[Release] Event Player - Visual Play and Organize UnityEvent

UnityEvent is good, but not good enough! What can we do, if we want to Visual reorder, reorganize or deactive events? Here comes the time saver：

Event Player！​

Call Me Whenever You Want
The plugin provide following Components that can Invoke Events on different ways:

• EventPlayer: It's the base class for other components, when you call Play/Stop Method, The certain UnityEvent will be Invoked. It also has severial properties:
  • IsActive
  • IsPlayOnAwake
  • IsPlayOnce
  • IsReverse

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• EventPlayerGroup: Manage each child's Component that inherit from EventPlayer.

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• DelayEventPlayer: Play after [defaultDelayTime] seconds
  
• RepeatEventPlayer: Repeat Play every [replayDeltaTime] seconds for about [dufaultDuration] seconds
• TempEventPlayer: Play at once, and Stop after [dufaultDuration] seconds.

You Know How It Works
EventPlayer is a set of Components that take care of UnityEvents, and rely on gameobject states(parenting, active state, sibling index, etc). If you are familar with GameObject and how to parenting them in Hierarchy Window, then you are good to go.

Show Me More!
Let's say we have different events, instead of bind them into one EventPlayer, you can break them into several EventPlayer, place them under one EventPlayerGroup and call it instead:

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With this improvement, we can do the following thing:

• Change Event order: Rearrange childrens of EventPlayerGroup's GameObject.
• Hide Event: Set specify EventPlayer's [IsActive] property as false.
• Reuse Event: Just add a new EventPlayer and link to the Common EventPlayer!

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Yes, It Involves Coroutine, But…
The Coroutine will keep on working even if you deactive the relate GameObject, so don't you worry about it

Visual Editor GUI!
See that little toggle on the right side of Name Label?

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The Toggle will help you check/change property or Invoke Method of EventPlayer without using the Inspector Window (you can also check/uncheck the toggle by press middle mouse button).

Help!
I know this plugin need more time to polish, please send me feedback, Thanks

 

Does this work with Unity 2017.4?

 

I had try it on 2017.3、 2018.1、 2018.2, everything works fine!

 

I've noticed that the OnStop() event gets triggered on the very first frame. Regardless of where I've placed the thing on the timeline.

 

Yes, It seems that timeline will call the OnBehaviourPause on the first frame, it make me sicks too

 

I have since written my own Unity Event system for the timeline. I've figured out a way around the issue. Maybe this will help you! (if you are using PlayableBehaviour for this too)

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.     public override void OnBehaviourPause(Playable playable, FrameData info)
3.     {
4.         double time = playable.GetGraph().GetRootPlayable(0).GetTime();
5.         if (time > 0)
6.         {
7.             /// DO THE EVENT
8.         }
9.  
10.         base.OnBehaviourPause(playable, info);
11.     }
12.  
13.  

This will check if the timeline is on the first frame before executing the command. It prevents it from executing at the very beginning.

 

Thanks for your advice, That's a good way to achieve! I think that Unity should give us a reset method such as OnBehaviourReset, so we don't have to check it manually.

Anyway, I have update the plugin, it should be avaliable soon.

 

But: "The package has been submitted using Unity 2018.1.6." - makes it impossible for all my attempts to load your Asset into Unity 2017.4...
Very sad...

Sorry for Googletranslate

 

My bad I have forget that the AssetStore API needs to update Plugin with the minimum Verstion, I have already reupload it again Thanks！