Comments on: New Animation timeline

By: Kristian Doyle

Kristian Doyle — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:16:21 +0000

Just curious will animation rate be one of the properties that can be parametised with the user-defined curve?

By: Rune Skovbo Johansen

Rune Skovbo Johansen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:08:11 +0000

@Bentley:
The animation window is for editing animation clips and it will let you specify animation curves for just about any property, including UV offset. Driving some properties by other properties is not related to that, and this would still require scripting.

By: Bentley

Bentley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:59:39 +0000

Will the animation feature allow us to link/parent/wire (depending on what 3D term you’re most used to) from other objects? Or will that still require some scripting intervention?

IE, can I drive a material UV offset from the position of an object, etc?

By: Riette HD

Riette HD — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:42:17 +0000

Fantastic! Brilliant!

It will be so much easier than making animations in third party software and then battling with the FBX export.

Can I make a suggestion? It may be so obvious I look a fool but I don’t care.

If you haven’t already done it, can we have the ability to move the object axis in relation to the object? Some 3D programs are a bit arbitrary where they put the axis and you need to be able to move it before you can correctly animate something. Move the axis to the hinge position before the door will work correctly for example. Sometimes you need to move it during the animation but I don’t think many programs do that so that’s probably too much to hope for.

Brilliant work chaps!

By: shalmdram

shalmdram — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:58:20 +0000

mm.. attractive..

By: Chris Kim

Chris Kim — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:52:53 +0000

Awesome!! Along with the curve editor, one very useful feature is adding a capability to trigger scripts on the timeline. It can be used to trigger sound, as an obvious example and many others to create dynamic cut-scenes. It might be a simple addition but the possibility is endless.

By: Adams Immersive

Adams Immersive — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:22:43 +0000

Just having curves for material colors alone simplifies all kinds of things I’ve had in mind!

By: Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Unity Roadmap

Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » Unity Roadmap — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:57:42 +0000

[...] are working on an all new Curve Editor for Unity. You can see some more information about this in Nicholas’s blog post a few days ago. But to sum it up, it rocks. It’s a full on curve editor with support for [...]

By: Preludian

Preludian — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:14:40 +0000

@THiggins: I thought it would be that way, the animation timeline isn’t something that can be done in a few weeks. And I guess this won’t be everything you planned for the 2.6 update… Oh well, than you’ll get a new customer a little bit sooner, your fault

By: loken

loken — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:07:46 +0000

Joachim, and Tom, thanks for the info guys! I have no reason not to buy now. =)

By: Tom Higgins

Tom Higgins — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:47:24 +0000

@loken: you don’t have to hate asking, as Joachim said it’s always been our policy that 2.x upgrades are free for existing Unity 2.x license holders.

@Preludian: to be clear, you will not see a Unity dot-release update by the end of your demo, it’s a bit further out than that.

By: Martin Schultz, Decane

Martin Schultz, Decane — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:26:30 +0000

Bloody awesome.

By: Preludian

Preludian — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:51:09 +0000

This is great news. I still have the windows demo, but once 2.6 is out I’ll buy the Indie version.

This new and advanced animation timeline is really one of my personal biggest missing features. This will allow me to move over from my 3D App (Blender) to Unity much sooner and gain extreme flexibility. Hopefully this will allow me to do all Bone-Animation and generally all animation work inside of Unity.

Got 15 days till end of demo, so hurry up

Oh, and Antialiasing with pixeleffects like bloom and blur would encourage me to buy pro one day

By: Joachim Ante

Joachim Ante — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:06:58 +0000

2.x upgrades are always for free. Thus the timeline will definately be a free upgrade.
The next paid upgrade will be Unity 3.0.

By: loken

loken — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:20:05 +0000

That is going to be awesome! I was so sad to see that it wasn’t included in 2.5, but I understand why.

Ergh, I hate asking this question as I know how annoying it is, but I ask it in the hopes of at least a hint as I;m sure you Unity guys have no clue yourselves at this point..

Is 2.6 going to be a free upgrade for those that bought 2.5?

I only ask because I really want to purchase Unity. It’s perfect. Except for the lack of the timeline editor, and I’m on a PC here, so I can’t use the old versions. Highly restricted budgets want to know..

Keep up the great work guys, and feel free to dismiss the question.