Introduction to Timeline in Unity
The Unity Timeline tool allows us to create simple animations, cinematic cutscenes, gameplay sequences, complex particles, and audio queues. Timeline uses a standard key frame system, if you have ever used video editing software or Flash then the keyframe may be familiar to you already.
In Unity 2021 the Timeline is accessed a little differently than previous versions. It is now found in Window > Sequencing > Timeline.
With the timeline open we can drag any game object to the time line and choose what we want to control. For our example we are going to roll a sphere on the screen without creating any animations in animator.
Steps to follow along:
- Create a sphere in the hierarchy.
- Drag it into the timeline.
- Choose Animation Track
Once the Timeline has an animation track for the sphere it should look like it does in the left image.
