I have a guitar player character, and I’m using IK to move it’s hand to the frets on the guitar. I have empty GameObjects that are children of the guitar model that I use to know the position of the frets on the guitar. In OnAnimateIK I set the IK position of the character’s hand to the transform position of the fret corresponding to the note the guitar player is playing. The guitar player has dance animations on another layer that change the position of the guitar, and thus the positions of the frets that are it’s children.
The problem is that the transform positions that OnAnimateIK sees are the positions before the animation effects the guitar position, essentially the position from the last frame, so the hand position is always a frame behind.
If anyone knows a better approach to this or a workaround I’d appreciate it. Otherwise some way to get the position of objects after animations have been applied in OnAnimateIK would be a really useful addition to Unity’s animation API.
if you look closely for the OnAnimatorIK callback there is a int parameter fro the layer index.
This is exactly for this user case. Simply create another layer after your dance animation layer and check IK pass on this layer.
Then in your OnAnimatorIK callback do your IK only when the layer index is equal to your new IK layer index
@Mecanim-Dev thank you for the quick response. That seems like a logical way for it work, however it isn’t working. I wasn’t previously checking the layer index parameter in OnAnimateIK because I only have one IK layer (layer 3), which is after the dance layer (layer 1). I just added checking for the layer index and I am still getting the unchanged fret transform position in OnAnimateIK on layer 3, but it is changed when I log it in LateUpdate. As a test I also turned on IK on layer 1, logging the positions in OnAnimateIK and the position was the same on layer 1 and layer 3.
It should work, this how our example Bear apocalypse do work, we have two ik pass, the first one is a look at that change the whole upper body and then on the next pass we fix the hand on the gun with IK.
Does your guitar props is parented to your character transform hierarchy or you are updating the guitar position manually in a script?
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I figured out the issue. The guitar and it’s fret locators were a part of the model, and I had “Optimize Game Objects” turned on in the model Rig import settings, with the fret locator transforms exposed. If I turn off “Optimize Game Objects” it works.
Thank you for you help and for pointing me at the Bear apocalypse demo, looking at it was helpful to narrow down what I was doing differently. I have submitted a bug report (case 719821) with an example project, as I think this kind of IK usage should still work when using “Optimize Game Objects.”
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