Unite Now - Kinematica – Democratizing Motion Matching for Character Animation

Thank you @Grimreaper358 and @awesomedata
I am just trying to use my Characters with Kinematica.
I will gladly use another rig but it is critical I use my custom characters.
My team wants to leverage the Kinematica system and motion database.
As you see above the Kinematica team doesn't appear to have a clear path for getting custom characters to work with the system.

 

Vairbale Binary.Tag.intervalIndex and Binary.Tag.numIntervals is always 0, because they are not assigned with a value during asset build process.

 

Hello.
I used a package of Kinematica, but I can't achieve the desired result. I made my own project based on the Biped Locomotion project. I retargeted your animation on my character and when I control a character, his movements (animation) are different from the control trajectory, dead zones are formed and the character does not go into an Idle state. I tried to change the metrics settings, but the results do not get better. What may be the reason why the control trajectories do not coincide with the animation trajectories?

 

how does kinematica compare to this asset: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/motion-matching-for-unity-145624

Anyone tried both? Any thoughts?

 

Hi there,
I downloaded the demo for the 0.8 version of Kinematica (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Kinematica_Demo/releases) but when i open the scene i can't see nothing. I think the problem is that there aren't any mesh for the prefabs that are in the scene, as shown in the inspector. Anyone had the same problem?

 

Is there any information when 0.9 is coming out? 0.8 is getting a bit old in the tooth (still using NativeString etc.)

 

I tried my own idle and run animation clips and model in snappy locomotion demo. But when I enter play mode and move the charactor, in the kinematica asset builder window, it only matches the idle segmant. I tried to find the difference between my clips and the demo's, the conclusion is my run clip does not contains root motion, which means the animation runs in the same point while animating. So there is no trajectory prediction in the preview mode.
Is that the root motion necessary for the animation clips?

 

Sometimes this happens. I watched a video explaining how to prevent this, but I can't find it again.

 

Bump

 

Is there a way to use Kinematica to create variance in animations? With traditional state machines you might blend between a bag of animation clips in a randomized way.

 

@FrancoisFournel Can we assume that Kinematica is just dead in the water? Since you guys haven't given any sign of life for a long time with this project?
I am evaluating my options and I was able to bring the hello world into (a very fragile) life with some surgery (updating the code from the NativeString API), but it doesn't seem too feasible.
What are the plans with this package? Do you work on it or abandoned like many other Unity projects over the years?

 

Please Unity staff answer to this. I'd like to invest days on Kinematica for machine learning related stuff, and it would be really helpful if someone can confirm that it isn't a dead project.

 

+1

It was cool when it came out but now!

 

Please gentlemen of Unity, we need information ...
Greetings

 

Spoiler: First rule of Unity, wait 3 years before using a new tech.

 

If we weren't playing with the new tech sooner, you would have twice as many bugs than you have now...

 

painful to imagine, so keep playing and I'll join in when I'm done.

 

Well, I probably misinterpreted the "it will maintain all its current functionality" part. Thanks.

 

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hello any news? will this resource be updated for humanoid characters??

 

I think this is finished.

 

About time we get a Unity Cemetery similar to Google cemetery.

 

just seen a project which uses Kinematica 0.9.0 (based on console messages)
https://github.com/nixon-voxell/UnityAnimaticExamples

probably not. (the installed com.unity.kinematica version is 0.8.0)
but still might be interesting if the project extended the package

 

@FrancoisFournel Any updates on this ?

 

It's dead - i think it was even mentioned somewhere, that they stopped this project.

 

that's just sad. Besides actually killing the project - not communicating it with its own userbase it just plain wrong.

 

It was communicated

 

Any chance we can play with this new tech? We are currently in the early stages of a vertical slice and this is the perfect time to adopt new tech.

 

Is it safe to assume that this has been put to sleep just like Kinematica?

 

Hi. I would like to ask few questions.
1) Will DOTS Animation work together with Timeline nicely or there's DOTS Timeline in development that will ship together with DOTS Animation?
2) How DOTS Animation going to support GameObject? Is that still using game object skinned mesh renderer to do rendering?
3) Does DOTS Animation in development currently support DOTS Netcode? If no kindly make it support it DOTS Netcode nicely by default. It's critical to my DOTS Netcode game project.
4) Is there's any new Animation windows that will improve current animation windows significantly?

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