Official 2D Animation is out of preview for 2019.3

Hi, is the performance improvement intended to work on WebGL? I'm finding it's made a huge improvement on Windows standalone as well as iOS, but WebGL it's almost unusable (60fps with no spriteskins and 8fps with 6 sprite skins, 3 bones and 79 verts each, profiling shows loads of time spent inside SpriteSkinManagerInternal.LateUpdate).

Unity 2020.1.0b5
2D Animation 4.2.2
Burst 1.3.0-preview.9
Collections 0.7.1-preview.3

EDIT: Turns out burst isn't supported in WebGL (yet), and so the optimisation (which requires collections and burst packages) can't be used, making sprite skin just way too slow to use

 

I'd love to know how to do this. At the moment this is unusable for my purposes.

Assuming I can construct the character in the scene, does that mean I could use different sprite materials on different parts of the character?

 

I've been wondering this too
.. I am kinda guessing he's talking about the rigged character after using the PSB process
Taking individual sprites from another sprite sheet and in each "part" and manually replacing each sprite from each game object parts. Realigning them up to remake the character.

So far the current process is only really usable if all your art is done completely without needing updates. Maybe also useful for testing somethings out, but it's not good for actual production use.

: ( I'm going to put using this on hold, until a better process is ready.

 

I wanted to implement squish-and-stretch by creating two bones on the same limb part (for example upper arm).
The parent and the child bones both had exactly the same position and rotation. I was planning to use the child bone only for stretching in order to avoid non-uniform scaling issues in the hierarchy. And the parent bone for the usual translations and rotations.

However, now I can't select the manipulators of the parent bone. Ever. It always selects the child bone.

I tried changing the bone depths. Didn't work.
Tried disabling the visibility of the child bone. Didn't work.
Tried clicking on it multiple times to select the one behind. Didn't work.
Tried selecting it in the hierarchy first and then moving the bone manipulator in the viewport. Didn't work.
Played around with the suspicious eye and finger icons in the hierarchy. Didn't work.
Tried hiding the child bone game objects in the hierarchy using hide flags. Didn't work.

 

Sure. There is a project with two sprites which demonstrates the problem (made in Unity 2019.3.9f1).
The two most important bones Lower and Upper are practically unselectable in the viewport.

 

Hello, i have a problem with changing sprite in Sprite Render component. For example i have a picture A with bones and animations already, but i've added color correction for example on my sprite and now i want to change my Sprite A to sprite B and kjeep bones and animation working.

But when i change sprite in Sprite Render component i got my all bones reset and i can't apply any of them. Is there any way to just change sprite and keep animations?

 

For those who has the same problem:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.animation@2.2/manual/SpriteSwapIntro.html

 

Hi,

I'd like to be able to switch the resolution of my sprites at runtime. I tried using sprite atlases but the results weren't good at all (everything got really distorted). Is there a way to have different resolution assets? If not, is it planned?

Thanks,
Alex

 

Hello, I had an error copying bones from one file to another.
Target has a different number of Sprites (185) compared to copied source (9) for Mesh copy.
UnityEditor.EditorApplication:Internal_CallGlobalEventHandler()
How can I copy bones on a different number of layers?
I'm very sorry. My English is very poor.

 

Dear Leo I have download the project but:
IT's on MAC OS, I am on windows instead.
I have imported and converted the project but it is empty, there is only an empty sample Scene with a camera.
Could you please upload something that can work on my side?
Thank you very much!

 

Has anyone attempted to do 8-directional tilted top-down movement using the 2D Animation Package?
Would you just use sprite libraries and the sprite resolver to swap body part sprites based on direction - maybe a PSB for each direction?

