TIL about Playables

2021-01-26

This is a very interesting time for me to get into Unity because it's undergoing a lot of growing pains. I often see new features on the horizon and remnants of old ones.

I stumbled upon Playables thru a context menu and wondered what it was about. It seems to be a graph-based system for synchronizing the playback of different Unity systems.

// Factory method that generates a playable based on this asset
public override Playable CreatePlayable(PlayableGraph graph, GameObject go)
{
    return Playable.Create(graph);
}

After some digging around, turns out it's an "experimental" feature from an older version of Unity which probably means "stay away" or perhaps "stay very far away"