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I was using this video to make physics for my fighting game but I'm not sure how it works

Will this

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. public Collider[] fist;
3.  
4. private void InflictDamage(Collider collider)
5.     {
6.         Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapBox(collider.bounds.center, collider.bounds.extents, collider.transform.rotation, LayerMask.GetMask("Fist"));
7.         foreach(Collider c in colliders)
8.         {
9.             if (c.transform.parent.parent == transform)
10.                 continue;
11.  
12.             float damage = 0;
13.             switch(c.name)
14.             {
15.                 case "Head":
16.                     damage = 1;
17.                     break;
18.                 case "Body":
19.                     damage = 1;
20.                     break;
21.                 case "Arm":
22.                     damage = 0;
23.                     break;
24.             }
25.         }
26.     }

work with UMA?

 

I had asked on the Slack already and not get a solution. I chose waiting for your programmer.

BTW, we want to use the same Face Animation system as UMA ( UMA_20_Expressions_M.fbx ), since our rig is resizing, So the best way is making a new face animation around 1000 frames with the same key frame design, is that right?

 

Ack, he is in bed now. Sorry, I will try to remember tomorrow to get him to help you, either here or on Slack. His Unity time is limited.

He cannot help you with the face stuff, sorry.

 

There's nothing special about that particular sequence of keyframes, they just need to be spaced enough that the importer can cleanly pick out the specific poses you want from the animation. There is also a rough editor for the poses you can use inside Unity, but using an external app is probably simpler if you have one you're comfortable with.

 

will the help come today?

 

Are there any UMA collision tutorials?

 

@Pomelo874 , you're referring to this issue from dudedude123, correct?

The issue is caused from an incorrect animation controller. Double check you are using the correct one under "Race Animation Controllers" -> "Default Animation Controller"

 

Hi Kenamis, nice to see you here, I don't know anything about dudedude123.
At this time, I am only waiting for the patched code about tolerence.

 

I guess not. We spent last night dealing with a scam artist who stole money from my elderly mother so I honestly forgot all about it. Priorities, you know.

 

Sorry to hear that, hope things will get better.

 

Take a look at the UMA26 tree, and the ragdoll example. it shows how to add the colliders to the Dynamic Character Avatar. Integrating physics is not a simple task, so I can't really help walk anyone through it. Doing it the way the Ragdoll Example does it is the 'right way'.

However, if it were me, I would likely cheat like mad, and just add sphere colliders to the fists/feet bones, and box colliders (trigger) to the bodies (probably to the headadjust and spine1), and fudge them to be "about correct", and go from there.

 

I'm not sure what you're original issue was, but if you're just trying to use Unity's Third Person controller, and the "tolerance/ground check" fix that Teila is referring to, then follow the steps here; http://www.umawiki.secretanorak.com/Third_person_controller

 

Lets define the issue as best we can. This is what I think has happened - please correct me where I am mistaken.

1. You create a new skeleton in max by scaling the bones of the old skeleton.
2. You then bound your character to this skeleton, chopped it up, and exported it.
2. Then you created the slots for the character, and when you built it, at some point it came out all "chunky" looking where you didn't expect it to.

If that is the issue we're looking at, Here's what we need to know:

1. Did you extract the t-pose for the new skeleton? (by exporting a t-posed character, and using the menu item)
2. Did you create a new race with the new t-pose?
3. Did you create new DNA for the new race? (it's a lot easier to create "dynamic DNA").
4. Did you create a new Base Recipe for the character?
5. Did it look correct when built with the default DNA (from #3), or did it mess up after adjusting DNA?

 

Wheres the ragdoll example?

 

Once you have the uma26 branch, then in Assets/UMA/Examples/Physics Examples/Scenes/RagdollExample

 

UMA26 branch on github.

 

What is the poly count for each uma character complete with hair and is it possible to make it low ploy?

 

Do you know how many polys you are aiming for?

The original UMA body art is lower in polys than the newer stuff that's still in the process of coming out, but the main thing is you can use the UMA system and supply your own body art. So if you want to go extremely low poly, so long as you are comfortable making your own character art, this system can still work for you.

 

Hey thanks for this awesome framework.

My only concern before integrating it is that it might be a bit overkill ;

• Build size went from 80MB to 500MB just by including the sample UMA DCS Demo - Using Asset Bundles scene to my build scenes. Is this to be expected? Can it be reduced?

And a bit confused as to wether this is a benefit or not:

• I want to expose ~10 different body archetypes (per race) for the player to choose from. With UMA, all items should in theory stick well to those bodies since they are created by tweeking sliders from the same race. If instead I used traditional modeling, the artist would have to make 10 variations of each race (archetypes) and 10 variations of each item, one for each archetype ; correct?

 

The build size is large because (by default) everything is added to the global library, that includes all the, overlays (which bring along their textures), slots (mesh data), etc. You can clear the slots, overlays and recipes from the global library that you don't need and it will drastically lower the build size. (what you need will basically be dependent on your game. At the minimum you will need one set of body slots, and the body and face overlays).

