UMA - Unity Multipurpose Avatar on the Asset Store!

WOW! Got it...

Where can I get avatar for bones that generated by bone builder?

 

After using the Bone Builder an "Animator" component is created in the selected GameObject. The Animator would have the "Avatar" value set. (The avatar currently does not have a name.)

 

OK, I see that. Not sure what we can do about it. Should be able to just pull the avatar from the FBX though (example: Male_unified_avatar). It should be rebuilt when you build the character at runtime.

 

http://www.umawiki.secretanorak.com/Bone_Builder

 

I found the FBX avatars. I'll try using them.

Do I rebuild by calling DynamicCharacterAvatar.BuildCharacter() in the CharacterCreated event handler?

Thanks.

 

No, it should already be built at that point. I'm assuming that you're either loading the character from a string, or from a character file. If that is the case, it should build automatically (and then give the event).

If that's not what you're doing, I need more information

 

I'm currently creating the character with recipes sets in a DynamicCharacterAvatar component attached to a GameObject.

I'll try it out. Thanks.

 

I found some issues in beta version. I'll post them today

 

Also I'm curious.. should I call bone builder automatically after changing UMA data? For example if I want to make in-game character customization... Will it update existing character skeleton by changing parameters dynamically?

 

Just a general question, I'm noticing that after importing UMA + Powertools, after coming out of runtime and doing something like saving the project, saving a scene or saving a prefab in a scene there is a 10-15 second slowdown. I tested the same project without UMA + Powertools and I didn't get the slowdown.

Am I missing everything here?

 

Hi,
I also have UMA plus powertools and seem to recieve a lot of slowdown especially when trying to view something containing a dyncamic character avatar- i was suspicious that perhaps the was an uma editor context being spawned and destroyed that may have been causing the issue but im unsure.
I am also seeing other issues when trying to run the simple scene demo scene such as:
"UnityException: Repaint is not allowed to be called during serialization, call it from OnEnable instead. Called from ScriptableObject 'SlotDataAsset'.
See "Script Serialization" page in the Unity Manual for further details."

Does anybody have any idea what could be causing this?

 

I'll post this again on the powertools forum, for what it is worth, glad it isn't just me

 

Also wanted to say, the slowdown only happens once. IE the first time I save on a prefab, or save the project after coming out of a scene. If I do the same thing again, it is much faster until I enter runtime and exit out of runtime again.

 

So I've spoken to Unlogick and I think it is coming from UMA alone. If I load up a new project in 2017.1.1 and imported UMA 2.6.2 and loaded just UMA, hit play in the scene then come out of the scene, attempt to create a prefab from a square it will take 10 seconds to load. Create another prefab without entering the scene won't give me the long wait time. Hitting play again, coming out and repeating the steps will give me the wait again. Doing the same thing but interacting with the Unity editor, IE saving the scene will also give me the wait time.

 

The bone builder is only needed if you want access to the skeleton in the editor (like for a third person controller asset). You don't need to call it during game time as the skeleton is automatically created as part of the build process.

 

It's likely caused by the global library loading. it's slower when you have a large library, and the build references are included. You can clear build references in your library to improve performance, but they'll be re-added when any of the assets are accessed. We're looking at ways to speed this up, but for the current time, the best thing you can do is ensure that you have a UMA_DCS prefab in your scene so you only see the slowdown one time.

 

Magicful cool!
I tested it today

 

I tested replacing the avatar with Male_unifiedAvatar but calls to

var rightHand = animator.GetBoneTransform(HumanBodyBones.RightHand);

would return "null". Similar results with other bone references and using other avatars in the UMA directory.

Edit 1: By replacing I mean changing the reference in the Animator component's avatar value.

 

When are you calling this?

 

It's called by Invector's Shooter template controller creation wizard. After using the Bone Builder I switched the Animator.avatar value and used the GameObject for the controller wizard.

Edit 1: Could it be that the Male_unifiedAvatar still references its FBX skeleton?

 

Cheers Jaimi! It's a quick fix at least that has improved the slowdown issue

 

It should put the new avatar on the component after it's rebuilt. I added the invector melee component to my RPG, and didn't have any issues, so I was wondering if there was some procedural difference. Maybe the shooter template is doing something that the melee template wasn't doing. Are you calling any of the code from the callbacks? Sometimes you have to wait until after the frame is complete to actually access some of the data. Or is this just plain vanilla invector?

 

I am using Invector's Shooter template which builds on top of their melee template - so they share the same code.

