🏃┃animation

[cosmic sage]

wait but what does that do

[snow depot]

check the docs

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

[cosmic sage]

ty

alr thanks it works now

[snow depot]

rad

[cosmic sage]

yeah but the shooting aniamtion seems like its from left 4 dead but ima just fix it later

[static dragon]

It works now, thank you!

[crude gulch]

Hi guys. Im new here because Im struggling to get my animations to work in game. They work fine in unity in scene, but after uploading to the game sdk it doesnt work in game.
Any typical mistakes that could cause this? I'm at beginner level.

[sinful gull]

Is it dumb to use legacy animator ? Becouse the animator is pretty bad with many people ^^

[hybrid tinsel]

@crude gulch "the game sdk"? Which one? Are you using scripts or components that the game doesn't support?

[charred fog]

can I quickly change the transform used in an animation or I have to remake it?

I want to replace the "Model" with a different transform

[crude gulch]

Its for somnium space
Nothing weird. Using animation to trigger blendshapes on my avatar.
Also using animation to activate mesh render of hidden objects

[primal sapphire]

Any idea what is causing this behavior?
Basically I set Trigger to animation transition, animation happens.
But then mid that animation trigger sets off again, and instead of animation to finish off or instantly restart, it kinda queues and runs after old is over.
I tried disabling animator component all together between setting off triggers, but animations still get queued.

[lapis pier]

Why does the loop animation bring me backwards ?? I need to loop the animation bc I’m walking lol

[static prism]

the transform of object is good , but the animation is replaying , i think you should download inplace animation

[uncut salmon]

If you're doing walking animations, make them stationary (don't actually move them), and instead move the object the model is part with code.

[lapis pier]

the actual walking upright animation works beautifully, how do I ensure the animation is stationary?

[uncut salmon]

Remove keyframes that effect the position of the object.

[lapis pier]

looks like it's the entire animation that is moving RIP

will have to get a new animation

[uncut salmon]

You can just delete the properties that make it move.

If this is off something like Mixamo, usually those animations have the option to download stationary versions.

[lapis pier]

Yea it is. It'll be easy to fix now that I am aware of what causes that, really appreciate it, thanks

[ancient zealot]

Hello, I'm looking for a tutorial for doing simple 2D animations without any effect on anything, just to show an attack (think the early pokemons). Is there a tutorial for this kind of stuff ? Everything I find is to animate characters and link animation to effect

[void cave]

How do I animate Text input in unity ? like Add text as the animation goes ?

[nimble swallow]

try googling it?

[junior sluice]

How would I go about adding a collider with the sword moving in my animation, so that when it hits a specific object, I can then script it to do something to it.

[molten halo]

How can I animate a texture with frames? I tried searching a lot and found nothing. 😦

I want to animate a drill with 8 frames like this :

[hybrid tinsel]

If a transition has an exit time, it will wait until that time before triggering. Also, if it is an any state transition you need 'can transition to self' selected to allow it to interrupt itself.

[hybrid tinsel]

Enable root motion on the animator?

[lapis pier]

I got it fixed. Didn’t have static motion checked in mixamo

[molten halo]

Ok I'm close to making my animated texture work.
But the last line is not good, what should I do?

[charred belfry]

don't set the renderer material, set the Sprite of the sprite renderer. It should be an array of Sprite

[molten halo]

can you give an example?

[charred belfry]

Use the sprite renderer https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SpriteRenderer-sprite.html

[molten halo]

thanks 🙂

it worked 🙂

but the frame per second is not good, it animate very slow whatever frame per second I input

here the new code:

the animation change frame only once per second

I tried a more radical way of doing this:

now it animate fast like I want xD But it's not good. I want to be able to change frames per second.

[proven tartan]

Is it possible to correct Mixamo's animation rotation in Unity? It's rotated on the coordinates

[strong portal]

Hey, is there a way to change path to property in animation window? I mistakenly selected wrong property and then created like 15 animations, which are now playing on wrong sprite renderer.

I know that when hierarchy changes on the object it will show as an error and I can double click and set new path in animation, but... do I really have to change the hierarchy to wrong one, correct the animation path to the wrong one, then set it again to the correct one (to make it show as error in animation path), just to set it right finally?

because so far it's either that or remake 15 animations 🤷‍♂️

[hybrid tinsel]

Select the property and hit 'f2'

You can also open the animation in a text editor to mass edit

[strong portal]

Thanks! ❤️

[primal rain]

When should we use Root Motion in animations and when should we let Unity handle the movements ?

[agile solstice]

Root motion is used when the animated character's speed is closely tied to the animation (such as with motion captured animations) and/or if the motion's speed is variable in a way that's difficult to match with coded movement

[primal rain]

@agile solstice thank you, so even if it is for a cinematic, might be better to stick with coded movement since it is easier to adjust the speed later on if the animator did not "get it right"? In the cinematic, we only see a big 2 legged beast running at our car. We want it to hit trees etc in the pursuit. So I guess it is just as hard to get the right speed in unity than in the animation software

[agile solstice]

Whether it's root motion or not, animations are made for a specific speed so it doesn't have a direct impact on that

It's just a workflow that makes it easier to match specific kinds of animation with movement

[minor lagoon]

Hi, I'm having a very hard time trying to learn 3d animation please bear with me. I've attached a child object to my multi-parent rig with a circle effector that I can see in scene mode, but I can't see it in play mode. Does anyone have any guesses what might be going on?

Nevermind, I had been stuck for a while and became confused. I finally found something to let me move forward. I have a different problem now but I will try to understand and fix it

[median loom]

Hi, I made a rigged 3D Model with Blender which I imported as FBX-Data in Unity, but the model in Unity doesn't look like what I made in Blender (the eyeball is above the head etc...) and the animation has some mistakes. Does somebody know how to fix those errors? (Or at least how to get the eyeball back into the eye socket? xD)

[forest anvil]

Hello, Is there a way to play an animation without interrupting the animation that's already running ?

so that both animations overlap (they are not called at the same time, they are called in an unpredictable manner)

[agile solstice]

You could use animation layers

[forest anvil]

:O I'll look into it

[forest anvil]

does it also work for the same animation twice at the same time (it's fine if it doesn't)

[agile solstice]

Sure, if I understand your intent

[forest anvil]

Basically I want to use animations to be able to change variables through time without having to do complex maths in scripts and running the same animation multiple times at the same time can be usefull

[forest anvil]

So I made it work thanks to layers the only problem is that the amount of animations I'm able to run at once is locked to the amount of layers I have but it shouldn't be an issue thanks a lot @agile solstice

it really helped :D

[dusky bloom]

how to slowdown animation

[dense plume]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1720672/slow-down-animation-framerate-in-unity-2019.html

[agile solstice]

Changing sample rate works, but in this situation it'd be a better option to spread out the frames away from each other
You can do this by selecting them and dragging the blue bar on the right side of the selection

The final frame is at 0.03 seconds
You'll probably want to drag it outward until 1 whole second or so, so that the rest of the frames are evenly paced between 0 and 1 seconds

[hybrid tinsel]

You can also change the speed of it in the animator, either for the entire animator or specific states.

[cedar ruin]

Anyone ever experienced animation events not triggering randomly?

[hybrid tinsel]

It probably isn't random. Can you give more details?

[deft lagoon]

Hi! I m a beginner in Unity and i started making a game, I m not very talented so I got a character from minecraft and I made an animation in blender. I don t know if I exported everything corectly, but I don`t understand how am I supposed to make that animation work on my character. (I want to make the animation work in the entire time so without using a button). Does anybody know how can I do that?

[rustic charm]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/791739/issues-animating-an-enemy-using-animation-controll.html

i think that I am having this same issue, can someone help pls

[summer trench]

you can have it simply have a bool that checks if the enemy is walking and set it true in the animator

[rustic charm]

i think i am wrong and that's not the problem. Can i send a video of the animation and the problem?

[summer trench]

yeah

[rustic charm]

here it is

[rustic charm]

when i stop running they stop running and I guess it's because on the animator there is an "Horizontal" value which is attached to my character

[rustic charm]

• and because of that their animation is the same as mine

[summer trench]

are they linked to the same animation controller as the player? if they are then thats the reason, they should have their own animation controller

[deft lagoon]

Hi! I m working on a project and I have an animated character, but the problem I have is that the texture doesn t render corectly like on the character without the animation: https://prnt.sc/Wzs_7Nmsl-aj (left is good, right is wrong). Is there a fix for this?

[marsh rose]

so i cant seem to link up my animations to my input, idk how to show or explain it tho

lol

[lapis pier]

someone please help, the bending of this bone (right arm) is OPPOSITE what I need it to be 😦

[lapis pier]

I got it. I needed hitns

hints

ok so now the problem is ......

the weapon is SUPER stiff and doesn't move with the animation

in the arms

[lapis pier]

Fixed that

Do you have to adjust rig layer rig points for every animation you have and then call those transforms in code when that animation is called?

Meaning… when I’m idle the idle animation the gun sits correctly. But when I aim the gun is super FUCKDD up looking.

[proud stream]

i was trying to do an animation in blender and it looks just as intended, but if i import it into unity, the interpolation becomes really bad and you can clearly see, where the animation is looping. i tried to fix it by changing the interpolation mode to constant, but the problem remains the same. any ideas on how to fix this?

[agile solstice]

So how bad is it? Using constant mode should make it significantly worse

[proud stream]

Not if its my goal to make 2 separate animations, that arent affected by each other. Right now i am creating multiple animations in one timeline and define them with clamps

[agile solstice]

I'm not familiar with this workflow
Are clamps something in the animator or in code?

[lapis pier]

How do folks change weapon position for different animations? In code with Vector3.Lerp?

[magic robin]

can I get some critique on this? does it look ok, or do I need more/less frames in places?

[snow depot]

@magic robin I personally think that some of the actions should have their speed adjusted. I think that the jump is ridiculously slow compared to the swing, for example.

[charred belfry]

I think it might be cooler if the swing followed through faster into the landing, and if there was some sort of impact when the swing lands

[snow depot]

perhaps a splash?

[charred belfry]

just because right now the velocity of the swipe is kinda lost when the scythe joins up with the body, if it followed through faster into the landing it might feel like a stronger hit

[magic robin]

I'm planning to do a separate slash effect animation that goes on top of this

that will help sell the impact

[snow depot]

I'm not familiar with the animation terms

[magic robin]

I could also maybe add another frame to the slash

[snow depot]

but I feel like you should sort of 'divide' the actions by speeding those up, and maybe adding a frame of rest in between

[magic robin]

but yea, I agree the back hop is really slow, I think I'm going to redo that part, and make it faster, but same amount of frames by adding a little wobble to the landing

[snow depot]

for example, speed up the shrink and transforming, and add a frame or two of rest before the slash

are you programming your game?

