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Timelines: How do I trigger certain timelines to play and stop based upon interactions?

Discussion in '2017.1 Beta' started by Kmausser, Jun 21, 2017.

  1. Kmausser

    Kmausser

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    I'm trying to use timeline to play an animation for an object, then when the player clicks on another object with their mouse it plays the timeline animation for that and also plays a closing animation for the first object as the camera moves away to the second object.

    To simplify:
    1. Scene starts with first camera active and objects standing still
    2. User mouses over to select an object in view and the camera whips around (I'm using cinemachine's free look cam) to get a closer view of it while the object itself bounces/spins to meet the camera and spits out animated text which is used to describe the object.
    3. User wants to click on another part/object so when they click anywhere outside of the first object it animates back to it's first position
    4. The camera whips around to the next object where it's individual intro animation plays or it can go back to the starting camera angle to see everything (depending on what's clicked)


    Forgive me if this is too basic, but I'm not very experienced in triggering animations and I was thinking the new timeline feature would be easier for me to wrap my head around than learning mechanim. I'm just not sure, can someone help me do this?
     
    Kmausser, Jun 21, 2017
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  2. chafik_unity

    chafik_unity

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    Hi Kmausser,

    There’s a lot of ways to achieve that with Timeline but it dependents on what you are exactly trying to do. You might have to try different approaches before finding the one that better suits your use case.

    A good way to do start is to have a PlayableDirector for each object/part you want to inspect and a MonoBehaviour that handles user interactions to appropriately call PlayableDirector.Play()/Stop() when switching from an object to the other.

    Also, there’s a lot of possibilities when mixing Timeline and Cinemachine! You’ll find more on the dedicated forum!

    Thanks!
     
    chafik_unity, Jun 28, 2017
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