Skele: Character Animation Tools, Cutscenes and Animations authoring tools

Hello again,

Also it seems when I converted one of my humanoid animations to a generic animation to edit it, some of the rotations got messed up. Was this user error or does this happen normally?

Thanks,
jrDev

 

Hi, JrDev,

Thanks for reporting this issue, will fix it soon.

Best regards,

 

Hi, jrDev,

The humanoid animation might look a little different on different models due to differences on skeleton and muscle setting,
but it should look the same on both humanoid and Generic rig of the same model,

If that's the case, could you please send the model with animation to me?
I'm now making new update for Unity5, so I can release fixes with the incoming update.

Best regards, Be creative,

 

Hi, developers,

Skele 1.7f has just been submitted on AssetStore, It should be online soon if things go smooth.

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1.7f (Submitted on 2015/02/12)
NEW: Mesh Pivot Fixer, used to change the pivot position & rotation of Non-Skinned mesh;
CHANGE: Enable MuscleClipConverter on Unity5 rc1;
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I have tested this version on the latest Unity5 rc1, Well, I think it's Unity5-compatible now.
Though I'm not 100% sure yet, if you're using U5 and find any issues, be sure to tell me.

Also I added a new utility tool to help fix the pivot of non-skinned meshes,
When I was working on my previous game, I had such demands several times but doesn't make time to create this tool.
You could watch the tutorial video below if you have interest:

Best regards, Be creative,

 

Downloading Skele 1.7f now ...

 

Here's a gif of blend shape animation, I have never used blendshape before, it might be useful in some circumstances.

 

Just take a tutorial of blender modeling and made this lovely robot.
I recommend this guy's channel, last time I watched another tutorial of dragon modeling there.

blender file attached, not as good as that tutorial, but quite fun to make it.

 

blend shape animation@
is it a new feature?
(blender files somehow I cant import into usable format)
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got back to starting again w skele
the firs poses and the skeleton (because you probably need it to see the poses)
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/j4tf2dibkvqtz/poses_skele
probably the most important button you'll find when skeleton posing is the P.
Pivot Toggle or Toggle Pivot Rotation between local and global



this is global this is local

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eager to try out that clip conversion utility!
seems like I was still on 0.98 version
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yes, definitely the pivot rotation

 

No, I'm still investigating it

v2.71 blender will just error out when I tried to import the .blend file into Unity.
If you're trying to directly use .blend file in Unity, you should use the v2.73 blender,

 

I was trying to convert between generic and humanoid but there looks like a conflict

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but what happened? I wasn't aware humanoid models can be edited

hmm, I find the second most useful button, Snatshot!
http://skele.userecho.com/topic/479598-4-misc/
I thought poses are to be put on timeline, so poses are only just the starting point in an animation. ok
but where is my Snapshot button? ok, so animation window has to be open.
now, how do I clear animation
ok, I was able to load poses between humanoid and generic.
and worth of mention, that snapshot to animation first needs push record
my first .anim!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/5k1aqti3t41t872/hpunch3.anim
I'm startin to like it a lot!
I didn't even need root bone adjustment, simply moved it lower (the hip skeleton) in hierarchy
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/5q10bux05nb37/sword_poses

 

Hi, dibdab,

I haven't received similar reports yet, if that keeps occurring, please mail me the model + animation so I can debug it.

Indeed, Unity animation window cannot record the muscle clip(humanoid clip), but we could convert generic clip into a muscle clip.
Check the video of clip conversion :

If you mean the pose manager, poses could be inserted in the middle of timeline, just move the cursor to the specified position in timeline, and apply the pose, then it will be recorded.

You could select keyframes and delete them to clear the whole or part of the animation.

The slashing action looks great

Best regards, Be creative,

 

yes, but since the poses made w the same skeleton can be used w generic, animation (inserting poses on timeline) is not an issue.
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what I originally wanted to do: modifying existing animations (like from the huge mocap library), is it possible in UnityFree?

 

Yes, you can do that.

If the clip is humanoid, you can edit by converting it to non-humanoid.
If the clip is non-humanoid, you can edit it directly,

Also check this FAQ post:
http://skele.userecho.com/topic/486581-qa-how-to-edit-humanoid-clip/

 

ok, so lets do it.
made a makehuman character you can use and download here
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/u3f1os52kz0y1/mangame
rigged, converted to humanoid and it plays the animation. I was testing 144_20 from HugeMocapLibrary
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/20285

success!

so I used the MuscleClipConverter, and the converted animation plays on generic skeleton
left one is generic, right one humanoid. theres still some difference though on the movement of head and foot (?)
ok, I see why is that: the root motion is not converted (the animation is the same w humanoid rootmotion unchecked). can it be included in the converted clip? (the direct checking of root transform rotation and positions in the inspector doesn't do it)

ok, so it needs to be checked before conversion (bake into pose)

and then it is animated w root motion. great!
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one more thing. I noticed the animations have all the frames keyframed on the animation.
do you plan to make some kinda animation optimalizer? like 'keep every fifth frame'. it's easier to work w less keyframes.

