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macro

Anonymous 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 2

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I have a model with a facial rig and cloth and body bones.

my problem is that in order to move e.g. the lower eyelid I have to select tons of bones. Adding to the complication is the fact that there are 3 entries in the clip editor for each bone. this prevents me from just marking a group let's say for movement. It would be great to be able to create groups to be able to move them together when needed.and to be able to filter bones displayed by

a) rotation/scale/position

b) groupID

There should be a 1:n relation between bones and groups

also an IK hierarchy within a group specified ba maybe giving them an order number ?

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for sharing your idea.

One thing that is already implemented might help you in your current situation: You can disable position/rotation/scale properties individually for each bone in config mode. That way you can greatly reduce the length of the animated property list. Open config mode, select the bones you want to edit. Then in the "Properties" tab use the "Properties" field to deselect properties that should be disabled. For example for traditional bones that are only meant to rotate, you can disable the scale and position properties getting list down by two thirds.

Filtering the animated properties list is a commonly requested feature and is something I plan to implement in a future version but currently have no ETA. Group selection might be very useful in your specific situation, but might probably be not as valuable for the brought audience so I've took a note on my ideas for the future list but with low priority. Reducing the length of the list with the trick mentioned above should already make it easier for you to group select in the animated properties list. Hope this helps.

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

PS: You can also configure the appearance of the individual bones in config mode, making it easier to select them in the scene view window.

Best regards,

Peter

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Calling function with ENUM parameter in an animation event

Jason 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 1

Any chance there could be enum parameter support for animation event calling in the future?

Answer

Hi Jason,

thank you very much for your support request.

I honestly wasn't aware that enum parameters are now supported by Unity's animation events (I think it was not back in the days when I first implemented animation events into UMotion). Thanks for the hint. Yes I think this would make a lot of sense, thus I've added an entry on my to-do list to be implemented in one of the next updates (I can't estimate the ETA yet, though).

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

Best regards,

Peter

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FPS animations

sas_uss 4 years ago updated 4 years ago 2

Hi

can you create a video tutorial for weapon reload with all of UM pro

features like IK and child constraint then editing those reload clip for

another weapon .

I wanna create fps animations and I'm interested if with UM Pro can create and edit fps animations easy and fast .

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Unfortunately I currently don't have plans to create a dedicated video tutorial for gun reloading. But there are already plenty of resources available that teach you all the basics you need. Here is a collection of already existing resources related to this topic:

Please note that this video tutorial is not using IK as it was meant for UMotion Community users. Using IK instead is fairly easy though (instead of rotating every single bone, you would just move the IK target around). The quick start video tutorial gives you a quick introduction in how to use IK, the dedicated IK video tutorial covers all the details.


Support requests related to this topic:

https://support.soxware.com/communities/1/topics/100-two-handed-animations-for-gun

When doing something like a reload animation, just setup a child-of constraint for the magazine. When the hand grabs the magazine, use the magazine's child-of constraint to make the IK target of the hand the parent of the magazine (then it automatically moves with the hand).

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


Best regards,
Peter

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Is it possible to export the clip between the playback in and out point?

Anonymous 4 years ago updated 8 months ago 2

Umotion Pro user here...

Is it possible to export the clip between the playback in and out point?

I have these really long clips and I'd like to export several smaller clips from the longer clips-

For example can I just export what is between the in/out points here ?

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The only way I was able to sort of accomplish this was to "crop to playback" then export but then I have to re-import the original clip and do it again which makes it a very slow process-

Is there a way to do this already? If not I'd like to request this feature.

Thank you for your time.

Answer

Hi

thank you very much for your support request.


You are right, "Crop to playback" is currently the only UMotion built-in way to achieve this. But instead of re-importing the animation clip every time, you can just duplicate it several times using this button:

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This might make your workflow a little bit faster.

Btw. Unity also has a nice built-in way to split animations. Select your source animation (this only works for *.fbx or similar, not for *.anim though) and in the inspector window open the "Animation" tab. There you can create new animation clips. Via the start/end time you can define which part of the source animation should be taken in your newly created animation clip: https://docs.unity3d.com/560/Documentation/Manual/Splittinganimations.html

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

Best regards,

Peter

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humanoid rig makes fingertip bones dissapear

knekker 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 1

Hi,
I am exporting a normal bone system with a character geo mesh from 3ds max to Unity, but when i convert it from Generic Rig to humanoid and drag the character into the pose editor, the finger tip bones disappear for some odd reason.
What gives?

