Unity 5 - Importing Animations From Blender / Blender to Unity
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- Unity Tutorial - Importing Animations From Blender / Blender to Unity
In this unity tutorial number seventeen of the Lost in the Sea series, we import animations from blender to Unity. This includes importing the animations we created of the Octopus to Unity.
From Blender to Unity import animations correctly and fix problems with location, rotation and scale.
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BLENDER
Modeling the Octopus: • Blender Tutorial - Mod...
Rig Part 01: • Blender Tutorial - Rig...
Rig Part 02: • Blender Tutorial - Rig...
Rig Part 03: • Blender Tutorial - Rig...
Octopus Walking Cycle: • Blender Tutorial - Wal...
UNITY
Importing Animations: • Unity 5 - Importing An...
Trigger and Fade Animations: • Unity 5 - Trigger and ...
Artificial Intelligence: • Unity 5 - Artificial I...
This series of tutorials is about the creation of a low poly scenario that I created for a game, the scenario is called Lost In The Sea.
And I'm going to use it to explain you what you need to create a low poly scenario, like world settings, light, geometry, materials, etc.
This tutorials will teach you how to create a scenario in Blender, ready for videogames, and bring it to life.
Enjoy and feel free to ask any questions you may have, i'll answer as quickly as possible. And don't forget to like and subscribe. Thank you!
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• Blender Tutorial - Low...
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How to Create an Animation in Blender
How to Create Inverse Kinematics
Inverse Kinematics in Blender
Animating Trees in Blender
How to Animate in Blender
Weight Paints in Blender
Walking Cycle in Blender
Shape Keys in Blender
From Blender to Unity
Character Walk Cycle
Animating in Blender
Armature in Blender
Animations to Unity
Low Poly Treasure
Rigging in Blender
Blender Low Poly
Blender to Unity
Import To Unity
Blender Drivers
Walking Cycle
Weight Paints
3D Animation
Just a few tips.
-Shape keys when imported to Unity, they can't have modifiers (only the armature modifier). I recommend applying the modifiers and then create the shape keys.
-For anyone who wants to import animations to Unity, Unity doesn't "detect" when there's two objects using one armature. I recommend merging everything into one object, and then create the armature.
Thanks, have fun!
Hi. Thank you for the tutorial. I am having some problems though.
I am trying to create a cube in blender that have two animations, say rotate and translate.
This is my procedure:
Create cube.
Add keyframe on location.
Move cube and add another keyframe.
I name the animation and press the F button. Then I press the + button to make a new animation for rotation.
I can select the different animations in blender and they will animate properly.Then I save the file as an .blender file and go to unity. This is where my problems start.
First off I only get one animation, called Default Take, this is the animation currently selected in blender. Why? Where the other animation.
And my other problem is when I run the game with the selected animation the object becomes invisible. I have tried both the legacy mode and the generic mode in the import setting.
Appreciate all the help I can get
BR Pontus
Hi Pontus,
In this tutorial I explain how you can add more animations in unity:
th-cam.com/video/CMmDAXt0biM/w-d-xo.html
I hope it helps.
Ty for reply.Apparently, I can only make the animations work if I have an armature. I do not know if this is an error on my behalf or if it is an limitation in Unity.
You can always use shape keys in Blender and then in Unity animate the shape keys. It's quite useful for simple geometry deformation.
Oh ok thanks. I will look into that some more. Although I find it quite confusing, guess it's just a barrier to overcome. I'll keep on trying and reading documentation.
Thanks again.
After looking for 2 days a solution to a import problem, you save me with this tutorial. Tks so much!
i wish i could like a lot more times. this actually saved a project im doing for a class. 1,000 thanks my dude
Thanks man. I followed every single step and it was very helpful! :)
Thank you so much for this tutorial, really helpful!
Quick and easy tutorial to follow, thanks a bunch!!
Thank you for this tutorial is useful for developers so much.
Awesome tutorial mate!
Thanks for this great tuto!
