Please Note: I’m having hassle putting footage right here, however I’ve a thread on the Unity Forums of this difficulty with photos and extra video. Please refer: https://discussion board.unity.com/threads/models-suddenly-stuck-in-poses-in-editor-and-animations-messed-up-across-project.1334213/

This has been torturing my staff for the previous month and a half and we’re all very misplaced.

My staff and I are utilizing Unity 2020.3.27f1 LTS. We had setup many characters throughout the sport. Of course, after we designed them and place them on this planet within the Unity Editor, they’re of their default T-Pose and animating as soon as the sport performs. This has been how the venture’s been for the previous 12 months.

Then a few month and a half in the past I did a bunch of edits associated to character animation and performances in a scene and pushed it. From there, all characters throughout the venture broke not directly. I don’t know why as I solely edited just a few animations for choose characters and their triggers. I did not contact any code.

When I say all of them broke, it is in varied methods. Some characters stopped working solely or partially; an instance being a personality with a protracted coat however now the coat itself not animated in any respect with the remainder of the physique. Some had components of their rig that began to bend, distort, and transfer oddly in methods they by no means did earlier than on animation, most prominently their arms normally. Some contorted into random positions for no purpose…

However, the most important drawback is that nearly each character mannequin now holds a pose within the Unity editor. We don’t know why. It’s like Unity saved their final posed place and has made it their default pose endlessly. They maintain that pose it doesn’t matter what. You can take away all their animation parts and it’ll nonetheless maintain that pose as a substitute of a T-Pose. It could possibly be a sitting place. It could possibly be an idle pose. Sometimes it is in a cringing place that fashions go into when their rigs are damaged… But virtually all of them will animate correctly on Play Mode… With some animation errors as talked about above. And that is on EVERY character. You can see some examples within the photos beneath.

We’ve been scrambling to determine why such an issue has occurred and it has been an enormous setback. There’s no logical purpose why such a project-wide drawback simply abruptly occurred. I went again into the commit historical past to seek out the place it began and it started with my commit… But I did nothing that ought to have triggered one thing like this. I used to be tweaking animation performances in a single scene which does not even characteristic many of the characters or something associated to them. Now it abruptly damns the entire venture and each character has been affected even when I hadn’t touched them in a very long time.

The bizarre factor is that the animation errors a minimum of have an odd repair largely. For some, however not all the characters, if I delete their rig within the prefab after which put a rig again within the prefab recent from the venture recordsdata, their animation points are largely solved… But there’s nothing truly completely different concerning the rig in any respect. It makes zero sense. This doesn’t repair the posing difficulty although.

So far, I’ve no clue what is occurring or why. Even placing within the recent rig doesn’t save the character from turning into affected by the posing difficulty finally. The solely clue I’ve been capable of finding is that in Prefab Mode, it T-Poses because it ought to, but when I click on the Show Overrides checkbox it goes again into that pose. This leads me to consider that there’s an Override difficulty, however I could not have triggered something like that project-wide, I by no means even knew Overrides like this had been a factor till I regarded into this clue.

This leads me to consider that is an editor drawback as a result of nothing me or any of my staff may have finished ought to have triggered all this mess to occur. Now we now have to redo weeks of labor to attempt to repair a few of these points and we nonetheless do not know tips on how to absolutely cease these drawback or why it is taking place. At least one in all these characters are nonetheless much more distorted than the photographs beneath on animation and we do not know why. It has pressured a crash after I was trying extra deeply into the animations at one level. The venture/unity appears rather more unstable since this started. One of my teammates despatched a model to Unity through the Report a Bug operate, however every time I attempted doing so myself as effectively, it by no means labored. We have but to listen to something.

Anyone have any concept what’s going on?