Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

What you see is happening due to how the humanoid animation system works under the hood. The humanoid animation system is an animation re-targeting system that works best for regular skinned humanoids. It allows sharing the same animation across different characters at the expense of loss of quality/control. So the rotational errors you see hear is that trade off you have to make when using humanoid.

If you want 100% control over your animation, use "generic" instead.

More information how humanoid works under the hood: https://blog.unity.com/technology/mecanim-humanoids

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hey Dave,

thank you very much for your kind words. That means a lot to me.

Anything specific you are working on already and that we can look forward to?

Quality of life improvements have always highest priority for me. I have collected a huge list of suggestions I received in the past that I'm trying to implement step-by-step. It might take some time until the next update thought due to my time being split across multiple projects.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi JVon,

thank you very much for your support request.

The default shortcuts assigned for previous/next frame are "Comma" and "Period". You can manage all shortcuts by going into "Edit --> Preferences" in the Clip Editor. If a UI button has a shortcut assigned, you also do see it in the tool tip that is shown when hovering with the mouse over the button.

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

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your feature request.

While you are right that you can't use the arrow keys to navigate the Rig Hierarchy, there are general shortcuts for selecting bones/transforms that also allow you to navigate the hierarchy. These shortcuts correspond to this portion of the pose editor UI:

[Keypad 2] Selects the child of the current selected bone/transform (--> goes down the hierarchy)

[Keypad 8] Selects the parent of the current selected bone/transform (--> goes up the hierarchy)

[Keypad 6] Selects the sibling of the current selected bone/transform (--> goes sideways in the hierarchy)

These shortcuts also work for navigating the Rig Hierarchy (and they also work in scene view and in pose mode when doing regular animation stuff).

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Edward,

thank you very much for reaching out.

If you have your character's configured as "humanoid", only a limited number of face bones is supported by the humanoid system itself:

• Jaw
• Left Eye
• Right Eye

You can assign bones to this role in the humanoid avatar editor:

To access the avatar editor, select your model's source file (e.g. fbx), then open the "rig" tab and click on the "Configure..." button. When changing the avatar, you need to create a new UMotion project file for your character for the changes to take affect.

It is also possible to animate any other generic face bone, but those bone's won't be re-targeted by the humanoid animation system. That means that when the animation is played on a different humanoid character (with a different rig), the face bones not defined in the humanoid avatar will be ignored.

To animate any other generic (facial) bone in UMotion, you simply need to enable them: Go into config mode, select the bone you want to enable from the rig-hierarchy. Then open the properties tab and set "Visbility" to "Show".

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

So technically speaking, an animation made for character A never works directly on character B. That's why Unity introduced the "humanoid animation system" which is a so-called "animation re-targeting system". In other words, humanoid takes an animation A as input, and converts it into an abstracted/normalize format that humanoid then tries to play as similar as possible on any other character configured as humanoid. This does come with quality losses though (if you think about it, it really has to loose quality as characters often have different body proportions etc. so this can't be a 1:1 transition).

Very interesting article how this re-targeting works under the hood: https://blog.unity.com/technology/mecanim-humanoids

So in other words, without export your animation to humanoid first and then re-import it for your other character (in UMotion) you won't be able to edit the animation on that other character. But be warned that every export/import step might introduce some loss of quality due to the animation re-targeting.

So usually, you would only create the animation using a single character, export the animation as humanoid and then use it on any other humanoid character.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Dave,

thank you very much for sharing your ideas.

- deselect multiple keyframes shortcut

That's already possible: CTRL + D

You can change the shortcut under "Edit --> Preferences --> General" in the Clip Editor:

- Option to isolate selected animated properties
- add selection and deselection of keyframes to undo stack

Yes these are valid points and I already have them on my to-do list. Both require some bigger internal changes so they won't land in the next update (V1.29) which is scheduled to be released in the next 1-2 days. But on the positive side, some of your previous ideas are going to be included in V1.29 so stay tuned :-)

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 animate the facial expressions manually, then yes:

1) Create a Unity timeline sequence with the sound file and your animation

2) Sync UMotion to Unity timeline to edit the animation file

3) Make sure that in Unity timeline you have audio preview enabled (to actually hear the sound file while playback)

There is no automated way to do this in UMotion.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

What export settings do you exactly use? I would recommend using the "update existing file" mode and have your character's FBX file selected as destination file.

Another thing to consider, humanoid gives you less degrees of freedom in animating than generic. Looks like you've applied a tilt on your upper leg bones in UMotion which is something real-life humans are not capable of doing. UMotion let's you correctly preview your animation but once your animation is exported to FBX and then imported as humanoid by Unity, it discards that rotation.

If you want 100% artistic control over your character in your animation, use generic instead of humanoid.

The only reason to choose humanoid over generic is when you have lots of characters that should all use the same animation. If that is not the case, generic is recommended. More information on what humanoid actually is, can be found in this blog post: 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.

After looking at the API again this might actually be a feature request: Would it be possible to get a TrySetComponentProperty to go along with TrySetFkLocalPosition/etc.? With that making the transform handle work with UMotion would be no problem at all.

I'm currently working on a new UMotion version that comes with an updated/extended UMotion API. I've already implemented your requested method today. The new version should be available in a few days.

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

Best regards,
Peter