Blending of AnimationClipPlayables missing keys

I have a character animated in Timeline by blending between AnimationClipPlayables. At a given time, the sum weight of two ClipPlayables is 1, and the weight of every other playable in the mixer is 0.

But if Clip A keys transforms X, Y, and Z on the character and Clip B keys X and Y only, the status of Z is in limbo. There are a few logical outcomes on Unity's end:

• Clip B uses the the character's default transform for Z
• Clip B uses the the animator's state to calculate Z
• Clip B is pass-through, giving Clip A an effective weight of 1 on Z (normalization approach)
• Clip B is pass-through, forcing Clip A to blend with (0, 0, 0) because the sum weight affecting Z is < 1

Right now, I'm getting the last behavior — but I want anything except that. Is this the intended behavior? I'm porting an older, state-playing animation library to Timeline and editing every animation clip to have every transform keyed is not ideal.

 

Thanks for the confirmation!

 

Apologies - I should have clarified. I am not referring to individual transform components, but to entire transforms.

So if Clip A keys the lips and jaw, and Clip B keys only the lips; the jaw breaks as Clip A transitions to Clip B. This happens because the default rotation of my model's jaw is not (0, 0, 0).

 

Figured out the issue.

My animator had a Runtime Animator Controller attached to it. I use it to get data about the clips, then create custom Playable Graphs that take control instead. But it turns out the Controller was still exerting influence by playing the default state. The effect was not visible until this "mixing keyed and unkeyed transforms" case, so I never took note.

Nulling out the controller at the start of Playmode fixed everything, including problems I thought were unrelated!