[magic robin]

there is currently 1 frame of rest after the forming, before the slash starts

yea

this is for a prototype im currently working on

[snow depot]

is it an action or turn based game

[magic robin]

action platformer

or rather, a metroidvania

this is the first enemy you encounter, so I don't want it to be anything too fancy or difficult

[snow depot]

if it's action, you should absolutely test to see what the delay between starting the attack and damage frames is before you determine it arbitrarily through animation

if it's not meant to be challenging to fight, then It probably won't matter as much

there's nothing worse than making a nice looking animation that is way too easy/hard to dodge in game

[magic robin]

yea 😛
been there
this slime already has an attack animation, but its too small and has a weird angle

[twin musk]

Player 1 & Player 2 Idles

[somber compass]

how do i make the nav mesh ai use animations?

[tame bear]

anyone have this issue that your collider wont goes along with your sprite during animations 2D?
this has got to be the common problem but google seems to not give me this specific solution 😦

anyone have a method to do this? pls share 😦

[snow depot]

.....

why are your colliders misaligning in the first place?

[proud stream]

Clamps is a thing in unity. At first you have one big animation, including all the animations. Then you split up the timeline into smaller parts by defining startframe and endframe

[peak jasper]

not sure if i should ask here, but what are some good free tools to animate 3D characters, i have used Blender but i wonder if there is a tool that is specifically designed for animating game characters

[magic robin]

continuing work on this from last night, I think Its looking a lot better

gotta smooth out the shading between frames, but that'll happen during clean up

[magic robin]

are you meaning that you have a sprite animation that features movement not handled by physics, scripts, or transforms, but only within the animation, and your collider is not following the sprite? (which is totally normal behaviour)

the solution in that case is a bit complicated if you're not familiar with the animation tab in unity, but I can explain it

but it also depends what you're trying to accomplish
ideally, you want all movement to be done in engine, not in animation

I get away with it in my slime animation I posted above because the slime ends in the same position it started in, and I plan to give the slime super armor during its movement, so that if hit during parts of the animation where its out of position, it wont suddenly jolt back when it goes into hits hurt animation

and my hitbox colliders for the attack animation are on a child object that has its own animator, but I manually animate that to make the hitbox sync up with the animation

[junior sluice]

Ayo, how do I only set trigger once?

I don't want my animation to play a billion times, just once.

[magic robin]

is it the only animation in the animator mecanim?

or do you want it to like, play once, then go back to a previous animation?

[magic robin]

done~

[eternal eagle]

hey folks! new here:) I was wondering how i might get an animation to flip while playing, based on player position. currently I have two animations for an enemy firing(left and right), and they will currently play all the way through in either direction, based on player position. Is there a way to change between them smoothly, if the player goes to the opposite side than they started the animation?

[upper grove]

I've got an animator w/ animating a sprite renderer -- changing its sprite each frame -- I have a second layer in the animator for "damage" where I have an animation which animates a material property on my sprite renderer. when I trigger the damage animation to play it stops the base layer's animation -- any idea how to fix this?

[upper grove]

my gut would be to flip on the renderer's x-axis in code, not in animation

[eternal eagle]

hmmm that's what i tried to do, but it was kinda wonky. I'll try troubleshooting it a bit more. Thanks!

[upper grove]

what's the wonky part?

if I turn off write defaults on both my states it doesn't work, if I turn it on only for the default (empty) state it works like above, if I turn it on for both states the animation doesn't pause at all -- but I kind of like the pause

[eternal eagle]

you were right i just forgot to set the flipX to false when changing the state back to the other animations 🙂 thanks!

[lapis pier]

Anyone have the BR pack by Synty know how to get the characters in mixamo? I download the animation and it’s definitely not working. Character avatar set to humanoid

[arctic radish]

Hey everyone, I have a walking and a running animation with the same amount of frames. Does anybody know how to transition it so that the running animation starts at the frame the walking animation ended?

[inner sierra]

i need help with my animator

im using it twice

but it recursively animates all the animations

so i have a chainsaw and it attaches another chainsaw on the end

because it's part of the animator

[barren kindle]

I keep getting a NullReferenceException and the animation doesn't do the animate out after the countdown is done. How could I fix this?

[lean sage]

On which line?

[barren kindle]

49

[lean sage]

This object doesn't have an Animator component

[barren kindle]

So I would copy line 22 into it?

[lean sage]

no

you would add an Animator component to the object

or get a reference to the object that actually has the Animator

[barren kindle]

I had an Animator component on it

Unless I'm missing something

[lean sage]

Then the script is also on some other object that throws the error, or there's another error earlier that prevents assigning the value

[barren kindle]

Hold on

[barren kindle]

Same results

[lean sage]

...after what?

[barren kindle]

I removed wherever the script was also on and just left it on one object. It still prompted the same error

[lean sage]

Ok, put this before line 49 and show what it says in the console:

Debug.Log(name + " is accessing animator which " + (animator == null : "doesn't exist" : "exists"));

[lean sage]

Oops, should be

Debug.Log(name + " is accessing animator which " + (animator == null ? "doesn't exist" : "exists"));

[barren kindle]

Same result

[lean sage]

What result? The original error or the new ones?

[barren kindle]

Original

[lean sage]

Well of course, it wasn't supposed to be a fix

What does the log say?

[barren kindle]

I get it. However, it doesn't do the animator out animation when playing

[lean sage]

Ok but it doesn't throw the null reference error anymore?

[barren kindle]

It does

[lean sage]

...

What does the log say?

[barren kindle]

name + " is accessing animator which " + (animator == null ? "doesn't exist" : "exists"

[lean sage]

what

In the console

Show a screenshot of the console

[lean sage]

so remember when I said that there might be an error earlier that prevents assigning the value?

You didn't think that error on line 20 might have been relevant?

[barren kindle]

Not exactly. What would be needed for it?

[lean sage]

It looks like you still have the script on some other object

Put Debug.Log("Starting on " + name); at the beginning of Start

[barren kindle]

Same result of the null reference. The script is only on the empty game object

[lean sage]

again, adding a debug.log line can't fix any problems, it's for debugging

what does the log show?

[barren kindle]

nothing else but the null references

[lean sage]

If you added that to the Start method that's pretty much impossible

Show another screenshot

[barren kindle]

Okay there's no other error. The only thing the animator doesn't do is show the animate out transition

[lean sage]

what?

The null reference errors just disappeared?

[barren kindle]

Yeah

[lean sage]

okay then

well then there's something wrong with how the animations are set up, but I'll have to leave that to others

[south totem]

Hey guys, has anyone ever animated pixel characters? What type to frame rate should I use if I want to have a similar frame rate to The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures?

Or any similar pixelated game

[vital swallow]

anyone know a good place to get free 3d animations other than mixamo?

[snow depot]

look at a video of it and find out

[low viper]

im animating and there is no framerate changer or whatever

the sample number isnt available what do i do

which means everything is to fast

[inner sierra]

can anyone help

my animator recursively makes sprite animations

when i try to use the animator in two different places

so i have a chainsaw on the edge of my main chainsaw

where i should only have blood splatter animation

[novel portal]

does anyone know an asset store pack with gliding/free fall animations?

[teal shale]

u need to activate the option

u have 3 points

u need to press on it

In Animation Window right side have 3 vertical dot means setting icon, you have to just click and you can see "Show Sample Rate" just click on it.

[low viper]

i got it

but now i need help because i have an idle animation and a walk animation and it doesnt seem to switch i have the blocks in the right place and with the true and false with an IsMoving condition and this is my code, doesnt seem to be working

[queen gulch]

Double check your transitions. They need to be set to use that bool as a condition

In the animator controller, create or select a new transition, the line, and add this

[low viper]

yea i have that except my I is capitalized

[queen gulch]

It needs to match up with your code, case sensitive

You should be getting a warning for trying that I think

[low viper]

i changed it to capitals rn tho

and its still not working

[teal shale]

but u dont need 1 more with animator.SetBool("isMoving", true);?

[teal shale]

if you don't feel like it, I can only help you in about 5 hours, so I have to get home

[drowsy mist]

how can i resolve this error on an animation i've imported?

[rustic grove]

does anyone know why I can't see most of the inspector options when I select my animation clip in an inspector? I already tried manually setting m_ObjectHideFlags to 1 but it broke it

here's what I see

no other categories

[rustic grotto]

I have three tilesets as animations for my player character. Is there a way I can swtich between those tilesets let alone apply all three of them to the player? Or do I need to make it one large tileset?

[twin musk]

Can you do procedural animation with a character controller or does it only work with rigidbody?

[uncut salmon]

The built in character controller uses a capsule collider, so as long as you can use that, then how you move bones procedurally to match the movement you apply to the controller is really up to you.

But it would probably be much easier to use a rigidbody

[twin musk]

Well my entire movement and game is based off the character controller

and theres no way im rewriting a couple 80 lines of code for this

[inland cove]

Can anyone tell me how to make a mecanim animation go to previous animation after it has finished playing once? I'm using PlayMaker but am unsure how to check for this, please ping me if you know how to do this.

[orchid bramble]

in unity i'm trying to make moving platforms by using the animator, i tried animating transform.position but that'd mess up the collisions, so how do i animate rigidbody.velocity

[twin musk]

idk why this is happening

im trying to rig my character to procedural animation

[orchid bramble]

i animated the velocity by creating a separate script which has a public variable that changes the velocity of rigidbody, although i can animate that value, the changes don't occur in the animator window, so i don't know what happens until i actually play the game

[twin musk]

How do I fix my bone render?

[vagrant phoenix]

I have a character that I'm attempting to add runtime animation rigging to but I can't seem to get my character to work with it. I'm starting to think it might be a blender step that I missed or missing but this is the result when using Unity's Controller vs mine. If anyone has any suggestions or solutions please let me know been at this for a while now can't seem to figure it out.
https://imgur.com/ataCuUY
vs my character and armature:
https://i.imgur.com/wimICMO.gif

[lethal cape]

I thought I'd share some character animation, cos bruh I'm tired now XD

[lethal cape]

That looks like a parenting issue to me, are you trying for the multiple aim constraint, like the head looking in the first gif?

[vagrant phoenix]

Yeah, when I apply it my character goes into space some reason.

[lethal cape]

everything work normally without the animation rigging stuff?

[vagrant phoenix]

Yup everything works 100% note I setup the first gif and all works good, set up with my player just normal animations works fine but when I add that rig and click play it's gone lol

It can only be a parent or scale issue at this point imo.

[lethal cape]

lemme load up my project with working multi aim constraint so I can remember how the hierarchy works XD

[lethal cape]

have you tried making the source object just a random empty at the top of the hierarchy not parented to anything to make sure its not weird parenting with the camera or something?

also I'm guessing spine.006 is the head?

