Blender 2.82 - Rigify to Unity Tutorial - How to Export a Rigify Character and Import it into Unity
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 เม.ย. 2020
- In this tutorial I will go through how I install an addon to Blender 2.82 to export a Rigify character and import it in Unity. I go through installing the addon, preparing the rig for Unity, parenting the character to the rig, exporting to Unity. I also describe the differences between Generic vs Humanoid rig settings in Unity with pros and cons (such as bone stretch / squash, retargeting, IK, performance). Then we'll set the rig up as a Humanoid in Unity and apply a simple walk cycle. Finally, a quick conversion to Generic rig typ and changing the walk animation to use root motion to propel the character forward.
I hope this video can help you out getting your Rigify character in Blender 2.82 / 2.83 to work in Unity 2019 and 2020.
If you want to see how I modeled the characters in this video and how I animated the walk cycle, check out this video:
• Let's MODEL and RIG 5 ...
RigifyToUnity Blender Addon:
github.com/AlexLemminG/Rigify...
You can download the editor helper script that I mention in the video here:
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I mention a noise reduction plugin in this video, and joking aside, it actually works pretty good! I use it as a VST plugin in Premiere while editing to remove the drying cabinet that was running in the background =)
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Hope you cleaned off your screen after the finger marks 😂😂 but seriously just use your 3d cursor
Haha, why didn't I think of that?? Because I'm not as smart maybe =) great suggestion!! Wish I could retro-add that into the video, but I'll pin the comment for now!
@@Imphenzia im not gunna lie, I used my finger in the same way as you 100x before the 3D curser idea came into my head haha
Isn't it edited? I thought it's edited by him cuz there's no feeling of transition btw display and camera. And, it feels fake abit
@@prateekpanwar646 it is edited, but he means editing it after he uploaded it to youtube, which is not possible
bro heatbone error after ctrl+p auto mass please help anybody please
Helll yes! I couldn't find up-to-date documentation to do this, I didn't expect to find a video simplifying it so much!
I've literally been fretting diving into root motion and here you are, with a tutorial on Blender to Unity rigging AND root motion. Cheers!
Cool! I could do a bit more detail in a dedicated root motion video - I just touch the subject here.
@@Imphenzia Yea, root motion would be super helpful to understand! Another thing, along the same line of thinking, would be equip-able / exchange-able items with root motion (weapons / armor / et al). I'm about to dive into this in my own project and will see how much I can break! Thanks for the reply!!
@@Imphenzia - pls do. I've been using Blender for years and I've no idea what "root motion" is. =[
Great tutorial! You are a star! You should do a follow-up to implement character controller in unity. Can't wait for the low poly racing tutorial part 4 :)
Thank you so much for your channel! I worked on your video, repeated every step and I managed to create 3D assets just like in your video. Everything is working! I have not been able to do this for many years, thanks to your approach, I finally succeeded! I am immensely grateful to you and your work!
Being a Unity developper, and a new user of Blender, I've struggled for days to find a way to export correctly a Rigify armature from Blender to Unity. This tutorial is perfect and is the first real video explanation that makes this process understandable and simple, especially regarding the "__init__" tip that solves the problem of not having the add-on button appear in Blender 2.8X.
Thanks a lot to you (and AlexLemminG for the third party add-on) !
Keep doing great videos like this one ! Cheers !
That's great to hear - glad you like it and thanks for taking the time to comment!
For me it's a very joyful feeling seeing my character walking in unity for the first time. Thanks you so much for teaching us this stuff!
I am still trying to get there.
You have been such an incredible help with learning Blender and Unity, I cannot thank you enough!
YES!!!! I've been waiting for this one, thank you sir, you rock!
i was genuinely trying to import a rigify model from blender to unity last week and i found out that it is just a mess and can’t be retargeted, but when i heard from the last video that you are gonna post a video for this i was really glad, it came in the perfect time 👌🏻. Thanks a lot, You are doing very well with these videos keep it up 👍🏻
Thank you, this video was very useful. I was stuck on the humanoid armature problem for at least a week, I had all sorts of issues with my rig. But this little pluging solved everything! I set up my Rigify rig, positioned and scaled, appied every transformation to it and them parented my model to the rig and it works without a problem in Unity. Thanks!
