How to resolve track target that are cross-scene references ?

Unity Engine
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Hi guys,

In the editor you can work on multiple scene at the same time. So, if I create a Timeline in scene_A I can create a track and reference an object in scene_B. At runtime I will have to load scene_A and then load additively scene_B. I’m pretty sure the Timeline in scene_A will have lost all scene_B references. Is there a way to resolve that at runtime ?

Thanks

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Hi,
As mention in another thread, Multi-scene isn’t supported by Timeline yet but it’s something we have in mind for the future.

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Ok. It would be very useful.

So, how would you manage Timeline that should “happened” in different places/scenes ? I dont’ really get it right now. It’s like having a long cinematiq with differents characters and places and I’d like to compose the scenario inside one timeline.

Thanks

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What we’re doing is editing and setting up timelines with the multiscene editing, and then on the master timeline we have a custom script that is replacing the bindings when all the scenes have loaded at play time (also with an editor menu option to replace at edit time).

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@Carwashh how do you do ? I mean, what information do you store in your custom script to be able to identifiy and retrieve track target which are in other scenes ?

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I can’t give you the code, it’s from work and I didn’t write it, but the gist of it is:

string for the track name.
string for the object name.
Get the playabledirector component, check it’s outputs, if the output matches the track name… bind the object to it.

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Ok, got it. I have almost no experience with Timeline, I wasn’t sure it would be possible to retrieve track names nor track targets.

Thanks for the tips, I think it’s a good way to deal with that issue until Unity give us a built-in one :slight_smile: