How to use animation mixing

Hello, on DragonBones features page, it mentions animation mixing using layers (normal weighting) and groups (additive weighting).

Can someone shed a light on how to use these features ? I do know there are parameters for them in DragonBone.Animation.FadeIn method, but I’m not exactly sure how to use them. Also, I see no option for animation layers or groups in DragonBonesPro Editor.

I’d really appreciate any help, since I’m getting pretty desperate because of lack of documentations. Thanks in advance !

[toadietechnika]

Here you go (The one in Bold-Italic is the parameter, so it’s the fourth one. The default layer is 0, so if you play an animation in another layer then it will mix with its other animation layer/s.

DragonBone.Animation.FadeIn( string animationName, float fadeInTime = -1.0f, int playTimes = -1, int layer = 0, string group = null, AnimationFadeOutMode fadeOutMode = AnimationFadeOutMode.SameLayerAndGroup, bool additiveBlending = false, bool displayControl = true, bool pauseFadeOut = true, bool pauseFadeIn = true )

Sample: Armature.Animation.FadeIn("Shoot", 0.05f, -1, 0); // a shooting animation that plays in loop (-1) Armature.Animation.FadeIn("Kick", 0.025f, 0, 1); // while shooting, he also kicks in one round. Not sure if that 0 plays once though, but I hope you get my point :D

[toadietechnika]

Yeah, it’s in the codes of Dragon Bones. I’ve had difficulties too at first because of lacking documentations, fortunately we can also view and analyze their codes and see what they do 😄

In response to your question: I haven’t tried that, but my guess for now (… and someone would also enlighten me on this if I gave some wrong information haha but anyway - ) is you can’t overlap animations that way (of just getting bones from this animation, overriding the other bones of that animation). So I think blending is the only way to achieve that.

That would also depend on the keyframes affecting on the animations. When blending, the bones without keyframes of this animation will affect from the blending animation, otherwise it would mess up (sort of-).

To be honest, I haven’t heard of a “Mecanim’s Mask System” on Dragonbones so I gotta see what else is there. Glad you’re doing well on it, keep it up!