoid.

[dawn spade]

Hey guys I have a problem when I try to animate my character but animator dont save it