2D Animation flickering between states

Hello guys

I am having a weird behaviour in my Unity 2D game... I hope some1 can help me here.

I am trying to have different sprites and animations depending on what the user is doing and wearing. There are like 3 levels of states. A first level with the player action (Idle, Walking, Picking...), a second level with the player direction (Right, Left, Front, Back) and a third level with the amount of food being carried (0%, 20%, 40%...). So, here is how my states look like.

1st lvl


2nd level (inside Carrying):


3rd level (inside playercarryingfront)


All transitions have been created manually (oh god) and set to TransitionDuration=0 and HasExitTime=false.

The problem I am having is, when my player is carrying food, for some reason, when transitioning between carrying and holding and viceversa, the default sprite in the SpriteRenderer appears. Thus, a flickering in the animation appears and the result is a weird experience.

My only guess is somehow the "Empty" state is being displayed which has a None animation and also should be instantaneous. However, all these animations are the same in Walking and Idle and they are working correctly.

Can some1 help me? Also, is there any other way no to be configuring manually all the 1000 repeated transitions between states?

Thanks in advance

 

Update
I've been struggling the whole day and I just found that changing the 3rd level substate to the following one fixes the problem.



For me, it makes no sense. Does anybody know what the hell happened?

 

Hi, I'm having almost the exact same problem! I'm currently filtering logic like "what weapon" based off an int and then "okay, now what animation for that weapon" based off an int like such:


Just like yours, my default sprite flickers for a fraction of a second.

I'm extremely curious what on earth is happening in the last pic you posted, none of the other things look like they are hooked up but you said it's working???

Also I'm so tired of manually changing everything to 0 transition time, no exit time, etc as well lol