at this point I should stop saying that I have root motion working because every time I say that I jinx it and something falls apart. so I set everything up wrong (of course) so I need to pull all of the rigs apart once more to fix some errors that I made there and how I set up the root bone (its set at the hips not at the feet). so its been a fun ride (not) plus my laptop keeps trying to update my graphics drivers and every time it crashes unity, blender, plus all of the audio drivers with it. XD. I hope after today I can start work back up on motion matching and not dealing with blender and its shenanigans.