[vagrant phoenix]

Yes

and yes.

Weird part is with all the weights down it still does it.

[lethal cape]

that IS weird

[vagrant phoenix]

I tried to mimic their fbx build for this reason to find what Im doing wrong.

I just can't seem to location that problem. Last thing would be is scaling.

[lethal cape]

Does it have a humanoid animation controller?

I hear those can be messed up

I've always used Generic

I think I remember hearing somewhere that animation rigging and humanoid animation controllers aren't compatible, I could be wrong

[vagrant phoenix]

Well that's what I thought but if you look at the controller I used with the first gif it was all humanoid controllers including keyframe animations.

Which I did see stuff on that but can't be the problem, as I did see post by Unity saying it's not the problem.

I will switch it over really fast see what happens.

I switched it all over now the rig isn't responding.

I just wish I could get an error.

lol

Something via text saying hey your messing this up derp lolol

[vagrant phoenix]

@lethal cape I managed to figure it out. It was how I was exporting it from Blender wasn't properly doing it as I forgot the dropdown tabs for leaf bones and FBX Unit Scale to fix scaling issues. Another thing I did was moved the Rig in the hierarchy inside the parent of the character. Thanks for trying to help me! 😄

[exotic dragon]

ok the animator in unity drives me insane

why does my animation just not control the thing half the time

I clicked on the crosshair

I made a new clip in the animator tab

I changed z rotation

nothing

even though the other clips in this SAME drop down, I can scrub around on and they change it

same dropdown right

not keyframed

go to a different clip in the same dropdown

now its keyframed

ok nvm I moved the ticker thing and it suddenly became keyframed

also sometimes my clip just doesnt show in the animation tab and I have to delete it in my folder and recreate it

not sure what that's about

[rustic linden]

i'm trying to put animations on a ui layout's buttons by having it so when you highlight the button (which has a fill image), it snaps to having a fill of 0 and builds up to 1 in 0.1 secs. for some reason, it seems to take 0.2 secs to smooth it to 0 from 1 then building back up. is there any way to make it snap?

[rustic linden]

got it, apparently i needed to make an instant transition (for those having the same problem, not sure if anyone would, but here's the link that solved the problem: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1144801/instant-animation-transition.html)

[orchid bramble]

how tha fook do you have tha audio you be animatin play when ya play tha animation, tha audio only fookin plays when ya play tha god damn game from the unity preview instead of tha animation preview

[orchid bramble]

LEZZ GOOOO

theres summin called timelines

[leaden sorrel]

Hi , I'm quite new to unity and the animation side of things, I have a 3D project with a simple character prefab and I have imported a running animation clip, I would like the running animation clip to play indefinitely while the character exists, What is the easiest way of going about this? I tried following a simple tutorial about using an animation controller but it needs an avatar attached and i am unsure how this is done. (SOLVED)

[lethal cape]

Glad you worked it out

[little sluice]

This gameobject is flipping out all over the place even though it doesn't have anything other than two animation keyframes. It was working just fine when I opened the project yesterday, but for some reason it's bugging out without any other changes.

[little sluice]

Unity's decided to screw me over again as my animations begin to break if I so much as preview an animation while having a gameobject selected. They start flying all over the place.

This is tiring.....

[agile coyote]

anyone know how to stop transitions from automatically playing?

like i have multiple states, and some of them are looping, but instead of looping it automatically transitions to a diff tate

i prevented this by creating conditions, but I dont want to ahve to create conditions for every state;

[graceful latch]

what is that arm model

[little sluice]

A low poly robot arm

[low viper]

bruh so i had the statement to where it was true when only inside a collider box i fixed that is tho

[rough quartz]

hey guys when previewing an humanoid animation in scene view the model jumps to position 0,0,0 is there any way to prevent that?

I want to preview its animation in the spot he as in scene view

[twin musk]

I got a weird problem with my model

I have a t pose character that Im trying to import into unity

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/869803647826014279/945796577077919764/unknown.png

But in unity it shows this weird thing

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/869803647826014279/945796735568068728/unknown.png

[spare parcel]

unity Ambiguous Transform 'Root/Hips' and 'Base_Body/Hips

What is going on here?.... any idea what a kind of error it is? 🤔🤔

Ambiguous Transform 'Root/Hips' and 'Base_Body/Hips' found in hierarchy for human bone 'Hips'. Transform name mapped to a human bone must be unique.

lol was just about the gameObjects names 😅

[proud scarab]

Hi guys, I currently cannot drop "Robot Kyle" into the animator as "Avatar". I would like to put him there in order to control his finger movements. What should I do? How do I turn this robot into an avatar?

[mild imp]

Google: Unity How to make an avatar

[idle rampart]

is an animation faster played when someone has higher fps ?

[idle rampart]

ive got 2 times the same skeleton, once on my axe and once on my character and they should play each time the same animation , is there a way that i apply the animator only once and that one handles the animations for all children ?

or do i have to add 2 ?

[elder vault]

Hey. I have a model. when I make a new animation clip, as soon as I click the 🔴 red dot button (keyframe recording mode) the character gets this pose which I don't know where it comes from. how can I reset it to It's original T-Pose?

[elder vault]

You can read the answer here:
https://answers.unity.com/questions/534985/are-animation-frame-dependent.html

[elder vault]

Anyone?

[narrow glacier]

Im working on a character customizer for a 2d sprite game. I created a sprite library for each party (base, hair, top, bottom)

I then made an animation for all 4 parts, set to broken, set to both constant. It was working fine it seemed at first. Then I wanted to test changing the library on the hair to something else to see how swapping the library works for changing the hair

This is when everything started to break it seems. Now the hair wasn't animated at all. The resolver showed no "category" set. Sometimes if I manually set the category of would start to work and change the catagory on its own, but usually it would just not animate

I did notice in the animation that setting the "catagory hash" while recording did not create key frames or have any effect at all

[agile solstice]

The sword seems to have more than two keyframes
Usually to keep things simple you would include the sword bone in the hand animations and just parent the mesh to it

[little sluice]

So I found out that the issue was caused by ProGrids Snapping being On. When I turned it off, the gameobjects stopped flipping out all over the place

[proud scarab]

Hi guys, I'm new to animating so this question might be stupid: I am trying to add some animations to my VR character, but for some reason as soon as I create an avatar for my character it will start acting weird. It's legs are folded and the arms are in the air. I can't seem to fix it, what may be the cause?

Maybe the reason that the arms are in the air is because the legs are folded and the character loses height while the bones stay up. But I can't seem to find a way to fix it

[plush fractal]

So I want to start animating a dummy character before I add the real character, how can I make sure animation positions line up with world objects like door knobs, drawers, etc even if the bones of the final character have different sizes than the dummy's bones? Is there a good way to make sure they line up without redoing all of the animations once the new character is added?

[idle rampart]

rigid animations for lining them up with world objects

[plush fractal]

Could you explain?

[idle rampart]

a rigid animation plays always the normal animation but you can make your bones depend on factors aditonaly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htl7ysv10Qs&t=152s&ab_channel=Brackeys

[plush fractal]

Thanks, that's useful. Is this the most commonly used way to interact with objects and is it the best practice or are there better methods?

[idle rampart]

idk... i know that it works and that i understand it, and thats for me enough reason to use it

if it would suck, it wouldnt be implemented in unity... and believe me the ones who make unity know what they are doing

[plush fractal]

I'm not saying if it's good or bad, I am just interested in hearing if there's any other methods of achieving it

[idle rampart]

there google is your friend 🙂

[plush fractal]

Will do, thanks

[crimson cargo]

im trying to create an aiming animation using avatar masks, so i created a new layer and masked only the bones i want to be affected by the animation, then added the animation node and all of the conditions, so when the player holds the mouse button it will play the aiming animation:

the issue is that when im holding the button, it plays the beggining of the animation but the character just glitches and looks like this:

[idle rampart]

how can i check if an animator is still busy when i set a trigger like
anim.setTrigger("HIT"); how can i check if its still in the hit animation like "anim.isInAnimation("HIT")" ... something like that

[devout ferry]

Hello there, I've got some issue with cinemachine impulses, and animation rigging. I've got multi aim constrain, with target affected by independent impulse listener which is triggered via signal in timeline. The final wobbling is working on the target game object, but that constrain is ignoring that extra motion. So is that possible to do with procedural shake, or should I rather animate some kind of shake manually in timeline or sth?

[elder vault]

Does anyone know why this happens?

[elder vault]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/362629/how-can-i-check-if-an-animation-is-being-played-or.html

https://answers.unity.com/questions/1403162/how-to-check-if-animator-is-playing.html

[pure laurel]

Hi there, I am trying to map some bones for my character, however this error appears on the neck bone and the chest bones(not the same one ofc but similar)

now the same thing happens for head :(

it also does this if I go into t-pose mode

[idle rampart]

when i got an animation trigger and play it and i have only 1 transition that goes away from that trigger do i have to put a condition on that transition ? it should automatically go that way back

[clear orbit]

yes

[idle rampart]

yes to "i have to put a condition" or yes to "automatically" ?

[pure laurel]

Could anyone help with the bone layers? I think that might be the cause of my errors

[novel portal]

anyone know of some packs with skating, rollerblading, or surfing animations?

[pure laurel]

Hi there, so on exporting a fbx file of a player from unity, and making it a humanoid, it cannot find the head. This happens any time I try and recreate the basic human rig. PLEASE can someone help me. At this point I have been stuck on this same error for about 5 hours, and it is preventing me from adding any animation.

this is the exact error here

then if I add it this is the error that occurs

then if I move it to be under ORG.spine.003, all seems fine

until I apply and select done

and click on it agin

this error occurs once more

I would be VERY greatful if someone could help me.

[tulip mulch]

Hi, this question is about animation rigging
I'm trying to change the source objects of a Two Bones IK Constraint using script.
But because this system is using jobs the change do not apply how can I do to be able to change source object via script ?
Thanks you for taking time helping me

[lime tulip]

how to handle skeleton rig in 2d, front and side sprites

do you just have 2 versions of the skeleton and choose which to show?

[hybrid tinsel]

@pure laurel the image quality is too low for me to read the error messages, but it looks like your bone hierarchy is incorrectly set up?

@lime tulip that is how I do it, but some peeps prefer to have ones skeleton for both.

[lime tulip]

I see thanks, and similar question for if I had some sprite sheet animations, to use alongside the generic skeleton?

you have a sperate spritesheet object object as well, and also choose when to show it>?

[hybrid tinsel]

That's what I do.

[lime tulip]

ok cool, am learning theres a million differerent ways to do everything 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

You can also enable/disable secondary objects with the animation.

But that is less reliable.

[lime tulip]

is it mad to make a cartoon in unity?

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, it is my primary animation tool.

