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Question by sekse · Nov 07, 2013 at 08:34 PM · bugtail

Imported model works fine until I reboot Unity

Ok, so I am working on a game in which a character has a long tail like a snake. I realized I can't animate the tail with an animation because it would swing when the character turns, so I wrote a script for the tail bones that makes each tail bone use the parent bone's rotation 5 frames back.

So I imported the model in FBX format, added the script to each tail bone, and it worked perfectly. The problem, though, is when I closed Unity and opened it again later, the tail was badly distorted as if the bones' pivots have rotated or they are inheriting crazy rotation data. After a full day of debugging with no luck, I realized that if I repeat the process and import the model from scratch again, the script works great again. But again, if I close Unity, or perform a build, the tail is once again distorted.

Because of this I feel safe saying the script is not the problem, otherwise it wouldn't work with a newly imported model. The model also should be fine or it wouldn't work when freshly imported. I think the problem lies in Unity saving and loading the model. I did try to compensate with the script by adding a mathf.lerpangle to the rotation, and after some adjustment of the time setting it reduced the distortion, but the damping also kills the fluid snake-like movement which defeats the point of the script.

So my question is has anybody seen this problem and if so what do I have to do to fix it?

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Answer by sekse · Nov 08, 2013 at 12:37 AM

Ok, I finally figured out a way to work around it by setting the first link in the tail to inherit the parent transform in world space, then the rest of the links to inherit the transform in local space.

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