Official 2D Animation v2 - Preview Packages

Is there a way for me to change the different sprites from the code during Runtime?
Assuming I wish to import the images from outside the Game, how can I set the new images onto the animation and still maintain the Bind Poses?

 

We use Spine too but still not try this new animation system. Not sure it can compare to Spine right now seems to go in the right direction.

 

New Animation 2D (performance Problem)

hi
today I wanted to use new animation 2d in unity 2019.2.1f
I create the enemy by the new animation 2D
I have the pooling system and I initialized the pooling system by 10 enemies.
when the enemy is enabled I got drop frame

in SpriteSkinEntity class OnEnable() function have some performance problem

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mb5Z66xK1_gyLfWdG816yUBffEZp38gM

thanks

 

Questions about "Swapping Sprite Library assets"
-Do I really understand correctly that for each added skin that we want to change through replacing the sprite library, it will be necessary to follow the steps described in the documentation:

3. In the Skinning Editor, assign each part of the characters to a unique Category (for example, create a ‘Left Hand’ category for the ‘left hand’ Sprite, and so on).

4. Make sure the corresponding Sprite parts in both Prefabs have the same Category name and Label as their counterpart. For example, the head Sprites of both the color and greyscale characters must be in the same ‘Head’ Category and have the same Label

5. Drag the Prefab for the colorful character into the Scene. In the Inspector window, navigate to its Sprite Library component.

And only after that, we can replace one library with another?
And all this must be repeated for each new "skin"?

-But this is tons of monotonous, but extremely sensitive to errors work!
(I know, I checked it - just having done this ... )

Thus, formally - there is an opportunity to change the skin, but in fact - the current implementation will not allow it to use freely...
But all this time we all so hoped for a simple replacement of the atlas/spritesheet/ new multilayered PSB.. -just graphics from new file!
Well ... dreams did not come true...

 

What may be wrong with my attempt Frame-by-frame animation?
When recording animations, sprites in the renderer are lost. And it is impossible to appoint him again in the same frame.
Resolver perfectly changes sprites without record animation.
There are no messages in the console.

 

Massive performance regression in 2019.2. I got my crap up and running after manually updating burst to the latest version, and was greeted by a simple scene plummeting to almost 30fps in the editor on my PC. Assuming this is related to the 2D packages, as there's little else going on in this scene. Shall I upload my project with a bug report, or is this a known issue with 2019.2?

Here's a couple snaps of the profiler, 2019.2.1 vs 2019.1.12... what a mess.

 

hi
today I found the Preview.4-2.2.0 published
the first thing I saw was the removal of the Burst from the dependency list
my first problem was fixed (GC Problem) but the performance problem persists
with the addition of an enemy, it drops by about 30 frames
in SpriteSkin class LateUpdate() function has some performance problem


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gndpprZxnUQR61iNwp6Ryld4b-39E_O5

thanks

 

After upgrading from unity 2019.1.12 to 2019.2.0, there are errors now in the console. It may have to do with the 2d animation preview. I have seen 2 other persons mention this issue. Basically, the console gets errors. When I upgrade to the newest version of the package, another error is given and so on. eventually the errors just keep repeating and the project is useless. It could be the 2d animation or burst or 2d spriteshape or entities. Has anyone has these issues?


https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-2019-2-0-bug-issue.719345/
https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-2019-2-package-manager-error.720485/​

 

And what about performance issues? I use Animation2d as well in Unity 2019.1.10 and really highly optimized game with optimized drawcalls,scripts have less than 40fps on mid devices, when few characters animated with sprite skins are present on the screen.

 

OK, great. Now we are getting somewhere. thanks. so how do I fix it? Do I delete anima 2d (is anima 2d needed)? Is unity working on fixing the issue for the next version?

TEMPORARY SOLUTION?
I downgraded the burst package in the package manager from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1 . The errors went away. This was using unity 2019.1.14. zzzIs this OK and will Unity look into the issue?​

 

Is it possible to use something else than PSB file?

I tried using a PNG file, first with all my layers spread out from each other. The problem is that I couldn't move them around to recompose my character.

I then tried to just import my character as is. In Sprite Editor I drew as many rectangle as I wanted body parts. Then in Custom Outline for each body part I drew the exact outline I wanted. But now in Skinning Editor I can't seem to add bones for all body parts at once. I can at bones to just the selected body part. Also Bone Influence is always grayed out. Also I don't have the Reparent Bones button, which would allow me to add bones separately to each body part, then link the bones between body parts.

