Plugins + Scripts Timeline

[alwaysblue]

why is timeline not synchronizing the animation when using randomize, they both have the same segment/layer/animation name. once the randomize triggers on the girl the other atom doesnt follow it just stays in the same animation

 

[raven37]

I found an incompatibility between timeline and Stoppers “Clothing plugin manager”. If you load a piece of clothing with the “static clothing” plugin it will completely remove the ability to use “overwrite pose” from timeline and everything in the pose section for The entire time you have vam open. You can remove the plugin from the clothing/scene, switch scenes, etc. It will not function again till you relaunch vam

 

[gghhoosstt123]

I found an incompatibility between timeline and Stoppers “Clothing plugin manager”. If you load a piece of clothing with the “static clothing” plugin it will completely remove the ability to use “overwrite pose” from timeline and everything in the pose section for The entire time you have vam open. You can remove the plugin from the clothing/scene, switch scenes, etc. It will not function again till you relaunch vam

Huh? this happened to me to for few times but without the use of clothing plugin. This problem is really frustrating since once it occurs then even removing and adding back the timeline plugin doesn't fix it.

 

[raven37]

The hat in question had the “Clothing plugin manager” plugin and the “static clothing” built in. Could be just the hat but I doubt it. It’s the only piece of clothing I’ve ever used with that plugin

 

[MDKSBG]

Why is the tier on top of the animation, I can't figure that one out

 

[FiraBlue]

Is there any advantage/disadvantage or difference between using this from the SCENE plugins? As opposed to using it through a person/atom plugin?

- I just sent it and started animating. So far it just seems like preference where you want to navigate to each time you click back out of the plugin (surely theres a plugin to help swapping between windows)
Thought maybe it would slow down having more plugins on a person/atom, especially with all that data? Seems to be running swell through the SCENE plugin manager

- Upon Lamp's advice.. If you are doing multiple animated atoms, it would probably be best to keep each atom's animation on it's own plugin. Thankfully it's easy enough to save your keyframes and load them onto another plugin instance

 

[SlimerJSpud]

Is there a way using a trigger to make a Timeline animation change to looping on one animation, instead of playing the next one in a sequence?

 

[Lamp]

Is there any advantage/disadvantage or difference to using this from the SCENE plugins? As opposed to using it through a person/atom plugin?

- I just sent it and started animating. So far it just seems like preference where you want to navigate to each time you click back out of the plugin (surely theres a plugin to help swapping between windows)
Thought maybe it would slow down having more plugins on a person/atom, especially with all that data? Seems to be running swell through the SCENE plugin manager

I prefer using individual person plugin, you can quickly access the plugin window by pressing N on the keyboard to switch between the person atoms.
This reduces the amount of keyframes, morphs, triggers, etc in one plugin window. Depends on what you're doing though.

 

[meatslinger]

Is there a way using a trigger to make a Timeline animation change to looping on one animation, instead of playing the next one in a sequence?

The target method you're probably after is "Pause sequencing". This can be triggered from another atom or from the scene animation itself. For the video here (linked below), I gave the cube two animations: sliding on one, rotating on the other, both set to loop, and each with the opposite animation next in sequence. Pausing sequencing with "true" holds the loop on one animation, while sending "false" allows it to cycle onward to subsequent animations.

https://imgur.com/W8pc8ho

 

[SlimerJSpud]

The target method you're probably after is "Pause sequencing". This can be triggered from another atom or from the scene animation itself. For the video here (linked below), I gave the cube two animations: sliding on one, rotating on the other, both set to loop, and each with the opposite animation next in sequence. Pausing sequencing with "true" holds the loop on one animation, while sending "false" allows it to cycle onward to subsequent animations.

https://imgur.com/W8pc8ho

Interesting. I'll have a look at that.

 

[meatslinger]

I'm seeing a behavior where the moment an atom with Timeline on it loads, it immediately starts playing its animation (and those of other atoms as well). I don't have any one atom set to auto-play on load, so this is unusual. Is there something else that causes this, that I can change to make sure all Timeline-enabled atoms stay paused on load?

Edit: I was mistaken; there was a light with Timeline on it that was playing automatically on load, and triggering all the others. Still though, that just shifts my question slightly: is it possible to have one Timeline atom playing while others are stopped? It seems like playing just one causes all of them to go simultaneously on whatever animation they had queued up. I could imagine creating "animations" that are just still frames and loop, to hold them on that while others run, but is it possible to have them run asynchronously, like having a background light that strobes on a pattern, or a looping object movement, while the main person atom isn't playing?

 

[SlimerJSpud]

I think the way it works is, if all the animations have the same names across the atoms, then when one plays, they all play. If they all have different names, then you have to manage which one plays when. You could also have one name for the anim on a light, and all the people atoms use the same set of names. Might be easier to manage that way.

 

[meatslinger]

I think the way it works is, if all the animations have the same names across the atoms, then when one plays, they all play. If they all have different names, then you have to manage which one plays when. You could also have one name for the anim on a light, and all the people atoms use the same set of names. Might be easier to manage that way.

I found out the setting I was actually after is "Sync with other atoms", in the "More" tab, under "Options". Once that's turned off, individual atom timelines can be run on their own or left to loop, allowing for ambient effects. It was causing some issues with a scene I'm building because I wanted to have some animated props and environmental effects (lighting and simulated weather) that need to continue animating even if one of the person atoms stops an animation or changes patterns.

 

[MR80]

Hi! I have a problem using triggers to change Segments/Animations in Timeline.

