Thanks for your kind words!

CheMBurN a écrit

How would I be able to stop the interpolation of my animations via script? I'm porting my animations to spine and Im using the spine skeleton mecanim method to make it easier and I don't have a spine reference anywhere in my code - just dragging and dropping the motion .anim files created into the state machine I built.

When using SkeletonMecanim, animation timing and blending is performed by the Mecanim engine, SkeletonMecanim then uses the resulting weight values to apply the animations. Could you please explain what you want to achieve, and how you adjusted animation blending of your Mecanim state machine via script before switching to Spine?

CheMBurN a écrit

Edit: So I ran into a problem. From what it looks like, I cannot use one animation state machine (animator) to manage several skeletons when using skeleton mecanim, can I?

You should be able to use an AnimatorOverrideController to create one master controller (where you define the whole logic and setup transitions) and then create an AnimatorOverrideController that overrides the used animations with the animations of another skeleton.

CheMBurN a écrit

[..] is a way to stop interpolation via an option in the runtime or even in spine

I'm not sure I completely understand what you are trying to achieve. Is your situation similar to e.g. transitioning from an animation left with an IK target bone on the left side to another animation right with the same IK target being located on the right? And that you then want to control the length (duration, number of transition frames) of this transition via scripting? If this is the case, the above reply still holds true, it does not matter if you key every frame of the bone location or only two, when transitioning from one animation to another the mix will be (1-t) * left(time) + t * right(time). You will need to adjust the Mecanim Transition duration (the transition arrows in the Animator window) if you want it to be shorter.

CheMBurN a écrit

Interesting! Although trawling through forums I realized the best way would be to put in everything in one skeleton and it seems to work for now.

It depends. Skin management will be easier for example when not having separate skeletons for every character.

I'm also looking for a way to disable interpolation in Unity (as can be done in the Spine editor). Did you ever find a solution for this?

Which setting in the Spine editor are you trying to mimic? Interpolated on the playback view?
Playback view - Spine User Guide: Interpolated

Nate a écrit

Which setting in the Spine editor are you trying to mimic? Interpolated on the playback view?
Playback view - Spine User Guide: Interpolated

Okay, I'm not the writer of the post and this thread has been dead silent for several months, but I also want that unchecked-interpolated animation function without using the fixed timestep script(mainly because I'm using the mecanim too and the script doesn't work with mecanim). I think it would be okay if there's a json export option where every single frame of animation is keyed and every key is curved with constant when it is exported. Something like this image I uploaded.

You would not want so many keys at runtime. There is a computational cost to having many keys. The correct way is to adjust the time step.

Maybe there is a workaround for mechanim? @Harald, can the mechanim code adjust the time just before the animation is applied?

A simple solution which applies stepped update time to a Mecanim Animator in general is the following solution (also attached as a file at the end of this posting):

using UnityEngine;

public class SteppedMecanimUpdates : MonoBehaviour {
   Animator animator;
   float timeSinceStep = 0;
   public float timeStep = 0.5f;

   private void Awake () {
      animator = this.GetComponent<Animator>();
   }

   private void Update () {
      timeSinceStep += Time.deltaTime;
      if (timeSinceStep > timeStep) {
         float remainderTime = timeSinceStep % timeStep;
         float appliedTime = timeSinceStep - remainderTime;
         timeSinceStep = remainderTime;
         animator.speed = appliedTime / Time.deltaTime;
      } else
         animator.speed = 0;
   }
}

As an alternative, you could also modify the SkeletonMecanim code accordingly to apply animations at fixed time increments. The corresponding code can be found here in SkeletonMecanim.cs. You then need to forward the timestep configuration parameters accordingly.

Harald a écrit

A simple solution which applies stepped update time to a Mecanim Animator in general is the following solution (also attached as a file at the end of this posting):

using UnityEngine;

public class SteppedMecanimUpdates : MonoBehaviour {
   Animator animator;
   float timeSinceStep = 0;
   public float timeStep = 0.5f;

   private void Awake () {
      animator = this.GetComponent<Animator>();
   }

   private void Update () {
      timeSinceStep += Time.deltaTime;
      if (timeSinceStep > timeStep) {
         float remainderTime = timeSinceStep % timeStep;
         float appliedTime = timeSinceStep - remainderTime;
         timeSinceStep = remainderTime;
         animator.speed = appliedTime / Time.deltaTime;
      } else
         animator.speed = 0;
   }
}

Thank you SO much! Your code is working as what I wanted!

Glad to hear, thanks for your letting us know .