Thank you very much. I thought FBX didn't save any animations made in Blender but I was proven wrong. Thanks again for sharing these informative tutorials. They are clear and concise 😄
You are a truly hero my friend :)
Thank you so much Gabriel! Your tutorial helped me a lot. Here's my like and subscription for you! ❤❤❤
Thank you kind sir! :)
thank you so much! best tutorial!
Thank You! Turned out I needed to create that character controller for it to play when I test. Woot!
Thank you so much for this!! :D
Thank you very useful!
Great thanks a lot! Keep it up
I was having problems with importing files just as FBX's, as I have a few animations on each character, it always seems like Unity would just read the movements of them but always use the Idle animation as a base for each of them. By doing it this way it seems that Unity is able to differentiate the animations I have made so I can actually use them, thanks so much for this tutorial.
good tutorial. thank you
I could listen to you forever... That accent is glorious
This was very useful, thanks
Finally a video that helped explain this!
I love u so much! Thx! It works perfectly :D
That's great man! You are welcome!
you taught me how to do this Sir! ty!
Thank you! Very helpful!
Omg thank you so much !!! i hope you complete like this tutorial mate :(
Great Video ty
Thank you, this is helped me a lot. I had to manually add the Animator component to my animated fbx import, though. In the video, it seems like your Octopus imported with that component automatically.
Thank you so much for the help! :)
Thanks dude!
Thanks is a great video.
Good tutorial, helped me out. Thanks bro.
Glad it helped
This fixed my problem great job!!
Perfect!
Holy shit dude, thank you so muuuuuuuch
Thank you so much
Thanks man
I couldn't get multiple animations to show up in unity's import settings, and I've found people on the unity forums saying some blender update broke this feature in unity for .blend files. The workaround now is to export to .fbx and make sure "Bake Animation > All Actions" is checked in the export settings.
FBX is smaller in file size and loads faster into memory since it's a binary file. It's good for mobile optimization.
thanks a lot gabriel...
Thank you so much!!!!!
Help, most of my animations don't go over to unity, only the one that is selected in blender
Thanks, I was not clicking loop time, but now animation is working. Thanks 3:33
Great! :)
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For Blender in 2020 Cntrl + Shift + Alt + C shortcut doesn't exist. Instead, while in Object Mode on the top left you have 4 buttons (respectively) press the "Object" button and in that drop down there's "Set Origin" and select "Origin to 3D cursor" as he did
Also DO NOT apply your armature modifier, this cause the mesh to stop animating
Also IF YOU TEXTURE PAINTED your model than you need to export your painted textures as .png in the UV Editor on the top press "Image" and export, and import that into your Unity project aswell, extract the materials from the imported model and set the materials Base map to your exported texture painting
Hope this saves you guys some hair because I almost ripped mine out...
Folks like you make the comment section as valuable as the video itself.
thankiu so much
How do I - Take animations from the timeline and transfer them into the action editor?
thx man
I've saved the file to my unity game, but I can't seem to add it to my scene. It appears in the folder, but I can't import it. Any idea what to do?
What if I have two different objects in the animations? Like animating a weapon reload where I am using a rigged weapon and arm, how do I import the animations into unity without the anim loosing relations to each other?
Thank you for the tutorial. How would I do this with multiple animations?
Stack them into one anmiation in the action editor and assign the frames to seperate animations in Unity. (Press the "+" in the Clips tab to create a new animation and then assign the right frames to it.)
thx!
Gracias :D !!!
thats a very cute octupus.
Thx!!!!
I have no idea why most tutorials are for FBX (dont know how many of them i exported and how many times i did the rig from the begining, thinking it was something that i did wrong..) and since im new to 3d animations, I wouldnt have known about this if it wasnt for you. :) Thank you for your time!
when you save it as a blend file it appears with the materials applied as well??
