The Unity Sequences package support has a number of features to make it easier to create movies, game cutscenes, or in my case short animated video clips for including in my motion webcomic. When I first started using Sequences, I planned to use Scene Activation tracks, but over time I found a number of limitations … More Why I Stopped using Scene Activation in Unity
There was an Animation Rigging incompatibility with Sequences in Unity which has been fixed in version 1.2.0 of Animation Rigging. (It results in lots of exceptions in the Console and frequently fails to work correctly.) Unity 2022.1 has not been officially released yet (still in beta), so this is the versions I am using at … More Unity Sequences and Animation Rigging Versions (April 2022 update)
I have been exploring the new Sequences package beta for Unity for animation and one of the things it makes heavy use of was Prefab Variants. I had heard of Prefab Variants, but never really quite “got” how they were different from Prefabs. So I did some hunting around and thought I would summarize my … More Prefabs vs Prefab Variants in Unity
(UPDATED Jun 28, 2021 to reflect my greater understanding.) Just a quick blog of my initial experiences and understanding of the new sequences support. I signed up for the open beta and downloaded the “Cinematic Studio Sample” from the asset store. I just read the 2021.2 beta blog and it looks like it is being … More The New Unity Sequences Support for Cinemachine
In this post I summarize the Unity terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Cinemachine is a package for Unity design to create cutscenes or create short movies with. This blog summarizes terminology related to Cinemachine timelines and cameras. Later blogs will describe how to use these tools to achieve various objectives. (See also https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/timeline.) … More Timelines and Cameras in Unity
There are a few foundational concepts that are worth understanding in Unity. These concepts are used in a variety of ways, as will be shown in later sections. Assets: There is a directory tree of “assets” in Unity. This is basically a directory tree of files on disk holding the contents of a project. When … More Unity Basic Terminology
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