Enemy Mesh is spawned without weights ?

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Hey Folks :slight_smile:

So I have the player character, I can swap animations end everything works fine. The problem is, I’m using the same model for the enemy, but as soon as I swap an animation, that is not part of the initial animation of the imported model, it seems to completely ignore the weighing of the skinned mesh. The animations I swap are actually made with the same model, but only the animation is exported so I have them as Main@Run.FBX

Any Idea why this might happen ?

Cheers!

Dawnreaver

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Something I do not understand from your message is you actually HAVE to export the character and animation as separated data…

This way it is very easy to re-use animation on each skinned models if the skeleton is the same (bones hierarchy + names)

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Why would I have to do it ? I can just split the animations right ? The Problem is that either way the mesh gets completely distorted :frowning:

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Here an image to illustrate the issue:
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I imported the character and the animations separately. The skin of the character just starts spinning loosely :frowning:

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So I had a look at the bones while the game is running and apart from the root bone, the skeleton is all over the place :frowning: Well it is rotating out of position. Our Artist did the animations in 3DS Max. do you guys have any idea why this might be happening to the skeleton?

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make sure your animations are baked every frame. also make sure you are using the same scale for each all the way through the pipeline.

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The animations are baked in Unity. I couldn’t find any difference in the scales. Could the sample rate of the animations in Max and Unity be an issue ?

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OK guys so we found why the character was acting strange: the blend mode of all animations was sat to additive, causing the havoc when the enemy character was spawned. Thanks for the support!