Ablility to use Unity Animation Timeline to animate AnchorPoints

[Raj]

We would like to be able to animate AnchorPoints within the Unity Animation Timeline as this is a preferable way for our artists to animate objects rather than using the Tween objects.

[ArenMook]

You can certainly do that, but you will need an intermediate script like so:

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. [ExecuteInEditMode]
4. [RequireComponent(typeof(UIRect))]
5. public class AnimatedAnchor : MonoBehaviour
6. {
7.     public float left = 0f;
8.     public float right = 0f;
9.     public float top = 0f;
10.     public float bottom = 0f;
11.  
12.     UIRect mRect;
13.  
14.     void Start ()
15.     {
16.         mRect = GetComponent<UIRect>();
17.         left = mRect.leftAnchor.absolute;
18.         right = mRect.rightAnchor.absolute;
19.         top = mRect.topAnchor.absolute;
20.         bottom = mRect.bottomAnchor.absolute;
21.     }
22.  
23.     void Update()
24.     {
25.         if (mRect.leftAnchor.absolute != left) mRect.leftAnchor.absolute = left;
26.         if (mRect.rightAnchor.absolute != right) mRect.rightAnchor.absolute = right;
27.         if (mRect.topAnchor.absolute != top) mRect.topAnchor.absolute = top;
28.         if (mRect.bottomAnchor.absolute != bottom) mRect.bottomAnchor.absolute = bottom;
29.     }
30. }

[Raj]

Thanks, one of our engineers had though about this approach, but we thought it might be more useful on the Widget.

We'll give this a go it should be fine.

Cheers