bake timeline animation

Hi!

I have a project with a lot of animation clips in the timeline.

I was wondering if those animations are in some way "baked"?
Or is it possible to "bake" them since they are predefined on the timeline.

Also is it the most efficient way to play animation in term of performance?

Thanks for your insights.

 

I want to merge the clips so they can be exported into an FBX file as 1 clip, into an external program. The reason is, my characters timeline track involves multiple blending between clips, and to re-blend or set them up again in an external program (in the exact manner as in the timeline sequence) won't be possible

 

Hello, I have been wondering because animation tracks usually get complex on the editor, for example:


So I was wondering if evaluating and having in memory all the animations these clips come from would impact performance and I would consider baking the track into a single animation clip if that could help.

I appreciate any advise.

 

You can always keep and mute the original track then measure the difference. I would not expect it to be noticeable, but you never know for sure without measuring.

 

I can't think of a simple way to combine 2 curve, and I think that is the hard part. (combination of 2 simple curves may need more keyframe than the sum of the original keyframes to reproduce the same curve, not to mention that the interpolation of two clips is also a curve)

But hey! Unity already made a baker for everyone for free, and it's called Unity Recorder. Just play your timeline, record it by the Animation Clip Recorder, and it's done! You should definitly try this.
(There's even a session teaching you how to record timeline into an AnimationClip or other formats, in the above link)

If you want to handle the recording by script, use GameObjectRecorder class. (I believe it's almost the same as Animation Clip Recorder)