Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Yes there is a default shortcut ("B") assigned to the bone visibility toggle switch. You can see which shortcut is assigned to which UI control element by hovering the mouse over it:

You can change shortcut assignments by clicking on Edit --> Preferences 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.

This is just how Untiy's humanoid animation system behaves when you assign an empty animator controller to an animator component. Unity sets all muscle values to defaults which results in this foetal pose. Just assign a humanoid animation to your controller and it should play that instead.

Please let me know in case you have any other question.

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

In order for two separate animations to interact correctly with each other, you need to ensure that they both start at the correct initial position/rotation in-game (otherwise they are going to be offset to each other) and precisely at the same time. Instead of using 2 separate animations it's usually easier to control both characters with one animation (see method 1 below). If you use two separate animations, Unity timeline is Unity's tool to correctly sequence multiple animations.

There are 2 ways how you can animate character-character interactions with UMotion:

1. Instantiate your two characters in the scene and remove there animator component. Make both a child of an uber empty game object that has an animator component assigned (both characters now have the same parent game object). Create a new UMotion project of type generic and assign the "uber" game object to the pose editor. You can now create animations that control both characters at the same time. This also solves the issue with the offset (mentioned above) that you have with 2 separate animations.
2. Using UMotion's "Sync" feature, you can synchronize UMotion with Unity's animation window or Unity timeline. That way you can animate one character using UMotion and simultaneously preview the animation on one or multiple other characters (the frame cursors are synced). More information can be found in the UMotion manual's chapter "Unity Timeline Integration" and in this video:
   

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Johan,

thank you very much for sharing your ideas.

Currently the Display options box in Pose Editor becomes greyed out while the animation is playing, but it feels like they shouldn't have to be.

You are right, it makes more sense to keep the display options enabled while playing an animation. If this is easy to be fixed (from the technical point of view), I'm going to add this to one of the next updates.

Bonus request: Add a bone opacity slider to the options, so I can make them semi-transparent.

You might want to use the wire-frame bone rendering style in that case. I'm adding the idea of semi-transparent bones to my "ideas for the future" list, but I'm considering this with low priority.

Thanks for your idea and don't hesitate to contact me whenever you have such an idea.

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

There are several possible approaches.

1. You could duplicate your animation clip:
   
2. Then crop the animation to 1 frame length. Right click on the time ruler and click on "Set Playback Start", then right click again and click on "Set Playback End".
   
   Then click on Edit --> Crop to Playback (this is also creating the missing keys).
3.  Select and copy the remaining keys (CTRL + C), then paste them in your new animation (CTRL + V).
4. You can then delete the temporary animation clip.

The other method is like you've already mentioned:

1. Create the missing keys on the frame you want to copy (by right clicking at the "master track"):
   
2. Select and copy the key frames (CTRL + C).
3. Now undo (to remove the keys you artificially created). The trick is to undo before inserting the new keys!
4. Insert the copied key into the other animation (CTRL + V).

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

PS: The manual currently has no search function because it's solely html based (no javascript involved). The manual's purpose is to explain the UI. The idea is that you have all those info buttons spread across the whole UMotion UI that link directly into the corresponding manual page. And then there is the (searchable) support forum that holds the "best practices" like the question you had.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for sharing your idea. I really appreciate that.

I like your idea and have put it on my ideas for the future list. Please note that I can't promise anything as of right now, but be assured that your idea is heard.

Best regards,
Peter

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

Single bone mirroring is currently not implemented and I don't have an ETA for that feature yet unfortunately.

I want to create a strafe left animation from a strafe right one, but keep the upper body tilt/rotation so the character can still hold his weapon correctly. So what I did was mirror the entire clip and import it into UMotion using leg IK.
So in theory if I now mirror the upper body again, including the root, the legs should still move into the new (left) direction.

If I understood you correctly, you want to keep the upper body orientation of the original strafe-right animation? You can just replace the upper body keys of the strafe-left (mirrored) animation with the ones from the original animation. You can do this by copy&pasting the according keys from strafe-right to strafe-left. You can either paste into an override animation layer or replace the original keys.

Please let me know in case you need any further assistance.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

UMotion's humanoid implementation unfortunately does not support humanoid DOF retargeting. As a workaround, you could change your original animation to generic and edit the original animation directly. After you've finished editing, export the animation into the fbx and then configure the fbx animation to humanoid again.

If you purchased UMotion for the primarily purpose of editing humanoid animations that use DOF retargeting, I can offer you a refund (please contact me with your invoice ID via email support in that case).

Please let me know in case there is anything else I can do for you.

Best regards,
Peter