Specifically, it uses the GLTFExporter example from the ThreeJS repo and generates a blob URL: github.com/nilooy/mixamo-animation-combiner/blob/c12be6ce62b7ca555b59e101f8315c59dff5bc66/src/components/Export.js#L47-L57
I've been thinking about Mixamo and someone should go and rip the Auto-rigger algorithm and the animations and characters of that website, because one of these days Adobe is going to take it down. Like just take them and make them into a standalone program.
Pretty sure that would take some serious hacking skills since it's all on the backend - and you'd get sued into another dimension for trying to do that - but there are similar alternatives - this one for example is often compared to mixamo's autorigger. It would be really cool if there was an open-source solution but let's face it - character rigging is a skill and it holds a lot of value. blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro
I think iClone has something similar to this, but until I get my beefier real-time rendering PC fixed, I can’t possibly download it for myself and say for sure. I enjoy modeling, texturing, and lighting way more than rigging and animation, so I too would like Mixamo to have some healthy corporate competition in case Adobe decides to deliberately piss us all off again. One decent alternative I’ve found is to model base meshes in a free program called Dust3D, which has the option to automatically skin your mesh, and then you can bring it into Blender to create a library of animations and more complex character sculpts. It’s A LOT more setup than what was shown here, but once you build a big enough library of animations, it eventually becomes easy. More importantly, Mixamo only works with biped characters with exactly two arms and two legs, whereas Dust3D lets you create and rig any base mesh for a creature, regardless whether they’re bipedal or a quadruped, or if they have four legs or eight.
@@JeffreyThrash crikey....what a find that dust3d is.... clara.io is good for this stuff but oh boy, dust 3d has some speed on the rigging part and modelling enough for me to check it out. Thanks for the nod.
This is lovely. For some days now, I have been looking for a detailed tutorial on how to combine multiple animations in blender for export to Godot and now this comes along. Thanks Mike for showing this to us... You just made my work a whole lot easier.
@@izeckx i dont dislike it but there was a few neat features. there was the ability to save ur characters and stuff on the site, using the animation packs was MUCH easier and had more options and customization, just some things adobe cut down when they purchased. doesn't make the site bad, just not as good
I mean, Adobe already "ruined" Mixamo ages ago when they bought it. I remember it had more features, but they cut them down. For example, iirc Mixamo used to combine animations, or maybe it was just that you could download them in bulk and do other stuff. Can't remember. Still, an awesome tool.
@0:29 -- Correction: "Adobe hasn't *completely* ruined Mixamo". They have definitely removed features though (even in the last year), and they have definitely not fixed any bugs, or done any further development with it.
I was hoping when you said 'combine' you meant that you could daisy-chain moves into one single move - like you used to be able to do in Mixamo before Adobe destroyed it.
I think you were just lucky with your model selection. I tried 5 or 6 other models from Mixamo, T pose, and none of the textures were imported properly.
Neat tool but I'd rather use "Godot Game Tools" for blender, you can download packs of animations from Mixamo import them with GGT and remove the root motion from the hip bone then export as gtlf/glb and you have a blend file for further edits, for those not comfortable using blender though this tool is probably the best alternative, only restriction is the "In Place" setting is not exposed for all animations and you have to download them one at a time, using a pack I can rig, animate and export a soldier type character with 49+ animations into Godot in less than 10 mins.
Hiya, when I import my downloaded character into the combiner it comes in without textures unlike yours does this matter? Thanks. Edit(this might be coz different version)
when when after I export it, the character disappears and the animation shown is like some paper looking pieces moving but the character is not actually there? can you please reply i need this for my project due this week!
Not working for me the CBC file has all meshes enabled so I was able to upload it to Mixamo but when trying to export the animations with this tool it says “cannot read property width of undefined”
Superb. Something I was thinking about a couple of days ago, so that I can try to make my first blender clip. I believe same process may be applied to use it in blender. Have you made a tutorial, how to manipulate the character from mixamo? Like, if we download a walk cycle, which is 2 steps only and make it 20 steps and make the character turn left or right by using bazzier curve etc?
