Animation cubic easing direction reversed

[Wunder_Wulfe]

Update, it still is broken plus inverting the easing style does not actually fix anything. When i invert the easing style in the animation editor, the resulting animation that plays in the client is still not as smooth as it was in the animator before flipping the easing style. It’s not great to know that i cant rely at all on the roblox animation editor anymore and instead have to export from other applications.

[tomas7777]

export from other applications

Do you happen to know any way to import existing Roblox animations into these applications?

[OreoMewza (Mewza)]

Just switched to Moon at this point. It’s worth it to learn the different shortcuts and button layouts at this point.

[Wunder_Wulfe]

no, although the roblox animation editor is very limited and i would recommend playing with blender’s

[robloxdestroyer1035]

wait, is it possible to import blender animations into roblox? Can you link me a video or something?

[Wunder_Wulfe]

It is a fairly simple process. If you made your character in blender then it should require no extra work, just open up the animation editor and import the animation from FBX after exporting from blender with the Bake Animation option (One animation per FBX file only). Make sure to export them without animation first.

How To Import Blender Animations Using Skinned Meshes With Custom Avatars

Though there are plugins around for animating roblox standard rigs in blender, there are none for skinned meshes. Here I will be showing you the steps to do this and some common bugs and fixes Step 1 Load in your .blend file and animate how you would in any case using blender. [Screen Shot 2021-01-29 at 10.30.49 PM] Step 2 Export the file as an FBX. [Screen Shot 2021-01-29 at 11.33.50 PM] [Screen Shot 2021-01-29 at 11.36.31 PM] Step 3 Load up roblox studio and import the FBX as custom…

If you want to animate a roblox rig you will need to first get a character rig for r15/rthro/etc and then export from there. In all honestly, since this issue has persisted for such a long time, it is probably a better alternative to just use blender or other animation plugins/tools.
This post is fairly outdated since you can natively import FBX animations now, but you still need the Blender plugin to be able to get the character rig in Blender without making it yourself.

Blender rig exporter/animation importer

I’ve developed a plugin for Roblox that can export any Roblox rig into Blender and generate a Blender Armature (rig) equivalent to the Roblox one using the accompanying Blender addon. Then, in Blender an animation can be designed. When done, the Blender addon can be used to generate Roblox animation data equivalent to the animation designed in Blender. Using the Roblox plugin, this can be imported back into Roblox again. Note: Skinned meshes/bones are not supported. If you want to animate a ski…

[TheDarth_Dot (pro)]

This is still a high-impact issue

[plasma_node]

Absolutely, I am experiencing it as well and it’s making it painful to edit animations in studio.

[INT_L]

I’ve asked Roblox Staff and sadly, it’s been confirmed that this will not be fixed. However, their response does mention a pretty good feature that can mitigate or entirely solve the issue:

New Settings Available in the Animation Editor

Hello, We are aware of this issue and we have looked into it, but unfortunately there is no easy solution that would guarantee that we do not break existing animations the way they are today. Some developers have intentionally used the opposite easing direction in the AnimationClipEditor so that their animations play correctly in game. But do not fret! As @HaloArbiter_101 mentioned earlier, we are currently adding support for curve-based animations, and this will solve this problem.

[BowlingKing137 (BK137)]

Even using this it doesn’t turn out perfectly. My solution was to just copy EACH INDIVIDUAL frame from the original and have it linear. Not easy, but it definitely works

[not_shur (Gloob52007)]

This is still an issue, and I really need this fixed as i need to use this to animate mesh deformation rigs. I’ve investigated and experimented, the issue is just animation editor showing you the wrong directions. So, in my opinion, the fix would just be in making the plugin show you the actual easing directions. And on top of that, correct animations with the wrong easing direction.

[BowlingKing137 (BK137)]

There’s a better way to do this. My friend told me there was a way that you can animate an object and blender, and then import it into Roblox. There’s a tutorial on how to do this, but you need a blender plugin and Roblox plugin. It works great!

[not_shur (Gloob52007)]

Well yes, I already considered that option, and I tried it, however the rig is setup in a way that doesnt allow me to animate in blender and import it to Roblox, this is done to bypass the tri count. So the only way to animate the rig is using Animation Editor, which right now is in my opinion the worse animation method on Roblox right now, especially due to this easing direction issue, of course, there’s other problems with it but this is the greatest one yet.

[PysephDEV (Pyseph)]

Please read the message almost directly above your post: Animation cubic easing direction reversed - #56 by INT_L

[synical4 (Synical)]

I just encountered this and realized it was never solved… What???
Roblox seriously hasn’t fixed it when this bug was posted roughly 2 years ago?

[no_tsi]

as stated in a earlier post this will not be fixed Animation cubic easing direction reversed - #56 by INT_L

[BloxSoMeta]

Hello, while we have made the decision for now to preserve the reversed behavior for compatibility, we understand this is a pain point. Updating the preview in the Clip Editor to match the runtime behavior is a good suggestion, since that would at least give a clearer idea of the runtime result without changing existing animations.

In the meantime, as that earlier post noted, we have now released to beta a new Animation Curve Editor. Please take a look, as it provides fine-grain and visual control of the easing behaviors by directly editing the tangents of the curves.

[VitalWinter]

I am noticing this bug still, more than 2 years later.

Animations keyframe EasingDirections In and Out are incorrectly swapped when playing animations. Animation editor correctly displays the expected result though.

[R0TT3DC0RVSES (Cola)]

A Roblox animator, @SnyFort, has made a plugin for this. This has been a Roblox bug for pretty much forever. Plugin link: Revert Cubic Easing Direction - Roblox

[PeZsmistic]

Any idea when something might be done Studio-side to make this less ridiculous? Developers are having blindingly frustrating issues and getting stuck on export because of this obscure issue. Most recently, Animation loop is not seamless in-game. (Mesh deformation). Not to mention, it is incredibly demoralizing to find after 8 hours of animating, your walk cycle is a mess when you export it and you have no idea why.

If this cannot be actually fixed, adjusting the Studio tooling to compensate is the next obvious thing to do. Curves solve the problem if you can figure out how to use them, but people will continue to use the baked in easing styles because it’s easier at a glance.