Text to Animation

A text-to-animation tool for the s&box editor.

- Type a prompt like "An object walks forward." and get an animation in seconds, generated locally in C# with UniMate.
- Works on any skeleton: s&box Human, classic Citizen, animals, birds, spiders and custom VMDL or FBX rigs.
- GPU generation with a CPU fallback, fully in-process, with no Python, servers or native DLLs.
- Text-to-motion, multi-step sequences, in-betweening between pinned poses, text edits on unlocked bones and variations.
- Automatic clean-up: smoothing, foot locking and seamless joins between generated windows.
- Timeline editing with trim, split, reverse, speed, loop, root-motion and pose keys.
- Saves straight into your VMDL as animgraph-ready sequences, with DMX and FBX export (skeleton or model with the animation).

UniMate learned from short captions that all start with "An object". Write prompts the same way.

- Start with "An object", even for people: "An object walks forward." The skeleton tells it what the character is.
- Write one plain sentence about two seconds of motion: "An object waves with its right hand."
- Describe the whole action in that sentence. "An object runs and then performs a front flip." works as one clip; it is not split into parts.
- Name the side and direction: "punches with the right fist", "turns to the left", "walks backward".
- For longer sequences, use a multi-step sequence with one prompt per step. Don't chain many actions into one sentence.
- Rare moves need their lead-in. A front flip needs the run-up, or it often comes out as a backflip.
- Generate a few takes and keep the best; each take is a fresh sample.

Examples
- People: "An object walks forward.", "An object jumps in place.", "An object crouches and then rises back up.", "An object sits down.", "An object performs a backflip."
- Animals: "An object gallops forward.", "An object turns to the right.", "An object rears upward on its hind legs."
- Birds: "An object flaps its wings and flies forward.", "An object glides forward with its wings spread."
- Snakes and fish: "An object slithers forward.", "An object swims forward with its tail."

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