What does tileAnimationData.animationStartTime actually do?

I have tried setting tileAnimationData.animationStartTime to various figures (I am trying to get the map tiles to start their animations at different times in order to stop them being in sync) but it does not appear to do anything. I have set it to 100, 1000, 10000 but the animations still seem to start immediately. The documentation is pretty basic and I can't find much online.

 

Have you tried a normalized value between 0 and 1? Just something to try, I've never used that property.

 

No. It seems like that would be counter intuitive as the documentation says "The start time of the animation. The animation will begin at this time offset." However I will give it a try just in case.

 

Yeah, I realize that but the Animator in Unity makes use of normalized time values, so I figured it'd be worth a try since you've covered the other bases. Definitely not what the docs imply.

You may want to share your class/snippet of code where you set the tileAnimationData just to be sure there's not another issue being overlooked.

 

Code (CSharp):

1. public override bool GetTileAnimationData(Vector3Int position, ITilemap tilemap, ref TileAnimationData tileAnimationData)
2.      {
3.          if (_animatedSprites.Length > 0)
4.          {
5.              tileAnimationData.animatedSprites = _animatedSprites;
6.              tileAnimationData.animationSpeed = m_MinSpeed;
7.              tileAnimationData.animationStartTime = Random.Range(0f, 10000f);
8.              return true;
9.          }
10.          return false;
11.      }

 

i am having similar issue
animationStartTime is not working consistantly? or i am crazy or ghosts are F***ing with my code... or more likely i guess i just got a simple bug but idk weird

https://github.com/rakkarage/TestAnimatedTile

i just added randomStartTime bool to animatedTile so that i can sync some animations and randomize others

but i cannot get the torches to randomize
i got the banner animation to randomize but not the torch? so it must have something to do with the time or the number of animations in the animations because that is the only difference!?

it works in editor but not in run!?

i guess i will attempt the 0-1 fix
EDIT: ya it is 0 to 1 i guess duh