Hi Chris,

thank you very much for your support request.

I'm not exactly sure why the rotation of your character is offset (therefore I would need to see how you exactly converted the character step-by-step).

Anyway, when you export your animation to *.fbx, you can use the rotation offset in the export settings to fix your issue (click on the "gear" icon):

First choose the bone/transform on which you want to apply the rotational offset. Then use the value fields to add a 90° rotational offset. Click on the "?" icon (on the top right of the UI) to open the corresponding page in the manual to learn more about this feature.

Important: Please always set "Write Mode" to "Update Existing File" and choose your humanoid character's *.fbx file as "destination file". That way UMotion exports the animation directly into your humanoid character's *.fbx file. This ensures that the exported animation plays well with Unity's humanoid animation system.

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

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

I've added it to my list of "ideas for future versions". I use this list as a basis for planning upcoming features.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for sharing your idea. Much appreciated.

I've added your idea to my "ideas for future versions" list. Regarding the presets, the closest thing you could do right now would be to create a different UMotion project per preset (e.g. a "walk" project, a "jump" project)...

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

The animation re-targeting quality of "humanoid" is largely dependent on how accurate the T-Pose of your character is in the humanoid avatar configuration. If you get re-targeting issues on specific bones (the thumb bones in your case), make sure to adjust the thumb bone in the humanoid avatar configuration to match the T-Pose more accurately:

1. Select your character in Unity's "Project Window".
2. In the "Inspector" window click on "Rig" and then on "Configure...".
3. Now ensure that the bones of your thumb are both highlighted in green (and that their role's are assigned correctly). Then ensure that their pose is correct as described by Unity:

Source: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/26/mecanim-humanoids/

Enlarged version of the picture from the blog post (notice the thumb orientation):

When you've saved your changes of the humanoid avatar, you need to re-export your animation from your UMotion project in order for the changes to be applied to the animation.

Btw. small re-targeting errors are always expected when working with humanoid. That's just in the nature of this animation system (check out the blog post linked above to get a better idea of what humanoid is all about). If you want "pixel perfect" results, use "generic" instead.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

The problem with this is, that a generic rig is really just a hierarchy of any sort of bones. Unity/UMotion can not differentiate if a generic rig is a "hand" or e.g. an animal. Thus it is not possible to provide any sort of predefined assistant windows for generic rigs.

Anyway, if you change rotation interpolation mode to "euler" for your finger bones, you can use custom property constraints to control the rotation of the bones. The custom property constraints show up as sliders in the "channels" view and thus offer an animation experience that is closer to what you get from the muscle groups assistance.

This video explains the different rotation modes in UMotion and shows you how to switch to euler interpolation:

Btw. if you're just looking for a nice way to curl all 3 finger bones at the same time, you can use the following feature:

1. Hold shift while selecting the top most ("proximal") finger bone. This automatically selects all child bones too.
2. Use the rotation tool (in local space) to apply a rotation. The rotation is smoothly distributed between all 3 bones making the fingers curl in a natural way (if you rotate in the right direction of course ^^).

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

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

I just double checked, dragging keys seems to work fine for me in UMotion V1.22p05. Can you show me a gif/video of your situation so that I get a better understanding of your specific situation?

Please note that if your rotation keys are in "Progressive Quaternion" or "Quaternion" interpolation mode, you can only drag them left/right (in the curves view). That is intended (for more information please watch the following video tutorial):

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Looks like the rig/skeleton of your character is not compatible with Unity's humanoid animation system or your humanoid avatar wasn't configured correctly. This should be a UMotion independent problem. Double check your humanoid configuration (select the character in Unity's project window, then click on the "Configure.." button in the "Rig" tab of the inspector window). All bones should be displayed in green. There should also be no error/warning messages displayed in the "Rig" tab of the inspector window. Try to verify your setup by playing any arbitrary humanoid animation on your character.

This is the related Unity video tutorial: https://youtu.be/pbaOGZzth6g

This Unity manual page describes the required bone structure: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UsingHumanoidChars.html

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Janooba,

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

I've added your idea to my "ideas for the future" list, so that I can consider implementing it in a future update.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

An animation that contains bones/rotations instead of the humanoid "muscle" rotations is a "generic" animation. Afaik "generic" animations can not be played by Unity's animator component of a character that is configured as "humanoid".

Anyway, there are two ways how you can export your animation as "generic" (so that bone rotations are used) from UMotion:

1. Export your animation as *.FBX. I highly recommend setting "Write Mode" to "Update Existing File" in the export settings and to select your character's *.fbx file (or a duplicated version of it) as destination file. This ensures that the exported animation is fully compatible with your character.
2. Create a new UMotion project of type generic. Duplicate your "humanoid" character and configure it as "generic". Assign an instance of the "generic" character to UMotion's Pose Editor and then import the animations from the "humanoid" project.

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

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

All UMotion files are "editor only", meaning that nothing of UMotion (except the exported animation's) end up in your built game. The error that you see here is a false alert generated by Unity's dll loading code. It is never going to show up in your built game and it has no negative impact on the functionality of UMotion or the Unity editor.

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

Best regards,
Peter