I have two Segments (S1 and S2) each with multiple Animations.
I can change the animations in S1 via a button calling the trigger "Next Animation".

If i change to S2 via the "Play Segment S2" trigger i cannot switch Animations in S2
When changing back to S1 it works again for S1

If i switch between the Segments in the Timeline Window the "Next Animation" Trigger works for both sequences.
I attached a Videoclip for better understanding.

 

[adong]

Need help!

I've been working on a timeline animation with multiple layers and animations. I saved it, but now when I reopen it, the plugin is broken (no animations, buttons not working), and I'm seeing the following errors in the console:







!> Timeline.AtomPlugin.Load: System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: s
at System.Double.Parse (System.String s, NumberStyles style, IFormatProvider provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Single.Parse (System.String s, IFormatProvider provider) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomAnimationSerializer.DeserializeCurveFromArray (VamTimeline.BezierAnimationCurve curve, SimpleJSON.JSONArray curveJSON, Int32 version, System.Boolean& dirty) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomAnimationSerializer.DeserializeCurve (VamTimeline.BezierAnimationCurve curve, SimpleJSON.JSONNode curveJSON, Int32 version, System.Boolean& dirty) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomAnimationSerializer.DeserializeClip (VamTimeline.AtomAnimationClip clip, SimpleJSON.JSONClass clipJSON, VamTimeline.AnimatablesRegistry targetsRegistry, Int32 version) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomAnimationSerializer.DeserializeClip (SimpleJSON.JSONClass clipJSON, VamTimeline.AnimatablesRegistry targetsRegistry, VamTimeline.Logger logger, Int32 version) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomAnimationSerializer.DeserializeAnimation (VamTimeline.AtomAnimation animation, SimpleJSON.JSONClass animationJSON) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at VamTimeline.AtomPlugin.Load (SimpleJSON.JSONNode animationJSON, SimpleJSON.JSONNode animationEditContextJSON) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

 

[Acid Bubbles]

Acid Bubbles updated Timeline with a new update entry:

Timeline v6.5.0 - Queuing and self-blend repeat

Special thanks to @vaan20 for all the contributions!

- Queuing system: Add animations to a queue using triggers and start playing it (you can see the queue in the Animations tab)
- Repeat loops: Normal loop animations have a shared first and last frame. Repeat loops are linear animations that self-bend (useful when you start with a mocap and want to preserve the original recording)
- Play Current Clip trigger (plays the selected animation in the Timeline UI)
- New Unity...

Read the rest of this update entry...

 

[atani]

Acid Bubbles updated Timeline with a new update entry:

Timeline v6.5.0 - Queuing and self-blend repeat



Read the rest of this update entry...

I think the main reason for the update was so that you could get to 69 updates

 

[ccammell]

just taking the opportunity to share my appreciation for this great plugin, thank you!

 

[Case]

Acid Bubbles updated Timeline with a new update entry:

Timeline v6.5.0 - Queuing and self-blend repeat



Read the rest of this update entry...

Much appreciated, thanks!

P.S.: Is this backwards compatible with v287? And if so, could you please point that out in the changelog?

 

[ExactB]

Hi,
In Timeline 5.x, the Position/Rotation state toggles (On / Comply / Off) on controllers don’t persist when switching animations.
In older Timeline builds, these were exposed as positionState / rotationState tracks and could be keyed (0=Off, 1=Comply, 2=On). In the current version, only “Pos enabled / Rot enabled” appear, so the compliance settings reset unless I reapply them manually or use presets/triggers.
Is this change intentional (controller states no longer animatable), or just something hidden by the compact targets system?
It would help a lot if either those tracks were available again, or if there were an option to auto-save/restore controller states per animation.

Thanks for all your work on Timeline — it’s the backbone of my VaM workflow.

 

[bash23]

do i need to export my animations if I update my timeline in my current scenes?

 

[Toddy]

I created a metronome in Timeline and compared the timing with a metronome app. Timeline global speed appears to be a 4/4 time signature at 120 BPMs. Every click of the global speed +0.1 increases the BPM by approximately 12. I think I could be off by a little but overtime the error will get bigger. I was wondering is there a more accurate way to set Timeline speed to a BPM?

 

[Aipas]

Whenever I cut keyframes, even if don't have triggers selected in that frame, they will also get cut. Worse, they won't get pasted.
I tried closing the triggers group when selecting keyframes and still no dice.
Any way around this or a fix?
I know I can put triggers on a different layer but that would break workflow a fair bit.

 

[yvngfap]

Having a weird issue when using triggers to play animations. Turned on logging and it seems that the trigger tells Timeline to play the animation then it immediately gets triggered to stop. I haven't added any stop triggers anywhere in the scene so I'm not sure what's doing it. I'm using BodyLanguage to switch cams and have the person change the pose every so slightly between camera angles using a very short timeline animation. The animations work when I open Timeline and click play, or when I go to the triggers themselves and click test, just when they are triggered the way they are meant to be they somehow stop themselves.
In the log it just looks like this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as it has completely derailed my momentum with what I'm working on lol

 

[raven37]

Im having an issue where certain targets move even if not keyframed occasionaly. For example if i have of someone shaking their head. somwehere inbetween keyframe 1 and 2 the head or another target will jerk in a random direction as if theres a keyframe at that exact moment but there isnt one. I had an animation i was making. i had 10/50 seconds completed. once i reached 10 seconds for the rest of the empty timeline the head and hands would slowly fly into the air till it looped back. there were no keyframes to be possible to do that.