Motion Controller

Thanks everyone.

I really do appreciate you understanding. I'm doing better I'm going to catch up on posts and emails today.

 

Damn that looks good!!

 

His effects really are awesome.

Based on what I saw with is RE4 asset, I doubt they will be "drag-n-drop". With RE4, he had some scripts that controlled the effects so they need to be able to run. As @Salja said, it's probably going to be a better fit with the Spell Casting Motion Pack as that allows for different logic flows.

While I'm excited to play with Archery Effects, I don't want to make any promises. I've got 3 commitments out already that I've been severely delayed on.

 

hahaha... I did think it was a funny coincidence.

 

The cool thing with motions is that it's really the same as activating a jump. We're just activating and deactivating a motion.

In the "demo_Shooter_NPC" scene, I show an NPC rudely shooting someone in the back. The AI code (I use that phrase lightly) gives you an example. The SHMP_NPC_Controller.cs shows you how the NPC equips the gun and then activates the BasicShooterAttack motion.

Here's some button press examples for equipping the rifle and shooting it.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using com.ootii.Actors.AnimationControllers;
3. using com.ootii.Actors.Inventory;
4.  
5. public class PressToShoot : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     private void OnGUI()
8.     {
9.         if (GUI.Button(new Rect(10f, 10f, 100f, 20f), "Equip"))
10.         {
11.             BasicInventory lInventory = gameObject.GetComponent<BasicInventory>();
12.             if (lInventory != null)
13.             {
14.                 lInventory.ToggleWeaponSet(3);
15.             }
16.         }
17.  
18.         if (GUI.Button(new Rect(10f, 35f, 100f, 20f), "Start/Stop Shoot"))
19.         {
20.             MotionController lMC = gameObject.GetComponent<MotionController>();
21.             BasicShooterAttack lAttack = lMC.GetMotion<BasicShooterAttack>();
22.             if (lAttack != null)
23.             {
24.                 if (!lAttack.IsActive)
25.                 {
26.                     lMC.ActivateMotion(lAttack);
27.                 }
28.                 else
29.                 {
30.                     lAttack.Deactivate();
31.                 }
32.             }
33.         }
34.     }
35. }

If you use that scene I mention and put this code on the NPC (and remove the other AI script), you can use the button presses instead.

 

I think it's the "Distance" values. That first value is the "minimum distance" to cast the spell. The default is "2" and that looks about where it's stopping.

What happens if you set it to "0"?

 

Hi Tim,

no that's not this setting, because once set at 20 the cursor is locked 20 meters away I can't move it close to me anymore

I really think it's because of the top-down view somehow..

 

Give me a day or two and I'll check on a top-down view. I'm shooting the ground ray from the camera and the character still shouldn't block.

You're just using all my standard code, right?

 

I've asked him about how well he thinks this would work with the Ootii MC and this was his reply:

"I didn't test ootii, but I think it's should work.
I use separated prefabs of effects for : projectiles, buffs, bow effects, arrow effects.
You can just place on scene this effects, or using instantiate in runtime. It's like a standard particle system behaviour.
Note: for arrow/bow effects I did the script, where you should set the mesh. (then effect will be automatically applied to bow/arrow mesh)"

 

You asking kripto289, he don´t test with ootii.
You has watch my Video ? i apply this effects to ootii motion controller, its very tricky you should be go over the "Spell Motion Pack", i activate the Spells over a simple radial menu, you select the spell and if you shot then a arrow the spell will be activate, it´s tricky but its works fine.

 

Yes I didn't touch anything, if you can't reproduce I can build a small project and reproduce
I'm using Cinemachine here, but I don't think there is an impact as Cinemachine just place the camera in the angle I've chosen (MC has the Main Camera setup so it's all good on this side)

 

This is prob really easy, but I'm not sure if this can be done through the MC ui: If I want 2 AI enemies using the m4, only one can equip it and the other one will error saying that that object already is in use. I think this is because the equip instances a clone and if that name already exists, it cannot instance the second one using that name.