Any help on the matter, would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Kenneth

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Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Please check your humanoid avatar configuration (select your character model's source file in Unity's project window, then in the Inspector click on "Rig" and then on "Configure..."). Then click on "Left Hand"/"Right Hand" and check if the correct bones are assigned for the "Distal" finger bones:

After you've made your corrections, I recommend creating a new humanoid UMotion project to have your character correctly setup. You can import your old project in case you want to keep animations you've authored there.

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

Best regards,

Peter

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Chain length

Anonymous 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 1

Hello,

  By using UMotion Pro i am trying to animate a xenomorph with a tail made out of 20 bones but when i try to create the tail IK i can only add 10 bones max to the chain length. Is this the upper limit for the chain length and how do i extend it to fit my character? 

  You mention in one of your video tutorials that you will do a tutorial about Custom IK (generic character). Is that out yet and if so can you please provide the link?

thanks

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

Your request is very similar to another one I received in the past so I'm linking my answer here: https://support.soxware.com/communities/1/topics/529-tail-bones-weight#comment-691

As mentioned in my answer linked above, the IK solver's primary use-case is for 2 bone IK situations. More than 10 bones is unfortunately not a use case the solver has been designed for and is thus not supported. Please note that you can of course extend UMotion with any 3rd party (or custom written) IK solvers specifically made for tails using UMotion's callback system. More information can be found in the manual at "Pose Editor / Options / Extending UMotion".

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to comment in this thread.

Best regards,

Peter

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Expose Pole Target transform for Unity Animation Rigging

Anonymous 4 years ago updated 4 years ago 2

Hi,

I'm using an IK constraint from the Unity Animation Rigging Package to do some runtime stuff. Currently I'm animating two Pole targets, the one that is created in UMotion when using the IK wizard but isn't visible in the inspector outside of UMotion and the pole target that I added myself.

My idea is to somehow combine both, e.g. when using the humanoid IK in the IK wizard an option to select an existing transform as pole target.

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

This is already possible. Create your pole target transform outside of UMotion (by adding GameObjects to the Hierarchy of your character). Then in the IK constraint of UMotion, select the just created transforms as pole targets.

The IK video tutorial goes in-depth with the IK constraint:

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

Best regards,
Peter

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animation is different in the preview mode and the edit mode

fengkan 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 3

Hi, Peter, I found an animation seems to be different in the inspector preview and in UMotion clip editor.

in Unity inspector

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when being edited in UMotion Clip editor

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The distance between the hands is different, what may be the reason for that? Thank you.

Answer

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Try toggle the "IK" button shown in the preview window. Humanoid is a "lossy" animation format (like jpeg is a lossy image format). That means that the end-result is always expected to have small differences. If you aim for animations that are precisely equal to the authored version, use generic instead (it is the lossless format, similar to how bmp is a lossless image format). Humanoid has the advantage of being capable of playing an animation on different characters (at the expense of animation quality).

More information about humanoid (it also explains the IK feature mentioned above): https://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/26/mecanim-humanoids/

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

Best regards,
Peter

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There is no way to stop exporting all animation with missclick

Anonymous 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 1

If you missclick on "Export All Clips", there is no way to stop it, even if press on red x in info window.

Answer

Hi,
thank you very much for sharing your idea.

Aborting the "Export All Clips" process is indeed something that can be handy when the process is accidentally started. I've added this to my to-do list for an upcoming update.

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

Best regards,
Peter

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change bone size

sebastien5246 4 years ago updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago 1

Is it possible to change the bone mesh sizes? Mostly just  the stick and joints method. I have a pretty convoluted skeleton and it's hard to select and manipulate with all the overlap. The files are .asset so I'm not sure how to go about modifying them.

Answer

Hi Sebastien,

thank you very much for your support request.

Sure, you can change the overall bone size in the "Options" tab of the pose editor window:

The size of individual bones can be changed in config mode ("Properties" tab).


You furthermore have the option to change the bone rendering style to "sticks" or "wired" in the "Display" foldout.

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

Best regards,
Peter