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Version History (v0.9 – v2.1.0)

Paul Hammer
Animation Workbench Developer

The complete release history of Animation Workbench to date. Future releases will get their own changelog entries.

v2.1.0​

  • Unlocked Live Edit mode for Free users for a limited time
  • Keyframe Editor: Added functionality to mute / solo groups which enables layering animations based on the rig (e.g. Humanoid — only animate the lower body for walking animations; this will set the path for additive or override layers in the future)
  • Pose-Edit: IK points can now be pinned to their current position (e.g. walking animations — pin the feet IK points to the floor). Being able to pin IK points to transforms, for example a weapon prefab added to the live scene, is planned for future releases
  • Added offset functionality to Spawn and Audio events
  • UX and massive performance improvements

v2.0.9​

  • Added Spawn Events: instantiate any prefab (particle effects, props, world-space UI) from the timeline — at the character root, a specific bone, or a world offset, with lifetime, parenting, rotation and scale controls
  • Added optional Feel support to Spawn Events: trigger an MMF_Player on the spawned instance immediately or after a delay, with intensity control. No hard dependency — the section only appears when Feel is installed
  • Spawn Events preview directly in the Orbit Preview and in Pose Edit Mode, including particle systems that simulate while scrubbing
  • Reworked animation events into one extensible Workbench Event system: all event types share the timeline, undo/redo, duplication, gizmos, tooltips and clip versioning — new event types plug in automatically
  • Timeline event markers are now color- and icon-coded per event type, and the create menu lists every available event type
  • Scene view event gizmos now show the exact problem (e.g. a missing SFX key or prefab) instead of a generic "Missing" label
  • Added a searchable, hierarchical bone picker to the Audio and Spawn Event inspectors — the field shows the bone name, the full path lives in the tooltip
  • Audio and Spawn Event inspectors now detect incomplete scene setup: missing SFX Manager, missing Runtime Audio Database, missing SFX Source Prefab, and characters that play the clip without an Event Receiver — each with a one-click fix
  • Entering Play Mode now logs clear warnings when characters play event clips without a receiver or when the SFX Manager is missing, instead of failing silently
  • The SFX Manager now warns when an audio event references a key that is missing from the Runtime Audio Database
  • The audio Preview button now also works in Play Mode
  • Clip version snapshots now preserve every event type and restore them reliably, including after editor restarts
  • Generated audio assets (Runtime Audio Database, SFX Source prefab, Audio Mixer, Channels) are now organized under Assets/Settings/AnimationWorkbench — re-baking updates the existing database in place, so references never break
  • Redesigned the Animator Controller inspector: structure overview, prefab usages, referenced clips with durations, and a new "In Open Scenes" section listing scene objects that use the controller
  • Faster Audio Event inspector (removed a duplicate full-project scan when opening)

v2.0.8​

  • Added Rescan Animation Library to fully rebuild the animation library from the current project
  • Added Rescan Characters to refresh project characters and automatically reassign preview characters
  • Preview characters are now automatically assigned via an Animation Clip's Animator Controller when bone matching fails (primarily for Generic clips)
  • The Characters context menu now lists all characters using the clip's Animator Controller
  • Middle-clicking a character in the Preview Character popup now pings its prefab while keeping the popup open
  • The Show Particles toggle is now only shown when the preview character contains particle systems
  • Eliminated Orbit Preview stuttering during thumbnail generation
  • Fixed incorrectly framed thumbnails for Generic characters with import scaling
  • Fixed missing Animation Controllers and Characters context menu entries after rebuilding the library
  • Newly imported clips now use the same character matching logic as the initial library scan
  • Smoother, larger Orbit Grid with distance fade
  • Reduced thumbnail generation overhead by encoding PNGs only once for both memory and disk cache

v2.0.7​

  • Performance: major speed-ups in Scene-Pose Mode (bone drawing, mesh influence overlay), during keyframe editing (onion skin, working-clip updates) and in the Animation Browser while loading
  • Scene-Pose: bones now grow and highlight as the cursor approaches, hovered bones get a selection ring, and clicking bones is far more forgiving
  • Animation Browser: list-view badges are now written out (Humanoid / Loop / Audio) when there is enough space

v2.0.6​

  • Fixed squashed / too-short track rows in the Keyframe Editor on some Unity versions & UI scales
  • Fixed mouse-wheel zoom (Ctrl / Shift / Ctrl+Shift) not working on Windows or when hovering the track list
  • Performance: major speed-ups during playback, track-value editing and Scene-Pose Mode
  • Keyframe Editor: removed the track-list group color bar (kept only the curve color in Curve view) and moved the playhead key indicator to the left of the track name
  • Animation Browser: grid cards now show clip length + Humanoid/Loop/Audio badges and cleaner names (FBX prefix stripped, full name on hover)
  • Editor fonts now match Unity's Project Browser
  • Several UX and design polish