Your assumption is correct. You can create 10 different archetypes all based from the same slots, and UMA will build them on the fly.

What I do is create a new "race" for each type and sex -- in addition to "Human Male" and "Human Female", I have "Elf Male", "Elf Female", "Orc Male", "Orc Female", "Gnome Male", "Gnome Female" (etc). Each race is marked compatible with the corresponding human race. (ie - "Gnome Male" is compatible with "Human Male"). Each race has a different "Base race recipe". For example, for the Elf Male, I duplicated the "Human Male" base race recipe, tuned the DNA to make it thinner, etc, replaced the head with the separated head, and added the elf ears (basically, just made it "elfish").

You don't have to do it that way. You can create a "race" slot, for example, and then create a wardrobe recipe that basically replaces everything in the base, for example, and manage the DNA separately.

 

How do I make the colliders hitboxes?

 

You'll have to change your script to find them at runtime, probably find them by bone name.

 

Like this?

Code (CSharp):

1. case gameObject.GetComponent<Collision>()."HeadHD":
2.                     damage = 1;
3.                     break;

 

Solved this right after I posted..

This will get you the data (you need to filter 'base' colors like skin, hair etc sometimes)

Code (CSharp):

1. UMAData.UMARecipe ur = tr.GetCachedRecipe(Avatar.context);
2. foreach(OverlayColorData colorData in ur.sharedColors)
3. {
4.     ..
5. }

 

That doesn't look quite valid. I assume you'd want to be getting the component of a collider type. Also, you'll need to tie this function in to an event callback or sometime appropriate after the colliders get added. If you send me a private message or message me on slack I can help you with the specifics for your project.

 

Hello,

I would like to attach the camera Position to the eyes Position, at least in some situations /animations.

Can I get the eyes position somehow from my UMA (Player)?

Thanks and have a nice sunday

 

if you have access to your umaData, then you can use GetBoneGameObject(string boneName)

instead of getting the eye positions though, I'd recommend grabbing the head transform and then offsetting it's position.

 

Thanks! It works.

 

I don't know how to send a private message on here

 

Click a Profile Picture then "Start a conversation" ?
Works like a Forum for just you two.

 

New to UMA. Looks pretty awesome. I was playing with the "Simple Setup" scene today after reading through the Getting Started file. It's great, but I couldn't figure out how to save the character I had created. I thought maybe pressing "Create in Code" would do the job, but that didn't seem to work. I also thought copying the UMADynamicCharacterAvatar might work, but it broke when I pasted and the DNA settings were defaulted.

What's the procedure for saving a character? Thanks.

 

There's some steps here:
http://umawiki.secretanorak.com/Avatar

 

Cool. Thanks. What's the best way to hide the head of an UMA in 1st person mode, but still have it visible in mirrors?

 

Easiest thing to do is to not hide the head, and instead place the camera right in front of the eyes. Otherwise, you have to deal with having two UMA's, and putting them on different layers, and culling/not culling the head.

 

It's a shame we don't just have the head on a separate layer. That would make things easy.

 

Try the camera in front of the eyes - I actually like it that way, it feels more natural to me when the character looks around (for a test, you can make it a child of the HeadAdjust bone - but this will be a bit jittery and bouncy. For a real solution you'll need a way to dampen the movement, etc). Using this method, you move the head/body to look, instead of the camera.

 

You can do that. UMA supports generating multiple skinned mesh renderers, it was designed with cloth in mind rather than setting layers so it comes with some assembly required. You should join the slack channel and ask a few questions.

 

Another solution is to move the near plane of the view frustrum ahead

 

hi everyone
i started looking into uma
im creating my own race and was wondering if uma can change the avatar bones based on what in the slots

for example switching from a 5 fingers hand to 3 fingers hand
of changing the legs from plantigrade locomotion to digitigrade locomotion
or adding a tail or wings

 

Of course it can... the only thing is that the existing content is made for the existing races and what you describe would not be compatible.
While it's obvious that if you make a digitigrade race then the existing boots will not work, but the same is true with all content including the upper body shirt, unless you take care to make the upper body rig of your digitigrade race completely identical...

 

Umut has a sample where he does basically the same thing with high-heeled shoes (with his Bastioni-based races). I think it should be on the asset store soon.

 

I cant get the model to move, I had set up the animator to move at less than -0.1 and greater than 0.1

 

If you want your character to move you'll need a controller script. I don't see any from your screenshots.

