AnimationClips and Playables in ECS

What's current state of Animations and Playables in regards to ECS?

I really like Playables API. The way it's structured seems really well suited for ECS, Jobs and Burst (it contains mostly value types and internally pointers).

But there's one big drawback, it still needs Animator to create AnimationPlayableOutput.
What are the plans with Playables and Animations (specifically AnimationClips) in DOTS?
When we can expect some work to be done on this?

We're planning a project in near future and deciding what tech to use. DOTS seems like winner on all fronts except this one, we'd like to have Animations authored in 3rd party software (3ds max, Maya) imported as AnimationClips and played through DOTS.

 

While I don't expect new animator tool for DOTS anytime soon, I think you would be good if you wait for release, of new FPS sample. See Latest GDC talks.

There should be indications, how to animate characters in appropriate manner, with DOTS.
But until then, we need wait.

 

I would love to hear about it too !

 

Four years passed, any update on this?

As far as I know, the "current solution" is to bake animation curves in Editor (on demand or during build) and use that to animate objects in DOTS.

 

This is what I do to be honest. And in our project we started with that approach 2 years ago, since DOTS animation never was on the horizon. And didn't expect to come by in 2 years. And probably another year or 2 will be, before anything.

 

The Kinemation module in my framework does pretty much everything playables can do. It is slightly lower-level in that you control time progression yourself, but that's as easy as adding deltaTime to a field in a component.