Draw order not working? (maybe)

ZilkaP

As you guys can see..

I don't really understand whats happening with the draw order in each animation, stuff is keyed too!

Any help/advice would be great 🙂 thanks.

ZilkaP

Nate

You took an enormous number of actions. Can you narrow down the problem? The problem is you somehow got the dress to not animate? If you can email the project file along with simple step by step instructions, we'd love to fix it. 🙂

Søren

@Zilka If I understand correctly it looks like there are different dressed for different animations and you're trying to key which one is visible by hiding/unhiding slots under the draw order node. Draw order is not for keying the visibility but for changing the order of the slots. If you want to key the visibility you need to find the slots in the skeleton itself. Notice that if you hide a slot under draw order with Auto Key on, the key will not automatically turn red to indicate that a change was made. But if you hide a slot under the skeleton hierarchy itself with auto key on, a key will be set.

I hope this helps. It was a little tricky following the video since so many things were happening.

Nate

To be clear, hiding or showing a slot is an editor feature. It is not keyable and doesn't affect exported data. It is for convenience while editing, eg to reduce clutter or to see what is under the slot's images without changing the visibility of the slot's attachments.

ZilkaP

Sorry for the late reply.

Yeah sorry the video seemed abit all over the place.
Basically yes, I was using different assets and different bones on the skeleton for each animation.
I have been told by a friend today that, when coming to exporting for use in unity this could cause a problem and that I should have 1 bone set for the 'dress' and use different slots to change in and out the image.

My reason to making new bone sets (with different dress image assets) is because it generally looked nicer and found it easier to animate with.

I'm a 2D animator and not at all a coder or have any knowledge of unity yet, so I'm guess working my way at the moment just creating the animations.
This is causing me problems now 🙁

Will be interested in the replies!