Problem with melee weapon making feet looks 'sliding' when being used

[Sem]

For some reason, when we're disabling the Force Root Motion and we use the sword/katana while walking, the animation runs, but it makes the feet looks static making it appears as if it were 'sliding' across the floor. If we were to enable Force Root Motion, the sliding disappears, but the walking would be interrupted whenever we're currently using the sword/katana and only will works again if the sword attack animation has completed. Any ideas on how to allow walking while attacking with a sword/katana without it looking like it was sliding across the ground?

 

[Silver100]

I had the same issue ages ago. This may help;

To allow legs to move naturally whilst swiping a sword;

Backup the project;

Select a different layer mask to isolate the animation on the legs and allow just the upper body to animate during the sword attack.
by doing the following;

On the animator controller layers section;

Locate and select the Full Body Layer cog. By default it's set to 'Full Body Mask'. Just need to change this to 'Upper Body Mask'.
Click on the cog wheel, replace mask layer locate 'Upper Body Mask'' and apply . Make sure the weight is set to 1.
The 'attack 1 Sword /Katana animation now moves fluidly right or left foot is applied when attacking and no freeze on left or right foot.

After this, you may notice the death animation is not playing correctly (player is sustained in a standing position) if so:

The death animation requires the 'full body layer' to work, however it's on the same layer & wont play with 'Upper Body Mask'.
A simple fix is to put the death animation sub-state on a separate new layer.

You can literally copy the death animation substate create and paste into new separate layer (say call it 'Death Layer') with the 'full body layer mask' applied.

Delete the previous death substate. Death animation will function correctly again.

 

[Sem]

I had the same issue ages ago. This may help;

To allow legs to move naturally whilst swiping a sword;

Backup the project;

Select a different layer mask to isolate the animation on the legs and allow just the upper body to animate during the sword attack.
by doing the following;

On the animator controller layers section;

Locate and select the Full Body Layer cog. By default it's set to 'Full Body Mask'. Just need to change this to 'Upper Body Mask'.
Click on the cog wheel, replace mask layer locate 'Upper Body Mask'' and apply . Make sure the weight is set to 1.
The 'attack 1 Sword /Katana animation now moves fluidly right or left foot is applied when attacking and no freeze on left or right foot.

After this, you may notice the death animation is not playing correctly (player is sustained in a standing position) if so:

The death animation requires the 'full body layer' to work, however it's on the same layer & wont play with 'Upper Body Mask'.
A simple fix is to put the death animation sub-state on a separate new layer.

You can literally copy the death animation substate create and paste into new separate layer (say call it 'Death Layer') with the 'full body layer mask' applied.

Delete the previous death substate. Death animation will function correctly again.

Thank you, I'll try this

 

[Sem]

I had the same issue ages ago. This may help;

To allow legs to move naturally whilst swiping a sword;

Backup the project;

Select a different layer mask to isolate the animation on the legs and allow just the upper body to animate during the sword attack.
by doing the following;

On the animator controller layers section;

Locate and select the Full Body Layer cog. By default it's set to 'Full Body Mask'. Just need to change this to 'Upper Body Mask'.
Click on the cog wheel, replace mask layer locate 'Upper Body Mask'' and apply . Make sure the weight is set to 1.
The 'attack 1 Sword /Katana animation now moves fluidly right or left foot is applied when attacking and no freeze on left or right foot.

After this, you may notice the death animation is not playing correctly (player is sustained in a standing position) if so:

The death animation requires the 'full body layer' to work, however it's on the same layer & wont play with 'Upper Body Mask'.
A simple fix is to put the death animation sub-state on a separate new layer.

You can literally copy the death animation substate create and paste into new separate layer (say call it 'Death Layer') with the 'full body layer mask' applied.

Delete the previous death substate. Death animation will function correctly again.

It worked! Thanks!

 

[Silver100]

That's brilliant, glad you got it working.