Track motion offset and Clip motion offset works in timeline preview mode but they don't in playmode

1) In my scene, I created a simple timeline with two tracks (Activation and Animation)
2) The actor is in a random (default) position in the scene.
3) In timeline, I select the animation clip and move it to a desired position using motion offsets.
4) When I hit timeline play button, it plays the animation on the desired (offsetted) position.
5) When I save the scene and hit the Unity play button, it plays the animation in the default actor position as if I didn't apply motion offsets!

Why?

 

BUMP!

 

I found the bug tracker entry for this bug: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...tent-result-between-the-preview-and-play-mode

 

This seems like it might be the same issue?
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/o...ent-in-preview-mode-vs-scene-playback.483435/

 

Still broken on 2017.3.0b1.

Any update?

 

2017.3.0b2 Still broken...

@seant_unity Any progress?

 

Update: 2017.3.0b3 still broken.

 

Wow it's so sad that timeline feels so broken... was really hoping it would be my solution to timing cinematics etc

 

2017.3 is out and this is still broken. Can we get some attention here please?

 

https://forum.unity.com/threads/hi-any-updates-on-these-fixes.507199/#post-3327707

 

Thank you for the link. Good to hear they are working on it.

 

Ridiculous. Still broken in 2018.3 This is 101 basics and they still can't get it right.

 

You must be meaning 2017.3

I just tried it in 2018.1.0 beta 12

Still broken.

I am 100% sure that they will release 2018 with this bug without a shame.

 

Sorry, i meant 2018.1.0 beta 13.

 

You found a solution yet?

 

Still broken in 2018.2.2

 

Finally a good news!!

 

Did anyone test this with the 2018.3.0b1 Beta? I have and it doesn't seem to be fixed. I hope I'm wrong.....

 

Doesn't even work in preview mode anymore (2018.3.0b1)

@seant_unity Do you have a beta version for this to be fixed?

 

I posted this in the 2018.3 Beta Forum: "Timeline|Animations fixes in 2018.3 not applied in Beta 2018.3.0b1"

 

So this was broken entire time in 2018.2, we have patiently waited and its still broken in 2018.3. Can we please just get a fix? I am so tired of waiting for timeline to become usable for extended periods of time.

 

How do you change the track offset mode?

 

That is helpful but how would you instruct a newbie to do this?

 

Much appreciate the screen shot - ty.

 

This seems to be working, FINALLY, but is worth clarifying that the Animation Track panel in the inspector changed look and it might confuse you if upgrading from a pre 2018.3 project.

- This is how a 2018.2.10 animation track IMPORTED into 2018.3.05b looks like.

To have your offsets work you will need to swap the Track offsets mode to "Apply Transform Offsets", as seant_unity said.

- This is how a 2018.3.05b native Animation Track looks like


The intended behavior should be working by default, without having to set any option.

Not sure how and why it took so long to fix this issue, but it's good to see it working as it should.

Looking forward to the next nerves wrecking bug either with Timeline or Cinemachine.

Update:
As a temporary fix, should you not want to update to 2018.3.05b for obvious reasons, you can simply remove the AnimatorController from the Animator of the character you want to control with the timeline.

This way the offsets will work, but you will need to reapply the runtime controller to the Animator controller once the timeline has finished.

Something like:
PreviousController= Animator.RuntimeController;
Animator.RuntimeController=null;

And once the timeline finishes you could call
Animator.RuntimeController = PreviousCountroller;

 

I am an software engineer with 30 years of programming experience and right now I feel like a huge dumb person because of this topic. Thank you Unity !!!!

I was very excited when I have read the recent posts in this topic thinking that it would be fixed at last. I installed 2018.3.0f1. I upgraded my test project. Yes I have a test project on my disk specific to this issue and it's been there, waiting for this moment for more than a year. I tested it. It simply DOES NOT WORK!.

Then I thought I must be doing something wrong. I deleted the animation track in timeline and created a new one. Applied my simple animation setup. I saw the new look of the animation track inspector. I hoped that it would work this time but no! It simply DOES NOT WORK!!!!.

My animation track setup is not complex.

There is only one timeline, one animation track, one character and one animation. The offset thing DOES NOT WORK!!
Am I the only stupid person here? That's how you make me feel Unity still, more than a year after reporting this BUG!!!

First of all, the "move offset" and "rotate offset" buttons in track inspector DOES NOT WORK anymore. At least, they were working fine before 2018.3. The broken feature was that the track offset wasn't working in play mode but it was working in edit mode. In 2018.3, I can't even move the character using the "move offset" button in track inspector.

Thank you Unity for making me feel this much fool!!!

(I'll record a video to show you what I am doing)

 

Could you share your test project?

 

Here is the video:

And here is the project:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zHl6ed8J4pqb8yFE1eGh7g3j-7rrLTRL

 

I just tested it and it don't work,
but the issue seems to happen with that space trooper prefab, which apparently uses the new Unity's prefab workflow?

Where did you get it from?

I tried it with an "old style" prefab and the offset works.

Not sure if this is intended by design or not, but i also noticed the timeline apply an offset relative to the previous clip every time you add a new animation.

I hope you can somehow disable it as, at first sight, seems like this feature might cause more problems than it solves.

 

That soldier must be regular prefab. I didn't do anything special. I just upgraded the project to 2018.3. Unity itself must have changed it to the new prefab stuff.

 

I created a new prefab using the mesh FBX and the track offsets worked this time. I don't know how Unity managed to break the old prefab. That was a prefab we used in a game project and it was working fine via mechanim (not timeline).

Anyways. Even with strange problems like that, it's good to see that track offsets are working now.

 

Had a similar issue even in 2018.3.5 with my humanoid characters.
Noticed that all the FBXs added to the scene "as is" responded to offsets normally, but prefabs were not affected by timeline track offsets at all. The problem was that before getting the prefabs in Rig settings of the FBX I was setting Optimize Game Objects to true and adding some Extra Transforms to Expose. This worked in a weird way, it flattened the hierarchy of the character (things were no longer parented to each other). And after this change the prefab was not responding to offsets on the timeline.
I hope it helps someone.

 

Did you all find the fix? Is Prefab confirmed to be the issue? I am trying to create a Cutscene where my character starts at a particular \position, then the Cinemachine Cam kicks to go around the map a bit and finally end at a fix position. As ths point, I want my character to appear at the new camera location (as if he walk all the way up here while the camera was panning around the map). But this is not working! How do I achieve this??!

 

I'd like to help but I don't know the problem specific to your setup. As I mentioned earlier, creating and configuring a new prefab from scratch using the original FBX fixed my all problems described in this forum post.

 

I feel like a hint in the inspector, that the offset editor is only available when the track actually animate the root, would be a must have.

 

We are in the process of moving from 2017 LTS to newer versions of Unity. Since 2018.3 Track Offsets seem to get applied whether there is a controller or not and Apply Root Motion is enabled or not. Which is to be expected.

However, Track Offsets are completely ingnored if any component on the Animation Track's GameObject implements OnAnimatorMove.

Implementing OnAnimatorMove changes the Animator's Apply Root Motion setting to Handled by Script, and breaks the Track Offset functionality regardless of whether it actually modifies the root motion or simply observes values from the animator.

 

Why is it so damn complicated to get a character moving ... it's unbearable.
This should be fixed somehow, Timeline should adust the animation clip transform it reads so it works as expected, i.e the character is moving regardless of the animation animating root or not. Offset should just work. How can this be a usable tool otherwise?