Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

By default, in UMotion you have to manually create key frames for each change you make to a bone. Of course there is also auto key which (like in Unity by default) creates a key as soon as you modify a bone.

To create a key frame manually, select the modified bones (they are displayed in red) and click on the "Key Selected --> Key All" button in the Pose Editor. Set "Auto Key" to "Generate" in the Pose Editor if you want UMotion to automatically create keys for you every time you modify a bone.

Btw. I highly recommend watching the quick start video tutorial. It's 5 minutes long and covers stuff like this:

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.

When doing a first person animation, use the "Game" window to check how your animation is going to look like from the first person perspective. Changing the "Aspect" setting in the game window to your target aspect (e.g. 16:9) helps showing the correct protion of the screen even if the game window isn't maximized (full screen).

With UMotion you can animate camera settings, but only if the camera is a child object of the character you are currently animating in UMotion. Generally speaking, an animation can only reference objects and properties that are children of the "Animator" component that actually plays the animation file.

In order to animate properties like the camera's settings, use a "Custom Property Constraint" in "Component Property" mode.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Only the last joints (e.g. the ones marked in the picture below) have actual vertex weights assigned to them:

That's why the last transform (the end joint in Blender) is displayed as regular transform because it has no vertex weights assigned and Unity thus does not treat it as a bone. The end joints only purpose (in Blender) is to define the length of the bone visualization.

So in order to manipulate the last bone, click on the joint (the sphere) marked above.

If you want to have a complete bone displayed, you would need to extrude the joint (marked in green) in UMotion and hide the unnecessary transform that was imported from Blender. The config mode video tutorial shows you how to extrude end bones and how to show/hide transforms: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/Lesson5.html

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

Best regards,
Peter

Thanks for sending me the project.

The problem seems to be coming from the "RotationHelper" transform. This transform is not present in the penguins avatar definition (this is the file that provides the rig structure information to the Animator component). So the Animator expects all transform paths that are used to bind the animation curves to the actual bones/transforms to ignore the "RotationHelper" as well.

The original animations do ignore the "RotationHelper", but Unity's Animation window does not (that's why it displays all the bones as yellow, as their transform paths are not correct because they do not contain "RotationHelper"). But the preview in the Animation window works (which Animator is responsible for) as Animator ignores "RotationHelper".

There are 2 ways to deal with this:

1. Use the original penguin FBX file (that does not have "RotationHelper") for creating your animations with UMotion (instead of the prefab that got the "RotationHelper" added).
   The resulting animations do not contain "RotationHelper" in their transform paths and are thus played correctly.
2. Remove the "Avatar" from the Animator component's avatar field of the penguin prefab. Now the "RotationHelper" is not ignored anymore. The original animations that came with the penguin are now not compatible anymore (they are missing the "RotationHelper"). But the "Nod" animation you've created previously (that contains the "RotationHelper") would be played correctly.

As the animation you've created is rather simple, I would choose method 1 and would quickly re-do the "Nod" animation.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

#1 my character automatically appears with this "[UMotion Locked] message

That is normal. UMotion locked means that the character is occupied by UMotion (= assigned to the pose editor). As soon as you click on "Clear" in the pose editor, the character isn't locked by UMotion anymore.

#2 Instead of appearing the bones to manipulate like all video tutorials shows it appears in the character this odd white cubes which If I try to change it's transforms nothing happens

The cubes that you are seeing are bones that do not have any vertex weights assigned (this makes them a regular "Transform"). You might have done something wrong in Blender when creating the rig (assigned no vertex weights to bones or something the like). If the bones show correctly in Blender and the mesh also deforms correctly when rotating the bones in Blender, the problem might be related to how you've exported the character to Unity. Try to place the *.blend file directly in your Unity project, Unity can read *.blend files (hint: requires Blender to be installed).

This problem isn't really related to UMotion, the bones would also not work if you select them in Unity's regular Hierarchy window and rotate them, the mesh would also not follow the bones.

You can try using a character from the asset store that is rigged and skinned correctly (or the robot kyle character that comes with the UMotion examples folder) together with UMotion to see how things would look like when the model is setup 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.

This happens due to the fact that humanoid generates the root motion curve out of the center of gravity of the character (and that might shift around even while you idle).

The simplest way to tell humanoid to stop incrementing the root motion along Y is by selecting the animation clip in Unity's project window. Then in the inspector window, set the tick mark at "Bake Into pose" under the "Root Transform Y" headline.

Please let me know how this works for you and don't hesitate to reach out again in case you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Are you using the gun in combination with a humanoid character? In humanoid UMotion projects, all none humanoid bones are disabled by default. You can easily make none humanoid bones visible by going into config mode, select the slide transform from the "rig hierarchy" tree view and then under the "Properties" tab set "Visibility" to "Show".

If that does not help, may I ask you to post a bunch of screenshots or a short video illustrating the issue?

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Yes removing all IK constraints is the way to go. If a bone is still in blue, there might still be an IK constraint controlling the bone.

oh wait after I changed scenes or possibly reimported the project, its gone now.

Sounds like the issue is already solved for you. Don't hesitate to contact me again in case you have any follow-up issues.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately the "FK to IK Conversion" currently does not support converting to a complex IK rig like the foot roll IK rig, I'm sorry.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hey,

thank you very much for your support request.

I would recommend that you open the animator window next to your game window. Make sure your character is selected in the hierarchy window so that the animator window shows the states of your character.

Then repeat the test and see if it's a certain animation state or a transition between two states that is causing your character to disappear. If a transition is the issue, stop playing and preview the transition in your animator. Then adjust the settings accordingly.

Also try opening the scene view window next to the game view window to see what's exactly happening with your character, most probably it just gets offset and thus gets outside of the view port. Maybe you have some wrong root motion settings of the animation clip that is played in this situation (you see the root motion settings in the inspector when the *.anim file is selected in Unity's project window).

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

Best regards,
Peter