Question Cinemachine Timeline Track with empty reference

I expected this to be the wanted behaviour, but apparently it's not like that:

- When creating a new Cinemachine track in a timeline, it won'r have any effect until a CinemachineBrain is assigned to it; that's problematic when a timeline is used in a prefab that is used among different scenes (e.g. a "level end" cutscene), each one with a different brain. I expected it to take the first found CMBrain in the scene when one is not provided (something like a "FindObjectOfType").

Or am I missing something?

Peace <3

 

I'm trying that but seems that SetGenericBing doesnt work :S
Here's the code I'm using :

Code (CSharp):

1. var timelineAsset = director.playableAsset as TimelineAsset;
2. var trackList = timelineAsset.GetOutputTracks();
3. foreach (var track in trackList) {
4.     if (track.name == "Cinemachine Track") {
5.         director.SetGenericBinding(track, cmBrain);
6.     }
7. }

Where "cmBrain" is the brain component on my camera GO.
I tried by feeding the GO and it also doesn't work.
The track is correctly found tho...

 

Oh god, I found out why :S The Clips in the CinemachineTrack are made to hold a reference to the VirtualCamera they blend to; ofc, those references re not saved in the TimelineAsset and I guess the only way is to assign them in the scene? :S

 

Ok, somehow I found out I have to get the CinemachineShot from the Track Clips, and then use something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. director.SetReferenceValue(cinemachineShot.VirtualCamera.exposedName, myVirtualCamera);

But that doesn't seem to work: the camera is already parsed to the timeline, and can even be seen in the Clip inspector, but somehow it doesn't affect the timeline :S

 

That's great and I got it working as intended, but what about creating an official wrapper class or method for the whole process?
If Timeline is all about ease-of-use there should be way less need to dig for those answers ^^"