I double click on the clip to bring it up in the Animation window.(This step feels like it should not be necessary, but it is how I preview the changes to the clip.) Next I drag the clip onto the timeline.(After creating one animation clip with all the properties set to zero, I duplicate the animation clip asset and edit the copy, to reduce the total effort.) This is done using right click, “Create” / “Animation”. First, I create a new animation clip in the asset window.These clips need to be repeated for the left and right hands. I feel there is a better way that I am not aware of, but here is how I created animation clips for different hand positions. The following is a complete example show a base animation clip “crouchwalk_10”, with a facial expression override track of “F_Angry”, and a Left Hand animation clip of “LH_Point” (you can see her left hand pointing). The little character icon on the above “Left Hand” override track indicates a mask has been enabled. Select the appropriate mask from the drop down list. This will open the inspector panel showing the “Avatar Mask” currently in effect. Once the avatar mask is created, we must reference it from the animation window. To create a mask, create a new asset of type “Avatar Mask”.ĭouble clicking on the asset opens it up in the inspector panel.Įxpand the “Humanoid” section and turn all the green to red by single clicking on the sections of the body, leaving only the character’s left hand green, to be passed through. It appears as soon as an animation clip in an override track animates the same property as an animation clip on a previous track, the previous animation clip is completely disabled.) (Facial animations do not have this problem as there is no overlap in animated properties. You have to apply an avatar mask to the override track so that it only overrides the hand movements and not the complete animation clip.
(See below for an example.)īut there is a slight trick. By creating an animation clip that animates the same avatar finger properties, you can override the default Orc Idle animation for the hands using an animation “override track” in the timeline window. Inspecting the animation clip shows it uses Avatar based animation properties.Īs you can see it uses “Animator” on the root character (this is where the “Avatar” property is set to refer to the avatar definition provided by VRoid Studio), then “Left Hand” with various finger joints (1 = the knuckle of the finger, 2 = middle joint, 3 = the tip joint) and spread (sideways movement). (Note: there are tools such as HumanoidHandPoseHelper to simplify creation of hand poses.)Ĭonsider the following “Orc Idle” animation from. The number is effectively the strength of the muscles around that joint. Rather than having a transform, position, and rotate to be animated, there is a single number to control how far each joint bends. (It also works best with some of the latest Unity animation rigging features.) It is recommended to animate using an avatar as it allows the animation clip to be repurposed on different characters with different bone structures. Instead it is recommended to animate what are sometimes referred to as muscles in a character’s avatar.įirst, the “Animator” object must be associated with the character. It is not recommended to use bone animation. When editing an animation clip, you can animate bone Transform properties such as Position, Rotation, and Scale. The following diagram shows where to find the hand and finger bones in a VRoid character.
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The following briefly describes how to locate the bones for bone level animation, but it is recommended to use avatar animation over bone animation. There are two ways to animate the bones of hands – via direct manipulation of bone rotations, or via Avatar. Animating hand positions is different as it relates to moving bones rather than blend shapes. Facial expressions are based on “blend shapes” to adjust the shape of the face (e.g. I have described challenges in animating facial expressions in a previous post.
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