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Animating emission scale with Mecanim

Discussion in 'Unity 5 Pre-order Beta' started by Vibs_appit, Feb 21, 2015.

  1. Vibs_appit

    Vibs_appit

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    Hi guys,

    I was just playing around with RC2 realtime emission and trying to animate the emission scale of the texture with mecanim, but it just doesn't respond to the values. I mean i can see the values change in editor, but there was no change in visuals. Is it even possible or am I doing something wrong?
     
    Vibs_appit, Feb 21, 2015
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  2. elbows

    elbows

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    My initial suspicion would be that its because of the issue that Emission scale is only a UI script thing, the shader itself relies on the emission color only. So you need to manipulate the color instead to see a result.

    See the latter portion of the following forum thread for more info:

    http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/dynamic-emission-in-real-time-gi.293569/
     
    elbows, Feb 21, 2015
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  3. Vibs_appit

    Vibs_appit

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    @elbows Thanks for pointing that out. I did look at that thread about a month ago, but had forgotten all about it. I think we just need to work around the problem as of now.
     
    Vibs_appit, Feb 21, 2015
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  4. Tinovdk

    Tinovdk

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    I'm having the exact same problem. I'm trying to animate the Emission intensity of the Standard shader. I have tried to animate both the exposed float as well as animating the RGB values of the Emission. Neither give me a message that this is not supported although the animation window lets me place keys without a problem. Is this something that will be looked at in the near future?
     
    Tinovdk, Mar 3, 2015
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