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Referencing Scene Objects in Custom Clip

Discussion in 'Timeline' started by Tehenauin, Jul 13, 2021.

  1. Tehenauin

    Tehenauin

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    What I want to achieve is the following:

    I want to make a Custon Timeline Clip, that moves the Camera to the position of a certain Target (Transform). I would have liked to have the Camera reference in the Track bindings and the Target Transform reference in the Clip itself. Of course this is not possible because the Playable Asset is a Scriptable Object.
    Does Someone know how to achieve something linke this in a good way. The only way I could come up with is having a Monobehaviour referencing different targets binded to the Track and let the clip only know the ID of the certain target. But I really don't like that.
     
    Tehenauin, Jul 13, 2021
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  2. DavidGeoffroy

    DavidGeoffroy

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    This is what Exposed References are for. You can put an exposed reference in your clip, and the actual referred object will be stored in the PlayableDirector, which can save scene/prefab references.
     
    DavidGeoffroy, Jul 13, 2021
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  3. Tehenauin

    Tehenauin

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    Now everything makes a lot more sense to me! Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!
     
    Tehenauin, Jul 14, 2021
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