AnimationClipAsset

Remarks

Authored clips and imported clips are the same runtime object and not the same file. An FBX produces AnimationClipData through the model importer, and nothing about that changes; what was missing is a clip somebody can write — a camera move, a door, a UI wobble, a hand-keyed idle — and that wants keys with tangents rather than baked samples. ToContent is the one-way door between them, so everything downstream of an import stays unchanged.

⚠ The frame rate is a property of the editor, not of the clip. It decides where the timeline's snap lands and what "next frame" means; the keys are in seconds and sampling is continuous, so changing it moves no key and re-times nothing. An editor that stored frames would make a clip authored at 30 play at the wrong speed on a project that later chose 60.

Why this is in the importer assembly and not in Vixen.Animation. It is the authored form, and nothing at run time reads it: the pipeline bakes it to AnimationClipContent and a build loads that. Keeping it here is what lets AnimationClipImporter see it — the editor's asset-editor assembly depends on this one and not the other way round — and it keeps the YAML parser out of a runtime assembly, which is the line Vixen.Rendering draws for the same reason.

Fields and properties (12)

• public const int Current

  The version this reader and writer speak.

• public const string Extension

  What an authored clip is written as.

• public int Version

  Which version of the format this file is.

• public string Name

  What the clip is called.

• public float Duration

  How long it plays for, in seconds.

• public float FrameRate

  What the timeline snaps to, in frames a second.

• public WrapMode Wrap

  What happens when it runs past the end.

• public string AuthoringContext

  The sequence this clip was marked up against, by asset path, or empty.

• public List<AnimationTargetData> Targets

  What it moves.

• public List<AnimationEventData> Events

  What it raises, in time order.

• public List<ConstraintTagRecord> Constraints

  The constraints marked up on it, in the order they were placed.

• public Dictionary<string, YamlNode> Extensions

  Metadata this build did not interpret, by kind, exactly as it was written.

Methods (5)

• public static AnimationClipAsset FromYaml(string yaml)

  Reads YAML into a clip.

• public string ToYaml()

  Writes it as YAML.

• public AnimationEvent[] ToEvents()

  The events, as the runtime's own record, in time order.

• public AnimationClipContent ToContent()

  The whole clip as the artefact a build loads.

• public AnimationClipData ToClipData()

  Bakes the curves into the sampled channels an import would have produced.

Used by (9)

• AnimationBinderVixen.Editor.AssetEditors
• AnimationClipDocumentVixen.Editor.AssetEditors
• AnimationClipImporterVixen.Editor.Assets
• AnimationClipImporterTestsVixen.Editor.Assets.Tests
• AnimationClipViewVixen.Editor.AssetEditors
• AuthoringContextTestsVixen.Editor.AssetEditors.Tests
• AuthoringTestsVixen.Editor.AssetEditors.Tests
• ClipMetadataTestsVixen.Editor.Assets.Tests
• TypeRegistrationVixen.Editor.Assets