Humanoid rig setup problem

I got a problem that i need help with.

I have a rigged and animated character from blender with weapons in his hands also animated. When I imported it to unity and set the rig to Humanoid, the animation on the weapon is gone and the weapon just sits in one place without animation.

Why is that? is there something i need to do in blender or in unity to make it work?

 

I had a similar problem w gun animation. you can make the gun animated by assigning vertices to the skeletons hand joint (dont know why its not animated in yor case), but
seems like its better to go with weapon at 0,0,0 pivot and set it up in unity. so you animate just the character and parent the weapon to his hand in the unity editor.

 

The weapon is one single mesh and is rigged with bones to control the weapon parts(trigger, mag, etc.) but the root bone of the weapon is not parented to the hand bones, Im using constraints to animate it. It stays at the 0,0,0 coordinates.

Even if i parent the weapon to the hand bone in unity, it still wont work beause I have a reload animation for the weapon(gun). The animation includes pulling the mag and pushing the bolt for an MP5. Thats why i want it animated.

Thanks for the reply

 

Do you have animation data of any sort on the root bone (translation, rotation, anything)? It could be that, if you do, those are overriding the constraint and causing the gun to stay at it's relative origin.

If it does, you may want to try to export a version of the gun without anything on the root, and see if that solves it, so that there's not any competing data.

(Note: this is from my experience in other packages and engines -- I've no idea if this is the case in Unity or not, but without having access to everything, it seems plausible)

 

The gun is weighted and rigged and i use bones to animate it. And I always bake the animation before exporting them to fbx. So the animation is baked to the root bone of the weapon and the constraint from the hands are removed when baking in blender. Then i export

It works with generic rig. How come it doesnt work with humanoid?

 

You're probably losing the extra bones when you import the rig as Humanoid. In Unity 4.0 - 4.2, tick Keep Additional Bones. In Unity 4.3, set the bone mask; if you need instructions, this answer has them: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/580508/keep-additional-bones-in-43.html

 

Nice finally an answer to my problem. It works now, the animation on the weapon is working but there is one problem though. The weapon is offsetted. Its floating above my character's hands.

And in the tutorial i cant see this part in my unity "Create new Avatar mask and include all of your joints, then apply that mask to all animations, that you have on your character..."

I dont see the red texts in my unity and i dont think i need to mask anything, i just want the gun animation to work.

 

It sounds like the bones are being included, since the animation works, so you shouldn't need to do anything more regarding the red text.

Sorry, I don't know why the gun would be offset. Maybe it's a scaling issue. Experiment with different scaling settings on the Model tab.

 

I tried messing with the scale but still nothing.

 

Weapon is same mesh as character right. You weighted the weapon to the root bone?

I had a similar problem with a sword. I changed the hierarchy of my sword so I had a sword bone as the child of the hand bone and it worked better. Originally I had my sword bone as child of the hips and it would be in the right place at keyframes but when interpolating it would float out of the hands and back into them.
I also found some weird bug that will cause my sword to float out of the hand or not properly animate. After importing and before changing to humanoid if you change some settings on a animation and apply it automatically checks all the extra bones so they work. Then changing to humanoid if you change the start frame of an animation it can break the extra bones. Maybe checking the box to use the extra bones before changing to humanoid is giving you an issue. Try importing, changing to humanoid ,then manually checking each extra bone box on each animation.
After changing your hierarchy first tho to see if that's the problem.

 

Even now it doesn't work, it's incredibly S***ty this unity can't humanoid character do.