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Anime Studio 10.1 New Features Overview

Join Fahim Niaz, Mike Clifton, Jason Cozy and other Anime Studio team members in this 1-hour webinar as they review the exciting new features in Anime Studio 10.1. The team will demonstrate new workflow improvements and feature enhancements in Anime Studio 10.1 including timeline markers, "shy" bones, updates to GPU acceleration, saving to Anime Studio 9 and exporting to FBX. All of this plus more! The webinar will conclude with a brief questions and answers session.

Presented by the Anime Studio Team

Watch it now! Go here: http://my.smithmicro.com/webinars/anime ... index.html

Does FBX export support Switch Layers?

Yes, it does support switch layers. The FBX format allows for "nodes" to have their visibility animated - essentially objects can appear and disappear. We use this to export switch layers.

Unfortunately, Unity ignores this property when importing FBX files (other apps do support it). The good news is that there's a workaround: we also export an animated scale value that causes an object to scale down to nothing when it goes invisible, and back up to normal size when it becomes visible again. This does work in Unity. So ultimately switch layers are supported.

We've been in contact with the Unity developers - hopefully they will add support for animated visibility, since it's a more "natural" fit and would be more efficient as well.

Thanks for posting this - I always miss the webinars live but love that I can watch them later. Thanks again!

Very good informative webinar, thanks

Michi wrote:Yes, it does support switch layers. The FBX format allows for "nodes" to have their visibility animated - essentially objects can appear and disappear. We use this to export switch layers.

Unfortunately, Unity ignores this property when importing FBX files (other apps do support it). The good news is that there's a workaround: we also export an animated scale value that causes an object to scale down to nothing when it goes invisible, and back up to normal size when it becomes visible again. This does work in Unity. So ultimately switch layers are supported.

We've been in contact with the Unity developers - hopefully they will add support for animated visibility, since it's a more "natural" fit and would be more efficient as well.

How do you make the workaround work? I exported a switch layer animation and Unity only recognized frame 1

Hi,

Unity’s kind of funny. When you bring in an FBX asset, you don’t see the animation right away. You need to go “inside” the asset to look at the animations attached to it and preview those. Are you seeing any other animation working besides switch layers? Is it possible to share your project with us so we can take a look to see what is happening? If so, email me directly at mcatanese@smithmicro.com.

Thank you!
Michi