As all body parts have bones that are not linked to each other, if I move the upper arm, it won't move the forearm.

 

Currently it is not immediatly clear which vertex is influenced by which bone.
I think it must be fixed by coloring vertexes with colors of influenced bones.

Also bone select drobdown is too short you can not even see bone index.

In Spine 2d vertexes are colored this way


In DragonBones


in Anima 2d




Is something like that planned?

 

Thanks for the reply, but it seems the UI really changed since the blog post. I was following ANIMATE 2D CHARACTERS in Unity but it was around the time of the blog post and has also changed.
The 2D Animation info on Github is also not updated making it hard to follow.

Is there any recent documentation that I could use? FYI I'm using the 2D Animation v2.2.0 preview 4. When I drop my sprite on the Scene View I only see one body part, so I must be doing something wrong.

 

Thanks. This should be implemented. Because I can not see potential errors with weights without iterating through each vertex and see it manually. And without what I will rather continue to use spine and wait for this to be implemented.

By the way, your 2d animation package looks promising. Keep improving that until it is competetive with other animation progs. At least Just give us mandatory things and we will use this and will appreciate your work

 

OK so I was able to make it work. I followed a recent video

At first I was using a PNG file and thought the PSD Importer was thus not needed, but it seems to be mandatory.

Was I did was use Gimp to make my character, then export it as PSD (single layer) and renamed the file as PSB.

 

After I updated to 2019.2.0f1 I get these errors when I try to animate my new model with Animator:

Code (CSharp):

1. ArgumentException: An item with the same key has already been added. Key: -1668340974
2. System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[TKey,TValue].TryInsert (TKey key, TValue value, System.Collections.Generic.InsertionBehavior behavior) (at <a8ed250850854b439cedc18931a314fe>:0)
3. System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[TKey,TValue].Add (TKey key, TValue value) (at <a8ed250850854b439cedc18931a314fe>:0)
4. UnityEditor.CurveEditor.set_animationCurves (UnityEditor.CurveWrapper[] value) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/CurveEditor.cs:239)
5. UnityEditor.AnimEditor.UpdateCurveEditorData () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimEditor.cs:1290)
6. UnityEditor.AnimEditor.UpdateSelectedKeysToCurveEditor () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimEditor.cs:1220)
7. UnityEditor.AnimEditor.SaveCurveEditorKeySelection () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimEditor.cs:1239)
8. UnityEditor.AnimEditor.BeginKeyModification () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimEditor.cs:1246)
9. UnityEditorInternal.AnimationWindowControl.BeginKeyModification () (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimationWindowControl.cs:1087)
10. UnityEditorInternal.AnimationWindowControl.ProcessAutoKey (UnityEditor.UndoPropertyModification[] modifications) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimationWindowControl.cs:774)
11. UnityEditorInternal.AnimationWindowControl.PostprocessAnimationRecordingModifications (UnityEditor.UndoPropertyModification[] modifications) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Animation/AnimationWindow/AnimationWindowControl.cs:761)
12. UnityEditor.Undo.InvokePostprocessModifications (UnityEditor.UndoPropertyModification[] modifications) (at C:/buildslave/unity/build/Editor/Mono/Undo/Undo.bindings.cs:189)
13.  

now I cannot work my animations. Any workaround?

 

I never got those errros in 2019.1.10. I re-imported the model with no luck.

 

I'd been doing some custom scene object arrangement based one the Root Bone (Transform) reference from SpriteSkin, but now it appears that SpriteSkin has been made internal in new versions of the package. Is there another way to find out the root transform being used by a SpriteSkin in the scene? It seems odd to me that SpriteSkin is internal, since it's a visible Component on my game objects.

 

hi
I'm still waiting for an answer on this post
Thanks

 

I reported a bug on the same thing, acknowledged in another thread. The said they were hoping to address is in the next ~3 weeks if I recall.

 

Thanks man

 

PSB so buggy when you need to change part of your art and resave it into Unity via Finder (read somewhere that's what your'e meant to do). I'm on sixth redo of all the bones/weights because of it.

 

Deleting the animation and remaking it from the beginning helped. Now its ok.

 

If I am copy pasting the same skeleton on let's say 4 different PSB files, then dropping those 4 PSBs in an animation at different frames so I have a mixture of sprite and bone animation, will I be causing unnecessary performance cost? I.e. am I loading a new skeleton for each PSB frame change?

In other words should I stick to animating a character via the sprite swap feature and keep all sprite animations cycling through sprites in the sprite library on the same skeleton? or just save the sprite swap for literally different skins (like armor changes and equipment changes) only and continue to use the first mentioned method?

