Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

You could use the UMotion API (see documentation). It provides methods to open a sepcific UMotion project and also to assign a GameObject to the pose editor. Something like this should work (written out of my head):

using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
using UMotionEditor.API;

public class MyUMotionExtension
{
   [MenuItem("Window/Open My UMotion Instance")]
   private static void OpenMyUMotionInstance()
   {
      ClipEditor.LoadProject("Assets/umotion_project.asset"); // <-- insert the correct path. Path must be relative to Unity's project directory.
      GameObject animatedGameObject = GameObject.Find("MyCharacter"); // <-- insert name of your character
      PoseEditor.SetAnimatedGameObject(animatedGameObject);
   }
}

A clean and universally working solution has proven to be very difficult to implement 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.

Is there any workaround to make it work?

Yes, there is an easy workaround: Download Unity's FBX exporter package using the Unity package manager. Then use the FBX exporter to create an actual *.FBX file out of your character. You can then configure your fbx character to humanoid and use it with UMotion's humanoid features.

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

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

• Have you checked where your model is shown instead? Try selecting your character in the hierarchy and press [F] to focus the camera at it's location.
• Maybe there is a difference in the scaling (so it might got very small) and thus you can't see it.
• Or maybe the position is offset. In timeline, the final position of an animated object isn't solely defined by the animation clip itself. There are also position/rotation offset settings you can define per animation track and per animation clip. You can see these settings displayed in the inspector by selecting the track or the animation clip in timeline.
• By selecting the animation clip in Unity's project window, the inspector also shows you a lot of root motion settings which also has an influence at how the root position of your character, stored in the animation clip, is treated.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately there is currently no official support for animation rigging yet. But I think it might be possible to manually trigger the evaluation of the animation rigging using UMotion's callback system.

Write a script that implements a UMotion callback (as described in the link above). This callback method is then called every time UMotion updates the pose of your character. After that, trigger the re-evaluation of the animation rigging. You might have to do a bit of an internet search on how to exactly do that.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you're able to get this working.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Sam,

thank you very much for your support request.

Humanoid character animations are always automatically "well-formed", that means that the animation always contains a complete humanoid pose even if you've keyed only some bones.

You would have to use a humanoid avatar mask in your animator controller layer to mask away the influence of the other bones. This is the official Unity tutorial about avatar masks:

Here is a UMotion video tutorial about animating an RPG character in which the character is holding a sword and shield. Might be helpful in your case.

Here you can find a great overview of all video tutorials available: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/VideoTutorials.html

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Jannick,

thank you very much for your support request and for your nice words. Much appreciated!

Also congrats for launching a game on steam! Looks like a lot of hard work went into this project.

What you are looking for is called IK pinning. IK pinning would pin the feet in "world-space". By default, the feet move with the hips. It's easy to set this up:

1. Execute the IK setup wizard (please checkout the quick start video tutorial or the IK video tutorial for more information).
2. Select both IK handles of the feet (the wire cubes) and set the "FK/IK Blend" slider to 1 (= IK) in the channels view of the pose editor. Also enable the check mark on "IK Pinning" so that the feet are locked in place.
3. If you now move your hips, the feet stay in place.

If you want to change the IK pinning state multiple times within an animation clip, make sure to check out the following two video tutorials:

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately the "Target Rotation" mode is fixed for the entire UMotion project (and all it's containing animation clips) and can not be altered from within an animation clip.

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

Best regards,
Peter