(Unity/Mixamo) Animation won't play all frames

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Hello all,

I’m trying to make this mobile game in Unity and working out the character animator controller.

After consulting some tutorials by Unity and Mixamo, I figured out how to play a certain animation when I touch the corresponding button on screen ( I use triggers). However, when I create a transition from let’s say State A to State B, the animation(motion) of State B does not play all frames and is quickly stopped before it finishes completely. I tried increasing transition duration, the outcome was that the animation took longer to finish, but the motion itself was altered ( Increasing motion speed did not give good results either ). What’s odd is that if I use an animation that I did not download from Mixamo ( for example an animation that came with Unity ) and increase transition duration, the animations takes the time it needs to finish and the original motion is preserved. So I presume that the issue is exclusive to the animations that I download from Mixamo. Where am I going wrong with this ?

:diamonds: Are the Import conditions wrong ? ( I chose “FBX for Unity”,“Without Skin”, set Keyframe reduction to “none”, and use 30 FPS, 60FPS gives the same result ).

:diamonds: Is there a problem concerning avatars ? ( I use “Create from this model” ).

If I use “Create from other avatar” with the BetaAvatar* ( or the FBX’s avatar if I downloaded “With Skin” ) the animation plays but is interrupted.

If I use my own game character’s avatar, the same thing happens, but the model is distorted.

*BetaAvatar is the avatar of a character downloaded from Mixamo.

I hope someone can help me out with this.

Thank you,

Joe.

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Unity: Mixamo Animation Overview
There is a documentation available, you can learn step by step from the above link.

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I tried re-creating a new scene with a new animator controller, but this time on the mixamo character instead of my own game character, and it worked like a charm. So the problem must be that mixamo animations don’t work properly on characters that were not created nor rigged with mixamo, right ? Well I tried retargeting between the mixamo character and my game character with the help of this tutorial and everything works fine till now. Thank you for your interest!