[lime tulip]

mostly i just wanted to practise animations so started making a cartoons which has been fun, but very slow 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

It probably isn't ideal for longer cartoons but there is nothing stopping you, either.

[lime tulip]

my cartoon 😄

[pure laurel]

Sorry about that, I think so, do you know how to set it up so that spine 003 is the parent of the head? Thank you :)

[hybrid tinsel]

@lime tulip as you can probably tell from my logo, I'm partial to tuxedo cats :D

[lime tulip]

aha yeah i wasnt going to post the image as I have 0 art talent, but I saw your pic 😄

[hybrid tinsel]

@pure laurel that would be set up in your modeling software.

[pure laurel]

Ooh yeah awesome thank you. Do you have any experience in blender that you might be able to help me with?

[lime tulip]

theres a massive blender discord channel as well that may help if not

[pure laurel]

Yea I’ve kinda been going back and forth between the unity and blender serversxD
I will ask there how it is done :)

[lime tulip]

@hybrid tinsel do you record mini clips in unity, and splice them into your video softwares, and then just delete the unity clips?

or oyu keep everything all saved in unity as well

I was making my cartoon as a 10 minute long, unity timeline, I think I should just make like a 30 second timeline, then start a fresh scene and move it all to video

[hybrid tinsel]

I've not done anything that long. I mostly do small clips in unity or larger ones in video software.

https://imgur.com/0wRxZVS

[lime tulip]

yeah i might make that in unity, then just delete the scene i made it in, and move it to video editing to insert into the cartoon. Im ending up with 100s of animations and files i will never use again, and trying to managing it all is slowing me down a lot 😄

who knows, onwards!

[hybrid tinsel]

You don't need to delete the clips.

[lime tulip]

I do silly stuff, like edit the sprite, but that invalidates the older clips etc

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, it isn't like they take up much space.

Oh. Yeah.

[lime tulip]

otherwise i has to make an new version of the sprites

and i end up in a pickle

[hybrid tinsel]

So why not do that?

[lime tulip]

I should try to keep them, until i publish the video, in case I want to edit them I guess

[hybrid tinsel]

Though if you want to work that way, flash might be more your style than unity

[lime tulip]

but otherwise, I just want 1 prefab, of my latest version of my cat

and making sure it doesnt break older clips etc can be awks how im going atm

as i totally change his body shape etc

[hybrid tinsel]

Just make a new sprite for new variations

[lime tulip]

I spent a month animating in just unity, spent today learning Da Vinci video, and my world is blown, so much easier!

(for general video composition etc)

[graceful latch]

what do u guys think

[hybrid tinsel]

Well, unity's animation system is mostly geared to reusable clios you build a game out of, so it is a bit of a different set of tools @lime tulip

@graceful latch I think my phone can't play your video.

[deft oriole]

It feels kinda stiff IMO, maybe make the entire gun jerk up and down when it's reloading/unloading respectively

[pure laurel]

Hi there again, does anyone mind helping me with this? I have got to the point that my character has a functioning humanoid rig, and that I have created my animator controller, and it has all of the bones correctly named, with the animation uploaded to the player. However, when I click play my mixamo character I retargeted the animation from animates, but my player does not.

[inner sierra]

i need help, my animator.Play isnt working

[winter flax]

I can help. It seems to me

You used a variable

?

[inner sierra]

ok it's working now but

it wont Stop()

[graceful latch]

i changed a lot

[idle rampart]

ive made in blender an animation for a chracter skeleton now i wanted to make an equipment system so the axe was imported with the same skeleton as the character to a extra file, when i put into unity both of these it works but i need 2 animators, 1 animtor for the skeleeton and 1 animator for the axe skeleton, what do i have to do that the axe is listening on the character skelton ( which is absolutely identical ) ?
EDIT: nvm found a tutorial on a unity post

[proud scarab]

Hi, I understand that it is not possible to create a keyframe animation on a humanoid rig. Does it mean that if I want to create a finger moving animation I need to use blender?

Can't I do that inside unity?

[hybrid tinsel]

@proud scarab you can make keyframes on a humanoid. You just can't keyframe the transforms directly; you need to keyframe the humanoid muscles.

[proud scarab]

How do I do that? Do I press the record button on the animator and then move the muscles of the avatar?

[old swan]

I've been trying to search for Skeleton related animations, like actual skeleton, bones and all.
Does anyone know if any exist?
Specifically one where the Skeleton breaks apart and its body goes a bit everywhere?

thank you

[idle rampart]

when i have a update method, and i call setTrigger Tpose which moves from the anystate to the tpose am i in the tpose until the update method has finished ?

like am i on frame 1 of the animation until the update method is over ?

[potent imp]

btw any anyportrait user here?

[velvet tinsel]

what does this mean???

[sage nimbus]

I have a character in Blender with a bunch of Joint-corrective morphs. These morphs are controlled by drivers during animation. However, I had no success when attempting to export my character into Unity such that the driver behavior is preserved. Is it actually possible to export Blender drivers into Unity, or do I need to re-think my approach?

[solar ibex]

my animations are not fast enough

i'm triggering this animation the moment i click this button

and even though it should switch button size right away, it takes 1 second

i've changed animation speed and the multiplier but it stays the same

[quasi fable]

Is it the animation itself that is taking too long or the delay before the animation starts?

[sacred oar]

I'm using Blender, how do I flip an animation?

oh nevermind

I just have to paste as flipped

[solar ibex]

I figured it out. I didn’t realize the lines between “any state” and my animation had a small transition

[sacred oar]

Why do I get these errors?

    int moveXAnimationParameterId;
    int moveZAnimationParameterId;

    Vector2 currentAnimationBlendVector;
    Vector2 animationVelocity;```


Start:
```        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        
        moveXAnimationParameterId = Animator.StringToHash("MoveX");
        moveZAnimationParameterId = Animator.StringToHash("MoveZ");```


Update:
```        Vector2 input = moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        currentAnimationBlendVector = Vector2.SmoothDamp(currentAnimationBlendVector, input, ref animationVelocity, animationSmoothTime);
        Vector3 move = new Vector3(currentAnimationBlendVector.x, 0, currentAnimationBlendVector.y);


        animator.SetFloat(moveXAnimationParameterId, currentAnimationBlendVector.x);
        
        animator.SetFloat(moveZAnimationParameterId, currentAnimationBlendVector.y);```

[sacred oar]

Nevermind it's fixed

I had to set parameters first

[maiden girder]

Oh is this the right place to ask for help regarding using the animation interface for Unity?

[dawn bear]

how do you make a character compatable with mecanim for assets that are going to be published on the asset store?

[hollow coyote]

Hello, I'm stuck with something...

Essentially playing a "Block Start" animation, and if the player finishes blocking during this anim, exit. Otherwise, play a block loop animation until the player finishes blocking.

Any State -> Block: "If isBlocking = true"
Block -> Exit: "If isBlocking = false"
Block -> Block Loop: no conditions, Has Exit Time
Block -> Exit: "If isBlocking = true".

The issue is once I enter the block loop animation, it will immediately try to enter the block animation from any state, since "isBlocking = true".

[little sluice]

Is there a way to modify the speed of an animation clip at specific points? Like time ramping in after effects?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can directly edit the curves to ramp up or ramp down using the curve editor, but there's no built in way to do that with an entire clip unless you script it yourself.

[little sluice]

So only able to edit the curves of each keyframe?

[hybrid tinsel]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Like, you can control the speed of the animator and of specific animations at any time, so it wouldn't be too hard to do a ramp.

[little sluice]

For example, I have an animation clip of someone swinging a sword. I want to have the animation play at normal speed during the windup, but then speed up during the actual swing, and then go back to normal speed for the remainder.

[hybrid tinsel]

Unless you need to do it dynamically, it is probably easiest to just make the animation ramp up and down that way.

And do you just want the animation speed to change, or other stuff too(like a slow motion effect that affects the world)?

[little sluice]

Just changing the animation speed at specific points. So I can tweak certain parts if I feel that it feels slow in areas

[hybrid tinsel]

Then I'd just tweak the animation probably

[worldly lagoon]

So I have a question. Is there a best practice for handling animation FBXs? Should I be duplicating the animation out of the FBX and delete it?

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure what you mean, exactly. You mean FBXs that have additional animations for an imported object, or...?

If you use the @ naming, unity will only import the animation and not the mesh, etc.

[worldly lagoon]

The FBX that holds the animation and let's you tweak import settings and such.

You can use the animations in the animator without taking it out of the FBX. Its read only, but you can.

So I'm just trying to figure out, in Unity, if I should keep the FBX after import.

[hybrid tinsel]

There's no real reason not to.

I believe that if all you use is the animation, that is all Unity puts in the build by default.

Especially if you use the @ naming which tells unity explicitly to discard the mesh

[inner sierra]

can anyone help

my animation.Stop doesnt work

[heady flax]

Never animated before, why does my attack animation freeze at the last frame until I do another animation? how do I make it go back to an idle/default animation after its played?

[cosmic sage]

how do i have multiple animation overrides at the same time? like for example I want to have an animation for a reflex sight and drum mag reload

[spare yoke]

Anyone else get a weird bug where your animator controllers just stop appearing in the window?

Mine only reappear after a restart

[dreamy urchin]

Getting this error : Could not compute threshold for 'Blend Tree' there is not enough data
UnityEditor.GenericMenu:CatchMenu (object,string[],int)

How can I fix?

Happens in animator blend tree when you try and compute thresholds.

[sacred oar]

How do I layer weapon animations to my existing movement animations? And how do I code it so the animations activate when certain criteria like booleans and triggered input actions are met?

[formal urchin]

is there a way to return all animator states in code?

[hybrid tinsel]

Have you tried selecting the window and hitting 'f'?

[tidal sedge]

hey, question. I have a lot of simple 3x4 spritesheets moved over from an RPGmaker game. Is there a tool to take a template character and just swap which sheet the animations draw from?

it took about an hour to make all the idle and movement animations, and I have a LOT of characters to do it for

[hybrid tinsel]

If the sprite sheets are the same you can just change textures.

[tidal sedge]

could you explain how that works?

the only way I know how to do 2d animation is to change the sprites directly in the animation

[azure forum]

what would be a good grid by cell size for this:

[cosmic sage]

anyone?

[cosmic sage]

anyone?

[static crow]

Hello how come when i want to set a model to be humanoid, and i use another avatar it gives me this error?

How would i fix this

BTW i use to do this before and this error never came is their a thing that has changed?

[graceful latch]

ye i wanna make a reloading, scoping and inspect animation for 1 gun

[cosmic sage]

im talking about for attatchments/weapon modifications

you obviously cant have the same reload for a normal mag and use that for a drum mag

[graceful latch]

same thing

[cosmic sage]

isnt that just, different animation states

have 1 animation for reload, inspect, and ads

[cobalt token]

anybody knows why my sprite renderer isn't changing while animating (Idle Animation)? Because of this even if sprite resolver is changing the sprite renderer stays the same.... I tried turning off Write Defaults, has exit time basically everything I can touch in the animator and its still not working properly. Anyone can help me? I'm stuck on this problem for days now.