I do not have any event handlers or other scripts setup. I am just creating a default GameObject with DynamicCharacterAvatar. Use it with the Bone Builder, change the avatar, and feed the result to the Invector controller creation tool. That is when the "animator.GetBoneTransform()" null exception occured (it is from Invector's editor code). The scene wasn't executed with the "Play" button. (It all works if I use the default output from the Bone Builder. I just can not save the generated avatar.)

I could be missing something. For instance, I am not sure what I need to do to rebuild with the new avatar. Could you list your steps? Thanks.

 

I actually switched to a different controller, as I had problems with Invector moving on terrain (it would sometimes just jump up, and then sink into the terrain). I'll try to duplicate my old setup tomorrow, see if I can still get it to work.

 

Thanks. I could probably use the default Bone Builder output. It will just be less convenient.

I haven't seen the terrain movement problem with the controller - but I am fairly early in development. I find it fairly easy to make changes and add animations.

 

I've seen that kind of behaviour with rigidbody-based controllers (Invector and Opsive). Haven't seen it with ootii's (which is input based), and it shouldn't be an issue with Opsive's upcoming v2 controller (which will also be input-based).

 

I think I found a way for using the Bone Builder output as a prefab. The inability to save the avatar is not an issue because it is rebuild by DynamicCharacterAvatar at runtime. Save the prefab with third party components disabled. Listen to DynamicCharacterAvatar's "Character Created" event and enable the third party components there.

UMA is a terrific asset. Thanks to Jaimi and kenamis for the great features and support.

Thanks for the alternative controllers. I enjoyed watching ootii's videos on creating character controllers.

 

o3n UMA races' new version (0.92 Beta) is out.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-o3n-male-and-female-uma-races-beta.499258/#post-3306831

WebGL demo is here.

 

Hey, amazing work guys. I found an issue though, after using bone builder, when I try to create opsive TPC character I get a message that my object is not humanoid and I should correct the animation type and bones. Any ideas? I'm using the latest release I think, I don't use the latest TPC though, so that may have something to do with it.

 

Are you using a custom race and did you set your mecanim avatar to "humanoid" before exporting the tpose?

 

Nope, using the humanmale race with the free mage robe. I also tried the Uma prefab from the getting started folder and got the same thing.

 

I dont' have the opsive controller, but on the invector controller, you have to select the avatar from the Male_Unified fbx. It may not be set to humanoid (don't recall). So if it isn't you'll need to change that under the rig button.

edit: It appears he has an integration for UMA on his website:

http://www.opsive.com/assets/ThirdPersonController/integrations.php

 

Ok, I managed to get it working.
For some reason it doesn't work when you use the bone builder on a gameobject that is a child, it only works when the gameobject doesn't have a parent.
I created 2 characters, 1 without parent and 1 with a parent. Ran bone builder on them.
The first one worked with TPC the second didn't, even if I moved it outside of the parent.
I couldn't see any differences in them. The structure seems to be the same, animator settings too.
This is the line that checks if the object is humanoid I think:
animator.GetBoneTransform(HumanBodyBones.Head) != null

 

Thanks, I tried selecting that avatar before, but it didn't change anything. By default uma bone builder doesn't choose any avatar, right?
As for the integration I think I've already been using it, but it's creating TPC on runtime after creating uma, and therefore is harder to set up and I can't use the editor the change the settings. I just wanted to check if new uma features could replace that workflow and It looks like they can (see message above).

 

Are you confusing what bone builder is checking and what TPC is checking? GetBoneTransform isn't used in the bone builder, but it is used in TPC. In TPC it expects your player object to have the animator on it, which if you were parenting I would guess is why you were seeing an issue.

It chooses the mecanim avatar settings of the currently selected DCA race, or if you supply a base recipe it pulls the mecanim avatar off the race data.

I originally started the bone builder specifically to use Opsive TPC without the runtime hook up.

 

My daughters and I collaborated on some UMA clothing. Here are a tunic mesh with two different textures. I made the high poly meshes, one of my daughters made the low poly mesh, baked the normals, and rigged the mesh. My other daughter painted the mesh twice to make the lovely textures. This is all one mesh and the belts are created with a height map.

Wanted to share how possible it is to make your own clothing!

 

Beautiful! The folds are very nicely done, and I like the use of the height map.

 

Yes, this code is from TPC, I pasted it here to let you know where I see the difference. The object had an animator (created by the bone builder).It's weird that these objects look exactly the same, but GetBoneTransform doesn't work for one of them. But it works now, so it's cool.