 

I would go one of two ways, depending on your game:
Either A) if you have armor that may be swapped out, or want to show damage to limbs or body parts and so on, create a library for each direction, and simply swap the library out when you change direction. This way, you can use spriteresolver categories and labels to do your armor/other sprite swapping not related to direction.
Or B) if you only have the different directions to swap with, use the spriteresolver categories and labels to swap directions.
You could technically do A and use categories for directions, and labels for swapping between sprite states, but libraries don't really play well with the unity ui when they're massive collections (they lag like crazy, someone should probably make a bug report about it tbh).

 

Hello Unity family,
This is my issue, Say Hello to my Skeleton crash tester, The Skeleton default pose in my PSB file is at the left of the screen.

The GOAL is to duplicate the atlas generated by Unity ( at the right of the screen) for a NormalMap secondary texture .

But I cannot Duplicate/Isolate or whatever ....I'm lost, anyone can help me ?

And thanks for all the talentuous team

 

I had an issue when swapping sprites by code when the sprites are packed into Atlas (both new and legacy).
Using the UnityEngine.U2D lib, we have a character that has Sprite Skins, Bones and everything, import by PSB etc. I am swapping Sprite of SpriteRenderers by code (below is the code to give an idea). And this is during runtime.



If I am referencing the sprite via a GameObject monobehaviour script, without packing it into an Atlas, everything is fine. The deformation works nicely.

Once I packed the sprite into an Atlas, this happens after the swap:

InvalidOperationException: custom sprite vertex data size must match sprite asset's vertex data size 720 396
UnityEngine.U2D.SpriteRendererDataAccessExtensions.SetDeformableBuffer (UnityEngine.SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer, Unity.Collections.NativeArray`1[T] src) (at <1245d947a91b4a14b7c7e2c7335512b2>:0)
UnityEngine.U2D.Common.InternalEngineBridge.SetDeformableBuffer (UnityEngine.SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer, Unity.Collections.NativeArray`1[T] src) (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.common@2.0.2/Runtime/InternalBridge/InternalEngineBridge.cs:15)
UnityEngine.U2D.Animation.SpriteSkin.LateUpdate () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@3.2.2/Runtime/SpriteSkin.cs:319)

Is this operation something that conflicts with Atlases? (the swap in parts are standalone pngs, not part of PSBs)

 

Hiya!

I was wondering if there's support for using Avatar Masks with 2DAnimation?
For example to be able to mix a "holding item in air"-animation (that only effects the arms) and a "running"-animation (that affects the lower body) seamlessly? Below is an image of me attempting to use Avatar masks:


I'm giving it a try right now in Unity, and I'm unable to find a way to make a custom skeleton out of 2DAnimation-bones, to use in the Avatar Mask.
To use the avatar-mask I must somehow connect the 2Danimation bones with the Avatar Mask to be able to select bones that should be affected (like only the arms) when the character is holding something. With 3D-bones this seems to be done for eg. with skeletons like in the image below:


I cannot find anything online on how to make 2Danimation skeletons for avatar masks.

My Questions:
1.) Is there a way for me to use Avatar Masks using the 2DAnimation package as described above?
2.) If not, are there plans to add support for this?
3.) Do you know of another way I can achieve the affect described above, if not possible with Avatar Masks?

Thanks in advance!

 

I just know that you can override a layer animation for just the arms, setting the weight to 1. Check "layers in animation" this is how I do.

 

Thank you for your suggestion, it made me investigate Animation-Layers further.

Prior to asking the question above I was trying to use the Animator-Layers as well. I'd made a temporary "holding item" animation that affected all bones, and when I dialed up the weight the whole body was effected (when I only wanted the arms to be affected).
But following your advice I remade the "holding item" animation to only alter arm-bones, and when I slide the weight to 1 now it works!

Thanks so much! This is exactly what I was looking for.

 

Library/PackageCache/com.unity.2d.animation@3.2.1/Runtime/TransformAccessJob.cs(196,46): warning CS0618: 'NativeHashMap<int, TransformAccessJob.TransformData>.Length' is obsolete: 'Use Count() instead. (RemovedAfter 2020-05-12). (UnityUpgradable) -> Count()'

Hi, we found that TransformAccessJob.cs was using obsolete API which invoke ScriptUpdater every build in our pipeline. Hope this can be fix in the upcoming release.

