Umotion doesn't seem to have the functionality to easily add a short, looping animation on top of a longer main animation clip. For example, if my main animation is a long sequence, and I want to overlay a shorter cyclic motion, I can add an addictive layer in umotion and insert my looping clip. But to make it fit the length of the main animation, I need to manually copy and paste it over and over. This makes it very tedious to modify the looping animation later on. Is there a better way to achieve this overlay of a short loop onto a long main clip in umotion?

I'm using umotion and final IK together. I've noticed that if the IK target is a child object of the skeleton for the humanoid I'm currently editing, then the animation can bake properly. However, if the target is located under another object in the hierarchy, then it can't bake correctly. Is there any way to fix this?

UMotion Pro has a significant impact on code compile times, slowing down projects unnecessarily. Even without opening UMotion, simply having UMotion added to the project causes this slowdown. You can verify that UMotion is doing this crazy amount of work on every compilation by looking at in the Unity Profiler, setting it to profile Edit Mode in the top left and enabling Deep Profiling.

Something needs to be done to make it so UMotion doesn't load all this stuff in the background when it's not being used. At least not until you boot it for the first time. The AnimatedFloatClipLayer.OnAfterDeserialize() is the biggest killer, and if that could at least be gotten rid of, it would be a huge win.

Is it possible to see in Normalized Time rather than Frames?

Hey everyone! I have an issue where I have a humanoid rig character and a generic rig weapon. I'd like to create an animation of my character changing the magazine in that weapon. Currently, my generic rig weapon is placed under the humanoid rig's right hand game object. I made a test animation in uMotion where the character properly takes out the magazine from the weapon, using "child of" for the magazine. However, when I start the game, only the humanoid animation plays and the generic part, i.e., the magazine change, doesn't play. I've been struggling with this for 2 weeks and would like to ask for help. I tried another solution where I made a humanoid animation for the character and a generic one for the weapon. This way both work, but I can't synchronize them. For example, if I load the humanoid animation part in uMotion, I don't see the generic weapon animation, i.e., the magazine movement, because everything has a "locked" label in uMotion. I would like the first solution to work somehow, meaning the magazine removal would play in play mode and not just in the editor. Can someone help in any way to finally make it work? I'm also attaching a video for reference. Thanks in advance for the help. Regards: Zoli.

https://streamable.com/jqjl71

I picked up UMotion today and I think I'm starting to get a hang of using it but I've noticed an issue. The animation in the clip editor plays the way I expect but when I add it to my character in my game it seems to play in slow motion. Here are 2 clips:

Editor

Game

What I have had animated with child of constraint gets completely broken in game

Hey all,

I am thinking about animating multiple objects, specifically the issue I am trying to tackle is doing weapon reload animations. I’ve realized that what UMotion animates needs to be on the GameObject select in the pose editor, and whatever is animated must be in that hierarchy. The object in question is my FPS Arms model, and guns are usually attached to it (ie. hand, or holder object). So I am left with a 3-4 options I believe, for workflow:

1. Keep all the guns on on the one object, like a big model game object. That way I can enable and disable what weapon is active and the animations will be easy because it’s all within the hierarchy of one GameObject.

2. Make separate copies of the FPS Arms, and permanently tie a specific weapon to that set of arms. This would be much less modular, and it would mean maintaining a separate set of arms in my project. That could cause complications in the future.

3. I suppose instead of having individual FPS Arms models, I could have distinct prefabs, each with the same FPS Arms models, and each with their respective weapon.

4. And finally, perhaps I can take advantage of this Sync feature I keep hearing about. This would mean having a separate animator and clips for the guns, and syncing them on the Unity timeline while using Umotion editor.

***. So far what I am doing is having FPS Arms rig/prefab, and attaching the guns when appropriate. This allows me to animate the gun as a child of FPS Arms and automatically in response to the location and rotation of the arm or holder. This is OK except for the fact that I have an issue with gun specific animations as mentioned above.

Also, one of my concerns is having to make a rig for each set of arms. It is time consuming to set up the IK and child-of constraints and such. *** So far, it has been easy. I simply duplicate the UMotion project, and use each for a different weapon animation set. I duplicated the original pistol Umotion project, then just deleted the clips and set it up easily for my Rifle animation set. All the constraints were re-usable. I’m concerned about that being an issue if I were to change my workflow.

I feel like these are important considerations and I wanted to ask for advice and how others have handled such issues. I’d like to consider my options and decide on which workflow “path” to take as it will be difficult to change once I am in one specific workflow. I may need to do all the animations and rig setup over again, for each weapon or animation set. Also I think it may be a good way for me to learn about the Sync feature which in general would be important for my continued use of this software and Unity’s animation features.

Thank you in advance.

Hello all,

My project consists of using an FPS model (arms) and appropriate UMotion project/rigs.

I came across the problem of animating the gun as well. It seems that to animate the gun, with UMotion, along with the FPS model, it needs to be part of the hierarchy, and this leads to issue with design, as not all weapons are attached to the FPS model (hierarchy) at a time. Here are my considerations so far:

1. I suppose I could make it all one big model, and just enable the active weapon and disable all non-active weapons. That way the weapons would always be children in the hierarchy and could be simultaneously animated in Umotion.

2. I could also make a seperate FPS arm model with its own weapon, and that way I could animate it as one object, but again this would require multiple arm models, and isn't exactly modular in the way i'd like.

3. And the other way would be to sync the FPS arm animations with the gun animations. It would be more modular, but add complexity, as I would need a separate animator and clips, one for the arms, and one each for each weapon. I believe the Sync feature would allow me to do this? For instance, if i was creating a weapon reload animation, then i could move the arms down, then go to Unity animation editor and then move the gun clip, and such and such?

Could anyone that has experience with this issue give me a sense of how they did it, or support, could you shed light on which would be more ideal? I still have yet to explore the Sync feature, but that may be the way to go if i indeed want to sync one object's animations with the other.

I think I would like #3, because it is a bit more modular, and i'm thinking for the long run.

Either way this is something i need to figure out soon soon because i'd have to change everything if i change this system of how the arms and guns are put together.

Hi.

I have a project where i have imported a humonoid rig. In that rig parented to the hand is an object.

I cant seem to work how to edit the object. Everything else comes through fine and i can animate but not the object.