No. But it import the texture uv coordinates. So, you just create a simple material in unity and apply to it
Do this also works whit the plane ocean that's animated? Because I tried to Import the ocean plane and It worked but it's not animated
nice
Everytime I move the object in Unity, it just gets set back to world origin. I didn't keyframe the position, just a simple scale function
Hi, I'm a beginner. So I copied my object and armature with CTRL+C in Blender - it says copied to buffer. Then I open a new Blender and I do CTRL+V and it says No buffer to paste from. What's happening? How can I fix it?
can i add sound to my animation and then import it to unity with sound, like gunshot, walking and running??
is it possible to bound animation with keyboard buttons in unity?
4:18 why can't I choose motion? in that window my motion is visible but when i click it it doesn't change anything. Motion in the inspector remains "none".
any suggestions for me?
I'm using Unity 2018.3.14
Looking up some vids like this while at work for me to try at home. This seems pretty straight forward to get the basics of things to work.
But is it bad that the whole time I am expecting a comment about "hard Slav bass"?
I had no idea Unity can load .blend files directly...all this time I have been exporting to fbx...
Thank you!
I have a rookie question, can i apply "unity particles" to my animation? (animation made on blender)
Hi thanks, what do you mean by apply unity particles? You have particles made in Unity?
Gabriel Aguiar Prod. Yeah. If i need to animate again on unity and put particles. Or if i can use an blender animation and make some particles on unity with that animation.
Particles made in Blender can't be exported to Unity (they can with .obj, but it's a very painful process). But, yes, if you are making particles in Unity, you can use them in an animation made in Blender. Imagine you have a character that has an hand on fire. You can make the character in Blender and then in Unity create a particle system that simulates his hand on fire with the particle system attached to the character's hand. I hope it helped =)
Gabriel Aguiar Prod. really thank you for the info!
Can u make a tutorial on how to load only the needed animation fbx file to a character on the fly through code so that we dont need to import all the animations to a scene and save graphics memory. This would help load only the necessary fbx animations depending on the user interaction through the game. Please guide me.
Спасибо, очень хорошее видео.
How to import animation to unity when I have a sequence of .ply files sir .
hey, but, how to add new animations of octopus. Like if I create another animation for jump or something ?
The next tutorial talks about that in the beginning. Good luck!
th-cam.com/video/CMmDAXt0biM/w-d-xo.html
yeah thanks for the tutorial. I was looking for that only :P
Great! Glad it helped!
hey, do you know how to edit skeleton layers in blender. Like I want to copy bones from one skeleton layer to another layer.
this method only imports whatever the active viewport animation is and named it Scene. There is no dropdown of my other animated clips. Just whatever is in the viewport in blender is the one animation that gets imported.
Is it okay to have more than one separate armature in blender ?
Thanks in advance guys.
how if we have multiple object/mesh?
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Thank you. Enjoy.
Gabriel Aguiar Prod. You welcome keep up the great work
I am only getting scenes after importing animations in unity! PLease HELP
when I do such a direct save blender file to unity the file doest load the right way, its just an icon of paper
Well after you have put the blend file inside a folder of your Unity project, it should work with no problems, and you should be able to access your 3d models.
Help!!! one animation shows up but the other one doesn't! i don't know what to do. I tried saving blender but thats about it
I figured it out by "saving as" again in the same spot.
Just exactly what I needed :D
V E R Y G O O D ! !
Спасибо, брат
but how do you import movements? Like "WASD"?
What do you mean by import movements..?
I just made a ocean but when i imported to unity everything is fine but my animation is not working in blender ocean animation works but in unity it doesn't move little bit?
Hi, well did you animate the ocean with shape keys?
Gabriel Aguiar Prod. Thanks for the reply i am totally new to this so in order to get a animation work what are the steps can you please just write few things
Assuming you animated the ocean with shape keys in Blender, now, in Unity if you drop your object to the scene, in the inspector under the Skinned Mesh Renderer you have BlendShapes.
Hiya nice tut. You say that a .blend file is better to import than than an .fbx. Why? I can understand that it's faster and better when you update the blend file with new animations and such but for some reason I thought(and I might be mistaken) that a .blend file would be taking more memory on the final Unity build. Any ideas?
