Hi there, I'm having a weird result when I try to paste keyframes onto an additive layer.  I'll try and explain what I'm doing as best and as clearly as I can.   For the purposes of this example I have two animations: Idle and Talking.  Both are animations that have been downloaded from the Mixamo website using the same rig for both - so the bones should all match etc.  

I wish to change the animation of the left arm on the Idle animation and replace it with that of the Talking animation, but on an additive layer, so I can reduce the blend weight of the animation.  

On the base layer of the Idle animation I've deleted the original keyframes involving the left arm - and the result is the image below: 

Now, if I take the keyframes for the left arm in the Talking animation and cut and paste them into the base layer of the Idle animation we get the result below.

This looks great, all is perfect, however, rather than this operation, I need to post these keyframes onto an additive layer so that the blend weight can be reduced.   Yet, when I go ahead and do this, the result is this:  

Any idea why this is happening or how I can fix it easily?   I feel I'm probably missing something really obvious, but just can't see the wood for the trees. 

Many thanks in advance. 

Is there a way to use IK pinning so that a foot stays planted to the floor and is "dragged" along with the rest of the leg's walk animation? I am trying to convert a regular walk animation into a limp, but cannot figure this out.

In blender I can always see the direction of the bone, event if it is a last bone in a hierarchy. But in Umotion all last bones are just spheres appended to the previous bone. That doesn't matter much for a toe bone for example (hierarchy of bones without branching), but if there is a single bone branches from a hierarchy it is impossible to select it in editor, because it's just a sphere on bone path. A picture would illustrate it better:

Can I fix it somehow in the settings? Or if it is not implemented, please consider adding it.. 
Thanks !

Hi, I was wondering if it would be possible to create a smooth walking animation which takes as and input different step lengths depending on the velocity of walking. Would it be possible to use the IK solver in Real Time to manipulate the step lengths as they are happening? 

Thanks,

Ata

Hi there, I have recorded an attack animation on the root object facing 0 degrees, then I have parented the same root object to a parent with -180 degrees in Y-axis, and recorded the animation. Then un-parented the game object. If I preview them in the UMotion clip editor, both animations face the same direction, but when I export the clip the second animation faces the other way.

Any way to export both animation in the same way withouth redo the animation?

Hi, i've been working on an animation recently and i'm having issues when switching between FK and IK.

Let's say i have 2 keyframes, both of which are animated using FK and different from each other (aka different pose).

I select the first keyframe, select all properties, key all properties, select everything again (for good measure) and set IK to FK, i then do the same with the second keyframe.

Then, on the second keyframe, i enable IK pinning on some limbs (the feet, for example), apply some movements and update properties (as explained in the child of constraint video).

Whenever i do this there's always some minor unwanted movement between keyframe1 and keyframe 2.

This sometimes happens even if both keyframes have the same pose, although not always and sometimes limited to individual properties. For example i had the right forearm spin in the past, but i could not reproduce the issue.

Hello Peter, 

is it possible to change a single axis (e.g. global Y-axis) from a bone, over the complete timeline to a specific rotation e.g. to set to 0 °? Without changing every single frame.

I hope you understand what I mean. :)

HI, i was doing your inverse kinematics tutorial video... On pose editor, config mode,properties,the size of the "type" custom transform does not work, you can change the value, but you will not see as a "cube" similar to the video, in fact, you will see nothing on the editor.. If the "type" is custom joint , the propertie size works.

How do I use the scale tool to make squash and stretch on humanoid characters, for punching for example?

Hello,

There are few very annoying bugs.

We are using UMotion to edit animations recorded using Optitrack Motive software (mostly <10s, 30fps), and during postprocessing in UMotion, very often keys just stop generating despite having Auto Key set to Generate.

Also, when that happens, enabling IK Pinning stops working - there is no message box, and selected object just snaps to what I think is a 0 position.

The one thing that fixes it for sure is UMotion restart.

The last very annoying thing is performance drop after a longer session of editing. Animations get so choppy that it's almost impossible to edit them. UMotion restart doesn't fix this - Unity restart is needed.

There are no error messages in console when those bugs appear.

I hope You'll resolve those issues soon.

Best Regards

Maciej

EDIT: I've added a video presenting IK Pinning issue: Video presenting bug