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Feedback Animator State Transitions lack customizability

Discussion in 'Animation' started by ChimiChangle, Aug 26, 2022.

  1. ChimiChangle

    ChimiChangle

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    I really wish there was a way to transition from one animation to the next in a way that wasn't just linear. I looked around and found this: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/Manual/TimelineEasingClips.html
    but this is for a much older version of unity and is no longer a supported feature. To be able to Ease-in and Ease-out of two states, with control over the nature of the easing would be godsend. Instead, I purposefully create extra animations that are literally just transition states that ease, but I am also aware that this is not sustainable for animations that have a lot of connectivity/transitions.

    There may even be existing solutions that I'm unaware of, but since I'm using the animator for UI, I can't find many tutorials on layers, substate-machine, and blending work for UI elements.

    I don't use UI Toolkit either because the animations available are too basic and also it is incompatible with the current game I've been hired to work on.
     
    ChimiChangle, Aug 26, 2022
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  2. karl_jones

    karl_jones

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    This is also the Animation team :p
    I guess we need an Animation team Dev blitz next!
    I'll pass the feedback on to them. Thanks
     
    karl_jones, Aug 26, 2022
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  3. ChimiChangle

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    Dang, I use these for UI so I thought I could squeak it in, oh well
     
    ChimiChangle, Aug 26, 2022
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  4. karl_jones

    karl_jones

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    There is an experimental animation system for UI Toolkit but it's separate from the existing animation system. Ill let the UI Toolkit team give further details.
     
    karl_jones, Aug 26, 2022
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  5. martinpa_unity

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    UI Toolkit now supports uss transitions which are analog to css transitions. It's a fairly simple animation system that is built-in directly in UI Toolkit. There is no built-in way to drive it through Timeline/Animation at the moment (more info about that here).

    In the future, as we improve UI Toolkit, there might be proper integration with the Timeline/Animation workflows, but as Karl said, adding features in those workflows is owned by the Animation team.
     
    martinpa_unity, Aug 26, 2022
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  6. ChimiChangle

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    Definitely looking for UGUI features, mainly because UI Toolkit doesn't cover everything that UGUI can do right now.
     
    ChimiChangle, Aug 26, 2022
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  7. optimise

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    When start working on proper integration with the Timeline/Animation workflow, I hope UI Toolkit runtime UI can solve UI animation performance issue at uGUI that when using Animator to animate uGUI it will greatly affect ui performance.
     
    optimise, Aug 26, 2022
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