Creating Animation Layers and Masks in Unity 5

[@chrislee50]

0:00 ~ 5:37 basic project setup explanation, 5:38 ~ 14:09 what u really want

[@MaruskaStarshaya]

I'd say 6:43

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[@jimbobson4316]

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[@Xerobound]

Just the perfect video for where I'm at with my animating... Right after I got blend trees down, this video made layers and states make perfect sense in under 15 minutes. A+ tutorial

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[@jobinjose6753]

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[@scottcourtney8581]

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[@timfloyd8806]

I just wanted wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for this HIGHLY informative tutorial!

[@Kasuyaki007]

thank you so muchhhh. i was this close to make each animation for running, attacking, attacking while running, attacking while crouching etc.

[@KateHolden]

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[@IndieScapeGames]

Same, recommending this video to everyone who asks mechanim questions.

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[@IronManhood]

I've been searching for this for 3 days. You explained it well, thank you!!

[@frankmat]

My god thank you!!! You would think Unity would have done a tutorial like this... but no. Thanks again! If you were in Perth I'd buy you a drink to thank you and talk 3D ;)

[@happytofu5]

I know right? They only scratch the surface in their own tutorials, but not knowing how animations work it is really not helping.

[@EmiliaKaida]

But why in the udemy course she didn't teach about this stuff @@ ? (animation layer & mask) I took the course, didn't see this part.

[@nwharbour]

Fantastic! Exactly what I needed.

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you saved me, i love you my teacher

[@shankdixit]

Great tutorial with an example - much better than Unity's official one

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Super helpful video. Thank you very much

[@Tikodev]

Your tutorials are always so helpful, thank you. Keep up the good work!

[@Beansswtf]

5:38 onwards is basically what EVERY Unity animation video misses out on. You deserve more recognition haha.

[@magnusm4]

Speed her up and put on the bennyhill music X,D she looks hilarious when she keeps waving her head more than her sword. Would it work to instead only have one transition from the attack to the empty using only Has Exit Time on. And just code it to crossFade or instantly play the attack animation when pressing space. That way you don't need a trigger variable. I don't know if this'l work but maybe? But thanks a lot, I needed to learn quick and easy about weights and overriding animation :)

[@viceroy___]

Wow thanks, works perfectly for Anima2d as well. Very concise.

[@wrench2022]

perfect explanation thank you so much

[@randomizedcreations8533]

Fantastic info and Penny + Warrior Woman == PowerhouseCombo;

[@themostbestestgames6749]

Is there any option to customize mask with percent value? In this example, you are fully enabling upper part of the body but, the lower part of the body was completely disabled. What if the lower part of body can be masked by %20 disabled? If it happens, a little push forward effect on the legs and fully attacking animation on the upper part would be great while running.

[@AndresJesse]

Thanks for sharing! solved my problem.

[@jodyclemons4235]

you have any Video's on Inventory ? thanks.....you have AWESOME video's

[@skribblestyle]

Dang. Came here hoping for a fix to the masking rotation issue, but its present here, too. Your attack animation was centred nicely at the start, but once you mask it from affecting the lower body, the attack uses the root for its rotation, so attacks are off-center, as can be seen in the final result with her slicing off to the side. Would welcome any information people have on how to solve this.

[@RetroGamer5]

that is so Awesome Maam! It Helped Me a lot

[@RowenDekkers]

But what do you do when you want the bottom half of the body to also play the attack animation when it gets the chance (for example when shes standing still instead of while running)

[@Dxstin]

Thank you very much! Helped me a lot

[@scotthorton3339]

Is there a way to offset the rotation of the masked animation? I notice the character's attack animation by itself cuts across character and the blended cuts to the side of the character so it looks like it's attacking something not in front of the character but way to the side.

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Love your tutorials!

[@johnmaddock2110]

Thanks for the video! Could you do a tutorial on making a main menu with sub menus? Maybe even control options that you canchanbe controls? Thanks!

[@sabriboughanmi2435]

the 2 layers are not mixing correctly which makes the character walking forward and attacking into the wrong direction. what is the best approach to fix this ?

[@Semikaze]

Why you remove all the skeleton A.I videos about melee combat, waypoints etc... Where i can found these?...

[@gameeverything687]

Great channel, homie! I haven't needed to learn more advanced animation methods for whatever reason, but I guess now I have to, lol. Ooooh well. Originally, I was actually removing the properties from the animation for the legs, etc., and had no idea about the damn avatar thing. Thanks.

[@angeldiaz7554]

thank you for this! great tutorial

[@guraysenova]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

[@dandanoh2000]

What about theyre both playing at the same time like my character is talking so the mouth is moving while waving? they are separate and i want them both playing

[@ForeverNils]

Thank's a lot. It helped me.

[@cedric6729]

Great video, helped me a lot!

[@igorgosto2716]

very good explanation I was looking for content about this XD

[@chunzheng7830]

This tutorial is amazing! :) Thanks!

[@HaykAmirbekyanTKD]

5:12 does the speed multiplier get multiplied by the base speed of the animation per frame to affect animation speed? What if I wanted to modify my speed by adding a value to it instead of multiplying it by a "speed multiplier". Is there such an option? IN this case is 1 the max speed or min speed?