 

I've been building a pretty crazy AI using NodeCanvas together with the MC + archerypack + shooter pack + BoneController. If anyone is interested I can share the graph and you can maybe share your thoughts or just use it for yourself to build on. If you for example do not have bone controller you can simply remove that node so the enemy will not look at you while you walk past.

This is AI for a guard. It's pretty easy to have him patrol waypoints instead of guarding a certain transform.

Already included are checkboxes to have him only respond agressively to an armed player and leave you alone when you walk past, checkbox to choose if he chases you or stands his ground, which weapon set he uses, and chance numbers to determine if he spawns with gun in hand or only pulls gun when he needs to.

Not 100% perfect yet but this will give you a pretty capable guard with very logical and determined behavior.

 

Cool. In this case, you should be able to put his effects on my arrow prefab (I'm guessing).

My arrow prefab has an ArrowCore component that has it launch, detects impact, and causes damage. You can create your own arrow and add effects as needed. For example, I include a "FireArrow" in the asset. You'd just replace my ugly particles with his pretty ones.

 

Are you sure that error message is coming from my assets?

For example, I took my simple demo_Shooter_NPC scene and duplicated "Enemy" with Ctrl-D. Then, I moved him over and hit play.

They both equipped the M4 and shot at the PC as expected with no errors.



"Object already in use" isn't an error I see with my assets. If you want to forward a screen shot to tim@ootii.com, I can look.

 

Simply awesome! Really really cool.

 

I am interested in taking a look if you want to share.

 

Come on Tim, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you know that

 

Sure thing! I'll post the graph as soon as I'm back at my pc

 

Ok thx for checking Tim! I have to play with it some more b/c then it might be my own scripting

I'm making good progress on building an inventory UI that works together with the basic inventory. Once I get to a certain point I'll upload some screens. I stripped the inventory from this free asset as a base: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/low-poly-game-kit-110455

I'll contact the guy to ask how he feels about me sharing a modified part of his work. The beauty of it is in the simplicity. To anyone looking to get a basic UI with pickup/drop/use actions that is easily hooked up to Ootii's basic inventory; I got this one modified and working together in an hour or so.

 

He goes through the complete process of how he created everything including code on his youtube channel. I also support his patreon channel as I have learned quite a bit from his youtube. The internet is a great resource for free stuff but given a chance we should support the people who give back to the community.

 

* double like *

 

100%. It might be a different discussion but if you ask me, you get better quality products/services if you go with passionate people doing their own thing - free or paid / free-market or custom work.

 

I've uploaded the graph JSON. You can import this within a new graph on an NPC in NodeCanvas. https://drive.google.com/open?id=148DjXozdyUu5lOUwFMwhUN1HIIr4694P

Some things to get this setup or modified;

- I have him equipped with bow, pistol and rifle. So that's Archery pack and Shooter pack. If you have the shooter pack it's even easier because it's literally the super agressive guy from Tim's included shooter demo copypasted into my scene, and added the archery pack to him using the packs setup; all defaults.



If you want to use your own NPC Tim has a few quick videos on how to setup a character with the MC and Nodecanvas (like this one:

). I just use the one from Tim's shooter demo scene because, well, he is already setup



- You need to get the NodeCanvas integration from the Ootii vault. Some of my nodes are Tim's custom MC nodes and they work nicely! You can also off course keep it vanilla NodeCanvas but I figured why reinvent the wheel.

- Some nodes reference the Ootii bonecontroller activating and de-activating. This is just for the guard to stare you down as you walk by. It's the basic lookAt motor. If you do not have the bonecontroller you can delete these nodes, it's just extra.

- And finally the agent needs a target and a guardPoint configured on it's variabeles/blackboard. Target is your player gameobject (I'm guessing) and guardpoint is just an empty transform where you want him to return to after chasing and losing you. Can be any gameobject transform. You can also send him down a pit if he loses you.

Let me know if you have any questions or ideas for improvement!

 

By the way, for some Shooter pack Beta feedback; pretty much all sunshine here! Only weird bug is when I run (not walk) while targetting with RMB and in that state fall off of something. It does something weird (to the look IK?) bending my character upward. Could also be my character rigging, seeing that it had some weird behavior earlier.

