Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Please note that UMotion bakes the results of the IK calculation into the final animation. That means that no IK code is executed anymore while Unity plays the animation. So when you are transitioning from one animation to another, what Unity does is it smoothly fades / interpolates all bone's FK rotation values from the current animation to the new animation. During that transition, it is not guaranteed that your hand stays exactly at the same spot relative to the firearm because the interpolation of all the left arm rotation values and those of the right arm won't mathematically generate results that keep the offset relative to each other equal. This results in your hand moving slightly relative to the firearm.

In other words, either keep the transition time really small to hide that effect or use a runtime IK algorithm that is active even while a transition is happening.

I hope I was able to explain this in a meaningful way, it's a bit complex to describe this effect. Let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

You need to manually add a custom property constraint for your newly added blend shape:

1. Switch into config mode.
2. Select the bone/transform where your other blend shapes have been added by UMotion.
3. Open the "Constraints" tab and add a new Custom Property constraint.
4. Take a look at how the existing blend shape's custom property constraints are set-up and do the same for your new one.

There is currently no automated way to add new blend shapes to an existing UMotion project.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

An additive layer can be used to add an offset on top of existing key frames. In the beginning of this video tutorial, a rotation offset is applied that way (the principle works the same for offsetting positions):

https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/InPractice2.html

Another method would be to offset all position keys inside the curves view.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately there is currently no way to access the export settings via the UMotion API. Some hacky workaround would be to close the UMotion project file, call AssetDatabase.SaveAssets() to ensure all changes are serialized to disc, then directly modify the settings in the UMotion project file via default .Net file IO, reload with AssetDatabase.Reload() and then open the UMotion project file again via UMotion API.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Richard,

thank you very much for your feature request.

I've added this to my to-do list for the next update. If you know a little bit about Unity C# scripting, you can already implement something like this yourself using the UMotion API. Just write a script that triggers ClipEditor.CloseProject() or ClipEditor.LoadProject() when a Unity "[MenuItem()]" is triggered by the shortcut you've assigned to "[MenuItem()]".

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

For applying a generic animation to a generic character, the rig hierarchy of the rig in the animation and the rig hierarchy of the rig of your character needs to be a perfect fit (exact same naming/path for each bone, same initial rotation and initial position etc.).

With UMotion you can convert humanoid animations correctly to generic if your character is compatible with humanoid. Maybe you haven't converted the animation correctly? Here is how it should work (you can use any of the two methods):

1. Create a humanoid UMotion project for your humanoid version of your character. Import the humanoid animation into UMotion. Then export the animation into your character's FBX file using the FBX export feature of UMotion. Close UMotion and configure your character as generic. The animation inside of your character's FBX file is now also generic and works with your character.
   
2. Or by using this method: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ImportExport.html#ConversionHumanoidGeneric

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

The issue is the "Strip Bones" checkmark you have set in the import setting of your FBX. This removes the bones that actually animate the buttons (not sure why they use a skinned mesh for this purpose instead of separate objects, one for each button).

The transforms you tried to move are called e.g. "grip_end" and are just some empty transforms without any mesh (probably to define an end point for a hand animation or something?).

When configured correctly, your model should look something like this:

Select an end joint to move/animate the actual buttons.

You can improve the visualization of the bones by going into config mode and under "Properties" set "Parent Link" to hidden. You can also hide the unnecessary "..._end" transforms by setting their "Visibility" to "Lock".

More information about bone styling: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/Configuration.html#Properties

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Yes, the workflow would be like this:

1. Create a new UMotion project.
2. Assign your character to the UMotion Pose Editor
3. Import your animation. Please note that if the animation wasn't made specifically for your character, both your character and your animation need to be of type humanoid in order to make use of Unity's animation re-targeting.
4. Export your animation using UMotion's FBX exporter. Select your character's *.fbx file (or a duplication of it) as destination file. This is going to write the animation into the character's FBX resulting in a file that contains the rig and mesh of your character plus the desired animation. You can switch that FBX to generic or even use the FBX in other software like Maya etc.

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

Best regards,
Peter