How to make custom playables reset to previous state after preview

I made a custom playable that advances the dialogue once per clip.When I preview the timeline in edit mode, it works but the changes persist after exiting preview. Is this expected behavior? If not, How to fix it so that the state of the dialogue track is reset when preview ends?

Here is the behaviour class for the clip. It simply calls a function to advance the text on the linesource once in it' lifetime.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System;
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using UnityEngine.Playables;
4. using UnityEngine.Timeline;
5.  
6. [Serializable]
7. public class DialogueTrackBehaviour : PlayableBehaviour
8. {
9.     bool hasBegun = false;
10.  
11.     public override void OnPlayableCreate(Playable playable)
12.     {
13.  
14.     }
15.  
16.     public override void ProcessFrame(Playable playable, FrameData info, object playerData)
17.     {
18.         if (!hasBegun)
19.         {
20.             LineStream lineSource = playerData as LineStream;
21.             hasBegun = true;
22.             lineSource.advanceText();
23.         }
24.     }
25. }
26.  

 

Uh I'm not very familar with reflection. I just used the playabes wizard to generate most of the code and modified it to my understanding. In my case advancetext() does not directly modify properties of line stream. The linestream class has a list of strings for dialogue, an int field for index and a text gameobject ref. The advancetext() function increments the index and sets the text to the next string in the list.
Is this incompatible with playables?

 

Does a textmeshpro field count as built in unity component?

 

I just had this problem.

At first I have tried:
driver.AddFromName<Light>(nameof(Light.color))
(obviously is is not working)

Than I changed inspector mode to debug and when you hover over the light color label it displays the property name"
driver.AddFromName<Light>("m_Color")

Still it would be good to have library of property names instead of hard coded strings.



Now my question is it possible to have similar functionality at run time.
So when timeline finished playing my property is restored ?

 

Sorry to dig out an old post but I cannot find a satisfying answer. I wanted to use GatherProperties method from a custom timeline track to undo what is previewed in the timeline window. Works fine for transform properties like localPosition but what about parenting ? I cannot undo the parenting this way, the serialized property m_Father cannot be used by the driver.

Code (CSharp):

1. serializedObject.FindProperty("m_Father")

works fine and retrieves this property but if I try to use this propertyname with

Code (CSharp):

1. driver.AddFromName<Transform>(goTargetExposed, "m_Father");

I have an error (works fine for properties like m_LocalPosition.x)

What I am attempting to achieve is : I have a timeline, it is changing parenting of an object. I want to be able to preview this timeline and its effects without playing (no problem for this) but I want also to rollback the timeline changes while leaving the Preview mode. The IPropertyPreview interface looked perfect for this but I cannot manage to undo parenting changes (yes I had a look at https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Undo.SetTransformParent.html, it works fine but it is not automatically invoked when leaving the preview mode, unlike the properties modifications gathered by IPropertyPreview). I did not manage to find any hook for entering/leaving the preview mode either (yes I can code it myself by watching the timeline window on each frame but it's kinda clunky)...
Does anyone have an advice please ?