animation import bug

anon_62557724 · April 7, 2009, 1:24am

i am convinced the unity must have some serious animation import bugs.

i make an animation in xsi:
on 3 frame i set my character in a pose, do an constant intrapolation, on fram 6 have an other pose, on frame 9 another,…

i have plotted the animation so each frame is a key.

I import this in motionbuilder to check if it working there, and yes

i import this same file in unity and holy smoke all the frames are setoff and very screwed up. Can I contact somebody at unity about this

anon_8572918 · April 7, 2009, 5:49am

hi, I think you can set up the animation in the project view of unity and in settings using “split animation into multiple clips” and using “addclip” as per the animations you want to set.
Than you can recall the animations as per the events that you want to target upon.

anon_62557724 · April 7, 2009, 12:20pm

yes, that is the problem i am talking about it.
I split this all in animation based on the same frames range of my animation in xsi but they don’t match and some frame are off and some are not.

anon_62136732 · April 7, 2009, 1:14pm

This sounds like it could be a bug in Unity or it could be some sort of driver error. In order to help us figure it out, it would be great if you could submit a bug with the bug reporter (using Help->Report a Problem). Attach your project folder with the model already set up inside, so we can see how it’s been created. We’ll then take a look and let you know!

anon_62557724 · April 7, 2009, 1:19pm

Thanks!

I have worked with several game engine in-dept but unity rocks on each level (source, unreal, torque, c4…)

the community is super strong
good documentation
easy to use software
works on mac and pc
export to mutliple platfroms

caitlyn · April 7, 2009, 1:32pm

Just curious, if you export the same model from Motionbuilder to a new fbx, and import that into Unity, does the problem continue? Be sure to include that model in your bug report.

Our asset-import guys just -love- them.

Made of Flying Ninjas ™

anon_62557724 · April 7, 2009, 1:37pm

xsi → fbx → motionbuilder → unity

i did that too, but the uvmapping get in trouble than too

anon_62557724 · April 7, 2009, 2:09pm

i did the upload to support. If you need the xsi scene i will gladly to send this too

MikaMobile · April 7, 2009, 4:12pm

This is a total shot in the dark, but is it possible that there’s a framerate descrepency between your various tools? For instance, could xsi be set to 30fps. and motion builder set to 24, or something like that?

anon_8572918 · April 8, 2009, 4:12am

Well, this is not the solution to the problem. But if you could just export your 3d scene of animation that you importing to c4d or maya. And than if you could import in unity from there in. This is just to sort that its the xsi plugin with unity is having some problem.

SinisterMephisto · July 16, 2011, 6:14pm

The problem unfortunately is with unity and not you. Unity is modifying your tangents once you split the animation. I noticed it change the tangent on the z rotation of the last frame of every clip.