Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

If the facial expressions are done using extra bones, you might need to unlock them in UMotion. UMotion only displays the default humanoid bones (in humanoid projects) and hides any non-default humanoid bones. Go into config mode, select the bone you want to enable. Then click on the "Properties" tab and set "Visibility" to "Show".

Blend shapes are also supported and can either be automatically setup (UMotion asks you to do that when you first assign a character to the pose editor) or can be manually setup by creating custom property constraints for each blend shape.

See: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/CustomProperty.html#ComponentProperty

Please let me know in case you need any further assistance.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Elsiehar,

thank you very much for your support request.

IK has less "degrees of freedom". Meaning not every FK pose can be converted into the 100% same IK Pose. This is simply due to the fact that you can rotate bones in FK in a way you can't do with IK (e.g. rotate a bone around it's own axis).

Furthermore the FK to IK algorithm has to do some guessing work in order to get a similar looking pose but it won't always be 100% perfect.

So best is to not transition between FK to IK in situation where this transition is very noticeable.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Please check out the quick start video tutorial. It shows you how to manipulate the IK skeleton:

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

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

After the export to Unity, then UMotionPro, these bones are no longer present? How can I prevent this?

You've probably configured your character as "humanoid". Humanoid by default only supports the following bones:

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/HumanBodyBones.html

More information about humanoid: https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/mecanim-humanoids

So to solve your issues, you should either configure your character as "generic" (in the rig tab of the inspector window when you have your character's fbx file selected).

OR you can enable generic bones in a humanoid UMotion project by going into config mode, selecting the hidden bones and click on "visibility" - "show". But this more or less destroys the only real benefit of using humanoid (over generic), namely animation re-targeting won't work anymore, so you're often better of choosing generic in the first place and avoid all the problems people usually have when using humanoid.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your feature request.

What you are looking for is a so called "look-at constraint". I've put this on my list of feature ideas for the future so that it's considered when defining features for future updates. Thanks a lot.

Best regards,
Peter

I found the problem. I use Opsive Ultimate Character Controller. It requires animations as Root Transform Y baked. I selected it and exported animations work fine now.

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

UMotion by itself does not feature animation compression, but you can export your animation as FBX and then in the FBX's import settings use Unity's built in animation compression. When exporting to FBX (especially when using humanoid), make sure to select the character's fbx file (or a copy of it) as destination file.

PS: Your UMotion version is already pretty dated. Please update to the latest version from the asset store. Newer versions usually contain several bugfixes.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

There is no technical dependency on the original FBX animation. You can safely delete it.

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 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