Character falls thru to his waist

Ahoy, Mark! Not sure if you're still having this problem, but I think I can be of some assistance!

You may notice at run-time that you get a yellow error in the log regarding the particular animation file you're trying to play. It mentions that you have a generic animation, but you're trying to apply it to a humanoid rig, so it discards it. (It seems to stick the character in the muscle test pose when it has nothing else to go on, which is what you're seeing in screenshot numero dos)

To Fix this:

1.Select your animation FBX files, and click on the rig tab in the inspector.

2.Change "Animation Type" to "Humanoid".

3.Change "Avatar Definition" to "Copy from Other Avatar".

4.Now in the "Source" field, choose the Avatar file linked to your In-world character.

5.Press apply!

I hope that does the trick for you, I know I had to spend some time digging around to figure it out when it first happened to me. Let me know if you're problem is resolved, it'd be nice to be able to contribute to a solution once, I spend most of my time asking questions :P

John S, Tech Animator

This is a super old thread, but I want to mention what the actual cause is... The Avatar your animations are referencing is not the same avatar as currently being used. They were set up with a different rig at some point and thus cannot place the pivot of the model in the appropriate place.

TL;DR make sure you are using the exact rig with the animations.

Hey John!

Thanks so much for your suggestion, Ill check when I Get to work. In definately missing something when it comes to mechanim. I can see its use as a cool way to blend. But dont understand how its a replacement for animation generally. On this point, Do you know if its possible to use LOOSE anim clips, as In ones that Are NOT embedded In a FBX? I have a good collection of motions for My character In the legacy system, but they are not attatched to meshes.

As a non coder, I am struggling too with the Control script, only having the BotControl script from the original tutorial for mechanim. Im hoping to rebuild this In PlayMaker soon, so I can implement MY needs. as that tutorial has picked a very strange method.

cheers for your help

Mark

Hi Mark, I've a similar problem. I've a charater animated by mecanim that should fall using ragdoll (so I've to deactivate mecanim during the fall). When the character impacts with ground, it works fine, but when animator is disabled completely, the character falls in the ground till his weist, like in your pics.

I was facing the same issue, hope this helps:

http://aarcoraci.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/unity-4-x-mecanim-working-on-your-own-projects/