I'm looking forward to the premiere!

These videos are always so interesting, love the depth you explore on each topic.

Damn, thank you very much for sharing and even explaining in detail your experiences and theoretical background on the IK topic! Since I didn't want to create animation for a past project I dived into that topic a liiittle bit as well ... and got pretty much overwhelmed by the complexity of creating IK movement for a character's feet (so I ended up skipping the lower body for that project and using IK 'just' for movement of arms and hands, lol). Also, you are a hero for sharing your work as Open Source on GitHub as well. \ :> /

I literally just recently subscribed and started watching a playlist about this character, and here is a new video :D

Another good video that first covers the basic concepts required to then explain the core topic, all in one convenient, informative and entertaining package. Also in the video: Big bunny bonus, so keep watching. :D

NICK IS BACK HELL YEAH

awesome tutorial!

I hear you say several times in here that you are not an animator, however animation is relatively easy. if you have access to blender and know how to use it, all you need is the mixamo addon which has a tool that configures a rig controller, its an ik rig thats fully configured, I have created a few animations already, including weapon animations such as sword swings, just beginning to learn how to manage animation clip lengths based on degree of motion within a clip, longer clips for bigger motions, trying to create a fighting game with nice smooth animations. came here to figure out an ik solution to sort out an animation error. in my setup I use a child of modifer on the characters hands and linked them to a bone representing a sword. got it working on the import rig, and even on the same character model but without the sword bone, but retargeting had the bone position be off your ik solution saved my project.

Cool video, thanks! Could you also explain, how did you create animator controller for this character without using transitions? I know about Animator.CrossFade, but using fixed blend time for each transition doesn't work very well for me. Do you just store all transitions in some custom script/SO or don't bother and use some fixed time?

It looks very natural! Only thing that stood out to me as a little unnatural was the jumping where she leaps off like a frog with her legs fully outstretched. I think applying a slight downward force first so that the character springs up out of a crouch instead would look a bit more realistic.

Nice 👍

Great video! Can you share how you created that Editorscript for automating the process of creating the curves for the animation. It would help me a lot😃 Edit: Nvm. I found it in your NPM Package thank you and keep up the great work!

Thanks for the video. Is this only for humanoid? What about creatures who use generic avatars?

Could you add events to your animation at places where it steps on the ground during a walk and then do/call the ik raycasts only on those events that would make it work!?

I don't use ik for my game but I don't have the weapon hold animation isuouse that you mentioned 😅 Because in my character that hand animation and the leg animation it's different object taknly. My character it's robot so it makes sense that the hands it's indepeding and have 0 effect for the leges technically my player have wheel not leg's but important part that the hands are different entaty and have 0 effect for the walking animation. That is perfect for my fps game.

I wish you showed how to do all of this.

Hello, I am using your controller library, and I wanted to ask something, and point something out. This is a bit unrelated to the lib, but if I want to modify the animations packed with it, that are contained in an fbx, with no model, just the animation, how can I do it? I tried importing into blender, but then I couldn't export them again Also, the IK controller, doesn't account for the hip rotation when the controller starts, so if the character is rotated, because of a coordinate system change (like blender unity) or for some other reason, the feet point to the side. I fixed this, but it's a bit botchy, I may make a merge request if I manage to find a non botchy way to fix it. Another thing I want to point out is, the jump animation looks weird on landing, because the capsule collider hits the ground before the animation bones do. To correct this, either the collider size needs to change to be animated, or the animation needs to be modified so that the feet are always on the lowest part of the collider. However option 1 can cause some jank with being able to fit into places where the full collider doesn't fit. Finally I wanted to say, thanks for this project, making a good 3d character controller is a lot of work, I never managed mine to feel fully right, but this one feels pretty good.

would have no Ik be the issue with my feet not staying in place on the ground in unity? even tho in the animation preveiw the feet stay on the ground and dont bob up and down during the animation?

Not to diminish an educational/explorational part of the video, personally I think the achieved result doesn't look any good, it has a lot of Uncanny valley vibe. It explains why there are no 3d person platformer games with a realistic rigs. And why everyone who uses procedural animation are doing it for some silly cartoony games. And why most of the parkour games are 1st person. But the way, the problem with moving platform is usually resolved with setting a transform of the platform as a parent for the character, when he steps on it. It resolves some of the other problems with moving platforms, like boosting player up if he jumps off it. You can see that problem in Half-life 1, jumping in a elevator results in a shorter/longer jump depending on the direction in which the elevator is moving.

I don't understand I've download the project from Git and it has nothing to do with anything covered in this video. I'm confused.

The mole video never came out

u didn't talk about performance 🤔 I stopped using them because of that even solutions on the asset store kinda lie about it. it's hell but a true god-send that doesn't use dots should come in the form of a determined baked library ... rather than a simulated runtime calculation for each character. It's truly awful tho, both to write AND THEN to populate with all kinds of animations.

As interesting as this is, for my games I'd rather just animate stairs/jumping/turning/etc since I'm an animator more than a technical developer.

Is it just me or does this guy sound a lot like Garbaj?