[@anisbounouar9709]

hi Why the attack animation is changed when blending with the idle (rotated little to the right )? I think this is a problem with humanoid animations How do fix this please ? thank you

[@pascalpipon2799]

right on point tutorial. Keep up the good work :)

[@2ksp235]

Hello Good tutorial. I wanna make the opposite meaning, i wanna make my character stop moving forward while attacking because i have my character moving normally on press key but when i press another key to make it attack, it does both moving forward and attacking and my code are separated for moving and attacking. Can u please help me?

[@wholebitmedia]

I've always wondered if there would be any sort of mask implementation for non human characters.

[@gamesphpc3dc4dunitydevelop46]

the same here looking for an Answer

[@ColdHeadSkillet]

Now is possible in Transform: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-AvatarMask.html?_ga=2.253684097.982818120.1570000164-474484945.1569280542

[@kkrazius]

Good job, Penny!

[@michaelberna987]

Thanks for sharing. Cool accent.

[@Steedie]

oo amazing guide :) saved me hours of time

[@johnnytroher5610]

But why does it break the rotation a little bit? Even on the sword swing, she swings more to the right when you turn off legs and ground mask. I have the same issue with punches and pistol/rifle aiming and other animations..

[@ajeshyohan203]

the same problem happened to me if any one have answer please reply

[@Clarkey7163]

its a flaw with the mask that the tutorial is using I believe. Basically the attack animation has a particular rotation in the torso and legs that the mask overrides, so the attack animation plays without that rotation and thus, it's off. If you're making your own animations as well as the animation state machine you can avoid this by tweaking the actual animations, but if you're not using your own animations then this is the best you got.

[@happytofu5]

thank you for the explanation! do you know if this is by any chance also possible for non-human characters? (generic)

[@CodingmitJannick]

Perfectly explained!

[@joaomuller1830]

Good job, you help-me so muuch!!

[@nekrosmantis1031]

Nice tutorial. At 13:00 the attack animation lost a lot of its rotation, due to it comes from the legs -which are overridden now. Might you tell us how to regain the whole amount of attack width please?

[@ferti21211]

Were you able to resolve this issue somehow? I'm wondering the same.

[@AliMoeeny]

great video as always, May I suggest you put a link to udemy and to your patreon in the description or make them annotation on the video

[@SagorHossen2020]

intro music is great

[@alexbull4722]

If youre like me and you want to have the option to fire different Upper Body animations on the same masked layer, you can set your entry state to an Empty state (Create a new state with no animation clip and call it 'Empty'). Then you can create and control transitions to and from this empty state. The empty state won't ovverride anything. Otherwise you cannot control transitions from the Entry state, and trying to use an idle as an entry state for masked layers has problems.

[@pp3k07]

You're missing a major point. Do you like how the character looks now when attacking on a layer. Her upper half's rotation was still bound to the attacks anims root rotation while the lower half is bound to the current lower anims root rotation. The end result is disgusting. I've been playing with this for days now and seem to have come up with a more advanced solution. Rather than merely relying on the humanoid settings, from the transform checkbox's, unselect everything apart from the bones and mesh you want animating. In your example, i would have de-selected everything and only selected spine2, l_arm bones & r_arm bones. That way the root rotation of the current animation playing is preserved and the arms are the only things that locally move. :)

[@rf2642]

I'm pretty sure she kept things a bit simple for the newbie. You apparently don't need this tutorial. Good for you, now instead of saying something fucking stupid next time at the expense of insulting the poster of the video who's intention is only to help people... Maybe, just maybe you can offer your tip with out calling someone elses effort to help discusting.

[@JulioCastro-dx6wk]

perfect video you great

[@GameDesignverse]

Amazing 👌

[@mohamedmusamustafa3324]

absolute legend

[@alpergunes6380]

You are the best !!

[@anthonykong9330]

can i use this method for unity 2d animation preview package?

[@dogek473]

It's kinda strange that i'm didn't found anything about layers in udemy course: "The Beginner's Guide to Animation in Unity"...

[@gamesphpc3dc4dunitydevelop46]

How we can apply this to a non persone charchter like a Dog or A Dove ? Thanks for the tutorial

[@donovanblc5206]

In the Avatar mask, instead of using the Humanoid parameter to select wich bone you want to affect your character, use the Transform parameter. This is the same but you will have to select the bone manually.

[@Klaus_Riskaer]

very nice!

[@fzycold8652]

yes but how can I rotate the animation, lets say there is a attack animation, when it blends with walking animation, attack rotation is not match with walking rotation

[@nonform_yt]

Thank you very much. Fantastic :)

[@Timotheeee1]

how to use this with the legacy animation system ?

[@AronautAaron]

Did anyone realised that the rotation of the animation gets distorted?? anyone knows how to fix it?

[@codywatt7775]

Thanks for this video, you just got another sub :)

[@Misterlikeseverythin]

**WHY ANIMATIONS LOOK WEIRD** I have to note, because of how Unity devs have fucked up on the way Animations are combined (as opposed to Unreal which works as you'd expect): 1. Animations, when combined by mask, inherit rotations. This shouldn't happen, UE4 does it correctly and has an option to inherit rotations. 2. Unity did not include an option to not inherit rotation for the avatar mask which makes them useless. I have solved it, by combining animations my self.