Question Removing Old Recorded Animation

Hello,
I looked around all over but couldn't seem to find a proper solution:

Whats the best way to remove old Recorded Animations in a Timeline? I've tried many ways to try to remove them. I even went as far as deleting all the tracks in my timeline to test it, but the recorded animations are still in the timeline.

I built a pretty complex Timeline for a 2D project, but now I have some not used Recorded animation junking up the timeline. I think this is causing a bug with my timeline because now animation clips I put into my timeline do not move the objects I want anymore.

If anyone knows a quick method of cleanly deleting them please share it with me.

Thxs

 

I have the same problem (Unity 2021.1.7f1).
I have saved the project and I see the .playable files show as modified (in Git).

In the following, the highlighted clip and the 2 below are not used and not accessible (even to delete) within the inspector.


I was able to remove one of these but only by manually editing the .playable file removing the following:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. --- !u!74 &-6920315730872410450
3. AnimationClip:
4.   m_ObjectHideFlags: 0
5.   m_CorrespondingSourceObject: {fileID: 0}
6.   m_PrefabInstance: {fileID: 0}
7.   m_PrefabAsset: {fileID: 0}
8.   m_Name: Recorded (2)
9.   serializedVersion: 6
10.   m_Legacy: 0
11.   m_Compressed: 0
12.   m_UseHighQualityCurve: 1
13.   m_RotationCurves: []
14.   m_CompressedRotationCurves: []
15.   m_EulerCurves: []
16.   m_PositionCurves: []
17.   m_ScaleCurves: []
18.   m_FloatCurves:
19.   - curve:
20.       serializedVersion: 2
21.       m_Curve:
22.       - serializedVersion: 3
23.         time: 0
24.         value: 1
25.         inSlope: 0
26.         outSlope: 0
27.         tangentMode: 136
28.         weightedMode: 0
29.         inWeight: 0.33333334
30.         outWeight: 0.33333334
31.       m_PreInfinity: 2
32.       m_PostInfinity: 2
33.       m_RotationOrder: 4
34.     attribute: m_Alpha
35.     path:
36.     classID: 225
37.     script: {fileID: 0}
38.   m_PPtrCurves: []
39.   m_SampleRate: 60
40.   m_WrapMode: 0
41.   m_Bounds:
42.     m_Center: {x: 0, y: 0, z: 0}
43.     m_Extent: {x: 0, y: 0, z: 0}
44.   m_ClipBindingConstant:
45.     genericBindings:
46.     - serializedVersion: 2
47.       path: 0
48.       attribute: 1574349066
49.       script: {fileID: 0}
50.       typeID: 225
51.       customType: 0
52.       isPPtrCurve: 0
53.     pptrCurveMapping: []
54.   m_AnimationClipSettings:
55.     serializedVersion: 2
56.     m_AdditiveReferencePoseClip: {fileID: 0}
57.     m_AdditiveReferencePoseTime: 0
58.     m_StartTime: 0
59.     m_StopTime: 0
60.     m_OrientationOffsetY: 0
61.     m_Level: 0
62.     m_CycleOffset: 0
63.     m_HasAdditiveReferencePose: 0
64.     m_LoopTime: 0
65.     m_LoopBlend: 0
66.     m_LoopBlendOrientation: 0
67.     m_LoopBlendPositionY: 0
68.     m_LoopBlendPositionXZ: 0
69.     m_KeepOriginalOrientation: 0
70.     m_KeepOriginalPositionY: 1
71.     m_KeepOriginalPositionXZ: 0
72.     m_HeightFromFeet: 0
73.     m_Mirror: 0
74.   m_EditorCurves:
75.   - curve:
76.       serializedVersion: 2
77.       m_Curve:
78.       - serializedVersion: 3
79.         time: 0
80.         value: 1
81.         inSlope: 0
82.         outSlope: 0
83.         tangentMode: 136
84.         weightedMode: 0
85.         inWeight: 0.33333334
86.         outWeight: 0.33333334
87.       m_PreInfinity: 2
88.       m_PostInfinity: 2
89.       m_RotationOrder: 4
90.     attribute: m_Alpha
91.     path:
92.     classID: 225
93.     script: {fileID: 0}
94.   m_EulerEditorCurves: []
95.   m_HasGenericRootTransform: 0
96.   m_HasMotionFloatCurves: 0
97.   m_Events: []
98.  

 

I take that back. Manually deleting that block broke the timeline.

BTW I'm using Timeline package 1.5.5

 

I am running into the same problems with deleting timeline tracks.
I delete the track in unity, save the project but the monobehevior track and clips still remain in the *.playable file.
The only solution I've found is deleting them manually from the file.

Unity 2020.3.6

One reason I can see why this might not delete this track is because it references itself as the parentTrack for it's clips, so when unity does a search for references, it sees its used and doesn't delete it



I don't see a reason for the ParentTrack field at all since its a list of clips under the track as is.

Unity really needs to fix this!

 

I've just seen that user seant_unity no longer exists. Perhaps they've left the company. In that case, we're raising the issue in a vacuum. Has anyone reported this as a bug?

 

The only bug i found is this one: https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/is...director-will-keep-a-reference-to-the-binding
It says it was fixed though.
I think we need to actually report a new bug with the information we have

 

I agree a new bug report is needed. I am deep in client work at the moment and won't have a chance to submit a bug report for a couple of weeks. If you're able to do it, please include a link to this thread and also post the bug link here when it gets created (usually takes about a week for it to be processed and then they email you with a link).

 

Good news. It seems unity finally got to it.

• Fixed an issue where unused TrackAssets would be saved in the TimelineAsset file after removing tracks.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.timeline@1.6/changelog/CHANGELOG.html
It is a package.

 

Great! Well spotted. I wonder which version of Unity will include the fix. I haven't tested it in 2021.2 yet.