Animation clip is locking FPC camera rotation

hey all, still pretty new to unity, I'm using the standard assets FPC character prefab, and I used mecanim to animate the player to crouch up and down in 2 states, with a blank idle to hold in between.

With 2 trigger words of Play and Stop to go back and forth. All trigger words get called with playmaker.

The issue I dont understand is when I added a 3rd clip to animate the camera falling over (player dying/death) to only be called via a 3rd trigger word (which I realize below the transition for death should actually be on Any State, my mistake, nvm that), the player cameras vertical rotation is then locked during gameplay... :/ even though mecanim is only on "Idle" at the time.

Why this is the camera locking up? how do I avoid this conflict?

many thanks

 

I second this question, I have the same issue.

 

Yeah I've seen similar posts about it but I haven't quite grasped what the fix/working method is, something to do with where to add the animation controller and hierarchy of empty game objects to put animation controller on etc.

And it's near impossible to google this because wording this specific issue is very difficult

 

Indeed. I started this thread with a video:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/animation-locked-camera-rotation-now-with-video.526292/#post-3458355

Same issue as yours?

 

Yeah looks the same as mine, i can rotate horizontal but not vertical, it seems that if another animation clip has camera rotation added to it, then it freezes that object, even when in idle state which makes no sense at all, im stumped

 

I've had the same thought. My idle animation, which doesn't even have any movement parameters, is somehow locking the cameras rotation. It's weird.

 

@LSC17

I found a workaround for this issue. I made the FirstPersonCharacter object a child of an empty GameObject, which I then animated instead of the actual FirstPersonCharacter object. It works fine for me now.

Apparently Unity doesn't like animating the FirstPersonCharacer object if that's where your main camera is located.

 

Yeah it seems to boil down to needing to use the animator on empty parents, kind of annoying though