Official 2D Animation 3.0.5 is out

Hi @rustum, thanks for the mini-tutorial on how to install the 2D animation package.
I have a question: How do I open the new Sprite Swap samples projects?
I can´t find it
Help me, please!
Thanks in advance
María

 

Just select the 2D Animation package in the package manager, and you can find the "2D Animation Samples" at the bottom of the description (if you have the right versions of 2D Animation and PSD Importer, as described in the first post of this thread).

 

@Corvwyn
Great!
Many thanks!

 

Will this ever be released on 2019.2 or should I migrate at some point to 2019.3??

 

The 2D Animation package is moving from preview to verified in 2019.3, so it's probably a good idea to migrate at some point once 2019.3 is released (unless you're very close to releasing your game).
They have backported changes to version 2.X for a while (the version that's used for 2019.2), but at some point they will stop.

 

Hi, is it possible to use this package with Meshes instead of sprites? I don't use sprites because my games use vector art and don't have textures, so I'm wondering if a possible solution for me would be:

1. Use 2d animation + Mesh somehow
2. Use 2d animation + start using the Vector Graphics package, which seems to introduce a Vector Sprite concept

Thank you!

 

Thank you!

 

What do you call 'high bone count'? Where would my 60 bone sprites sit? In the high range?

 

Hey, is there some official documentation on how to use this tool, including sprite swapping?

 

All packages have links to documentation, a changelog and sometimes examples in the package manager.

Here's a shortcut to the 2d animation package manual:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@3.0/manual/index.html

 

I wonder if it's possible to bake down animations made with IK into skeletal animations? Moving the IK targets does not register keys for the body parts themselves, which I guess makes sense. Right now converting IK to skeletal animations is really time-consuming.

 

Is it possible to get support for deformation of sprite masks as well. Short and simple.
You can run script to change the mask if you have "frame by frame" sprite animation but deformation is ignored by the mask component. Sadness.

 

Thank you very much Corvwyn! After giving a quick read to the docs... this still seems like a bit of an overly complicated solution to sprite swapping... wouldnt it be possible to simply split the rigging/3d part of the system and the sprite into two different things, as they already are for the actual 3D assets? Seems like its still easier to just make a character which is just made out of white squares so you can rig the resulting 3d model, then use a custom shader to allow swapping the texture that is rendered instead of the "white square"... no need for libraries or anything, you actually manage your assets however way you want... where the problem then becomes UV mapping which is a bit annoying to deal with...

I can already guess that these libraries can become a memory problem in larger projects, as they directly reference the sprites so if you have tons of customization you might have to do some tricky loading and unloading of libraries (instead of just loading by address the very specific sprites you are looking for), also doesnt look like it would work well with addressables (probably would need to make the whole library into the addressable)... I mean, it sure is cool that you can just import a PSB and make the bones right there, then right after make the animation... but, if this means I have to copy paste bones to every single sprite I might want to use for that character... and make libraries and what not just to be able to render a different image in the 3d model... seems like a lot of work...

 

Hey everyone,

I followed every step in this link (https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@3.0/manual/index.html)
However after i rig sprite from sprite editor, click apply and drag sprite in scene, I can't see sprite bones. I see only sprite as it was never rigged.

In on of 2D Animation Samples scenes, i tried same thing, however as you can see in picture below, sprite (2) has no bones, even though i dragged sprite that actually already was rigged.

What I am missing?

@rustum

 

@rustum Is there an options to get deformed vertices of the rigged sprite? I want to create 2d colider for derormed sprite but i can get the vertices. Please expose the vertices

 

https://api.unity.com/v1/oauth2/aut...de&state=06d9bfe8-5fe6-45a2-b9e6-c29bcace0f2e

 

Hey everyone

I watch some 2D Animation tutorials on youtube, but don`t know what this is by default in 2019
thanks

 

@dquek

documentation very useful for my job

 

@dquek thank you very much for your reply! For some reasons I didn't receive emails and I couldn't see earlier your reply to my previous comment. It is working.

Thanks again!

 

Do you have plans to provide something like anima2d's skined mesh combiner?

 

Hi all, I found a problem on 2D Animation with Entities, which only happens after build.
After reloading an additive-loaded scene, all psd sprites stops their deformation.
It works fine without Entities, or on Unity2019.2.19f1.

Reproduction:
1. Create new project and import 2D PSD Importer(2.1.0) and Entities(preview.11 - 0.5.1) on Unity 2019.3.0f6.
2. Reboot Unity.
3. Create scenes "Scene0" and "Scene1", set them to build settings in this order (Scene0 is the root scene)
3. Put some psb file into the project, place it in Scene1, and set some bones and animations.
4. For each scenes, create an empty GameObject and attach a script:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
4.  
5. public class Scene0 : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     //Use to reload Scene1 from a script in Scene1
8.     public static MonoBehaviour CoroutineStarter { get; private set; }
9.  
10.     void Start()
11.     {
12.         CoroutineStarter = this;
13.         DontDestroyOnLoad(this);
14.  
15.         //Load Scene1 additively on start
16.         CoroutineStarter.StartCoroutine(_());
17.         IEnumerator _()
18.         {
19.             yield return SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(1, LoadSceneMode.Additive);
20.             SceneManager.SetActiveScene(SceneManager.GetSceneAt(1));
21.         }
22.     }
23. }

and

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
4.  
5. public class Scene1 : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     void Update()
8.     {
9.         //Push Enter to reload the scene
10.         if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Return))
11.         {
12.             Scene0.CoroutineStarter.StartCoroutine(_());
13.             IEnumerator _()
14.             {
15.                 yield return SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(1); //This unloading may cause the problem
16.                 yield return SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(1, LoadSceneMode.Additive);
17.                 SceneManager.SetActiveScene(SceneManager.GetSceneAt(1));
18.             }
19.         }
20.     }
21. }

In short, Scene0 additively loads Scene1 on start, and Scene1 reloads itself when you push Enter key.

5. Open Scene0 and play on editor. No matter how many times you push Enter, the deformation works fine.
6. Build it as Standalone player (Windows, x86).
7. On player, the psb never deforms itself after first reloading.

I guess there are something wrong with unloading process, but have no idea to avoid this problem.

Submitted bugreport:
https://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?1215572_pdt07dvd4vvv8i20

Thanks,