Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

The field in the "Animator" component you mentioned expects an Animator Controller, not an animation clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tveRasxUabo

Drag and drop the animation clip onto the character in Unity's "Hierarchy" window instead. This automatically creates an animator controller and places the animation clip in the controller.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Please check the following:

1) Check your character setup:

• Select the *.fbx file of your character, open the "Rig" tab in the Inspector window. There must be no errors displayed in this window. 
• Then click on "Configure..." and make sure that all bones are displayed in green.

2) Check your UMotion setup:

• Create a fresh UMotion project of type humanoid.
• Create an instance of your character's *.FBX file in your scene and assign it to the UMotion pose editor.
• Create keyframes for all bones on frame 0 and e.g. frame 60.
• Export the animation.
  
• Click on "Clear" in the Pose Editor to release the character.
• Drag and drop the exported animation clip onto your character (in the hierarchy window).
• The animation should play without any warnings.

Please note that modify the character avatar settings (those mentioned in (1)) can invalidate your existing UMotion project and can cause such errors like the one you mentioned. If you alter the settings, always create a fresh UMotion project afterwards (you can then use "Import Clips" to import the entire old UMotion project into the new project file to preserve your animation clips).

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Sounds like your using an old version of UMotion in a newer version of Unity. Please update your UMotion version to the latest version from the asset store.

I just double checked, UMotion V1.29p02 (latest as of time of writing) is working fine in Unity 2022.2.11.

Best regards,
Peter

Dear Saban,
thank you very much for your support request.

If i use update existing file it fails seeing as there's no existing mesh in the folder.

When exporting from within UMotion, the "Update existing file" export mode is the only method to have mesh and animation data within the same FBX file (UMotion has no FBX mesh exporting capabilities, it can only preserve the mesh that's already in the FBX file). Are you sure you've selected the correct FBX file as destination file?

Let me give you an example: Let's say you animate a character which source file is named "MyCharacter.fbx". With "Update Existing File"-mode you have to select "MyCharacter.fbx" as destination file (or a copy of that file).

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

Best regards,
Peter

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

Switching between animation clips is currently only possible by selecting the desired animation clip from the dropdown in the clip editor. There is no shortcut like the one you requested. However, you could use the UMotion API to write a short script that jumps to to the previous or next animation clip when a certain button is pressed: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/UMotionAPI.html

These are the required methods from the API:

ClipEditor.GetSelectedClipName()

ClipEditor.GetAllClipNames()

ClipEditor.SelectClip(string name)

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi John,

thank you very much for your feature request.

Unfortunately, curve smoothing is currently not supported. I'm sorry.

Could I do it my self with uMotion API?

Unfortunately, no. The UMotion API currently does not provide direct key frame access.

I'm sorry I currently can't give you any promises to if and when such features are going to land in UMotion.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi John,
thank you very much for your feature request and thanks for the kind words. Glad to hear that you are enjoying using UMotion.

Your voice is heard and helps me prioritize my (unfortunately quite limited) development resources.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Yes this is possible:

1) Setup IK for your character using the IK Setup Wizard (in config mode).

2) Stay in config mode and select the IK handles of the hands.

3) Open the constraints tab and scroll to the child-of constraint. Disable the IK Pinning Mode.

4) Return to pose mode.

5) Select the IK handle of the left hand.

6) In the "Channels" section of the pose editor, set the cake as parent.

8) Save key frames for your changes (Key Selected --> Key All) or "S" shortcut.

More information about the child-of constraint can be found in this video tutorial:

https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ProLesson3.html

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

PS: Your UMotion version is quite dated. Please update to the latest version from the asset store.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Here is how to export to FBX:

1) Click on the button with the "Gear"-Icon in the Clip Editor

2) Change the "File Format" to "FBX"

3) Select the FBX file you want to export your animation to as "Destination File".

4) Close the settings

5) Click on File --> Export --> Current Clip

More information:
https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ImportExport.html

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

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

Best regards,
Peter