Rootmotion of character different in Play mode

I have a character that plays an idle, turn left 90 degrees, and then walk animation.

I set it up in Timeline preview, and it looks great.

The issue is that the character walks at 70 degrees in stead of 90 while in play mode....

Anyone know the issue?

 

Do you have animation blending that aborts the turning animation before it finishes (or blends out from it towards the walking animation)?

Anyway, discrepancies like that should not be happening between edit and play mode.

 

I do have the animations blending. I'll try it without the blends and reply to this post.

If that is the case, then it would be very odd that Edit and Play modes show differently....

 

Ok, so after fooling around with it for a bit it seems that when I play mode, the animations aren’t blending....which is cause the discrepancies.

So now this is a bit disturbing...as I thought what I previewed would be exactly what was shown when in play mode.

Are they any tips or tricks when working with root motion animations?

 

Here is a video on my issue with timeline. It is a awesome fun tool and putting it together last night was really thrilling. But, when I press play or if I trigger the cut scene it is different from the preview. In this clip I only show it from when I press play since it is set as Awake.

 

You seem to be having a similar issue to me.

@seant_unity
How do I file a bug report?

 

@GrapeApeGodzilla - do your characters have state machines attached? If they have controllers, they will start relative to their current position/orientation in playmode, instead of 'absolute' position/orientation as shown in preview.[/QUOTE]

Wow wasn't expecting that quick of a response. I submitted the bug report inside unity editor. I will remove the controllers or make the models only for the cut scene without controllers and then test it out to see if anything changes.

 

@sean_unity

No need for me to file a bug....it was my dumb mistake (dont ask...lol). It looks like my issue was the animation controller on the character. Once I removed it, the animations play the same between preview mode and play mode.

Now, my question is this...I have a character that I want to stand in an idle animation until the player walks up to him, then I want to start a Timeline. If I shouldn't have an animation controller attached, How should I be doing this?

Btw, I want to be able to add new Timelines at a later time...and when the player walks up to him, depending on what the player picks...a different timeline would play. The key is that I want the character to be animated while waiting.

 

It worked. I kept the animator component on the character, but remove the animator controller. It played just like preview. The best thing is to have models that would be used in your timeline without the animator controller instead of using the prefabs that have the animator controller on them.

 

I'll go ahead and see if I can use #2 as I think that may work for us.

Thanks for the suggestions and update.