Hi David,

thank you very much for your support request and thanks for providing your feedback. That is very valuable for me.

Unfortunately there is currently no simple way to smoothly blend several animation clips together in UMotion to produce one final clip. At a minimum this would require to animate the weight parameter of the animation layers blend property (which is not possible at the time of writing). But thinking this further, that would still have some limitations because the current UMotion layers UI was primarily designed for adding precise modifications on top of an existing animation clip. In order to mix/transition ready made animation clips, a UI similar to Unity Timeline (where each animation clip is just a box + different animation tracks) would probably be easier and more effective to use as it allows you to easily offset and blending (multiple) animation clips with each other. As soon as you have more than 2 clips you want to blend (and want to correctly offset them to each other), the current layer system of UMotion might be cumbersome to use.

So doing this correctly would require a new tool or at least a new perspective within UMotion that has a UI primarily designed for "Animation Mixing". While I agree that this would be very useful, I can't promise anything as of now.

PS: Of course Mecanim is a perfect way of doing the animation mixing (at runtime). Animation blending is what Mecanim was made for. Doing simple transitions in UMotion would only have an advantage if you wnat to save a bit of CPU performance as the transition is pre-baked (but at the cost of additional memory usage as that would most probably mean that you have to pre-bake each and every transition combination which can be a lot).

Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

That is not possible with pure animations (and no scripting). Animations can only reference things that are a child of the Animator component that is playing the animation. So you would need to do the parenting with a script and afterwards play an animation that already has key frames for the new child object. You can also use an empty "mount point" transform that always exists as a child of your character/animator component. Your animation has key frames for the mount point and your script attaches things to the mount point in the right situations.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Fixed in UMotion V1.25. Arriving soon on the asset store. Thanks again for reporting.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for all your ideas.

I've took notes of all of ideas (some of them have already been requested by other users in the past). I can't promise when and which features are going to make it to a release, but be ensured that your ideas help me a lot in prioritizing where to spend my development resources on.

Best regards,
Peter

Okay so I just figured that the extra frame that gets keyed is for the constraint to stay in position; as is explained in this tutorial video that I missed: 

I also figured that coming from Maya originally and Blender (heavily customizable) for some time as well, I've always felt comfortable with the "S" key to be the main keyframe key for all channels, we key'd constraints seperately though. So the solution for me was to switch the functionality of the "S" (Key All) and "M" (Key Modified) keys in Edit > Preferences > Pose Editor

Figured it out myself.. :) 

Nonetheless, this gives me a great oppertunity to say thank you to Peter and everyone else for making this beautiful asset. 

So, Thank you :) I can finally say goodbye to Maya & Blender Animation wise.

Best regards,

David

ps: check out cascadeur :p

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

There are 2 ways facial animations are typically realized. Your model either has bones for controlling the face, eyes, mouths etc. or it has blend-shapes. Both are supported by UMotion. In case it's just bones, you should be able to see them and edit them to your needs using the regular move/rotate/scale tool (like you would do with any other bone). For blend shapes, UMotion asks you at the beginning (when you assign a character that has blend shapes to the pose editor for the first time) if UMotion should add controls for the blend shapes. Depending on your selection, the blend shapes are either attached to the head bone or to a new custom transform. Select it and you see the controls in the channels view.

I only got controls for humanoid features

The "muscle" control panel shown in the scene view is humanoid exclusive (as only the humanoid file format has pre-defined muscles). Something like this is not possible for generic as a generic model can be anything.

Also I want to mix FBX animations with umotion animations (blend then together with layers/masks, etc) is there any guide for this?

Import both animations you want to mix. Create a new layer in one of the animations and then copy only the keys for the bones you want to mix to the new layer (no need for "masking"). There are 2 types of layers, additive and override. Override is replacing what's underneath and additive adds changes on top of the existing animation (useful for manually offsetting parts of an animation, not useful when mixing two existing animations). More information on layers can be found in the manual at "Clip Editor/Layers".

Here is a video tutorial that uses animation layers to correct existing animations: UMotion - Editing Existing Animations

A nice overview of all video tutorials can be found in the "Video Tutorial" chapter of the UMotion manual.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Karoly,

thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately the slider's precision can't be increased. But you can further fine-tune the pose by selecting the bones and adjust them with the rotation tool directly in the scene view.

If you want to bend multiple bones at the same time (like the slider you've marked in the screenshot does), you can also do that directly in the scene view: Select all the bones that should be affected (hold CTRL to add to the selection). The rotation applied with the rotation tool is then automatically equally distributed to all selected bones. Take a look at the following gif, all bones of the tale are bending at once:

Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

Best regards,
Peter