Animation Window Improvements

The way the auto key recording button fires up presently is pretty weird and confusing. And if it's recording keys then dangerous too.
What would be useful and hasn't existed since 1x is being able to scrub a global timeline. For eg I have a keyframed character moving and a camera keyframed but I cant scrub both at the same time. The result being I cant scrub forward and line up my camera with my character because both can't be scrubbed forward at the same time. I have to guess where the character might be, and line up the camera looking at a space where he isnt, making for sloppy design.
Thats been a long time gripe for Unity animation editing for me.

 

I really like the clamped auto tangent mode! I'm curious if it would be possible to give some insight to the math of this feature? How do you lerp the tangent from the linear slope between the previous and next key frame to the flat tangent? It doesn't look like it's lerped linear...
This is interesting when generating an AnimationCurve from script and want to create smooth curves with no overshooting

 

With the animation improvements done since Unity 5.4 the class AnimationUtility got 3 new methods:
SetKeyBroken
SetKeyLeftTangentMode
SetKeyRightTangentMode

But the corresponding getter methods are missing... With 5.5 you introduce a change to the tangentMode bit field (the used bits for the left/right tangent mode have been increased because of the additional mode "ClampedAuto") which will break existing "hacks" as the one from the Wiki. So if you change this bit field, it would be nice if you offer a reliable way again to get the information. Thanks

 

Really awesome tools! Can't wait to play with Unity 5.5 (Target : Nov 2016)!
Thank you Unity TEAM!!!

 

Being able to change/retarget the animation paths natively within the Animation window would be a very handy thing. Building and updating animations internally in Unity is pretty painful. We often start basic animation stuff but end up doing everything in tweening code because of the frustrating workflow.

The thread mentioned above spans years of people asking about it. Most posts end up pointing to this script as a solution: https://github.com/s-m-k/Unity-Animation-Hierarchy-Editor/

 

@simonbz I really like what you've guys have done with the animation window, we use frame by frame animation and having the ability to stretch the animations using the box tool is proving to be quite useful!

Could you guys also look to add the ability to drag and select keyframes just like normal but also include the events as well? This has been the only thing that I wish was included as we move around our events with the frames quite a lot and being able to move all of them at the same time would just be ........

 

Someday can we hope for an option; to only see the animated properties of a currently selected object?
In the games we work on, sometimes puppet-constructed characters have a lot of parented pieces, and seeing all of the animated properties on every piece in the chain often means showing dozens/hundreds of entries on the timeline. Making it very difficult to keep things organized visually.

 

Nice, thanks

 

Hello Awesome people!!!! I have been learning how to use unity for the last 3 months and am trying to make my own game but i have run into some snags Does anyone by any chance want to throw some love my way?

Im trying to make my character do flips

Once jump animation finishes, i want to another key to do a separate front flip animation in the air. How do i code this in? I want to do it for multiple in-air movements. fronflips, backflips, etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

It would be very helpful to be able to search for a particular animator state (by name) and have the window center on it. Once you have a large number of animator states, it can become difficult to find a specific one, especially if it manages to get covered up by another state. Or if it gets accidentally dropped on a sub-state machine and I don't notice.

 

Did you mean animator window? i think that is entirely different topic

 

Yes, I did mean the Animator window, but there were some suggestions on the first page about zooming in on the Animator window, so I thought maybe the thread was talking about both windows.

 

We are now in 2020, and "However, being able to bridge the two would undoubtedly improve the pipeline" is still missing.

 

I made a editor tool that change gameobjects position for me.
Unfortunately it doesn't record while record button is on in animation window. No keys are created or updated.
Could we have something for this ?