Malbers Animals-Creatures

Finally, I'm making some progress converting Malbers Input to the new Unity Input System. But it seems that any changes to the inputs do not take effect unless I exit and restart Unity. Is this normal?

 

Some Standard Pipeline shots. There's Magic in the air

 

In case anyone has use for it, I created a general purpose script to fade e. g. the Wolf's magic in and out.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/material-emission-fading-with-easing-functions.1072709/

Or direct github link:

https://github.com/Roland09/Fader

 

I made a modified script of above which you can use in addition to the above if you have Enviro. It allows you to fade through time when e. g. the Wolf's magic is triggered.

Here's how it looks, depending on the time interval and duration parameters you set:

Of course you can also change the weather, this method is helpful in that case:

Code (CSharp):

1. EnviroSkyMgr.instance.ChangeWeather( int weatherIndex);

 

Hi Malbers,

I tried the better fbx importer/exporter like you suggested but after playing around with it I can't seem to get it to work in blender the same way you showed it working in Autodesk. Since you said you were testing it out and got it to work in blender I was hoping you could tell me how you got it working. I recorded an attached video to show you more specifically what my issue is.

Fundamentally I guess the issue is the same where I'm having trouble linking the animation to the bones on the armature properly since rather than individual bones linking it links the entire armature to the animation data of a specific animation in the action sheet under the dope editor.

Any help is very much appreciated
Thanks!

 

Hey guys apologies for not being around on the Forums, I was doing support on Facebook, Discord and email; and I totally forgot the forums ... my bad!

I have updated the Input Link to a new version check it out, I made some tests and it works just like the old one

Yes!
On the Jump State change the Height Multiplier on the Jump Profiles:

 

So for that... what you can do is to create a simple script that listen to the Weapon Manager On Equip Weapon Event:


Using that event you can check if the Equipped game Object is a bow and if its true then you just need to Activate the Strafing

(MAnimal.Strafe = true)

Now on the Experimental Demo scene what I did was to Enable Strafing always when the Rider was Aiming (which is when the Rider uses a weapon that requires Aiming. e.g. Bow, Rock, Pistol)
here:


The CM Cameras for Aiming States are also Activated by the OnAimSide Event...
-1 for activating the CM Aim Left
1 for activating the CM Aim Right
and 0 for Not Aiming

 

I have sent you the fix via PM ... Indeed the boar main model had a wrong position.

 

Hey there! yes! I see hahah you are right!
Instead of the last waypoint now you can use the Set Target Task... and find the Closest waypoint using Runtime GameObjects.

 

Thanks for reporting this!! Due to that I discover some new bugs which I have already smashed!!

Here's the fix:

Also here's the Demo scene

 

Yes! the solution for that is to disable the colliders on the Death horse.. Since the Death State forces the Rider to dismount, all the Rider collider are enabled back, which are pushed by the Horse's colliders

easy fix activating this option:

 

Thank you for using the assets I really appreciate it
Saldy there's no Fly AI Brain behaviour implemented yet (but it is on my to do list)
https://malbersanimations.gitbook.io/animal-controller/quickstart/know-limitations

 

Hi there, It was a bug on my side I have posted the fix on a past post, but here's the fix

If you are still getting issues please let me know

 

That's weird ... your connections are not being saved??
also are you using the latest Input Link version v1.07?

 

I see, I talked to the Better FBX Importer creator so he can add the Update Animation Only option to its asset and he was kind enough to set it on its to do list, if you can write him too so he noticed is a very requested feature I think he will work the development of that option sooner

Meanwhile, please tell me which animals do you need to be converted to Blender
so I can prepare them in the old way
Setting it on max and importing it to blender with Better FBX Importer

 

I added an Aura 2 fader example. Looks like this when one fades volume density, i. e. ground fog in my case:

 

Tried a different ambience with the raven added. Thanks a lot to @YolanOTHER for providing the animated flags

 

Just tried Winter Forest Environment with the Wolf:

 

I guess everyone can see that I'm having a lot of fun with the Wolves. I wanted to create closer looking screenshots in HDRP, but apparently Nvidia's Ansel doesn't work with HDRP. So I quickly coded my own tool. In case anyone else wants it:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/fre...creenshot-utility-open-source-github.1076252/

Example:


Have fun and please do share your screenshots

 

@Malbers 1. the AI brain is still not working. It can't see anyone who's not on the same eye-level as the AI, and it only recognises someone as being seen *when they enter* the viewing angle at it's maximum range. So if you're using terrain it's no good you being near the animal and jumping up and down to cross the plane, you have to walk out of the detection range and then back in and you're only detected on entry, not while inside. Any time you're using terrain, any time the bear stands or sits this makes the guide-player-to-treasure functionality useless since the extremely-thin detection disc easily clears head-height of players/other animals. There's a reason unity has OnCollision Enter and Stay variants because on Enter isn't enough. 2. The same goes for the arrival decisions at waypoints: if it's not in some magical sweet spot of terrain/navmesh/animal behaviour it'll walk through a waypoint that seems to be perfectly "on the ground" and walk straight off the edge of the map forever in the last-known-good direction never trying to turn around and head back to the target waypoint. 3. the idle behaviours make it seem like the AI is broken too, since it says it's entered the move state while it's continuing to play a sitting or standing or whatever animation. A reasonable person would assume the AI overrides the animation whenever it changes state instead of "We'll just wait around while it finishes its other business..."

