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Imported animations doesn't work on skeletal mesh they were created with
Hi everyone, i'm new to Unity and i'm trying to wrap my head around importing skeletal mesh and animations for it separately. Mesh and anims are done in Blender and exported to FBX.
From what i've thought and read - following workflow was in my mind.
1) Import skeletal mesh without animations
2) Import animations for the same skeleton
3) Since skeleton is the same - animations just work in Unity
As you may have guessed, 3 is where i'm stuck.
After importing both - i'm dragging mesh on to animation preview, but mesh just lies flat in rest pose and animations aren't affecting it.
On the Rig tab of imported animation Avatar Definition is set to Copy From Other Avatar, and previously mesh's imported avatar is selected.
Note: despite character being humanoid - i'm trying to use Generic rig for the sake of learning and being able to import any type of rig.
Mesh and animations that i'm exporting from blender are literally from the same file, I just uncheck mesh and check "baked animations" for the latter.
While exported together with mesh - animation do work, but doing that doesn't look like a correct workflow and still will not solve an issue of adding new animations to already imported characters.
Hoping for advise, thanks!
Hey I'm new to this stuff as well and I'm trying to do something similar as well. In Unreal engine you can chose to only import animation clips and apply them to your skeleton or animator, but in unity it seems like you need to import a whole fbx whenever you have a new animation clip you want to apply to it...
Have you made any progress on a solution in the last year lol?
Hey there! I've asked that question and got some answer on the forums here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/no-luck-importing-animations-separately-from-mesh.518472/#post-3400552 Forums seems to be much more active, or at least they were. TL;DR you just can't import anims only and need to import at least some dummy mesh together with them, this may have been fixed lately, haven't poked unity in a while.
