Model bones will not animate in engine

[tompkins]

Godot Version

4.6.stable

Question

Hello, I was hoping someone could help me figure out what is going on with my model. He's all modeled and rigged, I applied all of the transformations and the rest poses, but when I tried to simply animate his mouth opening, it rotates to 0.0 after I scrub on the timeline and the keys do nothing. I tried reimporting the file different ways, I opened as an inherited and a non-inherited scene, but nothing seems to change (Also the bone I'm moving is invisible for some reason). Any ideas?

[gertkeno]

Typically you would make the animations in your 3D modeling software, not Godot. Godot can produce simple animations but creating 3D bone animations are best left to specialized software.

[tomcat]

@tompkins

Also the bone I’m moving is invisible for some reason

Enable “leaf bones” when exporting in Blender.

@gertkeno

Godot can produce simple animations but creating 3D bone animations are best left to specialized software.

Well, it’s a pretty simple animation.

[tompkins]

It is, but I’m now thinking it might be easier to just move it in code since the mouth is meant to open with an input anyway