Hey! We were talking about a video like this a few videos back in the live chat!! Super excited for this, thank you! Awesome video!
Great video! Came back to this one for a refresher as I use Unreal and Unity for different types of projects. I honestly love both engines and feel like each one handles different use cases better than the other. At least for my workflow lol. Also that helper script is an absolute life saver thanks for making it and sharing it with everyone! Much appreciated!
Dude thanks so much this answered a lot of questions I've been searching for for months. You da best!
Simply amazing, Stefan! Love your tutorials.
Keep it up!
Cheers
Thanks, much appreciated!!
Thank you so much. It wasn't easy to turn over a great animation to Unity with Rigyfy but what a great add-on! Thank you so much for introducing this.
I always watch your videos and like, but sometimes forget to comment. Just love you videos, keep it man.
Thank you Sir that was a smooth addon. Save me a lot of troubles with my current and future models.
thanks a lot, Stefan, really appreciate your work, even more when I consider that it's almost 5 in the morning in Sweden, your dedication is truly unbelievable, thanks a lot again, you're truly inspirational ;-)
You're welcome. Thanks! Yes, 4:51, birds are tweeting and I have to go to bed now, getting up in two and a half hours again =)
@@Imphenzia mad man
THANK YOU! I was struggling with the right settings in export.
Nice tutorial, your humanoid and generic comparison was helpful.. I'll definitely use some of advise given here for my next project!
Where were you 6 months ago... I’ve just found you and i can say i am really impressed with your technique
you saved my life. i lost my mind for a whole day tryng to export a proper rigged mesh to mixamo but i falied because i missed the step of "only deform bones". this video sved all my troubles. thanks!
Wonderful tutorial, couldn't have accomplished this without you!
So how did you managed to export it without problems? When I export the rig directly it will export it without the head bone thus making the character unusable, so I need to link the two rigs and export the original somehow (the original meta-rig which I will use for the export to Unity linked to the generated rig which I use for animating it)
That custom script is such a time saver! Thanks for sharing it! :)
Cool, thanks, just keep in mind it could be full of bugs and it's terrible from a coding perspective =)
@@Imphenzia bro heatbone error after ctrl+p auto mass please help anybody please
At 10:05 I believe you can just check looptime, go to the next animation, then select looptime again and repeat. I don’t think you need to click apply for every single animation; you just need to apply at the end.
When you go test the rig in Unity in the temporary scene it's most likely dark in there because there is no light source. If you click the light bulb icon above the scene view window it will disable lighting effects and make everything light up. Oh and great tutorial, this is going to help me a lot!
This is such a great tutorial, I'm glad to have my root motion working thanks to you Stefan. You are an inspiration for indie developers, I look forward to seeing you on the Tube again. Also there's some comments about the "Prepare for Unity" button not showing in Blender, I had the same issue but ended up using the Unity to Rigify asset from the Unity Asset Store. It's a free asset and it is more ideal for my situation as that is when I want the WTG bones removed anyway.
have you find the solution with blender?
love your channel and your videos they are so helpful to me as a developer, thank you!
Amazing as usual
I am really thankful for this tutorial
It helps me so much
Really missed you sir...🤗 Its feel like got you after long time...
Wow! Finally!! Thanks man!
Thanks for these explanations :)
For the end bones, you can remove them at export time in blender by unchecking the 'Add leaf bone' option, right under 'Only Deform Bones' ;)
Awesome video Stefan!
Thanks Todd!!
Keep it going, love the videos
This was a great video. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this topic..it means a lot for me..I really appreciate it
Wow!
One of the bests tutorials about!!
Thanks!!
bro heatbone error after ctrl+p auto mass please help anybody please
this channel is so amazing ... thank you very much !
Nice! Still waiting for CarRacing part 4,, please!
Hey Imphenzia just came here to tell you that you saved my school project and that I owe you my llife, ok thanks bye!
No but for real, I´ve been spending the last week trying to figure out why my animations weren´t importing right in Unity and you gave me the solution, perfect timing on this one, thank you so much!
ual, O melhor canal sobre Blender.
This is a lot of good information.
once again, you saved me.
You're a wonderful person. Thank you.
I am a begginer... You are awesome!
