Answered

batch mode export or update.

Dharmik Gorsiya 3 days ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer yesterday at 8:45 a.m. 1

Hello Peter,

I have created 5-10 clips with 4-5 humanoid characters working fine in InSide the Unity3D.

Now, I am required to export any character with any animation programmatically. Using Unity's batch mode feature because no open API for Export in the plugin that I have purchased. If I do it manually by using Pose Editor its working fine. but batch mode not working please suggest me option for the same.

Dharmik.

Answer
Peter - Soxware Developer yesterday at 8:45 a.m.

Hi Dharmik,
thank you very much for your support request. UMotion does have an API that allows you to trigger the clip export via code: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/UMotionAPI.html

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Answered

Can't select IK bones

Jacques S 1 week ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 5 days ago 4

Good day,

I hope you are doing well. I am trying to modify an animation, but can't seem to select the IK bones. I have no problem selecting the FK bones, but they only allow rotation, and I need to move the arm position. Is there anything I need to watch out for when setting up IK, or is there anything I am missing?

My hands and feet auto-detect when setting up IK, but "Pole Target" auto selects and my target rotation is set to "IK handle". When watching the tutorial, "Pole Target" is not selected and target rotation is set to "FK Rig". I have tried playing with the settings, but they don't make a difference. The Unity Move/Rotation widget simply doesn't appear when clicking on any IK bone, but as stated, works as expected when selecting an FK bone.

Answer

Hi Jacques,
thank you very much for your support request.

You need to select the IK Handle (the wire cube), not the IK Bones.



Here are two related video tutorials that show you the details:

https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/QuickStart.html

https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ProLesson2.html

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Answered

Does anyone know what is wrong with this rig?

odinb14 2 weeks ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 6 days ago 1

I dont realy know what to ask, other then is it looking like this because of UMotion or did someone fuck this rig up ?

I paid someone to do some animations and a rig. Thats fine at all, but this thing looks realy weird after importing it to UMotion. Maybe they look always like this from some specific 3D software?

It's so much work to move this thing like this, almost every single bone has positions, rotations, scale and so on ...


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Answer

Hi odinb14,
thank you very much for your support request.

Your rig looks normal to me, what exactly are you referring to?

Even though each bone has position/rotation/scale, you really only rotate bones (just like in real life). Moving a bone would mean moving it out of it's joint. You can hide the position and scale properties via the config mode of the pose editor. You can also hide bones you don't need in that mode.


Video Tutorial - Config Mode: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/Lesson5.html



I see that you've also setup IK for the arms and feet. In that case, you can move the IK Targets (the wire cubes) and the IK algorithm automatically updates the rotation of the arm/feet bones to reach the IK target.

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Answered

Is the floating spine bend modifier part of the IK?

Ronald 3 weeks ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 6 days ago 1

I would like to keyframe the floating spine bend slider , but having some problems finding it in the hierarchy.

Is it part of the IK or is it overriding the skeleton with code?

 

Answer

Hi Ronald,
thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately, these are hard coded controls that can not be key-framed directly.

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Not reproducible

In the curve view, I am unable to zoom in on the Y-axis by scrolling while holding down the Shift key.

黒鳥 4 weeks ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 6 days ago 1

When rotating the mouse wheel while holding the Shift key in the curve view, it always zooms out, regardless of the direction of scrolling. This behavior is different from Unity's default curve editor, so I suspect it might be a bug.

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for your bug report. I just tried zooming with the mouse wheel in the curves view while holding the shift key but for me it works perfectly fine in both directions.

Maybe something's wrong with your mouse always sending mouse wheel events that go in the same direction? Have you tried restarting your computer?

Which operating system are you using?

Best regards,
Peter

Answered

Going into negative framenumbers , to store poses.

Ronald 4 weeks ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 6 days ago 4

I don't know if it's possible yet, 

But if it's not would be nice to store multiple poses into the negative frame timeline.

Answer

Hi Ronald,
thanks for sharing your idea. You mean the negative frame numbers would only be displayed in the clip editor but any poses stored there would not be included in the exported animation?

Best regards,
Peter

Answered

Adding value fields to the floating rig panel.

Ronald 4 weeks ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 weeks ago 1

I find it hard to center out the slider's on the floating rig panel , It could be nice to add input field or a value reader to see how far you moved the slider.

Answer

Hi Ronald,
thank you very much for sharing your idea. I've added it to the internal collection of ideas to be considered for future updates.

Best regards,
Peter

Under review

Cannot toggle axis button in Clip Editor

superip 1 month ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 3 weeks ago 4

Cannot toggle the below buttons in Clip Editor. However, it sometimes work!

I had restarted UMotion, and Unity editor, but it did not help.

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Answered

Adding a Prop to the project.

Ronald 1 month ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 weeks ago 1

Dear UMption,


I'm trying to create some snowboard animations, I have a Mixamo rig setup and made a board in the scene with some grab point's as child's of the parent board, that I would like to use with it IK solvers. 

How would set it up in Unity to have the grab points drive the IK Solvers?

Do I need to make a new FBX and set the rig type?, or is it possible to do this with standard Unity boxes and sphere's.

Thanks in advance,

Ronald.

Answer

Hi Ronald,
thank you very much for your support request. In UMotion's IK constraint, you can define which transform you want to use as IK target. More information can be found in the IK video tutorial (especially in the second part where it demonstrates how to manually setup an IK constraint): https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ProLesson2.html

And in the manual: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/InverseKinematics.html

Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Under review

Animation rigging, Multi-Aim Constraint, problem

superip 1 month ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 weeks ago 1

Aiming@Pistol.anim


Hi,

When using animations edited with UMotion with Animation Rigging and Multi-Aim Constraint, the animations may become corrupted.

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<Normal pose>

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<Broken pose>

However, iIf I change the constraint weight to 0, it runs normally as follows:

Image 1445

I attached the animation clip file.

Best regards,

Scott