Question Animated Custom Properties with Timeline tracks

Hey folks

is there a way to get access to animated custom properties on animation clips played through timeline? Another thread mentions using.

Code (CSharp):

1. animator.BindStreamProperty(m_animator.transform, typeof(Animator), property);

but I'm not much of a coder and I dunno how what to do with that.

I wanna get the floats i've exported through from maya and use them driving some postprocessing stuff, ive got all that working, and it'd work fine through a state machine, but we need to do this through timeline (and have it evaluate when scrubbing / playing in edit mode).

cheers

 

Thanks very much @julienb - I've almost got it! I'm trying to take the example and make a more generic system where all animated custom properties are exposed to access via other things. In my code though, for some reason the property is getting bound to the new name (it goes dark blue in the inspector) but the value isn't changing when i scrub the timeline. I have a very simple class to hold the data.

Possibly unrelated, but i also get "Importer(FBXImporter) generated inconsistent result" when i reimport it.

Code (CSharp):

1. public class AnimCustomData : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     [Serializable]
4.     public class AnimCustomProperty
5.     {
6.         public string m_name;
7.         public float m_value;
8.     }
9.  
10.     [SerializeField]
11.     public List<AnimCustomProperty> m_animCustomProperties = new List<AnimCustomProperty>();
12. }
13.  
14. class AnimBinder : AssetPostprocessor
15. {
16.     void OnPostprocessGameObjectWithAnimatedUserProperties(GameObject go, EditorCurveBinding[] bindings)
17.     {
18.         if (bindings.Length != 0)
19.         {
20.             AnimCustomData animData = go.AddComponent<AnimCustomData>();
21.  
22.             for (int i = 0; i < bindings.Length; i++)
23.             {
24.                 animData.m_animCustomProperties.Add(new AnimCustomData.AnimCustomProperty());
25.                 animData.m_animCustomProperties[i].m_name = bindings[i].propertyName;
26.  
27.                 bindings[i].propertyName = "m_animCustomProperties.Array.data[" + i + "].m_value";
28.                 bindings[i].path = AnimationUtility.CalculateTransformPath(go.transform, go.transform.root);
29.                 bindings[i].type = typeof(AnimCustomData);
30.             }
31.         }
32.     }
33. }

 

oh but

m_value

in my code is a float? or I literally can't address that property like this? So impossible to make a generic component that just has all the floats of all custom curves on a clip? Can i do this with a dictionary where the value type is float? I tried but got stuck finding the property name of a dict value.

 

Aight, I will do just that then, thanks for your help!