Changing Animations via Code, got an error when using a Substate animation.

Hello

I want to do a button to swap the actors in an animation. Essentially making Character 1 play the animation Character 2 was playing, and Character 2 play the animation Character 1 was previously playing.

Here is what im doing.

I use a String (Char1Anim) to get the name of the current animation on Character 1 (and 2), and then i call

Playeranim.play(Char1Anim);

And the same for character 2.
However, when i try to use this with an animation that resides inside a substate machine i get the error that the animation state cannot be found.
How can i fix this?
As you can see by the procedure, there is no error with the animation names. And i cannot take all the other (over 1000) aniamtions outside of the sub-state machines.

Any help would be very appretiated.

 

Help?

 

Anyone?