Here's a video showing what's happening. When transitioning to Walk Animation it's just not playing because I think the reason is what I mentioned above. The sprite renderer isn't changing even if the Sprite Resolver is.

I also noticed when I turn off Animator component during runtime I can change the sprite renderer normally

[twin musk]

Help, when my game loads back into the menu scene the animation doesn't begin it just stops at the beginning of the first animation

[wraith quail]

Help, my animator shows me that the Player_Idle animation is activated but the animation is not playing even though all parameters are met.

[inner sierra]

i need help

my animation.Stop wont work

[twin musk]

hi do anyone know how to make that the legs have the walk animation and the rest of the body have the gun holding animation?

[snow depot]

yes.

by using animator layers

[reef totem]

Hey, I use an animation from mixamo and it somehow changes the height of my player

[twin musk]

Are there any rig limitations in Unity engine?
for instance could i use Forward/Inverse kinematics, and curves as controllers for rigs?
I've tried googling it but the information coming up's from like 2011

[twin musk]

Like c an I set up kinematics in blender then bring them over into unity?

[wise ravine]

Essentially no, this is a good series about exporting for game engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdGkKbtQxE0

[modern cargo]

my animations play in game, but the parameters and transitions do not update at all in the animator window, which makes it difficult to improve further on glitches and such. ive confirmed it is the right animator im on. how could this possibly be happening?

[twin musk]

going to watch this through now. thank you

[twin musk]

was helpful, ty

[fluid sage]

hey i was wondering if there is a way to make it easier to make a spider like walking animation for https://gyazo.com/1a5f396b65cd7450403806743aec3b94

i dont need it to do any final ik stuff, i just need a good walking animation that can go on loop and idk if i can do that without doing key frame animation. any advice?

[magic robin]

Hey what is the best way to do a flowing scarf or similar ribbon like thing in a 2D pixel art game?

I know theres a way to apply a shader in unity that gives a pixelated effect to an otherwise smooth or high res object

in which case, one idea might be to just have the scarf be a 3D model with bones, and apply the shader to it at runtime

[graceful latch]

how do i make an animation stop after roughly 2.5 seconds

[gentle wind]

Hey guys.. programmer completely void of animation experience here. 😄
Looking to rig up a backpack for my mixamo characters- what would be the keywords I need to do something like this?
I've tried just parenting the object to the spine, obviously looks pretty terrible.
Ideally, I'd like to have some kind of "pin" where it reacts to velocities but clamped to avoid jank.. would this require a bone, manually editing (possibly messing up my rig) or is there an easier way?

[near ingot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationClip.SampleAnimation.html
"It is recommended to use the Animation interface instead for performance reasons." Why? Anybody have any idea what these "performance reasons" would be? What does this do differently from the standard animation component?

(Ignoring, of course, all the other good non-performance reasons why you'd avoid doing this manually.)

[lime tulip]

when you make a timeline, play a timeline, it doesnt show the animations?

(unless in runmode)

@gentle wind did you solve it?

[abstract heath]

should have tagged him lol @twin musk

[twin musk]

Hello guys, can someone explain to me why this test asset => https://skfb.ly/osWKs
Is completely broken once imported. Well it's already a bit broken let's be honest, it's smooth inside blender.
But I'm wondering if the import in unity is a problem or if I should just search toward blender.

Sorry if it's considered as duplicate because I started inside #🔀┃art-asset-workflow but I realized it may be related to the rig import/system inside unity.

[twin musk]

As a complete noob, it looks for me than I have an issue with the skin weight precision

[wraith quail]

Help, my animator shows me that the Player_Idle animation is activated but the animation is not playing even though all parameters are met.

[short willow]

When using the Timeline how do I select all clips that are left or right of the current one?

I want to lengthen a clip and move everything afterwards to compensate, like ripple effect

and I can't get ripple to work

other question, how do I move a signal marker between tracks? it won't drag vertically

[pastel silo]

Hey so I ran into a little bit of a road block while working on animations

so the animations are working but then they stop after like one loop

[snow depot]

@pastel siloin the animator, are you having the animations transitioning to themselves?

[hybrid tinsel]

What is not working with it?

[hybrid tinsel]

Are the animations set to loop in the inspector for the clip?

[dense wyvern]

Hello !
I have a really strange problem.
I'm building my game on Android, for Oculus, and the animation of my deer won't start. By that I mean, it's stay in idle...But only when I build the game, in the editor it works fine.
The problem is, I have a really similar code for another animation, a gard walking, who is working correctly, in build and editor.
I really find it strange, here's the script of my animator.
If someone could help, that would be awesome !
Thank you so much !

[jolly pivot]

hi, - I am a complete animation noob, but I have managed to rig a boat engine to attach to my boat.

I can do some animations for turning, as well as tilting and bouncing around during high speed impacts etc in blender.

BUT I have no idea where to even start with using these in unity. Can someone just point me in the direction of which animation system I should use to make it play the respective animations in-game?

[dense wyvern]

You can use the animator !
Set bool with it, that you can start in the code, it's pretty easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gON_hhhvheI

[jolly pivot]

awesome thank you! just wanted to make sure I started off in the right direction 🙂

[dense wyvern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeZkctmoBPw
Here's another tutorial shorter and it seems more clear :)

Don't hesitate to do some research on it by yourself by the way ! And you're welcome :)

[jolly pivot]

totally, I will spend a few hours reading into these tools

Just had no clue where to even start 🙂 But now I know there is an animator controller that will be great

[dense wyvern]

Great, happy to hear that ! :)

[dense wyvern]

Anyone could help me please ?
The app is going in the is walking
The animator bool is passing true
The speed is more than required for it to walk
I'm basically lost right now

[dense wyvern]

Found it
If anyone have the same problem, I had two animator, that's why

[waxen yacht]

I spent hours to figure out how to pose a charater in my scene into the starter idle animation , i tried to add them as a component and it didnt work

I want to it to do idle pose instead of T , in the editor not when i press play

[waxen yacht]

Still no way to pose a character in the editor

[pure laurel]

Anyone got any clue to why this happens? When the player is not grounded it changes the hitbox of the player, and when it is it changes it again. And when the player is grounded it should immediately switch over to landing. (btw I know exit time is on it is to stop the animation from going straight into landing as soon as the player jumps)

Ok I think this might be the issue and I think it might mess up the exit time possibly https://pastebin.com/9wdGWy5B

I think it is specifically && playerVelocity.y < 0

Except without that the player never actually jumps, just the animation plays

if it helps here is the transition from jumping to landing (yes I havent got falling yet)

[proud scarab]

Hi guys, do you know how I can solve the issue described in this video?

[pastel silo]

Omg thanks so much it worked. This is a big assignment for my engineering class so tysm 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure if this is the problem, but you didn't add your avatar to the mask

So that's the first thing I'd try

Alternatively, if your animation does not use a Humanoid avatar, or if you want more detailed control over which individual bones are masked off, you can use the Transform method to select or deselect portions of the model’s hierarchy to mask. To do this, **you must assign a reference to the avatar whose transform you would like to mask off,** then click the “Import Skeleton” button.

It is kinda dumb that it can't figure it out from context but...

[snow depot]

what's the difference between an animator transition and an animator state transition?

[hybrid tinsel]

AnimatorTransition doesn't include timing parameters and AnimatorStateTransition does

[snow depot]

for some reason it seems like the animator transitions don't work for me, but I'll try to see

[hybrid tinsel]

Without any context it is hard to offer any advice there, so... good luck? 😄

[patent ocean]

https://gfycat.com/negativecelebratedesok
Why is preview showing what i want but comes out as crap....

and ive tried everything to make it work, this was the best i got. slippery feet and halved turn speed

[hybrid tinsel]

Turn off bake into pose (XZ)?

[patent ocean]

No so i had a rigidBody attached that for some reason did this, and also i had to turn on interpolate to fix it

[waxen yacht]

How to pose my character in the editor for promo shots

[proud scarab]

Unfortunately I have already tried it, I had to put in the avatar and then press the import skeleton button in order to get the bones at first place.

Uhmm, I will try again. Maybe it shouldn't be deleted afterwards but for some reason it deletes the avatar after I import everything

[balmy fulcrum]

Is this where i get help with animations? 😄

I have an animation for my "jump". Whenever i press space the animation just does not work. Tried to record it but would not work.

If i jump and then press space (Jump button) then it activates and loops.

The jump animation starts and the character jumps, but the animation just ends just as quick as it starts. So the animation does not show. If i'm in the air (pressed jump twice) then it works and just loops.

[hollow gazelle]

how do i make it so a animation doesn't loop

im trying to make a door and when it closes it teleports back to the top and closes again

over and over

nvm found it

https://prnt.sc/MbyiZKqlVbir

When playing the door closing animation the door teleports to the closed state from the open state, and then opens and closes.

[balmy fulcrum]

You can "uncheck the loop setting.

My 2 animations are not in the same place, one animation is a little more up than the other. Is there any fixes for that? Example:

[hollow gazelle]

i already did

it doesnt look

loop

it just closes, opens, and closes again

[balmy fulcrum]

How did u animate it? You want it to animate to an "Open" State?

[hollow gazelle]

it starts closed

but opens with the game loads

the first keyframe is at the beginning and the position for it is in the open position

i think that might be the problem but when i removed it it didn't really do anything

[balmy fulcrum]

Weird. Well im not too sure. I feel like I ran in to a similar problem when I animated, but can't really remember.

[hollow gazelle]

welp

i uploaded a video of trhe problem

but youtube decided the perfect resolution for it is 240p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNTFId39m8

if that helps

if anyone has any ideas ping me

[balmy fulcrum]

Can you show your transsition between the 2 animations?

[hollow gazelle]

hold on

https://prnt.sc/MGMhbz1PXUYk

@balmy fulcrum

[hollow gazelle]

there it is

[forest compass]

Hey, Id like to use photoshop to make some quick pixel art for my character. If I want to draw the animation in photoshop, Is there anything quicker than redrawing from scratch in photoshop? It would just be like 4-6 frame animations so nothing fancy but i feel like there should be a way to reuse the previous work?

I tried using the "timeline" tool, but when I exported my animation, I ended up with 1500 png files

[obtuse moth]

Anyone fixed that problem with wobling leg in animations from mixamo?

[proud scarab]

Hi guys, the avatar mask's transform is not working, what may be the cause?

