Creating new animations with animation rigging using the animation window

Hi all,

So I have been messing about with the animation rigging package for a little while now, and I have come across something really annoying. I'm not sure if it is directly related to the package, but I assume that others here have run into the same problem I have.

Whenever I have certain animation clips previewed on my character using the animation window, he sinks into the ground. This particular clip only has keyframes for animating the constraints, none of it animates the character directly.

Do I need to have all of my clips animate the character as well as the constraints, or is there something that I'm missing here? This has really been holding me back when trying to make new animation clips for my character, which is disappointing because the workflow for animating via just the constraints is much easier than editing full-character animation clips.

I should also mention that this is with a humanoid rig, and that I don't get this problem at runtime, because I layer this clip on top of other clips that animate the character. This is just a problem that I have in edit mode when previewing and recording. I know that this pose is the humanoid test pose, but I'm not sure how I can just get my character to show a regular pose or one of my other animations, outside of just combining the clips together somehow.

 

Hi,

The animator does reset a character to 0 (all the bones to 0 in muscles space like you see in the muscle window).
The root is reset to the default center of mass.

They do all that to be able to transfer the animation from one character to another using the muscle space instead of the regular quaternion space of the bones.

https://answers.unity.com/questions/528691/how-can-i-set-a-default-pose-for-my-character.html

https://forum.unity.com/threads/reset-to-t-pose.397760/

https://answers.unity.com/questions/351650/how-do-i-force-my-character-to-a-certain-pose-t-po.html

Definitely not intuitive since nobody would expect their character to move into a crouch position but that's what happens with the Animator when the avatar is humanoid but you can probably find a solution in the threads I shared.

Cheers,

 

Thanks for your reply,

I looked at those threads you shared, but none of them seemed to address the problem that I'm having. I know how to give my character a default pose in the editor when I'm not playing any animation on it. The problem is when I use the animation window to preview an animation clip that has no humanoid data, I get the pose shown in the screenshot. Is there any way of getting my animation clips to not reset the character to this zero pose? I have already tried turning off "write defaults", which changed nothing.

 

For anyone with the same issue, my workaround is to create a copy of your character with a generic rig. Make sure the copy has the same Animation Rigging rig setup on it. You are free to make animation clips on this copy and have them transfer to your humanoid character because Unity animation clips use weak referencing.

This seems like a big oversight in the humanoid system, it should be possible to author generic clips that don't interfere with the humanoid structure.