Timeline Integration

Adding timeline support to a 3rd party addon, be it a plugin, behavior or effect is quite easy. A little bit of extra work is needed though, here is how to do it.

Plugins

1. Set the interpolatable plugin property option to true in all the plugin properties which should be supported by timelines.
2. Implement the GetPropertyValueByIndex(index) method in the plugin instance class.

   index argument

   Refers to the index of each property in the plugin as they are given to the constructor of the plugin instance class.

   return value

   The current value associated with the passed in index. Depending on the current implementation this could be as easy as returning an existing variable.

3. Implement the SetPropertyValueByIndex(index, value) method in the plugin instance class.

   index argument

   Refers to the index of each property in the plugin as they are given to the constructor of the plugin instance class.

   value argument

   The new value that needs to be applied to the specified property. The passed in value is absolute so it should be applied directly with the = operator.

   return value

   No return value is required.

Behaviors

See plugin integration above, all steps apply.

Effects

Edit the effect's .json file and add the interpolatable property with a value of true to each paramenter definition which should be supported by timelines. No additional modifications needed.