Timeline and Unity 2017.1

Sounds cool. Any links for videos I can watch?

Yeah it's good stuff. Is it already out in the beta? And is there any tutorials on how to use it?

In all honesty, I wouldn't expect that people buy Master Audio because of the Mechanim script or even because of EventSounds. So even if part of that is going to come in "stock Unity", there's still 95% of Master Audio that does not. And it's the part that's harder to code yourself.

Brian,

Saw your forum post. The thing to keep in mind is Timeline will not be a plugin or an asset after July. It will be built into Unity as a new feature with the July release of Unity 2017.1. Unity 2017.1 has been in public beta for 3-4 months now.  You can get the beta here:

unity3d.com/unity/beta?_ga=2.162963068.1996028970.1497804383-1619474376.1474299303


I have not tested it out because I'm in the middle of a game project but I will absolutely upgrade when the Unity 2017.1 is released in July.  Based upon what I can learn from the videos, it looks like Timeline uses audio clips directly in the Timeline graph placing them along side Mecanim states and other components. This also makes me wonder if audio clips in Timeline even require an AudioSource.

There is also a dedicated Unity forum for Timeline and you should probably post your question Here:

forum.unity3d.com/threads/timeline-experimental-preview-release-1.455265/


Here is a quote from the top page of that forum:  "Finally, Timeline is extensible via the Playable API and offers the ability for you to create your own tracks to drive any system you have in your game."

"Custom track support: Write your own custom tracks with the enhanced Playable API"

It looks like integrating Master Audio with Timeline is doable. You'll just need to write your own Custom Track with the enahanced Playable API. Perhaps that's something you could build into Master Audio?


Allan