How do you detect which foot in a walk cycle is currently off ground

Hello everyone,
i have a looping walk cycle, and a Walk_stop_rightfoot and walk_stop_leftfoot animations.

How do i detect which foot is currently off the ground at the moment the input magnitude is below a certain threshold?

The goal is to have the character naturally stopping with the same foot that was ahead in the animation cycle at the moment the player wanted to stop the character.

I was thinking of using Animation Events in the walk cycle, so that "RightFoot" or "LeftFoot" would be passed to the bools in my Mecanim animation controller.

Or is there a better method?

Thanks for your help!

 

If you are using an Humanoid rig you can simply read animator.pivotWeight

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator-pivotWeight.html

Otherwise for generic and legacy you can use animation events

 

Brilliant, animator.pivotWeight did the job!

Thanks!

 

In my case pivotWeight always return 0.5. Any idea why this happens? i'm using 2018.3.13f1

 

I am also having the same problem of pivotWeight returning 0.5. I know this is an old thread but the question is very relevant to me at the moment and I can't find any info via searching. If anyone has some info I'd very much appreciate the help. Thank you.

 

you are probably using a generic rig rather than a humanoid rig

 

I am having the same Issue always return 0.5 and Rigs are set to Humanoid and animations are also set to humanoid! I am using Unity 2018.4.2

 

I could never get this to work either. I ended up using Animator.GetBoneTransform() with HumanBodyBones to determine which foot was in the air.

You can also set the animation controller to have an IK pass and use OnAnimatorIK to check the foot position.

Code (CSharp):

1.      
2. private void OnAnimatorIK(int layerIndex) {
3.    Vector3 leftFootT = animator.GetIKPosition(AvatarIKGoal.LeftFoot);
4.    Quaternion leftFootQ = animator.GetIKRotation(AvatarIKGoal.LeftFoot);
5.  
6.    Vector3 leftFootH = new Vector3(0, -animator.leftFeetBottomHeight, 0);
7.    Vector3 leftFootPos = leftFootT + leftFootQ * leftFootH;
8. }

I still really want to know why I can't get pivotWeight to work though.

 

Just want to add that I'm also always getting 0.5 for a Humanoid character's pivotWeight as well, on 2019.3.

 

https://forum.unity.com/threads/why-does-animator-pivotweight-always-return-0-5f.899648/