The time I could have saved a few weeks ago with a tool like this... Merging all the manually animations in Blender is not the most fun experience I had
@@wesselgeldenhuys6103 you basically have to import the character and all its animations individually in the same scene and then add the animations to the character and remove their skeleton from the scene. This plus a few steps to scale everything correctly (mixamo animations are 100x bigger than they should be)
I'm not sure if I understood the point for this tool, If I download a bunch of animations from mixamo and then I import them to Unreal for example, what is the difference between doing that and passing through this tool? Can someone explain it to me? Thanks!
@@gamefromscratch i think i have a totally different workflow, or just too noobish to understand. I pick the animations i want from mixamo and down/load them into my project/animator(unity). This seems like just an extra step (because i have to have the animations on my pc anyway) to generate a single gltf file. I can delete and add animations how i want without the combiner. With gltf it seems i need to generate a new one every time. Also reading the title i thought it was about combining different limb animations. For example arms from animation X with legs from animation Y.
@@p.k.4927 Yeah, I agree. this whole process is completely unnecessary in Unity since you can just put whatever animations you want in your animator controller. Unity will automatically re-target animations from any "humanoid" file to any other. I've never used Godot, though, so maybe it's useful there.
This one is mostly to be used with "non-auto" engines. Unity or Unreal will do most of these actions automatically/semi-automatically. Godot, OGRE, etc -- no and that's the situation where these tools shines/helps.
@@krukhlis I appreciate the answers, this is probably what i needed to know, i didn't see difference in the video of what i'm doing normally with unreal, thank you guys!
"... amazingly they haven't ruined it." LOL! They sure didn't improve it. They set it, then forget it. They haven't updated or added to the library in YEARS. Not to mention they took away quite a bit of features.
Mixamo has been around for years, and this tool is absolutely pointless if you ask me. Your animations should be tied to a skeleton not a specific character, so that you can re-use it for other characters. That's why you have the "download without skin" option (or something like that) in mixamo.
Hello! I have a question, when downloading animations from Mixamo, the animation file will only work with the character that I used in the preview? Or can I use the downloaded animation on other downloaded characters?
Hi! Did you know you can get rid of godot's blue scene tint by just changing the default sky colors? Just double clik default_env.tres in the filesystem dock, then in the inspector go to background > sky, click on proceduralsky to expand it, then click on sky and set top color and horizon color to full white, then save by clicking in the floppy icon. This is the quickest way of getting rid of the blue tint without messing with lighting.
I'm looking for an animation combiner that mixes two animations. That is, if you have a normal walk animation and another animation where the character is stationary and has his guard up (i.e. arms raised), I want a final animation where the character walks with his guard up. Is this possible? (Obviously the two skeleton are identical).
I just have one question that is supposed to be kind of funny because I know this is a thing in games. But why would a sword-welding female character battle in armor that is cut like that? It is very unhelpful to her internal organs being protected. 😂
Adobe absolutely ruined Mixamo. They removed all the best features and just gave us the basics. From what I can see from your video this program doesn't seem to blend the animations, just combines them into one file . Regardless, it is not accepting any of my animations downloaded from Mixamo.
I'm still not too sure about gltf. I frequently want to use animations and textures across multiple characters and that doesn't make much sense in gltf from what I have seen
mixamo is pretty interesting but there's way too much mysterious stuff happening behind the scenes for it to be part of a real development workflow. I'd much rather have lower quality animations created using a tool that I have full control over than depend on all the automagical stuff mixamo does to the models. Also there's the adobe thing which I want no part of.
Well, you could already just download multiple animations in one fbx with Mixamo before. But I guess this helps you with animations that you already had separately. In theory combining animations on the same skeleton isn't even that hard, not trying to talk this down, just interesting to think about market potential.
Oh?! Adobe didn't ruin Mixamo? That's a very strange thing to say. It's very doubtful that you knew Mixamo and it's community before Adobe snuffed it out.
Wow, this was completely messed up for me. The texture was all messed up and the animations had to be for the specific character, you couldn't export one animation and place it on a number of different characters.
@@rous3369 The project didn't keep going, Mixamo was working on Fuse and after Adobe bought them they stopped working on it almost imminently. The fact that their website kept going is a miracle. They will eventually take it down, so someone should go and back it up or something because their Autorigger is amazing.
