Mecanim recording...

Hiya!

Just checking out this stuff for recording mecanim animations and it looks super handy!
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.StartRecording.html

If I boil it down my character is made up of one position and rotation parent with a whole bunch of animations so in theory I could create cool replays with this (which is super exciting!!!).
Just wondering is there a way to save the recorded data for playback later?

I could see this being super useful. Even to record training clips...

Thanks,
Pete

 

Hi petey,

You cannot access the animation data created with Animator.StartRecording / Animator.StopRecording. To create that replay, you would need to code it yourself (including the animation format), as animation clips can't be serialized to disk.

This project could be interesting to you: https://github.com/newyellow/Unity-...er/tree/master/Unity Runtime Recorder/Scripts

Regards,
Raul.

 

Recording data like that would be super memory consuming and inefficient. You can record mecanim states and at what time they have occurred as well as input data. From there you could simulate the game, thus creating a replay.

 

Yeah that is why I was interested in the mecanim record system as it seems to record states etc. rather than full transforms so it would probably be pretty lightweight.
Unfortunately it can’t be saved though
I doubt I’ll have the time to code something like that myself, and it is a little frustrating because the built in record system gets 90% of the job done. Actually not too sure what the point of it is without being able to save it.