FlexMotion

An easy-to-use play-on-demand animator for Unity.

When I was working on a game prototype featuring different types of ranged and melee weapons, I grew tired of fighting with an ever-growing and overly complex animator controller. While Mecanim is great for the use-cases it was designed for, I needed to be able to easily transition from one animation set to another through scripting.

Thus I started to develop my own animation system using Unity's Playables. After many months of using and polishing it, I decided to release FlexMotion as my first commercial tool.

Take back control over your animations with FlexMotion!

Official website:

https://flexmotion.moartis.dev

WebGL showcase: 

https://flexmotion.moartis.dev/showcase

Compatibility:

• Unity 2020.3 and upward.
• Targeted to work on every platform.
• Fully tested on desktop, mobile and WebGL.
• Compatible with AnimationRigging via one component.
• Can be used alongside Mecanim.

Key Features:

• Animate with C#: Play animation clips or dedicated assets directly from your C# scripts with ease.
• Method chaining: Control how your animations are played using expressive method chaining.

• Easing-based transitions: Create smooth transitions between motion layers by setting a time and applying an easing function. Change or interrupt transitions at will.
• 1D/2D Motion blending: Blend multiple animations effortlessly using convenient weight computation methods or by manually setting weight values.

• Avatar mask layers: Animate different parts of your characters separately by leveraging Unity's avatar mask feature.
• Pose: Set fixed poses on your characters. Transition smoothly from one pose to another pose or an animation.

• Controllable update rate: Adjust the update rate of your animations to achieve stylistic effects or optimize performance.
• Animation rigging: FlexMotion is fully compatible with the Animation Rigging package through one simple component.
• Mecanim features: Mecanim features like FootIK, OnAnimatorIK, Events and root motion work out of the box. With some additional features for some of them.
• Runtime layer mirroring: Motion layers can be mirrored individually at runtime on any character using a humanoid rig.

• Time callbacks: React to reaching a specific time or the end of an animation using convenient callbacks.
• Mecanim Blending: Blend in and out of a running Mecanim animator controller using a single property.