 

@Leo-Yaik Is there anyway to get these animations working with ScreenSpace UI?

I can't use worldspace with the 2D URP as is.

 

Currently no Camera stacking in 2D URP, so Post Process effects get on my UI
Also using Additive scenes and using 3rd party plugins that do not play nice with Worldspace UI

Appreciate the work you've done so far on this, it's pretty slick.
I've used Spine2d on my previous projects, but have made the switch!

 

Hello!
Is it possible to create bones in Sprite Skin component with code? Thank you!

 

In runtime

 

Sorry, noob question here. I have read through docs but I likely missed this or forgot it...

I am curious, I want to snap my rig to a grid. I have a mechanical spaceship that I want to precisely align the bones to elements on the ship. its pixel art, so I have an idea where I want things, but I can get it precisely there. Is there a way to snap, or enter information precisely? . I also want the rig to be symmetrical but haven't found a way to copy a portion of the rig. Same thing for while animating, I want to precisely pose the rig?

Tips? Did I miss this in the manual somewhere?

I have no problems with organic objects and rigging non pixel art, but for mechanical things and pixel art, I want, no, I NEED precision. I literally can't sleep at night if I know my models geometry is aligned when it is supposed to be.

 

One more thing. When I am setting up a rig, I import a photoshop file. Everything is great, except two things:

First I want to mirror the right wing and not have to include a left wing as a layer. Is this possible? Essentially, I have a symmetrical model and don't see the point in duplicating data, but can't figure out a good way to do this.

*edit* -Solved second problem. See below.

Secondly, this is a fantasy space ship, and the wings are unattached and are just floating there. However, for the sake of animation, the rig is all attached and there are several bones in space that don't have any weights on the texture. They simply exist for ease of animation. However, when I drop the model in the scene and try to animate, the bones that have no weight on the mesh no longer exist as tools to interact with. The transform is there in the prfab, but the bone isn't displayed in the editor and I can't edit it the same as the others, if this makes sense. Basically, the wings function as bird wings, but with much of the wing "invisible". I need the bones in the invisible part to make a good animation.

*edit* -Solution.

I had to add to add the bones with no weight as an influence on a sprite. Once they were "influencing" a sprite, they are properly set up when you drag the prefab to the editor. But they have no weight on the sprite.

 

guys ,, iwish i can animate the swap sprite

 

This would be very nice.

 

thanks but now the IK MANAGER is gone ,, idissapointed at all

 

ah damn ,,i forgot to install the ik ,damn

 

i appreciate this so much ,this is what i looking for ,,


but the eye liner should not completely dissappear



I want the eye liner to have a border
can some one teach me how to set it?

 

sometimes ,when i edit the psb file on photoshop then save it ,it wont update automaticaly ,damn cry

 

this error appear when i edit the psb file then save it

 

Wow, looks great!

 

Hi @Leo-Yaik !

I'm trying to override iks (using Solver2d) that are used in a mechanim animation but stumped on how to achieve this.
To be more specific:
I have a running character animation. I want to equip a gun to the character. I can't get the target IKs for the hands to follow the gun because the animation itself is moving them in the clip as well. If I remove the IK targets from the animation clip itself, then everything works, but obviously I lose my arm animation. Can you help me or point me in the right direction in order to achieve this so I get the best of both worlds?

 

please update the example

 

Can you please add confirmation of destructive action to the 'Revert' button on the Skinning Editor? The amount of times I've accidently clicked on it and lost a large amount of work is more than it should be.


The UX for such an important tool really needs to be improved.

 

Snap?

 

Mirror?

 

Is there a way to simply assign a sprite with 100% weight to a specific bone? Right now I select the sprite, the bone, assign the bone to the sprite, and then go in with the weight brush. Would be nice if I could just skip the last step.