Remove receiver requirement from animation events

I know its usually the opposite way around, but I don't care about the "animation has no receiver" error.

I have several characters that use the same idle animation, but only some of them need the animation event, "hide weapon", that I have attached to it.

Is it possible to use the DontRequireReceiver from the SendMessage options enumerator in the editor?

The only other way I can think of is to create an Event Manager and add flags so the character prefabs themselves ignore the animation events.

That seems a bit more cumbersome.

 

animator.fireEvents = false; should do it if you don't want any events on those characters at all.

Otherwise just make a script with methods to receive all events and do nothing with them.