BuildHumanAvatar does it even work?

Hi guys, there is not that much info about AvatarBuilder.BuildHumanAvatar so I just want to ask right away does it even work?

Because when I build the avatar even with the exact same humanDescription as the avatar that was already on the Animator all the animations stop working.

I didn't even try to change that avatar in any way for now, using the same humandescription and same hierarchy of objects it breaks all the animations. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

You might need to retarget the animation keyframes to the new hierarchy:
https://github.com/robotron2084/animation-retargeting

 

Thanks I will check it out, but the thing is there is no new hierachy, I didn't change anything just BuildHumanAvatar with the same hierarchy and description the old one had. Just to check if the function works.

 

Ok seems that it was a problem on my part but it is kind of not clear from the get go either.

If you create an avatar from an imported FBX it also creates HumanBones (inside the descriptor not inside mesh) for the root of the fbx not just it's bones. So there is a HumanBone in the descriptor for the Fbx root called by the Fbx name.

And the problem is that once you drag this into scene it gets renamed to FbxName(Clone) obviously and even if the original avatar works with FbxName in the descriptor with it when you create a new Avatar you need to rename this HumanBone in the descriptor to FbxName(Clone) for it to work.

So far so good, going to delve deeper now changing the avatar. Cheers.

 

Did you have any luck with this? If I use BuildHumanAvatar with the same humanDescription it does animate but it is all messed up

 

I know this is old but I wrote a tutorial on this on Youtube, the code is no longer available. You should be able to follow along though in the videos.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL1Xzk9eMwzr95Du7bkpD4AQIqx11VvvE