Non-Humanoid Bone Animation

Hello,

Sorry in advance for the long post, I did the best I could to explain the issue clearly with the least amount of words :-)

I have been using animation of non-humanoid bones for a while, by configuring their visibility in  uMotion config and then animating as normal.

I now have changed the hierarchy of my characters from this:

- Character Root (with Animator component)

-- Rig Root

--- DEF-Spine

To This:

- Character Root (with Animator component)

-- Character Object

--- Rig Root

---- DEF-Spine

The change allows me to decouple the character logic stored at its root from its graphic object (rig and meshes), which can now be "attached" to the logical implementation of the character.

As a result of this change, now non-humanoid bones are exported by uMotion as "Character Root/Character Object/Rig Root/..." whereas Unity Animator expects their path to be relative to the rig's parent regardless of the Animator location in the hierarchy, i.e. "Character Object/Rig Root/..."

My workaround is for now to put a temporary Animator object in "Character Object" and use that as uMotion character reference, so that uMotion will then export the animation paths in a compatible format with Unity.

Is my woraround the only solution in this case or is there another way to keep uMotion and Unity aligned on how they manage non-humanoid bone paths?

Thanks!