@@digitaltrash because this tools exports in GLTF or GLB formats only. Which is stupid, because these formats are last mile( presentation/end-user content delivery usually for whole scene) formats and are not meant to be used for authoring and sequential edits of specific characters or models. But yes, since 4.19 Unreal has fully functional official glTF importer plugin. Don't forget to recalculate shadows after import if you are using such mode.
@@ColindeSilva Try this. I have tested it a months ago and glft exported character was imported with multiple animations in Godot: github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Blender-Exporter/pull/166
You dont need gltf i just download the fbx files from mixamo , import it and then set it up in animation manager. Make sure to download in place,and no skin. You only need 1 fbx with the rig.
This tool is absolutely pointless if you ask me. Your animations should be tied to a skeleton not a specific character, so that you can re-use it for other characters. That's why you have the "download without skin" option (or something like that) in mixamo.
Link:
gamefromscratch.com/mixamo-character-animation-combiner/
AND you can use github.com/Siccity/GLTFUtility in order to use them in Unity.
The link for the tool doesn't work anymore. What happened and where can we find it then?
@@melvin3509 agreed it's gone....
UPDATED URL:
REPO: github.com/nilooy/character-animation-combiner
LIVE: nilooy.github.io/character-animation-combiner/
4:16 FYI, it does not download your combined model from a server. All of this runs within your browser. There is no real upload/download going on.
Ah, yes, that would explain the speed.
Specifically, it uses the GLTFExporter example from the ThreeJS repo and generates a blob URL: github.com/nilooy/mixamo-animation-combiner/blob/c12be6ce62b7ca555b59e101f8315c59dff5bc66/src/components/Export.js#L47-L57
1:47, let's be honest, we all loving seeing folders named dipsh*t...
I've been thinking about Mixamo and someone should go and rip the Auto-rigger algorithm and the animations and characters of that website, because one of these days Adobe is going to take it down.
Like just take them and make them into a standalone program.
Pretty sure that would take some serious hacking skills since it's all on the backend - and you'd get sued into another dimension for trying to do that - but there are similar alternatives - this one for example is often compared to mixamo's autorigger. It would be really cool if there was an open-source solution but let's face it - character rigging is a skill and it holds a lot of value.
blendermarket.com/products/auto-rig-pro
I believe the Auto-rigger algorithm happens server side.
I think iClone has something similar to this, but until I get my beefier real-time rendering PC fixed, I can’t possibly download it for myself and say for sure. I enjoy modeling, texturing, and lighting way more than rigging and animation, so I too would like Mixamo to have some healthy corporate competition in case Adobe decides to deliberately piss us all off again.
One decent alternative I’ve found is to model base meshes in a free program called Dust3D, which has the option to automatically skin your mesh, and then you can bring it into Blender to create a library of animations and more complex character sculpts. It’s A LOT more setup than what was shown here, but once you build a big enough library of animations, it eventually becomes easy. More importantly, Mixamo only works with biped characters with exactly two arms and two legs, whereas Dust3D lets you create and rig any base mesh for a creature, regardless whether they’re bipedal or a quadruped, or if they have four legs or eight.
@@JeffreyThrash crikey....what a find that dust3d is.... clara.io is good for this stuff but oh boy, dust 3d has some speed on the rigging part and modelling enough for me to check it out. Thanks for the nod.
this may be good ua-cam.com/video/J90VETgWIDg/v-deo.html
This is lovely. For some days now, I have been looking for a detailed tutorial on how to combine multiple animations in blender for export to Godot and now this comes along. Thanks Mike for showing this to us... You just made my work a whole lot easier.
How is this working for you in blender? I only see the first animation
That's excellent! This takes off some of the workload when fixing 3D animations so that they'd work in Godot
"amazingly they havent ruined it" are we forgettring about the multiple features of the site that are no longer there?
Please elaborate. I was about to ask why so many people dislike Miixamo, but you seem to know the answer.
@@izeckx i dont dislike it but there was a few neat features. there was the ability to save ur characters and stuff on the site, using the animation packs was MUCH easier and had more options and customization, just some things adobe cut down when they purchased. doesn't make the site bad, just not as good
@@drewcification Ah, I see. That's fair.
