Is transform of avatar mask working only for human?
It is very strange cause i really need this functional for human, not for generic only.
Yes - it works for humanoid rigs.
May be you have simple project when with it ? Or desrcibe setup process ? Couse i canāt get it works. Seems like transform mask works only for not-humanoid bones.
Have you gone through the documentation and tutorials?
This isnāt difficult to setup up, a simple test character.
Set up another simple humanoid with one extra bone - one tail bone or something and set a couple animations for it and test it out.
http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/modules/beginner/animation/avatar-masks?playlist=17099
This is the entire process, but transform mask is at 2:20.
Iāve seen it. And transform mask works only for extra(non humanoid) bones. It is not working for regular humanoid bones
I am having exactly the same problem!
I have no clue why Mecanim doesnt allow you to just use the transform mask on a humanoid rig.
Atleast give us more body parts in the body mask for humanoid rigs, Mecanim, please 
I am really disappointed, it seems like you have to choose between being able to retarget animations OR having good avatar masks. Thats pretty awful, since I need both.
Transform mask works on extra bones and humanoid mask works on humanoid bones. This is by design.
So what are you trying to accomplish that setting up a humanoid mask for humanoid bones and transform mask for non-humanoid bones does not allow?
Because the extra bones parented to the humanoid rig are hinderances to being able to retarget humanoid animations.
The transform mask is actually a benefit - to allow retargeting on the base humanoid with the extra bones masked.
Without this the extra bones would cause a retarget to fail.
What are you trying to accomplish that setting up a humanoid mask for humanoid bones and transform mask for non-humanoid bones does not allow?
Lets say Iād like to mask only half of my arm (upperarm for example), how can I do this if the body mask only allows rough masking of the entire arm?
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Masking the upper arm āin-betweenā bone doesnāt seem to be an option within the interface. It might be available in code - but not the interface - unless Iām overlooking it. Why would this even be a request?
Itās like masking the upper leg but leaving the rest of the leg in the base rig.
Really If you mask the upper arm - for retargeting - why would the mask not include the lower arm also - which is driven by the location of the end of the upper arm.
What kind of animation would only control the upper arm and not the lower arm?
What would masking a upper arm bone accomplish? Keeping the lower arm and the body on one layer and masking the upper arm - which is connected to the shoulder and the elbow - what purpose would keeping the lower arm in the base rig do?
Since the upper arm is connected to the shoulder and the elbow - itās a rigid bone at that point - connected to two positions in space that are driven by the rest of the rig. So either the lower arm is included in that mask - which would be a humanoid mask - or itās simply some logic that isnāt needed.
What does masking a āin-betweenā bone allow? it isnāt a solution to any type of animation retargeting. The upper arm would still animate based on the shoulder and the elbow positions.
There is most likely an alternative solution which is more logical than attempting to mask the upper arm.
Unity, please give us the ability to add custom bones checkboxes to a Humanoid Avatar Mask.
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Yes we were looking for this feature too. Specifically for masking out pelvic bone separate from the legs (sitting characters).
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Last I checked masking transforms works for humanoid characters. Iām not sure if you can mask both the human bones and the transforms, but if youāre playing a retargeted animation on a model, and youāre using a transform avatar mask that targets the bones of the model, the animation only plays on the bones marked in the transform mask.
ā¦ as far as I remember.
Are you sure this works? Iāve been having trouble.
Our project is using the Humanoid rig system, yet I have an animation layer where I need to mask specific bones. The Unity Humanoid paperdoll method in the Avatar mask isnāt precise enough.
I can import a skeleton and tick the boxes in the Transform section, however Unity seems to ignore whatever boxes Iām ticking down there and only acknowledges what parts of the Humanoid paperdoll are set to green.
Are we stuck with the simple masking method for Humanoid rigs, or am I doing something wrong?
Weāre using this mask on a humanoid rig:
Thatās for a āfaceā layer that we use to modify the face details to match the characterās emotions. So that does work.
Note that all the bones Iām masking are not humanoid bones. The humanoid section of the same mask looks like this:
Iām not sure if itās possible to mask out the humanoid section and then bring back the humanoid bones with the transform mask.
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Ah ok that makes sense, thanks!
Yeah it seems like that last part (Masking out Humanoid bones and bringing them back with the Transform mask) is the part thatās not possible.