Animator State Freezing (Blue bar / progress bar not moving)

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Hi guys,

I have a game object that has an Animator component. When the scene is loaded at the first time, the default state is set and the blue bar / progress bar repeats infinitely (like it should).

However, when I change the scene and load the previous scene back up, everything is as it should. The default state is set but the blue bar / progress bar is stuck at 0. Play speed is still 1 and there doesn't seem to be anything different as I am reloading the whole scene. What is wrong here??

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Answer by CindyEspindola · Jan 24, 2019 at 01:49 PM

I had the same issue but in my case the problem was when going from any state to death state ,and the time scale was 1 all the time but for some reason I unchecked the "Can Transition To Self" from the transition between any state and the animation that was stuck at the beggining and it worked, I have no idea why but maybe it's useful for someone.

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LeandroExHuMeD · Apr 13, 2019 at 06:12 AM 0

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It worked for me, that's the simplest answer, thanks.

Anyway, I'm still looking for understanding what "Can Transition To Self" does exactly.

thomaskoji · Apr 22, 2020 at 11:23 AM 0

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Thank you so much. This fixed it for me.

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Answer by Ishoa · Mar 31, 2015 at 12:36 PM

I know this is an old post, but I just fixed an issue with my game that looked identical to this. The scene I was having issues with used to work fine and stopped working for some reason. My scene was setup to play an animation at the start-up and everything looked good except the bar was stuck like this picture and it wouldn't move. What I found out by chance is that my scene was starting with a Time Scale of 0 for some reason. Its a fairly simple scene and no code set it to be at 0 it just was. So I set code in the Start function Time.timeScale = 1; and now it works again.

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jhina · Aug 07, 2015 at 06:31 PM 0

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Thank you! This is exactly the problem I had: Some other engineer paused the game by setting Time.timeScale to 0. I was trying to animate the Pause $$anonymous$$enu but the timeScale was 0, so everything froze. The other solution is the set the Animator's Update$$anonymous$$ode to Unscaled Time. This will ignore the timeScale value.

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Answer by vptb · May 29, 2014 at 03:37 PM

Remove that state (Init menu) and its transitions and create it again, that solved it for me.

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Answer by atierno · Jul 08, 2018 at 10:52 PM

I encountered the same issue. It happens when using "any state" as starting state of the transition. If I change the starting state, the animation works correctly. For some strange reason, it seems that when using "any state" the time scale is set to zero. I am still trying to fix the issue!

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Answer by floridafelli · May 05, 2018 at 02:34 AM

So I found that my animation required the exit time to finish, maybe I disabled looping and got to this stuck point. Setting my animator state to false earlier than I planned stopped the freeze state.

I don't have much experience so I plan to continue editing the animator to get my final desired state.

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floridafelli · May 05, 2018 at 06:37 PM 0

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So I actually was calling my animation multiple times, because I was using a Boolean condition from the any state. I only wanted one call so I switched to setTrigger and made sure I only called it once

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