I do think what he meant was "it's still there."
@David Olivier because it saves adobe money
3yrs later, I need this, and it works like a charm
I mean, Adobe already "ruined" Mixamo ages ago when they bought it. I remember it had more features, but they cut them down.
For example, iirc Mixamo used to combine animations, or maybe it was just that you could download them in bulk and do other stuff. Can't remember.
Still, an awesome tool.
Wow, this is awesome tool. Thank you for exposing it!
Tool does not exist on GITHUB anymore. Where else can one get a copy?
@0:29 -- Correction: "Adobe hasn't *completely* ruined Mixamo".
They have definitely removed features though (even in the last year), and they have definitely not fixed any bugs, or done any further development with it.
I was hoping when you said 'combine' you meant that you could daisy-chain moves into one single move - like you used to be able to do in Mixamo before Adobe destroyed it.
exactly ;(
One year later they stopped supporting it so thankfully it's still available on steam and I was still about to get the blender plugin.
words flow really impressive))) thank you for video and new tool)
Wow my brain exploted, i work in blender before this kind ofcanimation but this is the mind blow!!!!
did u get the combiner working for blender?
i wish i found this vid earlier, thank you so much.
I used mixamo to make a quick little short film of 2 of my models fighting for school and my science teacher loved it
I think you were just lucky with your model selection. I tried 5 or 6 other models from Mixamo, T pose, and none of the textures were imported properly.
Neat tool but I'd rather use "Godot Game Tools" for blender, you can download packs of animations from Mixamo import them with GGT and remove the root motion from the hip bone then export as gtlf/glb and you have a blend file for further edits, for those not comfortable using blender though this tool is probably the best alternative, only restriction is the "In Place" setting is not exposed for all animations and you have to download them one at a time, using a pack I can rig, animate and export a soldier type character with 49+ animations into Godot in less than 10 mins.
You can also upload animation packs in that tool
@@md.rezwanferdous2874 But you still have to deal with the root motion?
@@ptc1997 yeah, that's true. in that case, it's better to use Godot Game Tools
how do u download packs of animations on mixamo?
Loved your video and clear and simple to grasp explanation. Thumbs up!!!
MIKE I FUCKING LOVE YOU! your last few vids have been amazing for my gamedev!
omg i been needing this process, ty man!🥰
Mike: Ooops, that's a very personal shot we've got there.
UA-cam: I have heard enough tell it to the judge, "DE-MO-NE-TI-ZED" in red rubber stamp.
Thank you very much!!! You just saved me a lot of blender stress for this
Or...you could just import all of the animations into blender and put them all on one skeleton then export it.
I can't use the gltf file in blender or spark AR. Doesn't import and crashes the program. Not sure where I could have gone wrong with this tool?
Hiya, when I import my downloaded character into the combiner it comes in without textures unlike yours does this matter? Thanks. Edit(this might be coz different version)
❤️🤯❤️ it's so easy thanks for the tuts
when when after I export it, the character disappears and the animation shown is like some paper looking pieces moving but the character is not actually there? can you please reply i need this for my project due this week!
Not working for me the CBC file has all meshes enabled so I was able to upload it to Mixamo but when trying to export the animations with this tool it says “cannot read property width of undefined”
Thank You for this video. Very helpfull:-)
Stop with the Go Ahead!
Superb.
Something I was thinking about a couple of days ago, so that I can try to make my first blender clip.
I believe same process may be applied to use it in blender.
Have you made a tutorial, how to manipulate the character from mixamo? Like, if we download a walk cycle, which is 2 steps only and make it 20 steps and make the character turn left or right by using bazzier curve etc?
so you can still use this tool, it's just integrated in mixamo itself, just upload your mesh and pick an animation, then download.
Why is my character every time transparent if I render the animations???
I need help, everything is fine except for the character being transparent
The time I could have saved a few weeks ago with a tool like this... Merging all the manually animations in Blender is not the most fun experience I had
How would you make this work in Blender?
