Animations editor new importing options

DiegoM I'm quite busy with GDC but I can'T wait to try it !!!

This is great! Very useful for art heavy games pipeline

Would be useful if you could set individual frame times as well

DiegoM Thanks for these changes, they are super helpful!

Will it be possible to export/import animations with image points and collision polygons data? Currently if we need to move an animation from one sprite to another, we have to replicate all image points and polygons manually and this can be a lot of work.

This is Awesome!! what a great addition Thank you

It already saved me a lot of hours of manual importing

There is just one big issue for me:

is not consistent with the ordering of the frames as I need to maintain the order for some Animations

Example:

If I want to import this folder that I have on my PC, this is how it looks like:

is ordered nicely

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So If I import it like normal by

Right-click in the frames window >>>> Import from file >>>> select all the frames

Then it will import them correctly ordered

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But if I use the new system by Drop a file on the Animation editor it will mess up all the order of the frames so they no longer follow the order I had on my PC folder.

Like this

CAPX:https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9okm7i9n3et367/Frame_Order_BUG.zip?dl=0

Is there any way that I can change the order settings to be consistent?

Hi,

I had a few ideas that could be cool to add:

Feature1:

Could be an added feature to right-click on the Top Root folder and choose "Remove any Subfolders" but keep the Animations of course, because for some Animations you don't need that many folders.

Its something like Ungroup Layers from Photoshop that removes the folders

Example:

You Have This:

And you want to convert it to this by Right-Click Colors Folder and choose remove subfolders:

But this is not that important so is ok if it doesn't get added.

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Feature2:

One cool feature that will be nice:

Is that you can Drop a (Zip or File) in the (Layout or Project) and it will create all the separate Objects with their Names like when you Drop file through the Animation editor that it creates the Animation but instead it will create whole Objects + Animations.

This could be a nice time saver as you just drop the Zip on the editor and it will create all the objects with the right names and Animation names, so you don't have to go manually on each object to update the Animation, you will see the benefit for this when you have to update Animation for like 50+ Objects for example.

Though one feature that it will need to work nicely is that If you Drop the (Zip or File) in the Layout:

1-If the object to create already exist then just Update his Animation example:

-If the Animation already exist then just replace the frames with the new ones

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2-Else if the object doesn't exist then create the Object and add the Animation from that zip

And it follows similar rules as to when you import a file inside the Animation Editor:

-The Root Top Folder = (Zip of file) Name

">>>>>"Then the Subfolders Names = New Objects To Create

">>>>>>>>>>>>"Any Subfolder inside those folders = Animation to create for those objects

This is how it will look like a Zip to import:

So here on this case, I drop on the layout a Zip named colors and this is what happens:

It creates 4 objects

-Black_Object

-Green_Object

-Purple_Object

-Red_Object

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And any subfolders of those folders is their Animations

-Black_Object

">>>>>>"Animation_Name1

">>>>>>"Animation_Name2

-Green_Object

">>>>>>"Animation_Name1

">>>>>>"Animation_Name2

-Pueple_Object

">>>>>>"Animation_Name1

">>>>>>"Animation_Name2

-Red_Object

">>>>>>"Animation_Name1

">>>>>>"Animation_Name2