Does legacy animation is really obsolete?

Hi...

I have a house containing (obviously) doors, I want to animate them opening and closing... as you can see, a very simple Rot Y curve can do the job, legacy animation makes really easy to achieve this... but as I read, legacy animation will be deprecated in future version of Unity, in such case, do I´m forced to use Mecanim ?... even for a quick and simple animation like opening/closing door?..

I guess Mecanim is wonderful for more complex animations, what will happen if you want to do simple animations?

Thanks

 

You could do some simple animations.

 

Or a tween solution, or just code the rotation, or just use legacy.
They've stated legacy will not be deprecated until all ability with it is replaced with mecanim, and can be 'updated' without issue.

 

I think that time draws close though... The idea of the simple animation component is to fill any last gaps among other reasons.

 

I am just here to say that based on this presentation, he said Legacy Animation System is not going anywhere and is the best practice for optimization. Just in case someone lands on this thread from Google.. (the event was held several months after the last reply)

 

I think the new DOTS animation when it arrives will largely remove the need for legacy. But ya there is a huge performance difference and Unity understands that. Mecanim is roughly 2x more main thread cpu time, a little more actually. Plus skinned mesh animation is fairly heavy to start with, which can make that difference very significant. Deprecating something that solves a real problem with no replacement and without a really good reason for doing so would be silly.

 

What's the story with this? Is it deprecated or not?

 

It's "L e g a c y"

Also funny how the simple animation blog post was deleted.
Things that make you go "hmmm"

 

No, it's not deprecated. They have said they won't deprecate it without having a system that can handle all the same features with equal or better performance. How true that actually ends up being is anybody's guess.