How can I use After Effects Keyframes for Unity Animation

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Hello,

I am brand new to Unity, I work on a film/game hybrid project for my master’s degree. I studied Filmmaking, not game development, therefore I never coded before this, so I don’t even know the basics (and I don’t really have time to learn it). I figured out a lot with tutorials, but I am finally stuck on something.

I want to transfer tracking data (position, scale and rotation) from After Effects onto a Raw Image object in Unity. I was thinking about copying and pasting the keyframe data and using it as the values for the animator on the Raw Image, but I don’t know how to access those values in code. Also, I guess there is a more convenient way to transfer tracking data (a plugin maybe) but I couldn’t find what I need.

As I just started, I suppose i’m not able to search properly (I don’t know the lingo).

I was wondering if anyone on here could help find the solution, or create it if it doesn’t exist already.

I don’t know how all this works, so if you need more information you can just ask, I will give as much detail as you need.

PS : We had a dev in the team but she left because she only had one year at our school, that’s why I now have to do it.

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i’ve seen few plugins for importing after effect anims into unity,
so try searching for: unity after effects plugin or importer

GitHub - leetful/u.movin: Unity library for rendering After Effects shape animations (and others)

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The AE keyframe data will likely “sort of” do what you want, but the ranges will probably be off, rotation might be different directions, etc. Finding a plugin as mentioned should ideally handle all the tweaks for you.
Sounds like a cool idea, bringing in the animation, I haven’t tried that from AE.

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Thank you for your answer, I can’t search right now (new year’s eve and all that) but I will try with these words, maybe I’ll find something.

While searching for it, I found multiple plugins to import After Effects animations, but nothing for keyframe pr tracking data.

I’ll update once I search further.

Happy New Year :grin: