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Animation.CrossFadeQueued: Catch 22
I have a character standing in a looping "idle" animation. When the user clicks the mouse button, the character should play a non-looping punch animation and then cross-fade back to his idle animation.
So the animation state should go like:
idle (looping) -> punch (one-shot) -> idle (looping)
Assuming that "idle" is already playing (looping), my Punch() function looks like so:
void BeginPunch()
{
playerAnimation.CrossFade( "attack" );
playerAnimation.CrossFadeQueued( "idle" );
}
Doing this does no cross-fade at all, and the player pops back into his idle animation instead of it being done smoothly. I tried setting "attack" to be WrapMode.ClampForever, but he never switches back to his idle animation and remains in the last frame of his punch animation.
So I call this a catch 22 because: 1) Cross-fading is not possible unless it is done from a looping animation 2) Queuing is not possible if you are using a looping animation (since it technically never ends)
So, having made these points, why does CrossFadeQueued even exist? According to my research, this is impossible. I would like to get my very simple cross-fading example working. Anyone have any ideas/solutions?
Answer by Robert 1 · Apr 22, 2010 at 08:12 PM
I found that by utilizing animation layers, I was able to get it working. I set attack to layer 1 and idle is at layer 0.
Answer by MaDDoX · May 16, 2010 at 02:58 PM
For the record, if you're baking keys in your source 3D application, that will only work in Unity if you also delete the keys of the non-animated joints. Or else you have the keys fighting on both layers and probably won't get the result you want.
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