 

good job. I think I did the "Break dancer spinning on his head" 1st ;P Each to their own

 

Weird, I should have added rootmotion in converted clips there
Thanks for the feedback, I will check on it here.

I've got some instructions from unity devs about keyframe optimization, I think I could try adding it some time recently

Best regards, Be creative,

 

i have a problem,when i convert mechanim animation to legacy, the position of the animation is gone

i.e if i convert a animation that moves forward,the forward animation doesn't convert,only the animations.

 

Hi, cjrussel14,

Thanks for the report,

It will be fixed in the next update.

 

oh it is a bug? i thought i did something wrong

 

Yeah, definitely a bug, I forgot that Legacy animation didn't have RootMotion feature.

The bug is fixed, it'll be updated soon.

 

Hi, developers,

Skele 1.7g has just been submitted on AssetStore, It should be online soon if things go smooth.

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1.7g (Submitted on 2015/02/24)
NEW: Animation Compressor, reduce the keyframes in the clips
FIX: MuscleClipConverter will maintain the root motion even in Legacy animation;
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The new Animation Compressor utilizes (basically) same methods as Unity model importer does. [thanks to Mecanim.Dev]
You could adjust the parameter to control the calculation threshold, and affect the size and quality of generated clips;

Best regards, Be creative,

 

^^ It's online already.

 

i have a problem whenever i copy a pose from another clip and paste it in my newly made clip it copy all the keyframes.. i.e i copy a pose in idle then paste it in another clip, it copy all the keyframe..is this also a bug?

 

I managed to get this working on a prefab without animation, though I had to change one line:

Code (csharp):

1. GUIUtil.PushGUIEnable(true);

 

Hi, OnePxl,

Could you help to elaborate what happened with this line?

I checked it here and didn't find special things in that.

 

Hi, cjrussel14,

Thanks for the feedback

Are you trying to copy pose or copy keyframes across clips?

If you're trying to copy a pose, would you try using the PoseManager?

Unity Animation Window could copy/paste individual keyframes in SAME clip,
but it doesn't seem to support copy individual keyframe across clips, it would copy a complete curve

 

It actually checks for valid input, I just forced it to true so the export button worked.

 

I managed to extract your DAE export code into a separate package, thanks!

 

You're right, that's input check to reduce unexpected setting.

I think It's okay to use it in your own game, just don't redistribute it in a source package

 

It's just for me, for exporting models in the editor.

 

thanks for the help,, another problem,i have a model that can't select all the bones.. is this another bug?

 

Hi, cjrussel14,

Could you give more details about the steps?
Do you mean that there's some bone that you cannot select by clicking?

 

A preview of the new toy I'm working on recently

 

for example,in my other model, even i select certain part ( head,body,feet etc. ) it already shows all the bone..but my other model,it doesn't show all the bone,only the bone to that specific part ( i.e if i selct head,only the bone in the head are showing,)

 

Hi, cjrussel14,

Could you check if you toggle the "B" button on?
Some model has multiple skinned mesh renderers which are skinned to different bone sets, you could use this setting to edit ALL bones or only the bones of current selected skinned mesh.



See also,

Best regards, Be creative,

 

hmm..i don't know if it's a bug but when i re-toggle the B button it work!

 

Hi,

If you find a model on which it doesn't work, pass me the model and I'll take a check with it

 

sure

anyway.. is there a way to lock down certain part of the bone i will make a revive animation and his weapon is following whenever i move the hand,i want the weapon still intact on ground while he is moving.

 

No, not yet,

I'll get down to investigate and work on the constraint system after I finish the blendshape authoring tools at hand.

 

Hi, developers,

Here is another preview of the MeshManipulator and vertex-animation for incoming v1.8.

If you're familiar with blender, you must recognize this "proportional editing"



Best regards, Be creative,

 

And this can be animated?

 

Current version supports Unity 5?

 

Yeah, designed to work as blendshape or like blendshape in runtime.

 

Hi, Gua,

I have checked v1.7g on Unity5 beta18, not on the latest Unity5f4 yet.
It should be fine I guess.

 

I've got some errors related to Skele scripts on Unity 5. Had to remove it from the project for the moment. Hope next version will fully support Unity 5.

 

Hmm, are you putting in blendshape creation in Skele?

 

Unity is working on new API to support that, for now, I will have to export the blendshape into archive to let Unity re-import it.

I'm considering to make a simple runtime component to execute vert-animation, and add blendshape when the API is ready.

 

Oops, there's compile error?
Sorry for the inconvenience, will fix it for the latest Unity5 version in the incoming version,

 

I love that idea!

 

Hi, Gua,

I just checked on Unity5f4, I haven't seen compile errors here.

Could you check if there's name conflicts in the project? Such as "Action" class in global namespace will conflict with System.Action.

If you're not sure, you could import Skele in an empty project and see if there'r errors. Or let me have a look at the error log .

Best regards, Be creative,