1k likes 2 dislikes... Shows everyone how good this guys content rly is
Nice tutorial sir!
2:22 "Rigify to Unity Converter options/Prepare rig for unity" options do not show up, and yes its there and enabled. I didn't have to to the renaming thing like you did, but I figured that wouldn't matter since it is there and enabled. I see a few others have the issue and I can't find a fix. And yes, restarted blender. Hope I can figure this out.
Anyway, thanks for the videos and all the help you give. I struggled with blender so much before I found your channel.
i guess no one found a fix to this
@@yeeyee_anime have you find the fix?
@Denizhan Toprak naw I find exporting like this with an add on is goofy, u don’t need an add on to export a rig to unity, wat I do is, finish the the rig make sure all animations is on the Character, save of course, then file export with fbx, remember ur save name, head to unity right click in the project with all the assets click export to unity and click ur save from blender
@Denizhan Toprak 100% way easier and the way to do it
Make sure u look up wat settings to export with b4 exporting tho
Thanks for this!
I've been slowing down your 2min challenges for far too long to see how you do this...and finally a real-time tutorial!
Some issues with the R-2-U addon not appearing in the 'running man' options tab/box on the right...not sure if there is a step that needs to be done after I 'enabled' it that I've missed?
Otherwise - awesome - more of these tuts, please!
more Unity videos plzz..as allways great Tutorials
yeahhh found it!!! thanks man!
this editor helper script is very helpful, thanks
Thanks for your tutorial, iam very helpfull
This is really nice! One quick question, can you use blend trees with root motion?
great video!!!
Imported my rig into Unity and got an error about the "head" bone not being found.
Took a whole day to figure out the parenting for the deform bones needed to be rearranged.
Worked like a charm. Thanks for the great tutorial btw!
me too
@@ramdhan_dimas How did you fix it? :(
@@jolobartolome9767 did you fix it? :/
@@mamy0036 yup i did
@@jolobartolome9767 what is the solution i couldn't do it :/
thank you for this video. it was able to get me one step closer to uploading my avatar to vrchat. i am not in Unity. I am not sure if my shader made it over with the avatar... but the avatar and ring is there haha!
awesome video
Thanks a lot for that tutorial! I recently tried to do exactly the same but kinda failed.
Quick question regarding the export: which settings do you use for the animation export options? I haven't used these separate blender actions yet but they seem really useful!
You're welcome! Still some rotational issues that we have to live with I think. I tried to flip the rig so X rotation is correct, but it breaks things. Using separate actions in Blender is amazing(!) I think. When you import in Unity all the animations will automatically be defined nicely with correct number of keyframes etc. I usually disable NLA during export as well, but that depends if you have any NLA stuff that you want to bring in as well. Otherwise, I keep the animation settings in the FBX default.
Thank you so much Brother :)
Thank you my guy
Love your videos, straight to the details, no bull shit.
Well, about o minute of potential BS before I go into the tutorial, but I tried to keep it short =)
Thanks for tutorial
Are you from Sweden? If so, tack dina videor har hjälpt mig jättemycket 🥰
VERY VERY VERY TNKS
The finger tip is one of the best i saw in youtube men you should patent that you can become rich. xD Now seriously i love your videos and you make a lot of little changes that show how to fix all the problems and how to deal with them i love that of your content. Thanks!
amazing !!!
Hi Impheniza, just stumbled upon you're channel, awesome content! I'm working on a fast paced 2.5D platformer with only two movements, one of which being a jump. No I'm grinding my gears (and making foolish attempts) on the following idea/question: does it make sense to keep the jumping animation in blender in a way that the feet always stay close to Z=0 and let Unity later on handle all gravity since the distance of the jump will be fixed and as it is high paced I can't "wait" for the character collider to fall down again within the motion (if that makes sense) as well as I think it looks kinda weird applying a jump movement through both Unity scripting and a motion through animation. I already tried fixing the jump height in Blender, but it's too unprecise for my needs.
Sorry for that long comment/question, hope you have an idea, since I'm slowly running out of those, haha.