 

1.2.4b(AC) - 16 March 4.2.4b(HAP) 2021 - Fixing the brain Damage caused by the previous update

AC:

Fixed: Fly State Gliding Gravity push was overwritten by the next line of code. Now its set on the right place.
Fixed: Animal AI Control InOffMesh was not resetting when it finish an OffMeshLink
Fixed: Mode Align was working on sleep/disabled animals.
Fixed: Attack Trigger where activated also when the Animal was Sleep.
Fixed: Input Axis on the Animal Component was not normalized.
Fixed: Animal Ai Control. When a Air Destination was set the first time it was ignored.
Fixed: Brain Animal Play Mode Task was failing if the Animal has no Target.
Fixed: AI Control. If the animal was waiting .. HasArrived was not being updated.
Improved: Brain Task Execution (cleaner code)
Added: Scriptable Coroutines Core script.
Improved: AnimTransform, BlendShape Preset, Bone Preset scripts. They all use Scriptable coroutines Now.
Added: Material Lerp
Added: Material Property Lerp
Fixed: Override Start mode was not working properly when the Animal GameObject was hidden
Fixed: Pick Up and Drop was still working when the script was disabled.

HAP
- No changes to the Riding system this time.. (But is important to maintain the same code on Both HAP and AC

 

Hey @adavis1 thanks for your feedback I really appreciate it.

The view Angle is actually controlled by the distance the representation should be something like this:

But I havent being able to find the way to represent that with gizmos

What you can do is to eliminate the obstacles on the Detection so the Raycasting does not detect any... Here:

Set the Obstacle Layer to Nothing.

That will ease the Look For Decision...
If you want to detect some of the obstacles set all those gameobjects to a new Layer (E.g. "Wall")

That one its a bug Indeed, can you share a screen capture video of that behaviour?
to see if I can reproduce it on my side ..

All the sitting/lie/sleep animations are interrupted in case the animal moves... you can check it out on the Animator Exit Transition:


Also the AI, every time a new Target is assigned I call Animal.ModeInterrupt() to stop any playing mode..

I think you need to be interrupted completely without finishing the exiting animations? (E.g without finishing Sleep to seat) ??

if that is the case then creating a new transition from Sleep to exit with Movement = true will solve your problem


Hope this helps

I really appreciate you testing out the asset, that helps me keep improving it

Cheers!

 

In scriptable event please add scriptable string var invoke function like float and int scriptable var.

 

Done

 

I hope it will come in next update. So I don’t have to change it manually.

 

Yes it will
https://app.gitbook.com/@malbersanimations/s/animal-controller/annex/upcoming-chanelog

 

Hello! I have diving into the Animal controller and have really been enjoying it. I have tried a ton of different methods and packages, but this is well laid out and with a real understandable flow! Thank you, I have been achieving alot with it.

I have hit a wall though with what feels like a bug... not sure tho. Seems new as well. When I add the Zone Component the interface is fine, until I add an Action Index. Then it become unreadable. Prefabs like, Eat, start in this unreadable sate and I get NullRef in ID.cs on line 85:

if (PropertyValue != null)
{
result = Instances.FindIndex(i => i.name == PropertyValue.name) + 1;
}

I hope this is helpful and I am sorry if I have missed this elsewhere in the forum.
thanks again!

 

Ok thank you very much for your work ^^

 

Hello there! Just wondering : How to setup second attack on right mouse button?
I was used mode Attack2 that have Attack Paw only.
The conditions of Animator for Mode Attack Second in 9000

The result is LMB standard attack works while once i click RMB - my character can't attack anymore.

If i miss something, let me know please! All the best!

 

I am having a problem with LD always forward.in flight. It keeps increasing velocity. How can I stop it from increasing?

 

Hello recently bought your animal controller it looks very promising...

I updated to the newest versions and now the death zone does not work...
I have looked over it and cant find anything glaringly off...

any help would be appreciated.

hey man..its under the the Jump state itself, when you create the "Jump state" click on that state thats created, and go down to Profiles I think...there is Jump height.

 

I added the Golems to see how they combine with the animals

 

Hi there!
So for Attack2 you should use the Attack2 ID for the Animator..
To have a better understanding on how to make it work take a look to this page:
https://malbersanimations.gitbook.io/animal-controller/main-components/manimal-controller/modes
I see you are using 9000 to 10000 and the Attack2 ID is: 2 so it should be from 2000 to 3000

If you still have issues after reading the modes let me now

 

Thank you so much for your kind words I'm always trying to improve with the new tendencies and I love Scriptable Objects Architecture

Oh I see!
Are you creating the Zone Component at runtime or are you instantiating the Prefab at runtime?