[hybrid tinsel]

Make sure the pivots are in the correct place

[magic robin]

https://gfycat.com/PhysicalAcidicAdder

hey so I'm trying to make a scarf for my character (dont mind that the sprite has no scarf, its going to be redone later)

atm its just a child object with plane skinned mesh renderer and cloth component, but it doesn't quite flow the way I want, even after messing with lots of settings, and lowering the cloth gravity in the project settings... any ideas how to improve this look, or a better way to do this? I also want it to be kinda wavy when the player walks, instead of just going straight taught

[snow depot]

I forgot if wind zones can help you with that

[magic robin]

I dont wanna put wind zones all over the place
a a more compact solution would be better

[heady flax]

Anyone know any good free humanoid melee weapon animations and/or where to find some? I looked on the unity asset store and the selection was pretty limited

[foggy chasm]

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

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Joystick mJoystick;
    public float mRunSpeed = 2.0f;
    public GameObject Target;

    public Animator animator;

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        var currentDir2D = mJoystick.Direction.normalized;

        //Target.transform.Translate(new Vector3(currentDir2D.x, currentDir2D.y, 0) * Time.deltaTime * mRunSpeed);

        var rb = Target.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        var v = new Vector3(currentDir2D.x, currentDir2D.y, 0) * mRunSpeed;

        rb.velocity = v;
        
    }

}```

Hello! How can I get my sprite to play the walk animation in this scenario?

using a joystick is making life lot harder for me

[hybrid tinsel]

Add an Animator.SetFloat() to set 'Speed' in the animator.

[hybrid tinsel]

Parent a wind zone that randomly varies to the character?

I've not used unity cloth, I've only done bone based cloth. Is it simple to set up?

[magic robin]

simple to set up, but you need to expose the sorting layer and order if you want to use it in a 2D setting cause those are for some reason hidden in the inspector

[hybrid tinsel]

Oh yeah, I've dealt with that issue a lot

Have a nice simple script that just exposes them

[tidal lance]

Hey, is it possible to add animation events to imported legacy animations?

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, you can add them in the importer inspector along with curves.

[tidal lance]

Are you sure about that? The options to use it are show when you're not using legacy

[hybrid tinsel]

Huh, weird.

OH wait, are you actually using the legacy system, like with the animation component?

Can you not just use 'generic'?

[tidal lance]

I really want to avoid having to have so many animator controllers for objects that are only meant to play a single animation.

Using the Timeline component is a close second for my workflow

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah, animation events are part of the animator.

I misunderstood what you were doing

[tidal lance]

Tho I can put animation events on other clips marked as legacy as long as it's not one imported from an fbx...

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes, because you are still creating them with the newer system. Have you tried just duplicating the imported animation and putting events on it that way?

[tidal lance]

Nope, and I don't plan to.

On a different note, how do I use the signal track in Timelines without creating a signal asset?

[hybrid tinsel]

As far as I know, you don't?

[tidal lance]

🤦

[brisk stag]

(i think this is the right channel)
Animation events? I've seen tutorials talk about it, but I've never seen the interface that has an "events" dropdown

[hybrid tinsel]

Can you be more specific about what you're having trouble finding? Have you read the manual page on animation events?

[brisk stag]

i do get how triggers in normal animation files work, but how do i find reading on.. animation events from FBX-s

Are the events in this menu (at the bottom) same as events in unity-made animations

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes

[brisk stag]

oh, i thought i was missing a lot.

[sand elm]

Hey, does anyone know why setting a Spine bone position from code is applying it the following frame? Even if I manually call Update and UpdateWorldTransform, it still happens on the next frame... Is there anyway to force the position change immediately?

[hybrid tinsel]

Doing it in LateUpdate doesn't work?

[sand elm]

That's too late for me, I am shooting a projectile and I need the bone to match the output position of it. But it seems that no matter what I do it still happens on the following frame.

[hybrid tinsel]

Too late?

[proven bronze]

is this the right place to ask about material animation?

[hybrid tinsel]

You can, though depending on the question #archived-shaders might be more helpful

[foggy chasm]

That's what I did, but what shall I set it to?

Cause I can't put a vector there, after the comma

[hybrid tinsel]

Use the magnitude

[foggy chasm]

Idk what that is, but I guess I'll look into tonight

Thanks

[hybrid tinsel]

Vectors have two components, direction and magnitude. But the animator only cares about the speed, not the direction.

So you feed it the magnitude of the velocity

[twin musk]

guys,i make a Attack animation and i find out that if i keep fast m1(left click) it will not play the whole animation,just show the 0.1o-0.3s part animation, if player m1 then he need to Wait for the animation to finish then he can m1 again,How to do that?

[twin musk]

sounds complicated
Simply put just the player need to wait the Attack animation done then the player can use the Attack animation
(If you ask me some question I may be will not respond,cus maybe i sleep.sorry)

[fluid sage]

Hey so I'm trying to animate mesh particles, how could I make an animated mesh particle like say. A bug walking animation without scripts? Cause I really wanna take this animation and animate the legs for these guys to move while they're alive, I already have a walking animation I'd just want to figure out how to attach it to the particle itself https://gyazo.com/959c3976444fdeee5a7843013c7424b3

[urban tusk]

So I had a curious thought of something. How would you do a timelapse animation for a 3D scan?

Probably a weird question, and not entirely correct. I mostly do the coding not so much the other parts but was still curious

[hybrid tinsel]

@fluid sage you would probably need to use vertex animation textures for that.

@urban tusk can you describe in more detail what you mean?

@twin musk you would need a transition from the attack to itself with exit time off and can transition to self on.

[urban tusk]

Like doing a scan of say a flower growing throughout the year and then putting them all together into a sort of animated time lapse I suppose

[twin musk]

so like this?

[hybrid tinsel]

yeah

[hybrid tinsel]

3d scans tend to be unique meshes, so I suppose it'd depend on how you were producing them

[twin musk]

if like this,then become the situation that i ask

[hybrid tinsel]

That sentence is incomprehensible.

[twin musk]

so the both transition don't need to change?

[hybrid tinsel]

The second one you might need to set interruption source

[twin musk]

ok

[twin musk]

i try all 4 for it,it still don't fix the problem

[strong coral]

Is it possible to do procedural animation with multilegged creatures

[hybrid tinsel]

Yes.

[foggy chasm]

why wont it let me click play?

[uncut salmon]

You need to select an object in the scene which contains this animation on their animator.

[foggy chasm]

oh... i feel so stupid now xd

thanks

[fluid sage]

Yeah I remember someone did something with uv distortion or something to do, I'm just wondering how though? Like how do I make them move with the uv and what shader do I use?

Cause the guy that showed off doing it I dont think wants to tell me his secret

[proud scarab]

Hey guys, I want to create an animation that moves the index finger for a game in unity. The problem is that whenever I create the animation in blender it also saves the position of the other bones which are not related (it saves a T-pose, but I only want to have the index finger bones). Is it possible to do?

If I try to use a mask in order to disregard the other bones it would work, but it does not exist for the fingers (a limitation inside unity)

and "transform" of layer mask does not work on humanoids

[twin musk]

Run Cycle for Player 1

[twilit mountain]

I have a click animation that i want to trigger from any state an a idle animation that plays on entry, i want the idle anim to play after the hex click one is done, how do i do this?

when i trigger the clickAnim it waits until the idleAnim finishes and then plays the clickAnim and it doesn't do anything else

[hybrid tinsel]

https://github.com/Gaxil/Unity-AlembicToVAT

Save animation to alembic in blender, convert to VAT, use VAT shader in unity

[hybrid tinsel]

The transform mask does work, but only for transforms not controlled by the avatar. So for fingers you'd need to remove them from the humanoid avatar to control them separately with a mask. Alternatively, you can edit the animation to remove all unwanted keyframes, and then use an additive layer to apply it to the humanoid.

[fluid sage]

So if I understand this right, I just pot this addons into blender, and itll take the animation and bake it into a "vat" shader, which there should be some regular vat shaders available since I cant really use shader graph cause vrc only allows set shaders and stuff x.x

[hybrid tinsel]

You didn't mention it was for VR chat

I have no idea in that case

[hybrid tinsel]

and no, it is a unity extension.

You export to alembic in blender https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/import_export/alembic.html

and then convert that to a VAT in unity

[hybrid tinsel]

it looks like there is a shader for vat in vrchat but I don't use houdini or read japanese so... good luck I guess? 😄 https://qiita.com/namanonamako/items/be02d3750c7800e33fc2

[fluid sage]

i made the blender animation, i exported it and i tried using the vat converter but it wouldnt show a window so ic ouldnt convert anything, so the vat material doesnt matter if i cant convert it into a vat x.x i hoejnstly dont know what im doing wrong

[hybrid tinsel]

did you export it as alembic?

[fluid sage]

yeah

im bailing on the old converter and im gonna see if this new one works better

[hybrid tinsel]

What d'you mean it doesn't show a window

[fluid sage]

in the old one it said to go to window, and then click allembic

https://gyazo.com/a087173594d6d5e3154dc442e3290cab

https://gyazo.com/ab024ee30a71d2b74de9b16569360405

alright just got the new one

ill work on it tomorrow and hopefully itll work this time

[spring vale]

hi, im new to unity in general, and i have issues with mixamo animations and unity. i have a pre downloaded model and the mixamo animations always have a missing hip bone rig, is there anyth that i can do to fix this error?

[twin musk]

the event at the end is getting skipped for some reason?

about 1 out of 100 times more like

i think it's related to

[craggy trail]

I create an animation with a playable. It contains a small cutscene with a character object and a camera. While being in unity, the cam follows the player during the cutscene, stops at the end and switches back again to the first position (there is an AR camera that is being switched on after the cutscene). After compiling, the cutscene does play on my iPhone, but the camera does not follow the path that i animated. Can someone help me?

Does Live Camera has to do something with this?

[olive lynx]

I have an idle animation that does nothing, set to the default state, this seems to be problematic for unity, as no game logic is applied to the object while the idle state loops endlessly.
I want the gameobject to have no animation at all, until "death" is called, when it animates a death, is this possible to do in unity? Sofar everything I have tried has not worked at all

[hybrid tinsel]

@spring vale did you have unity compatibility checked in the mixamo output settings?

@twin musk it probably is due to you cutting off the end with the transition, yes.

Maybe move the event a tiny bit earlier so that even if unity skips a frame it catches it.

@olive lynx what do you mean 'no game logic'?

[olive lynx]

I think none might be an overstatement, but the gameobject does not move at all, it just sits still (for context pre-trying to add death animation it could run around the map chasing the player)

[hybrid tinsel]

@olive lynx if the animator component is active then all transforms the animator controls will still be 'used' by it even if there is an empty animation. If you need to move it, use lateUpdate.

[olive lynx]

oh shoot

could I just set the animator inactive until the object "dies"

and then activate it -> play the death anim

[hybrid tinsel]

I suppose

[spring vale]

sry, how do i do that?