No biggie since I wanna disable running while targeting with the firearms anyway. I don't know a lot about guns but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't run while aiming. Is there a way to disable running while targeting?

 

i send you a pm

 

That's a very clever graph. You should do video tutorials. I'd be a Patreon for stuff like that. Information is power and Node Canvas desperately needs more good tutorials.

 

Thanks, I take that as a huge compliment I was thinking about doing tutorials yes. But I'm only just a few months into gamedev and unity, so I'd like to be a bit more knowledgeable first

 

What could be causing custom character to get off the ladder (At the top) sooner than demo character?(prematurely play climb animation so character goes through a wall).
I made all the settings identical, with exception of head bone for the top transform in body capsule settings. My character has large cartoony hair so head bone is much lower, so I used top offset parameter to make capsule size almost identical to demo character.

 

you play already with this settings ?

 

Ok, thanks you very much. I´m stupid, lol. I really did not think about using the NPC code.
Best regards

 

Got separation of inventories working A weapon inventory coupled to the Ootii basic inventory with working number keys and a second inventory with consumables. UI is still a bit rough and it doesn't always need to be visible, but this is just over 2 hours in from modifying Jayanam's free inventory. No changes needed on the Ootii part because I only want the character to gain weapons and not drop them. Sort of like in Zelda. (edit: ok; the older Zelda games. In BOTW you can ditch nearly everything)

At this point I'm thinking it would be cool to have the last equiped weapon slinging on her back, but I get the sense that such a carry would require me to rig a bunch of extra carry/IK bones in Maya connected to the spine to prevent the item from clipping through the body.

 

That's pretty impressive. You've obviously got a talent for AI design.

 

It's super clean... I love it.

 

hmmm... I think you'd have to have a small component that removes the run action alias when targeting. There's nothing built in to do that.

 

@Salja is right. Those setting are what you'll have to adjust for different sized characters.

I'd start with the "Exit Test Height". That's the distance from the root (feet) where the top of the ladder is found. When we're under that distance, the "get off the ladder" animation plays. You may need to increase that for your character.

 

Thanks I'm just starting out with a simple seek on sight and build layers op top of layers like an onion. This might also be done by FSM I'm reading now, when I have time I'll check out how FSM works. Maybe then I'll do a few tutorials.

edit: accidentally typed some Dutch in there

 

Is there a simple way to ignore all input during a pause menu? I'm having an issue where the game freezes when the time is set to 0 and a key is pressed (other than mouse clicks on UI)

 

On the input source, just sent the 'IsEnabled' property to false when you don't want me to process input and true when you do.

 

FML, what a huge oversite on my part. Thanks

 

Hi @Tryz! So I went ahead and bought Motion Controller. I'm on Unity 2018.2.6 and I noticed after importing MC that I get some warnings every time I recompile any of my scripts:

`UnityEngine.Keyframe.tangentMode' is obsolete: `Use AnimationUtility.SetLeftTangentMode, AnimationUtility.SetRightTangentMode, AnimationUtility.GetLeftTangentMode or AnimationUtility.GetRightTangentMode instead.'
warning CS0618: Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Code/Data/Serializers/JSONSerializer.cs(555,106)

`UnityEngine.Keyframe.tangentMode' is obsolete: `Use AnimationUtility.SetLeftTangentMode, AnimationUtility.SetRightTangentMode, AnimationUtility.GetLeftTangentMode or AnimationUtility.GetRightTangentMode instead.'
warning CS0618: Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Code/Data/Serializers/JSONSerializer.cs(806,83)

`UnityEngine.Keyframe.tangentMode' is obsolete: `Use AnimationUtility.SetLeftTangentMode, AnimationUtility.SetRightTangentMode, AnimationUtility.GetLeftTangentMode or AnimationUtility.GetRightTangentMode instead.'
warning CS0618: Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Code/Data/Serializers/JSONSerializer.cs(806,83)

Would you mind having a look at those, please? (I'm a stickler for clean consoles )

 

Hey @Seith, I will once I'm done with the big update that I'm working on. I don't want to do too many changes at once and since they are warnings they are harmless.

That said, I understand.

 

Sure, it's no problem, thanks!

