Copy/Paste Mecanim Transitions

3 years later, i know. But this came up as one of the first when google it.

I found out that it is possible to copy a transition with the conditions. Click your transition, in the inspector right click your transition you can find at the top under Transitions, there you can select copy. Then you just make a new transition and right click to paste.

As @Alacer already said above... (but I wanted to provide a screenshot as well for clarity):

1. Click your Transition line in Mecanim to select it.

2. In the inspector, right click on your transition in the Transitions list at the top under Transitions (see image below).

3. There you can select Copy Transition Parameters.

4. Now you can select another Transition line in Mecanim.

5. And in the inspector, right click your transition in the Transitions list.

6. Now you can select to Paste the Settings, or the Conditions, or Both.

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http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/script-to-copy-statemachines-whole-controllers.332008/

Try using this script I created for this purpose!

I'll be franc with you, which might sound harsh... But method of creating a multi-layered state layout with, for example, 5+ states coming out of Idle, run, walk, etc. is actually obsolete and actually useless since Unity 4's mecanim upgrade.

The best way (both in time and with the system) is to uses the "Entry" and "Exit" nodes correctly. The best way of describing the Entry & Exit node is that they are linked together in a seamless way that automatically adapt when set correctly.

For example, by setting an Integer (int) parameter called "GeneralState" as this : 0 = Idle (can be a state of a Blend tree)

1 = walk

2 = Run (could be a blend tree with walk if both animation blend correctly)

3 = jump

4 = sit

5 = crouch

6 = lie down

• You like all those states with Entry (green) and Exit (Red nodes).

• You put Idle as default (orange). This means that whenever "GeneralState" is 0, the character is in Idle.

• You add the condition "GeneralState" "if equal" 1-6 (based on which action) with the transition between entry and the states.

• You add the condition "GeneralState" "If not equal" 1-6 (same as previous point) with the transitions from each nodes toward exit (red) node.

Now, whenever you change (with whatever method or parameter) it so that the GeneralState change, the animation move through the exit node and automatically re-enter through the Entry node with the same parameter as when it went through the exit node. The only "touchy" thing is triggers. A good way of managing triggers is to use actual State-Machine with trigger transitions. (Remember, you can copy the whole State-Machine with a right click and then pass the whole this as a sub-state-machine a bit similar to how Blend-trees works, but with actual sub-graphics states.)

With this method, you only have to put the transition from the entry and exit point once.

I met this problem but didn't find a good solution, so I made a tool to copy/paste transitions.

https://github.com/qwe321qwe321qwe321/Unity-AnimatorTransitionCopier

I hope it helps anyone who's been suffering from changing state in complex animator.