 

I had set up the script like this to control the model

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. // Use this for initialization
3.     private Animator animator;
4. void Start()
5.     {
6.  
7.         animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
8.  
9.     }
10.  
11.     void Update()
12.     {
13.  
14.         v = Input.GetAxis("LeftThumbstickY");
15.         h = Input.GetAxis("LeftThumbstickX");
16.         v = Input.GetAxis("LeftThumbstickY");
17.         h = Input.GetAxis("LeftThumbstickX");
18.         punch = Input.GetAxis("RightThumbstickY");
19.         leftright = Input.GetAxis("RightThumbstickX");
20.         punch = Input.GetAxis("RightThumbstickY");
21.         leftright = Input.GetAxis("RightThumbstickX");
22.         animator.SetFloat("Punch", punch);
23.         animator.SetFloat("LeftRight", leftright);
24.         animator.SetFloat("Vertical", v);
25.         animator.SetFloat("Horizontal", h);
26. }

 

Why is this duplicated?

For why it won't move, try viewing the animator states during runtime or add some debug.log . My initial guess is that 'h' and 'v' aren't getting any input from Input.GetAxis("LeftThumbstick..."), so I'd confirm that first.

 

I got an error:
Type `UMA.UMAData' does not contain a definition for `GetRenderers' and no extension method `GetRenderers' of type `UMA.UMAData' could be found. Are you missing an assembly reference?

 

Hello guys,

We've been using UMA for a long time, and it's fantastic.

However, one of my programmers has a habit of going through UMA scripts and adjusting them to his own taste. I get that sometimes compiler errors do occur and a fix is necessary. But, with this kind of work habit our whole team goes through nightmares whenever there is an UMA update.

I want to address the UMA masters before doing any adjustments or fix to our UMA scripts.

1. Ios Compile error -"assetBundleNale' does not exist in the current context.
Original Script

Code (CSharp):

1. if (bundleBaseDownloadingURL.ToLower().StartsWith("odr://"))
2.             {
3. #if ENABLE_IOS_ON_DEMAND_RESOURCES
4.                 Log(LogType.Info, "Requesting bundle " + [B]assetBundleName[/B] + " through ODR");
5.                 m_InProgressOperations.Add(new AssetBundleDownloadFromODROperation(assetBundleToGet));
6. #else
7.                 new ApplicationException("Can't load bundle " + assetBundleToFind + " through ODR: this Unity version or build target doesn't support it.");
8. #endif
9.             }
10.             else if (bundleBaseDownloadingURL.ToLower().StartsWith("res://"))
11.             {
12. #if ENABLE_IOS_APP_SLICING
13.                 Log(LogType.Info, "Requesting bundle " + assetBundleName + " through asset catalog");
14.                 m_InProgressOperations.Add(new AssetBundleOpenFromAssetCatalogOperation(assetBundleToGet));
15. #else
16.                 new ApplicationException("Can't load bundle " + assetBundleToFind + " through asset catalog: this Unity version or build target doesn't support it.");
17. #endif
18.             }
19.  

Revised Script

Code (CSharp):

1. if (bundleBaseDownloadingURL.ToLower().StartsWith("odr://"))
2.             {
3. #if ENABLE_IOS_ON_DEMAND_RESOURCES
4.                 Log(LogType.Info, "Requesting bundle " + [B]assetBundleToFind[/B] + " through ODR");
5.                 m_InProgressOperations.Add(new AssetBundleDownloadFromODROperation(assetBundleToGet));
6. #else
7.                 new ApplicationException("Can't load bundle " + assetBundleToFind + " through ODR: this Unity version or build target doesn't support it.");
8. #endif
9.             }
10.             else if (bundleBaseDownloadingURL.ToLower().StartsWith("res://"))
11.             {
12. #if ENABLE_IOS_APP_SLICING
13.                 Log(LogType.Info, "Requesting bundle " + assetBundleToFind + " through asset catalog");
14.                 m_InProgressOperations.Add(new AssetBundleOpenFromAssetCatalogOperation(assetBundleToGet));
15. #else
16.                 new ApplicationException("Can't load bundle " + assetBundleToFind + " through asset catalog: this Unity version or build target doesn't support it.");
17. #endif
18.             }
19.  

The assetBundleName was changed to assetBundleToFind. Is this alright? I know it solves the problem, but later on with more updates I don't want any trouble and conflicts.

 

is it possible to use the dna to change a slot size without affecting the next part in the body shape

for example
forearm change width(x,z) but not length(y) right now this cause the palm to also deform(x,z) which cause the palm to lose its shape

what i want is that the palm bone will increase scale in all axis so it wont get deformed unless done in its own slider

forearm scale(x=1.5,y=1,z=1.5) palm change scale to (x=1,y=1.5,z=1) so it wont get deformed

 

Yes

Are you saying you're seeing this issue currently? If so, are you using the UMA human race or did you make your own?
The UMA human race has forearm width dna that scales the forearmAdjust bone which does not affect the hand bone and very minimally the hand vertices (the seam).

 

UMAData.GetRenderer(int idx) and UMAData.GetRenderers() are in uma2.6 (beta/development branch on github) to support multiple renderers. You need to be using that version to use those functions.