I was really hoping to use uMotion at runtime for user generated animation content. I was disappointed to find that it will only generate unity asset animations and none of the IK code can be extended or used at runtime. Do you have any suggestions for how I might use uMotion in that way, or am I completely out of luck?

I'm trying to turn a forward walk animation into a diagonal.  For this, I take the delta Z position from the final frame and use trig to get the new X & Z delta, ie Z.Sin(45) & Z.Cos(45).  Using Curves, I use the blue bars from the positional data to smooth down the Z motion, while for the X motion, I set the final frame position to Z.Cos(45) and then have to remove all frame positional data in between the 1st and last frame.  This results in a small amount of motion being lost and the character seems to slide around a little.

I'm converting rotations to Euler Interpolation for rotating the character, however I don't think this has any bearing on the positional data.

Is there a better way to do this perhaps?

Not sure if this is possible out of the box, but here's the situation I'm facing:

I have a character (generic rig) that I want to duplicate and have several copies of my scene. These copies aren't supposed to move, they're just supposed to stay still in different poses. The probably is, they just stay in the character's default pose until I press play and my script sets them to the desired pose. This makes positioning objects and props around them difficult, because I can only see their actual poses when the game is running.

Is there a way to, outside of play mode, link these duplicated characters to different specific UMotion clips, so that I can see what their pose will be while in the editor and thus position props accordingly?

I've had an issue for a while and thinking I must be doing something wrong as the root position and rotation seems to be off each time.

I have hand animations that I imported from another animation package. They look good, but I want to make new ones.

When I import them into UMotion, everything looks good. But when I export a clip (even if I didn't edit it), the root position and rotation seem to be off.

I'm currently using "Optimize Transform Hierarchy" in Unity and noticed the depending on whether is on or off, the positions seem to be different.

I could theoretically redo each animation and fix the positions, but there are a lot of them. So I want to see if there is a way to prevent this from happening? Maybe some option I have checked or unchecked in UMotion?

Hello, I am having troublles porting over thing from the faded away program Virtuanimator. Looks like I have an issue with bones. When porting them in your software mentions there are / slashes in file or missing hip bone or a list of things.

Could you suggest a program that can help repair this?  Everything worked 4 years ago then UNITY updated the software and killed everything when upgrading ... I am glad you software is giving me some idea what it is

Hi,

When creating a new animation with UMotion, using an existing animation as a “base”, which skeleton is the resulting animation mapped to?

is it mapped to the character you’re using or the skeleton from the animation you started with?

Basically, I’d like to us UMotion Editor to tweak and modify animations for a given skeleton and then export them out to use in other tools, but those other tools require the animation and model to share a skeleton.

HI there, I'm practising with UMotion while trying to edit a timeline animation where a character jumps from the top of a building and hits the floor. 

I particularly like the way UMotion can edit the animation in place/synch with the timeline etc.   

The problem I've got is that the character falls way short of the ground (about 5 metres), so I've added an additive layer and moved the hips down so that the character hits the floor instead of landing above it (in thin air)

At the moment, the character needs a bit of fine-tuning, but he's basically on the ground! 

So, this is great, I export the animation (as an anim file) and check it out on the Unity Timeline.  Everything looks good - the character is in the right position before making his jump, just as in the UMotion editor, he jumps......

.....but lands about a foot off the floor - floating again, although not as far off as the original, so I know it's the animation I've exported.   

Yet, if I reload the animation into UMotion again, it's fine.   What am I doing wrong, or how I can get around this problem?  Thanks in advance :)

Hi,

One of the tasks that I find ends up consuming the most time when I use UMotion Pro to clean up and edit mocap data is having to manually decimate and simplify key frames in areas that I need to edit so that the curves becomes practical to tweak and adjust.

I understand that UMotion Pro is resampling the whole animation via Unity's Humanoid model, (I'm also using UMotion Pro to convert a humanoid FK animation to IK) but is their perhaps some way to apply a more aggressive/lossy (ideally configurable error tolerance) key frame reduction after this resampling happens?

I can't find a way, but alternatively it could be good if there were some way to export a clip to fbx in such a way that the same fbx could then be re-loaded to replace the key frames of the original clip. I.e. instead of importing an fbx into a new clip, you could ask UMotion Pro to reload an fbx (that was previously exported) into an existing clip without any resampling. This way it would be possible to also edit the key frames in an external tool like Blender where I could decimate the key frames but then handle the rest of the clean up in UMotion Pro.

Any ideas for being able to decimate key frames after importing a new clip would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks!

I've been googling and searching the site.  I can find links.to videos, but no manual.

Whats the.URL for the manual?

Hi,

I have a number of motion capture animations that start with a T-Pose that's oriented in-line with one of the depth cameras used for motion capture, which determines the orientation of the global coordinates. These animations then include some exercise animations that are performed diagonally and offset from the origin, based on the location of an exercise mat, and maximising visibility from multiple cameras.

I have a number of these animations which I want to have a consistent origin and rotation that corresponds to the center of an exercise mat.

I've seen others asking similar questions and I have experimented with the possibility of using an additive layer or translating the x/y/z position key frames and converting the pelvis rotations to euler and translating the euler component key frames.

The problem with those options is that they are applying the rotations in the wrong coordinate space - the coordinates of the pelvis, but I'm simply trying to rotate everything in global coordinates.

I want to effectively rotate/translate the root bone, not add a local-coordinate rotation to the pelvis for every frame.

Currently I can manage the translation with an additive layer ok, but if I try and rotate everything then I end up tilting my whole animation instead of rotating everything in global/world coordinates.

This feels like it must be a common requirement to be able to rotate an animation to fixup its orientation so I'm hoping there's some trick I'm missing here?

Any help much appreciated!