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Layer masks or importing masked clips?

Anonymous 4 years ago • updated by Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago • 2

Good day

I have a UMotion Pro question. In Unity, I have created an Animator and used layer masks to combine two separate animations (one for the lower body and one weapon attack that only uses the arms and torso). Now I want to edit the resulting combined animation in UMotion (there is some clipping in the attack animation).

Is there a way to have avatar layer masks on the UMotion layers?

Alternatively, is there a way to import the clips in such a way that they are appropriately masked?

I know I should be able to copy only the keyframes I need, but I'm finding this quite challenging.

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Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago

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

    Anonymous 4 years ago

    Hi! OP here. I believe I figured this out! I can mask the animation clips when importing them into Unity (under the animation tab). Then I should be able to pull them into UMotion with the mask applied.

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    Peter - Soxware Developer 4 years ago

    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

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