thank you for your help so far, but im still struggling. putting the two way output from the blend stack to the apply mesh space additive messed things up. i tried playing around with connecting different nodes and i either got an a pose with no animations or a result where movement would cause the camera to quickly fly upwards for some reason. i really dont understand this. i see theres the button to enable and disable the state machine setup in the utility widget, im wondering if theres a way to have that button automatically enabled instead of disabled. if there is, please let me know how. thank you.