Access clip timings

Following the examples found in the timeline playable Wizard, I am using the new Timeline to create my own custom track which drives a monobehaviour script through a playablebehaviour.
I am adding several clips to the track and I need to access at runtime the 'start' and 'end' times of each playable inside the track. its easy to get the duration of the playable through the playableBehaviour but I really need to access the clip timings.
Your help is very much appreciated.

 

Ok, I sort of cheated my way around this but I really do think there is definitely an easier way out there in the wilderness
What I did is to post a notification (using my own completely decoupled notification system) to send the created clip which is then captured by the respective playableBehaviour:

Code (CSharp):

1. [TrackColor(0.855f, 0.8623f, 0.87f)]
2. [TrackClipType(typeof(MonitorTextAnimatorClip))]
3. [TrackBindingType(typeof(MonitorOutput))]
4. public class MonitorTextAnimatorTrack : TrackAsset
5. {
6.     public override Playable CreateTrackMixer(PlayableGraph graph, GameObject go, int inputCount)
7.     {
8.         return ScriptPlayable<MonitorTextAnimatorMixerBehaviour>.Create (graph, inputCount);
9.     }
10.  
11.     protected override Playable CreatePlayable (PlayableGraph graph, GameObject go, TimelineClip clip)
12.     {
13.         var p = base.CreatePlayable (graph, go, clip);
14.         NotificationCenter.Post (NotificationType.ClipCreated, new object[]{ p, clip });
15.         return p;
16.     }
17. }

Code (CSharp):

1. [Serializable]
2. public class MonitorTextAnimatorBehaviour : PlayableBehaviour
3. {
4.     private Playable playable;
5.     private TimelineClip clip;
6.     public override void OnPlayableCreate (Playable playable)
7.     {
8.         this.playable = playable;
9.         NotificationCenter.AddListener(OnClipCreated,NotificationType.ClipCreated);
10.         base.OnPlayableCreate (playable);
11.     }
12.  
13.     public override void OnPlayableDestroy (Playable playable)
14.     {
15.         NotificationCenter.RemoveListener(OnClipCreated,NotificationType.ClipCreated);
16.         base.OnPlayableDestroy (playable);
17.     }
18.  
19.     private void OnClipCreated(Notification note)
20.     {
21.         var data = (object[])note.data;
22.         var clipOwner = (Playable)data [0];
23.         if (clipOwner.GetHashCode() == playable.GetHashCode()) {
24.             clip = (TimelineClip)data [1];
25.             Debug.Log (clip.start + "   " + clip.end);
26.         }
27.     }
28. }

I know, I know, its uglier then an ugly duckling that decided to let itself go. I really hope someone comes up with the right answer (I know you're definitely somewhere out there, go ahead, start writing that delicious answer).

 

You can cut out your notification system by setting the clip directly on the behaviour like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.     protected override Playable CreatePlayable (PlayableGraph graph, GameObject go, TimelineClip clip)
2.     {
3.         ScriptPlayable<MonitorTextAnimatorBehaviour > playable = (ScriptPlayable<MonitorTextAnimatorBehaviour >) base.CreatePlayable(graph, go, clip);
4.         playable.GetBehaviour().clip = clip;
5.         return playable;
6.     }

 

Thanks a lot, that is absolutely great!!!

 

Hi there,
I know that this thread is quite old now, but Unity version were you using for this?
I'm also trying to get the TimelineClip information of a clip but for some reason CreatePlayable(PlayableGraph graph, GameObject go, TimelineClip clip) is internal, not virtual in Unity 2018.1.3 so I'm not able to override it and assign the clip myself.