How to animate something between more than two positions?

[CaptainKipard]

All animations that I've seen just play the animation and the reverse it.

Is it possible to make something in your hierarchy cycle between more than the two start and end animation points? This could be useful for having a part that lets you "Control from here" with multiple vectors. I've done this in my Skylon but I'm only limited to two vectors because the animated docking node only moves between the start keyframe and the end one.

[lo-fi]

There is an option for blending multiple animations together in Unity, but I don't believe any KSP animation modules currently support this. You can tell with a little code diving, if you're so inclined: If the module uses Animation.Play, you're out of luck. If it uses Animation.Blend, you might be able to make use of it. Amination.Blend works like the .Play version for playing a single animation, but if you play another clip which animates the same things, it averages the result, rather than snapping explicitly to the keyframes of the second animation.

This is all from memory when I was playing around, and I don't have a ready made module you could use I'm afraid. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

[philotical]

All animations that I've seen just play the animation and the reverse it.

Is it possible to make something in your hierarchy cycle between more than the two start and end animation points? This could be useful for having a part that lets you "Control from here" with multiple vectors. I've done this in my Skylon but I'm only limited to two vectors because the animated docking node only moves between the start keyframe and the end one.

I might be wrong, but I think this is easy..

in blender, you animate the full cycle in one animation..

then you scroll to the desired intermitten keyframes and memorise the numbers..

In unity on animation import, create as much animation clips as you need and set the keyframes start/end the way you want them

clip 1 1-40

clip 2 41-80

etc..

Since you use it for changing the transform, one frame per animation should be enough allready..

Bind each to a event-action and then you have a jump around thing..

I doubt you can controll this with animateGeneric - rather a plugin task here - but this is how I would try..

[CaptainKipard]

I'm not inclined to look inside the code, because I'm not a coder.

If anyone would like to create a custom module for this that would be lovely.

[Phenakist]

As philotical stated, make a test animation with 1 clip, with 2 animations in one bar, export the .fbx and then in unity tell the game where to clip the animations

[Redneck]

I to am reasearching this I have one timeline in blender but I need to divide it up 3 times for use in unity which I have done. So far no luck but i did find this and am researching in unity how to use it.

https://github.com/Starwaster/LayeredAnimations/tree/1.1

I also found a tutorial on youtube but it is applied to a character rig. Im trying to find a way to do it in KSP. In the tutorial it uses Generic animation in order to accomplish this. I know KSP is supposed to use Legacy mode...But im trying to break the rules :-)

Edited February 19, 2015 by Redneck