Instanciated timeline losing connections in animation track

I have an animated vcam in a timeline track which is instantiated at runtime. When it is instantiated the vcam loses connection to the track. Is it even possible to reconnect it using the API or is there a better way to instantiate a timeline that has a vcam in an animator track?

 

Thanks for responding so quickly! 



You were both super helpful. @mikew_unity you are right - making the vcam a child of the timeline gameobject totally clears up the animator binding. 



Turns out the real question I should have been asking was how to bind the cinemachine brain to the cinemachine.timeline. Luckily I spent a good bit of yesterday reading up on the api docs you referenced yesterday @seant_unity and I finally got something working that binds everything up at runtime:

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.Playables;
5. using UnityEngine.Timeline;
6. using Cinemachine;
7.  
8. public class DynamicBind : MonoBehaviour
9. {
10.  
11.     public TimelineAsset TimlineAsset;
12.     public string TrackName;
13.     public CinemachineBrain cineCam;
14.  
15.  
16.     private void Start()
17.     {
18.         cineCam = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("PictureCamera").GetComponent<CinemachineBrain>();
19.     }
20.  
21.     void Update()
22.     {
23.  
24.  
25.         var director = this.GetComponent<PlayableDirector>();
26.         director.playableAsset = TimlineAsset;
27.  
28.         foreach (var playableAssetOutput in director.playableAsset.outputs)
29.         {
30.             if (playableAssetOutput.streamName == TrackName)
31.             {
32.                 director.SetGenericBinding(playableAssetOutput.sourceObject, cineCam);
33.             }
34.  
35.         }
36.         director.Play();
37.  
38.     }
39.  
40. }
41.  

What's weird is now the timeline just won't play but it seems to think it is playing. Even Play on Awake doesn't work while the script is activated for some reason. I am not getting errors logged in the console and when I check out the timeline and try to manually play it you can see the some non standard state of the play button is active for some reason.

Here is a video showing how everything plays fine without the script but then activating the script totally prevents anything from playing. 


https://www.dropbox.com/s/jwqhl2jk1zt5a7s/bug?.mov?dl=0



Am I just missing something obvious here? I have spent an embarrassing amount of time googling and trying different things and I feel like I am close but I am honestly not sure if I am even on the right track haha.

 

Thank you so very much @seant_unity !!!! Everything is working just fine now. Words cannot express the gratitude I am feeling right now.

You are deeply appreciated.


If anyone else is having a similar problem I just executed everything at start.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.Playables;
5. using UnityEngine.Timeline;
6. using Cinemachine;
7.  
8. public class DynamicBind : MonoBehaviour
9. {
10.  
11.     public TimelineAsset TimlineAsset;
12.     public string TrackName;
13.     public CinemachineBrain cineCam;
14.  
15.  
16.     private void Start()
17.     {
18.         cineCam = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("PictureCamera").GetComponent<CinemachineBrain>();
19.  
20.         var director = this.GetComponent<PlayableDirector>();
21.         director.playableAsset = TimlineAsset;
22.  
23.         foreach (var playableAssetOutput in director.playableAsset.outputs)
24.         {
25.             if (playableAssetOutput.streamName == TrackName)
26.             {
27.                 director.SetGenericBinding(playableAssetOutput.sourceObject, cineCam);
28.             }
29.  
30.         }
31.         director.Play();
32.  
33.     }
34.  
35. }
36.  

 

@mikew_unity sorry for reviving a dead thread but I have been thinking deeply about how to integrate timelines into architecture recently.

So you generally keep a vcam embedded in each prefab with it's associated timeline? Is there a best practice that you follow for setting the Cinemachine Brain?

 

In my case I cannot instantiate the gameplay camera with the cutscene so i am not able to make a transition from the cutscene vcams to my gameplay vcam because the gameplay vcam's reference doesnt exist when its instantiated. is there anyway to re assign my gameplay vcam to the cinemachine track in timeline?

 

is it the same for even cameras that are in the cinemachinetrack? I am asking cuz i cant see those cameras in the playabledirector's bindings.