There is an enum attached to the Sequence named SequenceTiming. This enum controls which update loop the sequence will be run in.

* Note: SequenceTiming does not change the rate of time for the sequence. That is done by setting SequenceInstance.SequenceTimescale, which will be covered in the advanced section.

The Sequence.SequenceTiming enum has 4 states: Default, Update, FixedUpdate, and LateUpdate. Default will use Movement.DefaultSequenceTiming, which will be set to Update unless you change it. You will want to run most of your effects in the Update loop, but there are a few instances where you might want to use the FixedUpdate or LateUpdate loops instead.

FixedUpdate is for physics. If your effect is using AddForce, AddTorque, or any of their variants then you’ll want to use this timing.

LateUpdate is almost Update, but it’s run after all the regular Update effects have finished. LateUpdate is mostly used when you are controlling the camera, but it might also be used in situations like when a turret is tracking a target. The idea is that any time you are tracking or following a moving target you want to always be using it’s current position that frame in your calculations. You can’t always guarantee that whichever code is updating your target’s current position will execute before the current code block which is tracking your target’s position, unless you run the tracking code in LateUpdate.

It may not seem like a huge deal that you might be using the position from the last frame rather than the current frame, but keep in mind that if the processor gets tied up then the last frame could be 1/3 of a second old (or even longer if Time.maxDeltaTime has been changed in your project). If this was a turret then the user could cause the turret to shoot at the spot they were standing 1/3 of a second ago just by causing a framerate drop! If the camera is following an object on a slow computer 1/3 of a second could be long enough for the object to have left the screen entirely!