[twin musk]

anyone know why its doing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKOWnud3p70&feature=youtu.be

[balmy fulcrum]

Some of my animation look like this, some are kind of floating and some of em are perfect. Is there a way for me to move down the animations that are floating?

[winter kayak]

Try changing the size of the collider

[proud gull]

Any other Character Technical Artists in here?

[hybrid tinsel]

@balmy fulcrum make sure the pivots are in the right place on the floating ones.

[strong coral]

Do you know any good places to get references of animals/insects walking. I'm having a bit of a hard time finding good references for spiders

[visual isle]

@strong coral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtHzpX0FCFY I found this yt video

[strong coral]

This is definitely helpful but I was wondering more about real spiders

[visual isle]

hmm true

im looking but i dont see much

maybe just look up videos of spiders? macro photography?

[strong coral]

That's a good idea

[visual isle]

word

[prisma nimbus]

I was importing a model with an animation from blender into unity, but when I did it got split up into all the parts of the model. I haven't been able to figure this out, is there a way to consolidate all these clips into one animation?

Here is what things look like from the blender side of things

[balmy fulcrum]

Hey yes that was the problem.

Why is my animations not playing while im playing the game? They still work but i would like to see how they work since im having issues

[hybrid tinsel]

Not sure exactly what the problem is. they're working but not playing?

[balmy fulcrum]

Yes

[balmy fulcrum]

Sorry for the late response but yes they work

[hybrid tinsel]

I mean, what's the problem?

[balmy fulcrum]

We'll they seem to work now lol. Dunno why it did not work.

[cursive pelican]

im trying to set up inverse kinematics for this robot arm i've created, but i'm getting a little stuck

what I did was:

• model a basic model in blender
• apply bones to it
• try posing it in blender (that seems to work)
• imported it to unity
• added a Generic Type avatar, 'created from this model'
• added an animation controller
• enabled 'IK pass'
• dragged the animation controller to the model's slot
• added the sample script from https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/InverseKinematics.html
• dragged a look object and a 'right hand' object
• ran the scene
• enabled the IK bool
• saw nothing happen

is there any step I'm missing?

[austere furnace]

Anyone experienced in Blender? I asked this question on the Blender discord and didn't get a response I'm trying to stick to good practices I'm seeing that 4 bones per vertex pretty much the standard, but I'm having a really hard time managing the amount of bone groups each vertex has on my model's face.

I notice there's an option to "limit total" under Weights and this does get rid of the vertices with lower weights, but then I need to clean things up and most likely limit the total again and then repeat the process. it sounds like a really tedious process.

[austere furnace]

also I'm open to the idea of not using Blender, I just don't have much experience in other 3D modeling programs.

[hybrid tinsel]

@cursive pelicanThat sample script and all the steps you took are for humanoid rigs. Generic rigs don't have IK built in at all.

You either need to write your own IK solver or use one of the packages unity has(2d IK or animation rigging).

Like the link you linked says, This approach is known as Inverse Kinematics (IK) and is supported in Mecanim for any humanoid character with a correctly configured Avatar.

[cursive pelican]

ahh okay thanks!

[charred belfry]

Don't cross-post

[oak drum]

Hey Guys, Is there a way to Copy an animator with it's connected Animations and get the new ones as the reference?
At the moment i only get the old animations in the animator.
https://gyazo.com/6d4cb7b2cce115b25e107161402cdacb

i want a template with already added references so i dont have to do that over and over again,

[wheat kraken]

What a lovely bug I've just discovered!

Unity won't allow you to multi-object edit animation files for some reason, so in my quest to avoid having to manually check 300 checkboxes to bake root motion, I created a preset for one of the animations with the settings I wanted, and then I selected all the animations and clicked the preset manager and selected the preset. After Unity worked its magic for a few minutes, I've discovered that instead of simply changing the settings on all of the animations, it overwrote every single animation with the first one I selected!

Does anyone have an idea what this IHIHIHIHIHI thing is?

[proud scarab]

Hi, I have created a state in the middle that controls all the states. Unfortunately because of that my animation goes from a pointer to open hand and then closes the hand (instead of just getting directly to a fist). Is it possible to not pay attention to the animation in the middle and make it go directly to the next one?

[glossy belfry]

I dont think you should do it that way, cause I understand that you probably want any animation to go to any other. All of them have to be connected or do it through code

[hybrid tinsel]

@oak drum export the animator and animations as a package and reimport that package

@proud scarab like imBa said, you can just put transitions directly between states. There's no reason it has to go through the neutral state.

[oak drum]

yeah i tried thet but it has the same result as if i was to Duplicate the folder. They still have the same GUID apparently So even if i rename the files they will still be connected

[hybrid tinsel]

Hrm, odd. I know that that trick works for sprites

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/gex8q5/i_made_a_tool_to_regenerate_guid_for_unity_assets/ maybe

make sure that doesn't break anything before using on something important though >.>

[spring vale]

idk if this is the right place to put this

but why didnt my model show up (humanoid) and why did it completely change my terrain colour

wait nvm

how do i downscale my humanoid

[hybrid tinsel]

First off, I'd check those error messages you're getting. It looks like it isn't creating an avatar correctly.

So I'd try fixing that before playing with scale and stuff

[weary otter]

I need help, currently trying to change the animation controller that plays based on the weapon that is equipped. I've googled it and tried multiple suggestions and nothing is working. I'm not super familiar with setting animations up so I'm assuming I'm just putting something in the wrong spot.

[hybrid tinsel]

Do you need a different controller, or just to change the animations based on the weapon?

[weary otter]

Change them based on the weapon, I have override controllers but I'm not sure how to change the current controller to the override controller

Or is that the wrong use of those?

[hybrid tinsel]

That is correct.

you should just be able to swap in the override controller on the animator component

[weary otter]

Yeah I guess I'm just not sure how? It's not seeming to work any way I've tried.

[hybrid tinsel]

How are you attempting to do it now?

You should be able to just make a script that sets the active controller of an animator

[weary otter]

Right so if I have an animator on my character and let's say I switch to weapon 2 how would you go about making the controller on player the controller that weapon 2 uses

I was attempting by having an array of overrides and attaching that to the anim.runtimeAnimatorController

but that's not working.

[hybrid tinsel]

Use anim.AnimatorOverrideController I believe

runtimeAnimatorController resets the entire state machine

[weary otter]

anim.AnimatorOverrideController isn't an option for me

I can use that to put them in an array.

But to change it at runtime I have to add that .runtimeAnimatorController I thought

[hybrid tinsel]

You do

After you...

er, it's a pain to explain

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimatorOverrideController.html has example code

and they explain better than I do

[weary otter]

Yeah so I tried that also, but do I have to change it based on the clip

?

I can't just switch the whole controller?

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not certain

I agree that it is needlessly complicated for such a basic function

[weary otter]

Yeah it's crazy lol

[hybrid tinsel]

I'm not at the computer to check

[weary otter]

I was just trying to avoid having 7000 animations in one controller

[hybrid tinsel]

Yeah

I set it up in my game but it was a while ago so I can't remember the specifics

Just that it was needlessly complicated

One of those 'set it up and try to never touch it again' things

[weary otter]

Yeah. I'll keep trying things. Thanks for your help.

[spring vale]

hi, is someone able to help fix my animations and model issues at this pt i have several animations i got from mixamo but even after setting it up, i cant seem to get it to work with my model, idk wat the issue is anymore

my guy has a functioning wasd movement but the animations dont play

[weary otter]

Does your model have an Animator and a controller attached?

and are you calling the animations with code based on what you're inputting?

[spring vale]

i have a code and animator set up

the only thing i can think of is maybe the rigging? but i thought mixamo has that for me

[weary otter]

Well I can see your Characters Animator doesn’t have a controller attached

@spring vale

[spring vale]

u mean this?

wait hold on give me a sec

[weary otter]

Why does the Player and the Humanoid have Animators?

I would remove the animator from the Player and in your code call

animator = GetComponentInChildren<Animator>();

[spring vale]

oh, mb, im using a dup of my previous project and im trying to change the model and anims, which is why im having all the issues rn. so i shld only put the animator on either the player or humanoid right

[weary otter]

I would put it on the player and leave the script on the humanoid

Sorry

Animator on the Humanoid, script on the Player

And edit your code to say what I put above

[spring vale]

this is after i put in the code

[weary otter]

Animator is on the Humanoid

?

[spring vale]

yea

[weary otter]

Let me see the code

Is the script on the player?

[spring vale]

thats the code for the animator manager

script is there

[weary otter]

Do this

public class AnimatorManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Animator animator;
    int horizontal;
    int vertical;

    private void Awake()
    {
        horizontal = Animator.StringToHash("Horizontal");
        vertical = Animator.StringToHash("Vertical");
    }

    public void PlayTargetAnimation(string targetAnimation, bool isInteracting)
    {
        animator.SetBool("isInteracting", isInteracting);
        animator.CrossFade(targetAnimation, 0.2f);
    }

    public void UpdateAnimatorValues(float horizontalMovement, float verticalMovement, bool isSprinting)
    {
        //Animation Snapping
        float snappedHorizontal;
        float snappedVertical;

        #region Snapped Horizontal
        if (horizontalMovement > 0 && horizontalMovement < 0.55f)
        {
            snappedHorizontal = 0.5f;
        }
        else if (horizontalMovement > 0.55f)
        {
            snappedHorizontal = -1;
        }
        else if (horizontalMovement < -0 && horizontalMovement > -0.55f)
        {
            snappedHorizontal = -0.5f;
        }
        else if (horizontalMovement < -0.55f) 
        {
            snappedHorizontal = -1;
        }
        else 
        {
            snappedHorizontal = 0;
        }
        #endregion
        #region Snapped Vertical
        if (verticalMovement > 0 && verticalMovement < 0.55f)
        {
            snappedVertical = 0.5f;
        }
        else if (verticalMovement > 0.55f)
        {
            snappedVertical = -1;
        }
        else if (verticalMovement < -0 && verticalMovement > -0.55f)
        {
            snappedVertical = -0.5f;
        }
        else if (verticalMovement < -0.55f) 
        {
            snappedVertical = -1;
        }
        else 
        {
            snappedVertical = 0;
        }
        #endregion

        if (isSprinting)
        {
            snappedVertical = 2;
            snappedHorizontal = horizontalMovement;
        }

        animator.SetFloat(horizontal, snappedHorizontal, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime);
        animator.SetFloat(vertical, snappedVertical, 0.1f, Time.deltaTime); 
    } 
}

[spring vale]

ok inputting

tysm for the help

[weary otter]

No problem

Once you do that, drag the Humanoid into the script on the player where it says animator

[spring vale]

yea ok just crosschecking with my code to see the changes

[weary otter]

Okay. All I really did was make it public and delete the animator call from awake

[spring vale]

actlly wait lemme just copy paste

[weary otter]

Okay

[spring vale]

ok so for the Animator component, i shift it to the Player, then put the humanoid in

[weary otter]

No

You should have the script on the player. There should be an empty spot in it called animator

Drag the humanoid onto that spot

[spring vale]

?

