Question How to start with a simple Animation

Hello everyone,

I have a little (almost) pure ECS project. I am using the latest DOTS Release 0.5x with 2020.3 (switching to 2021 soon) and I did understand, that I cannot use the DOTS Animation package anymore.

I am working on a base building game in isometric view and want to have a door with an opening animation.

What is the best way to handle this with my setup and at this point of the dots development state?

I know this has been asked before, but after the dots release 0.5x, I am not sure what to do and what to look for.

I anyone could point me in the right direction this would be highly appreciated.

thx
Reinhard

 

3 options:
1) Do the animation procedurally
2) Use one of the couple Vertex Animation Texture libraries floating about
3) Use this: https://github.com/Dreaming381/Lati...mentation~/Kinemation Animation and Rendering

Hopefully this gets you going, but if you need more guidance, let me know!

 

Hi,
thank you for the reply.

After reading https://forum.unity.com/threads/animation-status-update-q2-2022.1266089/ I was under the impression that I could use Mecanim with 0.5x but that was obviously an incorrect assumption.

Anyway, I looked a little bit into VAT, thank you for pointing that out, but right now, that's too sophisticated for what I want to do right now.
I bookmarked the github, I might need that later down the line.

Hence I only have the need to do very simple translation-based animation. (e.g. sliding a door open) I will go with your first option. That should be fine for my prototype, even though I would have liked to dive into the Animation stuff... but one has to stay focused, right? ;-)

cheers
reinhard

 

You can, but IMO it is awkward and clunky and there are better solutions.

 

Dude Thank You Very Much You Have Save Me A Ton Of Work

and i was searching for something for 3 months now