How can I disable root motion during animation play?

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Hello! I've imported an animated dragon from an Asset Store. It has a "Take off" animation. When playing it, the dragon moves up.

How can I stop this vertical movement?

What I've already done:

Disabled "Apply root motion" in the animator
Checked "Bake into pose" for "Root Transform Position (Y)"
"Root motion node" was already set to "None", so I didn't change it

But it still moves up both in the animation preview window and in runtime on the scene.

I also tried checking "Loop time" and "Loop pose" boxes. It changed the behaviour: dragon started to lower each time after moving up. But he still moved up during Take-off animation, so I reverted the "Loop time" and "Loop pose" changes.

What I am doing wrong, how to stop it from moving up?

Here's a screenshot of current animation settings:

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Answer by MickyX · May 03 at 04:10 PM

Is it actually root motion or is the vertical movement part of the animation? In which case you need to edit the animation and remove the (assuming Z) axis movement.

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Vlad_Sharpov · May 05 at 05:11 PM 0

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@MickyX yeah, I had a same thought. But the Animation tab is huge for this one.

Can you please give me a tip on how to find the part, that is responsible for vertical movement?

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MickyX Vlad_Sharpov · May 05 at 07:07 PM 0

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Wow okay, that's a tough one.

My advice is just based of logic, I'm not massively skilled with animation.

I think if its moving the whole dragon its likely to be on either the root bone or pelvis. I would also suggest it will be one that says Position.

If you can edit look for Y axis changes on one of those bones and try adjusting it to see the outcome

Sorry I can't be of much more help than that.

How can I disable root motion during animation play?

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