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Mecanim opposite transitions. Easy made hard?
I'll have to admit, I just started using Mecanim, went through a couple of tutorials, tried to use it my scene.
I have an "idle" state and 5 movements on each side (a total of 11 clips). I've set my Animator controller, and I'm working on my transitions. I tried for testing purposes to have simple conditions, so I set an integer variable to control which state will play at a specific time. When this variable equals to 0 it will play my idle clip. And I want to be able to go back and forth between my states. Basically it's a series of integers: -5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5. When my variable is 0 it plays my idle clip, and I change my variable with a script, so I would like to play my transitions and move the clip besides it, but both ways. So I created transitions from every clip to the previous and to the next one, and the other way around.
I must be doing something wrong there. For example when going from 0 to -1 I set both transitions "when var equals to -1". But naturally when setting my variable to -1 it kept looping between clip"0" and clip"-1", which is not what I want.
So I changed my variable to float and going from 0 to -1 I set the condition "when var is less than -0.5" while going from -1 to 0 I set the condition to "when var is greater than -0.5" and followed that pattern for the rest of the transitions. So going from -1 to -2 I've set "less than -1.5" and "greater than -1.5" etc and on the other side going from 0 to 1 I used "greater than 0.5" and "less than 0.5", "greater than 1.5" and "less than 1.5" and so on. I hope that's clear enough.
And now comes the strange part (at least for me)..
I can go from 0 to -1 and back nicely. If I go from -1 to -2, the opposite transition doesn't work. I can go to -3 but not back to -2.. Also I can't go from 0 to 1, 2 etc.. It seems like I can only go one way and I can't even go back, except for my first transition to the left..
What am I doing wrong?
Whenever I say "I go from 0 to -1" or something like that, I'm referring to the corresponding animation clips. I don't have any problem with changing my variable value.
Honestly it seems like you would be better off using a Blend tree for this example.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/$$anonymous$$anual/AnimationBlendTrees.html
I thought that blend trees are better when we want to play parts of 2 animations at the same time. I want to play distinct animations..
I got the idea for using transitions from seeing this tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UboS7ZLfUw
In this case, he manages to go from idle to walk to run and back to walk and idle with no problems...
In that case, perhaps the correct solution for you is to have transitions to all of your states from any state on different triggers. This should only be called a single time or it will keep transitioning to the state from itself. There should only be a single animator.SetTrigger(animString) per animation change.
You mean have a "central" state (the default "Any State" I get as soon as I open the animator) and all the other states with transitions to and from this central state?
But this way (if I get it right) I would lose any smooth transitions from each animation to the next. I might as well use Legacy animations. But I need smooth transitions, otherwise there would be a jump from one animation to the other...
It seems like the second way I had in mind (using float as the variable type) and checking whether its value is greater or less than the half of the 2 states works..
I changed 2 things at once, so I'm not sure exactly which of them was causing the conflict. First, I got a "index m_intcount" message, with some googling I found that it had to do with the fact that I changed the variable type from int to float without redoing all my transitions. So I deleted them and recreated them..
The second thing, had to do with the script I used to change my variable value, I was using the same controls (left and right arrow keys) with another script I used for a different gameobject, maybe some conflict there..