[weary otter]

Yes

[spring vale]

error is still there

wrong pic coming

[weary otter]

Hmm one sec

[fickle peak]

How do I animate a character with two animations at once? When I do it now the animations just blend together, but I want certain parts of it's body to move from different animations. My character is 2D and non-humanoid and I can't figure out how to use the Avatar Mask, which wants me to import a skeleton - yet another thing I don't know how to do.

[weary otter]

This is confusing me. Lol I’m not sure whats going on because it shouldn’t be trying to get it from the player

[spring vale]

if its easier for u is it possible for me to screenshare or smth

i may think it may be smth with my model instead of the code at this pt

maybe i have smth wrong with the mixamo anims and model interactions

and yea theres also that part of the code

anyth else u want to check on that may contribute to this issue?

[weary otter]

I’m on my phone so it’ll be hard to screenshare and me help.

Give me a second

[spring vale]

take ur time, rlly sry to bother

[weary otter]

Yeah I can’t seem to figure out why it’s still trying to get the animator from the player

[spring vale]

wait since im using a dup of a previous project which seemed to work fine

ig hmmm, if i dup it again, whats the easiest way to just replace a model and its anims

without like, everyth falling apart here

cos im trying to replace the previous models and anims with mixamo and customs, but its not a smooth process as going on rn

[weary otter]

I would just try taking it out of the “Player” parent

Then add whatever is on the player on the Humanoid

And put the Animator back in that spot

See if you still get the error then

[spring vale]

doing

done

the game works now, as in the player can move and everyth, but animations still dont play

static wasd basically

[velvet geyser]

Hi! So I'm setting up my FPS enemy to have an actual model and animations (admittedly placeholders, but it'll improve the game feel and provide more feedback to the player).

I'm trying to figure out how to use IK to rotate the model's upper body to look in the same direction that the AI itself is actually looking (I already have it figured out for the Y axis, but not the X axis, which is only good if the levels were completely flat).

I believe that the OnAnimatorIK function is what's used to make last-minute changes to transforms in the model to influence the IK code, but I can't get it to run despite having the script on the same object as the animator, and enabling IK pass in the one layer in the animator controller.

Any ideas?

[proud scarab]

Uhmm, I'm not that much of an expert in unity but I think that doing it with code will make the logic much easier. Is it a better solution than using "any state" as the neutral state? because if I won't have anything in the middle I will need to have repetitive logic..

[proud scarab]

Uhm, if I make a connection between all the states to each other I will have a lot of repetitive logic, it will take hours to make without a state in the center

Unless I don't know how to use those lines that connect between the states

[hybrid tinsel]

You can also use 'any state' transitions.

[twin musk]

Hey is there a fix for Animator.SetInteger not working?

im using the correct animator and it wont set my integer to any value

[hybrid tinsel]

@twin musk Are you sure you're doing it correctly?

Can you give any more information?

[woven echo]

Hello, I am trying to add an animation to my object. I managed to do it but the animation is not center inside the object. I checked the position of the animator and the position of the Collider2D and they are the same at every frame. My animation is there and it's following the object when it moves around but it seems to not be centered inside the object. Does anyone know how i can modify the position of the animation ?

[woven echo]

Turns out the pivot points on my animation’s frames weren’t in the center

[arctic dome]

Hello. Does From Software games use root motion for their game (movement, dodge, attack mechanics, ai related animations)?

[agile solstice]

Can't say for sure but almost certainly yes
Root motion is advantageous when you want movement to match animations perfectly and have motion that's difficult to represent programmatically

[arctic dome]

@agile solstice I want to create third person controller which will be modular, extendable. For example i want to implement basic things:

• Moving
• Rotating
• Jumping

Than I want to extend this adding features on top of it:

• Vaulting
• Dodging

Everything should be synced with the animation. There comes the question. Would be better to use root motion with character controller?
Is Root motion easy to control (speed values, values sync)?

[agile solstice]

All of these things can be done with or without root motion, mostly depending on what the animations are like, and your workflow preference as well
To answer the question you should look into guides and resources to get a grasp of what the strengths of the system are

And of course practicing making character movement with and without root motion

[craggy trail]

Can someone help me transition through 2 animations? I want to play Animation1 like 10 times, then play Animation2 only one time and go back to play Animation1 10 times

[weary otter]

I'd use a Coroutine, get the animation.. have it play however long on a loop and then stop it

[craggy trail]

I tried, played Animation1 for 11 seconds, then tried to play animation2 once but somehow it keeps playing animation2

[weary otter]

So Animation1 plays for 11 seconds, then Animation 2 starts, but keeps going?

[hybrid tinsel]

All you need to do is set the exit time for Animation1>Animation2 to 10

that'll put the transition after the animation plays 10 times

You can also make it slightly shorter to account for the transition duration, of course

[mint oriole]

if im struggling with getting a door open and close thing working. Is this where I can go?

i Bought HorrorFPS Kit that suppose to have scripts for opening and closing doors automatically in it. But i cant get it to work

even after following the tutorial directly

[twin musk]

It wont change to anything

nevermind it was a unity related problem

i restarted unity and the problem was resolved

[warm swan]

Our test found that when the Animator Controller mounts a lot of actions, even if it is switched to another Animator Controller with few actions, the action information of the task will not be released. We packed the hero into an AssetBundle, and then loaded and replaced the customized Runtime Animator Controller. The Runtime Animator Controller that comes with the hero has mounted all actions. After we tried to replace the Runtime Animator Controller, we destroyed the previous Runtime Animator Controller, and it seemed that the memory was not released.
Regarding Unity Animation System Optimization, You Probably Encounter These Problems
https://blog.en.uwa4d.com/2021/12/02/regarding-unity-animation-system-optimization-you-probably-encounter-these-problems/

Hopefully this topic can help you out.

[hybrid tinsel]

A memory leak? In Unity? 🤯

[cosmic schooner]

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right channel but I've been trying to make waves animation in blender and nothing seems to work when I export it and now I've been told it must be done in Unity. We only want the waves for aesthetic purposes not the whole physics and stuff. How may it be done?

[vague otter]

How are you animating the waves?

[cosmic schooner]

Displace modifier and a plain following a circle. I tried baking animation and some other stuff from some videos but my friend who is the dev cant get it to work in unity

[vague otter]

if you are using Blenders simulation systems to animate like that, those systems would have to be ported over to Unity to work. Its sort of like how if you copy formatted text in a word doc and copy paste the text to notepad you lose all of the formatting

notepad doesn't have the code to keep the formatting. same here

Unity can't run a Blender simulation, it can export animations/frame data/rigs and such into formats that are portable to other software

You would have to program or rig up something that does the wave animation the way you want using Unity's systems or, like you suggest, bake the anims and export as an accepted format

[cosmic schooner]

I will try a few more things in Blender and bake the animation but if it doesn't work, how do can I do it using unity's systems?

[vague otter]

You would need to make a shader

probably 😄

So basically you would export your mesh that you want to wave, the plane along with its texture if it had one.

Then you would essentially have to replicate the same displacement modifier using shader graph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsLkb1aOkb8

there is an example of what I mean. The same thinking should apply, though the APIs are different.

[karmic root]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask but, If every sprite will have ALMOST the same animation set, eg:

Spawn, Walk, Idle, Attack, Death.

What would be the west way to set these up? I usually, use the Animator, but, it seems like a lot of work to do this each time?

[cosmic schooner]

Thank you very much I will send this to my friend!

[proud scarab]

Is it possible to combine all those poses to one fbx instead of having them on many different places?

I just have many different hand poses on different fbx files

I want to make things more organized

[vague otter]

Still learning myself, but I find your question interesting. Are you working in 2D or 3D, and what animation system are you using? Also, what do you mean when you say "set these up"? Is there something specific you are curious about or just a more general tutorial?

[karmic root]

In this case, 2D.

I think I want to sue something around the lines of the "Sprite Resolver" based on what I just Googled.

[vague otter]

Are you using frame based animation or are you using the skeletal animation rigging 2d system?

[karmic root]

Frame based.

[vague otter]

Yeah the sprite resolver is the thing that will allow you to programmatically set the sprites for your animation. I've only experimented in the skeletal animation system with it a bit, but yes, that should be what you need.

If I understand it correctly, you can create your animations by moving and rotating your sprites with the animator, and then use the resolver to set what sprites they are at runtime but use the same animation clips

[karmic root]

Yeah looking into it, it isn't exactly what I want. I dont think at least.

[vague otter]

Yeah it is only for the sprite swapping APIs I think

if you are importing finished frames and not using sprite sheets, you would probably just need a well designed animation controller script

and lots of organization

[karmic root]

So, my current workflow is as followed:

• Build Sprite/Sprites in Asesprite.
• Save Asesprite
• Animations get auto generated.

What I want:

• I have one animator that is built like this screenshot for example.
• Have an asset that I assign "Idle" to.
• On runtime, Idle from Asset goes to Idle in animator.

[vague otter]

There was a tutorial I saw once that made this look easier. one sec

[karmic root]

With the main reason being, I dont want to duplicate the Animator Controller say, 50 times. When they're all sharing the same theme of animations.

EG: A Zombie could have an attack animation that is 2 seconds long. But a Skeleton could have an attack animation thats 1 second long. So just doing a sprite swap wouldn't work.

[vague otter]

Right, because then if you changed anything about the system, you'd have to change all 50 animators. 🤢

that would suck 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBkiSJ5z-hE&t=207s

This is the best tutorial I have seen so far on simplifying the animator, but I don't know if it goes into a way to reuse it.

Is there any reason you can't just drag the same animator file onto each character object?

[karmic root]

There is a Animator Override Controller.

It might be what I want?

Yup. This is exactly what I wanted. The Override controller.

Cool

[vague otter]

Nice! Gives me something to look at too. Thanks for bringing your question here 🖖

[left harness]

Hey Guys! I have a Problem... okay, so basically if i jump everything works fine. It activates the jumping animation, and after it is finished it switches to the idle again. Problem is, after the Idle animation is finished, it Triggers the jumping animation again, so my Char jumps on the ground. Does any1 know why this happens?

[hallow cobalt]

Does anyone have a tutorial for a landing animation? like JUMP(not grounded)->LAND-instantlySwitching->IDLE

[vague otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkaysu1Z-N8&t=214s this is a great one for brackeys. Kind of general purpose.

[vague otter]

Strikes me as a scripting issue, because if the animation is working fine, why would it play twice. How fast does the animation play the second time?