Group​

Group is an editor feature to help us visualizing and organizing the nodes. Any nodes inside the box will be moved along when the group is dragged.

You can read more about this feature in Group page.

Command Event​

The built-in UnityEvent can't be used in a command, because it doesn't support cross-scene object references, which is the reason why CommandEvent is created.

A new command type, Invoke Event, is added. It is a command that simply invoke a Command Event upon execution. We can also use CommandEvent in a custom command script, in case we have our certain rule on which condition that Command Event should be invoked. You can read more about CommandEvent here.

Release Notes

In this version, Sequine Flow's Variables are improved to be able to be utilized outside its scope.

When executing a Sequine Flow using a Run Sub-Flow command, we can pass input values towards the Variables of the specified Sequine Flow. We can think of it just like passing parameters to a function in programming.

Bug Fixes​

There was quite a major bug when Exit command of a Sequine Flow is disabled, the whole nodes editor GUI will be non-interactable when the Exit command is offscreen.

This update also includes other minor bug fixes, especially regarding the random/occasional non-immediate refresh of the displayed nodes upon removing nodes, removing connections, and pasting commands.

You can read more about the new update in the Release Notes.

Custom command creation is one of Sequine's biggest strength, hence, we wanted to make it easier for people to learn and utilize it. Previously, we were required to write some boilerplates, especially since we needed to define how the command is being drawn in a command editor node.

Now, with the new ICommandAutoDraw interface and certain attributes, we don't need to write any editor scripts. Fields, in-points, and out-points are all automatically drawn. For example, drawing a serialized field now is as easy as declaring them as public or with [SerializedField] attribute, just like what we normally do with components.

Making in-points and out-points is now also easier to create with [PropertyInPoint(index)], [PropertyOutPoint(index)], and [MainOutPoint(index, label)] attributes.

You can learn more in Auto Draw Command page.

Localization Support​

Sequine now also supports Unity's Localization package. This enables us to create a command that has LocalizedReference fields, such as LocalizedString, LocalizedAudioClip, and so on. This is also integrated with Auto Draw Command feature. But in case you want to keep using CommandGUI to draw your custom command, then the methods to draw those new fields are also available in Command GUI class.

Performance Improvements​

In this version, we also improved the runtime performance by replacing all Task.Yield with yield return null which doesn't allocate.

Editor performance is also improved by culling the offscreen command nodes.

You can read more about the new update in the Release Notes.

In version 1.5.0, we did a lot of adjustments, mainly regarding memory allocations. The details can be found in the Release Notes. Some of them might affect user's customized codes, especially if you have a custom command that overrides its GetOutput method, as now we use strongly typed output, where we should no longer cast our output into object (System.Object) type. This is not only less boilerplaty, but also faster since we no longer cast into object which causes allocation due to boxing.

Check out the full description in Creating Custom Command Type.

Bug Fixes​

The previous update (1.4.0) has a major bug which causes a project not to be buildable, which now has been fixed. This also includes other bug fixes which can be found in Release Notes.

New Features​

In previous version, Running a sub-flow was quite confusing since the sub-flow exits once the flow from the default outputs is exited, even if there are still another parallel flows from non-default outputs running. So now, Sequine Flow provides Exit command as an alternative to explicitly specify when to exit as sub flow and back to the parent flow.

Check out the full description in Sub Flow.

The old cross-scene system, Cross-Scene Binding, did not scale well with a project that utilizes a lot of cross-scene objects. A large amount of cross-scene objects means that we will have a lot of binder assets cluttering in our project, which maybe cumbersome to manage.

The new system, Cross-Scene Reference, scrapped the use of a binder asset. It works seamlessly just like when we target a scene's object directly, without additional configurational step.

Every affected command has been adjusted to work with the new system.

However, the old system is still kept as a legacy feature, to maintain compatibility for long time users.

Check out the full description in Cross-Scene System.

Release Notes: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/sequine-sequencing-animation-and-visual-scripting-260083#releases

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1. Various Ways of Pausing and Resuming Animations​

Using Pause Animation Clip At Time command, we can sample a certain pose at certain Time of an animation clip. That way, we don't have to create a new animation clip if we want to create a new pose.

There are also new commands added in Clip Control, to pause and resume certain clips. Combined with Wait For Seconds command and such, we can recreate our prefered timing.

2. Alternative Ways of Playing Animation Clips​

Any command that has Clip field now has in-point to set the clip dynamically. Now we can also get the actual animation clip of an Action.

3. Play Animation Clip at Range​

We can use Play Animation Clip At Range command to play an animation clip within the specified time range percentage. Random range variation can also be added by specifying the Smallest Range, so that the range would be randomized between the Smallest Range and Max Range.

Combined with Random Object Selector command, we can animate even more procedurally.

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