I used the same prefab for both examples, so there shouldn't be any differences here.

 

Teilia, that is really nice. Very very natural looking creases and wrinkles. Wonerfully textured.

 

Hi Everyone! Has anyone tried to install the UMA asset in Unity 2017.2? I'm having a problem as soon as I load the asset and open a project -- I get an error message regarding the "AssetBundleManager" that says:
Assets/UMA/Core/Extensions/DynamicCharacterSystem/UMAAssetBundleManager/AssetBundleManager.cs(190,25): error CS0619: `UnityEngine.Application.isWebPlayer' is obsolete: `This property is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Unity, Webplayer support has been removed since Unity 5.4'
I tried commenting out the two relevant lines from the script, but then I get issues with Meshes that I can't figure out...

 

Here are the two lines (line numbers 190-1) from AssetBundleManager.cs that I commented out:
//else if (Application.isWebPlayer)
// return System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.absoluteURL).Replace("\\", "/") + "/StreamingAssets";

 

I'm assuming this is safe because the WebPlayer itself isn't supported anymore, so this must be a 'legacy' case that should never apply, correct?

 

Here's the error message that I get when trying to run the UMA DCS Demo - DNA Delegates example scene:
SkinnedMeshRenderer: Trying to set a mesh ("") that is unfit for use with SkinnedMeshRenderer. Most likely it doesn't have Skin information and/or is only assigned to the renderer during runtime, in which case Unity isn't aware of its use with SkinnedMeshRenderer. Mark the mesh as Readable or assign it to the renderer in the Editor before building.
UnityEngine.SkinnedMeshRenderer:set_sharedMesh(Mesh)
UMA.UMADefaultMeshCombiner:MakeRenderer(Int32, Transform) (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMADefaultMeshCombiner.cs:105)
UMA.UMADefaultMeshCombiner:EnsureUMADataSetup(UMAData) (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMADefaultMeshCombiner.cs:44)
UMA.UMADefaultMeshCombiner:UpdateUMAMesh(Boolean, UMAData, Int32) (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMADefaultMeshCombiner.cs:126)
UMA.UMAGeneratorBuiltin:UpdateUMAMesh(Boolean) (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMAGeneratorBuiltin.cs:282)
UMA.UMAGeneratorBuiltin:HandleDirtyUpdate(UMAData) (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMAGeneratorBuiltin.cs:226)
UMA.UMAGeneratorBuiltin:OnDirtyUpdate() (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMAGeneratorBuiltin.cs:265)
UMA.UMAGeneratorBuiltin:Work() (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMAGeneratorBuiltin.cs:132)
UMA.UMAGeneratorBuiltin:Update() (at Assets/UMA/Core/StandardAssets/UMA/Scripts/UMAGeneratorBuiltin.cs:97)

 

Here is the fix for you:
https://forum.unity.com/threads/uma...-the-asset-store.219175/page-117#post-3253517

 

That works! Thanks!!

 

Hey there! As noted in comments somewhere above, Unity had a regression bug that popped up with 2017.2 affecting skinned meshes. To avoid that error you need the right patch, which I think was the .2 one.

Also, if you're just getting started with UMA, you might want to give the latest build on GitHub a try. There are a few great new features to test out (they're probably pretty stable, but are technically beta).

 

Hi, thanks so much for this amazing tool. I'm still a pretty novice user at this but one thing I've been stumbling on is how to set changes to overlays for slots at runtime through code. I can change the overlay through the "SetOverlay" function but as soon as I change another overlay, the first one gets changed back to what it was. Is there a way to save overlay changes to a slot so that it doesn't get keep getting changed back?

Thanks again, for this awesome asset!

 

Are you intending on using the DynamicCharacterSystem? It sounds like you are and that would reset any overlays you manually set. I would suggest using wardrobe recipes and you can set those from code. Take a look at the simple setup scene for examples.

 

This is a very useful concept and will act like a filter list for me; thank you for suggesting it. It might be something that could be incorporated to make it even easier, like an exclude button that bundles it (and updates the bundle if we lived in a perfect world).


After more reading it would seem, Asset Bundle Browser would make this trivial.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/asset-bundle-browser-93571
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AssetBundles-Browser.html

 

Was curious about the differences between using an AssetBundle vs the Global Library. It seems to me there might be a happy medium between the two. Being new I haven't tested the two and am not sure how they perform in relationship to each other and when they're best used (other than using AssetBundles to prevent Global Library bloat of unwanted assets). What is the best way to use one vs the other?