07. Adding Poses

This assumes you've set up a .blend file.

Posing effectively involves creating 1-frame animations in Blender.

Setting up the pose

• Select the rig

• Near the top-left, add a Workspace->Animation

• Near the bottom-left, change the Dope Sheet to Action Editor

• Select the _zEmpty action

• Click the New Action button

• Give it an appropriate name. I've named mine Pose-Star

• Click the shield icon to ensure it saves

Posing

Animation is a whole thing in Blender with tons of hotkeys. If you're unfamiliar with it, you may want to go watch some videos on setting up keyframes.

Some random things I personally find myself using when posing:

• Use CTRL+TAB to enter pose mode
• Right Click to select bones
• G to drag
• R to rotate
• Alt-G and Alt-R can be used to reset things
• Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-V can be used to paste to the other side
• Some bones are hidden by default, but can be enabled under the Data panel
  • This is useful for more complex finger orientations, for example

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When you have everything properly placed, select everything with A (x2) and press K-> Location+Rotation (Make sure you're on the first Frame, though)

Now, just export it.

Configuring in Unity

• Select your fbx in Unity
• By default, you should see your clip, as well as two base ones, under the Animation tab
  • If you don't, press the + symbol to re-add the one you care about

• Feel free to remove the two base ones with the - symbol, they'll just get in the way

• Set the frame End to 1

• Check the Loop Time option

• Finally, hit Apply

The clip should now appear among your other assets:

Configuring a PoseId

So far we've been dealing exclusively with CharacterToggleIds. Now, we're going to create a PoseId; another Scriptable Object

Just as before, let's copy in one that's close to what we want.

I'll grab the ScriptableObjects\CharacterCompositor\PoseId\Powerful\Energized one, since I like the group it's in.

1. Give it a name (the asset name will be used by default)

2. Set the Order->Index
3. Change the Clip to the one under our fbx

Aaaand... that's it!