Hi Noah,

thank you very much for your support request.

To drag a key, click with the left mouse button onto the key (and keep the left mouse button pressed), then move the mouse. The key should follow your mouse movement.

Please note that for rotational animation properties that use either "Progressive Quaternion Interpolation" (default) or "Quaternion Interpolation" as rotation mode, you can only drag the keys along the time axis (not up and down). Here is a dedicated video tutorial about the different rotation modes:

If you aren't even able to move the keys left/right along the time axis, please try to restart Unity and see if it works then. If that's also not working, try to create an empty Unity project, install UMotion and see if it works here. If it's also not working, then please let me know which UMotion version (click on "Help --> About UMotion" in the clip editor) and Unity version (see title bar of the Unity window) you are using. Please also include a screenshot that shows the whole clip editor window and the curves of which you are trying to move the keys.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Sergio,

thank you very much for your support request.

1. In UMotion, right click on a Position (and optional Rotation) animation property in the clip editor and from the context menu select "Root Motion". This marks the animated property as "should be driving root motion".
   
2. Create your animation
   
3. (Optional) If your clip should be looped, click on the button with the gear icon in the clip editor to open the clip settings. Set the tick mark at "Loop Clip":
   
4. Export your animation.
5. Select the exported animation and in the inspector, adjust the root motion settings to your needs.
6. Click on "Generate Root Motion Curves"

There is also a dedicated tutorial on root motion that might provide some additional information:

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 the help of IK Pinning you can keep the feet at their current floor position while adjusting the hips height:

• First convert the animation from FK to IK by clicking on "Edit --> Convert FK to IK". Start by only converting the legs to IK to not sacrifice the arm animation quality.
• Move the frame cursor to the first frame.
• Select the IK handles of the feet and make sure that "IK Pinned" is checked and that the "FK/IK Blend" channel is set to 1 (= IK).
• If you now modify the hips, the feet stay in place.
• You can use an additive animation layer to offset the hips across the whole animation.

A lot of this stuff is covered in this video tutorial:

Here is the dedicated IK Pinning tutorial:

Please also note that the root motion settings of the exported animation clip have great impact on how your animation is offset:

It might make sense that you enable the "Bake Into Pose" setting of the "Root Transform Position (Y)". Btw. you can also use the offset field here to offset your animation (but this also moves the feet).

Best regards,
Peter

*** SOLVED ***

it's 4am fortunately I noticed one of the character creation blendshapes wasn't getting reset by the animator, long story short that blendshape didn't have a key at the start in Umotion. So I simply made sure that all the character creation blendshapes have no keys at all.

Thanks Peter for providing the facility for me to ask my question, Umotion is by far the most Professional Asset I own and I own alot. if you search for the top rated assets I have just about the first 3 pages and many more.

Cheers

Roy

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Looks like Unity did not add a "Animator" (generic) or "Animation" (legacy) component to your character. The reason might be that "Import Animations" is not enabled in the "Animation" tab (Inspector) of your character. Please also double check that the rig type is set correctly (in the rig tab).

To verify that your character is setup correctly, drag & drop your character into the scene and see if it has an "Animator" component assigned to it.

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. Create a new custom transform that is NOT a child of any of the joints you are trying to control via IK. This transform is going to be your IK handle.
2. Assign the IK constraint to your IK handle transform.
3. Select Joint3 as IK target.
4. [Optional] If you want to use a pole target, create a new custom transform again that is NOT a child of any of the IK controlled joints. Assign it as pole target to the IK constraint.
5. Make sure to setup the IK plane (the blue arrow) in such a way, that it points in the direction you want your IK chain to bend. For an arm for example, the arrow should point towards the elbow.

More information can be found in the manual (click on the black info button in the IK constraint to quick jump to the related page) or in the second part of this video tutorial:

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 first of all, in Unity animation files can only address objects that are a child of the Animation/Animator component. In other words, you can't access objects that are lying around in your scene directly from within your character's animation.

So in every case, this involves  scripting and can't be done purely with pre-made animations. There are simple ways and more complex ways to implement a pick-up system depending on what level of quality you want to achieve. An easy way would be to create a pick-up animation that is rather generic in which the character just picks into the air. Using animation events you can trigger a "pick-up" script in the right moment . This script then checks if there is an object that is "pick-up able" nearby and if so parents it to the players hand.

More sophisticated approaches would use runtime-IK to adjust the pre-made animation to always reach exactly to the object no-matter the current player offset. You could also add different grab-poses per object... As you can see, this can get rather complicated very quickly.

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

Best regards,

Peter