@@wesselgeldenhuys6103 you basically have to import the character and all its animations individually in the same scene and then add the animations to the character and remove their skeleton from the scene. This plus a few steps to scale everything correctly (mixamo animations are 100x bigger than they should be)
@@benjaminnavarro865How does the combiner site helpful in this process?
pretty cool tool!
I'm not sure if I understood the point for this tool, If I download a bunch of animations from mixamo and then I import them to Unreal for example, what is the difference between doing that and passing through this tool? Can someone explain it to me? Thanks!
You don't have to combine the animations manually.
@@gamefromscratch i think i have a totally different workflow, or just too noobish to understand. I pick the animations i want from mixamo and down/load them into my project/animator(unity). This seems like just an extra step (because i have to have the animations on my pc anyway) to generate a single gltf file. I can delete and add animations how i want without the combiner. With gltf it seems i need to generate a new one every time.
Also reading the title i thought it was about combining different limb animations. For example arms from animation X with legs from animation Y.
@@p.k.4927 Yeah, I agree. this whole process is completely unnecessary in Unity since you can just put whatever animations you want in your animator controller. Unity will automatically re-target animations from any "humanoid" file to any other. I've never used Godot, though, so maybe it's useful there.
This one is mostly to be used with "non-auto" engines. Unity or Unreal will do most of these actions automatically/semi-automatically. Godot, OGRE, etc -- no and that's the situation where these tools shines/helps.
@@krukhlis I appreciate the answers, this is probably what i needed to know, i didn't see difference in the video of what i'm doing normally with unreal, thank you guys!
the site is alread not exist..any other website for combinig?
I tried this today and after loading the file, the animation wasn't there anymore.
"... amazingly they haven't ruined it." LOL! They sure didn't improve it. They set it, then forget it. They haven't updated or added to the library in YEARS. Not to mention they took away quite a bit of features.
Morning..great job...is the app still available? ty
Ez tutorial, Ez life. Thanks mate 🔥
Awesome!!
Wow! This is a game changer!
This is a game-changer even for unity
Mixamo has been around for years, and this tool is absolutely pointless if you ask me. Your animations should be tied to a skeleton not a specific character, so that you can re-use it for other characters. That's why you have the "download without skin" option (or something like that) in mixamo.
@@rolandbalogh889 you have a point but for those less skilled this helps in a way
Hello! I have a question, when downloading animations from Mixamo, the animation file will only work with the character that I used in the preview? Or can I use the downloaded animation on other downloaded characters?
Hi! Did you know you can get rid of godot's blue scene tint by just changing the default sky colors? Just double clik default_env.tres in the filesystem dock, then in the inspector go to background > sky, click on proceduralsky to expand it, then click on sky and set top color and horizon color to full white, then save by clicking in the floppy icon. This is the quickest way of getting rid of the blue tint without messing with lighting.
am i the only one who thinks that this program is really abandoned? what have they done since the purchase? :(
I'm looking for an animation combiner that mixes two animations. That is, if you have a normal walk animation and another animation where the character is stationary and has his guard up (i.e. arms raised), I want a final animation where the character walks with his guard up. Is this possible? (Obviously the two skeleton are identical).
A-frame I think can mix animations
I just have one question that is supposed to be kind of funny because I know this is a thing in games. But why would a sword-welding female character battle in armor that is cut like that? It is very unhelpful to her internal organs being protected. 😂
I aSsume it doesn't work in unity, otherwise you would of showcased it in the most popular ENGINE instead of the least?
Your Link shows "404 Error". I believe you have sold it to Adobe. There is no offline downloadable version? not even release from Adobe.
ADOBE has not ruined MIXAMO
simply because
*THEY DON'T KNOW HOW !!!*
Its not from a lack of trying.
I can not download this for some reason
Guess this video is pretty much obsolete since the site to do this is now totally gone. Maybe update this video with a note about this?
Adobe absolutely ruined Mixamo. They removed all the best features and just gave us the basics. From what I can see from your video this program doesn't seem to blend the animations, just combines them into one file .
Regardless, it is not accepting any of my animations downloaded from Mixamo.
The in place option doesn't exist for all animations. This is fine.
