Odd stretching of character and override bone issue

hibano23

To start, I used to not have any issues with my player character animating and overriding bones. However, I recently restarted my Unity project and all of a sudden have been having issues. For whatever reason, my character's default pose in Unity shows the neck stretched out and back forearm missing. The first image below shows my character in Spine, as she should look.

The next image shows her in Unity when I am editing her prefab. And another image when I move her back arm IK, showing the missing forearm.

I initially brushed this off because when I hit the play button, she returns to normal animations and looks fine. However, I tested out my override bone feature that I use to aim her scepter during gameplay (which was working well previously) and when overriding bones, her neck stretches out and the forearm holding the scepter disappears, screenshot below. It looks like she is defaulting to that "imported" pose but I don't know what's causing this to happen.

I'm at a loss for what is going on here. I have dug into the spine side and Unity side for quite some time now with no luck on figuring out what is happening. Does anyone here have any ideas or thoughts? Thanks.

Harald

Which versions of Spine and of the Spine-Unity runtime are you using?

Have you switched any versions (either Spine editor, or the runtime, or both) since the first time you imported the character?

hibano23

Hi Harald,

I’m at my day job right now so will have to give you a definitive answer a bit later but fairly sure my version of Spine is the most current one (3.7.91 or .92). And I’m using runtime version 3.7, the one that was updated beginning of March.

When I updated my project, I did update the runtime from 3.6 to 3.7 (when SkeletonAnimator got replaced with SkeletonMecanim.

This just seems so odd. I’m considering completely re-creating the spine file and Unity import just to see if that fixes it (maybe just do idle and walk animations to keep it quick and simple).

Harald,

Confirmed that I am using Spine 3.7.91 and unity runtime 3.7, dated 2019-03-04.

Any thoughts on what could be causing this weird thing to be happening?

I'm a bit hesitant to re-create my files but if there is no clear way forward, I may try re-making everything and see if that fixes it...

Appreciate the support.

UPDATE: Sorry for wasting your time. In working late last night, I think I was just too close to it and after investigating further just now, I solved the problem.

I removed the skeleton utility and then re-added it. That fixed the stretching.

Also, the back forearm was visible in my set up pose but for whatever reason, it got hidden during my fall animation. No idea how or why I keyed that in the animation but oh well. Simple solution that took me way too long to figure out. But anyways, problem solved.