Animation import distorted

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abizrihays

First off, I am using this model/rig from Blendswap:

It has a dozen animations. When I export to Godot (using the Blender to Godot *.escn), the only animation that actually exports is horse.rigAction (which is horse.walk). But it works (almost) perfectly and looks amazing.

But when I change the animation (such as to horse.trot) and export it, the legs distort and it runs like a drunk. And I get a fantastic list of errors.

I have tried exporting as other formats (gltb, ftx, dae, etc.), all with varying degrees of eldritch deformation. This makes me think that it might be a Blender issue not a Godot issue necessarily, but I want to see if there is anything I can do because this is exactly what I need and I will never be this good at animation.

Tomcat

abizrihays And I get a fantastic list of errors.

Errors in Blender, Godot has nothing to do with it.

The model is made for Blender 2.9x and you open it in 3.4 is a potential problem.

abizrihays I am using this model/rig from Blendswap:

You must be logged in to download.

If you upload the downloaded files somewhere I can take a look at them and try to come up with a solution.

abizrihays

@"Tomcat" #p102357

Errors in Blender, Godot has nothing to do with it.
The model is made for Blender 2.9x and you open it in 3.4 is a potential problem.

I wondered, but it never hurts to ask.

@"Tomcat" #p102357

If you upload the downloaded files somewhere I can take a look at them and try to come up with a solution.

I can't get it to upload, it's too big (almost 600mb). Even trying to put it in a project file of its own and zip it is too big.

I think I found a workaround. Maybe, possibly. The gltf will (apparently) export the animations. The model is still unusable, but I can save them as *.tres files. But for some reason I can't get them to attach to the skeleton on my good model. Even working backwards and taking the good model and slipping it over to the good animation, it won't attach. I have it set to the skeleton rig in the inspector, but in the timeline, it only shows a generic node with horserig/Skeleton.

I feel like I might just have to download 2.9 and export from there grumble grumble

Edit: Downloaded 2.9, and it won't even export. I get even more errors.

Edit 2: Finally got it to export, still more eldritch horrors. But that's a Blender issue, not a Godot thing, so I guess this issue is closed in this forum.

Tomcat

abizrihays The gltf will (apparently) export the animations.

glTF is the most reliable format at the moment. You could try importing into Godot 4 — it works better with animations.

This shows how to add animations.

abizrihays

Tomcat
I have too many essential plugins that aren't ready for G4 yet, which is kind of a bummer.

abizrihays

Apologies for the double post, but I believe I fixed my problem. That is, I discovered something that is probably pretty obvious to Godot animation veterans.

That is that the nodepath prefix should not be a manual path per se (in this case, horserig/skeleton)

It should be just a little "." because it is set directly in the skeleton node

So that solves the attaching it to the proper skeleton. Now I need to go through and make sure this imported horse isn't a drunk eldritch horror like the rest of them.

Tomcat

abizrihays probably pretty obvious

It's not quite obvious (though I can't speak for veterans). Thanks for the valuable information! 👍️

Megalomaniak

abizrihays Don't forget to press that 'select best answer' button on the reply.

abizrihays

It still exports/imports as a horrifying eldritch creature, but that's on Blender, not Godot, so I'm considering this topic closed.