I have added this null check to that line of code ... just in case:

Code (CSharp):

1.   if (PropertyValue != null && Instances.Count > 0)
2.             {
3.                 result = Instances.FindIndex(i => i.name == PropertyValue.name) + 1; //Plus 1 because 0 is None
4.             }
5.  

Try that and tell me if there's no more errors for you

 

This is due to the Increase Down velocity parameter on the Fly State


Set it to zero and the speed should not increase

 

Thanks! its works.
Sorry for this kind of stupid questions, just a bit confused how to use your documentation =D

Also how i can change Wolf sounds to something else on action button?

And if i have second attack 2, how i can setup bigger damage when you attack by Attack2 ?

Thanks!

 

Had a lot of fun in the Mountain Environment - Dynamic Nature, which was released yesterday

 

I just upgraded Unity to 2020.3 and Unka, Irval and Horseset to latest and have a load of compiler errors. Not sure how to fix. There are too many to copy them all here but heres a screenshot of the top ones.

Any assistance appreciated, thanks.

 

"Namespace already contains a definition for type" means that the type is being declared twice. The usual culprit is duplicate files.

The best way to fix this would probably be to delete the entire "Assets\Malbers Animations" folder and re-import it. If that doesn't work, check back here again. (But of course don't do this if you have edited the Malbers code or assets in some way, or your changes will be gone.)

 

Thanks I will back the folder up and reimport: Unka, Irvil, Animset and Selector.
But I suspect this wont work as I tried something similar with a previous issue with 2019. But here goes. Thanks by the way.

 

Yes , the best way is to Remove the Malbers Animations/Common Folder, and install it again from HAP or AC.

The latest version on Unity 2019+ does not recognize the same file if that file was changed to a different location.
And a few version ago I reorganized the scripts different folders

 

For the Sounds I use the Sound Behaviour on the Animator:


You can add any sound to any animations this way

For the Attacks I use the Attack Behaviours and Attack Triggers...

Lets take for example the Cougar:
The cougar has 4 Attack Triggers:


Each Attack Trigger has and ID or Index:


Which is Activated by the Attacks Animation on the Animator, using the Attack Trigger Behaviour:


So Different Animations Activate Different Attack Triggers...

Knowing this you can have the Attack Triggers with Different Attack Damage, that are being activated by different Animations:


For more info on Attack Trigger and attack Behaviours check this link
https://malbersanimations.gitbook.io/animal-controller/secondary-components/mdamager/mattack-trigger

Hope this helps

 

Thank you Malbers. I am just installing everything again as a test and will backup the Malbers folder each step. Then maybe try your way, just removing the common folder. thanks again.

 

yeah thanks, both ways worked so reverted back to my recently working updated one (incase I made any changes) and then removed and readded the common folder. Aweeome. Thanks Malbers.

 

Thanks, got it working now with yours and malbers help. Much appreciated. Thanks.

 

I just installed CTS Shader by Procedural Worlds and now I get the error below.

When I delete the CTS folder these errors go away? Not sure about this one either. Many thanks in advance for any assist.

 

Those errors are in full:

Assets\Malbers Animations\Horse AnimSet Pro\Integrations\Invector\Basic\InvectorHAPLink.cs(90,24): error CS1061: 'vThirdPersonInput' does not contain a definition for 'OnLateUpdate' and no accessible extension method 'OnLateUpdate' accepting a first argument of type 'vThirdPersonInput' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Assets\Malbers Animations\Horse AnimSet Pro\Integrations\Invector\Basic\InvectorHAPLink.cs(91,24): error CS1061: 'vThirdPersonInput' does not contain a definition for 'OnLateUpdate' and no accessible extension method 'OnLateUpdate' accepting a first argument of type 'vThirdPersonInput' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Assets\Malbers Animations\Horse AnimSet Pro\Integrations\Invector\Basic\InvectorHAPLink.cs(101,41): error CS7036: There is no argument given that corresponds to the required formal parameter 'arg0' of 'UnityEvent<GameObject>.Invoke(GameObject)'

Assets\Malbers Animations\Horse AnimSet Pro\Integrations\Invector\Basic\InvectorHAPLink.cs(129,24): error CS1061: 'vThirdPersonInput' does not contain a definition for 'OnLateUpdate' and no accessible extension method 'OnLateUpdate' accepting a first argument of type 'vThirdPersonInput' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Assets\Malbers Animations\Horse AnimSet Pro\Integrations\Invector\Basic\InvectorHAPLink.cs(130,24): error CS1061: 'vThirdPersonInput' does not contain a definition for 'OnLateUpdate' and no accessible extension method 'OnLateUpdate' accepting a first argument of type 'vThirdPersonInput' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

 

Hi @Malbers !!!
I want to use Dragon Little Tiger in HDRP but I see that the "malbers shaders" are not for HDRP.

Are you planning to upgrade to implement your shaders to HDRP?

Greetings

 

figured out my issue...durp..

gotta say this is a great controller!!

do you have plans on adding foot IK placement?

you definitely should, but with the ability to use a generic armature.

 

Here comes Irval