Hi John, thanks! Unity can import Blender files because, behind the scenes, it's using the Blender FBX exporter. Which means, in theory, it's importing FBX files to Unity directy from the .blend file. And I believe the the final build will only contain the fbx files that are being used.
Thanks a lot :)
Sorry, help me please.
I want to make an animation of two characters that will be hugging. I have 2 different characters, I can make this animation in a blender, but how do I transfer to Unity3d if I have 2 different models?
You can still import your blend file to unity and unity will identify each character and their respective armature with their respective animations. Or, you can also create two blender files for you respective characters, and do the same process as explained in the tutorial. Or, you can export via FBX only what you have selected, which means you can export your characters separately.
Thanks, I'll try
what are export details
Nice tutorial man, but can you do a video or just explain to me something ? Here is the problem I have : So since I am the programmer and another guy is making the animations in blender, how he is suppose to send me the animations files ? Lets say he makes one animation today and another one after a week, I don't want to import the whole mesh once again, I just need the animation, so instead of sending me the whole (.FBX) with the mesh and everything, how can he just send me the bone animation so I can apply it to our character in Unity ?
Hi thanks! If you want to keep working with fbx files, your animator when exporting can choose to export Animations only (where it says"Main" "Geometries" "Armatures" "Animations") and rename this new fbx file to something like "YourCharactersName_Animations".fbx. And now everytime he makes a new animation he updates the "YourCharactersName_Animations".fbx file. This is a solution in case you don't want to replace the existing fbx file you have in Unity.
I recommend, if you are able, to work with .blend files, this way you don't need to export anything, because everytime, he or you, make any change in blender, and save it, it will automatically update in Unity (but always keep a backup file).
Okay thanks for the answer man, the thing is that he animates the character that has a humanoid rig, but I have a different character and use the mecanim system in unity to map the bones into my character. I guess the process will be the same, he just has to export Animations only, right?
Hmm I see. Theoretically it should work, but the armature has to be the same (no more, or less bones, or even different names). And since mecanim has access to all animations your unity project contains, it should work, yes.
That is what we are using, so it will ignore the bones on our humanoid in unity and use the bones from the blender humanoid or the other way around ?
Does it cost any money to import models and animations to Unity?
why would it?
now i can animate my kerecter
Hello Gabriel! Nice tutorial, thank you! Howeve, my blender particles is not showing on Unity. Can you please give me a tip? Regards, Fábio
Hi Fábio. Thank you!
Well the reason is simple: unfortunately we can't export Blender particles to Unity.
Oh my god! I did a planet with lot of trees.
In that case (it will probably be very heavy) but you can convert particles to mesh. Or you can create a prefab of the tree and repopulate the planet in Unity (which is the most recommend way).
Thanks for the tip Gabriel. I'm new on Blender and Unity as you can see. If you have some tutorial how to do it on Unity I'll appreciate. Thank you!
My unity freezes when i try this
Dont work with Steam version of Blender
"lets select fart controller"
Mhhh...
I just export to fbx, press the “rotate axis EXPERIMENTAL” button, import to unity, and it’a done
Can you help me? Do you know the game Unturned? I want to make an animation
for some reason my character export from blender to unity is fine in 2 of my animations however in the last one he is bending his back and its stiff, whats going on there?
Hello I have been trying to figure out what's with my blender unity workflow for hours now. Perhaps you have seen this before: imgur.com/3yQohDt
Left side is a fbx imported to unity. right side is how it looks in blender
The problem is created by the rig/vertex weights - if I export without a rig, the problem doesn't happen, also the mesh is fine.
Thanks for any help : )
Podrias hacer el mismo tutorial pero tambien en español?
NOT WORKING ANYMORE ON UNITY ver. 2017!!!
"Blender file not found." (Even if it's there.)
David Dimalanta it works for me on version 2017
Your octopus is an hexapus
That's not an OCTOpus D8