I am having an issue in unity. I have an animated model made in blender imported into unity. When the scene starts the model is the correct size and is at 0,0,0. When trying to use a java script to play an animation the model moves about a meter and scales by about half, the animation does play on the small model. The model was made in blender and is not anything out of the ordinary, the animations play in blender with out any issues. It was imported as a blender file not an fbx. Trying to import it as an fbx produced too many issues. The import did not cause any issues but two things of note: the rig was imported with -90x rotation and the animations can only be used as lagacy. The java script is not complicated it is only using "animation.CrossFade( "english_hook" );" or any of the other animations. I have tried to see if anyone else on the internet has seen this issue but either they ave not or I am not searching for the right problem. I am fairly new to unity and have moderate exprience in blender. Has anyone seen this kind of issue, know how to fix it or have any ideas?
Are you using Unity4? You might have to mark your animation as legacy, open your imported model in unity inspector, select "Rig" tab and set your animation to legacy.
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I created an animation in Blender with armature rigging. When I test it in Blender by pressing Alt-A, it works perfectly fine. However, when I export it as a .glb using the KhronosGroup GLTF exporter, the resulting animation is distorted (e.g., limbs are disconnected and moving in a weird way).
Why is this happening (and how can I fix it)?
For the past two days, I have been trying solutions from similar questions (such as applying location/rotation/scale with Ctrl-A, or deleting the Armature modifier on the mesh) but none of them have worked for me.
Links:
Here is a link to a screen-recording of what the animation should look like (this is me playing it in Blender):
https://github.com/kylejlin/hosting-for-my-stackoverflow-questions/blob/master/correct-animation.mov
Here is a link to a screen-recording of what the animation actually looks like (this is me testing the exported .glb in the browser with Three.js):
https://github.com/kylejlin/hosting-for-my-stackoverflow-questions/blob/master/distorted-animation.mov
Here is the .blend file:
https://github.com/kylejlin/hosting-for-my-stackoverflow-questions/blob/master/soldier.blend
Here is the exported .glb file:
https://github.com/kylejlin/hosting-for-my-stackoverflow-questions/blob/master/soldier.glb
I looked at your setup a bit more.. I see you have a few IK bones that are partially driving the animation. Those won't translate correctly, and will have to have the IK baked into the animation. I also investigated the mirror modifier and realize the problem there.. to get the mirrored object to export, you have to click the "apply modifiers" checkbox, but that ALSO applies the Armature modifier, which distorts the mesh so you get the wrong mesh out. To fix that you have to apply the mirror modifier manually in blender, then export Without "apply modifiers" checked. Once you do that, and once you bake the IK into the animation, you might get it to work.
I've done the IK baking in the past but forget exactly how it works, but here's a starting point: https://blenderartists.org/t/bake-ik-to-fk/587226
fwiw Here is the .glb when I pre-applied the mirror modifier.. notice the arms animate correctly now, but the legs/feet are still screwy because of the IK. I didn't figure out how to bake that yet...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zeA-mMirOWYZHlzdURqNnykgh_g10kbr
Set Object's transformation values:0 before Rig.
I would be grateful for some suggestions for best best practice.
I am a proficient user of Sketchup for a dozen years. I can make my way around blender.
I have a need to model a wind turbine which ends up in gltf and imported into cesium with animated blades and orientation (ie. two animations).
Over the last couple of weeks I have learnt how to animate the blades in the correct plane in blender at appropriate revolution speed. I now have an animated model ready for export with seemingly good structure / hierarchy of parts.
If I export to fbx the blade rotation is correct but materials and textures are missing. Plus I can't migrate it to Gltf as every option I try fails.
If I use the gltf exporters from Khronos when running the animation the blades disappear altogether. If I use the other gltf exporter the blade angle gets corrupted (unlike fbx) and no animation survives the export. If I import the fbx back into blender the model is intact (except no materials) and the rotation works as exported. If I export as Collada / dae the blades drop from the top of the model to the bottom and there is no animation.
I have played hours of videos, searched and read endless Web pages but after weeks of effort I have failed to get anywhere near my goal - an animated gltf that I can import into Cesium.
Every step of the way is plagued by imponderable next steps to fix the problem. I have run out of puff.
I would be hugely grateful for some best case suggestions on doing something which seems like it should be simple but simply isn't.
Regards
dawrightau
When I import a model made in Blender to Unity the preview image rotates, when I drag it into the editor it's rotation is fine. It only happens though when the model consists more objects and I join them with CTRL+J in Blender. Let me show an example. I made this house in a few clicks, for the "seperated" one I left the roof as an individual object and for the "joined" one I hit CTRL+J so that they became one object. Here is the image. The "seperated" shows up fine while the "joined" rotates in the preview. I tried to import it straight to Unity as a blend file and also exported it as an fbx from Blender but the result is the same. For more complex models which consists of a lot of objects I like to join them so they appear as one mesh. I haven't find any fix for this, I hope someone can help. I use Unity 5.3.2 and Blender 2.76b.
Maybe you haven't noticed that the up axis for Unity and Blender is different.
In Unity it is 'Y' and in Blender it is 'Z'.
So when you import any model from Blender Unity sets Rotation x = 90.
It's not a big deal, just group it to fix it.
I've been working with an animator to help with my game. The animations all work fine using morph targets, but the file size just gets way too large. Skeletal animations are the answer. We've spent a week working to get the animations exported from blender correctly.
After reading many many articles we were able to get basic animations working correctly. I make sure to set the armature to rest pose and export on the first frame and all that, but the more complicated animations are off.
You can see in this example here (click to cycle animations):
http://www.titansoftime.com/beta/animation2.html
My animator said the problems are related to bone constraints using his controllers. He said his technique is called "Inverse Kinematics".
Anyone have any ideas?
I have found the answer. For one you can not scale the geometry in the json loader (however you can scale the mesh object once created).
The main thing is that my animator was using inverse kinematics, which apparently three.js does not play nice with.
http://www.diviniaro.com/WGClient/js/three.js/examples/webgl_loader_collada_Gate.html
After trying several things we're just left at a loss to get the exported animation from blender to load. I have noticed a few differences from the example "monster.dae" file in the collada loader. No matter what we've tried the animation just never seems to start.
Other opinions and a second set of knowledgeable eyes would be appreciated. The animations play fine in blender. There are 31 keyframes. There are also no errors on the console.
EDIT:
I think that this issue pertains to these issues with the three.js collada loader.
https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/issues/2963