Question Play a clip without predefining it within an animator controller?

Is there a way to play an animation clip without redefining it in an animation controller?

Something like the "Play Montage" or "Play Slot Animation as Dynamic Montage" blueprint nodes in UE4, where you can just pass in an

AnimationClip

to an

Animator

with custom blend settings.

The use-case with this setup is to not have to declare things twice (once in meccanim, and then again when triggering the animation from code), and could smooth up the workflow quite a bit.

 

Not if you use Animator Controllers, but Animancer (link in my signature) is entirely built around the ability to just play animations directly in your scripts without requiring any other setup.