KR, cheers from Germany,
Marcel
What's your opinion on starting the animation on the crossover frame instead? The benefit being that if you just interpolate from an idle animation to the walking one it would more smoothly shift into and out of the walk cycle.
is this going to work with your newer low poly modeling tutorials made in 2.9x version? i have completed policeman and firefighter low poly, both rigging and animation (your instructions were superb!)
nice tuto
Very cool, TYVM, is rigify the best way to import to Unity? Do the resultant rigs support Mecanim/Mixamo animations?
good stuff!! thx!
They are very cute characters
Hey! Loved following your tutorials, they were extremely helpful! One thing, though: when I have the character made with this tutorial in Unity, the shadows contain tiny "seams" where the light comes through. Any idea what's happening there?
Great tutorial!!! Your tutorial is always very helpful. I have a question about the editor helper script. I've downloaded your helper script and there is a option without label. I read your script and I found out it is about Keeping original orientation. However, I don't understand exactly what this is for. Could please let me know?
Ah nice, I just came here to find out why my rigify rig comes into unity all broken, turns out the rigify to unity addon does the trick!
I got 2 questions.
First, I'm not finding the Rigfy to Unity converter. I searched some forums and did what they said too, and nothing.
Second, I did the step by step tutorial of your low poly/rig/animation tutorials (realy loved it by the way). But whenever I export to FBX and import to Unity, all the objects that was detached from the model and make child of (the hat for example), it stays still in Unity. (perhaps because of the first problem, this is happening)
Hey bro thank you for sharing awesome stuff, would it be possible to make the addon to work with animal rigs like the wolf metarig?
The underscore underscore is referred to as a dunderscore (double underscore)
Regarding noise cancelling, you can do that in Audacity quite easily, just:
1. Record a 5 second "silence" at the start (or end) of your video.
2. Mark the 5 second silence in Audacity
3. Effect / Noise Reduction, click Get Noise Profile
4. Select entire clip
5. Effect / Repeat Noise Reduction
There's a few settings, but I never have to bother with those, feel free to check them out.
If there's still some noise in the clip then select another part of the clip where it's supposed to be silent (shorter time works as well if necessary) and repeat it.
Should some new noise source happen (like neighbour starting to mow the lawn) then pause for a few seconds during the recording and jump cut past that, using that part to remove the new background noise.
3:02 I'm getting a lot of this. So much so that it feels impossible to unwind. Is there a better solution? Or a better case of setting up so it doesn't happen?
For the root motion, instead of using your finger to track the feet, you could use the 3D cursor, and at each step snap the model to keeping the offeset, just make sure that the cursor is at the foot location, and that the feet is the active part
That is a great suggestion - I wish I could pin two tweets! Thank you for suggesting this - much better than my method of fingerprinting the monitor.
@@Imphenzia hearted comments normally appear near the top, so I wouldn't worry about it
what dose ur mean. my english is not good
can u show the way in ur video ?
I‘m currently at 11:42 and have to pause to comment. Damn thanks for the script, it‘s absolutly annoying to do this over and over again and i like to import a charakter sometimes when it‘s not completly done, to see if it fits the scenary. Really will save me a Ton of Time and Stress!
THANKS A BUNCH
I was wondering if there was a way to keep/recreate the 'Blender Look' with your cavity/ridge/valley in Unity
Please continue with low poly racer videos 😀
Actually you can change all of the desired animations to loop and then hit apply for all at once (you will still need to check it one at a time but you don't have to hit apply each time)
Amazing
Thank you. Have never rigged with rigify in blender. I want to rig a cartoon helicopter to just spin the top propellor then import to Unity. Do I rig the character with rigify then use your rigify to unity ?
I feel like I've missed a video before this or something. At 2:50 abouts you say you had an animation before? But that didn't happen in the video. So now I don't know if I should maybe make a super basic rig first and animate it first or something.
14.07 you can use blender annotate tools for that. that might help you
Would you use Generic for characters with Facial animations?
install the plugin, but can't found the Prepare rig for unity button, not in you describe postion, all 2.82 and 2.83 can't found.
красавааа продолжай делать то что у тебя получается ты наверное не поймешь но спасибо ты открыл мне глаза
What steps do one perform if one had already applied the meshes to the rig + weightpainted? (I.e. I don't want to redo the weight painting)
:( did you find a solution
Can I know how r u doing that shade texture for all ur models