Hi Robin,

thank you very much for your support request.

When you assign a character/object to UMotion's Pose Editor, UMotion occupies the object for itself. If you want to edit the character/object outside of UMotion, click on the "Clear" button in the Pose Editor so that UMotion set's your character/object free again.

This error message just says that UMotion set your object free automatically.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

UMotion has no official support for Puppet 3D, you can try it if you want but I can't promise anything. For rigging characters, I would recommend using Mixamo (a free service for auto-rigging characters). For rigging non-biped characters or objects, I recommend using a 3D modeling application (like Blender). Rigging is very easy in those applications.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Using the mask in the import settings in Unity might work (haven't tried that myself yet).

How I usually approach this:

1. Importing both (not-masked) clips into UMotion.
2. Open the upper body animation (the attack animation in your case) and select all keys (CTRL + A) and copy them (CTRL + C)
3. Open the lower body animation (your base animation).
4. Create a new animation layer of type "override".
5. Set the frame cursor to frame 0 and paste your keys (CTRL + V).
6. Now go through the animated properties list and remove the keys of the animated properties of the lower body bones.
   Pro Tip: Hold CTRL while selecting all the animated properties (you want to mask), then right click on a selected animated property and click on "Select All" to select all keys of all the selected animated properties at once.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Robin,

thank you very much for your ideas and suggestions. I really appreciate them.

1. When setting the default export directory, you risk that you accidentally overwrite clips with the same name. Lets say you have two umotion project's and both have a clip named "walk" but are for two different characters. If you are not forced to set the export folder manually, it might be very easy to forget that there is already an existing clip in that folder with the same name. I could of course add a warning each time you overwrite an existing clip, but that warning might be very annoying in the default use-case (when you iterate on an animation and export it several times).
   
   I think it's good practice to have one animation folder per character (and one UMotion project per character) so that would mean that you have to set a different export directory for each character anyway.
2. For selecting all keys of a property: Currently you can right-click on the property (or click the gear icon with the left mouse button) and click on "Select All". There is currently no way to assign a shortcut to this operation, I've took a note in my to-do list to either bind the double click to it (fixed) or allow to bind a custom shortcut to it.
3. Yes setting the export directory to the directory of an imported clip could be useful in some situations (like when editing a timeline clip). I'll probably add a dialog during the "sync/edit clip" process that asks you if you want to do that.
4. Regarding muscle groups: The selection is always synchronized between the scene view and the clip editor. So that would mean that your requested feature would also automatically select the bones in the scene view. I'm not sure if there aren't some cases in which this is not desired.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Janooba,

thank you very much for your support request.

Yes this is possible. Just select the IK handle and make a check mark on the "IK Pinned" channel:

Before using the IK Pinning feature, please follow the following two video tutorials (there are some special cases you need to be aware of):

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for sending me all the requested repo project and also the video.

The good news is (at least for me :-) ), this problem is independent of UMotion. The bad news is, it's a Unity bug:

The problem happens if you use the animation preview window as a separate floating window and have the Inspector window in the background. When you then select an animation clip, it will only play the number of frames the previous selected animation clip had (where the inspector window has still been visible). If you then bring the inspector window to the front again the animation clip plays in full length. That's why you thought it's UMotion's fault as the Pose Editor window was the window that was hiding the Inspector in your case.

You may want to report this as a bug to Unity (maybe there is already a fix in newer versions of Unity). As a workaround you just ensure that the Inspector stays open (or open it whenever you change the previewed animation).

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi Robin,

thank you very much for sending me the new package.

You are right, the activation track was causing the issue. I've implemented a fix in UMotion V1.22p08 (currently pending for the asset store review, should be available in the next one or two days).

Thanks for reporting and I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.

This is an expected side effect of Unity's "humanoid" animation system. Animations stored in the humanoid format implement what's called "animation re-targeting". This is a clever algorithm that tries to fit an animation created for character A to look "quite the same" when played on character B (regular animations can only be played on the character they have been created for). Even if you play a humanoid animation on it's original character the re-targeting algorithm is still applied (--> the animation is still only going to look quite the same, but not 100%). Usually the differences are barely visible for players.

If you want that level of precision shown in your screenshots, I highly recommend to use "generic" instead. A "generic" animation is played 1:1 on the character it has been created for (but can not be played on other characters).

Here is a in-depth article about "humanoid": https://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/05/26/mecanim-humanoids/

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

Best regards,

Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for sharing your idea.

I think this is a good idea and I'm going to consider implementing this in an update.

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

Best regards,
Peter

Hi,

thank you very much for your support request.

Looks like the root motion settings aren't  configured in the way you want them to be. Select the exported animation clip (in Unity's project window). The inspector window is then showing you all the root motion settings:

In your screenshot it looks like the "Root Transform Position (XZ)" is set to "Center of Mass". Set it to "Original" instead (this is going to take the XZ position from your animation clip). Depending on your situation, you might also consider using "Bake Into Pose". Please check out the Unity manual to learn more about each of this settings: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RootMotion.html

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

Best regards,

Peter