character with animation falling very slowly

i have a NPC character that has several animations. i just added a fall animation and notice that when the character is falling, its super slow. i checked the rigidbody and the drag is only 1 should should fall like a rock, but its barely moving.

when i disable the animator at run time, it falls normally so i know its from the animation.

i don't have root motion set or anything like that.

any ideas, do i have to disable the animator while falling? seems odd

thx

 

i figured it out
set _animator.applyRootMotion = false;

don't know why that wasn't default

 

It's on by default. It's a cause of many error, but luckily those are all quite typical so easy to recognize when animated things move oddly.