Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

IK Pinning is transitioning the coordinate system when the pinning state is changed (e.g. from local to world space). In order to do that, it needs to first create a key frame in the old coordinate space and then a second key frame in the new coordinate space.

Als long as you keep both keys in sync (which in most cases UMotion does automatically for you) there is no movement in between. More information can be found in the related video tutorials:

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

• https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ProLesson5.html

is it possible to turn off muscle group window? using multiple scenes it is always in the way

Yes you can turn off the scene view window (aka "Tool Assistant" in the display section of the pose editor).

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

This is a typical issue when using humanoid and has something to do with how humanoid works under the hood.

There are two solutions:

1) Turn on humanoid's hand IK (can only be done via script) to tell humanoid that you need the hands to be precisely where you've authored them.

2) Use generic instead of humanoid. Contrary to humanoid, generic just takes an authored animation clip as an input and plays it 1:1 as it is.

Humanoid is an animation re-targeting system designed to allow sharing an animation across multiple characters by imitating the look of an animation. Humanoid is not suited for precise things as it looses precision due to "re-targeting errors". More info about humanoid's inner workings: https://blog.unity.com/technology/mecanim-humanoids

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 a conversion from humanoid to legacy is possible. This is how it would work:

1) Duplicate your legacy character's source file (usually *.fbx) and configure the duplicated version as humanoid.

2) Adjust the settings in the animation convert to convert from humanoid to legacy and assign the humanoid and legacy version of your character to the appropriate fields in the animation converter.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

When synchronizing with Unity Timeline, UMotion takes the authority over your character and previews the animation you have currently loaded in UMotion. The additional layers in Unity Timeline are not going to be previewed during this time.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Elsiehar,

thank you very much for sending me the repo project. The cause of your issue seems to be that Untiy Timeline applys the scene rotation offset and the translation from the animation curve in the wrong order. If you preview the animation using Unity's own animation window, it is previewed correctly so this seems to be an inconsistency solely within Untiy Timeline.

The good new is, there is a rather easy workaround:

Make sure you're animation clip has keys for the rotation property, then Timeline evaluates the animation correctly.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Looks like something is blocking the selection raycast of UMotion or a third party Unity extension might eat up all scene view mouse click events. Could you please try the following:

1) Create a fresh Unity project.

2) Import UMotion

3) Import your character

4) Try editing your character in the fresh project. Does it work?

If not, please send me the Unity project (via email support form) and I'm going to take a look at it.

If it does work in a fresh Unity project, then there might be some third party editor extension or the like in your project that consumes all mouse click events in the scene view. To find that suspicious extension, duplicate your entire project and then start deleting all your extensions one by one. The last extension you've removed before selecting works correctly again is the cause of the issue.

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 some it's the feet, others it's the arms, and they're all looking down instead of up. For some reason when I used them in UE4 they worked fine, but in unity with these rigs I encounter issues.

Take a look at how you configured the humanoid avatar. Maybe the character's are not in a perfect T-stance or bones are not assigned the correct humanoid role. You can check the humanoid avatar config by clicking on the character's FBX file, and then in the inspector click on the "rig" tab, then click on "Configure..." to open the avatar editor.

First off, was this the right call? Anyway, after using the additive layer I couldn't apply any of my changes. The keyframes disappear when I add the new layer and I am unsure where to add new ones or where to apply my changes. If I hit the 'apply' button on the window that pops up for each individual property it does nothing, perhaps because I have no keyframes on this new layer?

Yes with UMotion you can adjust your animations. Regarding your additive layer, make your changes and then save them to your addtive layer by creating a key frame on the additive layer. Creating keys in layers works the same as on the base layer, either by clicking on "Key Selected" in the pose editor or by using auto key.

These two video tutorials both use additive animation layers:

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

https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/InPractice3.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.

If you rotate/move a bone, the change to the pose is marked by a red bone. To save the modification as a key frame to the to the animation clip, you have to either manually key your change (by clicking on the "key selected" button in the pose editor) or by using auto key (which automatically generates key frames for you every time you move/rotate a bone).

More information can be found in the quick start video tutorial: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/QuickStart.html

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

Best regards,
Peter

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

UMotion already has "next/prev keyframe" - buttons and you can assign shortcuts to them via "Edit --> Preferences" in the Clip Editor:

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

With precision version, do you mean that the sensitivity of the slider is reduced (e.g. mouse needs to travel twice as far to shift the slider for a certain amount)?

Best regards,
Peter