Idiot-Proof 3D Animations using Mixamo & Character Animation Combiner

Today we are looking at a tool called Character Combiner, an open source project for combining multiple Miximo animations into a single project, which can then me exported as GLB/GLTF and ready to use in your game engine of choice.
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[@NOTORIOUS404]

"Idiot proof"... imagine that guy that fails even at this. Luckily that's not meeee, no sir, not me :|

[@gamefromscratch]

This is me every time I die during the beginner tutorials in games, which happens far too often...

[@tinman3000]

Yeah that would be me. Only got the first animation and no texture in Blender... hahaha.

[@charlietownsend2826]

Idiot proof tutorials is exactly what I need lmao.

[@Yezu666]

As useful as it is, it's also fairly easy to do using a Blender script. Which has this advantage that you can batch process the assets, instead of clicking back and forth between multiple windows.

[@ghostwarrior-ni1xb]

ha lol

[@thebricktop]

is there any example how one could do this ?

[@knightscastlesgames9377]

I'm just starting out, I'd like further information if possible,

[@skulltrick]

Extremely helpful tutorial per usual! Thanks :D

[@RalphBarbagallo]

I really love this tool---but it seems to have been neglected for years. I worry they are going to sunset this.

[@Aeroxima]

I always wondered about not directly linking things and why. That makes a lot more sense.

[@NinjaTesco85]

They told us that they would shut down mixamo rigging and animating web functionality. I didn't know that it was still working. Thanks for the info.

[@commissariorex]

Is there anything like Mixamo for animals?

[@CodeXploreID]

I used mixamo for rigging, so easy

[@shakaama]

so this is for godot? not unreal engine?

[@gamefromscratch]

It is engine agnostic.

[@shakaama]

@@kishirisu1268 is it that unreal is ... better bones? more complicated, more realistic animations? I've seen stuff that looks like it's a person, had to do a double take.

[@shakaama]

@@gamefromscratch you just really like godot?

[@wolfiedgr8t]

Amazing Mick, thanks👍

[@judgegroovyman]

This is a great tutorial thank you! i think I will use my own meshes (from the unity asset store) but is there any reason that wont work?

[@gamefromscratch]

Nope. Generally Unity Asset Store meshes are in OBJ format. The only gotcha is you're going to want to have a T-pose of your character, which is incredibly common. So it may not work with ALL your assets with zero work required, but it should work with most.

[@godev1563]

Thanks for the heads up Mike. I can FINALLY start playing with the toys i brought from a humble bundle a few months back(for Unity), in Godot. I could use Blender to do it but the interface likes to remind me how long ive been doing this sht for.

[@runninggames771]

What? Blenders ui is one of the best ive ever used

[@ludologian]

Perfect timing...

[@kuromiLayfe]

Sadly the Mixamo auto rigger never worked for me, either it will just not import or the whole auto weights are completely messed up … adding like 15 hours extra work just to fix it.

[@manvendrasingh299]

Whenever I open mixamo it lags a lot even though chrome does not Any solutions?

[@fleurbird]

This is the good stuff

[@KyleLuce]

How would you rate this workflow vs Godot Game tools in Blender?

[@gamefromscratch]

It's been a while since I used Godot Game Tools to be honest, so can't really compare right now.

[@toby818]

Does it even work with the newest version of blender cause ive been trying for hours

[@KyleLuce]

@@toby818 I'm glad you asked. Yes with version 3 and latest Godot game tools. But I found: - I must export a t pose manually from Mixamo as base animation with skin. - export all other animations (can be without skin) - import t pose with skin from Mixamo download - for exports it had back face rendering on in the skin for the import into blender :(. Had to turn that off - import all other animations using Godot game tools - export combined animations as gltf Now the model is correct and Godot game tools seems to work?

[@KyleLuce]

@@toby818 I think I may make a pull request on Godot Game Tools, Readme etc, with the common errors I've faced and maybe clarify the usage steps.

[@captainannaHK]

Thank you. I wanted to use Mixamo animations in my Blender 3D charcters. But someone says Mixamo is not an animation. What do you think?

[@divinus41]

Didn't know it was so easy to animate characters these days 😮

[@how2gamebadly]

i been trying this with my own skin. but when i import the gltf to godot the textures appear on my character but are all grayed out. i added an WE and a light but it still doesnt show up. any help would be nice

[@patlecat]

ok so it's idiot-proof but is this also a fool-proof way? Because although I'm not an idiot, I may be a fool! ;)

[@habibsoufi]

what if I want to use my own character not mixamo character

[@shinerose93]

thank you so much

[@Candyhead]

I don't know why Mixamo lags extremely bad on Google Chrome. My pc is powerful enough but the GPU really struggles. Do you know any way to solve this?

[@adikr009]

if you have a dedicated gpu and chrome still lags then your system is using internal gpu rather than your graphics card. You can change the settings and get it working.

[@NivenHedinger]

It does not work on Copper Cube 6. I did the entire thing, but the engine does not support GLTF, although I converted that to obj using other program, still did not work. I guess this is Unity and Godot exclusive.

[@seanbohan7543]

obj does not support animation, try other formats

[@NivenHedinger]

@@seanbohan7543 Weird, because my animations are obj. Does not matter really, Copper Cube is a different engine, maybe that's why it does not work.

[@NivenHedinger]

@@seanbohan7543 It's not static object, it's animated object.

[@seanbohan7543]

@@NivenHedinger obj files only contains mesh data, unless you export whole animation as a list of static mesh which I don't think any game engine would support by default

[@NivenHedinger]

@@seanbohan7543 I don't know man, I have been doing that for 5 years now, come and figure. I usually use Mixamo and it just sets up download in fbx or obj and then I open it in Copper Cube 6 as animated mesh, it works for me. But in this case it did not, because the file was different.

[@polymakegames]

Mixamo never allowed us to combine animations in the app. I'm confused

[@gamefromscratch]

You used to be able to apply multiple animations to a character. This was the case when I checked out Fuse for the first time.

[@polymakegames]

@@gamefromscratch ahh that must have been for a very short time upon release. I missed that then!

[@Yezu666]

@@gamefromscratch Yeah this was case back in 2016? I think you could download a single beefy FBX with all animations you wanted for a single skin.

[@lonewolf-vw9wf]

NOT WORKING

[@StigDesign]

1:44 stil feels so wrong when working on stuff like this, extreme feminine animation on extreme male character hehe XD :D

[@vsp_dev]

Cool, bring me the first comment award bois

[@NeoShameMan]

Nobody as animation: lay in bed

[@valiantvt]

First