Here, I forgot a few more:

There are inconsistent line endings in the 'Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Content/Resources/Shaders/GraphicsManagerUI.shader' script. Some are Mac OS X (UNIX) and some are Windows.

There are inconsistent line endings in the 'Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Content/Shaders/OutlineDiffuseHidden.shader' script. Some are Mac OS X (UNIX) and some are Windows.

There are inconsistent line endings in the 'Assets/ootii/Framework_v1/Content/Shaders/OutlineDiffuse.shader' script. Some are Mac OS X (UNIX) and some are Windows.

 

Hi,

First time posting..

Has anyone tried using the TimeLine with the MotionController?

Mainly using the transform feature of the timeline to move the character.

I can't get it to work once an Actor Controller and MotionController components are attached, even if they are disabled the character will not move. I've tried use transforms and every other setting its a no go.

Even using the add animation clips feature doesnt work, the character plays the timeline animation(walking) but will not move. If I remove the MotionController and actor controller everything works as expected.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

Yeah i get the same Problem in the past then i have buyed the Slate Asset for Cutscenes thats has work for me with MC, i don´t know what is the problem with TimeLine

 

Ok,

I think I have a solution, I'm not sure if this is the best method but it works great.

public override void UpdateRootMotion in BasicIdle.cs is the culprit.

To avoid modifying the MotionController stock motion scripts the easy way is to just make a new motion on the base layer with a basic idle pose, create a new motion script and make sure under UpdateRootMotion:

rMovement = Vector3.zero;
rRotation = Quaternion.identity;

Is commented out. Then before a TimeLine is launched make sure to put the timeline characters in the empty state with the MotionController and all timeline functions then work fine.

Hope that helps anyone if they come looking for info on this.

 

@Tryz Hi, I've barely started implementing the Character Controller (following instructions from the video below) and I'm encountering an issue.

I'm using Rewired and Cinemachine (FreeLook). I've installed the Rewired Input Source asset from this page: http://www.ootii.com/UnityMotionVault.cshtml but my problem is that the movement of the CC is not relative to the camera but instead to the current orientation of the CC.

In other words, if I move the left stick forward I'm expecting the character to move forward in the camera space, not in its own relative space.

Now it's a relatively common issue and easy to fix; you just need to multiply the input values by the relevant camera vectors to get the proper world direction. But I'm a bit hesitant to start hacking the ootii scripts; I mean I'm sure you must have met this situation before, or I could be doing something wrong. Would you have some insight into this, please?


Edit:

So just to be certain, I modified ActorController.cs and replaced (in MoveRelative) this:

Code (csharp):

1. mTargetMove = mTargetMove + (_Transform.rotation * rMovement);

By this:

Code (csharp):

1. mTargetMove = mTargetMove + (PlayerCam.camTransform.rotation * rMovement);

And that indeed fixed my movement direction issue. But again, I'm not sure that's the way to go about this.

Also, I noticed that the CC doesn't rotate at all to face the movement direction. Is that a design choice? Or again am I missing something?

 

Hello
Now the shoot button works using the code of NPC, but I think that it has a conflict with InputSource because if I add InputSource and CameraRig to MotionController component I can´t shoot, the weapon try to move but without shooting. I used the code that you sent me to add to shoot button.
Best regards and thanks you in advanced.

 

Hello, any tip on how to set up the Shooter into an NPC, I did make a prefab out of the character in the demo scene, bring it to my scene and start copying conf... The character does all but it doesnt pull the trigger...
In the documentation, its the only one that is fully online and no pdf, but other documentation explains how to do the NPC thing...
Anyone achieved that?
Cheers!
Aldo

 

With the AC and MC on the character, I'll want to control movement. If you want something else to control movement (like the timeline), then check the 'Use Transform" option of the Actor Controller's "Advanced" view. I talk about this in the docs and some videos, but it's especially useful for NPCs where you want something else to control the character other than root-motion.

With this option checked, you can move the transform of the character and the AC will give up control. I'll also create psuedo input from that movement to control the animations. Obviously if you're controlling the position you'll have to watch out for things like foot-slipping, collisions, etc.

That's a good cheat, but you shouldn't have to do that if you check the "Use Transform" option for controlling movement.