I've saved a "Umotion" layout in Unity for animation editing purposes.  I've noticed that I cannot click and drag keys to different frames when I load the layout.  To fix this, I always have to close out the Clip Editor window, reopen it and reload the project.  It doesn't work just by reloading a project, the Clip Editor window has to be closed out and reopened.

Would it be possible to implement a shortcut that can close the current project?

And a shortcut to load the most recent closed project

I have a custom rig. in Unity I can import it as humanoid, configure the avatar and have humanoid animations work. So I know the animation can work on the rig.

However, if I import the custom rig as generic and convert a humanoid animation to generic, it won't work because the bone hierarchy is doesn't match. If I modify the generic animation paths to match my custom rig, it animates, but is all distorted.

What are the issues preventing this from being possible? If Unity can map this custom rig to humanoid and play humanoid animations on it, then why can't it go the other way? I'm assuming it has something to do with the muscle/twist bones? Is there no way to configure a generic avatar?

Thanks

Hello I am trying to animate a generic object, which are virtual reality controllers for the Oculus Quest 2.  The model has been rigged already but I am having problems trying to animate them with UMotion.

My goal is to develop simple animations such as button presses.  I have imported the fbx file into Unity, and set the rig settings as below.

I can verify that the rig transforms are positioned correctly (e.g. the x transform is positioned correctly in the image below).

However, when I try to create a new UMotion Project (Generic), all these squares appear for each bone of the rig, and they are not positioned correctly (e.g. see how the x transform is displaced from the x button).

Furthermore, when I try to modify the position of these bones (or rotation or scale), nothing happens at all.  I have verified that I can create the animation I'm looking for in Blender by modifying the position of these bones, but it will not work in UMotion.  Can you help me identify what I'm doing wrong?

Here's the link to the FBX: Quest2LeftController.fbx

Does Umotion allow turning a animation into a a Umotion then then Exporting with my character rigged?

For example, 
If I purchase a animation from the Unity Asset store and then connect my character to the rig. Can I export the FBX and animation using UMotion? 

Gonna hit all social media with feature videos and tutorials

These are primarily tiny workflow features and QOL improvements

Let's get this out of the way first:

"Q" should be the default for "Select" the way "W, E and R" enable the other ones. This shortcut is heavily used because frequently the manipulator tool will be in the way of selecting things. We always keep a finger on "Q".

It would also be nice to be able to save your preferences to a file.

These are the impovements, some of them I've mentioned before:

• Filter to show selected objects only 
• Select keyframes under slider of selected objects
• Skip to Next/Previous keyframe of selected object
• "Set FK to IK" Bake Start/End

I'll give detailed explanations with screenshots tomorrow or soon

Hello!

I am in the process of creating facial expressions for my DAZ character. Each expression is an animation placed in an Additive layer of the character's animator (not an additive layer of UMotion, just to be clear), which means that all animations need a first frame with all the used blendshapes set to 0, before the other frames in the animation animate those blendshapes.

Problem is, I have nearly 300 blendshapes and I'm adding more. They are essentially shape morphs, expression morphs, correction morphs, detail morphs and pressure morphs and yes, I need them all. An expression animation typically uses 10-20 blendshapes (lips, eyes, jaw, nose etc) so all of them need to be set to 0 in the first frame if I want the additive layer to do its job correctly since the first frame seems to serve as the "offset" for all the subsequent frames in the animation.

But only those blendshapes, and no other! Otherwise, the character's other blendshapes are overwritten by this animation even though it is supposed to be additive. Don't ask me why.

For example, my female character's glutes contract when she walks. If I zeroed all the properties (blendshapes and bones) in the first frame of my expression animations, there would be a conflict, the glutes would reset and it would look bad. So I need to zero only the blendshapes I use in my expressions, and not the glutes. This means I have to carefully select the appropriate blendshapes in the clip editor every time I want to make an animation, which is a very error-prone process.

In UMotion Pro, I would like to simply copy-paste the keys from one of the existing keyframes to the first frame, and to click on something to zero those pasted keys. I have looked pretty much everywhere and did not find such an option, but it would be very handy! Right now I have to manually reset those keys in the pose editor by dragging all the sliders to 0 one by one. It's tedious and time-consuming.

My second request would be to be able to export animations that have only one keyframe. Right now, when exporting an animation, UMotion refuses if it doesn't have at least two keyframes, but would it be possible to export it anyway by automatically copying (at export time) the last existing keyframe to the last frame of the animation? After all, we already specify a duration for the animation in the clip editor, I believe it is 1s by default. It would be great to not have to do a copy-paste of the keyframes ourselves so we don't risk inconsistency and unwanted movements when changing one key and forgetting to copy it to the end of the animation.

Likewise, it would be great if we could specify somewhere that we want the animation to loop, without having to manually copy the first keyframe to the last frame (like we have to do in Blender too, it's not just UMotion). Once again for the sake of keeping things consistent and avoiding copying data.

Another request, since I'm working with blendshapes. I noticed that it is difficult to enter a number for one blendshape in the pose editor's channels part then Tab to the next. Usually, that focuses on the "config mode" button and hides the "pose mode" panel, which is confusing. It does not do this by shift-tabbing (going backwards) so for the sake of consistency, it would be great if we could Tab from one property to the next.

Oh, and another request! Could we have the ability to set a blendshape to a negative number or to a number beyond 100, please? Unity allows this but apparently not UMotion. Sometimes it is very handy to use a blendshape with a value that is outside its envelope. For example, DAZ has a "cheek puff" blendshape but not a "cheek sink", which could be simulated with a negative "cheek puff" value.

Thanks and keep up the good work, UMotion is a tool I can't work without, and a tool I know I can rely on.

Hi, I have a computer screen with a texture on it with different states of the screen. In umotion editor I added a custom property Main TEX ST x and y, to animate the offset of the texture. In Umotion editor the animation looks like it should but when I export it, the property for animating the screen switches from offset to tilling. Any easy fix for this?

Here is the animation in Umotion editor

Here is the exported animation

Here you can see the animated property of the main texture after export

Hello,

I was wondering if there is way to exclude certain Game Objects from the configuration when dragging an Object into the UMotion Pose Editor. My Main Game object has different things like clothes, multiple versions of hair, brows, etc on it. In this example, the hair variants all have child objects with the name names I cannot change (the name is generated by unity's new hair system).

Being able to pre-filter a hierarchy on import would also make it cleaner and more consistent for me. 

I'm not able to show the bones of an object that the player should be using, a sword. When I click on config mode, on the sword object of the rig hierachy that message appears "Animating generic objects that have no humanoid bone in their parent hierarchy is not supported"

Please help, I'm new to Umotion