An example of why I'm animating this way is: sometimes my characters arm is viewed from side and sometimes its foreshortened viewed in perspective. Just moving the bones and squashing them doesn't give the foreshortening that I want to achieve. So durring animation the arm switches from side view to foreshortened view. BUT to complicate this the characters equipment can (like armor) can totally change the arm sprite in both the side and the foreshortened perspective view.

In either case if there isn't a way to do it already can there be a way to group let's say for example: all left leg sprites and all head sprites and all torso sprites etc... separately, each sprite in those groups having an ID, then have sub groups for those groups that contain all the possible skin changes for each sprite ID like different armor, equipment etc..? All using the same skeleton rig?

Unless I'm missing something and that is the way its setup or theres an easier way than what I'm describing I feel that right now I'm confused and also not seeing how the workflow should go for very involved animation.

One of my characters has a little over 800 sprites for just its base animations. It comes out that way since I have 40 different hand poses and angles, 80 different torso angles and poses etc... the animation is a massive part of the game. There are times when a fist or a boot changes but the rest stays the same... if there is a more graceful way of handling the animation please advise. Or if there is a solution yet to come please consider very involved animation.

Other than that I'm really loving the work done so far! Thank you so much!

 

Do you have a link to the report? Have the same performance problem.

 

I'm not sure that this is what you're talking about but I successfully implemented sprite swapping by replacing the texture of the sprite's material at runtime. Works with simple .PNGs in 2018.3.14f

 

Where can I get the example project of 2019.2?

 

@dquek or @Leo-Yaik any word on this? For now I'm stuck with copying the source from the package cache into my src directory and removing the internal modifier from the SpriteSkin class. It's far from ideal because it means updates will be a pain and it also requires me to move the PSD package in the same way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Still in Preview, eh?

 

I only need it in the editor. I was already using reflection for the rootBone property, since that wasn't previously public anyway, but that's a creative hack using c# extensions like that to get the type without specifying it. It actually made me realize GetComponent with the string parameter will also do the trick in my case. Thanks for the help!

That being said, are there plans to remove the internal flag on SpriteSkin once the package comes out of experimental? Is there a good reason to keep it from being extendable or referenced? In the end, I'd rather not have to use reflection.

 

Ok, I will ask my question one more time...By the way, I feel like you are blind for what I'm writing. What about performance issues, for what the hell it was transferred to ECS when the plugin is not optimized at all...I didn't saw any impact after the transfer, what is more, I only had to re-create every animation.

From my experience, when writing some reusable plugins, tools or engine parts ( i have my own library shared by every game of mine) it's super important to have a view on performance all the time... Currently, my project is not able to be released, only because I had faith in your 2D animation product ( wrong decision of mine ). Guys, I have like 4 NPC's walking around the screen. Whenever they enter the screen there is a lag and lost in fps... I will say it one more time... 4 NPC's ( 1 draw call ), with animator and 2d animation.

Have you did any progress under this issue from my last message? I'm not the only one struggling with it...

Edit: I must say I'm thinking of using a spine or anima2d... As even if I try to support you... you don't give a damn about my reports, pushing only more features without fixing what you have did good in the first.

 

Nice to hear, waiting for this really much and appreciate!

 

It is possible to access deformed mesh or verticles on a current frame from Sprite Renderer or Sprite Skin from a script? I tried everything, but without luck :-( From SpriteRenderer.sprite.vertices I am always getting not deformed verticles even if they are deformed by bones

 

Use case is to create 2d edge or poly colider on current frame. I am using deformed sprite as soft body, but other sprites cant colide with it properly because i cant get the current vert positons. So i cant pass the edge vericles to 2d edge or poly collider. Do you think you can expose it? Thank you

 

Hey!

I would like to check if this update was released?

I'm currently working in a game, where we are having the same kind of performance issues, specially on Mesh.Deform calls. Is really slowing down our game.

We have tested the last version of 2dskinning on Package Manager, and also at Unity 19.3 beta. The result are kind of the same.

Do you guys have some tip or something we can do for a better result?

We can share more information about the project, for test proposes too!

Here is couple of information from our game:
https://twitter.com/SkullfishVR/status/1169976328197672962
https://twitter.com/SkullfishVR/status/1174322182333358082

Thanks!

 

So to clarify, this doesn't eliminate the zillions of independent LateUpdate() calls for every sprite? If we have lots of bones we're still going to tank our FPS?