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

Dear Michael,

thank you very much for your support request.

As the amount of the leaning is dependent on the current runtime situation, you can't do this in a static animation file (otherwise the leaning amount would always be the same). Thus using UMotion Pro for this won't work. I haven't done something like this myself yet, but I think your best bet is to do this via code in your character controller.

A quick search gave me this video tutorial which might be helpful:

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 way to automatically remove duplicate/redundant keys.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Sang,
thank you very much for your support request.

The child-of constraint only "fakes" changing the parent by generating key frames that make the pistol act as if it's a child of a different parent. (This is needed because it's technically not possible to alter the parent/child relationship from within an animation.) This "fake" works as long as the real parent isn't moved to a different spot than it was while exporting the animation. It's also necessary that your hand is in the same spot again in the exported animation. If your character uses the humanoid animation system, it is not guaranteed that your hands end up in the same spot (due to the re-targeting algorithm of humanoid).

Maybe you are using an override layer in your timeline that alters some of the pre-baked positions? When you play the exported animation directly on your character (not using Unity Timeline, does it work then)?

My recommendations:

If you're using humanoid, I recommend using "generic" instead. Generic is playing an animation 1:1 as you've authored it while humanoid uses animation re-targeting which only "approximates" your authored animation (here's a good explanation how humanoid works: https://blog.unity.com/technology/mecanim-humanoids).
Using humanoid will give you lots of headache if your trying to do precise hand interactions that are close to the camera (thus very visible to the viewer) because humanoid's "lossy" nature (due to the re-targeting) introduces lots of small position errors.

To switch to generic, simply duplicate your source character. Configure it as generic. Create a new UMotion project of type generic for your generic character. Import the old humanoid UMotion project file (the *.asset file, not the exported animations!). This results in a new project of type generic with all your previously created animation. Export the animations and use them on your generic character.

Let me know in case you need any further help.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Scott,

thank you very much for your support request.

Yes, you would need to setup an IK chain that only includes the upper arm/leg. The IK handle would then define the elbow/knee position (instead of the wrist/ankle position). As the IK setup is UMotion project wide, I recommend that you do this in a separate UMotion project (in order to not destroy the regular IK setup probably used by other animations in your UMotion project).

For more information on how to setup IK chains manually, please follow the second part of the IK video tutotrial:

Here's how to setup IK pinning:

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

Best regards,
Peter

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Hi Esska,

thank you very much for your support request.

If you want to hide the blend shapes, go to config mode and select the bone that contains the blend shapes (the head bone in your case). Then under "Properties" set "Visibility" to "Lock". Don't forget to unlock the bone once you're done.

But when you are focused on the skeleton, this blendshapes forces you to scroll up and down all the time.

The intended workflow when working with UMotion is to do your selection work in the scene view. As soon as a bone/transform is selected in the scene view, the according animated property is automatically highlighted in the clip editor. This is usually much faster than doing it the other way around (selecting properties in the clip editor).

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

While a character is assigned to the pose editor, it is locked by UMotion for any external (i.e. outside of UMotion) changes. So in order to add an additional child object to your character, you first need to un-assign the character from the pose editor by clicking the "clear" button:

You can then add the object as a child to your character. Then assign the character to the UMotion pose editor again. The child object is then automatically added to your UMotion project configuration.

Please note that if your character is of type humanoid, none-humanoid bones/tranforms need to be manually released for animating. You can do this by going into config mode, select the transform from the rig hierarchy list. Then under properties, set visibility to "Show".

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

Best regards,
Peter