I'm still not too sure about gltf. I frequently want to use animations and textures across multiple characters and that doesn't make much sense in gltf from what I have seen
mixamo is pretty interesting but there's way too much mysterious stuff happening behind the scenes for it to be part of a real development workflow. I'd much rather have lower quality animations created using a tool that I have full control over than depend on all the automagical stuff mixamo does to the models. Also there's the adobe thing which I want no part of.
Does this tool just put multiple animations into one file? Why do I need that anyway?
It work with blender?
Well, you could already just download multiple animations in one fbx with Mixamo before. But I guess this helps you with animations that you already had separately.
In theory combining animations on the same skeleton isn't even that hard, not trying to talk this down, just interesting to think about market potential.
They removed that option ages ago, along with storing your characters rather than having to upload a new character each time you want to animate it.
@@JackRipper8881 Did they? I was just trying to get exactly that to work (again).
Very cool.
Oh?! Adobe didn't ruin Mixamo? That's a very strange thing to say. It's very doubtful that you knew Mixamo and it's community before Adobe snuffed it out.
Link doesn't work... Repository vanished
Wow, this was completely messed up for me. The texture was all messed up and the animations had to be for the specific character, you couldn't export one animation and place it on a number of different characters.
this site is amazing
it says error when i try to download it
is this still a repo? im trying to figure this out...
TIA
repository removed, it's a click bait by now, please update the video if it got reposted.
i want glb file to be converted to fbx do you know ho to do that
cant find the tool???
said the word "Adobe". I'm leaving
@@rous3369 Exactly! 👆
Adobe probably forgot they own it.
@@rous3369 The project didn't keep going, Mixamo was working on Fuse and after Adobe bought them they stopped working on it almost imminently. The fact that their website kept going is a miracle.
They will eventually take it down, so someone should go and back it up or something because their Autorigger is amazing.
please can you do a 10 minute video on opening a 29.6mb file in notepad?
This is not available anymore. Video is redundant.
noice
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Just a shame they're pulling support for and discontinuing it. :( Mixamo that is)
the link not work
Can this work with actor core real illusion
Any tutorial or guide on how to install locally on PC?
It seems to essentially run on your PC locally.
getting anything to work on github you need to be a magician
Does gltf file work in Unreal Engine?
why ??, the default FBX file just fine with Unreal Engine
@@digitaltrash because gltf is open standard not some adobe black box
@@gorudonu While I appreciate the sentiment, you mean another "A" company: Autodesk.
@@d3v1lsummoner I felt that something is odd, thanks! I stand corrected :)
@@digitaltrash because this tools exports in GLTF or GLB formats only. Which is stupid, because these formats are last mile( presentation/end-user content delivery usually for whole scene) formats and are not meant to be used for authoring and sequential edits of specific characters or models. But yes, since 4.19 Unreal has fully functional official glTF importer plugin. Don't forget to recalculate shadows after import if you are using such mode.
Can i use it (glt) in unity engine
Doest not work anymore
the website doesnt exist anymore
there is no way to export in FBX
you can open an issue for the feature request. It will be done.
HOLY WTF. YOU CAN ACTUALLY DOWNLOAD THE MODEL AND ANIMATIONS AND USE THEM IMAGINE THAT
ty
The repo is gone :( They probably realised people would pay money for this.
..After I spent all this time learning how to merge all the animations by hand using the NLA stuff in Blender xD
Yea nah, this is faster
Ned, Can I ask you about that? Struggling with that, and am trying to discover different workflows.
@@ColindeSilva Try this. I have tested it a months ago and glft exported character was imported with multiple animations in Godot: github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Blender-Exporter/pull/166
I finally know
Its been disabled :(
Link dead
I can do this in Blender as easy as that
Unfortunately Unity3D does not support GLTF :'(
You dont need gltf i just download the fbx files from mixamo , import it and then set it up in animation manager. Make sure to download in place,and no skin. You only need 1 fbx with the rig.
github.com/Siccity/GLTFUtility to use them in Unity, as well
Fbx support will be added soon
everything is going on client-side
This tool is absolutely pointless if you ask me. Your animations should be tied to a skeleton not a specific character, so that you can re-use it for other characters. That's why you have the "download without skin" option (or something like that) in mixamo.