Mecanim immediate blends

DrEvil · Dec 12, 2012

Sorry to plug my question on here, but I gave it 3 days to get a response through the unity answers.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/360973/immediate-animator-blend.html

Here's a quote from the post with a more detailed question, but in short I'm asking how you create an immediate blend in the animator window. I don't just mean a quick blend by dragging the blue window together, but a transition that will be taken immediately regardless of where in the animation the window is.

Hopefully I'm just not getting something, but when you edit a transition between 2 nodes in the animator, the parameters that you set with the overlap of the animations and the width of the blue window suggest that the only parameters you have control over is how quick the blend occurs(blue window), and where in each animation the blend can happen( where the blue window overlaps each of the anims ).

Suppose you have a long animation, and you want a transition to happen immediately regardless of where in that animation it currently is. There doesn't appear to be a way to do that.

I have a long idle of a guy riding a skateboard, and my transition to jump should be immediate, however the transition always seems to wait for that small window in the 2 animations where the blend occurs. How do you set up a very quick blend but allow it to happen anywhere within the source animation? It seems like perhaps that's not currently supported, which would perhaps explain the control lag in the mecanim examples and such. Obviously certain animations would result in poppy animations with these sort of blends, but most of the time control responsiveness takes priority over animations waiting until their ideal blend window, so this would seem like a huge oversight if there isn't a way to do it. Surely I'm just overlooking something.
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