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brook_55
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March 28, 2019
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Exporting Animations from Flash to Unity

  • March 28, 2019
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Hi,

We are extensively using adobe animate cc for creating assets and their animations(Characters, effects, props, etc) for a 2d game that we are planning to develop in unity.

However, we are unable to export animations from flash to unity as per our requirements.

Are there any methods or plugins that would help us with exporting animations from flash to unity?

(Just for additional Details if it helps) - We need a character to be exported to unity from animate cc with each body part(hands, face, etc) separate so that we can add colliders in unity which will move along with the animated body part.

Any help will be grateful,

Thanks in Advance.

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    Correct answer JoãoCésar17023019

    Hi.

    Have you tried the texture atlas feature?

    Export animations for mobile apps and game engines

    flow-diagram-Texture-Atlas.png

    Please let us know if this is what you want.

    Regards,

    JC

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    sergiopop75
    sergiopop75
    Inspiring
    October 29, 2021

    The best I've found is this Unity sprite importer, and it's free. It's true, it's for sprite sheets, but it works fine. You have video tutorial, and you will see that it is simple.

    https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/sprite-management/flash-sprite-sheet-importer-53520

     

     

     

    ____2D vector animator since 2000 & PhD
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    blackmatov
    Participant
    October 15, 2020

    Also, you can try the Flash Animation Toolset asset for this. It allows convert and play animations in Unity.

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    digitaltwist
    Known Participant
    September 23, 2020

    Where is this plug-in located now? The link in the Adobe tutorial above to the unity plug in on Adobe downloads is DEAD. 

    Tamerq
    Tamerq
    Participant
    October 30, 2019

    We are using GAF plug in and it it working nicely with Unity. Check it out: https://gafmedia.com/

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    imagicalFantasy
    Participant
    July 22, 2020

    Sadly GAF plug in is dead... no update since some years, no way to contact them and the plugin can't convert .swf files anymore in 2018+ version of Unity. (I waste 100 USD for the pro version that work with animator)

     

    Adobe solution is very limited and won't work for me.

     

    Workflow for animated 2D character in any game engine seem to be a nightmare

      JoãoCésar17023019
      Community Expert
      JoãoCésar17023019Community ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      March 28, 2019

      Hi.

      Have you tried the texture atlas feature?

      Export animations for mobile apps and game engines

      flow-diagram-Texture-Atlas.png

      Please let us know if this is what you want.

      Regards,

      JC

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      brook_55Author
      Participant
      March 28, 2019

      Hi JoãoCésar,

      Thanks for your reply.

      We have tried that plugin but there is very limited access to it after importing to unity.

      After importing in unity, the script only plays the animation in runtime which is limiting our scope to access the script and the animation in unity editor.

      Also it breaks the animation for each part of the character separately. For example: hand has a separate animation component while body has a separate animation component. While we need a single animation component on the whole character object.

      Is there any more documentation or tutorial to the above process that you have mentioned that we can refer to?

      Thank you.

      JoãoCésar17023019
      Community Expert
      JoãoCésar17023019Community Expert
      Community Expert
      March 28, 2019

      I'm sorry about these issues/limitations.

      Unfortunately I don't have much else to suggest other than manual preparation because I don't have experience with Unity.

      Hopefully someone else here can give you a better answer.

      Regards,

      JC

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