Question Editor, not Runtime: How to get AnimatorController reference within StateMachineBehaviour

Hi everyone,

is there a way to grab the AnimatorController reference within a StateMachineBehaviour within the Editor, i.e. not during runtime?

Use case:
I want to create a dropdown displaying all parameters of the AnimatorController using OdinInspector's ValueDropdown attribute within the Inspector of my StateMachineBehaviour, to avoid having to copy over all the names manually.


Thanks for any tips!
- Fressbrett

 

The added StateMachineBehaviour is actually a ScriptableObject, and is also a subset of the AnimatorControllor.
So you can do something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2.  
3. #if UNITY_EDITOR
4. using UnityEditor;
5. using UnityEditor.Animations;
6. #endif
7.  
8. public class SomeBehaviour : StateMachineBehaviour
9. {
10.     [SerializeField] private bool someBool;
11.  
12.     private void OnValidate()
13.     {
14.         // or some other function that will be called when you need your parameters.
15. #if UNITY_EDITOR
16.         var path = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(this);
17.         var animatorController = AssetDatabase.LoadMainAssetAtPath(path) as AnimatorController;
18.         var parameters = animatorController.parameters;
19.         // parameters is Type: AnimatorControllerParameter[]
20.  
21.         int idx = 0;
22.         foreach (var parameter in parameters) {
23.             Debug.Log($"parameter #{idx}: {parameter.name}");
24.             idx++;
25.         }
26. #endif
27.     }
28. }

 

Awesome, thanks, that sounds intuitive! I will then cache the reference and only load it when my reference is null