Retargeted animations look weird

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Godot Version

4.4

Question

Hello!

I’ve been trying to use a motion pack for my character movement animations but have hit a wall with retargeting the animations to my character which is rigged with Mixamo.

I have tried following a few YouTube tutorials as well as a “Animation Retargeting in Godot 4.0” article but to no “full” success.

I can get the character to do some of the animation, but it’s not doing it right. I feel like some parts of the animation are ignored even though I try retargeting the model and the animation to a BoneMap (SkeletonProfileHumanoid). This results in some goofy results with the character trying to stay in a T-Pose while also doing the animation.

I feel like it’s something I’ve missed but I’ve tried messing with the retargeting settings.
I’ve tried: Removing unmapped bones, Toggling “Except Bone Transform” and “Unimportant Positions” from “Remove Tracks”. Using all available “Retargeting methods” on “Rest fixer”. For these I have tried changing the settings in just the animation, just the model and with both but nothing seems to work.

Here’s a video of me recreating the problem in a new project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTprDI0kVQY

Big thanks for any help!

[jesusemora]

yeah, this is a very common mistake and it’s like the fifth post with the same problem in the last week.

all I will say is DO NOT save animations from AnimationPlayer, I don’t know why people keep doing that.
you need to export your animations from blender into a one glb file containing a bunch of them, then set it to AnimationLibrary, and then import it in the AnimationPlayer.

also, your character is in T-POSE, but the animation is NOT in t-pose, as it is not from mixamo but probably from sketchfab or some other site.
do not use something like that which is a single animation mixing all into one, it won’t work in godot. you need to open the file in blender and break them into different actions.
also it doesn’t have a root bone, which is essential to make the character move correctly with mixamo or other motion capture animations.

take a look at this post:

My animations work great on my inital model but transfering it to my other model (same model) breaks it

there is no reason to save the animations as resources. maybe to add custom keys, but that is a lot of work so should only be done when it’s needed. In my case I run a script on the AnimationTree playback to check the name of the current animation and the time and execute code between a two times that match the animation. for example, when the attack animation connects, I go out of the attack animation, or deal damage, or play a sound. that way I don’t have to save and edit an animation. @o…

which has the exact same problem and a solution.
it also references another post which is the workflow I use for retargeting animations in godot, and from mixamo:

3D Character Animation Workflow

mixamo has problems with custom skeletons. try renaming all the bones to the ones used by mixamo, and make sure to add mixamorig:. so for example, the head would be something like mixamorig:Head. and make sure there is no Root bone, only Hips, it exports bad into fbx. nononono. 1 - all you need is your character in T-POSE. the rest doesn’t matter. use a mixamo model in mixamo and download all the animations one by one into folders. use fbx binary and only animations. you can download one f…

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Well we all probably followed some guide that was incorrect or skipped the same steps as a collective

Anyways, ty