Trying to edit weapon pose animations and nothing makes sense.
I don't understand what I'm doing, let along what I'm doing wrong. I really don't even know what questions to ask.
I made a new umotion project, went through the IK config wizard, imported my animations that I'm trying to adjust but I can't actually pose anything. I was able to successfully do the umotion tutorials so I think I understand how the plugin works, but nothing is working as soon as I try to do my own thing.
The IK bones also don't seem right. I can't move or scale anything, etc.
Hi P J,
thank you very much for your support request.
Currently your skinned mesh is following the FK rig (the grey bones). If you want it to follow the IK bones (dark blue), you need to select the IK Handle (i.e. the blue wire cube at the feet/hands) and set "FK/IK Blend" to 1.
More information on IK can be found in the related IK video tutorial: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/ProLesson2.html
Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.
Best regards,
Peter
Disable cube gizmo
How can i disable these cubes? I tried looking under gizmos but i cant find anything (if that even is a gizmo)
Hi Mark,
thank you very much for your support request. You can change the appearance of bones/transforms in Config mode of the Pose Editor.
More information: https://www.soxware.com/umotion-manual/Configuration.html#Properties
Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.
Best regards,
Peter
Translate position using keyboard
Are there keyboard shortcuts to translate the position of the selected node (the pelvis, or root node, in my case)? I want to move it gradually in the X and Z axis.
I am zoomed in very close to the model, such that the red/green/blue translation arrows are not currently visible. I have to keep zooming out in order to grab them with the mouse.
Hi Kennard,
thank you very much for your support request.
Unfortunately, such a feature does not exist. But I've noted your idea on my "ideas for the future" list.
Please let me know in case there is anything else I can help you with.
Best regards,
Peter
Can't change animation event type
On Unity 2023.2.15f1 with UMotion v1.29p03 I am no longer able to change the value of the Type combo from Void to any other value. The moment I click on the Type combo, the event modal disappears. This is completely killing my workflow as I always define events within UMotion instead of on the exported .anim clip because: a. it ensures I don't accidentally overwrite my events the next time I export the clip and b. it is almost always necessary to scrub the timeline while looking at the animated character to decide where to place events.
Just before I click on the Type combo:
After I click on the Type combo the combo options remain but the event modal disappears. If I click any of these options they do not get applied to the event, it is stuck with Void selected indefintiely:
Hi Aly,
thank you very much for your support request. Unfortunately, this is not possible. UMotion can only be used during edit-time (or while play mode is paused).
Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.
Best regards,
Peter
Importing Humanoid animation into uMotion or Unity creates worse result than keeping it Generic (on the same character)
Hi,
I'm making fighting and wrestling animations between 2 characters in Maya.
I tried making 2 humanoid animations and designed specifically for the characters, I even created a mask and turned all the non-humanoid bones on, but still during certain moves I will see the hand of one clipping into the other (the issue isn't present in Maya nor when I use Generic setup on the same characters). I used Keyframe reduction set to off.
Importing them into uMotion I turned on hand and foot IK, used the other default settings and when I exported .anim files still the characters have the same issues clipping fingers / arms and sometimes other problems.
Do you know what might be causing this? How do I get the humanoid animations to be 1:1 the same as Generic when I retarget it on literally the same characters it was designed for.
Hi,
thank you very much for your support request.
How do I get the humanoid animations to be 1:1 the same as Generic when I retarget it on literally the same characters it was designed for.
The main situation in which to use humanoid is if you don't care of the animation not being played 1:1 as authored because you want to share that animation on lots of different characters (where the animation can't be precisely mapped anyway due to different body proportions etc.). So I would highly recommend sticking with generic in your case.
Even if you play a humanoid animation on the same character you originally authored the animation for, the animation is passed through the entire re-targeting pipeline so there is always a loss of quality/precision.
Best regards,
Peter
Character jitter when moving IK in Editor
Hi I'm trying to do a simple animation with a characters but when I move it with IK set to 1 there is a small jitter. The jitter is very small but it looks wierd and it's still there after I export the animation clip. Moving the arms works but its just a small jitter between some key frames. Any idea why?
Hi Alex,
thanks for your support request.
Could you please post a video demonstrating the problem (best would be if you demonstrate the jitter in the UMotion Editor and at runtime when plying the exported animation)?
That would make it easier for me to diagnose the problem.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
Peter
Root motion in Root Transform Export FBX
I would like to purchase it if possible.
Hi,
thank you very much for your support request. With UMotion you can only export animation data to FBX. UMotion by itself is not capable of exporting meshes. But UMotion is capable of exporting animation data into an existing FBX file (if the FBX file contains the mesh that is currently animated).
Please let me know in case you have any follow-up question.
Best regards,
Peter
Can't add child of constraint as a parent
Hi,
I've been following this video: (20) (Pro 3) Child-Of Constraint - UMotion Official Tutorials - YouTube
The video doesn't cover everything for the basic setup, I had to browse the threads here and made it far enough but got stuck at the point where I tried to add the child of constraint as a parent.
What can I do in this situation?
Hi riverg,
thank you very much for your support request.
First of, a quick intro to the child of constraint because you mentioned having a hard time getting the grasp of it:
Imagine you have a magazine in a gun. The hierarchy of your model would look something like this:
Right Hand
| | - Gun
| | - Magazine
Left Hand
So by default, the magazine is a child of the gun. But during reloading, you might want the magazine to temporarily become a child of the left hand.
In that case you would add a child-of constraint to the magazine (in config mode). During your reload animation, when the left hand grabs the magazine, you would change the "parent" property of the magazine to "left hand". From that moment on, the magazine follows the left hands movement as it virtually alters the hierarchy to this:
Right Hand
| | - Gun
Left Hand
| - Magazine
---------------
Now to your Problem: Staying in the example above, you would get this error message if you would for example have the child-of constraint assigned to the right hand and then you would select the "magazine" as parent for the right hand. That would create this hierarchy and this is not allowed/supported:
Magazine
| - Right Hand
| | - Gun
| - Left Hand
That would give you this error message you mentioned.
If you share some details about what you are trying to do, I can give you more tailored instruction
I hope this sheds some light. Let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.
Best regards,
Peter
Copy two root motion into one
I have two root motion anim.
first is 'start walking' and second is 'walking loop'
if I just copy the walking loop into the end of the start, than the loop frames not starting from the last position of the walking start. How to fix that?
Hi Lacasrac,
thank you very much for your support request.
The first step would be to paste/insert the second animation after first one (you've already done that correctly). Then you would open the curves view of the hips position curve (that's what drives the root motion for humanoid characters). In the curves, you should see a "jump" at the frame where the second animation starts. Move all the keys of the second animation part up/down until you have a contigous curve.
Please let me know in case you have any follow-up questions.
Best regards,
Peter
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