How do you allow animations to interrupt each other?

I'm trying to create a simple set of animations in a single Mecanim controller. I have setup transition paths from Any State to each of the animations. They all fire off and transition between each other fine. However they only transition when they've reached the end of their own animation clip, whereas I require a quick transition between each of the animations at any point in their animation clip timeframe.

How do I do this?

 

If you are using 5.0 simply uncheck Has Exit Time on your transition, this will allow the transition to be trigger at any time while playing your state.

 

I found an answer that kind of works.
Make an Idle animation (and all the other animations that you need)
Put them into the animator
Connect "any state" to, for example, jumping and then connect jumping to Idle animation
Then connect Walking animation to Idle and back.
Now, you should be able to walk and jump any time you want. Walking animation will be terminated.

Another theoritical solution is to connect "any state" to all the animations, except Idle, and then connecting all those animations to Idle. idk if it works

p.s: if you didn't understand anything from what I said, just ask for a screenshot

 

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I eventually worked out the exact same solution through bruteforce attempts.

 

You my friend are a life savior... i think i searched for this in tutorials for a clue for almost 1 h, thank you friend

 

Sorry to bring up a dead thread, but this helped me, too. I bought a series of animations from the Asset Store and they all had exit time checked which was a major headache because waiting for an animation to end would involve a whole bunch of timing and seemingly redundant code. I was like, 'Nah, this can't be how it's done.'

Thanks.

 

Thank God for this comment. Had I not found it, I'd probably be trying to figure this out five years from now. Makes sense since Has Exit Time is the first condition checked.

 

Turning off "Has exit time" does not allow the next animation to interrupt the animation that is currently playing.

 

It doesn't work for me either, even though I'm using 5.0 and I've set AnyState to link to another clip when a parameter has a certain value. Isn't there any way to interrupt an animation clip?

 

I've never had issues with removing Exit Time to ensure state changes happen immediately. Technically this is not an "interruption" but simply allowing for immediate state changes. My best guess is that there something else blocking the transition from happening, like a trigger that has already been consumed.

I prefer to work with floats and bools for this and a few other reasons (animation blending mainly). I also find it a little easier to visually debug in the Animator.

 

After some time I found a solution that might work for you as well, call the animation from code using Play("name"), then in Animator, make a transition from your animation state to Idle state, in transition settings, Has exit time should be on, make exit time 0.1, and transition duration 0.9, with the rest of the options being default ones without any additional conditions. Hope it helps you as well!

 

animator.Play and animator.CrossFade can go directly to any state regardless of what transitions you have made.

 

If you uncheck "has exit time" and transitions don't fire immediately, you guys should really check your code. As suggested before, you are probably using triggers in a wrong way or it might be another mistake. In any case your problem is in the code.

 

Thanks so much I've looked for the answer to this a couple times and never found out how. This solution works seamlessly

 

I recently animated a talking animation loop that had to interrupt quickly when the character shuts up. Here's how my animator is set up:



'Talk' is a looping animation a second long. I also set up a Boolean parameter called 'IsTalking' to control when it played.

Transition from Any State -> Talk:

• Has Exit Time: False
• Transition Duration: 1
• Interruption Source: Current State
• Can Transition to Self: False
• Conditions: IsTalking = True
• All other settings default

Transition from Talk -> Exit

• Has Exit Time: False
• Transition Duration: 0.25
• Conditions: IsTalking = False

Now, when I want the character to speak, I switch my control scheme to a special one I made called 'Cutscene'. This prevents the player from using any controls other than the 'continue' button. I then call `animator.SetBool("IsTalking", true)` and wait for player input. Once the character is done talking I call `animator.SetBool("IsTalking", false)` and switch back to my main control scheme.

This seems to be working OK for me. When I set the boolean to false, he stops talking almost immediately (with an intentional 0.25 second animation blend back to the default state to make it nice and smooth - you can remove this if you like by changing the exit transition's duration.)