TrackEntry.TimeScale not on all Animations working

5yF0Rc3

I have multiple problems adding animations and changing the speed: For the finetuning of our animation duration we are using the TimeScale of the TrackEntry like this:
public void Jump() { _skeletonAnimation.AnimationState.SetAnimation(0, _animJump, false).TimeScale = _animJumpSpeed; _currentState = AnimationState.InAir; }
The speed part working as expected. Howerever it's not working on all animations... The "landing" animation is not changeable with the TrackEntry, but setting the AnimationState.TimeScale would work (but then i can't controll the animations i add with .AddAnimation() ) .
The code for the landing:
public void Grounded() { if ((_currentState != AnimationState.InAir & WasGrounded)) { return; } print("Landing"); _skeletonAnimation.AnimationState.AddAnimation(0, _animLanding, false, 0f).TimeScale = _animLandingSpeed; _skeletonAnimation.AnimationState.AddAnimation(0, _animIdle, true, 0f).TimeScale = _animIdleSpeed; _currentState = AnimationState.Idle; return; }

sequence: I think the animation is skipped an going straight to "walk"
seq: the jump is not held
seq: the speed problem:
The Animation is even slower than the orginal speed . And the second problem is, its seems like the jump animation is not always holding its last position even tough there should be no other animation interfere till the landing:

Any suggestions?

Harald

5yF0Rc3 Howerever it's not working on all animations... The "landing" animation is not changeable with the TrackEntry

TimeScale should be applied as normally to each of your animations. Perhaps your problem is due to MixDuration, not TimeScale, making your landing animation look longer due to a longer transition duration?

Regarding your shared video, console output and the three seq descriptions: please note that we don't know what your animations should look like (or their duration) and we also don't know your remaining code, or your properties such as _animLandingSpeed. I'm afraid you would need to create a very simple scenario where only two or three of your problematic animations are played in sequence, showing the issue you encounter, without any game code.

5yF0Rc3

Harald
Thank You! I did set my MixDuration manualy in Code and the slow motion is gone!
like this:
// Mix tables - in Start because AnimationState may does not exist in Awake Spine.AnimationStateData _stateData = _skeletonAnimation.state.Data; _stateData.DefaultMix = 0.01f; _stateData.SetMix(_animLanding.name, _animIdle.name, 0.06f); _stateData.SetMix(_animLanding.name, _animWalk.name, 0.2f); ......... _skeletonAnimation.AnimationState.Data = _stateData;

The problem with the skipping was my fault, Important here is following statement of the .SetAnimation()

If the formerly current track entry was never applied to a skeleton, it is replaced (not mixed from).

Finally, the animation not helding its pose after a non-looping .setAnimation() did not resolve itself. Debugging it with GetCurrentTrackEntry(0).Animation.Name shows that the animation is played correctly till the landing replaces it. But the animation will still occasionally reset itself to the setup pose. I try solving this with an looping "in air" animation which will never depend on the last pose of setAnimation.

Harald

@5yF0Rc3 Glad to hear you could resolve some of your issues, thanks for letting us know!

5yF0Rc3 Finally, the animation not helding its pose after a non-looping .setAnimation() did not resolve itself. Debugging it with GetCurrentTrackEntry(0).Animation.Name shows that the animation is played correctly till the landing replaces it. But the animation will still occasionally reset itself to the setup pose. I try solving this with an looping "in air" animation which will never depend on the last pose of setAnimation.

If the animation is sometimes reset to setup pose but not always, it could be a race-condition in your game code. Instead of logging only GetCurrentTrackEntry(0).Animation.Name, you could add some log statements inside the SkeletonAnimation class in methods SetAnimation() and AddAnimation() to see all calls that are issued.

5yF0Rc3

Harald Thanks.
I have found the problem: I am reversing the Animation for backwards walking like:
Spine.TrackEntry track = _skeletonAnimation.AnimationState.SetAnimation(0, _animWalk, true); track.Reverse = true;
but somehow this ended up messing with all the other Animations and setting them (sometimes) also in reverse. I dont know why though. I thought the TrackEntry is only one animation, and I checked with track.Animation which returned always the correct one.

Harald

@5yF0Rc3 Glad to hear you've figured it out, thanks for letting us know!

5yF0Rc3 but somehow this ended up messing with all the other Animations and setting them (sometimes) also in reverse. I dont know why though. I thought the TrackEntry is only one animation, and I checked with track.Animation which returned always the correct one.

Yes, the returned TrackEntry is always the newly added TrackEntry that results from the issued animation call, so for SetAnimation(0, _animWalk, true) it's a TrackEntry for the just set _animWalk animation.