Problems with imported Mixamo anims in Unity 4.6

Mattaverse

We have a character with a custom rig (jaw, eyeballs, eyelids, eyebrows) on top of a standard Mixamo rig.

Two problems:

1. When playing a stock Mixamo anim, the character's jaw now falls slack.

2. Eyebrows and eyelids can be animated in Maya but the animations doesn't come through to Unity.

We use Maya 2012 and Unity 4.6.1f1. We can't upgrade either.

Any help in sorting this out would be much appreciated.

Eric Chadwick

Are you exporting to FBX format? 

Might help to make a control rig, a simple fk rig that's driven by the Mixamo and custom rig, which the mesh is then bound to. This way the exporter only sees the simple rig.

minev

Are you exporting to FBX or dropping Maya files into Unity?

Install free 'FBX Review' program. It will enable you to play animation and check whether your animation got written into the FBX file at start (Unity does it internally with Maya files anyway)... as a different sanity check, export and import an FBX file with animation to Maya, is the animation there after import? 

Have you set correct import settings of the file in Unity? Bone based animation usually need correct set up of Root bone in Unity file import settings.