Timeline ease out places object to point of origin

I am running to this problem and I have no idea how to solve it. I am able to get the animation to start with the current offset but if I try to blend in or out the subject blends to the point of origin. If I disable timeline, it would snap to the point of origin. Currently the Animator is set with root motion disabled. If I enable it and run Timeline with a blend the subject moves blends up.

 

With nothing. Because I was running into this problem in game, I decided to test Timeline with just the rig with no additional scripts or components to isolate the problem.

 

I am a bit confused by the what you are saying especially the last paragraph. In the clip above, I am running Animator which is evaluating a looping idle animation. I then play the Timeline. The animation plays with Scene offset so, the animation executes in the correct position. If I disable the Timeline gameobject it snaps to the origin. If I blend it also blends to the origin. What I would like, is for it to blend or revert to the original position prior to Timeline.

Your recommendation of running Timeline, controller, playable graph before the timeline puts the character in the appropriate place reads a bit alien to me.

I hope I am making sense.

 

Does your current state have write defaults enabled?Yes

Does your state machine modify the root transform (assuming Apply Root Motion is disabled)?No

Current state machine is just and Idle animation that doesn't move the character.

I just tried a clean scene with an Idle and Stand up animation. The Idle is the only clip in the state machine that is looping. The Stand Up is in the Timeline. With non root on the Animation Controller, the Timeline plays as expected but when I Ease out, it moves to the point of origin then snaps to the original Idle animation position.

 

Can this be overwritten in someway? Either by script or setting? I don't mind doing some additional work behind the scenes to get it to behave the way I want.

 

I have some headway into this issue. I used what you suggested earlier and the results seems to be consistent at least in the small examples that I have used. I have tried the following with reliable results.

• Two Mixamo animations. One Idle and the other the Stand Up
• Track Offset = Apply Scene Offsets
• Prior to running Timeline, the Animator Controller is to root.
• When Timeline is complete, Animator Controller is set back non root

This has prevented the animation from snapping even with Ease In and out. I will try with the in game scenario to see if this resolves the problem.

 

Well, this failed. It works when enable and disabling the root motion in the inspector but once its done via script it snaps the player to the position of the Timeline gamebobject and I can no longer move the player unless I enable and disable root motion in the inspector.

This is what the inspector looks like upon disabling root motion via script.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vibTlYDKWCQ2w-hmWacn-bwomsulJi9j/view?usp=sharing

 

It seems like this problem was supposed to be resolved in 2019.3 which is what I am using.

 

I have updated to 2019.3.0b11. This resolved the problem when disabling root animation via script. Yay!

 

I am not sure what to do anymore. I am trying everything that I can think of to resolve this problem reliably but the results are not consistent. I am not even sure of the logic behind the issue. Is there a reliable way to prevent Timeline from snapping the player to point of origin or some random location upon completing and ending of Timeline? The following videos shows the issue.

 

Hi Seant, I am controlling the character with a script and the animation is non root when moving. When, I am using Timeline for switches and other interactible things, I switch to root and at the end of timeline switch back to non root using signals. This works inconsistently and I believe I maybe doing it wrong.

 

Is there a way to set the root position that Timeline is using for Ease Out? This most likely would solve my problem after doing numerous tests. Because, if I can do that, I can override the root position Timeline trying to Ease Out to prior to the Ease Out.

 

Thank you for the information Seant. The current solution that I am using is creating a custom signal that stops Timeline, and enables root motion. It has been working so. I will consider using Animator.WriteDefaultValues() if this triggers a failure in the future.

 

Have you tried going into the Timeline Editor, clicking the animation, and then clicking on ''Remove Start Offset''? Works for me