Non-Linear Crossfades with Animator?

Is there a way?

It seems the answer is no, but I hope I'm wrong.

Why not?

It seems like an easy implementation and it would make the horrible Animator crossfades look so much better. It would also be a reason to use Animator.

 

My Animancer plugin has a built in Custom Fade system to let you do it easily.

Otherwise, this thread explains how you can do it if you put all your animations in a Direct Blend Tree, though I expect that would make it really inconvenient to use and would waste quite a bit of performance.

 

We’ll have to seriously consider switching to Animancer for our newer stuff (that you sell on itch is a plus, since we avoid the Asset Store if we can help it), but currently we’re in a situation where we have a bunch of animator controllers and scripting and transitioning it all to Animancer is unfortunately more effort than we can afford.

It just boggles my mind why the animator doesn’t have a bunch of different interpolation methods for transitions by default. It would take such little effort and would add a lot to the Animator.

 

In this episode of “I wonder if Unreal has that feature” the answer is you bet it does.

 

I forgot to mention that Animancer is currently on sale on itch for the upcoming release of Animancer v7.0 in the next few weeks.

Also, Animancer can actually play Animator Controllers and blend them with other separate animations. So if you only need the non-linear transitions for a few of your animations you could refactor them out of the Animator Controller so the Custom Fade system can work with them and leave the rest of the Animator Controller as it is.