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Timeline and low framerate

Discussion in 'Timeline' started by Flag74, Dec 12, 2018.

  1. Flag74

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    Does low framerate makes timeline skips very short clip?
    What if you your game rules are based upon it and framerate drop?
    It happened that setting 4x as Time speed it skipped something.
    Can u confirm it?
    thx
     
    Flag74, Dec 12, 2018
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  2. seant_unity

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    Yes, timeline is sampled each frame, so if there is a low framerate it is sampled less, and if a clip is short it may not be run.
     
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  3. Flag74

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    Is there any difference with animation clip timeline?
    I mean, if u set an event on a particular frame and framerate drops it could not fire?

    that's a very bad news...time sync events are totaly unreliable under certain conditions
     
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  4. seant_unity

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    Animation Clips use extrapolation by default, so even in 'holes' on a track there is a pose.

    2019.1 has signals for exactly this purpose, they trigger when the point in time has been passed.
     
    seant_unity, Dec 13, 2018
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  5. Flag74

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    I guess extrapolation doesn't resolve the issue when u have for example 3-4 events adjacent without holes?
     
    Flag74, Dec 13, 2018
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