v2.0.5​

  • New: Collapsible track groups in the Keyframe Editor — tracks are now organized under group headers (muscle groups for humanoid, bone groups for generic rigs); collapsed groups show all child keys as an aggregated summary row
  • New: Group interactions — click a header to collapse/expand (Alt-click for all groups), right-click a group row in the dopesheet to add keyframes to that group only; collapse state persists across sessions
  • New: Track show filters in the visibility menu — "Only Animated" and "Only Keyed at Playhead" (updates live while scrubbing), plus a "Show Groups" toggle to disable grouping entirely
  • New: Events header row above the track list — mute/unmute audio events and collapse/expand all groups from one place
  • Keyframe Editor: Fixed vertical misalignment between track list rows and dopesheet rows
  • Keyframe Editor: Fixed the scrollbar gutter showing a different background when no scrollbar is needed
  • Scene-Pose: Fixed humanoid pose drift and snapping on consecutive bone manipulations
  • Scene-Pose: Rotating the hips or an unmapped root bone (e.g. Rigify exports) is now correctly written as root motion (RootT/RootQ)
  • Added play/pause button to the Single Clip control bar

v2.0.4​

  • Reworked Scene-Pose Mode and Scene-Pose Overlay
  • Several UX improvements and bug fixes

v2.0.3​

  • New: Runtime Audio Channels — group SFX for muting, volume, mixer routing and voice limiting via ScriptableObject channel assets
  • New: Audio Control Center on the SFX Manager — live per-channel mute & volume, global mute, active-voice counts and a "?" panel explaining the runtime code API
  • New: Per-character control on the Audio Event Receiver — muted flag and Channel Override (route a player and an NPC sharing the same clip to different channels)
  • New: Manual key-triggered playback — Play(key) from code or the receiver, running through the same gate pipeline as animation events
  • New: Gate pipeline — playback now passes through extensible gates (Mute, Probability, Cooldown); add your own via AWSFXManager.AddGate(...)
  • New: Per-SFX Play Probability, Cooldown and Priority, plus per-channel Voice Limit with steal policies (Suppress / Steal Oldest / Steal Quietest)
  • Audio Library: added a "Routing & Behavior" section with detailed hover tooltips on every playback field
  • Fixed voices being recycled too early (pitch and start-offset are now accounted for in playback length)
  • Fixed the SFX pool growing unbounded under heavy load
  • Several UX improvements and bug fixes

v2.0.2​

  • Added a shader for onion skin ghosts to also blend in the mesh
  • Many keyframe editor design improvements
  • Centralized Hotkey Manager
  • Multi Compare: massive overhaul of the UI, and Clip Sync was added
  • Users are now able to select custom themes in the Settings (Dark, Midnight, High Contrast)

v2.0.1​

  • New: Customizable keyboard shortcuts — rebind editor hotkeys in Settings ▸ Hotkeys, with conflict detection
  • New: Hotkey cheat-sheet on the "?" button (hover to view, click to edit)
  • New: Arrow-key timeline navigation — step by interval, Ctrl to jump keyframe-to-keyframe, Shift to extend selection
  • New: ↑/↓ to select the track above/below
  • Ctrl+A and Ctrl+D now also select-all / duplicate keyframes (context-aware: keyframes or events)
  • Several UX improvements and bug fixes

v2.0​

  • Massive design rework
  • Improved mirror mode — now works on generic characters as well
  • Added multiple live edit hotkeys (+/- to create, extend or delete IK chains)
  • Rebranding
  • Asset Inventory Integration
  • Can now add external sources
  • Multiple UX improvements and bug fixes

v1.04​

  • Massive UX improvements
  • New: Timeline Range Limiter
  • New: Live Edit Mirror mode
  • New: Live Edit IK Chains

v1.03.3​

  • Refactored keyframe editor and related components
  • Improved zoom handling
  • Several bug fixes

v1.03.2​

  • Fixed Ctrl-selection issue when selecting multiple clips
  • Fixed incorrect Multi-Compare clip population
  • Fixed FBX animation clips showing the wrong thumbnail
  • Fixed issue where Preview regeneration did not update correctly
  • Added Filter by Effective Clip Character
  • Added Filter by Root Motion
  • Automatic Ruleset Name generation based on active conditions

v1.03.1​

  • Fixed camera follow for generic characters
  • Fixed restore keyframe editor on domain reload
  • Auto-assign of characters on initialization

v1​

  • Upgraded to Unity 6.3
  • Improved preview render pipeline
  • Added community feedback integration
  • Character Manager now generates high-resolution thumbnails

v0.91 (Beta)​

  • Quality-of-life improvements
  • User experience refinements

v0.9 (Beta) — Initial Release​

Animation Workbench Beta is now live!