Official 2D Animation 7.0 for Unity 2021.2 beta

2D Animation 7.0 RC for Unity 2021.2 beta


We are happy to announce that the first version of 2D Animation 7.0 is now available with Unity 2021.2. The focus of this version has been around improving the user experience with the Skinning Editor.

What’s new?

• Introduced a Sprite Influence tool to quickly see which Sprites a selected Bone influences.
• Added a color picker to the Visibility panel to easily modify bone colours.
• The associated shortcut is now displayed when hovering over a Skinning Editor tool.

See the full changelog here.

About 2D Animation
The 2D Animation package adds tooling for rigging a sprite for skeletal animation. It includes a Skinning Editor module in the Sprite Editor window for creating and editing bones, manual & automatic mesh tessellation as well as skin weights generation and painting. The Sprite Skin runtime component ties this all together to drive sprite deformation.

This also includes support for Multiple Sprite Single Character rigging workflows through 2D PSD Importer Package.

Getting Started

1. Install latest Unity 2021.2
2. Start a new project with the 2D Template

You can confirm that the 2D Animation 7.0 package is installed by opening Package Manager (Window > Package Manager) and selecting the Packages: In Project from the dropdown.


You should see a Release Candidate of 2D Animation in your project.


Optional Performance Boost
When animating your characters, you can improve the performance of the animated Sprite’s deformation at runtime by installing both the Burst and Collections package from the Package Manager. You can read more about this here.

What can you do?
Try it out and let us know what you think of the package. We want to know what works as expected, what doesn’t and what is missing.

 

Hey @DragonCoder, thank you for your kind words!

Regarding your question, could you give us an example on how you would like it to work?

 

In Unity 2021.2, 2D Common now has a hard dependency on Burst to speed up mesh triangulation and tessellation. So the burst package is required by the 2D feature set from 2021.2 and onwards.

What is the reason for trying to remove Burst from your project?

 

I see, that is an unfortunate upgrade experience.
What you can do is manually specifying the burst version in the projects manifest.json by following these steps:
1. Open the project folder in the file explorer
2. Navigate to the Packages folder
3. Open the manifest.json in a text editor
4. Add the following line to the list of dependencies:
"com.unity.burst": "1.6.0"
This will force the project to use Burst 1.6.0, which is the latest burst version.

Here is the manifest.json in full:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. {
3.   "dependencies": {
4.     "com.unity.burst": "1.6.0",
5.     "com.unity.2d.animation": "7.0.0",
6.     "com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect": "5.0.1",
7.     "com.unity.2d.psdimporter": "6.0.0",
8.     "com.unity.2d.sprite": "1.0.0",
9.     "com.unity.2d.spriteshape": "7.0.0",
10.     "com.unity.2d.tilemap": "1.0.0",
11.     "com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras": "2.2.0",
12.     "com.unity.collab-proxy": "1.9.0",
13.     "com.unity.ide.rider": "3.0.7",
14.     "com.unity.ide.visualstudio": "2.0.11",
15.     "com.unity.ide.vscode": "1.2.3",
16.     "com.unity.test-framework": "1.1.29",
17.     "com.unity.textmeshpro": "3.0.6",
18.     "com.unity.timeline": "1.6.2",
19.     "com.unity.ugui": "1.0.0",
20.     "com.unity.visualscripting": "1.7.2",
21.     "com.unity.modules.ai": "1.0.0",
22.     "com.unity.modules.androidjni": "1.0.0",
23.     "com.unity.modules.animation": "1.0.0",
24.     "com.unity.modules.assetbundle": "1.0.0",
25.     "com.unity.modules.audio": "1.0.0",
26.     "com.unity.modules.cloth": "1.0.0",
27.     "com.unity.modules.director": "1.0.0",
28.     "com.unity.modules.imageconversion": "1.0.0",
29.     "com.unity.modules.imgui": "1.0.0",
30.     "com.unity.modules.jsonserialize": "1.0.0",
31.     "com.unity.modules.particlesystem": "1.0.0",
32.     "com.unity.modules.physics": "1.0.0",
33.     "com.unity.modules.physics2d": "1.0.0",
34.     "com.unity.modules.screencapture": "1.0.0",
35.     "com.unity.modules.terrain": "1.0.0",
36.     "com.unity.modules.terrainphysics": "1.0.0",
37.     "com.unity.modules.tilemap": "1.0.0",
38.     "com.unity.modules.ui": "1.0.0",
39.     "com.unity.modules.uielements": "1.0.0",
40.     "com.unity.modules.umbra": "1.0.0",
41.     "com.unity.modules.unityanalytics": "1.0.0",
42.     "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequest": "1.0.0",
43.     "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestassetbundle": "1.0.0",
44.     "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestaudio": "1.0.0",
45.     "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequesttexture": "1.0.0",
46.     "com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestwww": "1.0.0",
47.     "com.unity.modules.vehicles": "1.0.0",
48.     "com.unity.modules.video": "1.0.0",
49.     "com.unity.modules.vr": "1.0.0",
50.     "com.unity.modules.wind": "1.0.0",
51.     "com.unity.modules.xr": "1.0.0"
52.   }
53. }
54.  

We'll make sure to bump 2D Commons dependency of Burst to 1.6.0.
Thanks for the feedback! Let us know if this fixes your issue

 

Great that you got Burst working and thanks for reporting the UI issue you are seeing. I'll follow up with the UI Elements team regarding the issue.

Do keep us posted on your experience with the editor!

 

Hi folks! 2D Animation 7.0 has been released for Unity 2021.2. I'm closing and unsticking this thread. Thank you for the feedback during its development. Let's keep the discussion going here.