Mecanim Help
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Let’s say we are using the completed 3d RPG Playground project for ORK 3:
I have some character assets using Mixamo animations, and want to use blend trees for ONLY those assets - I’m fine with setting up the Animator component but continue to hit a rock with ORK setup. I followed a nice tutorial I found here, but I only end up with a vibrating model that moves around but isn’t animated. I think it’s an issue with passing the Speed parameter - but can someone give me a step by step (in ORK 3.2) on how to accomplish this? A couple things have changed like Math Functions being added to values that are messing me up I think? I added a new combatant for my new character, so I should still be able to keep the tutorial legacy animated enemies and party members along with this too right?
And last question - the weapon in hand thing that all the tutorial characters have in battle, how should I proceed to get my mecanim assets to hold their weapon in battle? Animate from scratch?
I think I’m thrown off by tutorial being all legacy animated and trying to stitch what I’ve learned from the Action and 2d tutorials.
Thanks in advance, and much love to @gamingislove - I feel less like a fraud everyday hahaha!
I have some character assets using Mixamo animations, and want to use blend trees for ONLY those assets - I’m fine with setting up the Animator component but continue to hit a rock with ORK setup. I followed a nice tutorial I found here, but I only end up with a vibrating model that moves around but isn’t animated. I think it’s an issue with passing the Speed parameter - but can someone give me a step by step (in ORK 3.2) on how to accomplish this? A couple things have changed like Math Functions being added to values that are messing me up I think? I added a new combatant for my new character, so I should still be able to keep the tutorial legacy animated enemies and party members along with this too right?
And last question - the weapon in hand thing that all the tutorial characters have in battle, how should I proceed to get my mecanim assets to hold their weapon in battle? Animate from scratch?
I think I’m thrown off by tutorial being all legacy animated and trying to stitch what I’ve learned from the Action and 2d tutorials.
Thanks in advance, and much love to @gamingislove - I feel less like a fraud everyday hahaha!
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Since I did not touch the general settings, and the default animation system is still set to Legacy, the tutorial characters still work fine alongside my new Mechanim combatant.
They forward the movement speed to the animator controller and play animations based on that instead of using ORK's auto animation system.
As for weapons in hand (or other equipment), that's basically independent from the used animation system. That's just Equipment Viewer components spawning the equipment's prefab on wherever you placed the component/game object :)
If you want to play animations ON an equipment, you can do that via animation nodes in your schematics animating the actions. There are also nodes to play Mecanim animations without having them set up for a combatant.
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@gamingislove - I saw on a break today about the Equipment Viewer - going to play around with that tonight as well!
Thanks to all, be happy to report my findings for the good of the forum with how setup goes! Thanks!
@gamingislove - all good with weapons now. Thanks for that. I am stuck with battle animations now. I have battle idle working properly, but the animation plays so fast you just get the impression it runs up, does a .25 second animation and moves back. This is because of the Makinom attack schematic right? I notice the warrior type in the playground plays a slower full sword swing.. why does mine go at light speed? Amy thoughts? Thanks as always!
For your other question—did you create an Attack state in your Mecanim animator controller?
So here is my Base Control/Animations/ChibiMecanim settings. I created new groups for both the walk/run/idle and another set called Mecanim Battle. Here is the first:
This next screenshot is my character, I just copied the Warrior, and basically changed the prefab to my mecanim asset (called a chibi boy for some reason lol) - and set it up whatever way it took to make it work.
So what I am looking for, is lets say "Speed" is the float parameter of the Blend Tree, where am I passing that in my Combatant settings? Thanks!
My battle animation - it plays, its just really fast, like it is a 3 second animation and it gets forced to be done in .5 seconds or something. I do have a sperate animation group called Mecanim Battle with attack animations - but they do pull from the same exact Animator/Controller. Ill try to post a video of that later! Thanks again!
For the attack, I followed the great Mecanim tutorial from Kendryl, but lightly as to just test it for battle idle, and battle attack. Now the idle plays in turn based battle correctly, and the attack plays - however the attack timing needs to be fixed which shouldn’t be a problem after adjusting the duration of the clip for that specific action. However, my new issue now is that when the battle is over, im stuck in the SwordShield SSM (per tutorial) which breaks my Base Layer animation. I imagine it’s because I’m not transitioning right to exit back to the Base Layer. I’m sure I just need to follow the SSM transitions and it’s just routing then incorrectly since I breezed over the myriad of other transitions and animations on that tutorial (not worried about blocks or drinking right now lol).
Sincerely appreciate the help. This really opened up some intense animation to make the game pop for me, and excited to see it! My facial animator has been working great with this too!
Do you have a game out there to check out?
If you use this, make sure to also change the animator controller back to the original in the combatant's standard animation setup.
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@Scyra - look forward to checking it out, and glad to know I have someone on a similar pipeline - we can be game dev pals! I’m very active, and would be happy to support with things I know as well! Thanks so much for your help!
For the timing in your schematics playing the animation, that's handled by the wait time used in the Combatant Animation nodes, as shown in the different tutorials on animating the battle actions. The Normalized Time setting makes it easy to wait for parts of the animation (e.g. 0.5 to wait for 50% of it).
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I have all of this action happening in an SSM on the masked Battle Layer in the animator controller. I have a “Mecanim Battle” animation type setup in ORK that calls for all the battle moves, which again all work. I have the Combatant setup to move with my “Blend” animation type for movement and added a battle animation to call the “Mecanim Battle” animation system for the battles. Again, everything works…until Victory. I can get it to play the victory animation (placed on the base animator layer) and set a transition to my blend tree for locomotion, which works after the victory pose, but once the battle scene goes back to the field, my character is then stuck in the Battle Idle stance and loses locomotion. Just ice skates all around in that pose. enter a new battle? It all plays correct again.
So my issue is getting back to the default locomotion after victory - I’m at a loss here. Any ideas? Thanks