Importing Blender Actions to Unity

Questions & Answers
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Hi,
I just discovered blender actions through the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjkXoV84PKw

I have to say - it really opened my eyes. I’ve read about 4 books regarding unity and blender so far, sadly each book is about blender or unity but never both.

So I learned about creating blender actions. And I forced a link for every action to “system” and the armature - it is definitely there, I close and reopen and it is still there.

And I drag the “.blend” file into unity ==> I get a nice prefab like I want to.

I select the prefab to inspect what I imported, and I look under “animations” - where I expect it to have a nice table with all the actions I created, but instead, nothing!

What am I doing wrong? Why are my actions not appearing at the animations table in unity?

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Turns out that if I SAVE the blend file under the unity project instead of importing it, everything works fine.

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If someone comes across this same problem and clicks on this thread, this is what did it for me.

After I had made my animations, I clicked the “F” next to all of them in the action editor. Then, you have to bake the animations you want to have. So I selected all the keyframes, and all the bones and then pressed ‘Space’ over the 3D view, and then typed in ‘baked’ and then it came up.

Note: Unity will not import the animations that aren’t baked.