How do I get the current time of animation clip?

I am creating 2D animations on some game objects, and all they got is Animator component when I create those animations, I don't have access to Animation component.

So... how do I get the current time of currently playing animation clip?

 

Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(int layerIndex).normalizedTime for the current progress of the state, or .length for the duration of the state.

 

Yea, I've tried that... But length returns some wrong values. For example, i have 2 animations first of length 3 sec. and second of length 1 sec. and when i play first animation it prints "1" as length, and when i play a second animation, first time it prints "4" and second time "2" (?!?)

 

Also a noob's question... what are those layers in animations anyway? Are they referring to the actual layers in Unity (the ones that have limit of 32 of them)? If so, why do I have to specify a layer when getting CurrentAnimatorStateInfo? Why should I ever use layers in animation? Does that mean that I can have multiple instances of same animation, but on different layers somehow? I don't get it...

 

Does Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorClipInfo() work better? It returns an array of animation clips, since a state can be playing multiple clips in a blend. If you know your state only has one clip, you can just look at the length property of first element in the array.

Animator controller layers are different from physics layers (the actual layers in Unity that have a 32 limit). Animator controller layers allow you to play animations on top of other animations. The typical example is a full body animation on layer 0 (e.g., walking) and an upper body animation on layer 1 (e.g., waving). This allows you to generate a walking-while-waving animation without having to actually prepare it as a separate, single animation clip.

 

Thanks a lot for your help!